IASIL 2004 Timetable
20-23 July
Monday 19 July
14.30-16.30 IASIL Executive Meeting, Seminar Room, CHSHC.
14.00- 18.00 Registration, Arts Millennium Building Atrium, NUI Galway
18.00 – 19.30 Opening Reception with buffet, Atrium, Arts Millennium Building.
Tuesday 20 July
8.30 – 9.00 Registration, Arts Millennium Building Foyer
9.00 – 11.00 6 Panels, (4 speakers each)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Opening Ceremony, (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre)
Presentation of Student Scholarships,
Plenary Lecture by Professor Kevin Barry, (National University of Ireland, Galway), “James Joyce and Misunderstanding”
Chair: Dr Riana O’Dwyer
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH, NUI Galway College Restaurant.
14.00 – 15.30 6 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by Joan McBreen and Mike McCormack.
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00– 17.00 6 Panels (2 speakers)
Screening of Aqua
17.30 – 18.30 Reception, Kenny’s Bookshop
Wednesday 21 July
8.30 – 9.00 Late Registration
9.00– 11.00 6 Panels (4 speakers)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.45 Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre), Dr Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Irish Literature, 10 Vols, 1904: the Forgotten Anthology”
Chair: Professor Patricia Coughlan
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch at NUI Galway Restaurant.
14.00 – 15.15 A Reading by John McGahern, Concourse Lecture Theatre
15.15– 15.45 Coffee
15.45 – 16.45 7 Panels (2 speakers)
17.00 – 18.30 7 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilis Ní Dhuibhne.
From 19.00 Barbeque, NUI Galway Bar
Thursday 22 July
8.30– 10.30 7 Panels (4 speakers)
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45– 12.00 Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre) by Dr Antoinette Quinn “Patrick Kavanagh: Towards a Centenary Edition of the Collected Poems”
Chair: Professor Nicholas Grene
12.00 – 13.30 7 Panels (3 speakers)
13.00 – 14.00 Packed Lunch available for collection from Arts Millennium Building Foyer
From 13.30 Free afternoon and evening for optional events and attendance at Galway Arts Festival
Optional Events
13.30 – 14.15 Gallery Press and Creighton University Press present the launch of John Montague, The Drunken Sailor and TD Redshaw, Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague, including a reading by John Montague. Reception follows.
14.15 Corrib Boat Trip (for those who have pre-booked tickets)
Walking tour of Galway (for those who have pre-booked tickets)
Friday 23 July
9.00 – 11.00 6 Panels (4 speakers)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 7 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by John Menaghan and Tony O’Dwyer
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre) by Professor Christopher Murray (University College Dublin), “Echoes down The Corridor”: the Abbey Theatre Centenary,
Chair: Professor Hubert McDermott
Closing Ceremony
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 17.30 IASIL Annual General Meeting
19.00 – Buses depart for closing banquet (optional ticketed event), Clarenbridge Court Hotel.
Full list of panels
The following pages including full listings for all IASIL 2004 Panels
Tuesday 20 July
9.00 – 11.00 6 Panels, (4 speakers each)
14.00 – 15.30 6 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by Joan McBreen and Mike McCormack.
16.00– 17.00: 6 Panels (2 speakers)
Screening of Aqua
Wednesday 21 July
9.00– 11.00 – 6 Panels (4 speakers)
15.45 – 16.45 – 7 Panels (2 speakers)
17.00 – 18.30 – 7 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne.
