|
|
|
|||
|
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures |
||||
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. 20011 September, 2006/strong>Listings Last Updated 11 September, 2006
Click HERE for January - June 2006 Conferences All details should be confirmed with conference organisers 2005 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. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detailed Listings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Into
the West Redux: Old and New Stories of the Celtic Diaspora" - Celtic
Languages and Literature Panel at MLA 2006 The following panel will take place at this year's MLA conference, which will be held in Philadelphia on 27-30 December. IASIL members are invited to submit proposals, and are asked to forward this CFP to any interested parties. Invitation to submit papers comparing earlier (the Classical, Late Antique, or the medieval period) and/or later (i.e., late 20th-early 21st century) periods of the Celtic Diaspora as depicted in historical writing, fiction, films, or memoirs. 300 word abstracts due via e-mail by 15 March to Jacqueline Fulmer. Bernard
Shaw at 150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporaneity Please send with bio or c.v. via attachment to an email to Professor Richard Dietrich at dietrich@cas.usf.edu or by snail mail to R. F. Dietrich, ISS President, P.O. Box 728, Odessa, FL 33556-0728. For details about the MLA conference itself, consult the MLA website at http://www.mla.org/ You need not be a member of the ISS to attend or propose a paper for one of these events, but an application form is linked off of www.shawsociety.org. Membership brings discounts. Beckett’s
Traces The resonance that echoes would have in all of Beckett’s work was discernible as early as his first collection of poems: Echo’s Bones. When he abandoned (temporarily) both his mother tongue and poetry in the 1940s to write mainly theatre and prose in French, Beckett’s interest did not wane. The survival of a sound that is an echo continued to evolve as Beckett’s work did, to become a visual remnant in his later plays, in which the characters no longer participate in the representation of an action, but become the image of that which is narrated by a voice without body – a visual trace of that which is no longer or has not yet been. This conference will study all forms of echoes, relics, traces in Beckett’s work, including (but not limited to):
Conference organising committee : Helen Astbury (Lille 3), Bernard Escarbelt (Lille 3), Fabienne Garcier (Lille 3), Carle Bonafous-Murat (Paris 3), André Topia (Paris 3) Birth
was the death of him: Samuel Beckett, Death, Dying and All That Other
Unfinished Business' - An International Conference in honour of Samuel
Beckett’s Centenary The centenary of Samuel Beckett’s birth is with us and, in the period since his death in 1989, his texts have continued to thrive and spark massive critical engagement. For Beckett, death marks us all, and haunts our existences. Christopher Ricks, in Beckett’s Dying Words, insists that Beckett is concerned not with any instinct of self-preservation, but The desire of oblivion (Clarendon Press, 1993; p. 3) Beckett’s oeuvre is ineluctably associated with states of death, dying, limbo, purgatory, and various conditions of (non-)being pervading the Beckettian text and subject. Such contexts and themes will be the foci for this international gathering of scholars. Northampton seems an appropriate place for such a consideration since, as a young man, Beckett twice played cricket for Trinity College against Northamptonshire (appearing in Wisden) and much later frequently visited Lucia Joyce in St Andrew's private psychiatric hospital in Northampton, where she was institutionalized from 1951 to 1982, suffering what her biographer, Carol Loeb Shloss, called a ‘mysterious illness’ (Bloomsbury,2004; p. 6). In addition to being where Lucia died and is buried, this asylum is where John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant-poet, died in 1864 after living 23 years in the hospital. Hence, in your travels to the conference you will literally be following in both Beckett’s and Clare’s footsteps. This final centenary gathering will consequently analyze and consider the tropes referred to above in terms of their relationship to Beckett Studies, and will hopefully take these ideas and concepts even further, investigating themes of Beckettian deathliness that act as a finally anxious influence surviving in other writers. On one of the evenings of the conference, there will be a private reading of a late Beckettian text by renowned Beckett actress and scholar, Dr. Rosemary Pountney. Other activities, including keynote addresses and a conference dinner, to mark Beckett’s centenary will follow throughout the weekend; academic papers will be delivered over the course of Friday 1st December to Sunday 3rd December 2006. Accommodation can be provided at the Sunley Management Centre, but both this and the conference dinner will be charged in addition to the basic registration fee specified below. Details of other local hotels can be sent by e-mail on request. Papers and panels are invited on all relevant topics and themes, considering all of Beckett’s work in its various genres and phases. Especially welcome are papers and panels capable to working within the following proposed themes, although these are not to be considered as inclusive:
