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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.
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John Huston Centenary Conference In Ootober 2006, The Huston School of Film and Digital media, National University of Ireland, Galway will host a two day conference in recognition of the centenary of the birth of John Huston. Submissions are invited for papers (25mins in duration) dealing with the life and work of this most versatile and charismatic of American directors. John Huston, the director of over films in a career lasting was much celebrated by his peers and associates but has been strangely neglected in the critical literature. This conference wishes to redress such neglect and provide a forum for as wide a consideration of his contribution to film as possible. Topics for consideration might include: Huston as actor; as writer; as auteur; as personality; approaches to genre; considerations of the many adaptations in his oeuvre; Huston¹s life and film activities in Ireland; representations of gender in his work; Huston¹s relationship with Hollywood; thematic studies; Clint Eastwood¹s White Hunter, Black Heart; etc. Please submit a 300 word proposal stating the topic, aims and scope of the paper along with a brief CV via email to Tony Tracy,. Email: tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie Irish Murodch International Conference Provisional Call for Papers Organizer: Dr Anne Rowe, Kingston University, Tel: +44 (0)208 547 2000 E-mail: a.rowe@kingston.ac.uk Abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent by 30th May 2006 to: Penny Tribe, Iris Murdoch Conference Administrator, Kingston University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, KT1 2 EE Tel =44(0) 208 547 2000 E-Mail: p.tribe@kingston.ac.uk 11th Annual Dickens Society Symposium Charles Dickens visited Belfast in 1858, 1867, and 1869, to deliver those public readings which so captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. He gave renditions of such favourites as The Story of Little Dombey, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, Mrs Gamp, and Sikes and Nancy. He also developed close friendships with the Belfast-born politician and merchant James Emerson Tennent and with Francis Dalziel Finlay, owner and editor of The Northern Whig. He enjoyed his sojourns in Ulster, remarking on his 'delightful days' in Belfast, where he was widely recognised and warmly welcomed. Belfast is the venue for the 11th annual symposium of the Dickens Society of America. This organisation, founded in 1970, aims to conduct, encourage, foster and further support research, publication, instruction and general interest in the life, times and literature of Charles Dickens. Papers are welcomed on any aspect of Dickens and his works. Final papers must be readable in twenty minutes. Prospective panellists should send a one-page abstract, by post or email, to Dr Leon Litvack School of English Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland L.Litvack@qub.ac.uk Tel. +44-28-90973266 Conference participants will have the opportunity to sign up for excursions to local sites of interest including the Giant's Causeway and the North Antrim coast. The highlight of the conference is the will be the Dickens dinner, where delegates will experience traditional Irish singing and storytelling, provided by the famed local duo Len Graham and John Campbell, who have delighted audiences throughout Ireland, the U.K., Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA. Accommodation will be offered at the Elms Student Village, 78 Malone Road, Belfast Further information on the Dickens Society, and its journal The Dickens Quarterly may be found at http://www.dickensquarterly.org/ REGION, NATION, FRONTIERS Because this is the first time the conference has been held in the United States, and we are meeting in Kansas, the heart of America’s farming frontier, we invite papers on topics relating to frontiers. Possible topics might include: Abstracts of 500 words (maximum) should be submitted by 14th February 2006 to Donna Potts Department of English Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 dlpotts@ksu.edu (emails welcome) Wild Irish Girls': A bicentenary conference to mark the publication of Sydney Owenson’s (Lady Morgan) The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth’s Leonora Trollope and Gender From the first gender-sensitive critique of Trollope’s women by Morse, through Polhemus’s erotically-charged account of Phineas Finn in love to Turner’s genderised reading of narrative technique differentiated according to audience, the last two decades have witnessed a diametric shift in how we read Trollope. Today John Stuart Mill’s articulation of liberalism sits well with Trollope’s open and frank approach to gender and sexuality. the conference organisers invite papers drawn from re-readings of Anthony Trollope in the light of the most recent thinking in gender studies. How have perceptions of his presentation of women changed over the last twenty years? How have the latest reframings of Victorian masculinities shaped the reinterpretations of Trollope’s men, and how have ideas of queer theory shifted perceptions of those Trollope characters who operate at the margins? In suggesting these possibilities, we do not seek to circumscribe the field of study of the conference; we wish to welcome a wide and diverse view of the significance of Trollope studies in the twenty-first century. Topics might includebut are not limited tothe following: Sex and the City: The Palliser Novels. Queer Trollope. Erotic Languages. Feminist Trollope? Money and Gender. Liberalism and Gender. Vulgar Women. Celibacy, or Renunciation and its Pains – and Delights. Foreignness and Gender. Sex and the Irish Question. Homosocial Bonds. Trollope’s Fallen Women. Oedipal Trollope. Trollope, Gender, and the Jewish Question. Unrequited Love. Family Bonds, – and Bondage. Trollopian Mothers. Child Erotics. Breeding and Heredity. Gendered Illustrations – Millais and Others. Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference: Across the Water: Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century Abstracts of 200 words should be submitted by 28 February, 2006. Contact: Dr James McConnel j.mcconnel@ulster.ac.uk Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, Aberfoyle House, University of Ulster, Londonderry. BT48 7JL +00 44 (0)28 713 75569
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Ireland: Canadian Association for Irish Studies /Association canadienne
Etudes irlandaises Annual Conference, 2006 The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) invites proposals for presentations of twenty minutes in length as well as full panel discussions for its annual conference, to be held this year at the University of Ottawa from June 14-17, 2006. The theme of the CAIS conference this year is Urban Ireland. Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but are not limited to): -- literary
and visual representations of Irish cities The deadline for paper proposals is 15 January 2006. Paper proposals should be 250-500 words in length, in English or French, and sent either electronically or by post to: Jerry White, President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Department of English and Film Studies, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5, Canada Email: Jerry.White@ualberta.ca Money,
Power and Prose: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Financial Revolution
in the British Isles, 1688-1756 This colloquium will gather scholars from the disciplines of history, literature, economics, politics, sociology and law to study the intersections between public finance, politics and literature during Britain's so-called Financial Revolution. Papers should address contemporary public responses to one or more of the following aspects of the Financial Revolution: *
Banking (Public or Private) Papers should explore how these financial innovations affected politics and literature or vice versa. For the purposes of this colloquium, the term literature is broadly defined to include newspapers, pamphlets, treatises, novels, plays, and prints. Authors must write for a non-specialist audience, striving to make insights from their own discipline readily accessible to scholars from other disciplinary traditions. Graduate students and emerging scholars are particularly encouraged to contribute. Papers addressing any of the following questions would be particularly welcome (though authors should feel free to suggest other questions of the same general kind): * How did perceptions of public and private debt affect schemes for a Bank of Ireland and do these perceptions sufficiently account for the failure of those schemes? * Why were so few of the new financial institutions and practices emerging in England adopted in Ireland? Did public perceptions of the problems with England's new system of public debt have any role to play here? * Did the rise of the Bank of Scotland and the associated financial consequences have a noticeable impact on the country's politics and literature? * How seriously should we take contemporary literature complaining of stock jobbing and various other forms of financial corruption in the London stock market? * Did the South Sea Bubble and public reaction to it significantly alter the course of British discourse about public finance and politics? * For whom was projecting literature written and to what purpose? * Did literary, periodical, theatrical, or visual works have any significant effect on British politics and public finance? * Is there any substance to the claim of Swift and other contemporary pamphleteers that the political influence of government financiers grew significantly during this period, at the expense of the landed interest? * Did the emergence of a long-term public debt alter the day-to-day workings of British politics in any significant, verifiable way? And were any changes correctly understood at the time? * How effectively did the British government capture the savings made possible by the growing use of paper money? * In what context did Hume write his essay "Of Public Debt" and how influential was it with contemporaries? * What was the impact of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) upon England's public debt and how well was this influence understood in contemporary pamphlet literature? * How did the revolution in Britain's public finances alter its plans for the colonies and how was this change of plans presented to the public? The colloquium is an initiative of Money, Power and Prose, a loose association of scholars interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the Financial Revolution. The association hosted a similar colloquium at Regina, Saskatchewan in summer 2004. A selection of the papers presented there should be available in book form later this year. The goal is likewise to publish a selection of the papers presented at the 2006 Colloquium. ‘Orality and Modern Irish