IASIL Newsletter 2004 newsletter

2004 Conferences

All details should be confirmed with conference oganisers

July - September 2004

January - March 2004

April -June 2004

October - December 2004

ALL CONFERENCES FOR 2004

2003 Conferences are listed HERE

Summer Schools 2004

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.

Off-Screen Spaces: Regionalism and Globalised Culture
(An international conference on Film, Television and Media Cultures and Policies)
28-30 July 2004,
Deadline for Abstracts: 29 April 2004.
University of Ulster, Coleraine (Portrush Campus)
Contact: e-mail: spacesconf@ulster.ac.uk

This major international conference will explore the relationship between 'global' popular culture and various definitions of 'local' culture. Crucial to an understanding of this relationship is the concept of 'the region' as this has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural forces. Regional cultures exist in relation to and in opposition to dominant national cultures in complex and contradictory ways. National cultures themselves are often posited as regional cultures in opposition to the global and the concept of 'critical regionalism' has been canvassed as a challenge to global conformity. On the other hand, in line with the strategies of multinational corporations more generally, multinational software manufacturers have divided the global market into 'regions' for the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This would suggest that, despite the fact that regional cultures seem to offer alternatives to the global market there appears to be nothing intrinsically challenging or radical in the concept of the region.

The conference will explore the complex and contradictory relationships among the local, the regional, the national and the global and assess the implications for both media representation and local, national and transnational audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers will address the rationale and theoretical implications of comparative media research.

Confirmed speakers so far include Toby Miller, John Hill and Paul Willemen. Conference sessions will include the following themes:
Ukania and the Cultural Break-up of Britain
The Future for European National Cinemas
Irish Cinema and other small Anglophone cinemas
The BBC Charter Renewal Debate
Five Years of the Film Council
Globalised Hollywood
Comparative Film Studies
Asian Cinemas
Third Cinema Now
Exhibition and world cinema in Britain/Ireland

Call For Papers
Papers are invited which address any of the themes of the conference but which especially explore:
regional, national, global cinemas:
readings of particular films/filmmakers;
regional, national, global television;
globalised media and cultural identities;
national or regional policies;
independence/dependence etc;
comparative film or media studies;
critical regionalism

Abstracts of between 150-200 words should be e-mailed or sent on disk to the address below. The deadline for abstracts is 23 April 2004.

Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference and pay the registration fee.

Abstracts and Enquiries to:
Janet Mackle (Conference Co-ordinator) or Martin McLoone (Conference Organiser), University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA. Tel: +44 (0) 28 7032 4683. e-mail: spacesconf@ulster.ac.uk

IASIL 2004: Writing Ireland 2004 - Past, Present and Future
NUI Galway
20 - 24 July 2004
Proposal Deadline: 1 March 2004
Email panel proposals, paper proposals and inquiries to conference@iasil.org
http://www.iasil.org/galway/

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you to attend the 2004 Conference at NUI Galway.  Enquiries about panels and paper proposals should be addressed to Riana O’Dwyer, English Department, NUI Galway, Ireland.  The first call for papers may be viewed HERE.

Click HERE for more information about IASIL Conferences.

ACIS 2004, in association with CAIS, BAIS and EFACIS
University of Liverpool
12-16 July 2004
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2003
http://www.acisweb.com

The next ACIS annual conference will be hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and its Director, Marianne Elliott. In keeping with the international setting, ACIS will meet jointly with the British Association for Irish Studies, the Canadian Association for Irish Studies, and the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. Membership in any one organization will suffice for participation. A single program will be prepared for all participants, and individual organizations will be able to schedule separate meetings for organizational business. Registration fees will be collected by the Institute of Irish Studies.

A draft program to be processed by all participating organizations in according to their own governance will be prepared by ACIS Vice President Eamonn Wall, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis,, St. Louis, MO 63121 USA.

Given the diversity of participants, no single theme has been selected for the conference. Papers on all dimensions of Irish studies are solicited. However, the setting will provide a unique opportunity to examine different conceptualizations of Irish Studies, different institutional histories associated with Irish Studies, and differing relations of Irish Studies and Internationalism. 

One-page abstracts for twenty-minute papers and proposals for complete panels of three to four papers must be submitted to Eamonn Wall by December 1, 2003. Further details about the conference will be forthcoming.

Feminism Contesting Globalisation
WERRC, University College Dublin
8 - 10 July 2004
Proposal Deadline: 1 March 2004
Email: Ailbhe Smyth: ailbhe.smyth@ucd.ie or Tanya Bakhru: tanya_bakhru@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.ucd.ie/werrc

UCD’s Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) are hosting the 17th annual conference of the Women’s Studies Association next July. The conference aims to provide a forum for exploring various discourses, politics and theories of feminism and its challenges to globalisation. The organisers invite proposals for individual papers, panel presentations, round table discussions and workshops representing the multitude of ways in which feminism explores and critiques the diverse forms and impacts of globalisation in local, regional, and global arenas. They write that they are also open to work considering how feminists contribute to globally innovative and contestatory activist and political projects.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:Cynthia Enloe, Breda Gray, Liz Kelly, Gail Lewis, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Janet Price, and Margrit Shildrick.

Full details of suggested themes and guidelines are on the conference website.

IRELAND AND THE VICTORIANS An International Conference
Centre for Victorian Studies, University Colege Chester
2-4 July 2004
Call for Papers

This broad-based interdisciplinary conference, commencing on the evening of Friday 2 July and concluding after lunch on Sunday 4 July, seeks to provide new perspectives on the complex relationship between Britain and Ireland during the long nineteenth century with particular reference to political, social and cultural connections between the two islands during the period. As indicated below, the conference will include keynote lectures and a range of papers from eminent scholars and new researchers.

The organisers are particularly keen to provide a platform for new research in the field. Offers of suitable papers (to read for approximately 25 minutes) within the study of Victorian art, culture, history, literature, politics and religion will be particularly welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should be submitted no later than Friday 27 February 2004 to Professor Roger Swift, Director, Centre for Victorian Studies, University College Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ.