The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2022 (IASIL) kicks off this week at the University of Limerick, Ireland in running all week from 25th-29th July 2022.
This year’s conference theme is Intersectional Ireland.
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2022
IASIL schedule July 25th to 29th 2022
Monday, July 25th9:30-2:30: IASIL PhD Forum Room: KBG-10 (KBS – Kemmy Business School, Ground Floor) 12:00: IASIL Executive Meeting Room: KBG-15 (KBS – Kemmy Business School, Ground Floor) 1:00: Registration opens KBS – Kemmy Business School, Foyer 3:15-4:30: Early Career Researcher Event: What Now? Managing Expectations and Career Options for Early Career Researchers Room: KBG-11, KBS (Kemmy Business School) Dr Donna Alexander (University College Cork) Dr Michael Kelly (University of Limerick) Dr Margaret O’Neill (National University of Ireland, Galway) Dr Arjumand Younus (Technological University Dublin) Chaired by Dr Tracy McAvinue (University of Limerick) 5:00: IASIL 2022 Launch and Opening Keynote Glucksman Library 5:30: Keynote address: Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University) Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library We Need to Think about Early Modern Ireland Chair: Dr Tina O’Toole 6:30: Welcome Reception: Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library 7:00-8:00: Readings: Celia de Fréine, Louis de Paor, and Ciara Ní É Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library
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Tuesday, July 26th9:00-10:15: Panel Sessions 1 Room: KBG-10 Irish Traveller Writing Chair: Dr Christina Morin Nathalie Lamprecht Charles University, Czech Republic) Writing “me” into History: Irish Women’s Life Writing and Representations of Irishness Elisa Shaholli (University of Connecticut, USA) Politics, Plays, and Power: Alina Serban and Rosaleen McDonagh’s Use of Embodied Experience as Empowerment for Roma and Traveller Women Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Physical Disability in Irish Theatre: Translation and Performance in Brazil
Room: KBG-11 Black Irish Representations Chair: Professor Tom Moylan Dr Aileen Ruane (Université Concordia, Canada) Translating Felispeaks in Québec: Intersectionality in Translation through Collaboration Dr Christa de Brún (Waterford Institute of Technology) Strange Flowers, Unblemished Whiteness and the Pain of Difference Victor Pacheco (Universidade de São Paulo & University of Limerick) Shy Abjection: A Reading of Emma Donoghue’s Short Story “The Welcome”
Room: KBG-13 Anticolonial Movements Chair: Dr Chris Cusack Dr Edward Molloy (University College Cork) Historicism and Discourses of Right in Nineteenth Century Irish Nationalism Professor Pawan Kumar (University of Delhi, India). Reverberations of the Indian Independence Movement in Ireland: Creative and Political Responses of W. B. Yeats and Maud Gonne to the Colonial Occupation of India
Room: KBG-14 Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2022 Chairs: Dr Deirdre Flynn & Dr Ciara L. Murphy Dr Deirdre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) & Dr Ciara L. Murphy (NUI Galway) Irish Women’s Writing and Culture under the Shadow of Austerity Dr Justine Nakase (Portland State University, USA) Austerity and the Precarity of Whiteness Ms. Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro (University of Limerick) Black Irish Culture
Room: KBG-15 “Civilising” Process Chair: Dr Sorcha de Brún Dr Pilar Villar-Argáiz (University of Granada, Spain) “In Search of a Nation and a Language”: Revivalist Inclinations in the Poetry of Eavan Boland Dr Eóin Flannery (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) “When Species Meet”: Scale and Form in the Poetry of Ciaran Berry and Moya Cannon Professor Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin University, Tokyo) “Barbarism Begins at Home”: Derek Mahon’s The Snow Party and Bashō
10:15-10:30: Tea/Coffee KBS Ground Floor
