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2004 Conferences All details should be confirmed with conference oganisers April - June 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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'Unmarried
Mothers' in Twentieth-century Ireland: Cultural Reflections Programme and Registration Now On: http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/call_for_papers1.htm Registration until 25 May 2004. 'Unmarried Mothers' in Twentieth-century Ireland: Cultural Reflections aims to explore the different ways in which the discourse of femininity has been deployed on Irish women, with a special focus on the discussion of contemporary cultural attempts at redefining, revising and questioning this discourse as imposed on single mothers in 20th-century Ireland. The discourse used to construct women's identity in Ireland in the 20th century has been marked by a series of key moments/stages in the history of the Irish State. With the advent of the Constitution, there develops a complex postcolonial agenda which, among other things, defines and imposes a model of femininity highly influenced by the mores taught and indoctrinated by the Catholic Church. As part of this morality, the model imposed on Irish women is closely attached to the concept of the family as the main social unit and to the sanctification of marriage; hence the term 'unmarried motherhood.' Thus single maternity figured as the epitome of deviance, and women who had conceived their children out of wedlock were treated as social outcasts, as evidenced by the Magdalen Asylum system. The effects of this discursive construction are still visible today and are constantly problematised in cultural artefacts, both filmic and literary, such as Aisling Walsh's Sinners, Peter Mullan's The Magdalen Sisters, and the work of Patricia Burke Brogan, Mary Rose Callaghan, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Emma Cooke, Roddy Doyle, Mary Morrissy, Bernard McLaverty, Edna O'Brien, Maura Richards, and William Trevor among others. Papers
on the following themes are particularly welcome: Proposal
for twenty minute papers should be submitted in the form of a 250 word
abstract to the conference organiser by 1st March, 2004. A selection
of papers from the conference will be published. Proposal should be
sent by email to the above address, or by post to: Dr. Cinta Ramblado-Minero,
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick,
Ireland International
James Joyce Symposium The International James Joyce Symposium - celebrating the centenary of Bloomsday - takes place at the National College of Ireland, an impressive new buidling recently opened in Dublin's Docklands. The Symposium website has now been launched - on http://www.bloomsday100.org. It includes details of registration fees, etc. Paper proposals are also being accepted. Enemies
of Empire From the Call for Papers… “Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes
of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish
Studies. A range of internal factors complicates readings of colonial
occupation, in which all notions of language, ethnicity, faith, class,
and gender were drastically affected, factors that we feel expand and
challenge the mandate of postcolonial studies. One of the most recurrent
criticisms of postcolonial studies is its reliance on literary/textual
material rather than on what is perceived as more concrete or quantifiable
historical data. It is our intention to garner papers from both literary
and historical postcolonial studies: in effect to excite a level of
discursive interchange and disciplinary dialogue. The sessions will
concentrate on diverse crucibles of colonial occupation, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to: eoin.flannery@mic.ul.ie before 20 December 2003. A full list of suggested topics is also available from the conference organisers. Conference Conveners: Eóin Flannery, Department of English, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Angus Mitchell, Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Joyce's Ireland: A Celebration of the Bloomsday
Centenary The Department of English at the University of Kansas will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday with a week-long celebration of late 19th to early 20th century Irish culture. Part of this celebration of Irish culture will include a two-day interdisciplinary conference. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Joyce and to Irish culture more generally, from academics and non-academics alike. Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. Although the Joyce centenary is the occasion for the celebration, papers and panels need not be limited to Joyce's work. Possible topics may include but are by no means limited to the following: -- Ireland
and commodity culture Participants will have the opportunity to visit the Spencer Library, which houses an extensive selection of Joyce and Yeats materials, as well as the P.S.O'Hegarty Collection, a group of over 25,000 pieces that includes Abbey Theatre programs, plays, political ephemera, the complete output of the Cuala and Dun Emer Presses, and much more. Keynote speakers: Prof. Vicki Mahaffey,(University of Pennsylvania) and Prof. Michael Patrick Gillespie (Marquette University )
Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora Conference website: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/split/englit/pages/confer04.htm The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English announces
its thirteenth annual conference. The Call for Papers
covers theatre in many Anglophone countries, including
From the call for papers… “Tragedy is all too present in the history of Ireland. A country which has suffered invasions, famine, political struggles, civil war, persecution and deprivations of all kinds could not have survived had it not been for that endearing Irish quality-humour. A sense of humour allows us to get things into perspective and acts as an escape valve which permits us to come to terms with the ups and downs of life and releases tensions and stress. The theme of this conference is ‘Humour and Tragedy in Ireland’ as represented in literature, the media, cinema and the visual arts. Papers are welcome from a broad range of disciplines including: * Literary
Studies Proposals for papers,( either in English or in Spanish ) with a 150-word abstract should be sent as e-mail attachment to the conference coordinator before February 15th 2004. Final papers, which should not exceed 10 pages (20 minutes delivery) are due by May 1st 2004. Please include a copy on diskette (Word for Windows 95/98). A selection of papers will be published according to their thematic relevance to the publication. Conference
coordinator: Fourth
Galway Conference on Colonialism - India and Ireland In the nineteenth century Ireland and India, though not technically defined as colonies, were both treated as such by Britain. Ireland, constitutionally a part of the imperial power, was both colonized and colonizer. Irish soldiers contributed massively to the building of the Raj and were at least as enthusiastically brutal as other colonizers; Irish doctors, engineers, lawyers, administrators, missionaries serviced the empire in India, while the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and gentry provided several viceroys and governors-general. The substantial Irish involvement in the Indian Civil Service has scarcely been studied, not to mention the extraordinary contribution (for better and worse) of Irish scholars to orientalism, in such areas as philology, lexicography, history, religion, law. For instance, Grierson’s monumental Linguistic Survey of India has been described as ‘one of the most unquestioned glories of British Rule’. The concept, developed in the 1860s, of ‘governing Ireland according to Irish ideas’ was influenced by Indian practice. One aspect of this programme, translation of the ancient Irish Brehon Laws, was in accordance with earlier Indian practice. The supposed affinities between Celticism and Orientalism were frequently highlighted from the eighteenth century onwards. As Arnold was successfully marketing the gendered difference between Celt and Saxon, Max Müller was popularizing a related distinction in India between the Aryan north and Dravidian south. Papers might address such issues as differing imperial modes of governance in India and Ireland, land ownership and tenancy, custom and law, status and contract, the ‘Irish Raj’, missions and an Irish ‘Spiritual Empire’, nationalism and imperialism, Irish nationalism and India, borders and partition, modes of resistance, neutrality and non-alignment, the suffrage movement, race and colour, caste and class, religion, theosophy oriental and occidental, sport and empire, literacy and education, novel and nation, utilitarianism and empire, ordnance surveys, the production of knowledge, Indian and Irish historiography, postcolonial critical perspectives, the ‘non-modern’, ideology and masks of conquest, strategies of ‘divide and conquer’, meat-eating and monotheism, famines, hunger strikes, boycotting, Burke and Warren Hastings, Nivedita (Margaret Noble), Annie Besant, Ram Mohun Roy, Yeats and Tagore, Margaret and James Cousins, Max Arthur Macauliffe and Sikhism. Papers will be particularly welcome which address the relationship between India and Ireland in the context of other colonies of the British Empire and other colonial dispensations. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to: irishstudies@nuigalway.ie before 15 January 2004. CAIS
2004: Mother Tongues - The Languages of Ireland The major focus at CAIS 2004 will be on the importance and role of language in the Irish experience. To that end, the Conference Programme Committee invites proposals for papers that deal with or touch on any related area. Please note that the CAIS Conference Programme Committee also welcomes proposals for conference papers and panels on other themes and topics. Conference presenters must be members of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. Full details are on the new CAIS website. Please
sent short abstracts (c. 125 words) by 15th January 2004 to Pádraig
Ó Siadhail, D’Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies,
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Celtic Fringes
