IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

Timetable and Events

TIMETABLE and EVENTS - UPDATED 14 JULY 2005 - CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR UPDATES

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These are DRAFT programmes. Delegates should check back regularly for updates, and should regard all times as provisional.

SUNDAY 24
13.00-18.00: Arrivals and Registration Foyer Faculty of Philosophy building, Nam. J. Palacha 2

14.00: IASIL executive meeting 1

19.00: Opening Ceremony and Reception Karolinum building, Ovocný Trh 3 MAP - download a map of the area in PDF format

MONDAY 25
8.30-9.00: Registration

9.00-11.00: Introduction
Plenary 1: Thomas Docherty

11.00-11.30: Coffee break + registration

11.30-13.00: Panel sessions

13.00-14.30: Lunch break

14.30-16.00: Panel sessions

16.00-16.30: Coffee break

16.30-18.00/18.30: Panel sessions

19.00: Reading: Glenn Patterson
Reception, Law Faculty, Nám. Curieových 7

TUESDAY 26
9.00-10.30: Panel sessions

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-13.00: Panel sessions

13.30: Departure Boat Cruise on Vltava
Lunch provided

17.30-19.00: IASIL executive meeting 2, Guest speaker Jo Campling

19.00: Launch: Field Day Review and Reception

WEDNESDAY 27
9.00-10.30: Panel sessions

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Plenary 2: Roy Foster

12.30-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-15.30: Panel sessions

15.30-16.00: Coffee break

16.00-17.30 /18.00: Panel sessions

19.30: Contemporary Theatre Roundtable

THURSDAY 28
9.00-10.30: Panel sessions

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Plenary 3: Richard Kearney

12.30-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-15.30: Panel sessions

15.30-15.45: Coffee break

15.45-16.45: Panel sessions

17.00-18.30: IASIL AGM

19.00/19.30: Closing Banquet Obecni Dum Nam. Republiky 5

FRIDAY 29
Departure for optional post-conf tour

SATURDAY 30
Return from optional post-conf tour

Plenary Speakers

Monday 25
Prof. THOMAS DOCHERTY
Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

Thomas Docherty has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Books include Reading (Absent) Character (1983); John Donne Undone (1986); On Modern Authority (1987); Postmodernism (1992); After Theory (1990); Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation (1999). A new book on Aesthetic Democracy is forthcoming. He is currently engaged in research for a book on ‘the literate and humane university’.

Wednesday 27
Prof. ROY FOSTER
Carroll Professor of Irish History Hertford College, University of Oxford
History & Biography, Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (Sussex: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1976; NJ: Humanities Press 1979); ‘To The Northern Counties Station: Lord Randolph Churchill and the Prelude to the Orange Card’, in F. S. L. Lyons & R. A. J. Hawkins, ed., Ireland Under the Union: Varieties of Tension: Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody (Oxford Clarendon Press 1980); Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (Oxford: OUP 1981); Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Allen Lane; NY Viking/Penguin 1988) [with introductory essay on ‘Varieties of Irishness’]; ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Ireland (OUP 1989 [rev. edn. as] The Oxford History of Ireland (OUP 1992); W. B. Yeats, A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 (OUP March 1997); The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2001); W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford: OUP 2003).

Essay collections, Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish History and English History (London: Allen Lane/Penguin 1993; rep. 1995); The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2001).

Miscellaneous, Political Novels and Nineteenth-Century History (Winchester: King Alfred’s College 1982); ed., Hubert Butler, The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1990; rep. London: Penguin 1992), and Do., in French trans. as L’Envahisseur est venu en pantoufles (1995); The Story of Ireland: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 1 Dec. 1994 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995).

Thursday 28
Prof. RICHARD KEARNEY
Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College

Criticism, ed., Exploring Intellectual Traditions (1984); Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers (1984); Poetique du Possible (Paris 1984); Myth and Motherland [Field Day Pamplets, No. 5] (Derry: Field Day Co. 1984); ed. The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (Dublin: Wolfhound 1984); Movements in Modern European Philosophy (1985); Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (Manchester UP 1988); ed., Across the Frontiers: Ireland in the 1990s (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1989); ed., Migrations: The Irish at Home and Abroad (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1990); ed., States of Mind: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers on the European Mind (Manchester UP 1995); Poetics of Modernity (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press 1995); Paul Ricoeur: The Hermeneutics of Action (Sage 1996); Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Literature, Philosophy (London: Routledge 1996); ed. with Mark Dooley, Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy London: Routledge,1998; On Stories [Thinking in action ser.] (London: Routledge 2001, 2002); Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness London: Routledge, 2002; The God Who May Be: The Hermeneutics of Religion (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) Indiana University Press, 2002.

Poetry, Angel of Patrick’s Hill (Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1992), 47pp. Fiction, Sam’s Fall (London: Hodder/Sceptre 1995), 236pp.; Walking at Sea Level (London: Sceptre 1998).

