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The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

IASIL Irish Studies Conferences News

Welcome to the IASIL Conferences and Summer Schools Page. This page lists conferences/summer schools that deal with Irish Literature, Theatre, and Film. Conferences with broader themes that pay substantial attention to Irish writing will also be listed from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm dates, deadlines, and so on with conference organisers.

JANUARY - MAY 2005

Tarragona, Spain
26-28 May 2005
Cork
6-8 May 2005
Galway
23 April 2005
Notre Dame
13-17 April 2005
St Patrick's College Drumcondra
8-9 April 2005
Queens, Belfast
8-10 April 2005
Cambridge UK
7-9 April 2005
Aberdeen
1-3 April 2005
University College Cork
18-20 March 2005
Kells, Co Meath
18-19 March 2005
University College Dublin
18-20 March 2005
Vancouver, Canada
14-16 March 2005
Trinity College Dublin
11-13 March
Limerick
11-12 March
Chicago
5 March
New York
4-6 March
Houston, TX
24-27 February, 2005
Limerick
February 2004
Bristol, UK
15-16 January , 2005

 

Irish Studies Conferences, June - December 2005

Irish Studies Conference News Index

2004 Conferences are listed HERE

This page lists conferences on Irish literature, Irish drama and theatre studies, and Irish film. If you think a conference should be listed here, please tell us.

 Detailed Listings

 

The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI)
V International Conference Re-writing Boundaries Tarragona, Spain
26 – 28 May 2005
Deadline for Proposals: 10 February 2005
Contact: Cristina Andreu or Lenke Kovacs: aedei2005@urv.net T-CLAA Research Group
http://fage.es/AEDEI_2005

The theme of the 2005 AEDEI Conference is “Re-writing Boundaries”. Organisers welcome papers on a broad range of topics evoking issues raised by the concept of "borders", the often fuzzy boundary conditions that permeate all areas of Irish studies. Papers may focus upon colonialism, travelling theory, travel and imperialism, geography, topographies, cartographies, the economies and contours of desire, theoretical transitions, the borders between science and literature, genres, sexual transgressiveness, intersections of race and geography, xenophobia and the social sciences, the cultural polemics of literature and identity narratives.

Paper Proposals: (300 - 500 words) due by 10 February 2005. Although the language of the conference will be English, papers in Spanish will also be accepted. Acceptance of the papers will be notified by 4 March 2005. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (2,500-3,000 words: 20 minutes’ delivery). A selection of the conference papers will be considered for publication. Please, send two hard copies of your contribution and a diskette (Word or RTF) document to the address below. Only papers that have been submitted before the conference (electronically) will be considered for publication.

The Spanish Association for Irish Studies has pleasure in announcing that the web site for the 5th International Conference "RE-WRITING BOUNDARIES",Tarragona 26 - 28 May 2005 can now be visited at:http://fage.es/AEDEI_2005

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The Literary Englishes of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy Committee forIrish Literatures in English Colloquium
6 May 2005
Deadline for Proposals:28 February (500 words)
Contact:Patricia.lynch@ul.ie
http://www.ria.ie

The linguistic and the socio-political aspects of the English dialects of Ireland have received considerable attention over recent years. Less attention, however, has been paid to the way in which the use of these dialects enriches contemporary Irish writing in English, on the island of Ireland. This one-day colloquium will attempt to add to the existing literary studies in filling this gap.

Papers are invited on the literary roles and functions of the following in Irish writing in English, including Hiberno-English/Irish-English, and New Englishes of Ireland, for example Englishes of emerging migrant groups and Traveller English, and Ulster-Scots.

Proposals are invited for twenty minute papers. Publication of a selection of these papers may be considered. This list should not be considered restrictively exhaustive.

