IASIL 2022 Conference Schedule, 25th to 29th July 2022

 

Badges: make sure to wear/carry your conference badge throughout the week especially for entry to evening venues. The UL visitor’s shop are offering a 10% discount to IASIL delegates, on production of your conference badge. Limerick Castle are also offering an IASIL discount for entry/tours. Don’t forget!

 

Venues

The conference map (online and in your pack) highlights all key IASIL22 locations on campus.

 

  • The Glucksman Library is located on the main UL campus, near the Main Building / set-down area for taxis, close to the Stables courtyard (where the bookshop and student bar are located).
  • KBG rooms are all located on the ground floor of the Kemmy Business School (KBS) on the main UL campus. For those walking/cycling/driving in from the direction of the main (flagpoles) entrance: go up the avenue and take the first exit from the mini-roundabout, the KBS is the first building on your left.

Monday, July 25th

 

Monday, July 25th

 

Time

Event

Location

9:30

IASIL PhD Forum

KBS (Kemmy Business School)

12:00

IASIL Executive Meeting

KBS

1:00

Registration Opens

KBS

3:15

ECR event

KBS

5:00

IASIL Launch

Glucksman Library

5:30

Keynote address: Professor Patricia Palmer

Glucksman Library

6:30

Welcome Reception

Glucksman Library

7:00

Readings

Glucksman Library

 

 

9:30-2:30: 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)

 

Curated and chaired by Dr Tracy McAvinue (University of Limerick)

Dr Donna Alexander

Dr Michael Kelly (University of Limerick)

Dr Margaret O’Neill (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Dr Arjumand Younus (Technological University Dublin)

 

5:00: IASIL 2022 Conference Launch & Opening Keynote

Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library

 

5:30: Keynote address: Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University)

We Need to Think about Early Modern Ireland

Chair: Dr Tina O’Toole

 

6:30: Welcome Reception

 

7:00-8:00: Readings: Celia de Fréine, Louis de Paor, and Ciara Ní É 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 26th

 

Time

Event

Location

9:00

Panel Sessions 1

KBS

10:15

Tea/Coffee

KBS

10:30

Roundtable Sessions

KBS

11:45

Keynote address: Dr Zélie Asava

KBS

1:00

Lunch

KBS

1.20

Book Launches

KBS/Glucksman Library

2:00

Readings: Dr Emily Cullen and

Dr Rosaleen McDonagh

KBS

3:00

Tea/Coffee

KBS

3:15

Panel Sessions 2

KBS

4:30

Panel Sessions 3

KBS

7.00

The Holy Show Arts Magazine Launch and Wine Reception

Belltable

8:00

The Alphabet of Birds

Belltable

Tuesday, July 26th

9:00-10:15: 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 

 

Mr Victor da Cruz 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)

 

Ms. Éadaoin Regan (University College Cork),  

Dr Giulia Bruna (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Dr Deirdre Brady (University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College Thurles)  

Dr Tara Giddens (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)

 

Dr Lauren McNamara (Mary Immaculate College Limerick; Trans Limerick Community)

Matt Kennedy (University College Dublin & BeLonGTo) 

William Keohane (Writer; Founder, Trans Limerick Community)

El Reid-Buckley (University of Limerick; Trans Writers Union)

 

 

11:45-1:00: Keynote Address: Dr Zélie Asava

Multiraciality, Intersectionality and Homophily in Irish Screen Narratives

Chair: Ms Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro

Room: KBG-12

 

1:00-2:00: Lunch

KBS Ground Floor

 

1:20-2:00 Lunchtime Sessions: Book Launches

 

Professor Mary Burke, The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey, Tramp Press, 2022.

Room: Popular Reading Room, Ground Floor, Glucksman Library.

 

Dr 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 Rosaleen McDonagh & Dr Emily Cullen (Meskell UL-Fifty Poet in Residence)

Chair: Professor Michael Griffin

Room: KBG-12

 

 

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

 

Ms. Maria Butler (University College Cork)

The Anatomy of a Female Brand: Marian Keyes the Brand Managed Author  

 

Ms. Klára Hutková (Charles University, Prague) 

Female flânerie in Maeve Brennan’s “Talk of the Town” Columns 

 

Ms. 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

 

Mr Sean Aldrich O’Rourke (University of Limerick) 

Reality Creation and its Victims in J.  S. Le Fanu’s Late Fiction 

  

Ms. 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  

 

 

Evening at Limerick’s Belltable Theatre

 

6:00 Bus pick-up from carpark near KBS to bring delegates to town (return trip at 10pm)

 

You will find a list of city-centre eateries we like at the back of this booklet. Please note that Limerick restaurants tend to book out quickly at this time of year so if you plan to dine, do book ahead and tell them you need to make a pre-theatre table booking.