Thursday 22 July
8.30– 10.30 7 Panels (4 speakers)
12.00 – 13.30 7 Panels (3 speakers)
Friday 23 July
9.00 – 11.00 6 Panels (4 speakers)
11.30 – 13.00 7 Panels (3 speakers)
Reading by John Menaghan and Tony O’Dwyer
Tuesday 20 July
9.00 – 11.00 – 6 Panels of 4 speakers: Panels 1 – 3
| PANEL 1 |
PANEL 2 |
PANEL 3 |
|
| Modern Irish Fiction (1) |
Contemporary Irish Poetry (1) |
Abbey Centenary (1): Women Writers at the Abbey |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Dr John Kenny |
Professor TD Redshaw |
Dr Anne Fogarty |
| Speakers |
Blaithin Conneely-Allain (University
of Brest, |
Roisin Ní Ghairbhi (National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Confused, derivative, lyrical, hysterical posturing?': Michael Hartnett and 'A Farewell to English" |
Ms. Ann Butler (Boston College) "The Abbey Theatre Years of Una Troy (Elizabeth Connor): Irish Playwright and Novelist" |
| Dr. Conci Mazzullo,
“Station |
Dr. Barbara Brown () "Text and Context: Five Poems by Richard Murphy" |
Dr. Taura Napier (Wingate University) "Lady Gregory's 'Emigrant's Notebook': Autobiography, Drama and the Inception of the Irish Literary Revival |
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| Dott. Gioia Gamerra (Universita degli Studi di Firenze) "'Memories [as] a mixture of stories, truths, untruths and other people's memories': Narrative and cinematographic strategies in Passion Play by Conal Creedon" |
Dr. Nicholas Allen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The Proper Word: The Writings of Gerald Dawe" |
Eglantina Remport (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) "'See a play as a picture': Lady Gregory's Pictorial Spectacle" |
|
| Professor Michael Kenneally (Concordia University, Montreal) "Crossing into Exile: Landscape and the Construction of Identity in Brian Moore's The Luck of Ginger Coffey" |
Elin Holmsten (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, |
Ms. Mika Funahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University) "Analysing the Wounds Caused by the Mother: Marina Carr's Theatre and a Short Story" |
Tuesday 20 July
9.00 – 11.00 – 6 Panels of 4 speakers: Panels 4-6
| PANEL 4 |
PANEL 5 |
PANEL 6 |
|
| New Perspectives on The Irish Revival |
|
The Theatre of Martin McDonagh |
|
| Room |
AM 110 |
AM 203 |
AM 112 |
| Chair |
Dr Mary C. King |
Dr Eugene O’Brien |
Dr Rosa Gonzalez |
| Speakers |
Dr. Malcolm Ballin (Cardiff University) "'Not to Mention Paddy Kelly's Budget: Some Periodicals that Bloom could have Read on June 16 2004" |
Ms Paula Murphy, (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Mythic and Modern: the Drama of Marina Carr" |
Laura Eldred (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Martin McDonagh's Blend of Tradition and Horrific Innovation" |
| Dr. Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin) "A Tale of Becoming: Seumas O'Kellys 'The Weaver's Grave'" |
Ms Cathy McGlyn, (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) 'Multiple Mollys: Deconstruction in Joyce's "Penelope"' |
Dr. Werner Huber (Chemnitz University of Technology) "'More gallous stories and dirty deeds': The Un-Irishing of Martin McDonagh: Some Observations on The Pillowman" |
|
| Dr. Liam Mac Mathuna (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Seadna: New Medium and Novel Message" |
Mr Brian Walsh (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “The Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Gender” |
Dr. Frank Molloy (Charles Sturt University) "Comedy and Cats: The Lieutenant of Inishmore comes to Sydney" |
|
| Dr. Susan Johnston Graf (Pennsylvania State University) "One Last Glimpse of Twilight: AE's Divine Vision of 1904 (includes visual presentation) |
Mr Damien Shortt (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) “Dermot Bolger, Paradigms of Irishness” |
Dr. Ondrej Pilny (Charles University Prague) "Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre" |
Tuesday 20 July
14.00 – 15.30 – 6 Panels (3 speakers), and one Reading – Panels 1 -4
| PANEL 1 |
PANEL 2 |
PANEL 3 |
PANEL 4 |
|
| Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill |
Contemporary Irish Drama (1) |
John McGahern |
Samuel Beckett |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
AM 110 |
| Chair |
Dr Christina Hunt Mahony |
Dr Werner Huber |
TBC |
Dr Seán Kennedy |
| Speakers |
Ms. Cary Shay (University of Kent) "Courting the Muse: Aesthetic Standards in the Work of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill" |
Clare Wallace (Charles University Prague) "Solitary Micronarratives and Language Games in Conor McPherson's Drama" |
Professor Noriko Ito (Tezukayama