Culture’ The First Galway Conference of Irish Studies will be hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI, Galway in June 2006. The conference will provide a platform for both established and emerging scholars to engage with new ideas and approaches to interdisciplinary research in Irish Studies. In order to further discussion and dialogue, the conference programme will include a number of workshops with leading scholars who will speak on aspects of theory and method that have informed their work. A select number of presentations will be included in a publication derived from the conference proceedings. A feature of the Galway Conference will be the provision of a simultaneous translation facility for those who wish to present their work in Irish. Given that so much of the material under consideration in the field of Irish Studies originates within, or is transmitted by, an oral mode, there has been a remarkable reluctance to engage with orality in the investigation of modern and contemporary Irish culture. This conference will attempt to get beyond the misleading dichotomies that equate orality with the traditional, the rural, and the communal, while literacy is associated with the urban, the written, and the individual. The persistence of these distinctions has tended to elide the extent to which oral and literate modes co-exist in various forms of cultural production. The conference will investigate the modes of performance and transmission of orality, and its formative role in the construction of modern Irish culture. Are there official and unofficial avenues of transmission of oral culture? What role does audience play in these processes? How is orality linked to folk culture and an idea of the authentic, and what are the implications for identity construction in Ireland? What methodologies are most effective for engaging orality? Submissions are welcome from all relevant disciplines including literature, history, social studies, gender studies, ethnography, diaspora studies, music, and media studies. Proposals can be submitted in Irish or in English to the Conference Administrator Angela Rocheat irishstudies@nuigalway.ie before 1 February 2006. Post-Colonial Victorians? A Conversation across Borders What are the points of recognition and misrecognition? At its most obvious level then, the organisers want to address the question, how does Victorian culture look under the lens of Postcolonial theory? In what ways do critical concepts regarding, for instance, race, hybridity, marginality, cosmopolitanism, etc., add to our understanding of Victorian literature and culture? But we also want to reverse the question and interrogate the Victorian colonial legacy in Postcolonial studies: for instance, to what extent do the critical vocabulary and the political strategies of Postcolonial studies draw on concepts which originate in a nineteenth-century colonial context? How far is the analytical work of Postcolonial studies framed by nineteenth-century literary and scientific discourses? How useful has the notion of ‘writing back’ to the Empire been as either a political tactic or an analytical tool? Imaginary/Real Ireland - VI International Conference of The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) The theme of the 2006 AEDEI Conference is Imaginary/Real Ireland. Few places have been imagined and dreamed of as Ireland has. Ireland's multi-faceted, shifting reality down through history can be viewed from a variety of angles: the magical and visionary traditions, the nostalgic Ireland(s) of the diasporic memory, the sense of bilocation derived from imagined/real frontiers, the post-colonial reversal of stereotypical roles or the preference of story-telling to history. Where does the real Ireland lie hidden in the new hybrid, multicultural Irish society, both north and south of the Border? Is there a real Ireland at all? Contributions are invited to explore these two separate yet intermixed levels of the real and the imaginary in Ireland from an interdisciplinary point of view, involving the social sciences, the media, the visual arts, music, history or literary and film studies. Official language: English is the official language of the Conference, but papers in Spanish will also be accepted. Length: Papers should not exceed 2,500-3,000 words / 20 minutes’ delivery. Publication: Complete texts must be submitted before the conference. Two hard copies of your contribution —which must conform to the AEDEI style sheet (http://aedei.en.eresmas.com/aedei1024/home.htm)— and a disk in Word format should be sent to the address below. A selection of papers will be considered for publication. María José Carrera de la Red, VI International Conference of AEDEI, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Fac. Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain New Voices 2006, 'Gender and Sexuality'. The following list of suggested topics and themes is by no means exhaustive or prescriptive and the organisers welcome papers on topics not listed here: The Body, Queer Studies, Cyberspace, Theory and Theorists, Feminisms, Masculinities, Nationalisms, Philosophy, Science, Space, Ireland, Irish Studies, Transexualisms, Ecofeminism, Third Wave Feminism, Culture, History, Performance, Women's Studies, Men's Studies, Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies, Globalisation, Comedy, Art, Politics, Genre, Transgender, Equality, Cyborgs, Violence, War Read about previous New Voices Conference Proceedings (published by Four Courts Press) here.
