HOSTED BY THE SCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN AND COMPUTATION ARTS CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, CANADA 2012 IASIL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

CO-ORGANIZERS MICHAEL KENNEALLY School of Canadian Irish Studies RHONA RICHMAN KENNEALLY Department of Design and Computation Arts SUSAN CAHILL School of Canadian Irish Studies

CONFERENCE MANAGER KERRY MCELROY PhD Candidate

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FACULTY OF FINE ARTS OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH AND GRADUATE STUDIES SCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES BIENVENUE Concordia University’s School of Canadian Irish Studies and Department of Design and Computation Arts are very pleased to host the first IASIL conference in Canada, and are delighted to welcome delegates from twenty countries to Montreal. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Faculties of Arts and Science and of Fine Arts; Culture Ireland; the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation; and the Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies. In bringing together a prestigious international gathering of writers and scholars of Irish writing, Concordia University marks another important stage in its evolution as a premier academic location for Irish and Canadian Irish Studies.

In choosing as the conference topic Weighing Words: Interdisciplinary Engagements with and within Irish Literatures, the organizers underline Concordia University’s commitment to interdisciplinarity and, at the same time, suggest new directions for Irish literary studies. The premise is that literature provides a portal to worlds of visual and material culture, to landscapes and built environments replete with relationships between humans, things, and spaces. The conference, therefore, is an opportunity for critics to respond to the multifaceted material dimensions of Irish writing, as well as to enrich the study of Irish literature by deploying theoretical principles and methodologies of other fields such as anthropology, architecture, art, design, digital humanities, film, geography, history, music and theatre. The hope, therefore, is that this conference will facilitate an expansion of the critical and methodological frameworks traditionally associated with Irish literary criticism, at a moment when Irish society, as well as Irish writing itself, is undergoing profound transformations.

The Organizing Committee expresses its thanks to the following individuals who have helped with preparations for the conference: Linda An, Dominique Bourcier, Ada Chan, Bryan Cooke, Pierre Deslauriers, James Donovan, Kelly Norah Drukker, Gavin Foster, Paul Fournier, Emily Gamble, Lynn Kirk, Bernice Lamb Senechal, Andrea Larocque, Kathy McAleese, Jane McGaughey, Catherine McGuire, Gabrielle Machnik- Kékesi, Miriam Mokrusa, Alexandra Mulrennan, Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin, Angela Olaguera, David Szanto, Matina Skalkogiannis, Sara Spike, Joel Taylor, Michelina Sardella Trapid, Mélodie Vachon Boucher, and Tracy Valcourt. We are grateful to John T. Davis, Lelia Doolan, Peter Flynn, Ed Godsell and Keith O’Grady who kindly provided their films for screening. Special thanks are extended to Kerry McElroy whose hard work and coordination skills were crucial in all aspects of the preparation of the conference.

On behalf of all those who have worked to ensure the success of the conference, the Organizing Committee extends a warm bienvenue à Montréal to all delegates.

