XII Symposium of Irish Studies in South America: Call for Papers

Call for papers
“Cultural dialogues between Chile and Ireland”
22 and 23 August 2018
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Campus San Joaquín) and Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (USACH)
Deadline: 15 May 2018

Joint Symposium of Irish Studies in South America

“Cultural Dialogues between Chile and Ireland”/
“Diálogos culturales entre Chile e Irlanda”

22 & 23 August 2018

Check the call for papers here

ABEI-Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses- XIII Symposium of Irish Studies in 
South America
AEIS-Asociación de Estudios Irlandeses del Sur:  I Symposium of Irish Studies 
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Notre Dame University- Santiago Global Center/Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Embassy of Ireland

In the context of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Chilean independence signed by Bernardo O´Higgins in 1818, the opportunity for an Irish Studies Symposium in Chile emerges. There has been a growing interest on Irish studies in several Latin American countries, including Chile, and a parallel growing interest of the Irish Government in Latin America.  The focus of the event will be on discussing the historical and contemporary connections between Chile, Ireland and other South American countries.
This Symposium is a pre-conference event of the International Conference of Irish Studies in Latin America which will be hosted in Santiago in December.

The symposium aims to gather a small group of researchers to discuss the main theme from different perspectives which will be expanded in the International Conference:

– Construction of a nation through its narratives
– Historical links of the Americas and Ireland
– The Literature of revolutions and independence
– Travel narratives, diaries, letters, photographs and other means/ways of narrating
independence
– Political and cultural relations between Ireland and nineteenth-century Latin America
– Economy and regional integration
– Reception of Irish literature
– Folklore and ethno music
– Mass media in the contemporary world
– Representations in theatre and other arts
– Translation: cultural and literary translations
– Irish migration studies
– Gender studies

Keynote Speakers (confirmed)
Laura Janina Hosiasson (USP)
Maria Yolanda Fernández Suárez (AEDEI)
Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, NY)

General Organization: Laura P. Z. Izarra (ABEI/USP); Maria Graciela Eliggi (AEIS/UNLPam); Cristián Opazo (UCCH); Felipe Cussen (USACH); Justin Harman (AEIS & former Ambassador of Ireland).

Local Organizers: Sebastián Shoennenbeck (UCCH); Cristián Opazo (Universidad Católica de Chile); Felipe Cussen (USACH); Lucia Eugenia Stecher Guzmán (UChile); Natalia Cisterna (UChile); Juan Esteban Montes (UND); Felipe Gómez (UND).
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Academic Committee: Paula Ortiz (Coordinator- AEIS/ Universidad del Salvador); Munira H. Mutran (ABEI/USP); Rosalie R. Haddad (ABEI); Mariana Bolfarine (ABEI/UFMT); Cristián Opazo (UCCH); Felipe Cussen (USACH).