University, |
Reiko Taniue (Kansai Gaidai University) "Samuel Beckett's All that Fall: Enter the Great Mother" |
| Ms. Aida Rosende
Perez (University of Vigo) "Re/possessing the female
body in |
Jason King, (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Performing Inter-Culturalism on Stage: The Portrayal of Immigrant Experiences and Irish Historical Memories of Migration in recent Irish Theatrical Productions |
Dr. Eamon Maher
(IT Tallaght) "John McGahern's Fictions: A Chronicle of Four Decades
of Change in |
Mr. Raymond Mullen (University of Ulster) "The Disintegration of the Stage/Stock Irishman in Beckett's Early Fiction" |
|
| Professor Margaret Burke (Hofstra University) “Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Symbol Of The Contemporary Irish Woman” |
Michal Lachman (University
of Lodz, |
Mr. Stanley van der Ziel (University College Dublin) "The Aesthetics of Redemption: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun" |
Professor
Jeremy Parrott (Szeged, |
Tuesday 20 July
14.00 – 15.30 – 6 Panels (3 speakers) and one reading – Panels 5 and 6 and IASIL Reading
| PANEL 5 |
PANEL 6 |
READING |
|
| European Perspectives on the Revival |
Irish Writing and Irish Culture – Intermedial Perspectives |
IASIL READINGS |
|
| Room |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre |
| Chair |
Dr. Susan Johnston Graf |
Dr Patricia Lynch |
Dr John Kenny |
| Speakers |
Professor Mary C. King (National College of Ireland) "A Synge for our times: Yeats's enquiring man revisited" |
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka,
(University College Dublin) "Fanfiction in |
Joan McBreen |
| Mr. Jerry Nolan
(British Association of Irish Studies) "Edward Martyn's path from
|
Dr. Magda V.F. Tolentino, (Universidade
Federal de Sao Joao del Rei, |
Mike McCormack |
|
| Ms. Rosalinde Schut
(Trinity College Dublin) "Yeats, Pirandello, and
|
Dr. Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Gleanings from the Basque in Irish Literature" |
Tuesday 20 July
16.00 – 17.00– 6 Panels (2 speakers) and Film Screening
Screening and Panels 1 -3
| Screening |
Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
|
| A Screening of Aqua by Nina Fitzpatrick |
Eilís Ní Dhuibhne (1) |
Abbey Centenary: Tom Murphy’s the Gigli Concert |
The Poetry of WB Yeats (1) |
|
| Room |
Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Professor Lucy McDiarmid |
Dr Derek Hand |
Professor Helen Lojek |
Dr Nicholas Allen |
| Speakers |
Introduction: Lucy McDiarmid |
Dr. Beth Wightman (California State University, Northridge) "Lost in Space? Architecture, Geography, and Culture in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Bray House" |
Dr. Chiara Sciarrino (IULM, Milan) "Intertextuality, Interpretation or Translation and Fiction in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert" |
Professor Ciaran Murray (Chuo
University, |
| Discussants: Kevin Barry and Riana O'Dwyer |
Dr. Ann Owens Weekes (University of Arizona) "Re-membering the Past to Construct the Future" |
Dr. Alexandra Poulain (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne) "'O Paradiso': Talking, Writing, Singing in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert" |
Dr. Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, Seoul) "Rereading Yeats Reading the History of the Soul: From Typology to Typography" |
Tuesday 20 July
16.00 – 17.00– 6 Panels (2 speakers) and Screening
Panels 4-6
| PANEL 4 |
PANEL 5 |
PANEL 6 |
|
| New Perspectives on Irish Cultural and Literary Studies |
Thomas Kinsella |
Shaw and Irish Drama |
|
| Room |
AM 110 |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
| Chair |
Dr. Dawn Duncan |
TBC |
Dr Mary Massoud |
| Speakers |
Dr. James M. Cahalan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) "Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of Irish Cultural and Bilingual Studies" |
Mr. Sean Crosson (National University of Ireland, Galway) "The Performance of Irish Traditional Music and Song in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella" |
Dr. Radmila Nastic (University of Srpsko, Sarajevo) "Irishmen with a Diference: Irish Imagination and the Aesthetics of the Political in the Dramatic Work of W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw" |
| Professor Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University) "Nationalist Glosses in Irish School Editions of Hamlet and Yeats's Player Queen" |
Professor Thomas D. Redshaw (University of St. Thomas) "Liam Miller and the Making of The Great Táin" |
Dr Rosalie Rahal Haddad (University of São Paulo) "Bernard Shaw - Past, Present and Future" |
Wednesday 21 July
