IASIL
LEUVEN
18-22 July 2011
IASIL, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
in cooperation with LCIS, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
VENUE: THE LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR IRELAND IN EUROPE (LIIE),
UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE
Conference Programme: Conflict and
Resolution in Irish Literatures
A Celtic Summer: Highlights
of Irish Literature
& Culture
Embassy
of Ireland
Monday 18 July 2011
14.00-17.00:
Registration of participants
14.30- 17.00:
IASIL Board meeting
17.00:
Official opening of the conference by H.E. TOM HANNEY, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland; H.E. JONATHAN BRENTON, Ambassador of the United Kingdom; PROF. DR. MARK WAER,
Rector of the K.U.Leuven; CAROLINE NASH, Director of the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe; PROF. DR. MARGARET KELLEHER, President of IASIL [Auditorium]
17.30:
Keynote lecture by MARGARET HARPER (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK): ‘The clock has run down and must be wound up again’: Yeats’s Violent Vision (Chair: Elke D'hoker)
19.00:
Reception
Tuesday 19 July 2011
9.00-10.30:
parallel panel sessions
Land War Fiction I (Chair: Margaret Kelleher) [Auditorium]
• JAMES H. MURPHY (DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO): Frenzied form: the Land-War novel
• DEREK HAND (ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE, DUBLIN): Responses to the Land War in A Drama in Muslin
• TINA O’TOOLE (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK): The New Woman and the Land War
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Efficacy of Form (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh) [CR 1]
• MEG TYLER (BOSTON UNIVERSITY): Returns: Recent Poems by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley
• MICHAEL PARKER (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE): ‘Twelve Gates, Twelve Foundations’: Form and Revelation in Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain
Genres (Chair: Stefanie Lehner) [CR 2]
• CLAIRE LYNCH (UNIVERSITY OF BRUNEL): ‘Sure, they don’t even know how to play hurling there!’: Multiculturalism and Family Conflict in Irish Teen Fiction
• KATHARINA RENNHAK (UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL): Sebastian Barry: Conflict and Resolution across the Genres
• FIONA MCCANN (CHARLES DE GAULLE UNIVERSITY, LILLE III): ‘The End of the World as We Know It’:
New Forms for a New Era in Contemporary Fiction from the North of Ireland?
Aesthetics of Redemption: McCann and Banville (Chair: Hedwig Schwall) [CR 3]
• CÉCILE MAUDET (UNIVERSITY OF RENNES): ‘They just don't know what it is they're doing’: reconciliation and redemption in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
• LAURA IZARRA (UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO): Let the great narrative spin: a poetics of relations
• MEHDI GHASSEMI (CHARLES DE GAULLE UNIVERSITY, LILLE III): Psychotic Structures in John Banville’s Mefisto
Metaperspectives on Irish Theatre (Chair: Mary Massoud) [Green Room]
• ADRIANA CAPUCHINHO (UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO): Meta-ritual in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
• BEATRIZ KOPSCHITZ BASTOS (BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF IRISH STUDIES): Brian Friel in Brazil: a case study
• AMAL MAZHAR (UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO): Exilic Identity Conflict in Tom Murphy, Martin McDonagh and Yussef El Guindi
10.30-11.00:
coffee
11.00-12.30:
Keynote lecture by PÁDRAIG O’MACHAIN (DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, DIAS): Gaelic exiles in Louvain in the early 17th century:
their poetry and their books (Chair: Jan Roegiers) [Auditorium]
12:30-14.00:
lunch
14.00-15.30:
parallel panel sessions
Early Twentieth Century Theatre (Chair: Patrick Burke) [CR 1]
• JOHN BRANNIGAN (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): On a Wet Rock in the Atlantic: J.M. Synge, A.C. Haddon, and Island Ethnologies
• JULIE MCCORMICK (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS): To be National or not to be National?: Divided Loyalties and Appropriated Flags in John Connolly’s Under Which Flag?
and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars
• ALEXANDRA POULAIN (CHARLES DE GAULLE UNIVERSITY, LILLE III): The Passion of Harry Heegan: Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie
Women Writers (Chair: Tina O'Toole) [CR 2]
• ANNE FOGARTY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): The Lives of Others: Memory and Desire in Molly’s Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden and The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
• CLAUDIA LUPPINO (UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE): “‘How come they do nothing?’ […] ‘They’re men’, she says, as if this explains everything.”