10:30-11:45: Roundtable Sessions: Room: KBG-10 Exploiting Intersectionality: Irish Women Writers in London, 1880-1940. Curated by Dr Whitney Standlee (University of Worcester), chaired by Dr Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin (University of Limerick) Room: KBG-11 Writing While Trans: Refractions, Reflections, Representations. Curated by El Reid Buckley (University of Limerick) and chaired by Raevynna El Messaoudi (Trans Community Limerick) 11:45-1:00: Keynote address: Dr Zélie Asava Room: KBG-12 Multiraciality, Intersectionality and Homophily in Irish Screen Narratives Chair: Ms Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro (University of Limerick) 1:00-2:00: Lunch KBS Ground Floor 1:20-2:00 Lunchtime Sessions: Book Launches Mary Burke, The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey, Tramp Press. Room: Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library. Cormac O’Brien. Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama: Acting the Man, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Room: KBG-13 2:00-3:00: Readings: Dr Emily Cullen (Meskell UL-Fifty Poet in Residence) and Dr Rosaleen McDonagh Chair: Professor Michael Griffin (University of Limerick) Room: Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library. 3:00-3:15: Tea/Coffee (KBS Ground Floor) 3:15-4:30: Panel Sessions 2 Room: KBG-13 Traveller Representations Chair: Mx. El Reid-Buckley Professor Mary Burke (University of Connecticut, USA) The 2022 Reissue of Traveller-Romany novelist Juanita Casey’s The Horse of Selene (1971) Varade, Kristina (Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York) Narrating Resilience, Nurturing Respect: Contemporary Irish Traveller Writing Professor José Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) “Who Wouldn’t Be a Tinker?” Donagh MacDonagh’s God’s Gentry at the Gate Theatre
Room: KBG-14 Spaces of Resistance: A Century of Irish Women Poets Chair: Professor Anne Fogarty Professor Lucy Collins (University College Dublin) Lola Ridge and the Spaces of Radical Resistance Dr Adam Hanna (University College Cork) Rhoda Coghill’s Birds Professor Lucy McDiarmid (Montclair State University, USA) Remapping the Globe in poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Nithy Kasa
Room: KBG-11 Ecocriticism Chair: Ms. Lauren Cassidy Dr Emma Radley (University College Dublin) Ecological Dead Zones: The Forest in Contemporary Irish Gothic and Horror Film Professor Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University, Tokyo). “If it’s life that controls the geological machinery of the planet”: Sinead Morrissey’s Poems from a Perspective of Posthuman- Ecocriticism
Room: KBG-15 Literary Publics Chair: Ms. Colleen Ballard Maria Butler (University College Cork) The Anatomy of a Female Brand: Marian Keyes the Brand Managed Author Klára Hutková (Charles University, Prague) Female flânerie in Maeve Brennan’s “Talk of the Town” Columns Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven, Belgium) Promoting the Short Story: David Marcus and Irish Writing
4:30-5:45: Panel Sessions 3 Room: KBG-13 From the Carribean to Conamara: Irish language Narratives of Power, Gender and Place Ón Chairib go Conamara: Ceisteanna cumhachta agus inscne i litríocht nua-aimseartha na Gaeilge Chair: Dubháin O’Longáin An Dr Síle Ní Choincheannain (Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál, Durlas) Beirt bhan eisceachtúla: Lucinda Sly agus Goody Glover An Dr Laoise Ni Cheallaigh (Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál)(Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) Lámh Láidir na hIdirchultúrthachta: Gnéithe den idirchultúrthacht iarchoilíneach in úrscéal Joe Steve Uí Neachtain An Dr Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh) (National University of Ireland, Galway) An Ré Antrapaicéineach agus Tírdhreach an Choilíneachais in Na Móinteacha le Pól Ó Muirí
Room: KBG-11 Racialised Narratives Chair: Dr Dearbhaile Houston Sean Aldrich O’Rourke (University of Limerick) Reality Creation and its Victims in J. S. Le Fanu’s Late Fiction Katherine M. Huber (University of Oregon) Representing Afro-Irish Self-Determination: Filmic and Literary Strategies in Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley’s Seaview and Melatu Uche Okorie’s This Hostel Life