MICHAEL KENNEALLY RHONA RICHMAN KENNEALLY SUSAN CAHILL SUNDAY, JULY 29 5:30-7:00 PM EARLY REGISTRATION AND INFORMAL RECEPTION SCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES H-1001.1 MONDAY, JULY 30 8:00-9:00 AM REGISTRATION MB-2.130 THE REGISTRATION TABLE IN THIS ROOM WILL BE STAFFED FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONFERENCE 9:00-9:30 AM OPENING CEREMONY BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 9:30-10:30 AM KEYNOTE: JOEP LEERSSEN (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM) REMEDIATING THE NATION BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 10:30-11:00 AM COFFEE MB-3.130 1 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 1A THE FRACTURED 1B CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS: 1C WRITING HOME, ABROAD: 1D GENDER AND HISTORY 1E THE IRELAND-QUEBEC FAMILY, FATHERHOOD, AND BAILEGANGAIRE IN BRAZIL IRISH DIASPORA, WRITING, IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONNECTION MASCULINITY IN IRISH CHAIR: JOCHEN ACHILLES AND MEMORY IRELAND CHAIR: LITERATURE10:30-11:00 AND CULTURE AM COFFEE MB-5.265 CHAIR: PETER KUCH CHAIR: GEARÓID ÓHALLMHURÁIN CHAIR:MB-3.130 JANE MCGAUGHEY BEATRIZ KOPSCHITZ EV-1.615 DANINE FARQUHARSON EV-1.605 MB-5.215 BASTOS (University of MOLLY BURNS GALLAHER MB-3.210 NOÉMIE BECK (Concordia SHEILA MCAVEY (Becker São Paolo) The Story of (University of New LUCY MCDIARMID (Montclair University) Irish Folklore College) Fractured Irish Balangangueri and How it Hampshire) Heroines, Wives, State University) Undressing in Quebec? A Case Study Masculinity Came by its Appelation and Sinners: Depictions of on the Asgard: Women’s Eye- in Cultural Transfer, LISA MCGONIGLE (University DOMINGOS NUNEZ the Irish Mother Figure in Witness Accounts of 1914 & Acculturation, and Legacy of Otago) “God the Father and (Playwright) Balangangueri: Northern New England’s 1916 MARIE PILON (Independent Joseph the Carpenter”: Faith Tom Murphy’s Universe on a Historical Memory MARY HELEN THUENTE Scholar) VLB and Ulysses: and Fatherhood in Bruce Brazilian Stage KEVIN MOLLOY (State (North Carolina Imitator or Pupil? Beresford’s Evelyn (2002) SHAUN RICHARDS University of Victoria) The State University) The EVE STODDARD (St. Mary’s University College, Irish-American Novel in Transmigration of Sebastian (St. Lawrence University) London) Tom Murphy’s Nineteenth-Century Australia: Barry’s Lilly Bere in On “The Colonization of Psychic “Trauma Trilogy”- Brigit/A Mary Anne Sadlier and the Canaan’s Side Space”: Nuala O’Faolain’s Thief of a Christmas/ Irish Migrant Reader Post-Big House Novel Bailegangaire 12:30-1:30 PM LUNCH EV-11.725 AND EV-7.745 2 1:30-3:30 PM 2A TOURISM AND ANTI- 2B VIOLENCE AND THE 2C YEATSIAN EXPLORATIONS 2D ROMANCING 2E IRISH FEMINISMS: THEORY, TOURISM: LITERARY OUTSIDER IN IRISH THEATRE THROUGH MUSIC, POETICS, REVOLUTION: MEMORY IN MYTHOLOGY, FUTURITY ENGAGEMENTS WITH AND CINEMA AND AESTHETICS REPRESENTATIONS OF 1916 CHAIR: AUTHENTICITY AND CHAIR: JAMES MCNAUGHTON CHAIR: ED LARRISSY AND THE CIVIL WAR GERARDINE MEANEY COMMODIFICATION MB-5.265 MB-2.285 CHAIR: DAWN DUNCAN EV-1.605 CHAIR: JOHN BRANNIGAN DEIRDRE O’LEARY NICHOLAS MEIHUIZEN MB-3.210 CLAIRE BRACKEN (Union MB-5.215 (Manhattan College) An (North-West University) The DANINE FARQUHARSON College) Irish Feminist CHRIS BERCHILD (Indiana Ethics of Excess: Considering Quantum Poetics of Yeatsian (Memorial University of Futures State University) “Not in Dismemberment on the Manuscripts Newfoundland) Fiction JENNA LOURENCO (Emerson Front of the American!”: Contemporary Irish Stage ENRICO REGGIANI (Catholic “Lite” – Romance Novels and College) Marina Carr’s Anti-Tourism and Cultural MARIANA BOLFARINE University of the Sacred Easter, 1916 Swans and Goddesses: Stereotype in John Michael (University of São Paolo) Heart) Music in William GAVIN FOSTER (Concordia