Gender conflicts and resolutions in Claire Keegan’s fiction
• THERESA WRAY (CARDIFF UNIVERSITY): Bitter and Sweet: Representations of the grandmother in Maeve Brennan’s The Visitor and Maura Laverty’s Never No More
Resolving Lyric: Poetry by Seamus Heaney and Medbh McGuckian (Chair: Ailbhe Darcy) [Green Room]
• AILBHE DARCY (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME): Reading Medbh McGuckian Transnationally
• NATHANIEL MYERS (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME): Troubling Ethics: Responsibility and Tradition in Heaney’s Poems for the Northern Irish Dead
• JOHN DILLON (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME): ‘Whatever You Say Say Nothing’: The Honest Utterance in Seamus Heaney’s North
Politics and Literature [CR 3]
• RADVAN MARKUS (CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE): Ironic Myths and Broken Images - Literary ‘Resolutions’ of 1798
• FREDERIK VAN DAM (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN): Nationalism versus Liberalism: Anthony Trollope on Home Rule and Abandonment
15.30-16.00:
coffee
16.00-18.00:
parallel panel sessions (four speakers)
Women's Identities (Chair: Fiona McCann) [Auditorium]
• PILAR VILLAR ARGAIZ (UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA): The multicultural agenda of women poets in Ireland
• MICHAELA MARKOVA (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN/BRNO): Motherhood and schizophrenia as alternative strategies to imposed identity – Kate O’Riordan’s Involved and Anna Burns’s No bones
• YURI YOSHINO (HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY): The Madwomen in the Laundry: Conflicting Femininities and Struggles for Narrative Authorities in Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed
• ANNA HANRAHAN (UNIVERSITY OF WuPPERTAL): Closeness and Conflict in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs and Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan
Conflicts and Resolutions in Literary Recollections of the Great Famine (Chair: Marguérite Corporaal) [CR 1]
• MARGUÉRITE CORPORAAL (RADBOUD UNIVERSITY): Mediating Maidens and Mothers: Conflict, Resolution and the Role of Gender in Early Literary Recollections of the Great Famine
• LINDSAY JANSSEN (RADBOUD UNIVERSITY): Neither here nor there: Pastoral landscape as a resolution to conflicted transnational Identity in Irish diaspora fiction, 1860-1890
• CHRISTOPHER CUSACK (RADBOUD UNIVERSITY): ‘Their hearts are like a feather, though they haven’t a sixpence in the thatch’: Gaelic Revivalism and Famine in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Novels
• RUUD VAN DEN BEUKEN (RADBOUD UNIVERSITY): ‘It is the business of the Theatre to be theatrical’: Modernist Poetics, Cultural Trauma, and the Performance of Famine Memory at the Gate Theatre
Joycean Views on Conflict (Chair: Anthony Lake) [CR 2]
• YI-PENG LAI (QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST): The Tree Run, the Foresters Parade, ‘The Green Hungarian Band’: Politics of the Green Performance in James Joyce’s Ulysses
• ALISON LACIVITA (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Rus in Urbe: Country vs. City in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
• SOICHIRO ONOSE (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO): Politics in the Graveyard: Post-Parnellite Dublin in James Joyce’s ‘Hades’
• HSIU-YUAN, CHEN (UNIVERSITY OF TURKU): ‘No, That’s Noise’: The audio cannibalism in Joyce's Ulysses
Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) [CR 3]
• EISHIRO ITO (IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY): ‘A Suave Philosophy’: Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce’s Works
• IRENA GRUBICA (UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA): Counter Memory in Brian Friel’s Plays: Conflicting Identities and History-Making
• BRITTA OLINDER (UNIVERSITY OF GOTEBORG): Friends and Enemies: Conflicts and Resolutions in John Hewitt’s Work and Career
Beckett’s Stylization of Conflict (Chair: Sean Kennedy) [Green Room]
• SEAN KENNEDY (SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY, HALIFAX): Samuel Beckett, famine memory and the discontents of humanism in Endgame
• MARY M.F. MASSOUD (AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY, CAIRO): Conflict and resolution in Beckett’s Endgame
• LEONARD MADDEN (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK): ‘scarred signaculum’: Productive Conflict in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Dortmunder’
