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Conference Programme Programme of Events ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! New Wave Coming The Organising Committee wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support of… ! School of English ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! TABLE OF CONTENTS INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES 3 Conference Location 3 Conference Dinner 3 PROGRAMME 4 ABSTRACTS & ACADEMIC BIOS 5 Panel 1 6 North American Identity 6 Panel 2 8 Consuming Gender 8 Panel 3 10 U.S. Foreign Policy & The Cold War 10 Panel 4 12 Literary Structures 12 NOTES 14 Page !2 New Wave Coming INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES ! WIFI ACCESS ! Eduroam is in operation in Trinity College Dublin. Visitors must have their wireless clients con>igured to use WPA2 with AES encryption and have tested their authentication before arriving on-site. TCD’s IS Services do not provide technical support for connecting to Eduroam so you should direct any queries to your home institution and check your settings before arriving. More information on connecting to Eduroam in TCD can be found here: http://isservices.tcd.ie/network/kb/ eduroam_non_tcd_con>ig.php ! PARKING & GETTING TO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ! There are no parking facilities for visitors to Trinity College Dublin. There are a number of multi- storey car parks close by – Fleet Street, Trinity Street, Dawson Street etc. However, these are quite expensive. There is some on-street parking around the city centre, but this is extremely limited, short-term only, and clamping is in operation. We would recommend that where possible you use public transport. TCD is extremely well-serviced by Dublin Bus. You can plan your journey here: http://www.dublinbus.ie/. If you are travelling by train and arriving into Heuston Station, the 145 bus route will drop you on Nassau Street, right outside the Arts Building where the conference is being held. If you’re arriving into Connolly Station, you can take either the 15, 14, or 32X – among others! – and these too will drop you on Nassau Street. Various other intercity bus services such as Bus Eireann, GoBus etc will drop you just a short walk from TCD. ! CONFERENCE LOCATION ! The conference will be held in the Ui Chadhain lecture theatre in the Arts Building at Trinity College. The easiest way to reach it is to enter via Nassau Street, come through the double doors at the security of>ice, and walk to the end of the Arts concourse where you will >ind the registration desk. All presenters must be members of the IAAS. You can join here: iaas.ie/membership-form/ ! CONFERENCE DINNER ! The Conference Dinner will be held on Saturday evening in The Kitchen on South Anne Street, which is just a short walk from Trinity College. You can have a look at their website here: www.thekitchen.ie/. Dinner will be a set menu of two courses. If you have any dietary requirements please specify this when booking your place. All those intending to come to dinner must pay in advance. The cost is €30, which can be paid when registering for the conference. If you did not register for the Conference Dinner, but would like to attend, please speak to an organiser as soon as possible. There may still be limited spaces available. Page !3 New Wave Coming PROGRAMME ! All Panels to take place in the Uí Chadhain lecture theatre. ! ! 9:00 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 - 9:45 Conference Opening, ! with remarks by Dr. Philip McGowan, chair of the IAAS Panel 1 North American Identity 9:45 – 11:00 Katie Ahern, University College Cork From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Many Lives of Anzia Yezierska Kate Smyth, Trinity College Dublin “No such thing as a ‘Canadian’”: Memory and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s “In Youth is Pleasure” Alexander McDonnell, Durham University American National Identity and the Incorporation of the Other in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona (1884) 11:00 – 11:15 Tea/Coffee Panel 2 Consuming Gender 11:15 – 12:30 Rachael Alexander, University of Strathclyde Consuming Beauty: Mass-market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s Laura Byrne, Trinity College Dublin “She it was to whom ads were dedicated”: Materialism, Materiality and the Feminine in Nabokov’s Lolita. Rubén Cenamor, University of Barcelona Son of Depression, Man of Anxiety: Frank Wheeler’s American Patriarchal Masculinity in Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road Lunch ! 