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Welcome to the IASIL Conferences and Summer Schools Page. This page lists conferences/summer schools that deal with Irish Literature, Theatre, and Film. Conferences with broader themes that pay substantial attention to Irish writing will also be listed from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm dates, deadlines, and so on with conference organisers. All details should be confirmed with conference organisers June-December 2005
January - May 2005 Conferences are listed here 2004 Conferences are listed HERE Irish Studies Conference News Index 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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Place
and Memory in the New Ireland: The fifth conference of EFACIS (European
Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish
Studies) Irish Studies are to a large extent defined by the country’s geography and / or history. Place and memory are thus dimensions that have always been of specific importance in an Irish context. What role do these dimensions play in the new paradigm of Irish society in its direction towards a postnational state? Contributions on traditional areas of politics, social conditions, history, music, theatre, film, other media and literature as well as new perspectives on these are invited. Abstracts of no more than 200 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted no later than 1 June 2005. All correspondence should be addressed to: Britta
Olinder Intellectuals
and the Nation-State
What role and effect do intellectuals have in the making and contesting of national identities and state policies? This conference will consider historical and current implications of this question. The critical
voice of the intellectual has long been considered important to the
evolution of modern Western cultures. How and why was this voice so
often tied to the development of national identity? How have ideals
of intellectual autonomy and dissent been formulated within We will focus on current issues of intellectual identity and activity in the context of global challenges to the power and authority of the nation-state. Today, as new global networks of cultural interaction emerge and new public spheres take shape, what is happening to the intellectual’s affective relation to the nation-state? What is the role of critical thinking and the value of ideas in an increasingly global ‘knowledge society’? What is the role of intellectuals in the making of a new world order and in shaping responses to international crises? What is the role of think tanks and advocacy intellectuals in the formation of state policy? How have new media redefined intellectual activity and identity? Please send one-page proposals with a brief CV by 31 August 2005 to: Catherine
Carey, Clinton Institute for American Studies, C211 John Henry Newman
Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 716 First
Annual Postgraduate Irish Studies Conference Update October 2005: Download a Registration form and conference pack in Word Format This year the Irish Studies Centre at Bath Spa University College is hosting the first of what is planned to be an annual conference, open to Irish Studies students and recent graduates from British colleges and universities. This year's conference will have an open theme: proposals for papers on any aspect of Irish Studies will be considered. The aim is to showcase the broad range of topics that are studied by Irish Studies postgraduates and recent graduates (those who have graduated within the last three years) in Britain. A selection of the proceedings will be published.
University
of Sunderland: Third Annual Irish Studies Conference (incorporating
the inaugural North East of England Celtic Studies Symposium) Word,
The Icon and The Ritual [ii] - Lands of Saints and Scholars Contacts:
send abstracts to alison.younger@sunderland.ac.uk, john.storey@sunderland.ac.uk,
r.allen@unn.ac.uk, stephen.regan@durham.ac.uk, and copied to the Conference
Adminstrator Following the success of its last two international conferences: Representing-Ireland: Past, Present and Future, [2003] and The Word, The Icon and The Ritual, [2004] the University of Sunderland is soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary conference, which will run from 11-13 November 2005. This year we are also delighted to welcome proposals from scholars working within the broad field of Celtic Studies. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Irish and Celtic culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. As with last year’s conference, we welcome submissions for panels and papers under the thematic headings of: The Word, The Icon, The Ritual in the following areas: Literature, Performing Arts, History, Politics, Folklore and Mythology, Ireland (other Celtic countries/regions) in Theory, Anthropology, Sociology, Art and Art History, Music, Dance, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Studies of the Diaspora. North American and other international scholars, practitioners in the arts, and postgraduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the conference organisers. We also welcome proposals for papers in absentia for delegates who wish to participate but may find it difficult to attend the event. The last two conferences have resulted in the publication of a selection of essays, and we hope to continue this with essays from this year’s conference. Readings Plenary Speakers Include: Professor