• KIMINORI FUKAYA (UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA): Use of Play: Conflicts and Resolutions in Samuel Beckett’s Stylistic and Generic Choice
18.30:
Refreshments with carillon music
Poetry reading by MARY O’MALLEY
- Venue: Central Library, Ladeuzeplein 21
- Venue: Central Library (Reading Room)
20.00:
Reception hosted by the Irish embassy - Venue: Central Library
Wednesday 20 July
9.00-10.30:
parallel panel sessions
Water Voices: The Imagination of Water in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Chair: Matthew Campbell) [CR 1]
• JODY ALLEN RANDOLPH (WESTMONT COLLEGE, SANTA BARBARA): ‘The kind of body that enters blueness’: Environmental Crisis and the Imagination of Water
• PATRICIA COUGHLAN (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK): Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Sea Beneath: Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Postmodern Ireland
• MOYNAGH SULLIVAN (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH): ‘Just let me moisten your dreamwork’: Dreams and Water in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Colm Tóibín (Chair: Laura Izarra) [CR 2]
• SCANLAN, MARGARET C. (INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND): VARIETIES of Silence: The Clerical Abuse Scandals in Colm Tóibín’s Empty Families
• DANIELLE O’LEARY (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH): All the Way from Ireland: Resolving the Struggle with the Unfamiliar in Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn
• JOSÉ CARREGAL ROMERO (UNIVERSITY OF VIGO): The subversion of canonical definitions of family in Colm Tóibín´s The Empty Family
Translation of Cultures: Germany - Ireland [CR 3]
• DOROTHEA DEPNER (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): ‘British to my Irish core’: Christabel Bielenberg’s construction of a self-image in her memoirs
• JOACHIM FISCHER (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK): Boston or Berlin? Dimensions of a topical controversy in the Irish world of Letters
• SANDRA MAYER (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): ‘Practically Rewritten – and Sexually Reoriented’: The Critical Controversy Surrounding the Viennese Première of Elfriede Jelinek’s Adaptation of
The Importance of Being Earnest
Beckett on Conflict [Green Room]
• KAZUHIRO DOKI (AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION): Belacqua’s Painful Case in More Pricks Than Kicks
• AHMED GAMAL (AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY): Eastern Thought in Beckett’s Trilogy: A Postcolonial Reading
• PAUL FAGAN (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): The Jest of all Possible Worlds: The Comedic Conflict between Reality, Fantasy, and Representation in Swift, Sterne,
Joyce, O’Brien, and Beckett
10.30-11.00:
coffee
11.00-12.30:
parallel panel sessions
Social Realism in Contemporary Irish Film (Chair: Werner Huber) [CR 1]
• THOMAS KORTHALS (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR): Tears, Smiles and Children: Views of early 1960s Ireland from abroad
• MARK SCHREIBER (UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN): Religious and Ethnic Conflict and (no) Resolution in Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (2004)
• NOÉLIA BORGES (UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA): Film Adaptation: Compatibilities and disharmonies in Joseph O’Connor’s Red Roses and Petrol (1995)
Bowen and Egerton (Chair: Theresa Wray) [CR 2]
• NIAMH HELENA DOWDALL (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Battling the ‘relentless enemy’: women, beauty and ageing in Elizabeth Bowen’s writing
• STEPHANIE EGGERMONT (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN): Humble onlookers and Unreliable Braggers in the Short Fiction of Sarah Grand
Haunting Drama (Chair: Riana O'Dwyer) [CR 3]
• EUGENE MCNULTY (DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY): The Girl Who Didn’t Die: Boucicault’s Colleen Bawn and Ireland as (non) crime-scene
• NICOLE WINSOR (UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND): The Disruptive Other: Phantomatic Hauntings in W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory
• Mª DEL MAR GONZALEZ CHACON (UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO): Conflict and Resolution in Marble by Marina Carr
