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The Island and the Arts: 7th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network, Tromsoy University, Norway 2-3 December 2010


Patrick Kavanagh once claimed that Ireland could host an army of a thousand poets at any time. Perhaps that is a small number compared to the island’s rich heritage of traditional and popular music. Yet poetry, pop, and folk are not its only creative outlets. Irish theatre contributes to cultural discussions at home and abroad, while in the visual arts it boasts a range of powerful painters and an ever-increasing production of films. Furthermore, new media, generic transgressions, translations, and border aesthetics enhance creativity. The island’s nature, its monastic tradition, contested histories, language diversity, social shifts, diasporic dynamics, and tax legislation - all these likely and unlikely sources of artistic endeavour keep the cornucopia flowing. Today, as throughout history, the island holds a remarkable position in the creative arts and questions concerning aesthetics and its relations to metaphysical speculation, ethic significance, historical conditioning, social becoming, and identitarian processes are both more vital and more compelling than ever. The 2010 NISN conference focuses on the arts of the island and on the conditions and critical discourses with which they interact. The organisers invite proposals for both individual 20-minute papers and planned panels on a wide variety of topics connected to the theme. The call for papers opens on 1 December, with a deadline for the submission of abstracts of 300 words on 15 June 2010. Confirmed keynote speakers include poets Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, painter Rita Anne Duffy and Professor Michael Parker. The conference is hosted by the University of Tromsø in cooperation with the Norwegian Research Council and the Irish Embassy.

Please send abstracts or inquiries to: Ruben.Moi@uit.no

Papers may address, but are by no means restricted to, the following topics:

 

* relations between the arts
* ekphrastic poetry and prose
* the future of the arts
* arts and language
* arts and politics
* arts and ethics
* arts and history
* arts and psychology
* arts and the environment
* arts and memory
* critical discussions of the works of individual artists (e.g. writers, painters, playwrights, musicians, directors)

 

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Oxford, Hertford Bards to Banville: An Irish Literature Seminar,

Wednesdays, 5.15 pm, Michaelmas Term , The Old Library, Hertford College , Oxford

 

 

14 October

Professor David Womersley (St Catherine's College, Oxford ) The Art of Political Trapanning: Swift on the Cause, Curse and Cure of Party

 

 

28 October

Professor Roy Foster ( Hertford College , Oxford )

Lost in the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the Supernatural

 

 

11 November

Dr John Redmond ( University of Liverpool )

Is Derek Mahon a Public Poet?

 

 

25 November

Dr Catherine Rees ( Loughborough University )

Political Impotence and Social Sterility: Gender and Confusion in the Plays of

Martin McDonagh

 

 

Convenors: thomas.walker@lincoln.ox.ac.uk, sarah.bennett@hertford.ox.ac.uk

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An international conference held at the University of Sunderland Kilt by kelt shell kithagain with kinagain" : Ireland and Scotland

 

November 12 th to 14 th 2010 - Organised by the North East Irish Culture Network Call for Papers:

Following the success of the previous seven international Irish Studies conferences, the University of Sunderland, in association with NEICN, is soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary conference, which will run from 12th to 14th November 2010.

The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Irish culture from academics and non­-academics alike. Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non­-traditional presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. We welcome both individual submissions and proposals for panels. In connection with the conference theme we welcome submissions for panels and papers based around the often overlapping and interconnected histories and cultures of Ireland and Scotland. Possible themes include, (but are not limited to) :

  • Ireland/Scotland in Theory ; Gender and Ireland/Scotland ; Advertising and Commodity Culture in Ireland and/or Scotland ; immigration and emigration ; the Irish/Scottish diasporas ; borderlands and border identities.

Following the interdisciplinary nature of the conference we welcome proposals from the areas of :

  • Literature, Performing Arts, History, Politics, Folklore and Mythology, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Tourism, Art and Art History, Music, Dance, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Celtic Studies and Studies of the Diaspora. North American and other international scholars, practitioners in the arts, and postgraduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the conference organisers.

Each session will include three or four 20-minute presentations each followed by discussion. A selection of the accepted papers will be subsequently published in the conference proceedings.

The University of Sunderland houses the North East Irish Culture Network, established in 2003 to further the study of Irish Literature and Culture (see www.neicn.com). It has held six previous conferences. Previous speakers include Terry Eagleton, Robert Welch, Luke Gibbons, Ailbhe Smith, Kevin Barry, Siobhan Kilfeather, Shaun Richards, Lance Pettitt, Stephen Regan, Lord David Puttnam, Andrew Carpenter, John Nash and Willy Maley, with readings from Ciaran Carson Medbh McGuckian, Bernard O'Donoghue and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. In 2008, the English department at Durham was the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Grant to sponsor its project ‘Consumer Culture, Advertising and Literature in ireland 1848-1921' (see www.ccalireland.com)

Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers confirmed to date include:

Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow .

Paper Submission

Paper proposals should be submitted by 10 th July, 2010 by e-mail to

alison.younger@sunderland.ac.uk and copied to colin.younger@sunderland.ac.uk


Slan agus beannacht www.neicn.com http://www.ccalireland.com/index.html Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr] Programme Leader: English and Creative Writing Department of English University of Sunderland


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