Robert Welch – University of Ulster
IRELAND
AND MEMORY - MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES
ANNUAL MEETING Scholars have been writing about Ireland and memory from perspectives as diverse as those of Declan Kiberd and Roy Foster. The recent spate of commemorations and the battles over the preservation of Ireland's historical sites have heightened the attention paid to this most critical of issues. Clearly, the way in which Ireland and its culture are remembered both from within and without is contested space. This conference seeks to explore the many and varied "memories of Ireland" that constitute the current discourse about the past and future of Ireland. The conference committee is interested in a broad selection of submissions pertaining to all aspects of this question. The conference committee seeks submissions that will explore the diversity of memory and commemoration in Ireland past and present. The “memories” to be considered might encompass: Immigrant
memory While traditional literary and historical approaches are welcome, the conference organisers hope as well to encourage papers and panels drawing on other academic disciplines, whether cultural studies, anthropology, art history, economics, sociology, political science, or linguistics. Interdisciplinary and comparative work is especially sought. Please submit proposals of up to 500 words along with a short (2 page) scholarly biography to the Conference Committee, care of Terrie McCoy. Proposals should be faxed, mailed or emailed by June 1, 2005. Email proposals should use only Microsoft Word attachments or include the abstract and CV in the main body of the email text. Terrie
McCoy, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, Madison,
New Jersey 07940. Terence
Brown's Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-85 and
Seamus Deane's Celtic Revivals 2005 is the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Terence Brown's Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-85 and Seamus Deane's Celtic Revival. This conference will mark that anniversary, and seek both to contextualize these landmark books, and to re-examine the wider contours of Irish criticism then and since. Speakers will include: Seamus Deane (Notre Dame University), Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin), Christopher Morash (NUI Maynooth), Siobhan Kilfeather (Queen's University Belfast), Joe Cleary (NUI Maynooth), David Dwan (Queen's University Belfast), Emer Nolan (NUI Maynooth) and Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway).
Into
the Light: Photography in 19th Century Ireland
UPDATE October 2005 The conference will feature two guest speakers; Professor Graham Smith, Professor of Art History, University of St. Andrews and editor of the History of Photography Journal and Dr. James R. Ryan, Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University of Leicester and author of 'Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualisation of the British Empire', Reaktion Books, 1997 Registration information for the conference together with travel and accommodation listings and a conference programme are available on the Events Bulletin of the IADT website www.iadt.ie . Places at the conference are limited and the organisers encourage all those interested in attending to register well before the closing date of 25th October 2005 to avoid and disappointment. For more information please contact the conference organiser: Justin Carville, justin.carville@iadt.ie History
of the Irish Book - Event Day The University of Ulster will host an Event Day, inspired by the on-going production of A History of the Irish Book (OUP), at the Magee campus on Friday 28th October. The day, under the auspices of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, will be presented by Professor Robert Welch (General Editor with Professor Brian Walker, of the five volume series) and will consist of specially organised research training sessions delivered by several UU staff members, including Dr Diarmiud O'Doibhlin, Mr Joseph McBrinn, Dr Frank Sewell and Dr Andrew Keanie. The study of the Irish book, as an artefact, an object in society, brings an exciting, fresh focus, and it is a demanding discipline. Book history is a transferable research skill, and the aim of the Event Day is to encourage awareness of book history issues and approaches amongst MPhil and PhD students in all Arts and Arts-related disciplines, including Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, History and Sociology. Therefore, the day will encourage stronger collaborative relationships between researchers in different specialist areas across the UK. The
Irish Forum, Florence From October 26th through 28th, 2005, over 50 delegates will meet in Florence to discuss the future of Irish Studies in the Academy. The list of delegates will be comprised of heads of Irish Studies programmes worldwide, and other influential individuals in related fields such as publishing and Irish Studies organizations, arts councils and relevant government departments. The forum will consist of discussion sections, which will later result in the publication of policy papers on the future of Irish Studies. Attendance is by invitation. For
further information, see the forum
