Below is a list of independently organised panels for IASIL 2007. A list of individual papers may be viewed on this page.

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The appearance of a person's name in the list below does not guarantee that that person will attend IASIL 2007. This list is subject to revision. All speakers must register for IASIL 2007. All speakers must be members of IASIL.

 

Update 14 May 2007

 

STATES OF CHANGE: IRISH (E)MIGRANTS DISCOURSES
CHAIR: Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick)

Cahill, Susan (University of Limerick), “Migration and Embodiment: Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch”.

Izarra, Laura P.Z. (University of São Paulo), “Don’t cry for me Ireland – Irish women voices from Argentina”.

O’Toole, Tina (University of Limerick), “Will Ye Go Lassie Go: George Egerton’s Emigrant Fiction”.

Sheridan, Louise (University of Limerick), “Irish Women’s Emigration to Newfoundland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries”.  

 

SEBASTIAN BARRY’S CREATIVE USE OF FAMILY, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Bertha, Csilla (University of Debrecen), “Varieties of Irishness: Boundaries in Sebastian Barry’s Whistling Psyche”.

Morse, Donald E. (University of Debrecen), “Sebastian Barry’s Early Poetry: The Power and Place of Memory ‘in an Elusive Landscape’”.

Mutran, Munira H. (University of São Paulo), “Historical, Cultural and Family Memory”.

 

UNRELIABLE NARRATION: TROPES AND VARIETIES IN IRISH CULTURAL HISTORY
McAuliffe, Mary (Trinity College, Dublin), “‘Casting an evil eye’: Irish antiquarians and the Sheela-na-gig”.

O’Donnell, Katherine (University College Dublin), “Castle Stopgap: An Anglo-Gaelic Performance”.

Tiernan, Sonja (University College Dublin), “One Woman’s Celtic Literary Revival”.

 

NEW PERSPECTIVES IN IRISH THEATRE SCHOLARSHIP
CHAIR: Paul Murphy (Queen’s University Belfast)

Hughes, Caoilinn (Queen’s University Belfast), “Too Much Tradition: Zeitgeist and Poltergeists in Stewart Parker’s Spokesong and Pentecost”.

McTighe, Trish (Queen’s University Belfast), “Framing the Body: Beckett’s Film and the Pursuit of Form”.

Winter, Brenda (Queen’s University Belfast), “Activating the Archive: George Shiels, Popular Theatre and Social Justice”.

 

IMAGES OF DIFFERENCE, AND INDIFFERENCE: CONTESTING IDENTITY AND ITS BOUNDARIES IN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURE
CHAIR: Cathy Leeney (University College Dublin)

Cerquoni, Enrica (University College Dublin), “Neither the ‘Same’ nor ‘Other’: Spaces of Ambiguous Liminality in Synge’s The Tinker’s Wedding”.

Cronin, Finola (University College Dublin), “(In)Different Dancing: Images of Identity in the Work of Irish Modern Dance Theatre”.

Walsh, Ian (University College Dublin), “The National Notional Picture Gallery: Images of Jack B. Yeats’ The Green Wave and In Sand”.

Wilson, Mick (Dublin Institute of Technology), “The Indifference of Identity: Other Contests”.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION: THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH LITERATURE AND THINKING ON CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING
CHAIR: Eamon Maher (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT, Dublin)

Guy, Peter (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin), “John Broderick, Francois Mauriac and the Influences of the Catholic Novel in Ireland”.

Mullen, Raymond (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin), “‘These painful remembrances of things past’: Echoes of Proust in the Writings of John McGahern”.

Nolan, Sarah (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin), “Memory Retrieved and Created in the Cities of Baudelaire and Sirr”.

 

WOMEN WRITERS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND IRELAND: MANAGING CULTURAL EXCHANGE
CHAIR: Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)

Connolly, Claire (Cardiff University), “ London as Magic Lantern: Lady Blessington’s Sketches”.

Kelleher, Margaret (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “The Ideal Guest List?: Victorian Prosography and Irish Women”.

McDiarmid, Lucy (Villanova University), “Hostess in absentia, Guest Manquée: Lady Gregory and the Peacock Dinner”.

 

ROUGH MAGIC’S IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY, INTERTEXTUALITY AND HISTORY

Armand, Louis (Charles University Prague), “Quantum entanglement and the conspiracy of unknown variables: Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency”.

Pilny, Ondrej (Charles University Prague), “My kingdom for a pun: Myles and Flann in Improbable Frequency”.

Wallace, Clare (Charles University Prague), “The Provocations of History: Music and Distance in Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter’s Improbable Frequency”.

DIGITAL FUTURES IN IRISH STUDIES
CHAIR: Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland)

Schreibman, Susan (University of Maryland), “George Yeats and Thomas MacGreevy: A Friendship in Letters: An Electronic Scholarly Edition”.

