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| IASIL Newsletter 2004 newsletter |
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2004 Conferences All details should be confirmed with conference oganisers January - March 2004
2003 Conferences are listed HERE 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. |
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Ireland
- space, text, time The Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages have announced their first plenary conference, which sets out to examine how the concepts of space and time have shaped our understanding of issues of place and identity in Ireland and elsewhere. Papers are therefore on the following themes as they as relate to Ireland and Irishness: language, literature and identities; history, memory and commemoration; imaging Ireland in film, music and performance; heritage, travel and tourism; diasporic versions of identity; landscape, representation and belonging Ireland: space, text, time seeks to provide a forum for writers and researchers in many disciplines, including geography, language and literary studies, history, politics, museum and heritage studies, film studies, music and ethnography. The Academy welcomes a diversity of critical and ideological perspectives, and it is the conference organisers' intention to publish an edited selection of papers presented at the conference. Participants are invited to submit a 200-word abstract before 5th December 2003 to Dr Liam Harte, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Magee campus, Londonderry BT48 7JL. Email: l.harte@ulster.ac.uk What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies ConferenceAHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen 26-28 March 2004 Deadline for Abstracts: 12 January 2004 Contact: sam@abdn.ac.uk The key disciplines covered in this conference are Language and Literature, History, Celtic Studies, Film and Media Studies and Cultural Geography Suggested topics include: Migrations · The Tourist's Gaze · Forgotten/Hidden Narratives · Memory and Commemoration · (Re)mapping the City · Representing the Troubles · The Future of Irish and/or Scottish Studies · Language and Region · Minorities · Nation and Text · Nationality. Yet Again · Screening Identities · The Politics and Poetics of Translation · Celticism The Conference Organisers are looking for submissions for individual 25-minute papers, and proposals for panels and round-table discussions. 250-word abstracts are to be posted or e-mailed by 12 January 2004 to: Shane Murphy,
What Rough Beasts?, English Department, King's College, University of
Aberdeen, AB24 2UB University of Rennes 2 19-20 March 2004 Deadline for Abstracts: 20 December 2003 Contact: Yann Bévant, yann.bevant@uhb.fr Erick Falc'her-Poyroux, efp@uhb.fr Anne Goarzin anne.goarzin@uhb.fr Stéphane Jousni, Stéphane.jousni@uhb.fr The French
Society for the study of Irish literature have announced their 2004
Conference theme - Bridges and Barriers/Passerelles et impasses. The
conference will take place at the Centre for Irish Studies at Rennes.
20 minute paper proposals and further information is available from
the conference organisers, whose details are listed above. Crossroads
Irish-American Festival From March 6th - 13th, 2004, San Francisco will host CROSSROADS: Irish American Festival -- 2004, a seven-day event that will involve musicians, scholars, historians, film makers, labor leaders, novelists, poets, and politicians. The event opens on March 6th at the San Francisco Main Public Library at1:30PM with a panel entitled "Hybrid Irish Histories," featuring writers and scholars Peter Linebaugh, Kerby Miller, Janet Nolan, and Patrick O'Sullivan and an Irish music performance by "The Gasmen." On Sunday, March 7th is a Reading by Irish writers James Liddy, Eddie Stack, and Mary O'Donoghue at Delancey Street Theater. The topic of The Irish Language in America will be taken up in a panel discussion including Daniel Cassidy, Michael O'hAodha, and Esther O'Hara on Monday, March 8th at New College of California Cultural Center on Valencia Street. A series of New Irish Film Screenings will be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Delancey Street Theater (admission required) March 10th and 11th and the central role of Irish-Americans in American Labor Hi story will be the occasion for a panel on March 12th, also at New College of California. The closing day of the CROSSROADS Irish American Festival, 2004 will be composed of two panels, hosted by the SF Main Library, on March 13th: "The Irish in California," including Dr. Kevin Starr, Michael Corrigan, Matthew Jockers, and James P. Walsh. After a musical interlude by Melanie O'Reilly, the second panel, "Memory, Imagination & Identity," will highlight Bob Callahan, Charles Fanning, Catherine Brady, Gearoid O'hAllmhurain and Patricia Monaghan. The CROSSROADS
- Irish American Festival, 2004 was founded by New College of California's
Irish Studies Program and the San Francisco Irish Arts Foundation, in
conjunction with SF Public Library. The