Colloquium Committee: Dr. Patricia A. Lynch (University of Limerick) & Prof. Michael Cronin (Dublin City University) in conjunction with: Prof. Terence Brown (Chair, RIA Committee of Irish Literatures in English) and Dr Eibhear Walshe (Secretary, RIA Committee of Irish Literature s in English)

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Money and Culture, XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2005
An Scoil Teanga agus Litriochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, University College Cork
6-8 May 2005
Deadline for Abstracts: January 2005

This conference is being organised by Dr Fiona Cox, (Dept. of French, UCC) and Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, (Dept. of German, UCC). From the call for papers: "Money rules the world. It is ubiquitous and it is on our minds as often as sex and food. Money has shaped cultures from the birth of civilisation on. For some a necessary evil, for others a god, it creates power structures and underpins all areas of creativity. However, this has been surprisingly unacknowledged in literary and cultural studies. The aim of this conference is to study diverse aspects of money as a cultural phenomenon. We invite colleagues working in all academic disciplines to submit proposals focusing on the following areas (which are not intended to be exclusive)

1. Representations of money: money in literature, art, film, music, opera, folklore, and myth. This section could include studies on money-related motifs and figures (gifts, treasures, debt, heart of stone, Midas, Judas, the miser, the spendthrift, the usurer, the merchant, the gambler, the pawnbroker, the criminal etc), and on the iconography of money.

2. Money and Language: the vocabulary of money, including sayings, idioms, metaphors

3. Discourses on money: in literature, philosophy, sociology, economics, theology, law, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics.

4. The Cultural history of money: forms of money from the origins of the first legal tender to cybercash, money as a medium, cultural practices, customs, habits, rites, superstitions, money and gender, money and power, money and institutions (banks, stock exchanges).

5. European dimensions: the Euro, money and (national) identity, intercultural comparisons, money and politics, money in European history.

It is expected that selected papers from the conference will be published Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:

Dr. Fiona Cox, Department of French, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Email: FCox@french.ucc.ie; or

Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Department of German, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Email: h.schmidthannisa@ucc.ie

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Edna O'Brien: A Reappraisal
Department of English, Women's Studies Centre, and Irish Studies Centre, NUI Galway
23 April 2005
Deadline for Proposals:17 December 2004

Proposals are invited for a one-day conference which aims to elicit new readings of Edna O’Brien’s work. In the wake of existing criticism which has tended to regard O’Brien primarily in the light of feminist, Irish nationalist and religious discourses, we seek papers that reconsider Edna O'Brien's place in the canon, her work's participation in literary traditions, its interactions with contemporary fiction, its response to and presence in the work of other writers.

Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

• Edna O’Brien’s reception in Ireland/Europe/ the USA
• Edna O'Brien as playwright/ screenwriter/memoirist/short story writer/’faction’ writer
• The English Edna O’Brien
• O’Brien as ‘literary’ or ‘popular’ fiction writer.
• O'Brien and the canon
• Comparative studies of O'Brien and other writers
• O'Brien as literary influence
• O’Brien and social change
• Post-colonial O’Brien
• O’Brien in translation/in an international context

Plenary speakers
• Professor Patricia Coughlan, Department of English, University College Cork.
• Dr Rebecca Pelan, Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies, NUI Galway.

Selected proceedings will be considered for publication.

A new collection of essays, Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien, edited by Maureen O’Connor and Lisa Colletta (University of Wisconsin Press) will be launched at the conference.

Please send 500-word proposals for 20-minute papers to Dr Sinéad Mooney (sinead.mooney@nuigalway.ie), Dr. Kathryn Laing (kslaing@indigo.ie ) and Dr Maureen O’Connor (maureen.oconnor@nuigalway.ie), Department of English, NUI Galway, by Friday 17th December, 2004.

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Ireland Beyond Borders American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General Meeting
13-17 April, 2005
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Deadline for Proposals:15 October 2004
Conference Website
Contact:Susan Harris at sharris2@nd.edu or Sarah McKibben at smckibbe@nd.edu.


"Ireland Beyond Borders" hopes to explore new conceptions of Ireland, Irishness, and Irish Studies that challenge the boundaries that politics, the academy, and culture have set for them. The theme is intentionally open-ended. Topics might include, for example, globalization, partition, the Internet age, gender and sexuality, critical race theory, popular culture, music, dance, the visual arts, contemporary literature, the Irish language, or Irish studies as an academic discipline; however, that list is not intended to be prescriptive or exclusive. We encourage submissions that reach across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and submissions on topics outside the areas of history and literary criticism. The deadline for submitting proposals is October 15, 2004. Participants must be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Visit www.acisweb.com to become a member.

