IASIL Lille : 14-18 July 2014 Programme
Monday 14th July
12h30 IASIL Board lunch |
14h-17h Registration |
17h-18h Opening Plenary Lecture by Clíona Ní Ríordáin |
18h Reception |
Tuesday 15 July
9h-10h30 Session A |
Panel A1: Trauma & Traces
Blake Anderson: ‘This is my city, this is my body’: Rewriting the Greeks in Northern Ireland Faye McDermott: ‘The Open Wound of Grief’: Conflict and Michael Longley’s Elegies Stuart Johnston: ‘Looking for Home’: Trauma and Intertextuality in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon |
Panel A2: Early Modern Ireland
Patricia Palmer: Mutilation and Meditation in the Irish Tradition: The Case of Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh Deana Rankin: Voicing Amazons: England and Ireland, 1640 Sarah McKibben: Violence and Representation in Sixteenth-Century Ireland |
Panel A3: Staging Revolution
Yuh-Jhung Hwang: Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars: Sick Bodies and the Death-Ridden Images Ruud van den Beuken: ‘Ten thousand years look down on you, ten thousand more are waiting expectantly’: Memory, Warfare, and Irishness in David Sears’s Juggernaut (1928) Wei H. Kao: James Connolly on Stage: History, Imagination and Interpretations |
Panel A4: Visual Arts
Christelle Serée-Chaussinand: ‘Embodying in Paint’: Series by Louis le Brocquy Noélia Borges: Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters (2002) Valérie Morrisson: Contemproary Performance Art by Helena Walsh: The Female Body at War |
Panel A5: Round table on The Body in Pain in Irish Culture
Fionnula Dillane Margaret Kelleher Emilie Pine |
Coffee break |
11h-12h30 Session B |
Panel B1: Colm Tóibín
Kate Costello-Sullivan: Wilful Testament: Challenging Dominant Narratives in The Testament of Mary Marisol Morales- Ladrón: Embodying the Mother, Disembodying the Icon: Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary and the Shaping of Consciousness Mary Helen Thuente: Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary: The Earthly Embodiment of an Icon |
Panel B2 : Contemporary Theatre
Nelson Barre: ‘All that’s left is ta start over’: (Dis)Embodying Memories in Enda Walsh’s bedbound Graham Wolfe: Embodies and Disembodied Spectrality in Conor McPherson’s The Veil José Lanters: Body and Mind : Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre |
Panel B3 : Prison Narratives
George Legg: Embodying Internment: Data and Control during the Northern Irish Troubles Stephen John Dilks: Bobby Sands: The Body as a Site of Resistance Fiona McCann: Embodying Resistance: Bobby Sands’ Poetry |
Panel B4 : Gender
Lisa Weihman: Historiographies of the Real: Reading the Rising through the Lens of Women’s Historical Fiction Michael G Cronin: Revolutionary Love: The Homoerotic Body in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy (1958) Sarah O’Connor: Bodies, Clothing and Performance in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin |
Panel B5 : Remembering WW1 (1)
Stewart Donovan : A Comparative Irish/Canadian Poetry Paper on Memory, Identity and Progress in Seamus Heaney’s ‘In Memorian Francis Ledwidge’ and Alden Nowlan’s ‘Ypres: 1915’ Trevor Sawler: An Introduction to the Irish Section of the Modernist Web Richard McGuire: Michael Farrell’s Thy Tears Might Cease (1963) and the Great War |
Lunch |
14h-15h Plenary lecture by Lisa Fitzpatrick |
15h-17h Session C |
Panel C1 : Embodied Waters : Ireland & Modernism
Nicholas Allen: Modernism and the Archipelago Rob Doggett: Drowned Male Bodies and Markers of Belated National Identity in Synge’s Riders to the Sea Nels Pearson: Strange Boat: The Kingstown/Holyhead Ferry and the Ambiguous Coasts of Irish Modernism |
Panel C2: Joyce (1)