website. Organising Committee: Dr. Christina Hunt Mahony (Executive Director), Dr. Peter Kuch, Professor Michael Kenneally, Dr. Bruce Stewart, Dr. John Harrington, Dr. Colin Graham, Dr. Dominic Bryan, Ms. Catriona Crowe, National Archives of Ireland, Dr. Laura Izarra, Mr. Michael Sanfey. ‘continuings’:
a celebration of the life and work of Brian Coffey
(1905-1995)
Panel discussions around the following topics are proposed: Coffey
and Europe Suggestions for additional panels and proposals for 20-minute presentations on these and other aspects of Coffey’s work should be sent to the organisers no later than Friday the 29th of April 2005. Proposals should include a provisional title, and they should be no more than 1 page in length. They should be sent by email to both of the following email addresses before the deadline: philip.coleman@tcd.ie and aengus_woods@yahoo.com. Supported by the School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College Political
Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Annual Conference 2005 We encourage papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to, the politics of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Panels
will include: The
“Spirit” of Ireland: The Midwest Regional of the American Conference
for Irish Studies The conference theme is The ‘Spirit’ of Ireland. The conference organizers welcome papers and panels that explore any of the manifold ways—literary, historical, political, cultural—by which the Irish experience and/or the Irish diaspora have shaped our understanding of the human spirit. The papers should be 20 minutes long. Send proposals (not more than 250 words) for papers or panels on the conference theme or any other aspect of Irish Studies by email attachment to acis@loras.edu or by mail to Andrew Auge, Dept. of English, Box 66, Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista St. Dubuque, IA 52001. The conference organizers especially welcome panel proposals. All proposals should be submitted no later than July 15th, 2005. ACIS
West - Women of Some Importance The 21st annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies/West will be held at Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon), October 14-16, 2005. The conference theme is “Women of Some Importance,” and featured events include a production of Elizabeth Kuti’s Treehouses. Proposals (250 words) for 15 minute presentations on any aspect of Irish Studies are invited. Proposals should be sent (by hard copy or email) to conference chair Charlotte Headrick, University Theatre, Withycombe Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331 (cheadrick@oregonstate.edu).
New
perspectives on The Quiet Man The Quiet Man conference will explore this pivotal film in John Ford’s work and the history of cinema, and as a resonant icon in the imaginary of Ireland. We intend to examine the complexity of its relation to Ireland and to John Ford’s other films, to its perceived place with indigenous Irish cinema and the phenomenon of its circulation and reception as a cult film over the years. We hope the event can involve both the analysis of aspects The Quiet Man as myth, commodity and fetish and the celebration of a film that has sustained such enthusiastic attention and popular appreciation for 50 years. The conference will consist of plenary sessions on broad themes concerning The Quiet Man plus a range of shorter papers (c30mins) on specific aspects of the topic. There will be screenings of The Quiet Man and related films and visits to the locations in Connemara where the film was made. We welcome offers of papers from all perspectives on the above topics and related areas in Film Studies and Irish Studies, including short ideas and interventions for workshop sessions, accompanied by curriculum vitae, sent by 12th May 2005 to rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie WHY
IRISH? The Department of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame will host WHY IRISH? on September 30, 2005. WHY IRISH? is a one-day international colloquium that explores the position of Irish language and literature in the North American academy. Five outstanding scholars who incorporate Irish into their research projects will map future trends and directions for scholarly research. The speakers will present on the contributions of Irish to their research and examine the role of Irish in various disciplines – comparative literature, medieval studies, linguistics, contemporary literature, cultural studies and Indo-European poetics. Minister Éamon Ó Cuív, Irish Government Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will deliver a plenary address on recent legislation pertaining to the Irish language. Speakers:
Ireland's
Great Hunger: Representation and Preservation Quinnipiac University will host its second major academic conference on Ireland's Great Hunger on September 17, 2005. The conference will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of Quinnipiac's unparalleled holdings of famine commemorative art. This artwork is part of the An Gorta Mor collection of documents, printed materials, paintings, and sculpture relating to the famine and its impact on Ireland and the world. It is showcased in the Lender Family Special Collection Room in Quinnipiac's Arnold Bernhard Library.We invite submissions from scholars working on all dimensions of the Great Hunger. Particularly welcome are proposals that fit the themes of the conference. We are especially interested in: *representations of the Great Hunger in art, language, literary and historical works;at commemorative sites; and in popular memory. *papers on aspects of famine preservation, particularly the preservation of famine era records; issues of archival management, access, and funding; and other ways the famine has been preserved, culturally, intellectually, and biologically. Established and younger scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.Proposals for individual papers and/or full sessions should include names of participants with a c.v. and 250-500 word summary of each paper. We anticipate publishing a selection of the papers in a volume that will be assembled subsequent to the conference. Funds will be available to reimburse some of the travel and lodging expenses of those delivering papers. Irish