and Their Diasporas A call for papers has been issued for a panel on “Celtic Fringes and Their Diasporas” for the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of New Literatures in English. Full details are available on the conference website, or from the section organizer: Silke Stroh (Frankfurt/M), E-mail: finchen_2@yahoo.de The confernece organiser has now made available information about the papers that will be delivered at the conference. These are available to download from the IASIL website by clicking on this link. The History of the Irish BookUniversity of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, Troyes, 6-7 May 2004 Email Sylvie.mikowski@noos.fr Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2003 The Department of English of the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne and the Institute of Cultural, Textual and Documentary Studies of Troyes invite proposals for papers for an international conference on The History of the Irish Book. Guests Speakers include Professor Robert Welch (University of Ulster), and (to be confirmed) Professor Warwick Gould (University of London). Proposals of a maximum length of 250 words, as well
as any enquiries should be sent before November 30, 2003 to Sylvie Mikowski, Professor
of Irish Studies, University of Reims 2, Square des Bouleaux,
75019 Paris, THE CELTIC CONNECTION IN
NORTH AMERICA The
University of Helsinki North American Studies Program is joining forces
with the British and Irish Studies Programme to host the Tenth Maple
Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies on May 5-7, 2004.
Abstracts
of no more than 250 words and a one-page CV should be sent to Ms Pirkko
Hautamäki, pirkko.hautamaki@helsinki.fi, by 15 December 2003. Authors
will be notified no later than 15 January 2004. Papers will be considered
for publication. Irish
Theatrical Diaspora Conference: Irish Theatre On Tour
www.itd.tcd.ie/conference.shtml
Irish Theatre on Tour: Programme OPENING ADDRESS: Seamus Heaney KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London and John P. Harrington, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York PANELS: **The Abbey on Tour** Raising money and losing actors in the USA: Abbey tours of the 1930s --Adrian Frazier, NUI, Galway The Abbey in Australia in 1922: 'When the Abbey is gone the mirror of Ireland is broken' --Peter Kuch, University of New South Wales, Sydney Lady Gregory: The Politics of Touring Ireland --Anthony Roche, University College Dublin **Touring outside Ireland** Druid's Leenane Trilogy on Tour --Patrick Lonergan, NUI, Galway The Gate in London --Richard Pine, Durrell School of Corfu 'My kind of Irish are not interested in such trash': Perception, Conflict and Culture in Irish Theatre Abroad --Melissa Sihra, Queen's University, Belfast
Theatrical Touring and Eighteenth-Century Irish Popular Culture --Helen Burke, Florida State University, Florida Irish Melodrama in Belfast and Dublin --Mark Phelan, Queen's University, Belfast The Pike on Tour --Lionel Pilkington, NUI, Galway
You can download a copy of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference flyer here.
Third Annual Crosscurrents
Conference A call for papers has been issued for the third Annual International Crosscurrents Conference. This Conference is being hosted by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows to share some of their research, and to meet other researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Abstracts for both individual sessions and round table discussions are being solicited. Suggested topics include: Religion and Representation - Myth, Ritual and Identity - Dystoppia - Edinburgh, Dublin and the Rise of International Publishing - Early Irish Satire - Black and Asian Histories in Ireland and Scotland - Irish & Scottish Images of Nation - Brehon Law - Music and Ethnic Space - Queer Identities in Art, Literature and History. Selected Proceedings will be published. 300-word abstracts are to be mailed before January 30, 2004 to Crosscurrents, Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland or e-mailed to tcdcrosscurrents@yahoo.com Liminal Borderlands - Ireland Past, Presen, FutureDalarna Centre for Irish Studies 22-24 April 2004 Conference Website E-mail: ign@du.se Deadline for Proposals: 15 December 2003 The 4th Biannual Conference of NISN (Nordic Irish
Studies Network) will be held at University College Dalarna,
250-word
abstracts/panel proposals are due by15 December, 2003. Full details
on the conference
website. For information, contact: Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies), Dept of Arts
and Languages, University College Dalarna,
Campus Lugnet, SE 791 88 Falun,
The Colonial Object Societies define themselves not only through words and images but also
through objects - through the material culture of bodies, artifacts, and the inanimate world. This conference looks
at the legacy of colonialism in terms of its impact on the material
surroundings of people's lives, and how these in turn shaped the contours
of society. Drawing on Irish and related experiences, the conference
will look at the changes wrought in material culture as people come
out from under the shadow of a colonial past. A full program will be
available shortly. Borderlines
VIII: P e r f o r m a n c e Graduate
students are invited to submit papers and innovative presentations on
the theme of 'Borderlines: Performance' to the eighth postgraduate conference
in medieval studies. Prospective speakers are asked to note that the
theme of 'Performance' should be conceived as broadly as possible and
is not intended to restrict papers to the topic of dramatic performance.