We will mark the 25th anniversary of the Field Day Theater Company with appearances by founding members Seamus Deane and Stephen Rea. Other featured speakers include Nuala O'Faolain, Angela Bourke, Tom Kilroy, Joep Leerssen, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, David Roediger and James R. Barrett, and Katie Trumpener. There will also be performances by Irish dancer Jean Butler and musical group Altán. Margaret Corcoran's show An Enquiry will be on display in the Snite Museum of Art and the Special Collections department of the Hesburgh Library will mount an exhibit highlighting the recently-acquired Loeber Collection of Irish Fiction. An Irish film series will run at the Performing Arts Center throughout the conference.

We encourage participants to submit panel proposals. We will give equal consideration to individual proposals. However, we have found that panels organized by the participants are often more coherent and generate better discussions than those put together by the conference organizers. We recommend three participants per panel. We will be happy to accept proposals written in Irish.

Panel Proposals: Submit one 250-word abstract from each participant along with a cover letter giving the title and a brief description of the panel.

Individual Proposals: Submit one 250-word abstract, including a title, your contact information, and a brief description of the paper.

Electronic Submission: Email proposals to acis2005@nd.edu.

Surface Mail: Send proposals to:
ACIS 2005
Keough Institute for Irish Studies
422 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

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Intellectuals and Ideology in Twentieth-Century Ireland
St Patrick's College Drumcondra
8 - 9 April 2005
Contact Dr Peter Martin, Humanties Institute of Ireland Fellow, History Department, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Contact by Email.
Website - http://www.spd.dcu.ie/depts/history/Pages/Conference.htm

St Patrick's College Drumcondra will host a conference on ideology in twentieth century Ireland this April. Papers on a range of issues - including Unionism, catholicism, economic policy, and socialism. Also included are papers on such writers as Mairtin O Cadhain. Full details including a timetable are posted to the conference website.

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Betwixt and Between - Place and Cultural Translation
An interdisciplinary conference at Queen’s University Belfast
8 - 10 April 2005
Deadline for Proposals: 30 January 2005
Contact: Dr Stephen Kelly

Plenary speakers include:

Peter Bush, Ciaran Carson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Michael Cronin, David Johnston

Since the early Nineties, cultural translation has become a central concern of interdisciplinary scholarship in the Humanities. Indeed, it has often been seen as a characteristic form of interdisciplinary practice, with anthropologists, creative writers and dramatists, and literary and cultural historians assessing the role of translation in, among other subjects, practices of intercultural exchange, the rhetoric of state formation and political conflict and the elaboration of local, national and international identities.

‘Betwixt and Between’: place and cultural translation hopes to extend these discussions with a specific focus on locality, place and space. What – and where – are the spaces opened up by cultural translation? To what extent does translation define a space within which hybridized cultural practices might develop? Do specific places contribute to the possibility, or otherwise, of cultural translation? Can translation offer a locale for the elaboration of new artistic, cultural and political forms? In an historical moment when cultural understanding is at a premium, might the spaces of translation offer locations for political, ethical and methodological self-reflection, in the Academy and further a field?

The conference will be organised around the following themes: The Cultural Engagements of Translation; Translation: a Liminal Space?; Mapping Translation; The Translator’s Identity; Performing Translation; Acts of Translation.

Proposals with interests in a wide range of cultural and historical situations are welcomed. Proceedings will be published as a collection which reflects the conference themes, to be edited by Ciaran Carson, David Johnston, Stephen Kelly and John Thompson.

Proposals of 500 words should be submitted by January 30th 2005 to Dr Stephen Kelly
Place and Cultural Translation conference School of English Queen’s University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland

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"Ireland in the Renaissance"
Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference
Cambridge, England,
7-9 April 2005
Deadline for abstracts: May 15.

From the Call for Papers
“Look through any index of comprehensive studies of early modern Europe: despite its strategic location between Great Britain, the Continent and the New World, and despite its long history of invasions, influence, and trade, early modern Ireland continues to be neglected as an object of serious multidisciplinary study. Yet great politicians such as the earls of Ormond, great theologians such as Archbishop James Ussher and great "renaissance men" such as the epic poet and political strategist Edmund Spenser did not operate in a vacuum of ideas and controversy.