Protestant Identities This multi-disciplinary international conference will examine aspects of past and present Protestant identities in Ireland, north and south, and in the Irish diaspora. Offers of contributions are invited from people with an interest in the topic working in any part of the humanities, literary disciplines, cultural studies, social sciences, and any other relevant discipline or from those involved in activities which have brought them into contact with this topic. Aspects of historical, contemporary and possible future developments within the Protestant population of Ireland and amongst Irish migrant populations, relations with Irish nationalism, the Catholic Church, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and Empire, the E.U. and North America may be covered. The religious, class, gender and political cleavages within Irish Protestantism may also be analysed. Offers of contributions which do not quite fit within any of these parameters will also be sympathetically considered. Amongst the features of the conference it is intended there will be panel discussions on 'A Community under Siege' and 'What about the Workers?' It is intended to publish a selection of papers in a volume of conference proceedings. Paper Abstracts (3 copies) not exceeding 300 words should be submitted to Prof. Frank Neal by January 31 2005 Individuals who have offered papers will receive a response by 1 March 2005 Further details including costs, accommodation, registration forms, guest speakers and programme will be posted regularly on the conference website. Paul
Muldoon and Postmodern Poetry This conference brings together a range of distinguished scholars to explore the poetry of Paul Muldoon. Speakers include Fran Brearton, Richard Brown, Matt Campbell, Catriona Clutterbuck, Neil Corcoran, Alex Davies, John Goodby, Ed Larrisy, John Haffenden, Hugh Haughton, Shane Murphy, Tim Kendall, Tom Paulin, and Stephen Regan. Paul Muldoon will himself give a reading during the conference. TaPRA
Theatre and Performance Research Association for Britain and Ireland:
Inaugural Conference T
a P R A is a new British and Irish research association founded in order
to foster and sustain research in all theatre, performance and related
areas in British and Irish Universities and allied institutions. This
initiative is, in part, a response to the competitive, and divisive,
climate that has developed incrementally over the past decade within
British theatre research as a result of the RAE and other government
policies. T a P R A has also The conference willalso include a membership registration process and an election for the officers of the new organisation which has initially been set up by twenty British and Irish academics working in the field. CALL FOR PAPERS: This is a call for papers for the inaugural conference of TaPRA, a new research association which aims to reflect and promote current research in theatre and performance in the context of UK and Irish Universities and other sister organisations. The inaugural conference willhave research workgroups in the following areas: Theatre
History and Historiography Theatre
Performance and Philosophy Performing
Bodies Performance,
Identity and Community (Convenors: Jen Harvie/Michael McKinnie New Technologies for Theatre (Convenors: Jem Kelly, Andy Lavender, j.v.kelly@ucc.ac.uk, a.lavender@cssd.ac.uk) Applied
and Social Theatre Directors/
Collectives Scenography
and Visual Performance The Documentation
of Performance Performance
as Research
Paper/Presentation proposal Research Workgroup: Name: Contact address: Proposed title: Summary (no more than 350 words)
The
Twenty-First Century Novel: Reading and Writing
Contemporary Fiction This conference will explore developments in world fiction since 1990, and speculate on the possible futures of the novel. Papers are invited on the work of major authors who have established themselves in recent years, including Irish writers. Suggested writers include Monica Ali, Ronan Bennett, Jonathan Coe, Douglas Coupland, Mark Z. Danielewski, Patricia Duncker, Percival Everett, Michel Faber, Jonathan Frantzen, Michel Houellebecq, Siri Hustvedt, A.L. Kennedy, John Lanchester, Jon McGregor, Andrew Miller, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Andrew O'Hagan, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Will Self, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Souief, Donna Tartt, Sarah Waters, Irvine Welsh. What are the major preoccupations of present-day fiction? What kinds of future does the novel have? What styles/genres/voices are likely to dominate fiction in the twenty-first century? Is 'postmodern fiction' now a thing of the past? What are the potential configurations and merits of a contemporary literary canon? Which authors/texts might make up the 'canon of the contemporary', or the twenty-first century's canon-in-waiting? What ethical and intellectual questions are raised when we critique the work of living authors? What kinds of dialogue are possible between living authors and their critics? Topics for papers/panels might include: The
novel and the future Please send enquiries, proposals for papers (no more than 200 words), and suggestions for panels (groups of three papers organized around a unifying theme) to 21stcenturynovel@lancaster.ac.uk. Please paste your proposal into the body of your message. Attachments will not be opened. Deadline: 30 April 2005. INTERNATIONAL
RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Keynote
Speakers CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals are invited for papers and panels exploring the IRSCL 2005 conferences theme, 'Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature'. Aspects of the theme which the conference will focus on include the topics of childhood and families, childhood and morality, childhood on display and childhood and theory. Strand
A. Childhood and families Strand
B. Childhood and morality: message and medium Strand
C: Childhood on display Strand
D: Childhood and theory Proposals should be approximately 300 word in length they should indicate the title of the proposal, the primary texts under consideration, a description of the paper content and the arguments to be developed. Proposals for panels should include a list of all presenters, proposals for all the papers to be presented and an outline of the form which the panel will take. Proposals must adhere to the theme of the congress and should indicate under which strand of the theme they should be considered. Work presented must be new which means it should not previously have been presented in public in any form. Twenty minutes will be allocated for each paper, and up to two hours for each panel presentation. In the case of panels no presenter should speak for more than 20 minutes and time must be allocated for discussion. For poster presentations of work in progress authors will have 10 minutes to present their topic based on a poster. Contributions for these sessions may be less fully developed pieces of research than the papers presented in the 20 minute formal papers and those who attend the poster presentastions will be invited to respond to them to help improve the work in progress by, for example, making bibliographical recommendations or offering ideas about methodology. Proposals should indicate if the modes of presentation involve the use of DVD, video or other non-print media. The closing date for proposals is January 31 2005 All proposals will be reviewed before acceptance and notification of acceptance or otherwise will be given by April 30 2005. Criteria
for acceptance includes: Proposals should be submitted electronically in Word format. The name and contact details of the person submitting the proposal or the leader of the proposed panel should be indicated clearly at the top of the proposal. Please
send proposals to:
Island
Identities: Imagining history in Britain and
Ireland, 1200 - 1700 Concerned with the cultural trajectories of the Middle English Prose Brut, the "Imagining History" project has aimed to redefine the parameters of the late medieval and early modern historical imagination. The Island Identities conference hopes to open the field of late medieval and early modern historiographies to wider consideration and is particularly interested in assessing the role of historically-sensitive literatures in the construction of local, regional, metropolitan and national identities in Britain and Ireland in this turbulent period. Contributors are invited to submit proposals responding to the following themes: Histories
and ethnicities: frontier cultures write back; Send proposals for papers of 500 words by email by April 30th 2005. For further details contact Dr Stephen Kelly Shaw
Symposium at the Shaw Festival PROPOSALS for paper and panel topics (focused as much as possible on Major Barbara and You Never Can Tell) should be sent to Professor Leonard Conolly, preferably as an attachment to an email, to lconolly@trentu.ca, but otherwise by mail to Dr. Conolly, Department of English, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8. A 300-500 abstract should suffice. SYMPOSIUM PRICE LIST: Registration is $190 (Canadian) per participant and includes a reception on Friday night, sessions both Saturday and Sunday, coffee during the sessions, a casual lunch on Saturday, and a A+ ticket for You Never Can Tell on Saturday night and for Major Barbara on Sunday afternoon. Additional tickets for these two shows can be purchased through Denis Johnston when you register. For all other shows, please contact the Shaw Festival Box Office at 1-800-511-7429 or order online at http://www.shawfest.com/index.php. TO REGISTER for the Shaw Symposium, either as a presenter or not, please contact Dr. Denis Johnston at the Shaw Festival, djohnston@shawfest.com. Or please leave your order and credit card @ (including expiry date) on his voice-mail at 1-800-757-1106 ext. 206, and leave an email or street address where your order can be confirmed. For updating of the schedule and other details, visit the ISS website at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss.htm. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation (unless you receive a Bryden Scholarship--see below). RONALD BRYDEN SCHOLARSHIPS & ISS TRAVEL GRANTS: The Shaw Festival and the International Shaw Society are offering scholarships/grants to young scholars to attend the Second Annual Shaw Symposium at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from July 19 to July 31, 2005. The ISS will offer travel grants to cover receipted travel expenses (up to $500), while the Shaw Festival will offer two Ronald Bryden Scholarships to cover the costs of symposium registration, theatre tickets, accommodation, and meals. These scholarships commemorate the late Ronald Bryden (1927-2004), long-time Literary Adviser to The Shaw and a founding member of the ISS. ELIGIBILITY: Any student registered at a recognized degree-granting institution may apply. Also eligible are college graduates under the age of 40 who are either independent or underemployed scholars. Preference will be given to applicants who are also submitting a proposal for a paper to be given at the 2005 Shaw Symposium. Additional guidelines for proposals and information about the symposium may be found at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/2005-ISS-Symposium.htm. ISS Membership: You need not be a member of the International Shaw Society to attend or participate in the Shaw Symposium or to receive a grant or scholarship, but information about membership is available at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss.htm. A meeting of the ISS will be held at the Symposium, and non-members are welcome to attend as prospective members. 'Irishness
Abroad' - The British Association for Irish Studies and the Institute
of English Studies The British Association for Irish Studies, in association with the Institute of English Studies, is hosting a conference which will reflect upon the nature and implications of the Irish diaspora. Speakers include Breda Gray (UCC), Nicholas Grene (TCD), Mairtin Mac an Ghaill (University of Newcastle), Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway) and Michael Böss of EFACIS, the European association for Irish Studies. They will offer perspectives on how Irishness has been articulated through cultural acts, performances of identity, and religious and academic practices in Britain and in the wider European context. Delegates will be encouraged to think through topics including:· the public and private articulations of Irishness abroad; questions of gender, visibility, community and fragmentation; Irish theatre in Britain; the commodification and representation of Irishness in Britain and continental Europe; the discipline of Irish studies and constructions of Irishness in Europe Cost: £25, £15 concessions (postgraduates should indicate their status on their application forms as they may be eligible for further concessions). You can download a confer ence programme and an application form at http://www.bais.org.uk/pages/Conference/conf.htm You can also request paper copies of these documents, or further details, from Dr Siobhán Holland. Please email hollands@smuc.ac.uk Canadian
Association of Irish Studies: Ireland and
the Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) invites proposals for presentations of twenty minutes in length – as well as full panel discussions – for its annual conference, to be held this year at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, June 22-25, 2005. The theme of the CAIS conference this year is “Ireland and the Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict”. Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but are not limited to): –
The Irish Atlantic: cultural, economic, literary, political, and/or
social inter-relations and the formation of migratory routes between
Ireland and any destination in the North, Central, or Southern Atlantic
sphere. The deadline for paper proposals is April 15, 2005. Paper proposals should be 250-500 words in length, and sent either electronically or by post to: Dr.
Jason King update May 2005 - The following graduate students will be designated as "Ireland Fund Scholars" in the conference program: Shelly
Hobbs (Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland):
"The New Irish in St. Johns, Newfoundland, 1949-2003". In addition to the Ireland Fund Scholars, two other Canadian graduate students have been designated CAIS- SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) assisted scholars, and have each been awarded a lesser bursary to present their research at Maynooth:
Leigh-Ann Coffey (Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto): "The
Luggacurran conflict in a transatlantic context". The conference organizing committee is also pleased to announce that the conference will feature plenary speakers from a cross-section of Irish Studies research centres in Canada, as well as a public interview with the Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ben Barnes, who will explore Irish and Canadian theatre links in a plenary session that will take place in the Abbey Theatre on the afternoon of June 23rd, 2005. At the invitation of Cambridge Scholars Press, a proposal for an edited collection of essays based on selected conference proceedings provisionally entitled The Irish Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict will be submitted for publication. Irish
and Catholic? Towards an Understanding of Catholic and Irish Identities.
The role played by the Catholic faith in forging a certain view of Irishness has been evident to many commentators, historians and literary experts for some time. As we enter the third millennium, organised religion in general, and Catholicism in particular, are experiencing a marked fall-off in interest and practice. It is therefore appropriate that the strong links between Irish Catholicism and our notion of national identity be discussed in an open and rigorous manner. This is the reason why The Priory Institute and IT Tallaght are organising an interdisciplinary conference that will take place from the 23-24 June at The Priory Institute, Tallaght. Plenary speakers include Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent with The Irish Times, John Littleton, President of the National Conference of Priests of Ireland, Eamon Maher, Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, IT Tallaght. Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, theology, literature, cultural studies, spirituality, sociology, history. They should be sent before May 1st 2005 to Rev. John Littleton, The Priory Institute, Tallaght Village, Dublin 24 or Dr. Eamon Maher, Lecturer in Humanities, IT Tallaght, Dublin 24 E-mail: eamon.maher@it-tallaght.ie Tel: +353 (0) 1 4042871 Papers should not exceed 25-30 minutes. A selection of the papers will be published in book form. Acceptance of abstracts does not guarantee inclusion in the proceedings. Panels could look at the following areas: • What is Catholic Identity? • Towards a historical overview of Irish Catholicism. • Representations of Irish Catholicism in the print media, on radio, television and in film. • Catholic practice in Ireland as depicted in literature. • Catholic Identity in Ireland in the wake of modernity. • Irish Identity post Vatican II. • Looking to the future. Fee: The conference fee will be €75, including Thursday or Friday lunch and conference dinner on the Thursday evening, tea and coffee on both days. €25 for conference pack, tea and coffee only. Special student rate: €35. The registration form can be downloaded from The Priory Institute website. 14th
Irish-Australian Conference: Cultural Identities and
Cultural Transmission This international Irish Studies conference invites papers relating to Ireland and to the Irish abroad, with particular emphasis on the Irish in Australia and New Zealand. Culture will be one of the key conference themes. Cork is the designated European Capital of Culture for 2005, a circumstance that provides both an opportunity and an environment to focus on this important area of human contact. Topics that might be addressed include - Material culture; folk culture; literature; music; dance; fine art; film; architecture; written and oral cultural transmission; cultural influences; intercommunal cultural transference; cultural assimilation and dissemination within host communities; cultural retention or dilution within these societies. The cultural theme is apposite, given Cork’s 2005 European role, but the conference also welcomes papers on history, politics, religion, gender, migration, geog raphy and economics as they relate to Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and to the links between these countries. The conference will be based at University College Cork. A website containing a programme and registration form, together with information on accommodation will be set up l ater this year. SSNCI
2005 Conference: 'Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century
Ireland' 'Issues relating to land and landscape were a constant throughout the nineteenth century. Concern about land ownership and rights, distribution and productivity, affected almost all levels of society. However, alongside the interest in how the land should be worked, there developed a growing awareness of the Irish landscape as a literal space, a spectacle, and an aesthetic category. This conference seeks to bring together scholars interested in exploring the material conditions of Irish land, and also those concerned with how the landscape was both framed and imaged. The 'Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland' welcomes abstracts from scholars working in the general fields of history, literature, heritage and folklore, leisure tourism, historical geography, and the history of art, especially where these disciplines intersect. Abstracts, by email, should be sent by 30 September, to both Glenn Hooper, Dept of English, and Una Ni Bhroimeil, Dept of History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. glenn.hooper@mic.ul.ie/una.bromell@mic.ul.ie' Irish
Theatrical Diaspora Conference - Irish Theatre in England The Irish Theatrical Diaspora in conjunction with The Theatre History Group and The Institute of English Studies (University of London) will be hosting a conference on the theme Irish Theatre in England on 16 and 17 June 2005, co-directed by Richard Allen Cave (Royal Holloway) and Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths' College). The venue will be the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the dates have been designed to coincide with a major exhibition at the gallery, Conquering England, curated by Fintan Cullen and Roy Foster. The theme of the conference may be interpreted broadly to cover a number of fields:
* the work of specific Irish performers or companies in England; It is intended that “theatre” be interpreted broadly to include opera, dance, circus, music hall, etc. Please note that, unlike the Victorian emphasis of the exhibition, no parameters regarding periods as a special focus of study are being imposed on contributions to the conference. The structure of the conference will involve plenary lectures by invited speakers and panels in which twenty-minute papers are given on related topics, leading to discussion by the panel members and audience. Carysfort Press is publishing Irish Theatre On Tour as the first volume in the Irish Theatrical Diaspora series; the proceedings from the Irish Theatre in England conference will be issued as the second volume in this series. "Return
to Ithaca" -- The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference will be hosted by the Cornell Unversity Library, with help from Cornell's English Department and Society for the Humanities, as well as the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the Ithaca College Department of English. In addition to the usual suite of academic panel sessions, presentations, and reading groups, the event will include both musical and theatrical performances, as well as a major exhibition of material from Cornell's outstanding collection of Joyceana. Although
proposals for papers, panels, and presentations on any and all aspects
of Joyce studies will be considered, we encourage work that addresses,
however remotely, the conference theme. For instance: Send proposals via electronic mail to: William S. Brockman (uxb5@psu.edu) For
more information on the conference, contact: Jim LeBlanc (JDL8@cornell.edu)
or visit the conference web site: Eighteenth
Century Ireland Society Annual Conference 2005:
Brian Merriman in European Context Contact: Dr Liam Chambers, Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. E-mail and Dr Sean Patrick Donlan, School of Law, University of Limerick. E-mail 2005 is the bicentenary of the death of the celebrated North Munster poet Brian Merriman (1749-1805), author of Cúirt an Mhean-Oíche (The Midnight Court). To mark the occasion the Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Annual Conference will be organised in association with Cumann Merriman. The Conference will commemorate Brian Merriman and The Midnight Court, as well as exploring a broad range of eighteenth-century topics and issues. The following topics are particularly relevant to the conference theme: text, MSS, transmission, translation, reception of The Midnight Court; Utopian elements in the work of Merriman and his contemporaries; European and/or Enlightenment contexts to the work of Merriman, including the European education of the priesthood; local history of Clare/Limerick; folklore; gender, marriage and sexuality; religion and the status of priests in Ireland; illegitimacy and the status of children; the legal context. In addition to proposals on the conference theme, proposals relating to any aspect of Ireland in the long eighteenth century will be welcomed. Proposals of 100 words for a twenty-minute paper in English or Irish should be submitted to one of the following by 30 January 2005.
CALL
FOR PAPERS The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2005 and should be sent to Dr. Yvonne McKenna at Limerick University Mapping
Uncertain Territories. Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre and Drama The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English announces its 14th Annual Conference (5-8 May 2005). It will be organized by the Chair of English Literature at International University Bremen and held on the university campus. In our post-national, post-colonial and postmodern world, categories of space and place have become increasingly contested. The capacity to create or "produce space" (Lefebvre) is a quality that all literary and artistic genres inherently share. Theatre and drama, however, takes a particularly challenging role in this respect. As a performative genre, it continuously oscillates between the imagined spaces and places of the text and the real, social, cultural and political spaces and places of its production and reception. Public spaces, market places and the stage as "the other place" create territories that invite exploration and mapping. This conference aims to investigate the ways in which theatre and drama engages with, (re)negotiates and (re)defines the changing nature of contemporary notions of space and place. Topics may include, but are not limited to: -
contemporary drama and theatre as creative, commercial, political, cultural
space Abstracts: Only paid-up members are eligible to read papers at CDE conferences. Membership subscriptions may be taken out or renewed during the conference. Please send your proposals to: Prof. Dr. Thomas Rommel/ Mark Schreiber, International University Bremen,School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Arts and Literature, PO Box 750561, D-28725 Bremen
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