Room: KBG-14 Home Truths Chair: Dr Tracy McAvinue Dr Aurora Piñeiro (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) Reading the Map of Motherhood: The Language of Cartography in Anne Enright’s Actress Danielle O’Sullivan The Representation of Unhealthy Relationships in Contemporary Irish Fiction Professor Claire Lynch (Brunel University) ‘But what if it was one of ours?’ The Trouble with Daughters in Contemporary Irish Fiction
7:00 Wine reception and launch of The Holy Show arts magazine Belltable Theatre, 69 O’Connell St, Limerick city centre
8:00 The Alphabet of Birds Belltable Theatre, 69 O’Connell St, Limerick city centre
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Wednesday, July 27th9:00-10:15: Panel Sessions 4 Room: KBG-13 Deactivation and Dissensus Chair: Dr Barry Houlihan Wit Pietrzak “Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand”: States of exception and promise of forgiveness in Colum McCann’s Apeirogon Dr Alan Graham (Independent scholar) “Repeat Play”: Repetition and Truth-telling in Beckett, Friel and Irish Monologic theatre Dr Clare Wallace (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) Ecologies of Struggle: Dissensual Speech in Recent Irish Theatre
Room: KBG-14 Gender, Class and Migration: Tracking Irishness in the British Library 19th Century Corpus. Chair: Professor Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) Professor Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) Lauren Cassidy (University College Dublin) Karen Wade (University College Dublin) Briony Wickes (University College Dublin)
Room: KBG-10 Intertextualities Chair: Dr Aileen Ruane Professor Marisol Morales-Ladrón (University of Alcalá, Spain) Embodying Nora Barnacle, Inhabiting Her Life: Nuala O’Connor’s Biographical Novel Nora Jonathan Sanford (University of Texas, USA) New Connections: Zora Neale Hurston on James Joyce
Room: KBG-11 Intersectional Yeats Chair: Dr Adam Hanna Dr Alla Kononova (University of Tyumen, Russia) “We’ve worked hard coding reality”: The Irelands of Nikolay Gumilyov and Philip McDonagh Professor Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University/Hangzhou Normal University) Coupling Yeats and Heaney: Irish Cross-Cultural Nationalism
Room: KBG-15 Stage Irish Chair: Dr Síle de Cléir Professor Michał Lachman (University of Lodz, Poland) David Ireland’s Ulster American: Decomposing Irish Identity Nemo Gorecki (Université de Lille SHS CECILLE, France) Queering the Gaeltacht, a Trans-reading of The Roads by Padraic Pearse Dr David Clare (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) Otherness in Ursula Rani Sarma’s Blue
10:15-10:30: Tea/Coffee KBS Ground Floor 10:30-11:45: Roundtable Sessions:
Room: KBG-13 Multilingual Irish Studies. Curated by Dr Sorcha DeBrun (University of Limerick), chaired by Prof Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (NUI Galway) Room: KBG-14 The Diversity of Irishness: Exploring the Importance of Other Voices in Irish Society. Curated and chaired by Ms Sandrine Ndahiro (University of Limerick) Room: KBG-15 Utopian Studies: Contemporary Irish-based Research. Curated and chaired by Dr Michael Kelly (University of Limerick)
11:45-1:00: Panel Sessions 5 Room: KBG-13 Intersectional Fiction Chair: Dr Tina O’Toole Dr Doug Battersby (Stanford University / University of Bristol) Eimear McBride’s Bodily Forms Dr Melania Terrazas (University of La Rioja, Spain) Class, Gender, and Sexual Oppression: Intersectionality in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men Dr Kate Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College, New York) “I still consider myself a lucky person”: Intersectionality and Entitlement in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock
Room: KBG-10 Gendered Spaces Chair: Professor Patricia Coughlan Dr Dearbhaile Houston (Trinity College Dublin) The University in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing: Nicole Flattery’s “Abortion, A Love Story” Katie Barnes (University of Salford, Manchester) “Mothers are more than bodies”: Ireland’s Relationship with Motherhood in Claire Lynch’s Small: On motherhoods (2021). Dr Tracy McAvinue (University of Limerick) “Torn Down like Houses”: Woman as Home, Home as Woman in Mary Lavin’s Mary O’Grady.
