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IASIL 2011 18-22 July 2011 |
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The 35th
annual conference of the International Association for the
Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) is coming to The programme for
the 2011 IASIL Conference may be viewed here http://www.irishstudies.kuleuven.be/ Second Call for Papers Irish Literatures: Conflict and
Resolution IASIL conference 18-22 July
2011 Extension of deadline to St
Patrick’s Day Proposals for papers are invited
for the 35th annual conference of the International Association of Irish
Literatures (IASIL) to be held at Conflict and resolution occupy a central place in
the Irish literary imagination. Indeed, conflicting or conflicted identities can be found in most literary texts, whether on the level
of the family and the individual or on a national and global scale. The
conflicts may be of a cultural, religious, political or psychological kind
and the resolution can be peaceful or violent, instant or delayed. Yet
conflict and resolution also play a role in the style and structure of
literary texts or in the dynamics of literary history, think of the tensions
between poetics or the struggle between tradition and the avant-garde.
Conflict is vital in that perspective and resolution produces the original
and the great. This conference seeks to address the role of
conflict and resolution in Irish literatures from a variety of different
perspectives. It will consider such topics as - divided loyalties and conflicting identities in
literary texts - identity and conflict/resolution - conflict and resolution in poetics and literary
tradition - conflict and resolution as an element of plot and
rhetoric - relation between thematic and formal elements of
conflict and resolution - transgenerational
conflict - conflict and memory - crime and punishment - ritual dimensions of conflict and resolution - conflict and resolution between genders - the literary response to political conflicts and
resolutions throughout Irish history - the role of literary texts in political conflicts
and resolutions Papers should be no longer than 20 mins. The organizers also particularly welcome proposals
for panels of 3 or 4 papers. Please send a proposal of ca 200 words per paper
with a short biographic presentation to hedwig.schwall@arts.kuleuven.be
before 17 March 2011. Please don’t forget that only paid-up members are eligible
to give a paper. You can join IASIL
here. Confirmed plenary speakers are -Marianne Elliott, Director of the -Margaret Harper, Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English,
-Eamonn Hughes, Assistant Director of the Institute
of Irish Studies and Senior Lecturer, School of English, Queen's University
Belfast -Pádraig Ó Macháin, Director of the Irish Manuscript Digitisation Project Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for
Advanced Studies -Mary O’Malley will read from her poetry. More information (programme,
accommodation etc) will be provided soon on http://www.irishstudies.kuleuven.be/;
the website will be updated regularly.
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About IASIL
Conferences |
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IASIL conferences are
private meetings of members of the Association. They are not
intended to be open to the public or to non-members of the
Association, though occasional arrangements may be made to facilitate such
access, on an ad hoc basis,
and subject to the approval of the Association and/or the individual
conference organiser(s). Conditions
of access for non-members will vary from year to year; the conditions in
force for one conference should not be seen as a
precedent for future years' conferences. All conference
organisers reserve the right to deny access to the conference to non-members,
or to cancel non-members' registration requests, without explanation. The
conferences are not held to provide opportunities
for individuals or organisations to promote activities not directly related
to the Association's activities (i.e. official Association business and the
delivery of academic papers). Activities not included within the remit of IASIL conferences include but are not limited to the
following examples: publishing, student recruitment, and the promotion of
academic programmes. IASIL conferences are not held for
the purposes of conducting business on matters not directly relating to the
Association's activities, such as job interviews, bookselling, or discussion
of publication opportunities. No delegate should form the expectation of
entitlement to conduct any such business. Organisation
of IASIL conferences is the responsibility of local
organisers, working in conjunction with the Association's Executive.
Arrangements for conferences may therefore change from year to year; no
arrangement in place for one year's conference should be
seen as a precedent for the organisation of future years' conferences.
Priority of
access to the conference will always be given to IASIL members in good standing. Non-members
may be admitted from time-to-time, but as IASIL is a private organisation, conference organisers
and the Association retain the right to refuse access to conferences to
non-members, without explanation. |
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