This panel seeks to further explore this world and to better situate Ireland within the paradigm of early modern intellectual and political developments in Europe. Papers are therefore invited on all subjects but especially the following:

--Art and/or Architectural History --Literature (non-Spenserian)
--Archaeology --Political Theory
--Settlement and Trade (including colonial studies)
--Historiography --Spanish and/or French Relations
--The legacy of the Italian "renaissance"
--The Renaissance Prince and/or Governor
--Relations with the Netherlands --Humanism and Humanist Education
--Irish literature --Mythology --Military/Naval History
--Reformation/Counter-Reformation Theology
--Scottish and/or Welsh Relations
--Gender Studies --Urban Studies --Race/Ethnic Studies

Willing panel participants will be strongly considered for inclusion in a collection of essays on the same subject, forthcoming from Four Courts Press (Dublin) and co-edited by Michael Potterton (archaeologist/historian) and Thomas Herron (literary studies).

Queries welcome. Please send all abstracts (firm limit 150 words, preferably by e-mail) by May 15, to either

1) Thomas Herron 2) Michael Potterton
Visiting Assistant Professor Discovery Programme
Department of English, Box 43 34 Fitzwilliam Place
Hampden-Sydney College Dublin 2
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 Ireland
USA
e-mail: therron@hsc.edu Michael@discoveryprogramme.ie

Hannibal Hamlin
Assistant Professor of English
The Ohio State University
1680 University Drive
Mansfield, OH 44906
419-755-4277
hamlin.22@osu.edu

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Crosscurrents: Irish and Scottish Studies Postgraduate Conference
1-3 April 2005
University of Aberdeen
Contact: Shane Alcobia-Murphy at the School of Language and Literature, King's College, University of Aberdeen, AB24 2UB, Scotland.

The 4th Crosscurrents conference for postgraduate students and doctoral fellows takes place at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen from 1-3 April, 2005.

The disciplines covered in this conference are Literature, History, Film Studies and the Visual Arts, and Celtic Studies. 25-minute papers and panels are welcome on a range of topics, including:

Identities - Migrations - Filmic Constructions of the Nation - Space, Place and Power - The Literatures of Ireland and Scotland -
Irish and Scottish Empires - Irish/Scottish Studies in the New Millennium - Ireland/Scotland in Theory - Reinventing Histories

Proceedings of the first two conferences are available from Cl Ollscoil na Banrona (Queen's University Press). The proceedings for the third conference will be launched at this year's conference.

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George Moore: Literature and the Arts
University College Cork
18-20 March 2004
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2004
Contact: georgemooreconference@ucc.ie, m.pierse@ucc.ie

The conference proposes to consider the writings of George Moore and to elicit fresh perspectives on their literary form and context, their social comment, their artistic connections and their engagement with history. Papers from academics, from graduates and from postgraduate students will be welcomed. Proposals may focus on any of Moore's texts from the 1880s to the 1930s and the following areas are merely suggestions:

- Moore the thoroughly English writer (Esther Waters, A Mummer's Wife).
- Moore and symbolism, naturalism, modernism
- Moore's inheritance from French literature
- Moore and the short story
- Literary or dramatic interaction between CM and Hardy, Joyce, Yeats, O Conaire, Austin Clarke, Henry James.
- Moore and art criticism
- Moore and Big House literature
- Pagan Moore/Religious Moore/Philosopher Moore
- Moore and the New Woman, Moore on Gender
- Moore and social conscience
- Moore as playwright (with Pearl Craigie, Edward Martyn, Yeats and others)
- Moore, Irish revivalist (An tUr-Ghort)

Confirmed speakers include: Dr Adrian Frazier and Professor Munira Mutran.

Abstracts will be accepted from 30 August 2004.

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Social Thought and the Irish Question in the Nineteenth Century,
Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath:
18-19 March 2005.

The conference will address in comparative perspective the way in which Ireland was analysed by selected major nineteenth-century thinkers from outside the island; included will be the two themes of Celticism and Race. Thinkers and topics are: Why Ireland Mattered (David Fitzpatrick); Alexis de Tocqueville (Tom Garvin); John Stuart Mill (Graham Finlay); Sir Henry Maine (Séamas Ó Síocháin); Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Chandana Mathur and Dermot Dix); James Anthony Froude (Ciaran Brady); Race (Peter Bowler); Celticism (George Watson); Overview (Peter Gray). Headfort House has been placed on the 2004-2005 World Monuments Fund watchlist of 100 significan t architectural sites worldwide.