Emily Orlando: ‘He Wishes his Beloved were Dead’: Pre-Raphaelite Musings in Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Nadia Khallaf: An Eco-Cultural Reading of ‘The Dead’ in James Joyce’s Dubliners Matthew Gibson: Motion and Rest: The Role of Walter Pater in Framing the Aesthetics of Stephen Dedalus Diarmuid Curraoin: Finnegan’s Wake and Irish Participation in European Conflicts |
Panel C3: The Irish New Woman
Tina O’Toole: ‘Leaky Bodies’: Bioethics and Shame in George Egerton’s Fiction Stephanie Eggermont: Opposites Might not Attract: Married Femininity in the Short Fiction of George Egerton and Ella D’Arcy Maggie O’Neill: Modern ‘but not eccentric’: Elisabeth Bowen’s The Last September Cliona Ó’Gallchoir: Women, Language and Desire in Grania |
Panel C4: Shapeshifting in Bodies and Language
Michael Markey: Embodying Attitudes towards the Irish Language in Education Audrey Robitaillé: ‘Citizen of his own imagined elsewhere’: Colum McCann’s Stolen Children and the Changeling Tradition Chantal Dessaint-Payard: ‘No milk, no ink: what body to write oneself from?’ Giovanna Tallone: Shapeshifting: Reading Textual Bodies in the Fiction of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne |
Panel C5: Bodies on Stage
Finian O’Gorman: The Amateur Strikes Back: John B. Keane’s Sive (1959) and the Amateur Drama Movement in Ireland Mary Massoud: In the Wake of the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs: Beckett’s ‘Inhuman Play’ Nicolas Collins: ‘Strange pain, strange sin’: The Body and its Economy in Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien, William Shakespeare |
Coffee break |
17h30-18h30 Readings by Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan |
Wednesday 16th July
9h-11h Session D |
Panel D1: Man in the Cloak: The Embodiments of James Clarence Mangan
Sinead Sturgeon: Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds Matthew Campbell: Mangan in England David Wheatley: ‘Fully Able/To Write in Any Language – I’m a Babel’: James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator |
Panel D2: Disability
Francesca Benatti: A Mere Wreck in Body and Mind: Searching for Signs of Mental Decline in Thomas More’s Late Writings Siobhan Purcell: Disability, Life Writing and the Irish Biographical Form Erika Meyers: Disembodying the Nation: Physical Impairment as a Symbol of Alienation from the Reconstruction of Irish National Identity Vivian Valvano Lynch: ‘The tired smell of a body that is not yet sure of itself’: Evie in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz |
Panel D3: Gender and the North
Taura S. Napier: Monstrous Geishas: Contemporary Autobiography in Northern Ireland and the American South Anne Duflos: Transgressing Borders in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto Fiona Coffey: Sexuality and the Gendered Body in Post-Agreement Belfast: Perve, Lagan and The Drama of Stacey Gregg Mercedes del Campo del Pozo: Gender and Political Violence: Reinterpreting Cultural Constructions of Paramilitary Femininity and Masculinity in Women Writers’ Troubles Short Fiction |
Panel D4: Intercultural Exchanges
Thomas Korthals: Dentists, Myths and Laundry Vans: Surprise Encounters with the German Past in Heinrich Böll’s Irish Journal Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação: Paul Muldoon: Brazil and the Discovery of a New Body of Language Paula Pratt: Lost (and Gained) in Translation: Exploring and Creating a New Metaphor for the Translation Process Stephanie Schwerter: Embodying/Disembodying Northern Ireland: Troubles Fiction in Translation |
Panel D5: Irish-English Exchanges
Jim Shanahan: Embodying Ireland: Thackeray and the Irish Soldier Figure in Fiction Yvonne Siddle: The Female Body in Anthony Trollope’s Irish Fiction Laura Lainvae: Utterly Unstuck in Between: Scene and Identity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction Heather Levy: ‘Making Each Other’s hearts Beat Violently’: Disembodying Ireland/Embodying England |
Coffee Break |
11h30-12h30 Plenary lecture by Carle Bonafous-Murat |