Send abstracts for proposed panels and/or papers of 250 words per paper. Proposal deadline: Friday 8th September, 2006; however notification of acceptance for international delegates requiring confirmation for travel funding is guaranteed by Monday 17th July 2006 if such proposals are received by Friday 30th June 2006. Individual requests for earlier confirmation may be possible. Using Word, abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent as an attachment to all of the above three e-addresses with the subject line as “Death, Dying and Samuel Beckett: Centenary Conference’ (this is essential as your messages will be searched for and sorted automatically andunless you use this subject line your message will not be retrieved; this phrase can be cut and pasted easily enough): Please note that there will be a special discounted rate for participants who pay before Monday, 2nd October 2006. Academics and the public: £55.00; participant members of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, and the London Beckett Seminar, and University of Northampton staff £30:00; unwaged and students: £25 Accommodation and meals will be charged in addition to this fee. Prices to be sent to delegates on acceptance. Plural
Beckett Pluriel - A Centenary Celebration This conference will mark the centenary of Samuel Beckett by addressing the plurality of his writing and of the artistic and critical consequence of his work – in drama as in fiction, and in a variety of contexts and cultural practices. Confirmed keynote speakers: Ronan McDonald (Director, Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading), Maria Helena Serôdio (Centre for Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon), Steve Wilmer (The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin) The organisers
will welcome contributions in the form of proposals for 20-minute papers,
either in English or in French, on a variety of topics, such as: Notification of acceptance: 8 September 2006. Deadline for registration: 6 October 2006. Fee: 75 Euros Bath
Spa University Second Annual Postgraduate Irish Studies Conference This year the Irish Studies Centre at Bath Spa University is hosting its second annual conference, open to Irish Studies students and recent graduates from British Colleges and Universities. This year’s conference will have an open theme, as the aim is to showcase the broad range of topics that are studied by Irish Studies postgraduate students and recent graduates(those who have graduated within the last three years) in Britain. A selection of the proceedings will be published. Abstracts of c.200 words for papers of 25 minutes in length should be submitted by Friday 29 September 2006. Acts
of Aggression: the performance of violence
in contemporary Irish theatre practice In the past decade a theatrical moment described as 'in-yer-face theatre' [Sierz], or framed using Artaud's theatre of cruelty [Ken Urban], has emerged on the British stage. Internationally, the post-dramatic theatre of verbatim performance, tribunal plays, or Robin Soans' 'Talking with Terrorists', open a range of theoretical and performance questions about the staging of power and violence. In Ireland, examples such as Gary Mitchell's representation of loyalist paramilitarism, contemporary tragedy based on both classical Greek and Irish legends, and the popularity of a violent, urban sub-genre of monodrama similarly raise questions of the representation of violence and its bodily effects. This conference aims to identify and debate the intersection of these issues with contemporary theatre practice in Ireland, and the relationship of Irish theatre to these challenging international dramaturgical and performance strategies. Papers
and presentations are invited on the following topics: Papers and presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in duration. In line with the symposium's focus on performance strategies and staging, contributions from practitioners as well as researchers are welcome. Practice as Research projects are of particular interest. Ireland
- Renaissance, Revolution, Regeneration. Following
the success of its last three international conferences: Representing-Ireland:
Past, Present and Future, [2003] and The Word, The Icon and The Ritual,
[2004], and Lands of Saints of Scholars, [2005] the University of Sunderland,
in association with NEICN, is soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary
conference, which will run from 10-12 November 2006. North American and other international scholars, practitioners in the arts, and postgraduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the conference organisers. They also welcome proposals for papers in absentia for delegates who wish to participate but may find it difficult to attend the event. The last three conferences have resulted in the publication of a selection of essays, and the organisers hope to continue this with essays from this year's conference. This year they will have over 100 speakers in an international event that will include a book launch, traditional music and dance, drama and a ceilidh. Plenary Speakers include Ailbhe Smyth (University College, Dublin), Mervyn Busteed (University of Manchester) Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 20th June 2006 at the latest to either of the editors: Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger - alison.younger@sunderland.ac.uk Professor Stephen Regan - stephen.regan@durham.ac.uk And copied to the conference adminstrator, Ms Susan Cottam - susan.cottam@sunderland.ac.uk 18:Beckett The prevalence of Beckettian references and formal strategies in contemporary art, new media and theatre attests to the urgency felt by cultural producers to negotiate his challenging legacy. This symposium will explore recent reinventions of Beckettian themes or strategies, such as repetition, fragmentation, abstraction, absurdity, negativity and humour, in relation to contemporary issues. Speakers may address different projects by contemporary artists, writers, art collectives and/or theatre groups, and will examine the conceptual and philosophical frameworks that have compelled engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett as a means of reactivating avant-garde production. The symposium will accompany an exhibition of the work of thirteen international contemporary artists who explore the legacy of Beckett through new media and video. The artists represented in the exhibition include Martin Arnold, Stan Douglas, Bruce Nauman, and Hans Op de Beeck. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November through December 2006 at the Blackwood Gallery, UTM, and the JM Barnicke Art Gallery at Hart House on the St. George campus, University of Toronto. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the relation between Beckett’s work and new media and/or contemporary art production. Possible topics include: Hybrid, avant-garde reinventions of Beckettian themes in the visual arts and theatre Contextualizing Beckett’s formal strategies for the contemporary arts, especially in the intersection of new medias with fine art, literature and theatre The aftermath of avant-garde theatre and absurdist, atheistic cultural criticism Postmodern theories of contemporary art and cultural criticism The procedural realities of working with Beckett=92s texts today (in film and theatre productions) in relation to the copyright control of the Beckett Estate The
Construction And Deconstruction Of Irish Memory The conference will be held in conjunction with a Beckett symposium. The conference will be open to all members of NISN and EFACIS. November
3: World Theatre: Samuel Beckett and the Theatre The symposium is organised by The Centre for Irish Studies and the Department of Drama. November
4: The Construction and Deconstruction of Irish Memory Beckett
after Ibsen 2006 is
the centenary of Ibsen’s death and Beckett’s birth. Both playwrights
represent two main ways of writing identified with their own names.
The conference aims to create an opportunity for theatre scholars to
reevaluate the accumulation of11 September, 2006rights. The conference organisers are calling for 20 minutes
contributions on all aspects connected with or suggested by the title
of the conference. Topics may include but not limited to Keynote
speakers: Professor Jon Nygaard/ Title of the conference lecture: "Decline of Dialogue" from Ibsen to Beckett, Professor of drama, from the Centre for Ibsen-Studies at the University of Oslo. Conference language: Turkish and English. The conference is organized by the Theatre Department of Faculty of Letters, Ankara University. Please send a 200-250 words proposal, and a brief CV no later then 1/05/2006 to tdergi@humanity.ankara.edu.tr DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS. Instead, please paste the abstract into the body of the e-mail and please be sure to include your full name, contact information, and academic affiliation (if any). “Conflict
and Peace in Ireland” Irish history is filled with stories of political, religious, cultural or ideological conflict. Conflict takes place between regions, groups, or family members. Irish history is also filled with efforts to achieve peace in these conflicts, efforts that have met with varying levels of success. This conference will explore both the conflicts and the efforts at peace to illustrate the great diversity in approaches to achieving peace. Papers will be welcomed on any facet of the topic, including but not limited to the following possibilities: Historical
narratives Papers will also be welcome on any other topic of interest to Irish studies. Abstracts of no more than one page must be submitted, either via email or hard copy, by June 1, 2006 for consideration for the conference. Final papers should not exceed 15 minutes. “Which