The Life and After–Life of P.H. Pearse/Pádraig Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht ‘Criticism is always a compliment; to one conscious of human imperfections, unmeasured praise is an insult’. (‘An Craoibhín Aoibhinn’, An Claidheamh Soluis, 18 April 1903) P.H.Pearse is one of the most contested figures in Irish history. More than most, his reputation has been subject to the vagaries of politics on the island. Pearse, as an abstracted and abused icon, has become increasingly detached from the writings and actions of the man. To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of his death, University College Dublin will host a conference to re-examine the life and legacy of P. H. Pearse. It will look at the significance of Pearse as an educationalist, journalist, Irish language advocate, short story writer, radical thinker and militarist. Pearse might be said to have offered a map for the development of social, cultural and political ideas in Ireland for the twentieth century and this conference will aim to assess the co-ordinates of that map and the successes and failures of this vision for the island. Furthermore, it will consider the relevance of Pearse and his work in the twenty-first century and will question what is to be gained from a revised study of his work. Papers may be presented through the medium of Irish or English and keynote speakers will include Professor Declan Kiberd and Dr Angela Bourke. The conference will take place on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th April 2006. It will be run jointly between the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics and the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin. Abstracts of 250 words are invited from scholars of varied disciplines. It is intended that sessions will be organised around the themes of Language and Literature, History and Politics, Journalism and Society, and Education. Conference contributions will form the basis of a significant publication. Expressions of interest from research students should be accompanied by the attached form, outlining academic affiliation and giving the name of the supervisor of research. The deadline for proposals and expressions of interest is 16th January 2006. These should be emailed to: roisin.Higgins@ucd.ie, anna.uichollatain@ucd.ie, or angela.bourke@ucd.ie, or sent by post to Dr Regina Uí Chollatáin, School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, or Dr Roisín Higgins, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, or Dr Angela Bourke, School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. AN CHÉAD GHAIRM DO PHÁIPÉIR Tá Pádraig Mac Piarais ar na laochra is conspóidí i stair na hÉireann. Déantar clú an Phiarsaigh a mheas faoi scáth thionchair pholaitíochta ilchineálacha ar oileán na hÉireann trí chéile. Le himeacht aimsire, sonraítear deighilt mhór idir scríbhinní agus gníomhartha an fhir dhaonna agus Pádraig Mac Piarais, an laoch. Nócha bliain ó Cháisc na bliana 2006 a daoradh an Piarsach chun báis, agus chun comóradh a dhéanamh ar ócáid a bháis, tá An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath chun Comhdháil a reachtáil chun athchuairt a thabhairt agus athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar shaol agus ar oidhreacht Phádraig Mhic Phiarais. Braitear oidhreacht an Phiarsaigh go fóill ar shochaí na hÉireann san aonú haois is fiche agus san athbhreithniú seo, féachfar ar thábhacht an Phiarsaigh mar oideachasóir, mar iriseoir, mar scríbhneoir nualitríocht na Gaeilge, mar dhuine a d’oibrigh go dian, díograiseach ar son na Gaeilge, mar fhealsúnaí raidiceach agus mar réabhlóidí. Is féidir a áiteamh gur sholáthair sé léarscáil d’fhorbairt tuairimíochta ar chúrsaí sóisialta, cultúrtha agus polaitíochta na hÉireann agus is é cuspóir na Comhdhála seo léirmheas a dhéanamh ar theorainneacha agus ar threoir na léarscáile sin i gcomhthéacs bhuanna agus laigí an oileáin. Maraon leis sin, déanfar saothar agus tuairimíocht an Phiarsaigh a mheas i gcomhthéacs an aonú haois is fiche, agus pléifear impleachtaí athbhreithnithe ar a chuid oibre trí chéile. Is féidir páipéir a thabhairt i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla. Beidh an tOllamh Declan Kiberd agus an