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2004 Conferences All details should be confirmed with conference oganisers October - December 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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ACIS
at MLA 2004 The American
Conference for Irish Studies will sponsor two sessions at the 2004 MLA
Convention in Philadelphia. The firs session will consider Irish Writing
and the Public Sphere, and the second will discuss "Ourselves Alone?
Irish Geographies of Difference." Abstracts and completed papers
should be sent to Professor. José Lanters, English Department,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, or electronically to:
lanters@uwm.edu. Deadline: 15 March 2004.Papers should be no more than
15 minutes in length. Presenters must be members of both organizations. The
Molly Keane Centenary Conference, 2004 sees the centenary of the birth of the writer, Molly Keane (also known as M.J Farrell). University College Cork is hosting a conference on her life and work and invites abstracts of 500 words/one page. Suggested topics include - The "Big House" Novel, Anglo-Irish literature, Gender and Sexuality, Keane's critical reputation. Abstracts should be sent, no later than Friday 30th July to Dr Gwenda Young, Department of English, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland. Fax: +353214903288 Abstracts may be sent by email but correspondents are asked to paste the abstract into the body of the text and include "Molly Keane CFP" in the subject line to g.young@ucc.ie Now
and in Time to Be -Irish Studies Conference Following the success of its international conference "Representing Ireland: Past, present and Future", the University of Sunderland are soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary conference which will run from 12-14 November, 2004. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Irish culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. Submissions for panels and papers are sought under the thematic headings of: The Word This celebration of Irish culture will include a performance of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, by a professional company on the evening of Friday 12th November, and a licensed ceilidh with refreshments on Saturday 13th. Most of the event will take place at the University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Centre at Saint Peter's Campus. To propose
a paper please send a 300 word abstract, by 6th June 2004, preferably
by e-mail or disc to:Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger or Susan Cottam [conference
adminstrator] Its
Own Way of Things - The Ulster Literary Theatre and
Its Legacy - 100th Anniversary Symposiium This year commemorates the centenaries of both the Ulster Literary Theatre (ULT) and the Abbey Theatre, and although the ULT was launched two weeks before the opening of the National Theatre in 1904, its output and impact has been neglected by scholars and practitioners alike. This symposium seeks to redress this neglect and to offer a ‘contrapuntal reading’ of Irish theatre history by challenging the traditional, Dublinocentric emphasis of Irish theatre historiography through reappraising the ULT in terms of its role within, and relation to, the dramatic and cultural Revival and its post-Partition legacy in terms of the relationship between theatre and the social and political structures of the new Northern state. QUB’s Drama Department and the Linen Hall Library’s Theatre and Performing Arts Archive will host this one-day symposium with speakers from throughout the UK and Ireland giving papers on a wide range of playwrights and dramatic movements such as: the ULT, Alice Milligan, Rutherford Mayne, George Shiels, the Abbey in Ulster, the Belfast Repertory Company and the Group theatre amongst others. On Friday 22 October, Dr Richard Kirkland will deliver the opening keynote lecture at Linen Hall Library. His address, entitled, ‘Northern Revivals: Cultural nationalism and Political Identity in Ulster 1900-1920,’ will open the conference and launch a special commemorative exhibition on the Ulster Literary Theatre, featuring exhibits from the Linen Hall’s Theatre and Performing Arts Archive and Belfast Central Library’s Archives. On Saturday 23 October, the symposium will move to Queen's where it will celebrate the opening of he Drama Department's new theatre building and, appositely enough, all panels will be held centre-stage in the new building. Speakers include Ophelia Byrne, Dr Eamonn Hughes, John Killen, Dr Paul Murphy, Professor Christopher Murray, Dr Catherine Morris, Mark Phelan and Dr Lionel Pilkington will deliver a second keynote address entitled, 'Stormont and the Politics of Theatre in Northern Ireland in the Post-War Period.' Following the symposium there will be staged performances of ULT material, including Thompson in Tir-na-nOg as well as a production of George Shiels’ Bedmates (see below). For further information, please contact Mark Phelan at m.phelan@qub.ac.uk , or 0044 (0)2890 335 107 Thompson in Tir-na-nOg by Gerald McNamara, directed by Jonathan Harden After expiring en route to the sham battle of Scarva, redoubtable Orangeman Andy Thompson awakes in the mystical heaven of Irish myth. First produced in 1912, the play satirises the mythological settings and Synge-song dialogue popular throughout the Irish Revival. Bedmates by George Shiels, directed by Paul Murphy An allegorical
farce by Antrim dramatist George Shiels (1886-1949), produced at the
time of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), Bedmates is a light-hearted look
at what the critic Tom Paulin called, ‘Ireland and the English problem’.
