Welcome to the 2007 IASIL Newsletter

Welcome to the IASIL 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.

2007 Winter and Summer Schools

Dublin James Joyce Summer School, 8-14 July 2007

11th Annual Trieste Joyce School, 1-7 July 2007 University of Trieste.

SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2007: SYNGE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 1-7 July 2007.

Aidan Higgins Literary Weekend, 4-5 May 2007

Yeats Winter School, 26-28 January 2007

This page lists summer schools and other special events on Irish literature, Irish drama and theatre studies, and Irish film. If you think a conference should be listed here, please tell us.

This promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting Joyce Schools to date. Morning lectures will be followed by afternoon seminars (on genetic Joyce, Joyce and contemporary Irish poetry, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake) and by a busy social and cultural programme in the evenings. A variety of full and partial scholarships are available.

For further information contact John McCourt at mccourt@units.it or visit http//www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html

Guest speakers include: Marissa Aixas ( University of Barcelona); John Bishop ( University of Berkeley); Claudia Cortin (Università di Firenze); Renzo S. Crivelli (Università di Trieste); Sabrina D’Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli); Jed Deppmann ( Oberlin College); Anthony Downey ( London); Ron Ewart ( Zurich James Joyce Foundation); Adrian Hardiman ( Dublin); Terence Killeen ( Dublin); John McCourt (Università di Roma, Tre); Brenda Maddox ( London); Tim Martin ( Rutgers University); Patrick O’Neill (Queen’s University, Canada); Laura Pelaschiar (Università di Trieste); Jean-Michel Rabaté ( University of Pennsylvania); Fritz Senn ( Zurich James Joyce Foundation); David Spurr ( University of Geneva)

Please circulate this information within your departments and to those you think might be interested.

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SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2007: SYNGE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
1 – 7 July 2007
Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Director: Professor Anthony Roche
Website: http://www.wicklow.ie/syngesummerschool/

This year’s Synge Summer School is on the subject of “Synge and His Contemporaries” and features a range of lectures, seminars, readings, and other events.

Speakers include Anna McMullan, Ann Saddlemyer, Richard Pine, Ben Levitas, and others - who will consider such issues as Synge’s relationships with other writers (Friel, Yeats, Beckett), the influence of music and folklore on his writing, and the presentation of Synge’s works by Druid Theatre. There will be seminars on Synge and contemporary Irish drama by Nicholas Grene, Anthony Roche, and Patrick Lonergan; and a drama workshop will be conducted by a leading Irish theatre practitioner.

In addition, there will be a reading by Eavan Boland, a tour of the Synge Country, an Irish drama performance, and many other events. A limited number of scholarships will be awarded.

A brochure, featuring a timetable, application form, and further information, may be downloaded by clicking on this link.

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Aidan Higgins Literary Weekend
4-5 May 2007
Celbridge, Co Kildare

The Aidan Higgins Literary Weekend takes place over the first weekend in May. It is a weekend of academic lectures and seminars by John Banville, Annie Proulx, Fintan O’Toole, Dermot Healy, Neil Donnelly, Derek Mahon, Aidan Higgins himself, and others.  Full details are online on http://www.kildare.ie/aidanhiggins/index.asp

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YEATS WINTER SCHOOL

The annual Yeats Winter School takes place from 26 - 28 January 2007 at the Sligo Park Hotel. Heralded annually as a beacon in the winter that is January, the event attracts people from far and wide. The informal friendly atmosphere takes a relaxed approach to WB Yeats and his inspiration from all things Sligo. The Yeats Winter School leads the way for those who have an interest in Yeats and Yeats country and are just looking for an excuse to visit or re-visit the North West.

Under the directorship of Professor Nicholas Grene, the weekend includes short lectures, poetry, music and tours of Yeats Country. Against the backdrop of the places that inspired Yeats ’ poetry, the weekend provides a basis for reading, exploring and thinking about the poets work in the place where much of it began.

The weekend starts on Friday evening 26 January, with a welcome gathering at the Sligo Park Hotel. Activities on Saturday include “ Cloudscapes ” a lecture by Professor Nicholas Grene on Shakespeare, Yeats and Mahon. Later poet Gerald Dawe speaks on “ What Yeats Means ” . The afternoon is spent on a tour of Yeats Country with lashings of Yeats poetry. After dinner on Saturday, Gerald Dawe will read from his works. Sunday morning sees the final lecture “ This and that, here and there in Yeats ” with an optional tour of Lissadell house, opened specially for the Winter School, and a visit to Drumcliffe and Yeats grave.

This year ’s main speakers are Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature in Trinity College Dublin and poet Gerald Dawe. Professor Grene's interests have been divided between Irish studies and he is a popular guest lecturer at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo. Currently, he is working on a book about W.B. Yeats ’ s poems. Gerald Dawe has published six collections of poetry and is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin where he is Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing.

The Yeats Winter School runs in the Sligo Park Hotel and Leisure Club from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 January 2007. For further details contact Geraldine or Margaret on 071 9190400 or email sligo@leehotels.ie. The weekend costs 190 , which includes accommodation, full of use of hotel facilities and of course admission to all lectures and tours. An extra night costs just 35 bed and breakfast. Alternatively contact the Yeats Society on 071 9142695, info@yeats-sligo.com or www.yeats-sligo.com

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The Dublin James Joyce Summer School

The Dublin James Joyce Summer School is relaunching in 2007. It will take place from 8 July-14 July 2007. For further details, see http:///www.joycesummerschool.ie

Each morning two lectures take place in Newman House. Each afternoon several series of seminars are held in Newman House and Boston College. All lectures and a choice of seminar are included in student enrollment. Members of the public may attend the morning lectures by purchasing a day-pass for 20 Euro. Seminars are reserved for enrolled students only.

LECTURERS (dates and times to be announced) Professor Abby S. Bender ( Montclair State University), Professor T.P. Dolan ( University College Dublin), Professor Anne Fogarty, Academic Director ( University College Dublin), Professor Michael Groden ( University of Western Ontario), Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman (Supreme Court, Dublin), Professor Sean Latham ( University of Tulsa), Dr Jane A. Lewty ( University of Northern Iowa), Professor Colin MacCabe ( University of Pittsburgh), Dr Vike Plock ( University College Dublin), Dr Fritz Senn, Patron ( Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Professor Dirk VanHulle ( University of Antwerp)

SEMINARS
Each afternoon a selection of 5-day seminars are held. Topics and instructor details are below; please choose one seminar to attend all week:

DUBLINERS with Peter van de Kamp; A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN with Christine O’Neill; ULYSSES with Fritz Senn; ULYSSES with Tom Halpin; FINNEGANS WAKE with Terence Killeen

WORKSHOPS
For advanced students interested in pursuing a material and historical reading of Joyce's works, the Summer School offers a selection of late afternoon, elective workshops by specialists in this particular critical approach. Students may opt to take any one or all of these workshops offered at the National Library and at Boston College-Ireland:SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS with Anne Fogarty; GENETIC APPROACHES TO ULYSSES with Luca Crispi; GENETIC APPROACHES TO FINNEGANS WAKE with Dirk Van Hulle

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