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Current Publishing Opportunities, Updated 6 April, 2010 ‘New Approaches to Irish Migration’, a Special Issue of Éire/Ireland Etudes Irlandaises, 30 September 2009 Eire Ireland - Special Issue: Irish Things, 1 February 2010
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Call for Contributions: Essay Collection Call for Papers: ‘New Approaches to Irish Migration’, a Special Issue of Éire/Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies, Spring/Summer 2012. Guest editors: Piaras Mac Éinrí & Tina O’Toole. The past three decades have seen a significant change in Ireland’s status as a place marked by substantial emigration to one characterized by far more fluid patterns of movement in and out of the country. This change, in addition to significant reconfigurations of the links between Ireland and its Diaspora in recent times, has effected a paradigm shift in the construction and reception of Irish migration and identity. This is not to suggest that other, more ‘traditional’, discourses and patterns of migration have vanished. Nonetheless, the terms we are now familiar with in discussing 21st-century migration, such as hybridity, third space, contact zones, are possibly best summed-up by Iain Chambers’ use of the term ‘migrancy’: suggestive of fluidity rather than fixity and multiplicity rather than notions of authenticity. That said, there can be no postmodern disavowal of the realities of power and agency; the opportunities and choices open to individuals are strongly conditioned by economic and social circumstances. Against these backgrounds, the guest editors of a Spring/Summer 2012 special issue, “New Approaches to Irish Migration”, welcome submissions from scholars and critics in the various social sciences, history, literature, cultural studies, film studies and visual culture; contributions developing interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. The issue will aim to show how recent scholarship in a range of fields addresses these changing facts, interpretations, and discourses of Irish migration and identity, whether in Ireland or transnationally. Proposals are invited on relevant topics including, but not limited to, the following: · Imagining the Irish diaspora within political, social, historical, literary or cultural discourses Deadline for abstracts to be submitted: 1 February 2010. Deadline for final essay submissions: 1 February 2011. Abstracts should be sent to: Tina O’Toole, School of Language, Literature, Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland (tina.otoole@ul.ie); or to Piaras Mac Éinrí, Department of Geography, University College Cork, Ireland (p.maceinri@ucc.ie) ETUDES IRLANDAISES French Journal of Irish Studies The Editorial Board of Etudes Irlandaises is seeking submissions for the Spring 2010 volume of the journal. Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including: poetry / fiction / drama / film / music / politics / economy / social studies, etc. General issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in Autumn . Etudes Irlandaises is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions specializing in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed interest in the subject. Each number has a comprehensive section devoted to recently published material on Ireland. Submissions must be sent before September 30 (in order to be published in the Spring issue of the following year) . Contacts: For literature: Prof. Sylvie MIKOWSKI (Univ.Reims) sylvie.mikowski@noos.fr
Call for Papers: Irish Things Éire-Ireland 44: 1 & 2 Spr/Sum 09 We welcome submissions for a Spring/Summer 2011 special issue, “Irish Things,” that will examine Irish material culture—a particularly well-suited focus for the interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies. Even a rapid review of select fields reveals literary critics and art historians scrutinizing the representation of objects in the arts; historians elucidating the myriad contexts for objects; sociologists and anthropologists chronicling the functions and exchange of objects among peoples; philosophers investigating the nature of objects. Ireland provides a rich site for these inquiries: it maintains a complex relationship to “things” in part from the association of material culture with colonialism, a point made by historian Toby Barnard, as well as from the tension between Catholicism’s antimaterialist bias and its reverence for relics. We seek compelling interdisciplinary research about Irish history and culture that will contribute to ongoing scholarly debates about the nature of things. Essays might, for example, recover the social function and representation of Irish objects, or they could examine the history or current status of material culture in Ireland. We encourage considerations of the anxieties and enthusiasms attending the late advent of consumer culture in Ireland, as well as investigations of the circulation, exchange, and consumption of Irish objects at home and abroad. The editors invite submissions that demonstrate innovative thinking about material culture—research and theory that might contribute to or challenge existing ways of thinking about “Irish Things.” Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2010.Two hard copies and an electronic attachment of the manuscript should be sent to Professor Paige Reynolds,Department of English, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610 (preynold@holycross.edu) |
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