12:30 – 1:30 A Light lunch, with tea and coffee provided, will take place in Room 4017 in the School of English ! ! Page !4 New Wave Coming Panel 3 U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cold War 1:30 – 2:45 Geraldine Kidd, University College Cork The Limitations of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Humanitarianism Nevin Power, University College Cork A National Energy Plan as an Element of National Security: a Cold War Perspective Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, University College Cork Reagan, Afghanistan, and the Strange Case of the “Yellow Rain.” 2:45 – 3:00 Tea/Coffee Panel 4 Literary Structures 3:00 – 4:15 Jonathan Sudholt, Brandeis University They Cannot Represent Themselves: Narrative Expropriation in Herman Melville’s Clarel David Deacon, University College Dublin ‘Atheists with Souls’: Rebecca Goldstein’s 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, American (ir)religious identity and dissent. Tim Groenland, Trinity College Dublin The Cult of the Sentence: Gordon Lish’s in>luence on American Fiction 4:15 – 4.25 Break 4:25 – 4:30 Presentation by the Organising Committee of IAAS 2015 Annual Conference 4:30 – 5:30 Ignite Session Sarah Cullen, University College Dublin Agata Frymus, University of York Erin O’Sullivan, University College Dublin Aoife Dempsey, Trinity College Dublin James Hussey, Trinity College Dublin Gavin Doyle, Trinity College Dublin 5:30 – 5:40 Conference Close 6:30 Conference Dinner:! The Kitchen, South Anne Street Page !5 New Wave Coming ABSTRACTS & ACADEMIC BIOS ! PANEL 1 NORTH AMERICAN IDENTITY ! From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Many Lives of Anzia Yezierska Katie Ahern, University College Cork Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American writer, most popular in the 1920s, and best known for her texts on the struggles of immigrants in America. She achieved fame for her efforts to accurately represent the Jewish ghettoes of New York, without sentimentality, caricature or condescension. Yezierska’s success as a short story writer brought her to the attention of Samuel Goldwyn, and both Salome of the Tenements and a short story collection Hungry Hearts were adapted into >ilms. Samuel Goldwyn gave her a contract of $100,000, and the press hailed her the “Sweatshop Cinderella”. In the course of her writing, Yezierska drew heavily on her own life experiences, whilst her preoccupation with the central themes of her writing - the immigrant’s struggle for equality in America, their right to education and particularly the battle facing immigrant women - led her to write about them over and over again in short story form as well as in her novels. Her constant re- drafting of favourite themes and situations leads to a detailed view of the New York ghetto whilst her >ictionalised accounts of her romantic relationships explore her struggles to maintain an independent sense of self even as she tried to conform to the expectations of American society. Her two marriages, and a relationship with the philanthropist John Dewey, all appear in different forms in her writing, and her many versions of the same relationships can be seen as a sort of literary collage with the reader drawing the links between the various accounts. Therefore, in this paper I propose to explore where fact and >iction have merged in the writing of Yezierska- focusing primarily on her romantic relationships as most of her work is centred around such concerns- by drawing upon close readings of the text, biographical reading and archival materials. ! Katie Ahern is a Ainal year PhD candidate in the School of English, UCC. Her research interests include early 20th Century American Aiction and Native American studies. ! “No such thing as a ‘Canadian’”: Memory and Identity in Mavis Gallant’s “In Youth is Pleasure” Kate Smyth, Trinity College Dublin Mavis Gallant, despite being relatively unknown in comparison with the Nobel Prize-winning and world-renowned Alice Munro, is of fundamental importance to the Canadian short story. In fact, she published over one hundred stories in The New Yorker, as well as fourteen story collections. Using Gallant’s semi-autobiographical Linnet Muir stories, with a particular focus on “In Youth is Pleasure”, this paper will explore the integral part the short story plays in understanding how Canadian identity (or – in an effort to branch away from defunct nationalistic thinking – identities) has been constructed. The relationship between Canada and the United States of America is complex, as it is with Britain and France. Gallant explores this complexity by looking into her own past and highlighting the ways in which memory creates and re-creates identity. Gallant writes that, around the time of WWII, “there was almost no such thing as a ‘Canadian’. You were Canadian-born, and a Page !6 New Wave Coming British subject, too, and you had a third label with no consular reality, like the racial tag that on Soviet passports will make a German of someone who has never been to Germany” (Home Truths 220). This paper suggests that the short story is an appropriate form for this exploration of the in>luence of memory on identity because, like memory, short stories are often governed by a non-linear, constructed narrative. In investigating how such narratives are created, this paper seeks to identify how essential short stories are in relation to multifaceted notions of belonging and the diversity of identities in Canada. ! Kate Smyth is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr Philip Coleman. Having previously obtained an M.Phil in Literatures of the Americas at TCD and an MA in Writing at NUI Galway, her current research focuses on memory, identity, and place in the Canadian short story, speciically those of Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, and Alice Munro.
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