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IASIL Summer Schools News 2006 |
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. 2006 Summer Schools International WB Yeats Summer School, 31 July - 10 August The Francis McPeake International Summer School, 24 - 29 July 2006 International Summer School in Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 17 July - 4 August 2006 Synge Summer School, Rathdrum Co Wicklow, 2-8 July 2006 The Tenth Annual Trieste Joyce School 25 June - 1 July 2006 The Living Tradition: Field Studies in Irish Culture, 18 June - 8 July 2006, West Clare Irish Writers in London Summer School 2006, 15 June - 25 July, London 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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W.B. Yeats Summer School This year's Yeats summer school features a range of lectures and seminars. Speakers include Tim Webb, Margaret Kelleher, Seamus Deane, James L Pethica, Tetsuro Sano, Edna Longley, Hilary Pyle, Mitsuko Ohno, R.S. Patke, Nicholas Grene, Adrienne Janus, David Holdeman, Rob Doggett, Brian John, Anne Margaret Daniel, Michael McAteer, John Goodby, and Frank Shovlin. The
Francis McPeake International Summer School The Francis McPeake International Summer School offers an immersion in Irish Traditional Music and Dance workshops, concerts, recitals, sessions, musical boat tours, gigs etc. Workshops will be taken by the most renowned artists including Joe Burke, Donogh Hennessy, Seamus Tansey, Ronan Browne, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill etc International
Summer School in Irish Studies, Queen's University
Belfast This interdisciplinary 3-week programme is hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies and held at the historic Queen’s University of Belfast. Lectures and seminars are given by internationally-acclaimed scholars on various aspects of the study of Ireland, including history, politics, anthropology, film and theatre, language and literature. In addition to meeting with representatives of Northern Ireland’s political parties, participating students will visit sites of historical and cultural interest in Belfast and beyond. An exciting new partnership with the Seamus Heaney Centre for poetry provides students with the opportunity to take 3 days of poetry, fiction and script-writing workshops. Full programme details together with information on our Scholarships can be found on our website at: www.qub.ac.uk/iis/courses/ss-about.htm Synge
Summer School This year's Synge Summer School is on "Synge and His Influence(s)", and will feature Readings, an exhibition of Synge's photographs of Wicklow, tours of Synge country, Visits to Dublin theatre, local drama performance, and, for the first time, a Theatre workshop. Directed by Dr Anthony Roche (organiser of the 2007 IASIL Conference), the school will also feature Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kilroy, Mary Luckhurst, Patrick Mason, Ronán McDonald, Christina Hunt Mahony, P.J. Mathews,Christopher Murray, Riana O’Dwyer, and Stephen Watt. Applications are now being accepted on the Synge Summer School website. THE
IRISH SEMINAR 2006 EIGHTH ANNUAL SUMMER SESSION: CAPITALS OF CULTURE:
PARIS & DUBLIN The Keough Institute for Irish Studies announces the IRISH SEMINAR 2006, an intensive graduate seminar aimed at the best minds in the emerging group of Irish Studies scholars worldwide. For the first time ever the Seminar will be held outside Dublin, from 1 July to 15 July at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, at the heart of Paris. The historic Irish College has for centuries been the intellectual hub of the Irish presence in Paris. The IRISH SEMINAR 2006, under the directorship of Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons and Kevin Whelan. 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 also seeks to generate a supportive environment that nurtures the intellectual poise and confidence of young scholars. Rapid nineteenth-century growth foreshadowed the modern metropolis - kinetic, frantic, splintered, anonymous, crowded, noisy, abundant, dense, heterogeneous. The city as a world of jagged shocks expanded the sensorium and birthed a new experience - modernism. Modernism sought a new language to represent a new urban reality, first seen in Flaubert¹s depiction of Paris in his Sentimental Education. The modern city as an arena of perplexity required new techniques to register disorientation as the governing sensibility of the modern. A determining shift occurred away from the omniscient narration of a Balzac or a