Direction Ireland?” Papers are sought touching on any aspect of the idea of direction and Ireland... Especially welcome are presentations addressing questions of modernization and technology, Ireland in the international sphere, immigration and emigration past and present, even projections for the future. These areas can be considered in light of literature, history, language, social science, geography, or any other heading appropriate to the topic of Ireland and direction. In addition, any paper proposal relevant to Irish studies will be considered. Proposals/abstracts of no more than 200 words may be submitted to Dr. Donald McNamara, Department of English, Lytle Hall, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530, or mcnamara@kutztown.edu no later than July 28, 2006. Located on the edge of the famed Pennsylvania Dutch country, Kutztown, PA, offers an ideal location, within reasonable distance of metropolitan centers and yet in a tranquil, scenic location perfect for a conference. There may even be a horse-drawn carriage or two moving through the middle of campus. Fall is an especially pleasant time to visit the area, both for weather and for vibrant colors. Kutztown University, part of the state university system of Pennsylvania, is experiencing tremendous growth, poised to accommodate more than 10,000 students while remembering its origins as a normal school. Global
Beckett Papers are invited for the upcoming Global Beckett conference at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, October 25-27, 2006, organized by the Universities of Southern Denmark, Oslo and Aarhus. Along with the conference there will be an audiovisual Beckett exhibition at Kunsthallen/Brandts Klaedefabrik in Odense. Adopting "Global Beckett" as its overall theme, the conference will limit itself to four subsections that in differing ways function as venues for exploring the specifically global potential of Samuel Beckett's oeuvre: Global
culture: Literature-functions-society. Territorial
Subtraction: Earth-cylinder-space. Withdrawal
as resistance: Politics-subjectivity-globalization. Worldly
Laughter: Humour-affect-the unofficially global. Please send abstracts to: Mikkel Astrup (Oslo): mikkel.astrup@ilos.uio.no Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg (Odense): zangenberg@litcul.sdu.dk Jacob Lund Pedersen (Aarhus): jacoblund@hum.au.dk Inquires are welcome at any time. Please direct all questions concerning practical issues (hotel, conference fee, etc.) to Anders Knudsen, a.knudsen@litcul.sdu.dk New
England American Conference for Irish Studies (NEACIS) 2006 Confirmed speakers include COLM TÓIBÍN, EMMA DONOGHUE and KEN SIMPSON Proposals are requested for the 2006 NEACIS conference on the theme of “Changing Ireland”. Presentation topics may include but should not be limited to the following topics: Irish identity, Celtic Tiger Ireland, colonialism/post-colonialism, immigration/emigration, Northern Irish Peace Process; social, historical, artistic, religious, sexual or political (r)evolution 2-day conference•campus hotel•screenings•céilí•free accommodation for grad speakers with UConn grads (FCFS)•2 receptions & 2 meals included in registration cost This is an interdisciplinary conference. While proposals addressing the conference theme will be especially welcome, the organisers will consider offerings on any Irish Studies topic and any historical period. Please send your one-page proposals to Mary Burke (Mary.2.Burke@uconn.edu) or Rachael Lynch (Rachael.Lynch@uconn.edu), or to NEACIS 2006, Department of English, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road Unit 4025, Storrs, CT 06269-4025. Women
in Irish Culture and History Recent years have seen a rapid proliferation in research on the role of women in Irish culture, society and history parallel to the changing role of women in Ireland. What was the nature of women’s cultural production and participation? What kind of impact did they have on public life and public policy? What has been the impact of emigration and immigration? What have our research agendas been and why? How has this impacted on perceptions of women’s lives and experiences, north and south? How has our perception changed? This interdisciplinary conference brings together work on culture and history and welcomes input from a broad range of disciplines and periods. Proposals for papers and panels are invited in the following areas, though not limited to them: • Culture
and Politics Proposals should be submitted by email in rtf format with ‘Conference Proposal’ in the subject line to the conference organisers before 7 July 2006. This a joint conference of the Women in Modern Irish Culture Project (School of History, University of Warwick and School of English and Drama, UCD) funded by the AHRC and the Women in Twentieth Century Irish Public Life and Culture project (School of History, Queen’s University Belfast; Dept. of History, University of Limerick; School of English and Drama, UCD) funded by the HEA North-South Research Collaboration Fund, Strand 2. Beckett