9.00– 11.00 – Panels – 6 panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 – 3
| Panel 1 |
PANEL 2 |
PANEL 3 |
|
| Gender and Space in Contemporary Irish Drama |
Seamus Heaney |
Modern Irish Fiction (2) |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Ms Enrica Cerquoni |
Dr Rui Carvallo Homem |
Dr Rosa Gonzalez |
| Speakers |
Dr. Maria Kurdi (University of Pecs) "Spatialising the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones's Women on the Verge of HRT" |
Miss Sukanya Basu (University of Aberdeen) "'Stretched between Politics and Transcendence': Seamus Heaney and Osip Mandelstam" |
Mr. Gergely Kovacs (University of Debrecen) "The Goddess and the Angel: Real and Fantastic Space and Place in Jennifer Johnston's Two Moons |
| Mark Schreiber (International
University Bremen, |
Dr. Ljiljana Bogoeva-Sedlar (University of Arts, Belgrade) "Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy" |
Mr. Eoin Flannery (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Necessary Fictions: The liminal drama of Colum McCann's Songdogs and This Side of Brightness" |
|
| Ms. Carmen Szabo (University College Dublin) "The Liminality of the House as Political Space in Stewart Parker's Pentecost" |
Dr. Elena Cotta Ramusino (University of Pavia) "In the Air: Seamus Heaney's Stepping Free into Space" |
Jodie Medd (Carleton
University, |
|
| Dr., Eugene O'Brien, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Senior Lecturer, "Apprentice Mages and Arch-Poets: Towards a Conflation of the Thought of Yeats and Heaney" |
Mr. Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University) "Curious Streets: Desmond Hogan's London Irish Stories" |
Wednesday 21 July
9.00– 11.00 – Panels – 6 panels of 4 speakers, Panels 4-6
| PANEL 4 |
Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
|
| Historicising Beckett (1) |
Forum on John Banville |
Abbey Centenary: The Drama of Frank McGuinness |
|
| Room |
AM 110 |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
| Chair |
Dr Seán Kennedy |
Laura Izarra (Convenor) |
Dr Anthony Roche |
| Speakers |
SE Gontarski (Professor, University of Florida, Tallahassee) "Reading Beckett through Beckett’s Reading" |
Dr. Hedwig Schwall (Kuleuven/Kulak) "Mirror Mirrored onMirror is all the Show: The figure of the Double in John Banville's Novels" |
Dr Kenneth Nally,(National University of |
| Dr Sinéad Mooney (Lecturer, NUI, Galway) "Beckett Reading ‘Recent Irish Poetry’" |
John Kenny (National University of Ireland, Galway) Connoisseur of Silences: Banville and the Belief in Autonomy |
Professor Donald E. Morse (University of Debrecen) "Dolly West's Kitchen: The Daring Drama of Frank McGuinness" |
|
| A Special Presentation by Professor Everett Frost (New York University) " |
Dr. Hedda Friberg (MidSweden University) "John Banville's Shroud" |
Dr. Helen Lojek
(Boise State University) "Observe the Sons of
|
|
| Dr. Laura Izarra
(University of Sao Paolo, |
Professor Amal Mazhar (Cairo University) "Self/Other in Past and Present Irish Writing: The Cases of G.B. Shaw and Frank McGuinness" |
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| Respondent: Dr Derek Hand (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra) |
Wednesday 21 July
15.45 – 16.45 – Panels – 7 panels of 2 speakers, Panels 1 – 4
| PANEL 1 |
Panel 2 |
PANEL 3 |
PANEL 4 |
|
| The Theatre of Patricia Burke Brogan |
Contemporary Irish Poetry: Encounters |
Abbey Centenary – The Drama of WB Yeats (1) |
The Legacies of James Joyce, 1904/2004 |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
AM 110 |
| Chair |
Kirry O’Brien |
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin |
Dr Seamus Blake |
Dr Gerardine Meaney |
| Speakers |
Dr. Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University) Reaching from the Past into the Future: Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed |
Professor Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University, Tokyo) "On Vona Groarke's Flight" |
Dr. Eamonn Cantwell (-) "W.B. Yeats's 'Where There is Nothing'" |
Davide Benini (University of Verona) "Voices of Loneliness: The Influence of James Joyce on the work of Patrick McCabe" |
| Dr. Eileen Kearney (Texas A&M University) "Crossing Over: Stained Glass at Samhain" |
Ms. Karen Frizzell (University of Missouri-Columbia) "A 'Rare and Fine Sister': The Quest in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya" |
Miss Irene De Angelis (University of Turin) "Towards Zeami's 'Flower': The Spirit of Noh in Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well'" |
Ms. Stephane Jousni (Rennes 2 University, France) "Joyce's Children and Joyce's Dublin one century later" |