Contemporary Feminist Myths McDonagh’s The Guard Fragments to a Whole: A Butler Yeats’ Countess University) Nationalist in Irish Drama JENNY JOCZIK (Burlington Poetics of Reconciliation in Cathleen (1892) Memory, Nationalist Silences: CHRISTIN MULLIGAN College) Sung From the Void: Cries from Casement as His JEFFREY CASSVAN (Queens Tracing Irish Revolutionary (University of North Carolina) Yeats’ Folkloric Nationalism Bones are Brought to Dublin College CUNY) “Unfinished Memory at Home and Curious (Re)visions of THERESA WRAY (Cardiff Man,” “Unpurged Images,” Overseas a Yeatsian “Mask”: The University) Resisting “Diluted and the “Accidental Crack”: REV. DR. JEROME JOSEPH History of Bridget Cleary, Culture”: Mary Lavin’s Rethinking the Mimetic in DAY (Saint Anselm College) the Lacanian Mirror and the Response to Versions of Yeats’ Dialogues of Work and Between Cross and Spire: The Language of Reverse Double Ireland at Home and Abroad World Interpretation of Meanings in Images of Feminine Ireland in MARIKA DU TOIT (North- Two Dublin Commemorative the Oeuvre of Tana French West University) Aesthetic Monuments Autonomy in the Early Works of W.B. Yeats – The Influence of Folklore 3:30-4:00 PM COFFEE MB-3.130 4:00-5:45 PM SCREENING OF BLAZING SCREENING OF THE UNCLE SCREENING OF BERNADETTE: SCREENING OF BRAM STOKER THE TRAIL: THE O’KALEMS JACK, JOHN T. DAVIS (2011) NOTES ON A POLITICAL AGUS DRACULA, KEITH IN IRELAND, PETER FLYNN MB-5.265 JOURNEY, LELIA DOOLAN O’GRADY (2011) (2011) (2011) SCREENING OF THE ROAD TO MB-3.210 EV-1.605 MONEYGALL, ED GODSELL (2011) MB-5.215 6:00-7:00 PM READING: JANE URQUHART BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 7:00 PM OPENING RECEPTION MB ATRIUM MB-1.245 TUESDAY, JULY 31 3 9:00-10:30 AM 3A AESTHETICS IN 3B CONTEMPORARY IRELAND 3C SCIENCE, METAPHYSICS, 3D LITERARY TIME SPACES: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, IN WRITING AND FILM AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY THE SYMBOLICAL LANGUAGE NATIONALIST POLITICS, CHAIR: KATHLEEN IN IRISH LITERATURE OF “LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE” IN AND PERFORMANCE: NEW COSTELLO-SULLIVAN CHAIR: CLAIRE CONNOLLY IRISH (DIASPORA) FAMINE PERSPECTIVES IN LITERARY MB-3.210 EV-1.605 FICTION, 1847-1921 HISTORY DEVIN DONOVAN (Lehigh THIERRY ROBIN (University CHAIR: CHAIR: MAUREEN HAWKINS University) Leaving the of Western Brittany) MARY HELEN THUENTE MB-5.265 Bricks Behind: Postmodern O’Brien, Banville, and the EV-1.615 MAHO HIDAKA (Kyoto Absence in Roddy Doyle’s “Department of Speculation” MARGUERITE CORPORAAL Women’s University) Wordy Dublin CONOR MCCARTHY (NUI (Radboud University) Spectral Performing Wilde: ALISON LACIVITA (Trinity Maynooth) Irish Studies and Spaces: Ruins as Expressions Performative Engagements College Dublin) Wild Dublin: the History of Ideas of Famine Recollection in With and Within Wilde Urban Ecology in Irish RÓNÁN MCDONALD Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, SIMON READER (University Literature and Culture (University of New South 1847-1870 of Toronto) Oscar Wilde: JOACHIM FISHER (University Wales) Flexible Friends? The CHRISTOPHER CUSACK Scientist of Limerick) Kevin Brophy’s Irish Revival and the “New (Radboud University) KATRIN URSCHEL (University The Berlin Crossing: The Modernist Studies” Home, Hearth, and Hunger: of Toronto) Wilde Convicts Image of Germany in a Post- Domestic Space and Famine in Australia: Fenianism and Boom Irish Novel Memory in Irish (Diaspora) The Importance of Being Fiction, 1895-1920 Earnest LINDSAY JANSSEN (Radboud University) Ruins of the Self: Reimagining Post- Famine Ireland Through the Aesthetics of the Landscape Picturesque in (Diasporic) Irish Fiction, 1871-1891 