IASIL Newsletter 2004 newsletter

2004 Summer Schools

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2004 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.

45TH YEATS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
August 1-13, 2004
Email: info@yeats-sligo.com
http://www.yeats-sligo.com

The 2004 Yeats International School will take place again in Sligo next August. Readings by Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly, Colm Toibin, and others will take place. Lectures & seminars wll be held by Helen Vendler, Roy Foster, George Bornstein, Meg Harper, Fran Brearton, others. Poetry and Drama Workshops will be held, and academic credit will be available.

Faculty include: Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky, Director); Margaret Mills Harper (Georgia State University, Associate Director); Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa); Margot Backus (University of Houston, Texas); George Bornstein (University of Michigan); Rand Brandes (Lenoir-Rhyne College, North Carolina); Fran Brearton (Queen’s University, Belfast); Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford); Seamus Heaney (Dublin & Harvard); Brendan Kennelly (Trinity College, Dublin); Declan Kiely (New York); Elizabeth Bergman Loizeaux (University of Maryland); Sam McCready (Baltimore, Maryland); Peter McDonald (Christ Church, Oxford); Ronan McDonald (University of Reading); Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, New York); Richard Pine (Durrell School of Corfu); Colm Toibin (Dublin); Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths College, London); Helen Vendler (Harvard University); George J. Watson (University of Aberdeen)

Tuition fees are low, comfortable lodgings available. Official certificate of attendance. Financial support for needy students. Enquiries to: Yeats Summer School, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland. Tel +353 (0)71 42693 / Fax +353 (0)71 42780

For information:

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND 56th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL, UCD, NEWMAN HOUSE, 86 ST STEPHEN¹S GREEN, DUBLIN 2
Tel: +353-1-4752004
Fax: +353-1-7167211
E-mail: summer.school@ucd.ie

30 JUNE - 16 July 2004

Performing Ireland, Representing Ireland - Irish art, culture, history through the ages

The 2004 UCD International Summer School continues the tradition, established more than half a century ago, of exploring aspects of Irish life, culture and history, with guidance from the university's internationally-renowned faculty members.

This year¹s programme celebrates two major centenaries in Irish cultural history Bloomsday and the opening of the Abbey Theatre with an exploration of Ireland and Irishness as performed and represented through the ages. Historians, artists, and literary and cultural critics, will prize open the visual arts, music, literature, architecture and theatre to reveal the complexities of "Irishness", north and south, ancient and modern.

Artist-led workshops will be a feature of the programme. In keeping with long-established Summer School practice, the programme will also include substantial debate on the development of modern Ireland, on modern Irish politics, and on Ireland¹s place within the modern world, a series of field-trips to places of cultural and historical interest in Ireland, and introductory Irish-speaking classes.

COURSE FEE: €695* COURSE FEE AND SELF-CATERING CAMPUS ACCOMMODATION: 1065*
* 60 reduction for students; a small number of scholarships is also available

Queen's University Summer School in Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
19 July -6 August 2004
http://www.qub.ac.uk/iis/courses/ss-about.htm

Details of the 2004 Summer School in Irish Studies at Queen's have just been announced, and may be viewed on the webpage above.  

The Eighth Annual Trieste Joyce School.
27 June - 3 July 2004
University of Trieste
Trieste Joyce School, Dipartimento di letterature e civiltà anglo-germaniche, University of Trieste, via Lazzaretto vecchio 8, 34137 Trieste, Italy.
Director: Renzo S. Crivelli
Programme Director: John McCourt
Email: mccourt@units.it
Fax: --39040 5587247
Internet: http: // www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html (update in March)

Billed as an "intimate and affordable alternative to this year's Dublin Symposium", the Trieste Joyce Summer School will have its eighth annual session this year, under the directorship of John McCourt, author of the recent Joyce biography The Years of Bloom. Up to 12 full and partial scholarships are available for the conference.

Speakers include: Derek Attridge (University of York), Jacques Aubert (Université Lumière-Lyon 2), Rosa Maria Bosinelli (University of Bologna), Richard Brown (University of Leeds), Eric Bulson (Columbia University), Renzo S. Crivelli (University of Trieste), Jin Di (University of Washington), Ron Ewart (University of San Gallen), Roy Foster (University of Oxford), John Wilson Foster (University of Ulster), Lia Guerra (University of Pavia), Jennifer Johnston (Derry), Stefano Manferlotti (University of Napoli, Federico II), Katy Mullin (University of Leeds), John McCourt (University of Trieste), Erik Schneider (Trieste Joyce Museum), and Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation).

The Irish Seminar 2004 - Boston or Berlin?
University of Notre Dame, Keough Centre Dublin
21 June – 9 July 2004
email: irishsem@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~irishsem

The IRISH SEMINAR 2004, presented by the Irish Studies program at Notre Dame, under the directorship of Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons, and Kevin Whelan, will be held at the Keough-Notre Dame Centre, located in historic Newman House at the heart of Dublin. This year's theme is "Ireland - Boston or Berlin?" The directors have assembled major figures in the field, including Homi Bhabha, Franco Moretti, Jane Ohlmeyer, Stephen Rea, Bobby Ballagh and Christopher Fox who will lecture and participate in seminar sessions. Participants will have unprecedented access to the finest scholars in Irish Studies during daily closed sessions with program faculty. Participants will also enjoy access to major libraries in Dublin, including National Library of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, and Trinity College.

The aims of the IRISH SEMINAR include the creation of a cosmopolitan community of young scholars: the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters reconfigured for the 21st century. It provides an intellectual infrastructure for scholarly collaboration, balancing the theoretically rich with the empirically rigorous. It adopts a flexible pluralisation of approaches, less constrained by the firmness of institutional boundaries and disciplinary consolidation. It is self-reflexive about professional and intellectual formation, while seeking to generate a supportive environment which nurtures the intellectual poise and confidence of young scholars.

The Seminar is interdisciplinary and open to all faculty and graduate students in Irish Studies. North American students may elect to take the IRISH SEMINAR 2004 for three graduate credits, which will be assessed on the basis of participation

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Syracuse University Summer School in Dublin on Irish Drama: Politics and War
29 June - 24 July
Email: DIPAsum@syr.edu
Web: http://summerabroad.syr.edu

Syracuse University is offering a four-week program in Dublin entitled Irish Drama: Politics and War. This program studies Irish culture, politics, and history through its dramatic tradition. The school will involve backstage visits and a chance to meet some of the actors and directors of the Abbey; experience the work of the Abbey School of Acting; and see and discuss plays in Dublin theaters.

Faculty director is Sanford Sternlicht, well known to IASIL members for his work on Irish drama, especially his recent three-volume New Plays from the Abbey Theatre.