 

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

Those who booked for this event are on the Belltable list, so there’s no need to present a physical or e-ticket, your names are on a list on the door.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 27th

 

Time

Event

Location

9:00

Panel Sessions 4

KBS

10:15

Tea/Coffee

KBS

10:30

Roundtable Sessions

KBS

11:45

Panel Sessions 5

KBS

1:00

Light Lunch

KBS

1:20

Sharon Slater – Women of Limerick

KBS

2:00

Tours / On-Campus Events

Various Locations

9:00

Spoken Word Event

Dolan’s Upstairs

 

 

Wednesday, July 27th

 

9:00-10:15: Panel Sessions 4

 

 

Room: KBG-13

Deactivation and Dissensus 

Chair: Dr Barry Houlihan

 

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)

 

Ms. Lauren Cassidy (University College Dublin)

Ms. Karen Wade (University College Dublin)

Ms. Briony Wickes (University College Dublin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Room: KBG-10

Intertextualities 

Chair: Dr Aileen Ruane

 

Professor Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton (Qatar University)

Cultural “Intruders” in Contemporary Irish and European Narratives of Exile

 

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-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 de Brún (University of Limerick), chaired by Prof Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh)  

 

Prof. Thierry Robin (Université d'Orléans, France)

Prof. Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal) 

Dr Katie Ní Loingsigh (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh)  

Professor Michael McAteer (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) 

Dr Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague)

 

 

 

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)

 

Fiona O’Kearney (Writer)

Declan Mills (Activist & Writer)

Charlie Mullowney (Disability Activist and Communications Officer Disability Power Ireland)  

Clara Paige   (Publisher, Arcbeatle Press)

Rayene Larkeche (Doctoral Student)

Gareth Brinn (Co-Editor of Unapologetic Magazine & Activist)

 

 

Room: KBG-15

Utopian Studies: Contemporary Irish-Based Research      

Curated and chaired by Dr Michael Kelly (University of Limerick)

 

Dr Laurence Davis (University College Cork)  

Professor Joachim Fischer (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”  

 

Ms. 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) 

 “Be Someone": Working-Class Life and Organic Intellectualism in Irish Rap.

 

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

 

Mr Luke Malone (Dundalk Institute of Technology)  

Feminising the Archetype: Women in Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy 

 

Ms. 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:  www.ul.ie/artsoc/iasil-2022/readings/performances

 

Narrative 4 workshop booking link (for those staying on campus): https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/narrative-4-story-exchange-workshop-iasil-tickets-314489204677

 

6.00: City Centre suggested activities (note“suggested”, these not part of the main programme)

  • Brewery tour / beer tasting with Treaty City Brewery, Nicholas St (near Limerick Castle, see flyer in information pack). To book: www.treatycitybrewery.ie costs €21;bookings close Tuesday evening and the tour will only go ahead if there are sufficient numbers; do mention that you’re attending the IASIL Conference at UL.
  • Women of Limerick, city walking tour (free and self-guided, using the app presented by Sharon Slater at lunchtime today)
  • Dinner at Dolan’s: for delegates who wish to dine before the evening performance, Dolan’s are offering IASIL22 a special early-bird menu. To avail of this offer, book directly with Dolan’s and let them know you’re attending the IASIL Conference at UL. Covers are very limited so make sure to book early! www.dolans.ie

 

Evening at Dolan’s Upstairs

 

9:00: Spoken word event with performances by Sarah Clancy, Eoin Devereux, Felispeaks, and Dubhán Ó Longáin. Traditional music performed by Aileen Dillane and friends.

(Dolan’s Upstairs, Dock Road, Limerick city centre). Please note: we regret to say that Dolan's Upstairs is not wheelchair accessible.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 27th

 

Time

Event

Location

9:00

Panel Sessions 6

KBS

10:15

Tea/Coffee

KBS

10:30

Panel Sessions 7

KBS

11:45

Keynote address: Professor Rióna Ní Fhrighil

KBS

1:00

Lunch / David Clare Theatrical Productions

KBS

1:45

Panel Sessions 8

KBS

3:00

Tea/Coffee

KBS

3:15

Panel Sessions 9/ Roundtable Sessions

KBS

4:30

Panel Sessions 10

KBS

8:00

Readings from UL Writers: Helena Close, William Keohane, Sheila Killian, Lia Mills, Lauren Preston, and Donal Ryan

Traditional music performances from Drs Sandra Joyce & Niall Keegan (Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, UL).