Organised visits to the Piscine de Roubaix (museum), the Palais des Beaux-Arts and the ‘Vieux Lille’ in the afternoon |
Thursday 17th July
9h-11h Session E |
Panel E1 : The Theatricalities of Irish Cruelties
James Moran: Time to call PETA?: D.H. Lawrence, Cruelty and Ireland David Lloyd: The Human Thing: Beckett’s Late Plays Alexandra Poulain: The Poet’s Passion : about W.B. Yeats’s The King’s Threshold, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and David Lloyd’s The Press Victor Merriman: |
Panel E2 : Gothic and Fantastic
Tina Morin: ‘Quite unacquainted with the place’: The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley, Ireland and the Irish Gothic Julie-Ann Robson: Violence and Betrayal in Irish Gothic Marie Perrier: Lord Dunsany: The Irishman against the Tide Gaïd Girard: Saturating Words and Haunting Bodies in Eoin McNamee’s Blue Trilogy |
Panel E3: Sebastian Barry
Constanza del Río: Sebastian Barry’s Novels: Revisionist or Subaltern (Hi)stories Tom Saunders: Speaking to Shadows: Marginalised Irish Narratives of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the Work of Sebastian Barry Elisa Abrantes: Barry’s Versions of Irish History in A Long, Long Way |
Panel E4: Joyce (2- Ulysses)
Mark McGahon: ‘Glorious, pious and immortal memory’: Anticipatory Intimations of Lyotard’s Différend in the ‘Nestor’ Episode of Ulysses Katharina Walter: The Gastropoetics of James Joyce’s Ulysses and its German Translations Dieter Fuchs: ‘Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy’: James Joyce’s Ulysses, the Iliad and the Great War Adam Putz: Supply Chains: Labour, Poverty and the Nonhuman Animal of Joyce’s Ulysses |
Panel E5:Friel & Carr
Martine Pelletier: The Cripple of Inishkeen: Staging the Body in Brian Friel’s The Gentle Island Maurice Fitzpatrick: The Dramatist’s Function and Method: Brian Friel’s Historical Plays Rania Khalil: Lieux de Mémoire in Brian Friel’s Translations and Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats |
Coffee Break |
11h30-12h30 Plenary lecture by Lucy McDiarmid |
Lunch |
14h-16h Session F |
Panel F1: Remembering WW1 (2)
Patrick Bixby: A ‘philosophy of evil’: The Great War, the Irish Press and the Nietzsche Debate Heather L. Roberts: Erin in Flux: The Great War Memorials at Bangor and Bray Thomas O’Grady: The Things He Carried: An Irish Private in the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment |
Panel F2: Yeats
Youngmin Kim: What Happened Before/During/After WW1 for Yeats? Lynn Cohen: Intertextuality in Yeats’ ‘The Gyres’ and A Vision Stephen O’Neill: ‘Robinson Crusoe in this dreadful London’: Reappraising Yeats’s John Sherman Andrew Fitzsimons: Yeats and Delight |
Panel F3: Heaney and Longley
Elisabeth Delattre: The Great War and All That in Michael Longley’s A Hundred Doors Tetsuya Suzuki: Memory of Absence, Absence of Memory Elena Cotta Ramusino: The Bodies of the Past: Seamus Heaney’s ‘In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge’ Meg Harper: Anti-Alchemical Heaney |
Panel F4: Modern Theatre
Helen Storey: J.M. Synge and the Agrarian Violence of the Whiteboy Movement (1750-1780) Virginie Girel-Pietka: Renewing Cuchulain as a National Icon Tom Walker: Denis Johnston’s European War and the Emergency Mikyung Park: A Token of Triumph? Against Fetishistic Nostalgia for Male Myth in Teresa Deevy’s One Act Plays, In Search of Valour (1931) and The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935) |
Panel F5: The Contemporary Novel
Rionnaigh Sheridan: The Corps of the Matter: Bodies of Law in Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing Mehdi Ghassemi: The Fragmented and Devitalized Body in John Banville’s Eclipse, Shroud and Ancient Light Neil Murphy: Literature as Art: John Banville’s The Sea and Pierre Bonnard Gerry Smyth: The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in the Modern Irish Novel |