Translation of Conflict: Comparison of Cultures (Chair: Britta Olinder) [Green Room]
• YI-LING YANG (NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN): Languages in Collision? Translation Writing in Ulysses and Rose, Rose, I Love You
• MÉLANIE WHITE (PAUL VERLAINE UNIVERSITY, METZ): Finding peaceful alternatives through the renewal of classical myth in the poetry of Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
• YOUNGMIN KIM (DONGGUK UNIVERSITY SEOUL): Transnational Cultural Contamination: The Poetries of Yeats, Bennett, Cha, and Martinez
12.30-14.00:
lunch
Buses to Brussels leave at 13.20 - At De Dijlemolens, Zwartezusterstraat 16/4
14.00-18.30:
option between
- Leuven:
Museum M
- Leuven:
Food Walk
- Brussels:
Guided Tour
19.30-20.30:
(15.00, Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28)
(15.00, City Hall, Grote Markt)
(13.20, De Dijlemolens, Zwartezusterstraat 16/4)
Reading by SEAMUS DEANE: The French Invention of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Chair: Hedwig Schwall)
- Venue: Promotion Room, Main University Halls, Naamsestraat 22
Thursday 21 July
9.00-10.30:
parallel panel sessions
Deirdre Madden’s Solution to the Northern Conflict (Chair: Elke D'hoker) [CR 1]
• TERESA CASAL (UNIVERSITY OF LISBON): ‘I wondered what it was to be Molly Fox’: Ethics and aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s novel
• MARISOL MORALES-LADRÓN (UNIVERSITY OF ALCALA): The (de)construction of the Northern Irish conflict in Deirdre Madden’s fiction
• ZUZANNA SANCHES (UNIVERSITY OF LISBON): Not such Innocent Pain: Deirdre Madden’s The Birds of the Innocent Wood
Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Chair: Caroline Magennis) [CR 2]
• STEFANIE LEHNER (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Performing the Peace Process: The Politics of Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Northern Irish Drama
• FIONA COFFEY (TUFTS UNIVERSITY, BOSTON): Controversial and Unpopular Challenges to the Northern Irish Peace Process: the dramatic counternarratives of Abbie Spallen and
her female contemporaries
• MEGAN W. MINOGUE (QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST): ‘But One Life to Give’: Conflicting Loyalties in the Plays of Gary Mitchell
Memory and Violence in Ireland (Chair: Michael Parker) [CR 3]
• VICTORIA CONNOR (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN): The Representation of the Magdalene Laundries in the Work of Patricia Burke Brogan
• EMMA GREY (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN): Paul Seawright’s Conflicting Account
• SHANE ALCOBIA-MURPHY (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN): ‘I Could Not Tell’: The Representation of Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Northern Irish Culture
18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien) [Green Room]
• CHRISTINA MORIN (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): ‘Attractive Chivalric Fantasies?’ Conflict in and about Early Irish Gothic Fiction
• TETSUKO NAKAMURA (NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL): Travel Accounts of Connemara and Joyce Country in the 1830s
• RIANA O’DWYER (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IRELAND, GALWAY): Conflict and Resolution in Lady Morgan’s Woman or, Ida of Athens (1809)
10.30-11.00:
coffee
11.00-12.30:
Keynote lecture by MARIANNE ELLIOTT (DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR IRISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL): The Historic roots of communal conflict in Ireland and
what might be done to address them (Chair: Johan Verberckmoes) [Auditorium]
12.30-14.00:
lunch
14.00-15.30:
parallel panel sessions
Translating Traditions (Chair: Marianne Elliott) [Auditorium]
• CHANTAL DESSAINT (CHARLES DE GAULLE UNIVERSITY, LILLE III): Orality and Literacy in three of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Short Stories
• PATRICK BURKE (ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE DRUMCONDRA): The Kilmore Carols and Productive Misconceptions
• DOMINIC BRYAN (QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST): Symbols and Text: Flags and Territory in Northern Ireland
Pathology, Parable and Pilgrimage (Chair: Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos) [CR 1]
• ONDREJ PILNY (CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE): Parables? Pathological Interaction in the Recent Plays of Enda Walsh