American Conference for Irish Studies, Southern Regional 2004 The Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites paper proposals (250 word abstracts) for its interdisciplinary conference. All papers investigating the issue of representation in Irish Studies—the real, the invented, the re-imagined—are welcome. What does the popularization of such terms suggest about the present state of Irish Studies? What is the relationship between the real, the authentic and the invented across many disciplines? Have these terms exhausted their usefulness or do they still have critical currency? Papers might address the idea of “Real Ireland” in the following: the media, literature, history, literary biography, archival research, Irish-America, the heritage industry, language and translation, "Troubles" discourse, commemoration, cartography, gender, sexuality, and pedagogical discourses. Abstracts (250 words) are due October 24, 2003 and should be sent by email attachment (in Word, with “Southern ACIS” as the subject line) to: ghiggin@emory.edu Those who cannot access email may send their submission to: Geraldine Higgins, English Department, Emory University, 302 North Callaway Center, 537 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Panels from all disciplines within Irish Studies are welcome. As always, the Southern Regional encourages the participation of graduate students, for whom there will be discounts available in conference fees. Already formed panels, discussion group proposals, and alternative presentation formats are encouraged. Sixth
Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies The sixth annual Grian Conference has issued a call for papers on “Anthologizing Ireland: Collection, Curation, Dissemination”. Email submissions to Will Hatheway at grianconference@hotmail.com, by December 1, 2003. Full details are on the conference website. You may also download a timetable for the conference direct from the IASIL website The
Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature Annual Conference
- Treasure Islands, Real and Imagined The Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature invites proposals for its next annual conference. Proposals on the conference theme are welcomed, as are papers on the works of Eilis Dillon, Island stories, adventure and exploration, theorizing the island. The contribution of the late Eilís Dillon to children's literature will be commemorated at this conference, which is being held in the year of the 10th anniversary of her death Proposals should be sent to: Dr Mary Shine Thompson, St Patrick¹s College, Dublin City University, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 or Mary.Thompson@ spd.dcu.ie to arrive no later than 3 Dec 2003
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Playboy of the Western World: Its History of Production The MA in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway is putting on a conference with the help of Druid Theatre, at the time of Druid's new production of The Playboy of the Western World. The subject of the conference is the history of production of the play, with a focus on representative cases. The conference takes place at Druid Theatre on Saturday, February 14th. This is a small venue, so early booking is strongly advised. Speakers include: Susan Cannon Harris, John Harrington, Adrian Frazier, Ophelia Byrne, Joe O’Donoghue, Nicholas Grene, and others. Tickets available at Druid Theatre or Town Hall Theatre box off ices for 6 euro.
NEW
VOICES 2004
Migrant
Voices in Contemporary Literatures in English
The Indian
Associaton for the Study of Contemporary Literature and the World Association
for Studies in Literatures in English are hosting a conference on Migrant
Voices in Contemporary Literatures in English, which will take place
in Nagpur, India. A call for papers has been issued, seeking papers
on all
subjects relating to Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Literature,
LiteraryTheory, and World Literature. Full details are on the conference
website. James
Joyce - Traditions and Innovations For fourteen years, from 1987-2001, the Department of English at the University of Miami hosted an annual conference to honour the birthday of Irish writer James Joyce. In 2004, it will host the conference one last time to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the setting of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, and will be the first and only all-Joyce academic conference in North America to mark and celebrate the centennial year (the International James Joyce Federation are scheduled to meet in Dublin in June 2004 – details coming soon). This title of the 2004 James Joyce conference – TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS – invites participants to explore and theorize the many ways. Joyce, his works, his achievement, and his modernist practices have been examined and treated over the decades. The conference will feature keynote presentations by Robert Scholes and Hugh Kenner, fifteen to twenty concurrent panels, and, the conference organisers assure us, “the kind of nightly festivities, games, and musical and theatrical debuts that tend to go down in the recordbooks”.
Please send paper abstracts of 250 words or less and panel proposals
December 1st to: Professor Claire Culleton,
Department of English, KentState University, |
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