Room: KBG-15 Communal Obligations Chair: Professor Andrew Fitzsimons Dr Michelle Miles (Kennesaw State University, USA) “Where the flaps don’t meet the knots undone”: Gail McConnell and the Erotics of Elegy Dr Scott McKendry (Trinity College Dublin) Form and ‘Troubled’ Performativity in the Poetry of Padraic Fiacc and Gail McConnell Dr Ailbhe McDaid (University College Cork) Beyond the “missionary approach”: New Voices in Irish Poetry
Room: KBG-11 Class Action Chair: Dr Jack Fennell Ciara McAllister (Queen’s University Belfast) “Your Very Presence is Sacrilege”: Gender, Class and the Politics of Place in Brian Friel’s Freedom of the City Clodagh Heffernan (University College Cork) Reading the Dialectics of Class in Paula Meehan’s “The Exact Moment I Became a Poet” Dr Clara Mallon (NUI Galway) and Dr Salomé Paul (Trinity College Dublin) Tracing Gendered and Classed Others on Irish Stages
Room: KBG-14 Questioning Irish Representation Chair: Dr Deirdre Flynn Luke Malone (Dundalk Institute of Technology) Feminising the Archetype: Women in Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy Alexandria Machado (Bridgewater State University) Negotiating Identity: Class Anxiety and Sexual Desire in Sally Rooney’s Normal People Dr Ketlyn Mara Rosa (Trinity College Dublin) The Body, Senses and Violence: Bloody Sunday and Chaos in Derry
1:00-1:45: Light Lunch KBS Ground Floor 1:20-1:45: Presentation: Sharon Slater on the Women of Limerick app https://www.limerick.ie/discover/eat-see-do/tours/self-guided-tours/women-limerick-app Room: KBG-13 2:00: City & County Tours / On-Campus Events: See www.ul.ie/artsoc/iasil-2022/readings/performances 9:00: Spoken Word and Traditional Music evening with poets Sarah Clancy, Eoin Devereux, Felispeaks, and Dubhán Ó Longáin (Dolan’s Upstairs, Dock Road, Limerick city centre)
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Thursday, July 28th9:00-10:15: Panel Sessions 6 Room: KBG-13 Translations Chair: Professor Naoko Toraiwa Dr Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s University, Japan) Seamus Heaney and Senryu: An Anecdote on a Transnational Meeting Dr Michael McAteer (Pázmány University, Budapest) Moore’s Irish Melodies in Hungarian Verse: Sándor Petőfi’s Translation of ‘Oh! Blame not the Bard! Professor Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague) Irish Fiction in Czech: A Case Study
Room: KBG-10 Blue and Green Humanities Chair: Esther Borges Dr Ellen Howley (Dublin City University) “Snared in a mode of seeing”: Refracting the Past and Present through the Sea in Caitríona O’Reilly’s The Sea Cabinet Charlotte Buckley (Trinity College Dublin) Curing the Outdoors: An Ecofeminist Reading of Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry Dr Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart, Germany) The Ecological Border Textures of Maurice Riordan’s Prose Poem Sequence “The Idylls”
Room: KBG-14 Intersectional Regions: The Transatlantic Reception of Irish Local Colour Writers Professor Marguérite Corporaal, Radboud University, The Netherlands “One emigrant more”: The Transatlantic Reception of Jane Barlow’s and Katharine Tynan’s Regional Irelands. “The Present-Day Prince of Irish Storytellers”: Seumas MacManus’s American Market and the Construction of Irishness Dr Giulia Bruna, Radboud University, The Netherlands Ulster and New England Village Heroines: Reviewing the Stories of Erminda Rentoul Esler and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Room: KBG-11 Art as Therapy Chair: Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons Holly May Walker-Dunseith (University College Cork) The Healer in the Tower: Biddy Early and Discourses of Healing in the Work of W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory Alba de Juan Lopez (University of Oviedo) Animals as Architects of Reality: The Itineraries of Illness in Leanne O’Sullivan A Quarter of an Hour Dr Lauren McNamara (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) What I (Don’t) Know About Autism and How Ireland Treats Difference
