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