and the Thirties In celebration of the centenary of Samuel Beckett, the universities of Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle, Strasbourg II-Marc Bloch, and Paris VII-Denis Diderot, are co-organizing the conference, Beckett and the Thirties, to be held at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where Beckett held the post of lecteur from 1928-1930. As the title indicates, this conference will focus on the period of 1929-1939, and in particular on Beckett’s relationship with both the city of Paris and French literary, philosophical, and intellectual traditions and texts. At the same time, The conference organisers wish to emphasize the specificities of Beckett’s work as an English-language writer during this time, which preceded his much more intensive use of French as language of composition from the nineteen-forties onward. The conference organisers would also welcome considerations of Beckett’s deeply formative encounters with German and Italian literature, philosophy, and art during this period. Please send a short proposal (250 words maximum) and a short cv to either Daniel Katz (dkatz@wanadoo.fr), Carle Bonafous-Murat (cbmurat@aol.com), or Ciaran Ross (ciaranross@tele2.fr) by April 30, 2006. Please mention Beckett and the Thirties in your subject line, and paste your text into the message rather than sending attachments. Beckett
& Company: A Centenary Conference on Samuel
Beckett and the Arts Tate Modern, The London Consortium, Birkbeck College, and Goldsmiths College are hosting an interdisciplinary conference to celebrate the importance of Samuel Beckett’s work for the arts in the twenty-first century. Artists such as Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Steve McQueen, and Doris Salcedo, composers such as Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, filmmakers like Atom Egoyan and dancers like Maguy Marin, have all engaged with Beckett in their work. Bringing together visual artists, composers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, architects, and philosophers, this three-day conference will provide an opportunity to question and debate Beckett’s contemporaneity, and to celebrate his relevance for the arts. Beckett & Company will begin with an academic conference at Birkbeck, followed by a day of public events, talks, and screenings at Tate Modern, headlined by key contemporary artists. Goldsmiths will close the conference with a series of workshops, roundtables, and performances that will bring scholars and practitioners into dialogue. Contributions
to the conference are invited in two forms: Please send two copies of abstracts (250-500 words) with affiliation and contact details via email (as Word, PDF, or RTF attachments) to Dr Derval Tubridy (d.tubridy@gold.ac.uk) and Dr Laura Salisbury (l.salisbury@bbk.ac.uk) by 1 June 2006. John
Huston Centenary Conference In November 2006, The Huston School of Film and Digital media, National University of Ireland, Galway will host a two day conference in recognition of the centenary of the birth of John Huston. Submissions are invited for papers (25mins in duration) dealing with the life and work of this most versatile and charismatic of American directors. John Huston, the director of over films in a career lasting was much celebrated by his peers and associates but has been strangely neglected in the critical literature. This conference wishes to redress such neglect and provide a forum for as wide a consideration of his contribution to film as possible. Topics for consideration might include: Huston as actor; as writer; as auteur; as personality; approaches to genre; considerations of the many adaptations in his oeuvre; Huston¹s life and film activities in Ireland; representations of gender in his work; Huston¹s relationship with Hollywood; thematic studies; Clint Eastwood¹s White Hunter, Black Heart; etc. Please submit a 300 word proposal stating the topic, aims and scope of the paper along with a brief CV via email to Tony Tracy,. Email: tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie "Borderless
Beckett" - International Samuel Beckett Symposium Under the auspices of the 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) Institute for Theatre Research, Waseda University and The Samuel Beckett Research Circle of Japan The year 2006 marks not only the one-hundredth anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth but also the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese public’s very first encounter with his work. In 1953, a Japanese student named Ando Shin’ya watched the world premiere of En attendant Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris and was enchanted by this “unprecedented” play. The Hakusuisha Publishing Company published Ando’s Japanese translation of the play in 1956. Ando himself directed Godot’s Japanese premiere for the major Shingeki (“modern theatre”) company Bungakuza in 1960, making a decisive impact on such playwrights as Betsuyaku Minoru, Suzuki Tadashi, Sato Makoto, and Kara Juro. The production triggered the avant-garde movement called the “Underground Theatre”, which developed into “Shogekijo-Undou” (the “Little-Theatre Movement”), the new wave of Japanese theatre. Godot has been performed repeatedly in Japan since the 60s, leaving a deep impression upon spectator and practitioner alike. Such theatre artists as Ninagawa Yukio, Kushida Kazuyoshi, Tsuka Kohei and Miyazawa Akio demonstrate the influence that Beckett’s play continues to have in contemporary Japanese theatre. Japan’s first international Beckett Symposium will be held at the International