Dr Aingeal de Búrca ina bpríomhchainteoirí ag an gComhdháil. Reachtálfar an Chomhdháil ar an Aoine 28 agus ar an Satharn 29 Aibreán 2006 faoi chúrám Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh, Bhéaloideas Éireann agus na Teangeolaíochta i gcomhar le hInstitiúid na hÉireann don Léann Daonna, An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath. Tugtar cuireadh do scoláirí ó dhisciplíní éagsúla moltaí 250 focal a chur isteach. Eagrófar seisiúin ar théamaí éagsúla, Teanga agus Litríocht, Stair agus Polaitíocht, Iriseoireacht agus Forbairtí socheolaíocha, agus Cúrsaí Oideachais, ina measc, agus foilseofar imeachtaí na Comhdhála. Iarrtar ar mhic léinn iarchéime an fhoirm iniata a líonadh agus ainm a stiúrthóra a chur isteach. Is é 16 Eanáir 2006 an sprioclá do mholtaí. Seol ríomhphost chuig anna.uichollatain@ucd.ie, roisin.Higgins@ucd.ie nó angela.bourke@ucd.ie, nó gnáthphost chuig an Dr Regina Uí Chollatáin, Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh, Bhéaloideas Éireann agus na Teangeolaíochta, nó Dr Roisín Higgins, Institiúid na hÉireann don Léann Daonna, nó an Dr Aingeal de Búrca, Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh, Bhéaloideas Éireann agus na Teangeolaíochta, An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath, Belfield, Baile Átha Cliath 4. ACIS
National Conference 2006: “Old Age Pipers to New Age Punters: Ireland
Through the Ages” The University of Missouri-St. Louis will serve as host for the 2006 American Conference for Irish Studies national conference. The conference will begin with a plenary lecture and reception on the evening of Wednesday, April 19, and conclude with a banquet on the evening of Saturday, April 22. The conference site will be the Sheraton Hotel in Clayton, Missouri, convenient to St. Louis Airport and midtown and downtown St. Louis. A feature of the conference will be a “Blues Cruise & Dinner on the Mississippi” on April 21. Michael Coady will be the featured conference writer and plenary speakers will include Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool), Ríonach Uí Ógáin (University College, Dublin), Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City). St Louis Irish Arts will be the conference’s special guest performers. The conference’s unifying theme will be “Old Age Pipers to New Age Punters: Ireland Through the Ages.” The organizers will be delighted to receive panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and individual paper abstracts on the conference theme or any other aspect of Irish Studies. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts. To present a paper or participate on a panel, you must be a member of ACIS. See website for more information. Crosscurrents: Irish and Scottish Studies Postgraduate Conference
The
Hidden Ireland - ASSEC 2006 Daniel Corkery's study of the literature and society of Irish-speaking Munster in the eighteenth century (The Hidden Ireland, first published In 1924) is an acknowledged classic of Irish literary history. The Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, will sponsor a Panel at the 2006 ASECS conference at Montreal, March 30-April 2 entitled "The Hidden Ireland". This panel will examine Irish writing (in both languages)in the light of Corkery's analysis and recent reassessments of that analysis. the conference organisers welcome proposals for this panel. Please send electronic proposals (300-500 words) by September 25, 2005 to: Professor Brian Ó Conchubhai, Department of Irish Language and Literature, 422 Flanner Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 SOFEIR
2006 Conference: the Festive and the Tragic in Ireland The 2006 international Conference of the French Society of Irish Studies (SOFEIR) is to be held at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, on March 24-25 2006, under the auspices of the "Littérature et Histoire des Pays de langue européenne (EA3224)" research team. The theme of the conference will be: The Festive and the Tragic in Ireland. Papers and panel contributions of 20 minutes' duration are welcome on a broad range of subjects including the literatures of Ireland, history, sociology, community relations and international relations etc? Ireland: the festive and