Room: KBG-15 The Poetics of Space Chair: Professor Tom Walker Ellen Orchard (Trinity College Dublin) ‘head of curls’: Austin Clarke and Paula Meehan’s Elegies for Children Dr Tapasya Narang Play and Irony in Derek Mahon’s Works Dr Britta Olinder (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Sinéad Morrissey: Traveller in History and Geography
10:15-10:30: Tea/Coffee KBS Ground Floor
10:30-11:45: Panel Sessions 7 Room: KBG-10 Translational Studies Chair: Victor Da Cruz Pacheco Margaret Brehony (National University of Ireland, Galway) Intersections of Gender, Race, and Irish Genealogies of Slavery in Colonial Cuba Dr M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (University of Vigo, Spain) Intersectional Vulnerabilities and Reciprocal Resistances: Dialectical Itineraries of Irishness across the Atlantic Professor Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil) How does one know what spring is like? Translating Sinéad Gleeson’s Travel Writing
Room: KBG-13 Dramatic Situation Chair: Dr Graham Price Dr Emer McHugh (NUI Galway) Shakespeare and Ireland: Positions and Locations Dr Alexander Coupe (University of Liverpool) Sticking Power: Arts Funding and the Agency of Applied Theatre in Northern Ireland Dr Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway) Bronze Sabrinas and Caribbean Céilís: The Pike Theatre and Staging Intercultural Ireland
Room: KBG-14 Code-Switching Chair: Caylum O’Neill Dr Emer Lyons (University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ) The Straight Fellow: Code-Switching in Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton (Qatar University) Cultural ‘Intruders’ in Contemporary Irish and European Narratives of Exile Iria Seijas-Pérez (University of Vigo, Spain) Growing up Queer and Muslim in Ireland: The Young Adult Fiction of Adiba Jaigirdar
Room: KBG-15 Reshaping Reality Chair: Professor Claire Lynch Dr Jack Quin (University of Birmingham) Eva Gore-Booth and Sculptural Form Dr Moonyoung Hong (University of Hong Kong)) “Sexual Styles” of Wilde, Joyce and Enright: Desire and Irish Theatre-Fiction Professor Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal) Intersectionality and Narrative Structures of Trust in Austerity Fiction
11:45-1:00: Keynote address: Professor Rióna Ní Fhrighil Room: KBG-12 Writing Wrongs: Human Rights and Modern Poetry in Irish Chair: Dr Sorcha De Brún (University of Limerick)
1:00-1:45: Lunch KBS Ground Floor 1:00-1:45 Lunchtime Theatre David Clare Productions presents The House, written by Anne Devlin, starring Robyn O’Riordan, and West, written by Ursula Rani Sarma, starring James Corr. Room: KBG-12
1:45-3:00: Panel Session 8 Room: KBG-13 Performance Activism Chair: Mx. El Reid-Buckley Orlaith Darling (Trinity College Dublin) “Town’s Dead”: Intersectional Approaches to Contemporary Irish Music and the City Helena Young (University College Dublin) Intersectional Ireland in Brokentalkers Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons (Trinity College Dublin) The Embodied Encounters of Amanda Coogan’s They Come Then, The Birds
Room : KBG-14 Fiction / Autofiction / Non-Fiction Chair: Professor Gisela Holfter Thomas Korthals, (University of Applied Sciences Hamm-Lippstadt, Germany) “I love the desert […]. But I also love its opposite: Ireland”: The Irish Journal of Ralph Giordano Liam Harrison (University of Birmingham) Insistent Styles in Contemporary Irish Non-Fiction
Room: KBG-10 Contested Spaces Chair: Professor Emilie Pine Dr Tara Giddens (University of Limerick) Representation of Spaces in Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ Novel, The Matrimonial Lottery (1906) Loic Wright (University College Dublin) Rural and Urban Masculinities, the Failed Bildungsroman, and the Nation in Mary Lavin’s The House in Clewe Street (1945)
Room: KBG-11 Archives, Collections, Anthologies Chair: Dr Ken Bergin Dr Iva Yates (University of Limerick) “New-World Democracy”: Expansionism in Folklore Collecting, the Cases of Ireland and Puerto Rico Dr Alex Alonso (University of Huddersfield) Poetic Intersections: Looking for Women in the BBC Archives
