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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
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Monday, July 25th |
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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
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Tuesday, July 26th |
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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.
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Wednesday, July 27th |
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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.
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Thursday, July 27th |
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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)
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Friday, July 29th |
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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
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Phone: +353-61-202700
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