2004
Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for
Irish Studies The Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Princeton University on October 22-23, 2004. Papers are welcome that engage with topics relating to Irish Studies, from history and literature to film, fine arts, politics, and beyond. In the spirit of fostering dialogue between academic disciplines and fields, the conference will include a special roundtable on “De-Provincializing Irish Studies”, and other speakers will include Fintan O¹Toole, Paul Muldoon and others. The Princeton University Library will host a reception and exhibit holdings from the Milberg Collection of Irish Poetry and their newly-acquired Lady Gregory scrapbook and broadsheet collection Please
send 1-2 page abstracts for 15-20 minute presentations, as well as any
inquiries, to the organizers at acis@princeton.edu. The deadline for
proposals is May 31st. 150
Years of Oscar Wilde A first call for papers has been issued for a major conference on Wilde, to be held in Dublin in October 2004. There will be three strands that will be repeated throughout the events: very simply, Nineteenth Century Wilde, Twentieth Century Wilde and Twenty-first Century Wilde. The first will look at Wilde and his family in the context of their day; the second at his rehabilitation, internationalisation and the growth of his reputation(s); the third at post-modern Wilde and the Wilde 'industry'. The conference organisers will look with especial favour on papers concerning Wilde and his translators, Wilde and music, Wilde and film, Wilde and children's literature, and Jane, Constance and Dolly Wilde. They also welcome a paper or papers on Vyvyan Holland, and suggest as possibilties papers on Robert Sherard, Robert Ross, Richard Ellmann, Hesketh Pearson, Rupert Croft Cooke, H. Montgomery Hyde and other twentieth century biographers of Wilde. Conference details are being regularly updated on the OSCHOLARS online journal for Wilde studies. IASIL
Japan 2004 Conference: Crossways in Irish Literatures IASIL Japan has issued a call for papers for its 2004 conference. The conference theme will be “Crossways in Irish Literature”. Guests speakers will include the novelist Timothy O’Grady, and Dr. Michelle P. Browne, Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the British Library, London. Applicants
for paper readings are requested to send the IASIL Japan Secretariat
a synopsis by the end of May 2004. Black
and White - Representing the Other in Early Cinema This conference grows out of the growing interest in questions of representation in Early (Silent) cinema. We wish to explore the filmic construction of 'Otherness' in the films of the period (1895-1927), that is the manner in which challenges to the dominant social order or subjectivity are represented. Papers may deal with thematic, social or technical approaches to the topic and might include, for instance, discussion of immigrant audiences and early film, the use of music, stereotypes and the evolution of specific genres, questions of modernity, explorations of gender, setting, race and ethnicity. We particularly welcome proposals which deal with representations of Ireland and the Irish. The conference will take place on October 7th and 8th 2004 in the Huston School of Film at the National University of Ireland, Galway. (*This immediately precedes the opening weekend of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2004) Please
forward (250-300 word) proposals - stating 'Early Cinema Conference'
in the subject line - before May 16th 2004 to: Tony Tracy, Huston School
of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland;
email: tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie. Tel: 353 91 512188 American
Conference for Irish Studies/West 20th Anniversary Conference - "Modern
Ireland: Her Arts and Culture" The 20th Anniversary Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies/West, will be hosted by the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. Conference events will include a night of poetry, a theatre performance, an interpretative dance performance and more.Updates will follow. Proposals for 20 minute papers are invited on any topic of interest to Irish Studies. Considerations of Modern Irish Arts and Culture (from the perspective of history, economics, science, literature, the visual and performing arts, sociology, political science, or gender studies) are particularly welcome. Send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Susan Smallwood Herold Department of Visual Arts University of Northern Colorado Box 30 Greeley, Colorado 80639 or by E-mail to sherold@arts.unco.edu
Thirteenth
Irish Australia Conference: Irish Spaces - Homeland and Asylum, Empire
and Diaspora This international Irish Studies conference welcomes papers relating to Ireland, the Irish abroad and the Irish in Australia - in areas such as literature, language, critical theory, history, politics, gender, religion, migration, geography, economics and music. A full list of suggested topics is available from the conference organiser. Inquiries and offers of papers, with a title and a 100-word synopsis,
should be sent before 1 October
2003 to Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Department of History, University
of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, “Prism! Where
is that baby?” Locating Wilde in 2004: A conference in honour of the
150th anniversary of his birth Peter Kuch writes: Richard Ellmann, Wilde's most prescient biographer, has written: His work [has] survived as he claimed it would. We inherit his struggle to achieve supreme fictions in art, to associate art with social change, to bring together individual and social impulse, to save what is eccentric and singular from being sanitized and standardized, to replace a morality of severity by one of sympathy. He belongs to our world more than Victoria's. Now, beyond the reach of scandal, his best writings validated by time, he comes before us still, a towering figure with parables and paradoxes, so generous, so amusing, and so right. Papers of 20 to 30 minutes duration addressing any aspect of the above are warmly invited. Papers on Wilde and Film; Wilde and Politics; Wilde and the Stage; and Wilde and Popular Culture will be particularly welcome. Please
email or fax title and 200 word synopsis no later than FRIDAY 21 MAY
to Dr Peter Kuch, Convenor, Irish Studies, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, AUSTRALIA. Fax +61 2 9385 1047 or email
p.kuch@unsw.edu.au John
Butler Yeats Seminar The Second Annual John Butler Yeats Seminar takes place in New York this September. Full details are available on the seminar website.
National
Identity And Cultural Exchange In Ireland And Scotland Abstracts (200-500 words) should be send to Dr Aaron Kelly of the University of Edinburgh at the address below. Further information and details can be also obtained from that address: Dr Aaron Kelly, English Literature, University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George Squar, Edinburgh EH8 9JX, UPDATE AUGUST 2004 The National Identity and Cultural Exchange in Ireland and Scotland conference takes place at the University of Edinburgh. 9-11th September 2004. speakers include Luke Gibbons, Cairns Craig, Tom Dunne, Siohbban Kilfeather, Edna Longley, Joep Leerssen, Tom Devine, Colin Graham, Willy Maley. Murray Pittock and many others. there is also an evening of traditional song and readings from contemporary writers such as Ciaran Carson, Glenn Patterson and Andrew O'Hagan. full details (including programme, registration, fee, accmmodation etc) are available at the conference website: http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/isai/irishscottishhome.htm
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