Wednesday 21 July
15.45 – 16.45 – Panels – 7 panels of 2 speakers, Panels 5-7
| Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
PANEL 7 |
|
| Brian Friel (1) – internationalising Friel |
Edna O’Brien (1) |
Rethinking Theatre, Rethinking History |
|
| Room |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
AM 205 |
| Chair |
Dr Giovanna Tallone |
Dr Sinead Mooney |
Dr Jason King |
| Speakers |
Mr. Daniel Smith (Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies) "'…a day on which nothing of importance happened': Bloody Sunday and Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City" |
Maria Grazia Furnari (U of Bologna), 'Into the dark forest of Edna O'Brien's neo-Gothic Fiction'. |
Dr. Mary M.F. Massoud
(Ain Shams
University, |
| Ms. Zsuzsanna Csikai (University of Pecs) "Otherness or Irishness: Two Irish Versions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya" |
Loredana
Salis (U of |
John Devitt, (Mater Dei) “A Reconsideration of Pearse’s Plays” |
Wednesday 21 July
17.00 – 18.30 – 7 Panels (3 speakers) and 1 Reading
Reading, Panels 1 – 3
| IASIL Reading |
Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
|
| IASIL Reading |
Reading Swift in Context |
Abbey Centenary – The Drama of WB Yeats (2) |
Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (1) |
|
| Room |
Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Dr John Kenny |
Professor Robert Mahony |
Professor Christopher Murray |
Professor Patricia Coughlan |
| Speakers |
A reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne |
Dr Chris Fauske (Salem State College) "Misunderstanding what Swift
Understood: |
Dr. James Farrelly (University of Dayton) "Singing 'Of what is past, passing, or to come': The Apocalyptic Vision of Yeats's Purgatory" |
Dr.
Heidi Hansson (Umea University, |
| Professor Ann Kelly (Howard University) "Gulliver's Talking to Horses: Evidence or Madness or Sanity? A new look at Book IV" |
Mr. Futoshi Sakauchi (University College Dublin) "Yeats's At the Hawk's Well in 1916" |
Dr. Tina O’Toole (Queen’s University Belfast) “The Munster Women Writers Project: Locating the ‘Absent Presence’ in Irish Literary History”. |
||
| Professor Wolfgang Zach (Innsbruck
University, |
Ms. Emily Wolahan (University of Houston, Texas) "An Alternative Ideal: Aleel's Role in 'The Countess Cathleen'" |
Dr. Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) “Writing the Unread: Canons, Anthologies and Feminist Editing”. |
||
| Dr Margaret Kelleher (respondent) |
Wednesday 21 July
17.00 – 18.30 – 7 Panels (3 speakers) and 1 Reading
Panels 4-7
| PANEL 4 |
PANEL 5 |
Panel 6 |
Panel 7 |
|
| Irish Writing after the Revival (1) |
Renew or Fossilize? Contemporary Irish Drama |
Edna O’Brien (2) |
Nineteenth Century Prose in |
|
| Room |
AM 110 |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
AM 205 |
| Chair |
Dr Malcolm Ballin |
Professor Shaun Richards |
Sinead Mooney/ Kathryn Laing |
Professor James M Cahalan |
| Speakers |
Mr. Brad Kent (Concordia University, Montreal) "There's Something Else About Mary: Irish Censorship and the Banning of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle" |
Paul Murphy, (Queen’s University Belfast) Theatre and Nation: Cutting the Möbius Strip |
June O'Sullivan (University College Cork), 'Mis-Fits: Models of Female Development in Edna O'Brien and Alice Munro'. |
Ms. Marilyn Kelly (University of Wollongong) "A Novel View of the Roman Catholic Priesthood" |
| Irene Lucchitti (University of Wollongong) "Tomas O'Crohan: Yesterday's Hero?" |
Mark Phelan, (Queen’s University Belfast), |
Victoria Ramirez, (Weber), 'Edna O'Brien's Narrative Dialogism in House of Splendid Isolation'. |
Dr. Francesca Benatti
(National University of Ireland, Galway) "Irish Patriots and Schottish
Adventurers: Writing |
|
| Ms. Edwina Keowne (Trinity College Dublin) "Elizabeth Bowen: Travel, Gender and National Identity in The House in Paris" |
Melissa Sihra, (Queen’s University Belfast), “'Breaking the Cycle: Imaginative Spaces of Excess and Transformation in the Theatre of Marina Carr.'” |
Miss Anne Oakman (Queen's University, Belfast) "'Which of You Holds the Pen?' The Mysteries and Dupliciies of Somerville and Ross's Collaboration" |
Thursday 22 July
8.30– 10.30 – 7 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 -4
| Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
Panel 4 |
|
| Contexts for Contemporary Irish Poetry |
Irish Women’s Writing, 1789-1812 |
The Poetry of WB Yeats (2) |
Oscar Wilde |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
AM 110 |
| Chair |
Dr Eugene O’Brien |
Patrick Lonergan |
Professor Andrew Carpenter |
Dr Joan FitzPatrick Dean |
| Speakers |
Dr. Rui Carvalho
Homem (University of Oporto, |
Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (NUI Galway), "Charlotte Brooke: Faithful translator or censor in Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789)?" |
Miss Claire Nally (University of Manchester) "Yeat's Forging/Forgery of National Identity: the 'Giraldus' Portrait of A Vision" |
|
| Dr. Irene Gilsenan
Nordin (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, |
Ms. Sylvie Mikowski (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne) "Maria Edgeworth's Castlerackrent and the Outside of the Text" |
Nobue Miyake (Shitennoji High School) "What Yeats Saw in the Tower" |
Miss Louise Mabille (University of Pretoria) "Wilde's Voices, Nietzsche's masks: A Portrait of the Artist as that which is no longer Man" |
|
| Dr. Elisabeth Delattre (Université d'Artois) "'A fusillade of question-marks': (Re)presenting the present or the poet as a chronicler in The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson" |
Ms. Julie Donovan (George Washington University) " My Dear Glorvina”: How Sydney Owenson Helped Pioneer the Art of Spin-Off” |
Professor Masazumi Toraiwa (Waseda University) "Reading 'The Black Tower', the Last Poem of W.B. Yeats" |
Dr. Julie-Ann Robson (University of Sydney) "Charmides: The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name" |
|
| Dr. Andrew Auge (Loras College) "'To Send a Shiver through Unitel': Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Muldoon's Madoc" |
Professor Donatella Abbate Badin (Professor, University of Turin) "Writing |
Professor Brian Arkins (NUI Galway), "Yeats and Religion |
Dr. Gearoid O'Flaherty (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "From Frivolous Entertainer to Social Martyr: Society's Continuing Affinity with Oscar Wilde" |
Thursday 22 July
8.30– 10.30 – 7 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 5-7
| Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
PANEL 7 |
|
| Contemporary Irish Drama (2) |
Roddy Doyle |
Abbey Centenary: Synge at the Abbey |
|
| Room |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
AM 207 (tbc) |
| Chair |
Professor Lucy McDiarmid |
Dr Eamonn Maher |
Dr Anthony Roche |
| Speakers |
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (Waterford Institute of Technology) "Muide Eire?: The Dramatic Representation of the New Ireland" |
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| Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) "Irish Drama and the occlusion of Influence |
Dr. Mike Cronin
(National University of Ireland, Galway) "Soccer and |
Dr. Maureen Hawkins (University of Lethbridge) "Split Ends: The Modern Tragicomic Structure of The Playboy of the Western World" |
|
| Mary Ann Ryan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Ironic Ramifications: Registering the Eruptions in and around Vincent Woods's At the Black Pig's Dyke" |
Mr. James Drewett (Bath Spa University College) "Grotesque Realism: Reading Rabelais in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry" |
Miss Irina Ruppo (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Synge's Playboy of the Western World and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge" |
|
| Ms. Enrica Cerquoni, (University College Dublin) “Travelling through space, time and states of (non-)being: aesthetic and ideological concerns in Operating Theatre’s Passades.” |
Dr. Maureen Reddy
(Rhode Island College) "Reading and Writing Race in |
Mrs. Anne Scott (University of Glasgow) "The Poetics of Writing and Drawing in The Aran Islands by John Synge and Jack Yeats" |
Thursday 22 July
12.00 – 13.30 -7 Panels of 3 speakers, Panels 1 3
| Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
|
| The Past, Present and Future of
Performance in |
Representations of Travellers in Irish Writing |
Abbey Centenary – Acting, Actors, Artistic Directors |
|
| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Professor Christie Fox |
Professor James Doan |
Professor Donald Morse |
| Speakers |
Dr. Kathleen Heininge (George Fox University) "Incorporating the Past to Present a New Future" |
Professor Jose Lanters (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Moving Stories: Life Writing by Irish Traveller Women" |
Nancy E. Raftery (Camden County College) "Lennox Robinson" |
| Roisin O'Gorman (University of Minnesota) "Ruptures in the Script: Laughter in Contemporary Irish Theatre" |
Dr Mary Burke (University of Connecticiut) "The 'tinker' construct in Irish drama: past, present and future" |
Dr. Patrick Burke (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Professional Amateurs at the Abbey" |
