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Fourth EFACIS Conference

 

Ireland: Representation and Responsibility

Universidade do Minho, Braga

11-13 December 2003

Provisional programme

 

Thursday 11 December

8:30-9:30 Registration (foyer in Largo do Paço)

9.30-10.30:

Opening Session with His Excellency the Ambassador of Ireland in Portugal, Patrick O’Connor, presided by the Reitor of Universidade do Minho, Professor António Guimarães Rodrigues, Vice-Reitor Professor Acílio Rocha and the President of ILCH, Professor Manuel Gama.

 

Welcome by Prof. Filomena Louro, Conference Convener (U.M.)

 

11-12: Keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Ann Saddlemeyer (University of Toronto)

John Synge in context

 

12-12.30: Questions

Transport to Gualtar by bus

 

12.30-14: Lunch at Restaurante Panoramico, Gualtar Campus

 

 

14-16: Parallel Sessions

 

Session A: Theatre: The Stage of the Nation

  1. Encarnación HIDALGO TENORIO (Univ. Granada)

Who is afraid of (mis)representing Ireland? The Abbey Theatre revisited

2.      Lúcia LOUREIRO (Universidade do Minho)

Tramps and tinkers: the ‘wise fool’ in J. M. Synge’s plays

  1. Lucie PEREIRA (St John’s College, Oxford)

‘The Death of the Author’: Collaborative Voices in J.M Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows.

  1. Alexandra POULAIN (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne)

'Playing out the Rising: Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and Tom Murphy's The Patriot Game'.

 

Session B: Language and Education: the Question of Ulster Scots

  1. Hillary AVERY (Stranmillis Univ. College Curriculum Development Unit, Belfast)

An Ulster-Scots Curriculum for the Primary School: Representation and Responsibility

  1. John ERSKINE (Stranmillis University College, Belfast)

Ulster- Scots history and culture: representation and responsibility

  1. Jim MILLAR (Stranmillis University College, Belfast)

Ulster-Scots Language: Representation and Responsibility

 

Session C: Representation of Women in Ireland:

  1. María Elena JAIME DE PABLOS (Universidad de Almería)

George Moore’s commitment to the feminist movement through his representation of Irish women

  1. Carla DE PETRIS (Università de Verona)

The Case of the Magdalene Sisters -From Reality to Representation

  1. Brigitte BASTIAT (University of La Rochelle, France)

The Irish women's movements from a European perpective (1972-2002): Hope and Deception.

 

16-16.15: coffee

 

16.15-18.15:

Session A: Representation of/by Women

  1. Derek HAND (St. Patrick's College, Dublin)

Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day and The House in Paris: Visits and Visitations

  1. Ann FOGARTY (UCD, Dublin): Edna O’Brien’s “In the Forest”
  2. Teresa CASAL (Fac. Letras Univ. Lisboa)

“Frightened with my own hatred”: telling violence in Jennifer Johnston’s Fool’s Sanctuary (1987) and the Invisible Worm (1991)

  1. Elke D’HOKER(Catholic University of Leuven)

 

Session B: Teaching Irish Drama

  1. Werner HUBER (Technische Universität Chemnitz)
  2. Mark SCHREIBER(International University Bremen)
  3. Ondrej PILNY (Charles University, Prague)
  4. Clare WALLACE (Charles University and University of New York, Prague)
  5. Paulo Eduardo CARVALHO (Fac. Letras Univ. Porto)

The presence of Irish Drama in Portuguese Drama 

  1. Michael FINNERAN (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

Between two cultural extremities – Ireland, Drama & Education

 

Session C: 20th Century and Contemporary Poetry

  1. Marina de NÓBREGA CORREIA (Universidade do Minho)

Lionel Johnson

  1. Patrícia OLIVEIRA DA SILVA McNEILL (King’s College London)

Evasion and Responsibility: Dialectics of Representation in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa

  1. Bernard ESCARBELT (Université Charles-de-Gaulle/Lille III)

Montague’s Responsibilities: History, between the Individual and the Collective

  1. John MC DONAGH (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

”Poetry My Arse” – Brendan Kennelly and the Humane Blindness of Poetry

  1. Carmen ZAMORANO (University of Lleida)

The Human Dimension of History: Ageing and Death in (Re)presentations of the Irish Literary Imagination in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry

 

Session D: Forms of Exile

1. Marie ARNDT (University College Dalarna, Sweden)

Joyce and Exile

2. Billy GRAY (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)  

'The Lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers': Internal exile and the Anglo-Irish in the work of Hubert Butler.

3. Hedda FRIBERG (Mid Sweden University, Östersund)

John Banville's Shroud: Exile in Simulation

 

18.00: Homage to Professor Paul Brennan with representatives of CERIUL, SOFEIR, Etudes Irlandaises.

 

18.30: General Assembly of the EFACIS Board.

 

 

Friday 12 December

 

 

9-10.30: Parallel Sessions

 

Session A: Representation by the Media

1.      Michael BREEN (University of Limerick)

An Analysis of Framing in Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse in Ireland

2.      Jean MERCEREAU (Instituto Piaget- Potugal)

Public Representations of a Private Choice: Irish Daily Newspapers and the Issue of Abortion, 1992-2002.