Guest Reader
Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia taught by Malcolm Bradbury. He returned to Northern Ireland in 1988 and was Writer in the Community for Lisburn and Craigavon under a scheme administered by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

He is the author of five novels. The first, Burning Your Own (1988), set in Northern Ireland in 1969, won a Betty Trask Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Fat Lad (1992), was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award and explores the effects of the political situation in Northern Ireland through the story of a young man returning to his homeland after an absence of ten years. Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995) narrates the experiences of three people brought together on the Euro Disney construction site. The International (1999), is set in a Belfast hotel in 1967, and tells the story of a day in the life of Danny, an 18-year-old barman; Number 5 (2003), traces the lives of the various occupants of a Belfast house over a 45-year period. His most recent novel, That Which Was (2004), is also set in Belfast and explores the interaction between memory, history and society.

Glenn Patterson has been Writer in Residence at the Universities of East Anglia, Cork and Queen's University, Belfast, and was one of two writers (with poet Bernardine Evaristo) selected by the British Council and the Arts Council to attend the 'Literaturexpress Europa 2000' international literature tour.

Bibliography
Burning Your Own Chatto & Windus, 1988
Fat Lad Chatto & Windus, 1992
Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain Chatto & Windus, 1995
The International Anchor, 1999
Number 5 Hamish Hamilton, 2003
That Which Was Hamish Hamilton, 2004

Irish Theatre Roundtable

Wednesday 27
As Eamonn Jordan states in his introduction to Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, “Irish Theatre has never been so successful” yet, simultaneously “never in more need of rigorous evaluation.” The exceptional number of papers and panels devoted to theatre at this year’s IASIL conference testifies to a strong scholarly commitment to such evaluation. But what about the practitioners themselves?

To investigate and celebrate the vibrancy of Irish theatre and Irish playwrights, and to hear what they have to say about their work, we welcome to Prague four dynamic voices in Irish theatre today to participate in a roundtable discussion.

The aim of the roundtable would be to provide a venue for the participants to share their opinions and experiences of working in theatre in Ireland and elsewhere, as well as to provide an opportunity for discussion between writers, practitioners, critics and scholars.

Start preparing your questions now….

PARTICIPANTS

CHAIR:
Karen Fricker
A scholar and theatre critic, she has just completed a PhD thesis on the original stage productions of Robert Lepage, at the School of Drama, Trinity College Dublin. She is the editor of Irish Theatre Magazine and also writes about the theatre in The Guardian, Variety, The Irish Times and The New York Times.

Lynne Parker
Lynne Parker is co-founder and Artistic Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company and an Associate Director of the National Theatre. Productions for Rough Magic include Top Girls, Decadence, The Country Wife, Nightshade, Spokesong, Serious Money, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Tempest, Tom and Viv, Lady Windermere?s Fan, Digging For Fire, Love And A Bottle, I Can?t Get Started, New Morning, Danti-Dan, Down Onto Blue, The Dogs, Hidden Charges, Halloween Night, The Way Of TheWorld, Pentecost, Northern Star, The School for Scandal, The Whisperers, Boomtown, Three Days of Rain, Dead Funny, Midden, Copenhagen (Best Production, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards), Shiver, Olga, Take Me Away, Improbable Frequency (Best Production and Best Director, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards), The Life of Galileo and The Sugar Wife.
She was an associate artist of Charabanc Theatre Company, and has worked with many other companies including Druid, Tinderbox, 7:84 Scotland and the RSC.

Jason Byrne
Jason Byrne Is the artistic director of Loose Canon Theatre company. Loose Canon is unique in Ireland in both structure and approach to theatre. Based in Dublin, Loose Canon’s ensemble of actors and director work exclusively for the company on a full-time basis and follow a daily training regime influenced by such practitioners as Stanislavski, Grotowski, Meyerhold and Eugenio Barba. Jason Byrne is currently working on a production of Heiner Müller’s triptych Waterfront Wasteland/Medeamaterial/Landscape with Argonauts.

Billy Roche
has been an actor and has toured Britain and Ireland as a musician working the cabaret circuit. His stage plays include the ‘Wexford’ trilogy A Handful of Stars (1989), which won the John Whiting award and the Plays and Players award for the most promising playwright, Poor Beast in the Rain (1990), which won the Thames television bursary award for the best play of 1990 as well as the George Devine award and the Charrington Fringe award, and Belfry (1992). In 1989 he was writer in residence at the Bush Theatre, London. Roche has also written Amphibians (1992), a play for BBC Scotland and the stage play The Cavalcaders (1993) and a screenplay Trojan Eddie which was produced by Initial Films/Channel Four Films, in association with Irish Screen and The Irish Film Board in 1996 and directed by Gillies Mackinnon. He has written the novel Tumbling Down (1986). (Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th-century Biography, Louis McRedmond (General Ed.), Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1996.) His most recent play, On Such as We, premiered in the Peacock in 2001.

Executive Meeting - there will be an Executive Meeting at 2 pm on Sunday 24 July in the conference venue, for all members of the Executive, Representatives, and for organisers of future conferences. The date of the IASIL AGM, which all members are invited to attend, will be announced later.