10:30-11:00 AM COFFEE MB-3.130 11:00-12:00 PM KEYNOTE: GERARDINE MEANEY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) CRIME DRAMA, CULTURAL CRITICISM, AND CONTEMPORARY IRELAND BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 12:00-1:30 PM LUNCH: YOUR CHANCE TO EXPLORE LOCAL RESTAURANTS. SEE LIST IN REGISTRATION KIT IASIL EXECUTIVE MEETING MCENTEE READING ROOM, SCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES H1001.01 1:30-3:00 PM AUTHOR READINGS: KEVIN BARRY AND LEONTIA FLYNN BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 3:00-3:30 PM COFFEE MB-3.130 4 3:30-5:30 PM 4A WRITING BELFAST 4B BECKETT AND THE 4C FOOD AND HUNGER IN 4D IRISH ENCOUNTERS 4E WEIGHING WORDS, TEXTS CHAIR: MÁIRÍN NIC EOIN INESCAPABLE OTHER: IRISH LITERATURE WITH ASIA AND DISCIPLINES: DIGITAL EV-1.615 ARCHIVES, TRANSLATION, AND CHAIR: CHAIR: HUMANITIES AND IRISH EAMONN HUGHES (Queen’s METAPHYSICS MARGUERITE CORPORAAL RACHEL V. 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Synge of Colum McCann’s Let BRITTA OLINDER (University Translation and the Problem Rabelais) “Eggs Ballybeg”: and the Korean Dramatic the Great World Spin of Gothenburg) Deirdre of Nationality in the Food in Friel’s Plays Movement Using Digital Humanities Madden in Belfast and Dublin Formation of Beckett’s Style GIOVANNA TALLONE Methodologies LEONARD MADDEN (Università Cattolica, Milan) SHANE MURTAGH (NUI (University College Cork) “Drink Me. Eat Me.” Food Maynooth) The National Belacqua Alone Among Imagery in Mary Lavin’s Tale in a Digital Age: Castle “The Slush of Angels”: Fiction Rackrent, The Wild Irish Girl, Intentionality, Presumption, SARAH O’CONNOR and Digital Scholarly Editing and Infernal Shelter in (University of Toronto) EAMONN KEARNS, Dream of Fair to Middling Hunger and Love in Éilís MARGARET KELLEHER, Women Ní Dhuibhne’s Milseog an CATHERINE SMITH MARY MASSOUD tSamhraidh AND AJA TEEHAN (Ain Shams University) (NUI Maynooth) Weighing Beckett’s Engagement with Disciplines as well as Words: Metaphysics Building an Electronic Version of the Loebers’ Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900

7:30-9:30 PM CONCERT AT GREY NUNS’ CHAPEL ENTRANCE: 1190 GUY STREET WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 5 9:00-10:30 AM 5A CENSORED IRISH WRITING 5B THEMES IN 20TH-CENTURY 5C IRISH THEATRE: FROM 5D QUEER 5E WORDS, IMAGE, AND MUSIC AT HOME AND ABROAD: IRISH LITERATURE AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES TRANSFORMATIONS: FROM IN IRISH ROMANTICISM BANNED BOOKS AND DRAMA: THE GROTESQUE, THE TO THE NON-HUMAN FAMILY SECRETS TO PUBLIC CHAIR: NEWSPAPER CULTURE WARS CHAOTIC, AND THE SUFFERING CHAIR: PERFORMANCE ALLAN HEPBURN CHAIR: MAUREEN MURPHY BODY OLIVIA HEANEY CHAIR: EMILIE PINE MB-3.210 MB-5.215 CHAIR: EUGENE MCNULTY EV-1.605 EV-1.615 JAMES CHANDLER BRAD KENT (Laval MB-5.265 WEI H. 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SEE LIST IN REGISTRATION KIT 2:00- 4:00 PM BUS TOUR SCREENING OF BERNADETTE: SCREENING OF BRAM STOKER AGUS SCREENING OF THE UNCLE JACK, SCREENING OF BLAZING THE TRAIL: NOTES ON A POLITICAL JOURNEY, DRACULA, KEITH O’GRADY (2011) JOHN T. DAVIS (2011) THE O’KALEMS IN IRELAND, PETER LELIA DOOLAN (2011) SCREENING OF THE ROAD TO EV-1.605 FLYNN (2011) MB-5.265 MONEYGALL, ED GODSELL (2011) MB-5.215 MB-3.210 6:00-8:00 PM SCREENING OF BERNADETTE: NOTES SCREENING OF BRAM STOKER AGUS LANCE PETTITT (ST. MARY’S SCREENING OF BLAZING THE TRAIL: ON A POLITICAL JOURNEY, LELIA DRACULA, KEITH O’GRADY (2011) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON) THE O’KALEMS IN IRELAND, PETER DOOLAN (2011) SCREENING OF THE ROAD TO AND JOHN T. 