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CALL FOR PAPERS Initially based primarily on text-based literary and historical investigation, Irish Studies have increasingly been stimulated by resources and methods derived from other disciplines. This conference will take interdisciplinarity as the point of departure in its engagements with Irish literatures. The premise is that literature provides a portal to worlds of visual and material culture, to landscapes and built environments replete with relationships between humans, things, and spaces. For example, characters and narrators interact with and within their homes, urban and/or rural domains; emigrate and inhabit diasporic terrain; eat and drink; wear clothes; work with tools; react to road signs, advertisements, or branding; play instruments and fill rooms with music; use raw materials and produce waste; and, indeed, contemplate surreal or virtual spaces and realities that might be distinctly other-worldly. We are therefore inviting papers that respond to these realms inscribed in literary texts, and/or are infused by ideas or methods of other fields such as anthropology, architecture, art, design, digital humanities, film, geography, music, theatre, etc. Papers will also be welcome on other topics of interest to members of IASIL. Please submit your proposal by March 1st, 2012 to irishstu@alcor.concordia.ca. Full panels will also be considered.Proposals should be 250-500 words in length, plus a brief (50 word) biography. BURSARIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: The conference organizers will offer a limited number of free registrations to graduate students whose proposals are accepted for conference presentation. To be considered for such bursaries it is best to send proposals in advance of the March 1, 2012 deadline. Please send any questions to the conference e-mail address or contact +1 (514) 848-2424 ext. 8711. |
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About IASIL
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