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2005 Conferences

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This page lists conferences on Irish literature, Irish drama and theatre studies, and Irish film. If you think a conference should be listed here, please tell us.

Mapping Uncertain Territories. Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre and Drama
CDE Conference 2005, Bremen, Germany,
2-5 June 2005
Deadline for Proposals: 31 December 2004
e-mail: t.rommel@iu-bremen.de; mark.schreiber@iu-bremen.de
conference website: http://www.ContemporaryDrama.de

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English announces its 14th Annual Conference (5-8 May 2005). It will be organized by the Chair of English Literature at International University Bremen and held on the university campus.

In our post-national, post-colonial and postmodern world, categories of space and place have become increasingly contested. The capacity to create or "produce space" (Lefebvre) is a quality that all literary and artistic genres inherently share. Theatre and drama, however, takes a particularly challenging role in this respect. As a performative genre, it continuously oscillates between the imagined spaces and places of the text and the real, social, cultural and political spaces and places of its production and reception. Public spaces, market places and the stage as "the other place" create territories that invite exploration and mapping.

This conference aims to investigate the ways in which theatre and drama engages with, (re)negotiates and (re)defines the changing nature of contemporary notions of space and place.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- contemporary drama and theatre as creative, commercial, political, cultural space
- space, place, identities and/or gender in contemporary drama and theatre
- alternative spaces and places in contemporary theatre and drama
- contemporary theatre and drama and/in cyberspace
- theatre, globalisation and the marketplace
- modes of exchange in time and place

Abstracts:
If you propose to give a talk (in English, not exceeding 20 minutes), please submit your title and an abstract of 200 words accompanied by a short biographical sketch. In addition to the presentation of papers we particularly invite contributions to alternative forms of discussion: e.g. proposals for workshops on Teaching Contemporary Drama in English and on Theatre Practice/Working with English Drama Groups. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 December 2004.

Only paid-up members are eligible to read papers at CDE confereneces. Membership subscriptions may be taken out or renewed during the conference.

Please send your proposals to:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rommel/ Mark Schreiber, International University Bremen,School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Arts and Literature, PO Box 750561, D-28725 Bremen

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Money and Culture, XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2005
An Scoil Teanga agus Litriochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, University College Cork
6-8 May 2005
Deadline for Abstracts: January 2005

This conference is being organised by Dr Fiona Cox, (Dept. of French, UCC) and Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, (Dept. of German, UCC). From the call for papers: "Money rules the world. It is ubiquitous and it is on our minds as often as sex and food. Money has shaped cultures from the birth of civilisation on. For some a necessary evil, for others a god, it creates power structures and underpins all areas of creativity. However, this has been surprisingly unacknowledged in literary and cultural studies. The aim of this conference is to study diverse aspects of money as a cultural phenomenon. We invite colleagues working in all academic disciplines to submit proposals focusing on the following areas (which are not intended to be exclusive)

1. Representations of money: money in literature, art, film, music, opera, folklore, and myth. This section could include studies on money-related motifs and figures (gifts, treasures, debt, heart of stone, Midas, Judas, the miser, the spendthrift, the usurer, the merchant, the gambler, the pawnbroker, the criminal etc), and on the iconography of money.

2. Money and Language: the vocabulary of money, including sayings, idioms, metaphors

3. Discourses on money: in literature, philosophy, sociology, economics, theology, law, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics.

4. The Cultural history of money: forms of money from the origins of the first legal tender to cybercash, money as a medium, cultural practices, customs, habits, rites, superstitions, money and gender, money and power, money and institutions (banks, stock exchanges).

5. European dimensions: the Euro, money and (national) identity, intercultural comparisons, money and politics, money in European history.

It is expected that selected papers from the conference will be published Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:

Dr. Fiona Cox, Department of French, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Email: FCox@french.ucc.ie; or

Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Department of German, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Email: h.schmidthannisa@ucc.ie

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"Ireland in the Renaissance"
Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference
Cambridge, England,
7-9 April 2005
Deadline for abstracts: May 15.

From the Call for Papers
“Look through any index of comprehensive studies of early modern Europe: despite its strategic location between Great Britain, the Continent and the New World, and despite its long history of invasions, influence, and trade, early modern Ireland continues to be neglected as an object of serious multidisciplinary study. Yet great politicians such as the earls of Ormond, great theologians such as Archbishop James Ussher and great "renaissance men" such as the epic poet and political strategist Edmund Spenser did not operate in a vacuum of ideas and controversy.