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10:30-11:00 AM COFFEE MB-3.130 11:00 AM-12:00 PM KEYNOTE: DAVID LLOYD (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) “SIEGE LAID TO THE OBJECT”: ARIKHA’S GAZE, BECKETT’S PAINTED STAGE BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 12:00-1:15 PM LUNCH EV-11.725 AND EV-7.745 1:15-2:45 PM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF IRISH LITERARY STUDIES MB-3.210 2:45-3:00 PM COFFEE MB-3.130 8 3:00-4:30 PM 8A THE SUPERNATURAL 8B HEANEY: DEATH, GHOSTS, 8C LANDSCAPES AND 8D INTERTEXTUAL JOYCE: 8E “CHILD-BATTERED BODY… MOTIF: GHOSTS, AND ROBERT FROST GEOGRAPHIES IN IRISH ENGAGEMENTS WITH ECOLOGY, FEEDING THE GRAVE”: CHANGELINGS, AND FAIRIES CHAIR: MAGDALENA KAY WRITING CLASSICS, AND THE LAW PREGNANCY AND DEATH IN CHAIR: KATRIN URSCHEL MB-2.285 CHAIR: CHAIR: MARY MASSOUD ANNE ENRIGHT MB-2.265 GEORGE LENSING (University BEATRIZ KOPSCHITZ BASTOS MB-3.210 CHAIR: MAUREEN HAWKINS of North Carolina) Seamus EV-1.605 ALEXANDER MCKEE VIVIAN VALVANO LYNCH (University of Lethbridge) Heaney: Parental Ghosts from TERRY PHILLIPS (Liverpool (University of Delaware) EV-1.615 “Hell is …” The Treatment Home Hope University) “Alone “While There’s Leaf There’s HEDWIG SCHWALL of the Afterlife in Tom MARTIN MCKINSEY In A Shelterless World”: Hope”: Ecological Discourse (Catholic University of MacIntyre’s What Happened (University of New Landscapes of the Western in Finnegans Wake Leuven) Towards a Feminine Bridgie Cleary Hampshire) “Vaguely Front in Irish Writing SOICHIRO ONOSE (University Phenomenology: Mother- AUDREY ROBITAILLIÉ Realising Downward”: DENIS SAMPSON of Tokyo) The Crozier and the Daughter Relations in Anne (Queen’s University Seamus Heaney Responds to (Independent Scholar) Pen: Reading Joyce’s “Aeolus” Enright’s Recent Fiction Belfast/Université de Caen Robert Frost Language and Landscape: in Context KATHLEEN COSTELLO- Basse-Normandie) “To the BRENDAN CORCORAN John McGahern’s Poetics of ANN FALLON (Dublin City SULLIVAN (Le Moyne Waters and the Wild”: Jane (Indiana State University) “If Place University) Mythbusting College) “My Memory Urquhart’s Away (1993) and Love Torments You”: Mortalia AIMEE WAHA (University of and the Silent Presence of Gropes in Search of Details”: the Changeling Motif in Seamus Heaney’s Elegies Wuerzburg) Rooted in Place?- Dionysus in Ulysses Memory, Narrative, and Landscape and Identity Identity in The Gathering in Mary-Elizabeth Burke- and The Sea Kennedy’s Women in Arms BRIDGET ENGLISH (1988) and Marina Carr’s By (NUI Maynooth) Rattling the the Bog of Cats (1998) Bones: Interrogating the Notions of Death as Ending in Joyce and Enright 6:00-7:30 PM READING: ANNE ENRIGHT AND CLAIRE KILROY BMO AMPHITHEATRE MB-1.210 7:30-9:00 PM BOOK LAUNCH AND RECEPTION MB ATRIUM MB-1.245 FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 9 9:00-10:30 AM 9A VISUAL CULTURES: 9B DIASPORA SPACES: 9C THE IRISH GOTHIC 9D PRE-MODERN IRELAND 9E IMAGINARY IRELAND, WRITING ABOUT, WRITING RE-FASHIONING IDENTITIES CHAIR: LISBETH BUCHELT AND ITS MODERNIST IMAGINARY JAPAN: THE BESIDE CHAIR: ELLEN MCWILLIAMS MB-5.265 REVISIONINGS ROMANTIC REALISM OF CHAIR: MB-3.210 GREGORY CHWALA (Indiana CHAIR: EAMONN HUGHES LAFCADIO HEARN AND W.B. JOAN FITZPATRICK DEAN PIARAS MAC ÉINRÍ University of Pennsylvania) EV-1.605 YEATS MB-5.215 (University College No Sense of Place: Irish CATHAL DE PAOR (Mary CHAIR: JENNY JOCZIK KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN Cork) Identities and Gothic Existentialism in Immaculate College) EV-1.615 (University of Ulster) Memorialisation Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Teaching About Folly and KENICHI KIHARA (University “Reciprocal and Inevitable”: TINA O’TOOLE (University of Silas and Banville’s Wisdom: Insights from an of Kitakyushu) Imaginary