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| The 2010 IASIL Conference: NUI Maynooth Job & Fellowship Opportunities
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The Island and the Arts
Patrick Kavanagh once claimed that Ireland could host an army of a thousand poets at any time. Perhaps that is a small number compared to the island’s rich heritage of traditional and popular music. Yet poetry, pop, and folk are not its only creative outlets. Irish theatre contributes to cultural discussions at home and abroad, while in the visual arts it boasts a range of powerful painters and an ever-increasing production of films. Furthermore, new media, generic transgressions, translations, and border aesthetics enhance creativity. The island’s nature, its monastic tradition, contested histories, language diversity, social shifts, diasporic dynamics, and tax legislation – all these likely and unlikely sources of artistic endeavour keep the cornucopia flowing. Today, as throughout history, the island holds a remarkable position in the creative arts and questions concerning aesthetics and its relations to metaphysical speculation, ethic significance, historical conditioning, social becoming, and identitarian processes are both more vital and more compelling than ever. The 2010 NISN conference focuses on the arts of the island and on the conditions and critical discourses with which they interact. The organisers invite proposals for both individual 20-minute papers and planned panels on a wide variety of topics connected to the theme. The call for papers opens on 1 January, with a deadline for the submission of abstracts of 300 words on 15 June 2010. The conference is hosted by the University of Tromsø in cooperation with Border Poetics Research Group, Culture Ireland, Norwegian Research Council and the Irish Embassy.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Poets Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon Visual artist Rita Anne Duffy Professor Michael Parker.
Please send abstracts to: Ruben.Moi@uit.no
Please register at the website: http://uit.no/humfak/islandarts/
Papers may address, but are by no means restricted to, the following topics:
* relations between the arts * ekphrastic poetry and prose * the future of the arts * arts and language * arts and politics * arts and ethics * arts and history * arts and psychology * arts and the environment * arts and memory * critical discussions of the works of individual artists (e.g. writers, painters, playwrights, musicians, directors)
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