Convention Centre at Waseda University for three days, from 29 September to 1 October, 2006. The Symposium will be co-hosted by Waseda University’s 21st Century COE Institute for Theatre Research and the Samuel Beckett Research Circle of Japan. The symposium theme will be “Borderless Beckett”. The late Takahashi Yasunari, who initiated Beckett studies in Japan, described affinities between Beckett’s drama and classical Noh theatre. Noh crosses borders between reality and dream, between life and death. Beckett’s art too undermines dualistic thinking and transgresses various borders: traditional distinctions in genre, linguistic differences between English and French, geographical and political differences, and conventional frameworks of philosophy and aesthetics. Beckett’s writing, which seems on the one hand to be art reduced to bare essentials, is in fact paradoxically excessive, eluding conventional views of literature, media and culture. The symposium will aim to create a free critical and creative space, where diverse critical approaches and methodologies may reach toward and celebrate Beckett’s transgressive, borderless art. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Stanley Gontarski (Florida State University), Mary Bryden (Cardiff University), Steven Connor (University of London), Evelyne Grossman (Université Paris VII) PLENARY PANELS "Beckett and the Art of His Century" - Enoch Brater (University of Michigan), Angela Moorjani (Emerita, University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Linda Ben-Zvi (University of Tel Aviv) All submissions must be made at the Website of JTB (the official site for the Symposium application). Irresponsibility Jorge Luis Borges once claimed that “the Irish have always been the iconoclasts of the British Isles.” Bearing Borges’ suggestion in mind, it is hoped that this panel will address the perception of Irish literature as a category of writing that has frequently been provocative to formal and social norms. As Irish writers have been pivotal in the dominant, frame-breaking, literary categories of this century, like Modernism (Yeats, Joyce, Beckett) and Postmodernism (Joyce, Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Banville), a discussion on irresponsibility has particular resonance, particularly in the sense that Irish literature has frequently refused to accept social, aesthetic, formal and political modes of established order. Proposals (250 words) are invited on any conjunction of Irish literature and irresponsibility, or resistance to fixed standards, and should be forwarded to Neil Murphy at camurphy@ntu.edu.sg. This panel has been agreed by the conference committee. Other suggestions for panels or papers related to any aspect of Irish literature in the context of (ir)responsibility are very welcome. This Irish Literature panel is part of a broader conference on the them of Irresponsiblity in literature. The opening address is by Professor Shirley Chew, plenary address by Professor J. Hillis Miller, and the keynote address by Professor Eugene O’Brien. Literature tells us—before psychoanalysis, before deconstruction—that our crimes are overdetermined, our ethical concepts unstable. Yet the facile deployment of the rhetoric of responsibility and irresponsibility, in all manner of debate, indicates the widespread abuse of the concept of responsibility, if not its bankruptcy. With our title “Irresponsibility,” The conference organisers hope to provoke a conversation aimed at assessing both the contribution of literature to our understanding of the concept of responsibility and its vicissitudes, and the possible resistance within literature and literary studies to cheap distinctions between responsibility and irresponsibility. The conference organisers hope also to provide a forum for those interested in determining the responsibility of literary studies today, both within its own domain, and in its relation to other disciplines. They welcome a wide variety of approaches to our theme, and encourage a broad understanding of its scope. The conference organisers invite papers and proposals for panels (of 3-4 papers). Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: o Representations
of irresponsibility in the literature of any period or nationality Please send abstracts of 300 words either by email to <irresponsibility@ntu.edu.sg> or by mail to Conference Committee, English Division, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. The
Line of Contemporary Poetry - The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry
Conference In association with the University of St Andrews, Seamus Heaney Centre Queens University, Belfast, and Lancaster University Speakers include Professor Jonathan Bate, Professor John Kerrigan, Professor Robert Crawford, Dr Mark Ford and Dr Deryn Rees-Jones Abstracts
are invited on the conference theme of: The Line of Contemporary Poetry. Iris
