REMINDER: IASIL 2015 Scholarship
Please remember that the deadline to apply for an IASIL 2015 scholarship is 20 February. Use this link to go to all relevant forms: https://www.iasil.org/conference-2015/iasil-2015-scholarship/
» Read morePlease remember that the deadline to apply for an IASIL 2015 scholarship is 20 February. Use this link to go to all relevant forms: https://www.iasil.org/conference-2015/iasil-2015-scholarship/
» Read moreUniversity of Córdoba (Spain) 30-31 October, 2014 There was a time when the individual was the central category in Modernism. It was a time of quasi-blind reliance on the Hegelian oppositions self-versus-reality and self-versus-society, critical talismans tirelessly employed by Marxist critics from Lukács through Goldmann. In fact, Lukács’s censorious construal of the modernist novel as an anomalous form bound to
» Read moreEditorial Instructions 1. Use Times New Roman and 10 point throughout, with the first line left-hand justified and indentation for run-on lines: KATZ, Daniel, ‘Beckett’s Measures: Principles of Pleasure in Molloy and First Love’, in Modern Fiction Studies, 49:2, pp. 246-60. 2. For articles and books in languages other than English, add a rough translation of the title after a
» Read moreDear Members, The deadline to send bibliographical items to the IASIL Bibliography Committee is March 30th. Here is the list of representatives by geographical area: Argentina: Juan José Delaney, Buenos Aires, Argentina. juan.delaney@gmail.com Australia: Dr Frank Molloy, School of Humanities, Charles Sturt University, WaggaWagga NSW 2678, Australia. fmolloy@csu.edu.au Austria: Professor Dr Werner Huber and Sandra Mayer. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of
» Read moreQuinnipiac University Since 1976, the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two years, alternating between co-sponsoring universities and museums in Ulster and North America. The twentieth meeting of the Symposium will be hosted at two venues in the United States. The first program will be hosted by Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, 18 -21 June 2014, and the
» Read more[private] The show (which is scheduled to travel) opens at Gallery Al-Quds in Washington, D.C., on September 6 and closes Oct 6. Please see the post announcing the exhibit under "Events." Dagmar is programming films, music, and panel discussions and is seeking scholars in the Washington, D.C. area who might discuss some of the history, as well as some of
» Read more[private] Charlotte Headrick is in Galway as a Moore Visting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is working on a project with Patricia Burke Brogan to assemble a complete production history of Brogan's play Eclipsed. Ms. Brogan's files are incomplete. If anyone knows of a production at a colllege or university or community theatre since the 1990s to
» Read more[private] ÉIRE-IRELAND: CALL FOR PAPERSEire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies welcomes submissions for a 2015 special issue on the impact of radio and television on Irish culture. With the 50th anniversary of RTÉ television in 2012, a new, more retrospective phase of Irish media history was given a focus. This special issue of Eire-Ireland seeks to develop that focus.
» Read more[private] Irish Dramatists in Conversation: the 2013 Synge Summer School 27-30 June 2013, Rathdrum Co Wicklow, Ireland. Applications now being accepted on www.syngesummerschool.org/ (student rates available) Featuring: Dermot Bolger, Stuart Carolan, Marina Carr, Declan Hughes, Deirdre Kinahan, Owen McCafferty, Mark O’Rowe, and Enda Walsh. Directed by Patrick Lonergan This year’s Synge Summer School gathers together many of Ireland’s leading dramatists
» Read more[private] Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium Barbara Freitag Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. XII, 343 + 5 colour ill. pp. (Textxet 69) ISBN: 978-90-420-3641-3 Paper ISBN: 978-94-012-0910-6 E-Book Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+69 Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on
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