• MARIESE RIBAS STANKIEWICZ (UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO): Unveiled and Concealed Secrets of the Gunpowder Plot: Ambiguity in Speaking like Magpies by Frank McGuinness
• FILOMENA LOURO (UNIVERSITY OF MINHO): Classical pilgrimage: healing or catharsis. The use of classical themes in Modern Irish Drama
Masculine Discourse on Contemporary Conflict (Chair: Eamonn Hughes) [CR 2]
• VIVIANE CARVALHO DA ANNUNCIAÇÃO (UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO): An Autumn Wind: The Ancient and the Contemporary in Derek Mahon’s recent poetry
• ANNA ASIAN CARRERA (UNIVERSITY OF POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA): Home, a strange, shifting territory in Brendan Kennelly’s Cromwell
• SHARON PHELAN (THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TRALEE): Themes of Conflict and Resolution in the Poetry of Brendan Kennelly
Conflicts in Crime Fiction [CR 3]
• MICHAEL MCATEER (QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST): Beyond Revisionism? Conflict (Ir)resolution and the limits of ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler
• JOHN SCANLAN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY): Dublin Noir, Brooklyn Noir: A Question of Appreciation
• DAVID CLARKE (UNIVERSITY OF LA CORUNA): Freeman Wills Crofts and the birth of the police procedural
Conflict in Contemporary Poets (Chair: Gisèle Wolkoff) [Green Room]
• MAURICE HARMON (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN): Eavan Boland. Dislocation and Definition
• TERESA PEREZ TILVE (UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA): ‘Let me be. There is much / I am starving for.’ Conflicting identities in Eithne Strong’s poetry
• FUYUJI TANIGAWA (KONAN WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY, KOBE): Re-writing memories: the significance of the poet’s returning home in The Spirit Level
15.30-16.00:
coffee
16.00-18.00:
parallel panel sessions (four speakers)
Martin Mc Donagh (Chair: Mark Schreiber) [CR 1]
• KUAN-HUI LIAO (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY): Trans-generational Conflicts Resolved? Parricide in John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane
• JOSÉ LANTERS (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE): Like Tottenham: Moral Limbo in the Works of Martin McDonagh
• MARY HELEN THUENTE (NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY): Saintly and Secular Icons in Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West
• ULF DANTANUS (GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX): No Anxiety of Influence: Parody and Pastiche in the Drama of Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh
Land War Fiction II (Chair: Heidi Hansson) [CR 2]
• HEIDI HANSSON (UMEA UNIVERSITY): More than an Irish problem: Authority and universality in some Land War novels
• JULIE ANNE STEVENS (ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE, DUBLIN): Land Matters: The primacy of place in Irish land war fiction for adults and children
• ANNA PILZ (LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY): ‘All Possessors of Property Tremble’: Lady Gregory, Coole Park and the Land War
• WHITNEY STANDLEE (LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY): ‘You Should Have Been Here in the League Days’: Agrarian Agitation and the Land League in the Fiction of Katharine Tynan
Gender and Conflicted Identities: Local, National and International Contexts (Chair: Michael Kenneally) (GREP) [CR 3]
• PAT MCMAHON (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK): Brendan Bracken, An Irish Rebel
• MARIA MULVANY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): The Haunted Skin: Spectral Presences in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin (2000)
• SINÉAD MOLONY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Dressing Night as Day: Encountering the Urban Femininity of Dublin’s Pyjama Girl
• CORMAC O'BRIEN (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): By The Mire of Manhood…: Performances of Masculinity in Marina Carr’s Midlands Cycle
Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty) [Green Room]
• PHILIP KEEL GEHEBER (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Mythologically Modern Joyce
• WERNER HUBER (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): Intermedial Conflicts: Ulysses and High-Pop
• NADIA KHALAF (AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein’s The Days