This panel seeks to further explore this world and to better situate Ireland within the paradigm of early modern intellectual and political developments in Europe. Papers are therefore invited on all subjects but especially the following:

--Art and/or Architectural History --Literature (non-Spenserian)
--Archaeology --Political Theory
--Settlement and Trade (including colonial studies)
--Historiography --Spanish and/or French Relations
--The legacy of the Italian "renaissance"
--The Renaissance Prince and/or Governor
--Relations with the Netherlands --Humanism and Humanist Education
--Irish literature --Mythology --Military/Naval History
--Reformation/Counter-Reformation Theology
--Scottish and/or Welsh Relations
--Gender Studies --Urban Studies --Race/Ethnic Studies

Willing panel participants will be strongly considered for inclusion in a collection of essays on the same subject, forthcoming from Four Courts Press (Dublin) and co-edited by Michael Potterton (archaeologist/historian) and Thomas Herron (literary studies).

Queries welcome. Please send all abstracts (firm limit 150 words, preferably by e-mail) by May 15, to either

1) Thomas Herron 2) Michael Potterton
Visiting Assistant Professor Discovery Programme
Department of English, Box 43 34 Fitzwilliam Place
Hampden-Sydney College Dublin 2
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 Ireland
USA
e-mail: therron@hsc.edu Michael@discoveryprogramme.ie

Hannibal Hamlin
Assistant Professor of English
The Ohio State University
1680 University Drive
Mansfield, OH 44906
419-755-4277
hamlin.22@osu.edu

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GENRE AND IRISH CINEMA
An International Conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
14-16 March, 2005.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 November 2004
Contact: bmcilroy@interchange.ubc.ca
Website: www.film.ubc.ca

Professor Brian McIlroy and the UBC Film Studies Program are pleased to announce an international conference on Genre and Irish Cinema. This conference is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Confirmed main speakers so far include Kevin Rockett (Trinity College Dublin), Cheryl Herr (University of Iowa), Martin McLoone (University of Ulster). 20 minute paper proposals from faculty and graduate students dealing with all aspects of Genre and Irish Cinema are welcome. Suggested theoretical topics utilizing Irish and Irish-related cinema could include
- Genre and Ideology,
- Genre and Auteur,
- Genre and Consumption,
- Genre and Fandom/Spectatorship,
Genre and Economics,
Genre and Globalization,
Genre and hybridity;
or within Irish film criticism and history, an examination of specific genres—the crime film, romantic comedies, biopics, troubles films, diasporic films, reparation cinema, etc.

Discussion of emerging or neglected genres welcomed.

Please submit your 250 word abstract and a brief biography to Professor Brian McIlroy at bmcilroy@interchange.ubc.ca by November 15, 2004. It is expected that a selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited collection. More details of the conference will be posted on the UBC Film website: www.film.ubc.ca

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ACIS Southern Regional Conference 2005
Ireland: North, South, East and West
24-27 February 2005
University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas
Deadline for Proposals: 15 October 2004
Contact: irishstudies@stthom.edu
www.stthom.edu/irishstudies

The Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites proposals on any Irish Studies topic for this interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of St. Thomas in Houston. The conference theme of Ireland: North, South, East and West takes an expansive view of the impact of Ireland and the Irish, not only in Ireland, but around the world. One focus (but not the only focus) is on the open-ended dynamics of Irish regional differences and tensions, and how they shape Irish culture and identity, as well as their influences on the Old and New Worlds.

Irish Studies topics may be explored through the following nonexclusive list of contexts: literature, history, politics, language, linguistics, folklore and mythology, archaeology, anthropology, law, economics and trade, sociology, art and art history, music, dance, media and film study, cultural studies, Ireland’s role in the European Union and the World, the Irish experience around the world, emigration/immigration, and North-South tensions, resolutions and bridge-building.

Special highlights include a presentation by Prof. Liam Irwin of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick entitled “Too Horrible to Remember, Too Terrible to Forget: A Commemoration of the Famine,” an illustrated presentation of Irish Famine Memorials around the world. Dr. Elizabeth Cullingford of the University of Texas English Department also will be one of our plenary speakers.

Proposals should be 250 words for a 15 to 20 minute presentation and contain the speaker’s name and affiliation (university, college or other), the speaker’s email address, physical address, telephone number, fax number and the speaker’s status (professor; graduate student; other). Email the proposal as a Word attachment to irishstudies@stthom.edu with the following reference: 2005 ACIS Southern Regional Conference, or mail it to:

Lori Gallagher
Director, Center for Irish Studies
University of St. Thomas
3800 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 525-3592
(713) 525-3866 (fax)

Presenters must be ACIS members. Become a member at www.acisweb.com. You may also download a poster in Word Format for the conference, and a PDF brochure for the conference.

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