Possible topics might include: text as performance, the pulpit as a
site for performance, performativity and identity, gender as performance,
and so on... Abstracts should be posted by 31 of January, 2004. There
is no conference fee. Full details are on the conference website. SSNCI 2004
- Structures of Belief in Nineteenth Century Ireland The
histories of nineteenth-century Among the speakers: Marjorie Howes (Boston College) on "Popular Catholicism, popular fictions." Emmet Larkin (University of Chicago) on “The Devotional Revolution revisited.” D.W. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) – "Did Ulster Presbyterians have a Devotional Revolution?" Walter L. Arnstein (Urbana-Champaign) – “Charles Bradlaugh: A Victorian atheist encounters Roman Catholic Ireland." Mary Burke (Notre Dame) on “Post-Darwinian evangelical anxiety and the writings of J.M. Synge.” Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) on “Maturin, Sheil andthe staging of confessional difference in the romantic period.” Kevin O’Neill (Boston College) – “Friends and neighbours: Mary Shackleton Leadbeater and the Irish Quakers” Among the
other topics: Queen Victoria, Maud Gonne and the ethics of motherhood;
the fiction of May Laffan; the evolution controversy; the station mass;
religion and prisons; the Arklow disturbances of 1891; medicine and
sectarianism; evangelical Presbyterians in the Ulster tenant-right movement;
Irish evangelicals in a British revival network; William Maginn’s beliefs;
Lloyd George and anti-Catholicism; religious belief in Fenian recollections;
anti-Catholicism in post-Emancipation Hampshire; Banim’s The Boyne Water;
Father Boyce and the Wild Irish Girl; Catholic periodicals and the ideal
woman; religion and Famine poetry; William Warren Baldwin in Ontario;
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Registration info is on the websites, listed above. THE IRISH HERO: A Multidisciplinary Irish Studies ConferenceCentre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland , Galway 2-3 APRIL 2004 Deadline for Proposals: 8 December 2003 Contact: irishstudies@nuigalway.ie http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/irish_hero.htm Many different men and women have been thought of, talked about, written about and memorialized as representing the heroic values in Irish society. Such heroes have been drawn from many disparate areas of Irish life, such as the military, politics, literature and sport. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the spectrum of Irish Studies to consider such themes as: Changing definitions of the hero in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; The memorialization of the hero in Irish life; Biographies of individual Irish heroes; The often temporary nature of hero status; Whether there is something specifically "Irish" about the nation's heroes; Moral victories and heroic failures; The problematic nature of "heroism"; Heroism and gender; The anti-hero Papers are encouraged from across the different disciplines within Irish Studies, and focus should be restricted to a consideration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The concept of the "hero" is not fixed, and contributors may define the term in a variety of ways to include fictional or legendary figures as well as actual or "real" heroes. It is not necessary that the heroes considered should have lived during the period under review, only that they were revered during that time. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract of not more than 300 words to irishstudies@nuigalway.ie before 8 December 2003
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