Murdoch International Conference Kingston University is pleased to announce the third Iris Murdoch Conference, to be held at Kingston University in 2006. The Conference will focus on Murdoch's relevance to contemporary debates on morality and literature, and will investigate the ways her moral philosophy manifests itself in her novels. The conference organisers also welcome philosophical and theological papers on any aspect of Murdoch's moral philosophy. In addition, they shall consider papers for panels on specific topics or aspects of individual novels. Organizer: Dr Anne Rowe, Kingston University, Tel: +44 (0)208 547 2000 E-mail: a.rowe@kingston.ac.uk Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent by 30th May 2006 to: Penny Tribe, Iris Murdoch Conference Administrator, Kingston University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, KT1 2 EE Tel =44(0) 208 547 2000 E-Mail: p.tribe@kingston.ac.uk The
fourth Annual British and Irish Spenser Seminar
The theme of this year's meeting will be 'Life and Texts', which will also be the focus of the plenary paper from Andrew Hadfield. The organisers are keen to receive contributions from students and scholars from the UK, Ireland, and abroad, and would be happy to hear from anyone who might be interested in participating, or who could recommend someone else (particularly graduate students, whom they are keen to involve) who might like to contribute a paper. They will be accepting proposals for papers until early June; anyone interested should write to the organiser by email. Advance registration for the seminar is encouraged, and there will be an enforced contribution of five pounds (or the equivalent). 21st
Century Celts - The Inaugural Conference of the
Celtic Education and Research Network What constitutes Celtic identity in the 21st century? How does the definition of Celtic identity differ across the world, particularly around the Atlantic seaboard? How are Celtic identities transformed at cultural and geographical borders? How do modern Celtic identities continue to use (and abuse?) the past? What is the role and significance of cultural memory, oral traditions and the ancient landscape in the construction of Celtic identities? These are some of the questions to be explored by 21st Century Celts: a three-day public conference to be held at New County Hall, Truro, Cornwall. This event is an initiative of CERN (Celtic Education & Research Network) and is held in association with the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA). 21st Century Celts will combine a programme of conference papers with discussion forums, question and answer panels, and art and drama performances. Its objective is to encourage a lively and informed academic debate surrounding the construction, manifestation and significance of 'Celtic' identities in the 21st century. Key note speakers include Celeste Ray (University of the South, Tennessee), Ken MacKinnon (University of Edinburgh) and Marion Bowman (Open University). Papers are requested, addressing the themes raised by the questions above. Papers comparing and contrasting global 'Celtic' identities, and papers that discuss the means via which these identities are constructed, reproduced and/or transformed (e.g. landscape remnants, oral traditions, cultural memory, film, art, literature) are particularly desired. It is envisaged that conference proceedings will eventually be published. A number of places for postgraduate papers have been reserved (abstracts from postgraduates must be received by 1st July 2006). Women
and poetry in the 21st Century: Kicking Daffodils III Keynote Speakers: Medbh McGuckian and Marion Wynne-Davies Including contributions from: Elaine Feinstein, Deryn Rees-Jones, Diane Middlebrook, Robyn Bolam, Kate Clanchy, Michelene Wandor, Tracy Brain, Fiona Sampson, Georgia Scott, Zina Rohan, Cheryl Malcolm. The first 'Kicking Daffodils' conference and festival devoted to 'women and poetry' was held at Oxford Brookes University in April 1994. More than a decade later Daffodils III represents a fresh opportunity to explore the burgeoning field of 'women's poetry'. How have issues like gender, history and ideology affected the reading, writing and/or the performance of poetry by women down the ages? Is there critical merit in establishing a female canon, or does it invite unhelpful value judgements? Has the recovery of forgotten poets from earlier centuries had any lasting impact on definitions such as Romanticism, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment? This two-day conference brings poets, critics and readers together with poetry publishers and editors in an event comprising workshops, readings, academic papers, lectures, roundtables, discussion and debate. The organisers invite further proposals (250 words by 31st March 2006); papers on pre-twentieth century poets and poetics will be particularly welcome. Organisers: Dr. Alice Entwistle, School of English & Drama, University of the West of England, Bristol; Dr. Jo Gill, School of English & Creative Studies, Bath Spa University The
Third Annual Shaw Symposium Please send proposals for papers and panel topics (focused as much as possible on Too True To Be Good and Arms and The Man, the Shaw plays being produced at the Festival) to Dr. Leonard Conolly, preferably as an attachment to an email (lconolly@trentu.ca), or by mail to Professor Leonard Conolly, Department of English, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8. For details -- play selection, schedules, registration procedures, accommodations, travel grants, etc. -- please go to www.shawsociety.org and click on the link to the 2006 Shaw Symposium. And young scholars please note that a form for applying for travel grants is provided there. 11th
