Thursday, 29 October 2009
9.00-10.15
Registration and Refreshments (Main Entrance Hall)
10.15-11.00
11.00-12.0
Official Opening (Lecture Room 1)
Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Conference Convenor
Alf Johansson , Director of Dalarna County Council, and Member of
Dalarna University Board of Governors (to be confirmed)
Andrew Casson , Director of Education and Research, Dalarna
University
Elin Holmsten , Director of Languages, School of Humanities and
Media Studies, Dalarna University
Plenary Lecture 1 (Lecture Room 1)
Chair: TBA (Dalarna University)
Diarmuid O’Giollain
(Department of Folklore and Ethnology,
University College Cork)
Myths of Nation? Vernacular Traditions in Modernity
Lunch (Vildgåsen) 12.00-13.00
13.00-14.30 SESSION 1: Lecture Room 1
Irish Myths and Other Cultures
Chair: TBA (Dalarna University)
1. John Eastlake (University College Cork)
Jeremiah Curtin’s Scientific Mythology
2. Sigma Ankrava (University of Latvia)
Representations of Irish Myth in Latvian Culture
3. Debora Biancheri (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Exporting the Deconstruction of a Myth: Doyle’s A Star Called
Henry in Italy
Refreshments (Main Entrance Hall) 14.30-15.00
15.00-16.30
SESSION 2: Lecture Room 1
The Myths of Globalisation
Chair: Mats Tegmark (Dalarna University)
1. David Mitchell Clarke (Universidade da Coruna)
Hard Cases; Dark Times: Gene Kerrigan and the Myth of the Tiger
2. Nessa Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Ireland after Tara: Revisiting the “Core Values” of National Culture
in Contemporary Irish Writing
3. Billy Gray (Dalarna University)
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“The ravages of second hand experience”: Hubert Butler’s
Perspective on the Myth of a Globalised Ireland
16.30-16.45
16.45-18.15
Refreshments (Main Entrance Hall)
SESSION 3: Lecture Room 1
Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Chair: TBA (Dalarna University)
1. Kuan-Hui Liao (National Taiwan University)
The Demythologisation of Natural Beauty: An Ecofeminist Reading
of the Female Body in James Joyce’s ‘Nausicaa’
2. Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva (Uppsala University, Sweden )
James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Myth of Creation: Utopian
Resolutions
3. Helena Wulff
Birthday
(Stockholm University)
Traces of Tradition: Myth in the Modern Reality of
by Deirdre Madden
Molly Fox’s
19.00-21.00 Reception Dalarna Students Union House, Falun
Friday, 30 October 2009
9.00- 10.00 Plenary Lecture 2
Chair: TBA
(Lecture Room 1)
(Dalarna University)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
(School of English, Trinity College Dublin)
Myth, Folklore and Creative Writing
10.00-10.30
10.30-12.00
Refreshments (Main Entrance Hall)
SESSION 4: Lecture Room 1
Myth in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Chair: TBA (Dalarna University)
1.
Kärt Vahtramäe
(University of Tartu, Estonia)
The Myth of the Myth Breaker: The Peasant-Poet in Patrick
Kavanagh’s Poetry
2. Anne Karhio (National University of Ireland, Galway)
In Search of “St Elsewhere”: Popular Music and Nostalgia in
Muldoon
3. Katharina Walter (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Echoes of the Chora in Contemporary Irish Women
Poets’ Responses to Female Allegories of the Nation
12.00-13.00
Lunch (Vildgåsen)
13.00-14.00 SESSION 5: Lecture Room 1
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14.00-14.30
14.30-15.30
17.00-18.00
18.00-18.45
19.00
Social Memory, Myth and Popular Culture
Chair: TBA (Dalarna University)
1. Therese McIntyre (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Popular Culture as a Source of History: A Case for the “Kevin
Barry” Ballad
2. Fintan Walsh (Trinity College, Dublin)
On Beauty and Other Ugly Myths
Refreshments (Main Entrance Hall)
SESSION 6: Lecture Room 1
Language Myths
Chair: Jonathan White (Dalarna University)
1. Shane Walshe (University of Bamberg, Germany)
“So, it’s our syntax you’re criticizin’ then?”: Irish English Speech in The Simpsons and Family Guy
2. Peter Sundkvist (Dalarna University)
Stage “Newfie” on Steroids – Yet Another “Oirish” Accent?
Wine Reception Media House
Poetry Reading
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Conference Dinner
Svarta Havet (Media House)
(Host: Mats Tegmark , Head of Development for Teacher Education, and Director of Research for Languages, Literature and Culture
(Dalarna University)
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