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| Dr
Patrick Tuite (Catholic University of |
Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City) "Liminal Vagrants in the Alternative Dramatic Revival: the travellers of Padraic Colum, Rutherford Mayne and Seamus O'Kelly |
Thursday 22 July
12.00 – 13.30 -7 Panels of 3 speakers, Panels 4-7
| Panel 4 |
Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
Panel 7 |
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| The Impossible “I” |
Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (2) |
Contemporary Irish Poetry – Rethinking Spaces, Rethinking Media |
Historicising Beckett (2) |
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| Room |
AM 110 |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
AM 207 (tbc) |
| Chair |
Dr Britta Olinder |
Dr Tina O’Toole |
Dr Beth Wightman |
Dr Anna McMullan |
| Speakers |
Mr. Richard Murphy (Boston College) "Troubles with the Bildungsroman: The Country Girls" |
Dr. Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) “‘Vain dreams, and fictions of distress and love’: The Poetry of Mary Tighe”. |
Mr. Martin McKinsey (University of New Hampshire) "The Third Space of Hellenism in Contemporary Irish Poetry" |
Dr. Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University West) "Watt Kind of Man are You?: Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish Identity" |
| Ms. Amy Witherbee
(Boston College) " |
Kalene Nix-Kenefick (NUI Cork) “Una Troy: Irish Woman Writer”. |
Dr. Heather Clark (Marlboro College, Vermont) "Recalling Aran: Islands in Northern Irish Poetry" |
Dr. Mark Quigley (University of Nevada) "Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity." |
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| Ms. Rebecca Troeger (Boston College) "The Caged Minute: Louis MacNeice and the Autobiographical Impulse" |
Joanna Wydenbach (Queen’s University Belfast) “Early Twentieth Century Irish Women’s Fiction: Call on an Alternative Perspective”. |
Dr. Riona Ní Fhrighil (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "The language of music and the music of language: An exploration of Gearoid Mac Lochlainn's Poetry" |
Rina Kim (University of Warwick) "Severing connection with
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Friday 23 July
9.00 – 11.00– 6 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 -3
| Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
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| Abbey Centenary: The Abbey in an International Perspective |
Brian Friel (2) |
Eilís Ní Dhuibhne (2) |
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| Room |
AM 105 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
| Chair |
Professor Jose Lanters |
Dr Martine Pelletier |
Dr Lesa Ni Mhunghaile |
| Speakers |
Ms. Chiaki Kojima (University of Toky) "From the Irish Drama to the Japanese New Drama II: Shoyo Matsui's Adaptation and Reformation" |
Dr. Csilla Bertha (University of Debrecen) "Performance at the Edge of or Beyond Life: The Figure of the Artist in Friel's Performances and Kilroy's The Shape of Metal" |
Ms. Susan Cahill (University College Dublin) "'Once Upon a Time': Speech, Silences, and Fairy Tales in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's Fiction" |
| Dr. Peter Kuch (University of New South Wales) "The Abbey Down-Under in 1922" |
Ms. Christa Velten () "'Am I a con man?': Brian Friel's idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory" |
Dr. Antoinette Larkin
(University of Cincinatti) "Eilís Ní Dhuibhne Re-Presents
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| Dr. Hyangsoon Yi
(University of Georgia) "Writing |
Dr. Margaret M. Strain (University of Dayton) "'Renouncing Chance': Salvation and the Sacred in Brian Friel's The Faith Healer" |
Professor Caitriona Moloney (Bradley University) "History, Myth, and Memory in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's short fiction" |
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| Ms. Akiko Satake (Rikkyo University) "The Abbey's Tradition of Folk Drama" |
Professor John Hildebidle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Friel's |
Dr. Giovanna Tallone (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) "Past, Present, and Future: Patterns of Otherness in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's Fiction" |
Friday 23 July
9.00 – 11.00– 6 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 4-6
| Panel 4 |
Panel 5 |
Panel 6 |
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| Irish Dramatists, 1930-1960 |
Eavan Boland |
Historicising Beckett (3) |
