The Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting | American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) The City University of New York | Nov. 1 – 2, 2019 IRELAND: Borders | Bridges Call for Proposals The trope of the border is seeing robust engagement in recent scholarship on Ireland, and from a number of disciplinary perspectives. Borders and bridges, and borders as bridges, these are
» Read moreFollowing the growth of The Global Network for Linguistic Anthropology, we announce The COMELA 2020, The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020. Purpose and Structure – Over 500 scholars globally will gather to present papers and engage in progressive discussion on the Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Society, and related fields, of The Mediterranean and Europe. The COMELA is fully Non-Profit, where all publishing with the JOMELA (its scholarly journal) is free, as the COMELA refuses to implement a pay to publish system. The COMELA sources funding/grants to assist people in
» Read moreVernon Press invites chapter proposals on War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction. Conflicts over control of the British Empire, two World Wars, and the Cold War meant that for most of the Twentieth Century, British men were either at war, trying to prevent war, or recovering from the aftermath of war. This book will explore how fictional characters shape
» Read moreDeadline: 31 January, 2020.Guest Editors: Seán Hewitt & Anna PilzPublication: May 2021 Studies of the intertwined histories of Great Britain, Ireland, and their associated islands have given rise to the notion of ‘archipelagic studies’. As in John Kerrigan’s seminal work Archipelagic English, the cover of which shows the familiar image of Great Britain and Ireland on a map tilted, reaching
» Read moreOn Sunday 4th August at 8.30 am on RTE Radio 1 John Bowman will be devoting his radio programme to Brendan Behan in celebration of the Reading Brendan Behan book. https://www.rte.ie/radio1/bowman-sunday-830/
» Read moreCall for Papers Proposals are welcome to an edited collection under the title: The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan Editors: Lisa Fitzpatrick and Mária Kurdi To be published by Carysfort Press jointly with Peter Lang Publishers in early 2021 Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her
» Read moreThe annual International Yeats Society conference: “Yeats and Eros” / “Yeats and Paris” 12-14 December, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Call for papers Yeats and Eros: The topic of this year’s conference, “Yeats and Eros”, invites reappraisals of Yeats’s manifold and often unconventional explorations of the erotic in all its guises. Papers may address the ways in which he toys with and
» Read moreCall for Papers: Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Special Issue: Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers: Cultural, Clinical, and Creative Approaches to Dysfluent Speech Co-editors: Daniel Martin and Maria Stuart This special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies explores embodied experiences and cultural constructions of stammering from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literary and cultural analysis, speech therapy, neurological research,
» Read moreBorders, Borderlands and Bridges April 1-4, 2020 The UST William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies is proud to host the 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies international conference from April 1-4, 2020, in Houston, Texas, at the JW Marriott at the Galleria. Suggested travel dates are March 31 and April 5, 2020. We are pleased to announce that Mary Robinson,
» Read moreA brief document summarizing the origins and history of the Association has been added to the website, and is available here: http://www.iasil.org/iasil-chronicle/ .
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