• For further details consult: www.may.ie/academic/anthropology/AAI
• Enquiries to: Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, E-mail: anthropology.office@may.ie

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DOUBLE VISION: LIMINAL IRISH IDENTITIES
University College Dublin
18-20 March, 2005
Deadline for Abstracts 30 November 2004
Contact: borbala.farago@ucd.ie or cmjcox @hotmail.com
website: http://www.ucd.ie/english/doublevision/index.htm

This interdisciplinary conference investigates the identity formation of marginal voices in Ireland. Focusing on the ‘double vision’ of immigrants and minority groups in their interaction with “mainstream” narratives, the conference engages with literary, historical, and social perspectives of displacement and integration.

Keynote address: Hugo Hamilton. Speakers include: Declan Kiberd, Mary E. Daly, Ronit Lentin.

Papers related to the theme of marginality within Ireland are invited, in particular those concerning issues of - Immigration (race, language, religion, memory, interculturalism, discrimination, assimilation); Social exclusion (class, poverty, health, age, disability, travelling community) - Gender discrimination (women, gays and lesbians)

‘Double Vision’ seeks to provide a forum for researchers in several disciplines, including literary studies, film and theatre studies, history, sociology, law, politics, and fine arts.

Abstracts of 200 words should reach the organise rs by 30 November 2004. Organisers: Borbála Faragó (borbala.farago@ucd.ie) University College Dublin ; School of English John Henry Newman Building Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Catherine Cox (cmjcox @hotmail.com) University College Dublin ; School of History John Henry Newman Building Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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GENRE AND IRISH CINEMA
An International Conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
14-16 March, 2005.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 November 2004
Contact: bmcilroy@interchange.ubc.ca
Website: www.film.ubc.ca

Professor Brian McIlroy and the UBC Film Studies Program are pleased to announce an international conference on Genre and Irish Cinema. This conference is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Confirmed main speakers so far include Kevin Rockett (Trinity College Dublin), Cheryl Herr (University of Iowa), Martin McLoone (University of Ulster). 20 minute paper proposals from faculty and graduate students dealing with all aspects of Genre and Irish Cinema are welcome. Suggested theoretical topics utilizing Irish and Irish-related cinema could include
- Genre and Ideology,
- Genre and Auteur,
- Genre and Consumption,
- Genre and Fandom/Spectatorship,
Genre and Economics,
Genre and Globalization,
Genre and hybridity;
or within Irish film criticism and history, an examination of specific genres—the crime film, romantic comedies, biopics, troubles films, diasporic films, reparation cinema, etc.

Discussion of emerging or neglected genres welcomed.

Please submit your 250 word abstract and a brief biography to Professor Brian McIlroy at bmcilroy@interchange.ubc.ca by November 15, 2004. It is expected that a selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited collection. More details of the conference will be posted on the UBC Film website: www.film.ubc.ca

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The First Ralahine Conference on Utopian Studies: "Exploring the Utopian Impulse"
The University of Limerick, College of Humanities,
11 and 12 March, 2005

Reality without real possibility is not complete, the world without future-laden properties does not deserve a glance.
-- Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope

The land sustaining us seemed to hold firm Only when we embraced it in extremis.
All I believed that happened there was vision.
-- Seamus Heaney, "The Disappearing Island"

Plenary Speakers: Luke Gibbons, Fredric Jameson

In the current global political climate, it has been argued that utopian anticipation of any sort is to be rejected as either useless dreaming or authoritarian control. However, given the understanding of the utopian impulse put forward by Ernst Bloch and others, these dark times of closure, privilege, and violence call out more than ever for Utopia's transformative energy as a necessary stimulus to needed cultural and political change.

