
*Contents*	*2002 IASIL NEWSLETTER*
CONFERENCES Updated 1 July 2002 FORTHCOMING 2002 Scotland, Ireland And The Romantic Aesthetic University of Aberdeen. 5-7 July, 2002. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sira/ For general Romanticists and Scottish and Irish Studies scholars alike. Abstracts by 1 April – 300 words to Catherine Jones, Dept of English, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, SCOTLAND. For more information – c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk or d.a.s.duff@abdn.ac.uk Women's History: Irish/Canadian Connections St. Mary’s University, Halifax. 21-24 August, 2002. http://www.ucd.ie/~werrc In Association with The Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) University College, Dublin. Keynote - Margaret Mac Curtain. Speakers include Mary Daly, Maria Luddy, Ailbhe Smyth and Margaret Ward. Proposals for research presentations of 15 mins or formal papers of 30 mins to Marie Hammond Callaghan - marie.hammond@novaworx.ca or marie.hammoncallaghan@ucd.ie Ireland (Ulster) Scotland – Concepts/ Contexts/ Comparisons Queen's University 20-22 September, 2002 http://www.qub.ac.uk ISAI (Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative). Speakers include Douglas Dunn, Liam Harte and Jane Ohlmeyer, with writers Kathleen Jamie and John McGahern. For more information contact Edna Longley, School of English, Queen's University Belfast BT7 Inn e.longley@qub.ac.uk. Please note: from 18-20th September, just before ISAI the annual Language & Politics Symposium will be held. Contact: John Kirk at j.m.kirk@qub.ac.uk or Donall OBaoill at d.baoill@qub.ac.uk Celtic Popular Culture University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee October 5, 2002 Papers are invited from both academic and lay scholars, graduate students papers encouraged on what are the links between popular cultural and history, politics , economics, language and psychology in the Celtic regions and those countries influenced them. Papers can discuss film, sport, food, clothing, books, music, dance, language, television, painting, advertising, etc. An interdisciplinary conference, a selection of paper will be published in ekeltoi, the electronic journal of the Center for Celtic Studies there. Keynote speaker Lawrence McCaffrey. Send brief abstracts and biographical info by 21 August to akincaid@uwm.edu. 12TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SUNY, Cortland October 27-29, 2002 Special areas of interest for Irish specialists include Modern Irish Fiction, Modern Irish Poetry and Yeats. For the attention of both faculty and graduate students. For additional information contact Professor Emmanuel Nelson, tel (607) 753-2078 or emmanueln@hotmail.com CNYCLL PANEL: 'Performing Ulster': Theatre, Politics and Performance in Northern Ireland' This panel of the Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature is looking for proposals addressing political / cultural identity in Ulster and its construction, representation and performance both on and off the stage. Abstracts addressing any of the following areas are welcome: · the relationship between politics and theatre in Northern Ireland, in terms of the former's performativity and the latter's political agency. · performances of political/cultural identity in the wider public sphere: demonstrations, parades, strikes, riots, religious pageants, commemorations, etc. · how history is selectively remembered, interpreted and celebrated in the commemorative cultures of either community to construct and perform distinct identities, and/or, how history is re-enacted in Northern Irish drama to resist/reify these identities. · how cultural identities are constructed/deconstructed through class and gender. · the effects of social, economic and cultural policy on institutional, independent and community-based theatrical practice. Please send your 250-word abstract, preferably by email, to the below address: Chair: Mark Phelan, Drama Department, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, U.K. Email : M.Phelan@qub.ac.uk Deadline for abstracts: July 15th 2002 “NORTHERN LANDSCAPES: THE IRISH PERSPECTIVE IN FICTION AND ART” Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 November – 3 November 2002 Website: www.tcd.ie/English/irishperspectives Contact: julieannestevens@hotmail.com or annemacdona@aol.com In association with Trinity College Dublin and under the auspices of The Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland, a series of public lectures on “Northern Landscapes: The Irish Perspective in Fiction and Art, 1870–1914” will take place in November 2002. Speakers include: Anne Crookshank, Torsten Gunnarsson, Declan Kiberd, Gifford Lewis and Otto Rauchbauer. Somerville and Ross Exhibition Long Room, Trinity College Dublin, 2 November – 23 December 2002 To coincide with this event, Trinity College Library will launch the Somerville and Ross Exhibition and the Irish Film Centre will show a film version of Somerville and Ross’s novel, The Real Charlotte. The celebration of Somerville and Ross’s works marks a reappraisal of their contribution to Irish Letters while discovering connections between visual and print material related to the Irish countryside and its people. 