Paul Durcan’s Poems After Limerick) “Such Things Never Birchwood Apologue in Irish Bardic Japan, Imaginary Ireland: The Paintings Happened on Our Island”: OLIVIA HEANEY (McGill Poetry Romantic Realism of Lafcadio ERIN MITCHELL (SUNY Queer Subjects in Irish University) Roddy Doyle’s RUTH CANNING (University Hearn and W.B. Yeats Plattsburgh) Writing Migrant Literature Bullfighting and the New College Cork) “Inglorious CHIAKI SAMESHIMA Photography and Film in MARY HICKMAN (London Dublin Gothic Bastards”: Captain Thomas (University of Kitakyushu) Medbh McGuckian’s Recent Metropolitan University) CHRISTINA MORIN (Trinity Lee and “Secret Traitors” in W.B. Yeats’ Ghosts: Dreaming Poetry Diaspora Spaces: The Past College Dublin) Re-Mapping 1590s Ireland Back and Mugen-Noh NAOKO TORAIWA (Meiji and Present in National Irish Gothic Literature YASUTAKA KABUTO RODGER WILLIAMSON University) Invitation to Reformations (University of Tokyo) How do (University of Kitakyushu) Between Here and There: “the Farrow Eat their Dam”?: Lafcadio Hearn’s Telescope Sinead Morrissey’s Use of The Indigestive Modernism of Visual Artworks At Swim-Two-Birds

10:30-11:00 AM COFFEE MB-3.130 10 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 10A ECOCRITICISM 10B BOUCICAULT, JOYCE, 10C WHERE MOTLEY IS WORN: 10D COMMEMORATION AND 10E PERFORMING AND NOMADISM IN MANGAN, AND THE LAW PAGENT, BLACKFACE, AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT REVOLUTION: ON SEX, TIME, CONTEMPORARY IRISH CHAIR: CLÍONA Ó GALLCHOIR THEATRICALITY CHAIR: AND PAIN STUDIES MB-5.265 CHAIR: BRAD KENT RHONA RICHMAN CHAIR: CHAIR: PATRICIA COUGHLAN EUGENE MCNULTY (Saint EV-1.605 KENNEALLY ALEXANDRA POULAIN MB-5.215 Patrick’s College) Melodrama JOHN BRANNIGAN MB-2.265 EV-1.615 DAVID GRAY (University of and the Law: Boucicault’s (University College Dublin) DAWN DUNCAN (Concordia ANNA FINN (University of Ulster) The “Most Impressive Legal Excess “Our Own Faces”? Blackface College, Moorhead) Rebellion, California, Irvine) Marking Nature Poet of the Eighteenth SAMIRA BASTA (Ain Shams Minstrelsy and Irish Sacrifice, and the Struggle Time: Irish Identity and Lyric Century”: Samuel Thomson, University) Boucicault’s Modernism for Heroic Identity in Irish Temporality Ulster-Scots Poetry, and Cinematic Sensation Drama JOAN FITZPATRICK DEAN Film: Filtering the Past for ROBINSON MURPHY Ecocriticism KATIE MISHLER (Queen’s (University of Missouri - Present Purposes (University of Notre Dame) ADAM LAWRENCE (Cape University Belfast) Kansas City) Pageantry in the ALLAN HEPBURN (McGill Acting Out: The “Sexual Breton University) Fifty Intertextuality and the 1930s in the Irish Free State University) The Irish Way of Revolution” in Colm Tóibín’s Ways to Leave Your “Home”: “Pelagiarist Pen”: A Study EMILIE PINE (University Dying: Ulysses and Funeral The Empty Family The Erotics of Nomadism in of Scriveners, Forgers, and College Dublin) All Dressed Processions NATHANIEL MYERS Modern Irish Fiction Translators in Mangan and Up: Performing Women on SINEAD MOLONY (University (University of Notre Dame) DONNA POTTS (Kansas Joyce the Free State Stage College Dublin) Encountering Beckett’s Pain: Performance, State University) Locked the Queen: Reconfigurations the Performative, and the in the Landscape’s Fierce of Urban Space in Post-Celtic Discursive Body Embrace: Francis Harvey’s Tiger Ireland Environmental Ethos 12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH: YOUR CHANCE TO EXPLORE LOCAL RESTAURANTS. SEE LIST IN REGISTRATION KIT 2:00-4:00 PM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING EV-1.615 7:00 PM CLOSING BANQUET, INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, 360 ST. ANTOINE ST. WEST IN OLD MONTREAL