the tragic... The contrasting terms "festive" and "tragic" are meant to evoke a variety of historical, cultural and literary landmarks. The festive element, whether described as "ordered chaos" by Durkheim or "duty to transgress" by Freud, involves excess and drunkenness as well as ceremony and liturgy. Festivals and celebrations may help a community to experience self-discovery, whereas the tragic element reveals a world beyond, a non-human or inhuman order. Tragedy implies a painful awareness of both societal and individual predicaments. Our focus will be on ceremony in Ireland: the amalgamation of Christian and Celtic festivals, Irish and British national days, the marching season, wakes and American wakes and so on? A number of questions may be raised: How much original meaning is left in such ceremonies? What is their relationship with history and the past? How significant are they in contemporary Ireland where euphoria often confines to confusion? In literature as well as in cinema, the festive and tragic elements also occur in the very essence of carnival under the form of masquerade and subversion. Tragedy and carnival can be opposed in the guise of high and low culture, lay and religious. A mediation between them can be found in the theme of 'myth'. Myth indeed has been a powerful element in Irish culture and history. The 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth will take place in 2006. His writings can be said to have a range that touches both the festive (carnival) and the tragic. Such anniversaries of the births or deaths of significant Irish writers serve to remind us of their contributions to national and to world literature, sometimes in the face of extremely difficult circumstances. SOFEIR
24-25 MARS 2006, UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE, " Irlande : LE FESTIF
ET LE TRAGIQUE " POSTCOLONIAL CREATURES France-Ireland:
Interlinks, Interference, Intertextuality Following on the success of the first Franco-Irish studies conference held at IT Tallaght in March 2003 and the subsequent publication of the proceedings, France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004), a second conference has been organised for 10th-12th March 2006, in University College Cork. Abstracts (200 words maximum) dealing with any appropriate aspect of the theme above should be addressed by Friday September 30th 2005 to one or both of the conference organisers below: Dr Grace
Neville, Department of French, University College, Cork.
Papers will be of 25 minutes duration and may be given in French, English or Irish. Those wishing to submit longer versions of their papers (maximum 5000 words) with a view to publication in the proceedings must input their chapters on the Lang template that will be forwarded to participants before the conference. Panels will be particularly welcome on French links with Samuel Beckett (whose centenary is being celebrated in 2006), Joyce, Behan and Robert Emmet. For registration
details and other information, please consult website: Confirmed
plenary speakers include: Shakespeare
and the Irish Writer Shakespeare has been a significant imaginative force and also a figure of contestation for the Irish writer. In light of recent work on ideological appropriations and rewritings of Shakespeare, this conference proposes to explore how Irish writers such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Wilde, Beckett, and, more recently, Frank McGuinness, have both drawn upon and reacted against Shakespeare the playwright and poet, industry, and cultural icon. To what extent, for instance, does the playful iconoclasm of Joyce and Shaw involve an "Irish appropriation" of Shakespeare? By exploring such issues, the aim of the conference will be to think critically and historically about the multiple meanings of "Shakespeare in Ireland". Proposals for papers of 25 minutes duration are invited on the following or related topics: The Irish writer (in English and in Gaelic) and Shakespeare; Shakespeare, Intertextuality, and the Irish Writer; The Reception of Shakespeare in Ireland; Comparative analysis of Irish rewritings / Postcolonial rewritings of Shakespeare; Shakespeare and/in Irish Studies; Reading Shakespeare in Ireland.