2003 CONFERENCES REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES: LITERATURE, THEATRE, FILM, TV DRAMA Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 10-11 April 2003 http://www.ria.ie In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged by numerous acts of violence. Since the signing of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998 it has been widely sensed that an era has passed in Irish history and that violence of the kind which marked the period 1969-94 is unlikely to recur on the same scale in the foreseeable future. Five years after the signing of the Good Friday agreement seems accordingly an auspicious time to begin an assessment of how the period of the Troubles was represented in literature, theatre, film and television drama. It is therefore proposed to hold a conference on the above theme in the Royal Irish Academy on 10 & 11 April 2003. Proposals are invited for twenty minute papers on relevant subjects. Among topics we hope participants will address in presented papers are: 'The Troubles and the Family'; 'The View from the South'; 'The Urban Rural Divide'; 'Sexuality'; 'Religion'; 'Language Choice'; 'Anthologising the Troubles'; (though this list should not be considered restrictively exhaustive). Papers will be welcomed that cover more than one genre. Please send abstracts of not more than 500 words to: Symposium Secretary, Committee for Anglo-Irish Literature, Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 or by email to r.hegarty@ria.ie by 31 December 2002 NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM CONFERENCE: PLACING ROMANTICISM: SITES, BORDERS, FORMS Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University, NY 1- 5 August 2003. http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/engl/nassr03.htm The 2003 NASSR Conference Committee invites you to participate in "Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders, Forms" to be held in midtown Manhattan, New York City August 1-5, 2003 at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University. The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), in association with the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), announces a conference featuring transatlantic participation and themes, to take place in New York City's cultural center. These conference themes have been selected to represent a broad spectrum of approaches to Romanticism. Our title is intended to encompass both the diverse cultural sites of the field as well as its formal and linguistic manifestations. To support these themes, we are planning a wide array of theater performances, museum exhibits, musical concerts, special tours, and other cultural events in New York City. Full information available on the society’s website. RECENT CONFERENCES New Voices at TCD Trinity College Dublin 1 – 3 February 2002 www.newvoices2002.tcd.ie The fourth annual New Voices Conference will be held at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College, Dublin from 1^st-3^rd February, 2002. An interdisciplinary conference with papers in literature, history, theatre, media, Irish language and visual arts given by young scholars. For more information, contact the organizers, Ronan Kelly or Fionnuala Dillane at newvoices2002@tcd.ie Irish Studies in Historical Perspective Concordia University March 2 2002 http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/history/him.html. Conference hosted by the graduate students of the Dept. of History of– the 8^th Annual HISTORY IN THE MAKING conference. Guest speakers are Nancy Curtin and Gary Owens. For additional information contact Christian Des Roches himviii@yahoo.ca 24^th Annual Conference of the Celtic Colloquium of the University of California. UCLA 14 – 17 March 2002 http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic Sponsored by the Colloquium, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA. Proposals due by 18^th January. Conference dates March 14-17^t (nb/ to IASIL members-check those dates which seem odd – all the information I had – ed.) Papers on the Four Branches of the Mabinogi especially welcome. Keynote speakers include Catherine McKenna, Tomas O Cathasaigh and Patrick Ford. For more information or to send proposals contact Prof. Joseph Nagy, Dept of English UCLA jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu Irish Research Seminar St. Patrick’s College of Education, Drumcondra, Dublin 12-13 April, 2002. Contact info – Mary Shine Thompson mary.Thompson@spd.ie or Nick Allen allenn@tcd.ie. Speakers will include Garret FitzGerald, Pauric Travers, Máirín ní Dhonnchadha, and Declan Kiberd. “Keeping it Real: The Fictions and Non-fictions of Film and Television in Modern Ireland.” University College Dublin 19 – 21 April 2002 An international conference to be held at UCD School of Film from 19-21 April, 2002. Keynoters will be Liz Cullingford, Lance Pettitt, Kevin Rockett, Martin McLoone. More information available from ruth.barton@ucd.ie or harvey.obrien@ucd.ie Tel 353-1-7168634/8351. Irish Writing Today University of Bergen, Norway, 15-17th May, 2002. http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/nisn Guest speakers - Edna and Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. Deadline for abstracts 15th February, 2002. For more information contact Ruben Moi: ruben.moi@eng.uib.no Canadian Association of Irish Studies Conference. University of Toronto at Mississauga 21-24 May, 2002 http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/cais “Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior: Rethinking Irishness”. Abstracts plus a 1 page cv by 18 January to Danine Farquarson efarquha@watarts.uwaterloo.ca or c/o St Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2l 3G3. Preferably by email attachment. International Conference Of The Spanish Association Of Irish Studies Barcelona 30 May – 1 June 2002 A forum for discussion of the discursive formations that underlie the imagined communities of Ireland. Literary, cultural, media, gender, postcolonial and film studies. Send 150 word abstracts by 1st February to Rosa Gonzalez Casademont, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelona SPAIN. Email rosag@fil.ub.es ACIS Annual Conference Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 5-8 June 2002. http://www.marquette.edu/courses/engl/gillespm Plenaries include David Norris, Nancy Curtin, Charles Fanning and Tom Hachey. Films, plays, music and dancing on offer in addition to academic panels. Deadline for abstracts has expired but additional information is available on the website. The Annual SSNCI Conference (The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland) All Hallows College Dublin 26 – 28 June 2002 www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/ssnci.html The theme of the conference will be “The Irish Revival reappraised”. For more information contact Betsy Taylor-Fitzsimons tayfitz@indigo.ie or James Murphy jhmurphy@indigo.ie, who is the president of the Society.
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