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Call for Papers
New
Voices in Irish Criticism: Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2011
“Emergent
Voices: Tradition and Dissent”
University College
Dublin
Dates
17th-18th June 2011
Ireland
is currently in the midst of dramatic political and social upheaval. With Ireland
facing into an uncertain future, this is a particularly crucial and interesting
time in which to map both the actual and the potential literary, critical,
and cultural impact of this political and social change. Taking
‘Tradition and Dissent’ as its theme, the thirteenth New Voices
in Irish Criticism Conference will offer a dynamic, interdisciplinary forum
for discussion and debate on these issues. New Voices wants to consider
connections and conflicts between traditional and dissenting views, and
highlight ways in which these perspectives shape current literary, critical,
and cultural work. We are particularly interested in querying how the
interplay between tradition and dissent manifests itself in changing cultural
and critical perspectives on issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality. A focus on ‘tradition’
and ‘dissent’ opens up a space for reflection on the current
state of scholarship and criticism in Ireland, particularly in relation
to new critical positionings and textual
approaches. It also provides a rubric within which to explore the changing
realities of academic work and the university, new realities that are
particularly acute for the new generation of emerging scholars. Above all,
New Voices wants to promote ‘Emergent Voices’, both of
marginalised or dissident perspectives in Irish culture and criticism, and of
the new scholars who have much to contribute to debates on tradition and
dissent in Irish criticism.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Professor Gerardine Meaney, University
College Dublin
Professor Shaun Richards, Staffordshire University, UK
Dr. Moynagh Sullivan, National University
of Ireland
Maynooth
We welcome papers on topics including but by no means
limited to:
- Cultural
representations of dissident discourses
- Postcolonial
and post-national debates
- Gender
and sexuality in Celtic and post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
- Race
and representation
- Migration,
culture and identity
- Class
relations
- Cultural
depictions of religious discourses
- Hidden
histories and narratives of recovery
- Cultural
recall – collective and individual memory
- Time
and space – nostalgia and futurity in contemporary texts
- The
new realities of Irish culture and society post recession
- Textual evolutions? Digital humanities & new
media
We are interested in receiving abstracts for twenty minute papers from postgraduate and postdoctoral
scholars working in the areas of literature, drama, film, visual art,
cultural studies, new media, performance studies, sociology, philosophy,
comparative studies, history and politics amongst others.
Deadline for
abstracts: Friday April 22nd 2011
Abstracts should be 250-300 words, and include affiliation
and a short biography
Email: newvoicesucd2011@gmail.com
Conference Organizers: Katie Moten and Maria Mulvany.
We would like to gratefully acknowledge
the generous support of UCD
Graduate School
in the College
of Arts and Celtic
Studies, the Graduate Research and Education Programme (GREP)
in Gender, Culture and Identities, and UCD School
of English, Drama and Film.
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