 

Session B: Representations in Politics

1. Anne Catherine LOBO (Univ. Caen)

To Act or not to Act: Parliamentary Representations of Irish Poverty in the 1830s

2. Michael BÖSS (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

De Valera Remembering: The Construction of de Valera’s Childhood

3. Edward KELLY (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Parking the Peace Process

 

Session C: Translation Studies/ Translation and Cultural transfer

1.    Fernando FERREIRA ALVES (Universidade do Minho)

“Emigrating endlessly for home”: Derek Mahon’s translations

2.    Stephen NEWMAN (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) Blasket Autobiography and the English Language Reader

3.    Michelle WOODS (Dublin City University)

Translating Translations: The Toponomy of Cultural Literary Exchange

4.    Caoimhghin O'CROIDHEAIN (Dublin City University)

Representing Authority: Comparison of Irish and African Literatures

 

10.30-10.45: Coffee

 

Panels from 10.45- 12.45

 

Session A: Forms of Exile

1. Irene GILSENAN NORDIN (University College Dalarna, Sweden)

Fixity and Flux: The Exilic Subject in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Second Voyage

2. Heidi HANSSON (Univ. Goteborg, Sweden)

‘From Reformer to Sufferer: The Returning Exile in Rosa Mulholland’s Fiction’

3. Britta OLINDER (Univ. Goteborg, Sweden)

A Traveller in Exile but 'No Rootless Colonist': Ambiguities in John Hewitt's work".

4. Ake PERSSON (Univ. Trollhättan/Uddevalla, Sweden)

Exile in Roddy Doyle’s Work

 

Session B: Responsibility of Visual Arts

1. Shane MURPHY (School of English and Film Studies, University of Aberdeen)

The Government of the Tongue: Art and Conflict in Northern Ireland

2. Sylvie OLLIVIER

Representation and Responsibility in Irish Painting

3. Hillary PYLE (Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland)

 ‘The Tools a Painter Needs’:  Responsible Visual Representation as the Means for Establishing a National Identity

 

Lunch 13-14.30

 

14.30-16: Plenary Talk: Glenn Patterson

Talk & Questions

 

16-16.20: Coffee break

 

16.30-18: Panels

 

Session A: Fundamental Questions

1. Catherine MAIGNANT (Université Charles-de-Gaulle,Lille III)

Faith and Responsibility

2. Joana AGUIAR E SILVA (Universidade Minho)

Building an Identity: law or literature?

3. Christian MAIHES (Univ. Toulouse)

A Human Rights Culture in Ireland: What Responsibility for the State?

 

Session B: Studies in the Novel

1. Eamon MAHER (Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Ireland)

The Irish Novel in Crisis? The Example of John McGahern.

2. Peter MURRAY (Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare)

Being Held Responsible for Representations: The Extreme Case of the First Three George A. Birmingham Novels, 1905-07.

            3. Hedwig SCHWALL (Catholic University of Leuven and Kortrijk): The Representation of Women in Roddy Doyle’s Novels.

4. Adriana BEBIANO (Univ. Coimbra)

Ciaran Carson

 

 

Evening:

Irish Music by the Coro da Universidade do Minho, Reception offered by the Irish Embassy in Lisbon

Production of Riders to the Sea, J. M. Synge by Teatro Universitário do Minho, at Museu D Diogo de Sousa

 

 

Saturday 13 December

 

 

9-10.30: Plenary speech by Ailbhe Smyth (Director of WERRC -Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre):

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Reflections on Women and Feminism in Ireland 2003.

 

10-30-10.45: Coffee

 

10.45-12.45: Panels

 

Session A: Political Representations

1.    Andrew EVANS (University of Leeds, U.K.)

Northern Irish Devolution and EU Law

2.    Graine O'KEEFFE (Le Havre University)

The Irish in Britain- what Kind of Representation?

3.    Graham DAVIS

Emigration and Oppression History: Irish Pioneer Settlers in Mexican Texas

4.    Michael BREEN, Eoin DEVEREUX; Amanda HAYNES (Univ. of Limerick)

“Smuggling zebras for lunch”: The construction of refugees and asylum seekers in the Irish print media in 2002

 

Session B: Irish Film: One Ireland? Two Visions

Chair: Anthony Barker (Univ. Aveiro)

1.    Yvonne IGOE (Dundalk Institute of Technology; Co. Louth)

‘Northern and troubled - southern and peaceful.’

2.    Lawrence MCKEOWN

3.    Andrea GRUNERT

4.    Stephen REA

 

Session C: Representations of Women in Art and Literature

1. Myrtle HILL (Dir. Centre for Women’s Studies, Queen’s University Belfast)

Re-Presenting Women? (Hi)Stories from the North, c1969-2000

2. Eilish ROONEY (Univ. Ulster) (Hi)Stories from the North, c1969-2000

3. Nora DONNELLY (Univ. Limerick)

“Putting Her in her Place and Keeping Her in her Place”: Examining the Concerns with the Representations of National and Personal Identity in the Work of Irish women Artists in the Mid and Late Twentieth Century

4. Elin HOLMSTEN (English Department, Falun, Sweden)

“Your Body, / That Naked Altar”: Corporeality in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry

 

13: Closing session

 

Evening: Banquet.