Annual Dickens Society Symposium Charles Dickens visited Belfast in 1858, 1867, and 1869, to deliver those public readings which so captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. He gave renditions of such favourites as The Story of Little Dombey, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, Mrs Gamp, and Sikes and Nancy. He also developed close friendships with the Belfast-born politician and merchant James Emerson Tennent and with Francis Dalziel Finlay, owner and editor of The Northern Whig. He enjoyed his sojourns in Ulster, remarking on his 'delightful days' in Belfast, where he was widely recognised and warmly welcomed. Belfast is the venue for the 11th annual symposium of the Dickens Society of America. This organisation, founded in 1970, aims to conduct, encourage, foster and further support research, publication, instruction and general interest in the life, times and literature of Charles Dickens. Papers are welcomed on any aspect of Dickens and his works. Final papers must be readable in twenty minutes. Prospective panellists should send a one-page abstract, by post or email, to Dr Leon Litvack School of English Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland L.Litvack@qub.ac.uk Tel. +44-28-90973266 Conference participants will have the opportunity to sign up for excursions to local sites of interest including the Giant's Causeway and the North Antrim coast. The highlight of the conference is the will be the Dickens dinner, where delegates will experience traditional Irish singing and storytelling, provided by the famed local duo Len Graham and John Campbell, who have delighted audiences throughout Ireland, the U.K., Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA. Accommodation will be offered at the Elms Student Village, 78 Malone Road, Belfast Further information on the Dickens Society, and its journal The Dickens Quarterly may be found at http://www.dickensquarterly.org/ REGION,
NATION, FRONTIERS Because
this is the first time the conference has been held in the United States,
and we are meeting in Kansas, the heart of America’s farming frontier,
The conference organisers invite papers on topics relating to frontiers.
Possible topics might include: Abstracts of 500 words (maximum) should be submitted by 14th February 2006 to Donna Potts Department of English Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 dlpotts@ksu.edu (emails welcome) Wild
Irish Girls': A bicentenary conference to mark the publication of Sydney
Owenson’s (Lady Morgan) The Wild Irish Girl and
Maria Edgeworth’s Leonora
Trollope
and Gender From the first gender-sensitive critique of Trollope’s women by Morse, through Polhemus’s erotically-charged account of Phineas Finn in love to Turner’s genderised reading of narrative technique differentiated according to audience, the last two decades have witnessed a diametric shift in how we read Trollope. Today John Stuart Mill’s articulation of liberalism sits well with Trollope’s open and frank approach to gender and sexuality. the conference organisers invite papers drawn from re-readings of Anthony Trollope in the light of the most recent thinking in gender studies. How have perceptions of his presentation of women changed over the last twenty years? How have the latest reframings of Victorian masculinities shaped the reinterpretations of Trollope’s men, and how have ideas of queer theory shifted perceptions of those Trollope characters who operate at the margins? In suggesting these possibilities, we do not seek to circumscribe the field of study of the conference; we wish to welcome a wide and diverse view of the significance of Trollope studies in the twenty-first century. Topics
might includebut are not limited tothe following: Sex and
the City: The Palliser Novels. Queer Trollope. Erotic Languages. Feminist
Trollope? Money and Gender. Liberalism and Gender. Vulgar Women. Celibacy,
or Renunciation and its Pains – and Delights. Foreignness and
Gender. Sex and the Irish Question. Homosocial Bonds. Trollope’s
Fallen Women. Oedipal Trollope. Trollope, Gender, and the Jewish Question.
Unrequited Love. Family Bonds, – and Bondage. Trollopian Mothers.
Child Erotics. Breeding and Heredity. Gendered Illustrations –
Millais and Others. James Joyce Study Day Speakers include Fritz Senn, Derek Attridge, Richard Brown and Willy Maley The Department of English Studies at the University of Durham in association with NEICN is hosting a one day James Joyce Study Day on 10 July 2006 at the University of Durham, UK. Selected papers will represent a wide range of critical approaches to Joyce and will be followed by a round table discussion on 'Joyce and Ireland'. For more information contact: Stephen Regan (stephen.regan@durham.ac.uk) Matthew Creasy (matthew.creasy@durham.ac.uk) Vike Martina Plock (v.m.plock@durham.ac.uk) |
| Page
Updated
11 September, 2006
|
|
©2005
IASIL |