The research agenda of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies is based on the premise that social policies and practices are ultimately shaped by utopian impulses in the cultures out of which they arise (however debated, conflicted, contested). These utopian impulses can be identified and studied in the social anticipations and visions articulated through a variety of texts (literary, legal, political, theological, musical, visual, etc.) and through social experience (religious and secular intentional communities, political movements, cultural practices). These expressions and experiences are best seen as modes of anticipatory production that generate a pedagogical sense of possibilities. Utopianism, consequently, is most usefully understood as a process of future-bearing social dreaming that informs efforts to make the world a better place, not to the letter of a plan but to the spirit of an open-ended process.

For this First Ralahine Conference, we invite proposals for papers - of 20 minutes in length - in all areas of utopian studies: literary, cultural, historical, sociological, political, theoretical, and philosophical. Papers on Irish dimensions in utopian studies will constitute one stream of the conference. Other streams can include utopian textualties; utopian communities; utopian links with other cultural formations (e.g., pastoralism or horror, musical or visual culture, architectural or urban design, etc.); utopianism and feminism, utopian dimensions of everyday life; utopian dimensions of cultural and political policies and practices (local and/or global; public, popular, or corporate spheres).

Fredric Jameson is William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. His works include The Political Unconscious (1981), and Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), and he has published extensively on utopianism.

Luke Gibbons is the Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at University of Notre Dame, and author of Transformations in Irish Culture (1997), and Edmund Burke and Ireland (2003).

Please send a proposal of 200-300 words to Michael Griffin, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland by February 1, 2005. Proposals can be e-mailed as an attachment to michael.j.griffin@ul.ie

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“National Theatres of Europe: Constructing National Identities”
11- 13 March 2005
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
http://www.tcd.ie/drama/

The Beckett Centre at TCD is hosting a symposium on National Theatres of Europe, which draws together leading scholars working in the fields of Irish Studies and Theatre Studies. The conference registration fee is €10 (€5 for students). All events take place at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. For further information, see the TCD School of Drama website

Tentative Schedule
Friday 11 March
16.15 - 17.00 - Tea (and registration) in the foyer of the Beckett Theatre 17.00-18.00 - Loren Kruger (U of Chicago) "Comparative essay"
18.00- 19.00 - Marvin Carlson (CUNY) "Comparative essay"
19.00-20.00 - reception in the foyer

Saturday 12 March
9.00 - 9.30 - coffee
9.30 - 11.00 - Eastern Europe: Julia Listengarten (Central Florida U) "Russian Imperial Theatres"; Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) "Moscow Art Theatre"; Krystyna Courtney-Kujawinska (U of Lodz) "Polish National Theatres"
11.00-11.30 - coffee
11.30 - 13.00 - Central and Southern Europe: Veronika Ambros (U of Toronto) "Prague National Theatre"; Barbara (Pusic) Susec-Michieli (U of Lubljana) "Balkan National Theatres"; Aliki Bacopoulou- Halls (U of Athens) "National Theatres of Greece"

13.00 - 14.30 – lunch break

14.30 - 16.00 - Northern Europe: Willmar Sauter (U of Stockholm) "Royal National Theatre of Sweden"; Pirkko Koski (U of Helsinki) "Finnish National Theatre"; Kirsten Shepard-Barr (U of Birmingham) "Norwegian National Theatre"

16.00-16.30 - tea

16.30- 18.00 - Western Europe: David Whitton (U of Lancaster) "Comedie Francaise/Theatre Nationale Populaire"; Frank Peeters (U of Antwerp) "Belgian National Theatre"; Friedemann Kreuder (Freie Universitat) "Mannheim National Theatre"

Sunday 13 March
9.00-9.30 - coffee
9.30- 10.30 - British Isles: Richard Cave (Royal Holloway, U London), "British National Theatre"; Donna Soto-Morettini (independent scholar) "Scottish National Theatre"; Ben Levitas (Goldsmith College, U London), "Irish National Theatre"
10. 30- 11.00 - coffee
11.00 - 13.00 – Janelle Reinert (U of California, Irvine) and Bruce McConachie (U of Pittsburgh) - response papes, followed by general discussion 1.00 – Steve Wilmer (TCD) – Concluding remarks


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The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies
University of Chicago
5 March, 2005
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2005
Papers due: Friday, February 18, 2005.
Submit to: Jenny Ludwig or Emily Brunner.

http://british.uchicago.edu.