Van Hulle, Dick (Universiteit Antwerpen), “Krapp and other versions: genetic editions of Beckett’s works”.

Wildy, Deirdre (Queen’s University Belfast), “Digital Library of Core Materials on Ireland).

 

CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING: BACK TO THE FUTURE
CHAIR: Paula Murphy (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

Carey, Sinéad (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “Buckled Shoes and Knickerbockers: An Exploration of Ireland’s Mythic Past and Future in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl Series”.

McDonagh, John (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “‘Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain’: Shifting Identities in the poetry of Paul Durcan”.

Murphy, Paula (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “Dermot Bolger’s Parallax Performances”.

O’Brien, Eugene (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “‘Writing for Myself’: The Future by Way of the Past in the Writing of Seamus Heaney”.

 

JONATHAN SWIFT AND PROTESTANT IRELAND
CHAIR: Robert Mahony (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.)

Baltes, Sabine (Independent Scholar), “‘The Grandson of that Ass Quin’: Swift and Chief Justice Whitshed”.

Fauske, Christopher (Salem State College), “Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley and the Bonds of Philosophy”.

Ward, James (University of Ulster, Coleraine), “Brass, Dross, Trash: Swift on Money, Rubbish and Revolution”.

INTERTEXUALIZING JOYCE
CHAIR: Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)  

Slote, Sam (Trinity College, Dublin), “The Thomistic Representation of Dublin in Ulysses”.

Plock , Vike Martina (University College Dublin), “Aristotle’s Masterpiece and Tristram Shandy: Obstetrics and Intertextuality in ‘Oxen of the Sun’”.

Bénéjam, Valérie (Université de Nantes), “Innards and Titbits: Joyce’s Digestive Revolution in the Novel”

 

BECKETT AND THE DREAD OF WOMEN: “birth was the death of him”
CHAIR: Sean Kennedy (St. Mary’s University, Halifax)

Kennedy, Sean (St. Mary’s University, Halifax), “Beckett and the Dread of Woman”.

Sharkey, Rodney (University of Doha), “Spokes and Stones and Unborn Bones: Beckett, bicycles and birth”.

Kintzele, Paul (University of Houston-Downtown), “Krapp’s Last Tape: A Schizoanalysis”.

BECKETT: THE TRAUMA OF THE CHILD
CHAIR: Paul Stewart (Intercollege, Cyprus)

Stewart, Paul (Intercollege, Cyprus), “Beckettian Mispoedia”.

Kim, Rina (University of Warwick), “The Study of Female Castration Anxiety in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days”.

Kiuchi, Kumiko (University of Tokyo), “The Genealogy of Child’s Play in Beckett’s Three Novels”.

BECKETT AND ETHICS
CHAIR: Jackie Blackman (Trinity College, Dublin)  

Blackman, Jackie (Trinity College, Dublin), “‘Haemorraldia’: Beckett’s emerald ‘ Greenland’”.

McMullan, Anna (Queens University Belfast), “Performing Intercorporeality in Waiting for Godot”.

Weller, Shane (University of Kent), “Anethical Beckett”.

IRISH THEATRICAL DISAPORA: EMERGING IMAGES AND IDEAS
CO-CHAIRS: John P. Harrington (Rensselaer, Troy, NY) and Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

Round Table Discussion

Berchild, Christopher (Indiana State University)

Cave, Richard (Royal Holloway College, London)

Dean, Joan (University Missouri-Kansas City)

Kuch, Peter (Otago University)

Hunt Mahony, Christina (Catholic University of America)

 

IRISH LITERARY MODERNISM
Chair: Christopher K. Coffman (University of Tennessee at Martin)

Coffman, Christopher K. (University of Tennessee at Martin), “The Question of Irish Modernism: or Joyce’s Postmodernity Re-Viewed.”

Bleyer, Lee (Catholic University of America), “’I said softly to myself the word paralysis’: Post-structuralism in Dubliners.”

Ardoin, Paul (Florida Atlantic University), “Happy Days at the End of Modern Realist Theatre.”

Schliefer, Ronald (University of Oklahoma), “George Moore, The Untilled Fields and Irish Modernist Fiction.”

 

EDNA O’BRIEN: PERSPECTIVES
Chair Rebecca Pelan (University College Dublin)

Laing, Kathryn (Mary Immaculate College, Univ. of Limerick), “Edna O’Brien, J.M. Coetzee and Houses of Fiction.”

O’Connor, Maureen (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Landscape and the Performance of Gender and Nation in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction.”

Mooney, Sinead (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Country Girls and Chorus Girls: Reading Edna O’Brien and Jean Rhys.”