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| Room |
AM 203 |
AM 112 |
AM 110 |
| Chair |
Dawn Duncan |
TBC |
Dr Seán Kennedy /Dr Sinead Mooney |
| Speakers |
Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz
Bastos (University of Sao Paolo, |
Ms. Jeannette E. Riley (University of Massachusetts) "'So I could say Mine. My Own': Altering the Cartography of the Irish Poem" |
Dr Seán Kennedy (Teaching Assistant, NUI, Galway) "Life lay smiling before us": Beckett and the End of Protestant Ascendancy |
| Dr. Patricia A. Lynch (University of Limerick) "Language usage and social categorisation in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow" |
Dr. Susan Joseph (Howard University) "Occasions where the daughters of myth sang for sailors: Gender and classics in Eavan Boland's Poetry" |
Dr. David A. Hatch, (Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University). Beckett in Transition: "Three Dialogues," Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate. |
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| Dr Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University, Professor, "Siobhan McKenna's St. Joan" |
Mr. Jinghua Fan (National University of Singapore) "In the light of what she sees how he sees: Eavan Boland's Painterly Poetics" |
James McNaughton (University of Michigan) "Beckett, History and German Fascism" |
Friday 23 July
11.30 – 13.00 – 7 Panels of 3 speakers and One Reading
Panels 1 -4
| Panel 1 |
Panel 2 |
Panel 3 |
Panel 4 |
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| Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity" |
Bringing the Past into the Present – Myth in Contemporary Irish Drama |
Edna O’Brien (3) |
Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (3) |
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| Room |
AM 205 |
AM 107 |
AM 108 |
AM 110 |
| Chair |
Dr Riona Ní Fhrighl |
Dr Maria Kurdi |
Dr Sinead Mooney/ Kathryn Laing |
Professor Patricia Coughlan/Dr Tina O’Toole |
| Speakers |
Ms. Rita McCann
(Dublin City University) " |
Dr. Munira Hamud
Mutran (University
of Sao Paolo, |
Maureen O'Connor, 'Edna O'Brien: Irish Dandy'. |
Claire Bracken (University College Dublin) 'A Cyborg Manifesto': Irish Feminism in the 21st Century” |
| Dr. Caoimhghin O
Croidheain (Dublin City University) " |
Ms. Zoraide Rodrigues
Carrasco de Mesquita (Universidade de Sao Paulo) "Bringing the
past into present day |
Maeve Redmond (U of Surrey), 'Country Girl, London Boy: Parental, Filial and Cultural Influences on the Life Writings of Edna O'Brien and Carlo Gebler'. |
Dr. Moynagh Sullivan (University College Dublin) “Why Still Oedipus?” |
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| Ms. Sandra Mary
Stevens (University
of Sao Paolo, |
Dr Kathleen Jacquette, “Images of Irish Women – Memories and Memoir” (O’Faoilain and O’Brien) |
Borbála
Faragó (University College Dublin) “‘Even the Grass Grows at an
Alien Angle’: Invisible Immigrants of |
Friday 23 July
11.30 – 13.00 – 7 Panels of 3 speakers and One Reading
Panels 5 -7, Reading
| PANEL 5 |
Panel 6 |
Panel 7 |
READING |
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| Hugo Hamilton’s the Speckled People |
Irish Writing After the Revival (2) |
Abbey Centenary: From Tragicomedy to Melodrama: O’Casey, D’Alton, McGahern |
IASIL Reading |
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| Room |
AM 112 |
AM 203 |
AM 105 |
Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre |
| Chair |
Dr Michael J Cronin |
Professor Maureen Murphy |
Dr Patrick Burke |
Dr John Kenny |
| Speakers |
Dore Fischer (Dublin Institute of Technology) "'Suddenly lost at being home': Biculturalism and Interculturality in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People and Blake Morrison's Things my Mother never told me" |
Dr. Tyler Farrell (Northland College) "Memoirs of an Age: The View of Mid-Century Dublin from Ryan, Montague and Cronin" |
Mr. Paul O'Brien () "The Abbey Theatre: Collaboration and rejection in the early plays of Sean O'Casey" |
Tony O’Dwyer John Menaghan |
| Miss Jessica March (St. John's College, Oxford) "Conflict and Identity Formation in Rearden Conner's A Plain Tale from the Bogs and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People" |
Rosemarie Rowley (Senior College, Dun Laoghaire) "'The Annihilation of the Flesh-Rotted Word': Kavanagh's Real Trajectory" |
Professor Peter Harris (State University of Sao Paulo, |
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| Dr. John L. Murphy (DeVry University) "Aiseiri and the 'Daily Uprising' in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People" |
Ms
Rebecca Wilson, (National University of |