3:00-3:15: Tea/coffee KBS Ground Floor 3:15-4:30: Panel Sessions 9 / Roundtable Sessions: Roundtable Sessions: Room No: KBG-13 Irish-German Studies Today: Challenges and Chances. Curated and chaired by Professor Gisela Holfter (University of Limerick) Room No: KBG-14 Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Higher Education Contexts. Curated and chaired by Dr Lia Mills
Panel Sessions 9: Room: KBG-15 Intersectional Joyce Chair: Professor Ondrej Pilny Professor Peter Kuch (University of Otago, New Zealand) Bloom’s Dilemmas: Ulysses as a Modern/Postmodern “novel of adultery” Cody Sanders (University College Dublin) “Sirens” in Ulysses: A Fugue or Sonata Professor Leszek Drong (University of Silesia, Poland) Under Foreign Eyes? James Joyce’s Journalistic (Re)discovery of the West of Ireland
4:30-5:45: Panel Sessions 10 Room: KBG-13 Border Crossings Chair: Professor Gerardine Meaney Dr Yi-ling Yang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Intersectional Space: Silenced Border in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man and Claire McGowan’s The Silent Dead Marie Gemrichova (Charles University, Prague) Boundaries and Border Crossing in Nick Laird’s Utterly Monkey Dr Anna Teekell (Christopher Newport University, USA) Irish Border Travelogues: Walking the Intersection
Room: KBG-14 Poetry and Politics Chair: tbc Professor Dhananjay Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Colonialism, Violence and the Poetic Responsibility: The Politico-Aesthetic Third Space in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry Danny Shanahan (University of Cambridge) Spectres of the Gulag: Soviet Bloc Dissident Poetics and Seamus Heaney’s Representation of Political Imprisonment Dr Stephen O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin) “what a bloody environment for a man of imagination”: Irish Writing and the Special Powers Act (1922)
Room: KBG-11 Carceral Narratives Chair: Professor José Lanters Michelle Andressa Alvarenga de Souza (University of São Paulo, Brazil) A Dreadful Reckoning: Colonial, Racial and Gender Violence in Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter Molly Hennigan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Contextualizing Personal Narratives of Incarceration: Hanna Greally’s Bird’s Nest Soup Dr Maureen S. G. Hawkins (University of Lethbridge, Canada) The Sense of No Ending in The Hostage and The Island
Room: KBG-15 Framing the West Chair: Professor Michael J. Griffin Theo Campbell (Villanova University, USA) “Customs Handed Down to Us”: Empire and Vulnerability in Glimpses of my Life in Aran Marine Galiné (University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France) The Bog in Lee Cronin’s The Hole in the Ground (2019): Liminality, Motherhood and Abjection Justine Zapin (University College Dublin) “In the Wasteland” or Galway Bay, 3000 A.D.: Space, Place, and Identity in Bernard Shaw’s Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
8:00: Readings from UL Writers: Helena Close, William Keohane, Sheila Killian, Lia Mills, Lauren Preston, and Donal Ryan (King John’s Castle, Nicholas Street, Limerick city centre)
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Friday, July 29th9:00-10:15: Panel Sessions 11 Room: KBG-13 Cosmopolitanism Chair: Dr Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin Dr Julie-Ann Robson (University of Sydney, Australia) “To reveal art and conceal the artist”: Oscar Wilde in the Archives Joanna Jarząb-Napierała Transnationalism in Irish Literature: The Case of Seán O’Faoláin’s The Nest of the Simple Folk Professor Tom Walker (Trinity College Dublin) Colum’s Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism
Room: KBG-14 Migration and Community Chair: Professor Laura Izarra Esther Gazzola Borges (University of São Paulo) Queer Diaspora, Identity and Community in Contemporary Irish Literature Dr Patricia A. Lynch Hiberno-English and Jamaican English in an Extended Family: Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers Dr Alessandra Boller (University of Siegen, Germany) Shared Experiences and Grievable Lives: Engagements with Subjectivity and Community in Post-Celtic Tiger Migration Narratives