In 1973, both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland officially entered the European Union. During the thirty years since, the face of Ireland and Irish identity have been drastically altered: Between 1970 and 1980, the population of the Republic rose from 3 million to 3.5 million; Between 1996 and 2000, 200,000 foreigners entered the country, half returning Irish emigrants and half other foreign nationals and asylum seekers. Since 1996, over a quarter of the 160,000 immigrants has come from countries outside of Europe and America. International scholarship tends to view Ireland as a mythic tourist spot, the locus of a nationalist struggle, or a forum for rethinking the changes wrought in the move from modernity to postmodernity; but new problems come with the social complexities of involvement in the world economy and a newly diverse citizenship, and Ireland's new face demands a long-overdue change in the scope of Irish Studies.

This conference examines the recent changes wrought by Ireland's rapid modernization and entrance into a world economy, as well as the neglected story of Irish internationalism throughout history, and the history of Irish diasporas. We want additionally to challenge the traditional limits of the discipline of Irish studies beyond the interest with nationhood and identity politics.

Our keynote speakers are Professor David Lloyd and Professor Harry White. David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment (Duke, 1993), Culture and the State (Routledge, 1993, with Paul Thomas) and Ireland after History (UNDP, 1999). Professor Lloyd will be speaking on nineteenth-century Ireland and the emergence of developmental theories of political economy political economy; Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin, is the author of The Keeper's Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork and UNDP, 1998) and the editor of Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture, 1800-1940, (Cork, 2001). Professor White will speak on a subject to be announced.

We welcome 200 word proposals for twenty-minute papers from graduate students from all disciplines that address questions of Irish internationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Specific panel topics will be determined according to the papers we receive. We welcome papers from all individual disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities as well as papers that are positioned interdisciplinarily.

Please submit a proposal for a twenty minute paper, a copy of your CV, and a cover letter that specifies your disciplinary and institutional affiliation(s)

This conference is being generously co-sponsored by: the Poetry and Poetics Program, the English Department, the Anthropology of Europe workshop, Ethnoise! Ethnomusicology workshop, the Mass Culture workshop, and the Social History workshop.

 

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Seventh Annual Grian Conference: Ireland and Race
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University
4-6 March , 2005
Deadline for abstracts December 1]
Contact: Ireland.grian@nyu.edu

Recent events in Ireland have highlighted the changing social demographics of Ireland. After centuries of sustained Irish emigration, Ireland finds itself in the position of receiving immigrants and their reception has not always been welcoming. The points of contact between the cultures of Ireland and those beyond its immediate archipelago have ranged from the exceedingly violent to the richly productive. Grian is accepting abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference that explores the relationship between Ireland and Race. While much work has been done debating Ireland's racial identities, we seek papers that confront the contact zone and internationalize notions of what it means to be Irish both in Ireland itself and the Irish globally. The conference will address this theme in a broad manner and we seek papers from diverse fields, such as history, literature, visual and performing arts, anthropology, economics, sociology, among other disciplines. Please send one page abstracts to Ireland.grian@nyu.edu by December 1. Select proceedings of the conference will be published in the journal Foilsiú.

 

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ACIS Southern Regional Conference 2005
Ireland: North, South, East and West
24-27 February 2005
University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas
Deadline for Proposals: 15 October 2004
Contact: irishstudies@stthom.edu
www.stthom.edu/irishstudies

The Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites proposals on any Irish Studies topic for this interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of St. Thomas in Houston. The conference theme of Ireland: North, South, East and West takes an expansive view of the impact of Ireland and the Irish, not only in Ireland, but around the world. One focus (but not the only focus) is on the open-ended dynamics of Irish regional differences and tensions, and how they shape Irish culture and identity, as well as their influences on the Old and New Worlds.

Irish Studies topics may be explored through the following nonexclusive list of contexts: literature, history, politics, language, linguistics, folklore and mythology, archaeology, anthropology, law, economics and trade, sociology, art and art history, music, dance, media and film study, cultural studies, Ireland’s role in the European Union and the World, the Irish experience around the world, emigration/immigration, and North-South tensions, resolutions and bridge-building.