MC: James Lawlor, Narrative4

King John’s Castle, Limerick

Thursday, July 28th

9:00-10:15: 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 

 

Professor Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague) 

Irish Fiction in Czech: A Case Study 

    

 

 

 

 

Room: KBG-10

Blue and Green Humanities 

Chair: Ms. 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 

 

Ms. 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
Chair: Professor Laura Izarra

 

Dr Chris Cusack (Radboud University, The Netherlands) 

“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

 

Ms. 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

 

Ms. 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

 

Ms. 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: Mr Victor Da Cruz Pacheco

 

Dr 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 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: Mr Caylum O’Neill

 

Dr Emer Lyons (University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ)

The Straight Fellow: Code-Switching in Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow 

 

Ms 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

Writing Wrongs: Human Rights and Modern Poetry in Irish

Chair: Dr Sorcha De Brún

Room: KBG-12

 

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

 

Ms Orlaith Darling (Trinity College Dublin) 

“Town’s Dead”: Intersectional Approaches to Contemporary Irish Music and the City  

 

Ms 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 

 

Mr Liam Harrison (University of Birmingham) 

Insistent Styles in Contemporary Irish Non-Fiction 

 

Dr Iva Yates (University of Limerick) 

“New-World Democracy”: Expansionism in Folklore Collecting, the Cases of Ireland and Puerto Rico  

 

 

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) 

  

Mr Loïc Wright (University College Dublin) 

Rural and Urban Masculinities, the Failed Bildungsroman, and the Nation in Mary Lavin’s The House in Clewe Street (1945) 

 

 

3:00-3:15: Tea/coffee

KBS Ground Floor

3:15-4:30: Panel Sessions 9 / Roundtable Sessions:

 

Room No: KBG-13

Irish-German Studies Today: Challenges and Chances      

Curated and chaired by Professor Gisela Holfter

 

Dr Sorcha de Brún (University of Limerick) 

Professor Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick) 

Robert Henneberg (German Embassy Dublin)  

Professor Michelle Witen (Europa Universität Flensburg)

 

Room No: KBG-14

Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Higher Education Contexts      

Curated and chaired by Dr Lia Mills

Anna Ryan Moloney (University of Limerick)

Donal Ryan (University of Limerick), 

Marie Gethins (University of Limerick)  

William Keohane  

 

 

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” 

 

Mr 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

 

Ms 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: Professor Joachim Fischer

 

Professor Dhananjay Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)  

Colonialism, Violence and the Poetic Responsibility: The Politico-Aesthetic Third Space in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry  

 

Mr 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

 

Ms 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 

 

Ms 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

 

Mr Theo Campbell  (Villanova University, USA)

“Customs Handed Down to Us”: Empire and Vulnerability in Glimpses of my Life in Aran  

 

Dr Marine Galiné (University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France)

The Bog in Lee Cronin’s The Hole in the Ground (2019): Liminality, Motherhood and Abjection  

 

Ms 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 

 

 

 

6.00 Evening at Limerick Castle

 

Please note: delegates are asked to make their own way into town this evening, which they may do by taking public transport, see: https://www.ul.ie/buildings/travel-transport or booking a taxi. For delegates using smartphones: the FREE NOW taxi app makes booking very easy.

 

  • For delegates who wish to dine before the evening performance, Treaty City Brewery (located a few doors down from our evening venue, King John's Castle, on Nicholas St) are offering a BBQ special for €22, with a menu from award-winning chef Keith Piggott, using only local ingredients. This is available from 6-8pm (i.e. before the readings only). Please make sure to book ahead : www.treatycitybrewery.ie  (select the “food” option).

 

8:00: Wine reception at the Castle, followed by readings and performances from UL writers and musicians: Helena Close, Sandra Joyce, William Keohane, Niall Keegan, Sheila Killian, Lia Mills, Lauren Preston, and Donal Ryan

(King John’s Castle, Nicholas Street, Limerick city centre)

 

 

 

 

Friday, July 29th

 

Time

Event

Location

9:00

Panel Sessions 11

KBS

10:15

Tea/Coffee

KBS

10:30

Panel Sessions 12

KBS

11:45

Plenary: Professor Fiona McCann

KBS

1:20

Lunch / Lunchtime Interview: Claire Lynch in conversation with Emilie Pine on the publication of Small: On Motherhoods

KBS

1:20

Book Launch

KBS

2:00

IASIL Annual General Meeting

KBS

7:00

Barbecue

The Pavilion

 

 

 

 

Friday, July 29th

9:00-10:15: 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

 

Ms. Esther Gazzola Borges (University of São Paulo)  

Queer Diaspora, Identity and Community in Contemporary Irish Literature 

 

Dr Patricia A. Lynch  (University of Limerick)

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

 

Ms Sophie Anders (University of Salford) 

The “Wee English Fella”: Queering the Representation of Masculinity in Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls 

 

Ms 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  

 

Dr 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 

 

Ms 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

 

Mr 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 

 

Mr 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

 

Dr Karen Anne McCarthy (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) 

“The Incest Plot” in John Banville’s Ancient Light 

 

Ms 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

Forms of Care in Irish Literature 2012-2022: Shifting Agencies and Decolonial Poetics

Chair: Dr Michael Kelly

Room: KBG-12

 

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