Second Annual Italian Conference on Irish Studies “The Seim Anew?”: Ireland in cycles. Is the present a return to the past? Cyclical patterns in Contemporary Ireland: Cultural Memory, Literature and Society DiSU – Department of Humanities University of Trieste, Italy 24 -26 May 2012 Auditorium Salone degli Incanti, Riva Nazario Sauro 1 Thursday 24 May 10.00: Official opening Prof. Claudio Zaccaria (Head of Department, DiSU) Amal Kaoua (Embassy of Ireland, Italy) The EFACIS Plenary lecture: Luke GIBBONS (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): “Frontier Modernities: Ireland, Anachronism, and the Financial Wild West” Chair: John McCourt (Università Roma Tre) 11.00-11.30: Coffee-break 11.30 – 13.00: CONTEMPORARY CYCLICALITIES I: IRELAND ON FILM Chair: Gino Scatasta (Università di Bologna) Werner HUBER (University of Vienna): “The Brothers MacDonagh, Filmmakers” Valeria VOLPONI (Università Statale di Milano): “Irish myths of Foundation: return and deflation” Paul FAGAN (University of Vienna): ““Art about Art” or “Art about Life”: Writing Against the Times in James Joyce, Brian O'Nolan, and the films of Lenny Abrahamson & Mark O'Halloran” 13.00-14.30: Lunch 14.30-15.30: MODERNIST MASTERS Chair: Elisabetta d’Erme (Independent scholar, Trieste) Giulia NEGRELLO (Università di Udine): “The Wandering Rocks: Woolfian and Joycean Paths in XIX century City Landscapes” Tamara RADAK (University of Vienna): Vic(i)o(u)’s Cycles vs. The Wake’s Progress – Cyclical Structures and End(ing)games in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Sonia BUTTINELLI (Università Roma Tre): “Things Fall Apart”: William Butler Yeats and the Cyclical Patterns of Existence” 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break 16.00-17.00: CONTEMPORARY CYCLICALITIES II: NOVELS, MEMOIRS, LITERARY REVIEWS Chair: Roberta Gefter (Università di Trieste) Hedwig SCHWALL (University of Leuven):”Counteracting cyclical patterns in the family: Doyle's portrait of Paula Spencer” Chiara SCIARRINO (Università di Palermo): “Literary Reviews in Examination: a Look at the Past and at the Future in The Irish Times” Nataliia LYSAK (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine). “Irish Memoir Novels of the 1990s: Forming and Performing Irish National Images” 18.00: Plenary lecture: Liam HARTE (University of Manchester): “Impossible Returns in Irish Migrant Writing” 21.30: Performance of The Brother: a one-act play based on the work of Flann O’Brien, adapted and performed by David Llewellyn and Gerry Smyth (Osteria Da Marino) Friday 25 May 10.00: Plenary Lecture: Donatella ABBATE BADIN (Università di Torino): “Cyclicality, Recurrence and Return in Thomas Kinsella's Recent Poetry: In My Beginning Is My End” 11.00-13.00: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Chair: Renzo S.Crivelli (Università di Trieste) Carla DE PETRIS (Università Roma Tre): “The Cyclical Return of the Jew. Maria Edgeworth et alii.” Francesca SCARPATO (Università di Trieste e di Bologna): “To be the Seething pot: From one generation to another: Escaping the Present outside the Whale” John McCOURT (Università Roma Tre): “Catastrophe, Charity and Cyclicality in the Carleton and Trollope” 13.00-14.30: Lunch 14.30-15.30: JOYCE AND BECKETT Chair: David Llewellyn (Liverpool John Moores University) Sonia JANKOV (University of Belgrade): “Pierre Bayard’s ‘Mobile History of Literature’ as Actual Infinity of Finnegans Wake” Giovanna VINCENTI (Università Roma Tre): “‘I Will Yes. After all. So far’. Molly Bloom turns into Winnie” Vital VORANAU (Mazaryk University, Brno): “Circularity in Samuel Beckett’s writing” 15.30-16.00: Coffee Break 16.00-18.00: DRAMA and POETRY Chair: Monica Randaccio (Università di Trieste) Aidan O’MALLEY (University of Zagreb): “Spectres of the Famine, Diaspora and Language Shift in Friel’s Translations and O’Connor’s Star of the Sea and Redemption Fall” Fabio LUPPI (Università Roma Tre) : “The Ineluctable modality of cycles according to W.B.Yeats Purgatory and Fighting the Waves” Maria Domenica MANGIALAVORI (Università Roma Tre): “Cyclical patterns in Brian Friel’s Theatre. Looking at the role of the past, of traditions, and of music in Friel’s Work” Loredana SALIS (Università di Sassari): “'So, where does that leave us?': Reflections from the Irish Stage (1998-2010)” Viviane CARVALHO DA ANNUNÇAÇAO (University of Sao Paulo, University of Belfast): “A New Look: Poetry and Belfast in the Beginning of the Twentieth first century” 20.30: Conference Dinner Saturday 26 May 10.00-11.00: LITERATURE AND MUSIC Chair: Laura Pelaschiar (Università di Trieste) Gearóid Ó HALLMHURAIN (Concordia University, Montreal): “Musical Devolution in an Irish Micro Soundscape” Enrico REGGIANI (Università Cattolica di Milano): “The Same Song Anew? Yeats’ Self and Song in 1908” 11.00-12.00: Plenary Lecture: Gerry SMYTH (Liverpool John Moores University): “Cyclical Form in Irish Cultural History: A Musical Model?” 12.00: Round Table Sponsors: Comune di Trieste, Assessorato alla Cultura Embassy of Ireland, Italy The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) This conference is organised by the Trieste Joyce School and Laboratorio di studi Irlandesi, both of which are part of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (DiSU). Organising Committee: Roberta Gefter (Università di Trieste), John McCourt (Università Roma Tre), Laura Pelaschiar (Università di Trieste), Monica Randaccio (Università di Trieste), Renzo S. Crivelli (Università di Trieste).