Trollope, self professed analysts of the new city, but still old style realists, full of the magisterial certitude that lent itself so well to omniscient narration. The modernist move was towards the free indirect style, that displayed the uninterpreted perception of the characters through narrated monologue, creating both immediacy and incoherence. This stylistic break signaled the shift from the unities of realism to the fragmentations of modernism. It also anticipated the effects of cinema, while offering the temptation to find a new unity in heterogeneity, the temptation of Joyce's Ulysses. The theme for the IRISH SEMINAR 2006 is Capitals of Culture: Paris & Dublin. The spine of the programme will be four Seminars conducted by Seamus Deane [on Walter Benjamin¹s Arcades project and Paris], Luke Gibbons [on Dublin OThe Hibernian Metropolis¹ in Cinema], Emer Nolan [on the nineteenth-century novel] and Kevin Whelan [on Reading the Irish Landscape]. Additional speakers will include Anthony Cronin [on Samuel Beckett], Mel Fearon [on contemporary France], and Imogen Stuart [on her sculptures]. A Basil Blackshaw Exhibition will accompany the Seminar and there will be a series of field trips, gallery and museum visits, concerts and receptions. The Seminar is interdisciplinary and is open to all faculty and graduate students in Irish Studies. Graduate students can take the IRISH SEMINAR for three credits, assessed on the basis of participation. Participants will be responsible for their own food, airfare and travel expenses. Some open fellowships will be available, covering tuition, travel, room and board, but applicants are urged to seek financial assistance from their home institutions. Further details regarding living arrangements will be available in the registration packet. The deadline for application to the IRISH SEMINAR 2006 is 21 April 2006. Places are expected to fill quickly, so an early application is recommended. Applications will be evaluated beginning 1 May 2006, and admissions will be announced on a rolling basis, with the final roster complete by 15 May. The cost of the IRISH SEMINAR will be $2,500. Some fellowships will be available. THE IRISH SEMINAR WEBSITE: www.nd.edu/~irishsem The
Tenth Annual Trieste Joyce School "I cannot begin to give you the flavour of the old Austrian Empire. It was a ramshackle affair but it was charming, gay, and I experienced more kindnesses in Trieste than ever before or since in my life." The Tenth edition of the Trieste Joyce School will take place from 25 June to 1 July 2006. Following the tradition established in previous years, this year's school hopes to satisfy the needs both of seasoned Joyceans and of newcomers to the world of Joyce studies. The School draws inspiration from Trieste itself - its history, its culture, its architecture, its institutions - and leaves participants with a sense of why Joyce came to describe the city as his "second country". Director: Renzo S. Crivelli, Vice Director: John McCourt Speakers
include SPECIAL GUEST WRITER to be announced For further
information email: mccourt@units.it SCHOLARHIPS AVAILABLE (to apply send CV, letter of Application, letter of reference via email to mccourt@units.it by 15 April 2006) Accommodation from 30 Euro per night The
Living Tradition - Field Studies in Irish Culture Courses are academic in content and theoretically informed, however the location of the college in the heartland of Irish traditional music, greatly enhances the learning experience. The first two weeks of the school comprise an in-depth study of the traditional culture and heritage of Clare (45 hours) and are accompanied by field trips, workshops and performances. In the third week students will be enrolled in the Willie Clancy Summer School (WCSS), a week-long school of traditional music, song and dance, which offers tuition in a full range of traditional instruments, classes in set and step dancing and an opportunity to learn Irish and Scots Gaelic. The WCSS also offers lectures on various aspects of Irish traditional music heritage and evening recitals by local and international artistes. The closing date for receipt of applications is 15 May 2006 Irish
Writers in London Summer School 2006 Fergal
Keane will be appearing at this year's Irish Writers in London Summer
School. The award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC will be
discussing his recent memoir 'All of These People' in which he addresses
his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others
acutely personal.
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