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STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS - American Conference for Irish Studies
2006 Southern Regional Conference The University of South Carolina will host the 2006 Southern Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Columbia, SC, February 23-26, 2006. Special guests will include poets Eavan Boland and Vona Groarke. Some sessions will be held in conjunction with the USC Women's Studies conference on "Transnational Feminisms." The organizers welcome proposals by November 15, 2005 for papers and panels that explore any dimension of Irish Studies (multi-genre, multi-disciplinary, and multi-media presentations encouraged), but particularly on topics addressing the conference theme "Geographies and Genders." How does geography inform our perceptions of Irish identity in politics, literature, and popular culture? How does gender inform our perceptions of Irish identity in politics, literature, and popular culture? How do geography and gender intersect in Irish culture and history? Possible
topics may include: Please send queries and abstracts (no more than 250 words) by email to:leemj@mailbox.sc.edu or emadden@sc.edu Beckett
at 100: New Perspectives The
centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is a timely moment in which to take
stock of new directions in research on a writer of truly global stature.
What are the most significant aspects of Beckett's work attracting recent
and current research? What new insights are these affording? In what
ways do current critical approaches and methodologies vary across time
and space? In what respects are productions of Beckett's plays and audience
responses to them open to innovative approaches? How significant are
linguistic, cultural and political boundaries in opening or closing
new avenues of inquiry? In what ways do Beckett's writings engage with
the discourses of Modernism and Postmodernism and issues we might broadly
call Postcolonial? These are among the key questions which speakers
at this international conference are invited to address. Information updates will be posted regularly on the conference web-site. Conference Directors: William J. Cloonan, S.E. Gontarski, Alec G. Hargreaves. Irish Society For The Study Of Children’s Literature Annual Conference: Irish Children’s Literature: National and International Contexts Proposals are welcome relating to the above and associated topics: Irish Children’s literature, its history, the children’s literature of the Irish diaspora, the function and reception of Irish children’s texts abroad, globalisation and Irish children’s literature, the translation of Irish children’s literature, the translation into Irish of literature from other countries. Proposals relating to poetry will be particularly welcome.
Keynote speaker of the conference is Emer O’Sullivan, Professor of English Literature at the University of Lüneburg, Germany and author of the award-winning Kinderlitarische Komparatistik (2000) and Comparative Children’s Literature (2005)
Proposals of 250 words should be sent to: Secretary Pádraic Whyte, Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Email : whyteps@tcd.ie (Subject line should clearly indicate ‘ISSCL Proposal’) to arrive no later than 3 December 2005 --
Affecting "Irishness": Mutability, Nationality & Discourses of "Greening" The aim of this interdisciplinary conference in the Humanities is to interrogate notions of Irishness. This examination will question Irishness as it is expressed within contemporary literary, cultural and academic contexts. Those contexts will include national and international discursive arenas, particularly the Irish and American academies. Recent postcolonial re-imaginings of Ireland have initiated the consideration of images of Irish nationality that were formed beyond the parameters of the island itself. In these discursive spaces, representations of Irish identity are often discussed as being liminal, hybrid and neutral. The focus of this conference is to interrogate and question these representations, as well as the discourses to which they give rise. As a means to do so, the conference will investigate contemporary notions of Irishness, asking whether the indeterminacy that currently surrounds Irish national and cultural identity is limiting and/or limited. Affecting ‘Irishness’ intends to re-imagine the possibilities surrounding Irishness by re-appraising the many attributions accorded to Irish distinctiveness, by re-assessing international conversations concerning Irish cultural presences, and by re-asserting indigenous presence within the contemporary context. the conference organisers welcome papers and/or panel proposals that examine all aspects of identity, culture and Diaspora as they inform the dialogue surrounding Irishness. The following areas of study, or any related areas, shall be considered: -
Twenty-first century Irishness Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. Abstracts should not be of more than 200 words to reach us by August 31, 2005. Please include full postal and email addresses. The conference will take place January 13 & 14 2006 in University of Dublin, Trinity College. Proposals should be addressed to: Dr Jim Byrne, Dr Padraig Kirwan, Dr Michael O’Sullivan, c/o School of English,John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Electronic Submissions: padraig.kirwan@ucd.ie, nyhanbyrne@yahoo.com, michaelosullivans@yahoo.com |
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