Special highlights include a presentation by Prof. Liam Irwin of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick entitled “Too Horrible to Remember, Too Terrible to Forget: A Commemoration of the Famine,” an illustrated presentation of Irish Famine Memorials around the world. Dr. Elizabeth Cullingford of the University of Texas English Department also will be one of our plenary speakers.

Proposals should be 250 words for a 15 to 20 minute presentation and contain the speaker’s name and affiliation (university, college or other), the speaker’s email address, physical address, telephone number, fax number and the speaker’s status (professor; graduate student; other). Email the proposal as a Word attachment to irishstudies@stthom.edu with the following reference: 2005 ACIS Southern Regional Conference, or mail it to:

Lori Gallagher
Director, Center for Irish Studies
University of St. Thomas
3800 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 525-3592
(713) 525-3866 (fax)

Presenters must be ACIS members. Become a member at www.acisweb.com. You may also download a poster in Word Format for the conference, and a PDF brochure for the conference.

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New Voices 2005 - Ireland in Theory
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
February 2005
Abstract Deadline: 1 December 2004
Contact: paula.murphy@mic.ul.ie or catherine.mcglynn@mic.ul.ie

New Voices in Irish Criticism, Ireland's premier conference for postgraduate students in Irish Studies, will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in February 2005, in association with the MIC Irish Studies Centre. Abstracts of no more than 150 words are requested on the theme of this year's conference, "Ireland in Theory". This interdisciplinary conference invites papers on any aspect of Irish studies which incorporates a theoretical dimension. The growth of Irish studies in recent years has facilitated an engagement with contemporary postcolonial, feminist, post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory. This year’s conference will focus on these aspects of Irish literature, culture and history, calling on the forthcoming generation of Irish critics to expand on the established work in these areas at the juncture of critical theory and Irish studies.The deadline for abstract submission is December 1st, 2004. Submissions should be made by email to one of addresses above.

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Celtic Romanticism and Gothic Revisionism: A Two-Day Conference
University of Bristol
15-16 January 2005
Deadline for Proposals: 1 October 2004
Contact:melvin.kersey@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

When arguing for the unbroken continuity of Britain's 'original constitution', Lord Bolingbroke disposed of the problem of the Norman conquest by stating that the Normans 'were originally of Celtic, or Gothic, extraction, call it which you please, as well as the people they subdued. They all came out of the same northern hive'. Bolingbroke had partially derived his eighteenth-century notion of the 'northern hive' from the earlier work of Sir William Temple. Matthew Arnold, however, plainly divided the nineteenth-century 'Saxon hive' from the 'Celtic race', despite his desire for improved relations between them.

This 'northern hive' serves as an organising principle for the many surprising ways that ancient 'Celtic' and 'Gothic' identities have been employed to authenticate modern cultures and nations. The historical sources of identity, whether a lost manuscript or a recovered artefact, are often entangled in questions of problematic provenance. The rhetorical elasticity of these Celtic and Gothic identities reveals multiple historical layers of posthumous inventions and critical revisions. Recent research in diverse fields such as archaeology, historiography and literary history has posed formidable challenges to the periodization of Celtic, Gothic and even Romantic discourses.

Addressing scholarly revisions from c. 1600 to the present, Celtic Romanticism and Gothic Revisionism emphasises the inherently politicised relationships between authenticity, antiquity and reconstructed identities. Contributions are welcomed from a variety of academic fields and theoretical perspectives. This exciting international forum will bring these Celtic and Gothic pasts into clearer focus.

Confirmed Participants: Prof. John Collis (Sheffield: Archaeology), Dr. Mary-Ann Constantine (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies), Prof. Barry Cunliffe (Oxford: Archaeology), Prof. Robert DeMaria (Vassar, USA: English), Prof. David Fairer (Leeds: English), Dr. Nick Groom (Bristol: English), Prof. Ronald Hutton (Bristol: History), Dr. Edward Jacobs (Old Dominion, USA: English), Prof. Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam: Modern European Literature), Prof. Robert Miles (Stirling: English), Prof. David Punter (Bristol: English), Dr. Fiona Stafford (Oxford: English)

The conference is jointly administered by the Otago Department of English and Bristol Department of Historical Studies. Please email a 250-word proposal to Dr. Mel Kersey before 1 October 2004 (melvin.kersey@stonebow.otago.ac.nz).

 

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