• ANTHONY LAKE (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AMMAN): Comedy and Conflict resolution in Ulysses
20.00:
Concert by DAIRE HALPIN (SOPRANO) AND SERGEY RYBIN (PIANO): The Other Woman - Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula, De Bériotstraat 24
Friday 22 July
9.00-10.30:
parallel panel sessions
Contemporary Women Poets (Chair: Pilar Villar Argaiz) [CR 1]
• NOAKO TORAIWA (UNIVERSITY OF MEIJI, TOKYO): ‘Yet something strange will stay’: Sinéad Morrissey’s search for cures in foreignness
• MICHAELA SCHRAGE-FRÜH (UNVERSITY OF MAINZ, GERMANY): Dreams of Conflict and Healing in Paula Meehan’s Poetry
• GISELE GIANDONI WOLKOFF (UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA): Deterritorializing selves: Sinéad Morrissey and Rita Ann Higgins, in comparison
Communication and Conflict in Theatre (Chair: Filomena Louro) [CR 2]
• JOSEPH GREENWOOD (QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST): Song Lines and Memory in John Murphy’s The Country Boy
• JOAN F. DEAN (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, KANSAS CITY): Denis Johnston’s The Táin: The Dramaturgy of Pageantry
• MUNIRA MUTRAN (UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO): Communication and Conflict in Sebastian Barry’s Andersen’s English
Textual Conflict in the Work of Women Writers (Chair: Danielle O'Leary) [CR 3]
• GIOVANNA TALLONE (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN): Conflicts of Alternative Texts. Mary O’Donnell Rewrites Mary Lavin’s ‘The Widow’s Son’
• YU-CHEN LIN (NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN): Gift Economy in Mary Gordon’s Spending
• SIEN DELTOUR (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN): Themes and Tropes in Vona Groarke's Spindrift
Political Agendas in 19th and 20th Century Fiction (Chair: Christina Morin) [Green Room]
• K. MADOLYN NICHOLS (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK): Out of Place: Returned Emigrants, Identity and Belonging
• CATHERINE SMITH (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK): ‘the pyre of the phoenix’: Revolution and Allegory in Irish Women’s Historical Fiction
• CLAIRE CONNOLLY (CARDIFF UNIVERSITY): National tales and transnational conflict: war in Irish romanticism
10.30-11.00:
coffee
11.00-12.30:
Keynote lecture by EAMONN HUGHES (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR IRISH STUDIES, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST):
The Literatures of Belfast (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)
12.30-14.00:
lunch
14.00-15.30:
parallel panel sessions
Literature and Politics (Chair: Ondrej Pilny) [CR 1]
• MATTHEW CAMPBELL (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD): Liberating Form: Thomas MacDonagh and the modernism of the Irish Mode
• CORMAC LAMBE (ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE, DRUMCONDRA): ‘Echoes answering calls for order.’ Responses to the Northern Ireland conflict in the writing of Jim Craven
• CAROLINE MAGENNIS (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK): ‘That Cultural Credit Card’: Re-reading the influence of Maurice Leitch
Politics & Media (Chair: Rhona Kenneally) [CR 2]
• ANNE MULHALL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Intimate States: the biopolitics of contemporary Ireland
• J. EDWARD MALLOT (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY): ‘There’s No Good Riot Footage Anymore’: Waging Northern Ireland’s Media War in the Fiction of Eoin McNamee
• LAUREN CLARK (UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND): Foundlings, Waifs and Strays – Conflicts between Irish Charity Children and Consumer Culture in fin de siècle Irish Literature
Contemporary Fiction (Chair: Katharina Rennhak) [CR 3]
• CAITLIN MCGUINNESS (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA): Montage and Conflict in Neil Jordan’s Shade
• MATHIAS LEBARGY (UNIVERSITY OF CAEN BASSE-NORMANDIE): Interior Conflicts in McCabe’s The Butcher Boy and Emerald Germs of Ireland: a Dead End
The 1930s (Chair: Julie Anne Stevens) [Green Room]
• TOM WALKER (SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, OXFORD): ‘It’s a true story’: Brian O'Nolan, the Irish Bicycle and Republican Life-Writing
• ELISABETH DELATTRE (UNIVERSITY OF ARTOIS, ARRAS): Troubles by J.G. Farrell or the Anglo-Irish War
15.30-16.00:
coffee
16.00-17.30:
AGM
19.30:
Conference Banquet - Venue: Salons Georges, Hogeschoolplein 15