Coffee Break |
16h30-17h30 Colin Teevan |
21h Concert: Lame Squid |
Friday 18th July
9h-11h Session G |
Panel G1 : Sinéad Morrissey
Sien Detour : Seeing Through a Haze of Words : Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Sinéad Morrissey Hedwig Schwall: Towards a Metaphysics of Seeing in Sinéad Morrissey Rui Carvalho Homen: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘cobwebs, whitewash’: Enabling and Disabling Visuality in Sinéad Morrissey Naoko Toraiwa: Parallax and Body |
Panel G2: Masculinities
Mariana Bolfarine: The Embodiment of Memory and Trauma: The Spectral Presence of Roger Casement in Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin and At Swim, Two Boys Juan Ignacio Oliva: ‘Dysfunctional Bodies’: Revolving Around the 1916 Easter Rising in Darran McCann’s After the Lockout and Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys Claire Nally: Irish Neo-Victorianism: Embodying Anxious Masculinity in Colm Tóibín’s The Master Claire Lynch: Who’s for the Game? Irish Boyhood and Virtual Battlefields |
Panel G3: Displacing Beckett and Beckett Displacing
Tony Murray: ‘Asylum after a point is better than exile’: Physical and Mental Displacement in Beckett’s Murphy David McKinney: Detecting Descartes: Echoes of Beckett’s Murphy in Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn and Child James Little: ‘Who, what, where, by what means, why, in what way, when’: Watt’s Poetics of Missing Parts Werner Huber: Sam Beckett and the Produsers [sic.]: Pop Cultural Variations on the Body |
Panel G4: Famine Narratives
Marguérite Corporaal: ‘A heap of rags and old bones’: Narrative Spectacles of Starvation in Early Famine Fiction Flore Coulouma: Body of Proof: Re-Membering the Famine in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea Anne-Lise Perotto: Something Rotten in the State of Ireland: Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor (2002) and Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin (1820) Melissa Fegan: Disembodied Ireland: Famine Remains in a Modern Landscape |
Coffee Break |
11h30-13h Session H |
Panel H1: The Great War in Poetry and Fiction
Catherine Thewissen: The Lights Go Out: A Study of 1914 in Irish Wartime Home Front Ulster Fiction Laua P.Z. Izarra: Mind Wars Within Irish Wars Within the Great Wars Ciaran O’Neill: Remembering Conflict Beyond Ireland? The Irish Poet as War Correspondent |
Panel H2: Trauma
Niamh Campbell: A Child is Being Beaten: the Politics of Prostration in Representations of Child Abuse Anne Goarzin: ‘This is my story’: What Bodies Say in the Aftermath Project |
Panel H3: Irish Drama Outside Ireland
Peter Kuch: Embodied Emotion and The Hibernian Father Raquel Merino: Staging Sean O’Casey in Spain (1955-1973): A Struggle on Censored Stages Ondřej Pilný: Notes on Irish Drama in Europe: Brendan Behan’s The Hostage |
Panel H4: Disappearing Bodies on the Stage
Elodie Degroisse: Regenerative Disembodiment in Oscar Wilde’s and Samuel Beckett’s works Michael McAteer: Botched Bodies and Missing Limbs: Sean O’Casey and Samuel Beckett Lisa Fitzgerald: ‘Saying is inventing’: The Disappearing Body in Beckett’s All That Fall |
Panel H5: Staging WW1
Anne Cormican: Bodies at War: Gender in Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie and William Orpen’s War Paintings Michael Pierse: Disaffection, Revisionism and Class in Irish Writing of the First World War Dagmara Krzyżaniak: Dramatic Approaches to the Collective Trauma of the First World War in G.B. Shaw’s O’Flaherty V.C., Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie and Frank McGuinness’s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme |
Lunch and Play: Gerry Smyth presents The Brother, based on the works of Flann O’Brien |
14h30 Plenary Lecture by Declan Kiberd |
16h IASIL AGM |
19h Banquet |
19-20 July: Post-conference tour, Lille – the Somme – Paris