Room: KBG-10 Northern Exposure Chair: Ms. Laura Toner Sophie Anders (University of Salford) The “Wee English Fella”: Queering the Representation of Masculinity in Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls Deirdre Canavan (King’s College London) Testimony and Tolerance in Anna Burns’ Milkman Dr Daniela Theinová (Charles University, Prague) Masculinities in Transition: Alan Gillis and Padraig Regan in and out of Belfast
Room: KBG-11 Gendered Representations Chair: Ms. Sarah Staus Dr Hawk Chang (Education University of Hong Kong) “Watch her carefully, every movement, every gesture, every little peculiarity”: Women in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come Orsolya Szűcs (PPCU, Budapest) “How extravagantly attached we are to the things we own, as if they were the insides of our own bodies”: Writing the Human in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing S. J. De Mattio (Trinity College Dublin) Contextualizing the Erasure of “Ireland’s Forgotten Genius,” Teresa Deevy
10:15-10:30: Tea/Coffee KBS Ground Floor
10:30-11:45: Panel Sessions 12 Room: KBG-13 Public Performativity Chair: Dr Tara Giddens Dr Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto, Portugal) “Someone who knew what they were doing”: Intermediality and Politics in Muldoon’s Howdie-Skelp James Little (Charles University, Prague) Paula Meehan’s Pubs: From Pub Counter to Counter-Public Sphere Dr Anthony P. McIntyre (University College Dublin) Voicing 2nd Generation Diasporic Irishness in Popular Culture: Peter Kay and Steve Coogan
Room: KBG-14 Multimodal Narratives Chair: tbc Mark Ryan (University of Limerick) Queer Identities in Targeted LGBTQI+ Media: Gay Community News as a Reflection of a Queer, Irish, Diasporic Formation Dr Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Radio Drama in times of COVID-19: Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? in Translation Jenny Kwok (University of Hong Kong) The Irishness of Anglo-Irish Writers: Some Preliminary Findings of a Digital Humanities Project
Room: KBG-11 Troubling Narratives Chair: Dr Katharina Rennhak Seán Ó Cinnéide (Maynooth University) “Mere words are useless”: Statelessness and the Artist in Francis Stuart’s Freiburg Trilogy Dr Keelan Harkin (Trinity College Dublin) Fascism, Anti-Communist Violence, and the Spanish Civil War in Mary Manning’s Mount Venus Elliot Mills (Trinity College Dublin) Writing the Environment: Mastery and the Imagination in At Swim-Two-Birds
Room: KBG-15 Written on the Body Chair: Dr Melania Terrazas Karen Anne McCarthy (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) “The Incest Plot” in John Banville’s Ancient Light Neha Kamrani (University College Dublin) Body and Memory: A Comparative Study of Adult Disclosures of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in Deirdre Kinahan’s Rathmines Road and Dina Mehta’s Getting Away with Murder Dr Alfred Markey (University of León, Spain) Medicine and the Humanities: Intersectional Strategies for Ireland
11:45-1:00: Keynote address: Professor Fiona McCann Room: KBG-12 Forms of Care in Irish Literature 2012-2022: Shifting Agencies and Decolonial Poetics Chair: Dr Michael Kelly (University of Limerick)
1:00-2:00 Lunch KBS Ground Floor
1:20-2.00 Lunchtime Interview: Claire Lynch in conversation with Emilie Pine on the publication of Small: On Motherhoods Room: KBG-13
1:20-2:00 Book Launch: “I love craft. I love the word”: The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan, edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick and Maria Kurdi (Peter Lang, 2022). Room: KBG-11
2:00: IASIL Annual General Meeting Room: KBG-15
7:00: Closing Event and Barbecue UL Pavilion
Source: https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/iasil-2022
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