Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies 7:30 AM-6:00 PM Attendee Registration; Exhibit tables open Lamar Lamar & 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Breakfast Grand Ballroom C Panel Session 1: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Panel 1A Race and Irish America Galveston Chair: Sarah Townsend, University of New Mexico Amy Mulligan, University of Notre Dame, Moving into Chicago’s “White City” – Race, Medieval Iconography and the Construction of Irishness at the 1893 World’s Fair John Waters, New York University, How the Irish Became ... Relevant: Revisiting the Ignatiev Thesis at 25 Natasha Casey, Blackburn College, White Supremacists in American Irish Popular Culture: Why Irish Studies Ignored the Signs (until Donald Trump won) Peter D. O'Neill, University of Georgia, Concate(nation): White Nationalism and Irish America Panel 1B Navigating Irish Borders: Harris Domestic and Transatlantic Perspectives Chair: Timothy McMahon, Marquette University Patrick Bethel, Marquette University, The Ladies Land League: Charity or "the noisy street of political life" Jenna Hardin, Marquette University, Erin’s Emotions: Homesickness and Transatlantic Communication for Irish Immigrant Women in Nineteenth Century America Michael Whittaker, Marquette University, A Union Unrealized: British and Irish Resistance to Economic Union during the Late Eighteenth Century -Wednesday 1- Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 1C Integrating Art and Music Travis in the Irish Studies Curriculum Chair: Christian Dupont, Boston College Christian Dupont, Boston College, Putting Irish Art and Music in Context Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, University of Notre Dame, Not only Text, but Images too Aileen Dillane, University of Limerick, and Marty Fahey, The O'Brien Collection of Irish Art and Antiques, Irish Art and Music: A “Jewel for the Crown” of Irish Studies Panel 1D Friel's Influences Hidalgo Chair: Chu He, Indiana University South Bend Zosia Kuczyńska, University College Dublin, Borderlands of Influence: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and "Faith Healer" Kelly Matthews, Framingham State University, From China to Northern Ireland: "The Blind Mice" by Brian Friel Clayton McReynolds, Baylor University, Builder or Healer? Reading Friel’s "Faith Healer" through Ibsen’s "The Master Builder" Panel 1E Migration and Diaspora Navarro Chair: Sinéad McCoole, Independent Scholar Amanda Crabb, Curry College, The Post-1995 Irish Immigrant Cohort Tara Ginnane, University of Texas at Austin, The National Membership Politics of External Voting: Evidence from Ireland William Vericker, King Graduate School, Monroe College, Ireland to the Bronx and Back Again: Forging Irish Identity in Baby Boomers -Wednesday 2- Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 1F Cherishing All the Children of the Nation? Sam Houston Chair: Margot Backus, University of Houston Margot Backus, University of Houston, and Joseph Valente, University at Buffalo, Psychoanalyzing the Enigma of Sexualized Innocence Sean Kennedy, Saint Mary's University, Saorghlanadh: Abjection, Exposure, and the Hysterical Voice in Deirdre Brennan and Biddy Jenkinson Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois, The Importance of Being Childlike Panel 1G Folklore: Gender and Mermaids Dallas Chair: Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College Carolann Madden, University of Houston, "A Land Almost Fabulous in Its Sorrow and Senility:" "Poets and Dreamers" and Lady Gregory’s Role as a Folklore Collector Ashley Mistretta, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Who Stole the Wine? Mermaid Folklore of County Clare 12:00 PM-2:00 PM Lunch on Your Own for Attendees 12:30 PM-1:30 PM ACIS Irish Studies Libraries & Archives Community Meeting Bexar Panel Session 2: 2:00 PM-3:15 PM Panel 2A Gothic Boundaries Galveston Chair: Christina Morin, University of Limerick Melanie Buer, University of Nebraska at Omaha, "What they wanted most for their own protection": Mechanical Fantasies in Bram Stoker's "Lady of the Shroud" Nancy Cantwell, Daemen College, Gothic Wanderers: The Travelling “Freke Show” in Edgeworth and Maturin Sean Aldrich O'Rourke, University of Limerick, Gothic Girls in Crumbling Worlds: Adolescent Girls in J.S. Le Fanu's Gothic Invasion Narratives -Wednesday 3- Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 2B The Past in Contemporary Literature Travis Chair: Kelly Matthews, Framingham State University Luisa Ferreira, Berkeley College, The Indelible Past: Robert McLiam Wilson’s "Eureka Street" and Jason Johnson’s "Woundlicker" Matthew O'Gara, Rocky Mountain College, Love, Loss, and Brexit: Division and Discord Foreshadowed in Robert McLiam Wilson’s "Eureka Street" Panel 2C Artistic Borders Harris Chair: Kathryn Milligan, University of Surrey Jeannine Kraft, Columbus College of Art & Design, Transcending Borders: The Renegotiation of the Image of Ireland in Contemporary Fine Arts Photography Amy Miller, Missouri Historical Society, Things One Cannot See: Troubling Landscapes in Northern Irish Photography Kaitlin Thurlow, University of Massachusetts, Sean Scully’s "Simmering Truce": Horizons, Borders and the Immigrant Artist’s Vision -Wednesday 4- Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 2D Memory and Trauma Hidalgo Chair: Jennika Baines, Indiana University Press Kevin Coogan, Manhattan College, Yes, It Is Green Gail Corso, Neumann University, Nostalgic and Bitter Memories of Love and Loss: Color Motifs that Represent Characters’ Identities and Psychological States across Spaces in Alice McDermott’s "At Weddings and Wakes" Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, "Foster" and the Redemptive Parental Body Panel 2E Early Twentieth Century Women’s Activism in Ireland Navarro and Irish America Chair: Tara Ginnane, University of Texas at Austin Patricia Crowley, Independent Scholar, Progressive Powerhouse: Margaret Haley’s Fearless Advocacy for Chicago’s Irish-American Teachers James Curry, Dublin City Council, Nora Connolly, Daughter of the Executed Rebel Leader Panel 2F The Irish Language, 1850-1920: Histories/Revivals Sam Houston Chair: Jonathan Ó Néill, University of St. Thomas, Houston Liam Mac Mathúna, University College Dublin, Language Revival Resonance: Explaining the Extent and Limits of the Gaelic League’s Impact on Irish/English Bilingualism, 1893-1920 Máire Nic an Bhaird, Maynooth University, Douglas Hyde and Nelly O’Brien: Irish Language Activists, Colleagues, and Friends Nicholas Wolf, New York University, Intergenerational Language Transmission in Munster, 1851-1891: Revisiting the Census Data -Wednesday 5- Wednesday, April 1, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 2G Maeve Brennan and Diaspora Literature Dallas Chair: Sheila McAvey, Becker College Beth Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, The Trope of the Benevolent Grandfather in Mid-Twentieth Century Irish- American Fiction April Fallon, Kentucky State University, "An Ireland of the Mind": Brennan’s Cherryfield Avenue and Belgrave Road Megan Sullivan, Boston University, How Do We Reclaim Maeve Brennan? Lamar & 3:15 PM-3:45 PM Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom C 3:45 PM-5:00 PM Plenary Session: Grand Ballrooms A & B Andrew Sanders Texas A&M University - San Antonio “ ‘We trust that both the British and Irish Governments are doing all they can to avoid a civil war’: The conflict in Northern Ireland and the role of the government of the United States of America” 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Opening Reception Liberty Hall Salon 6 -Wednesday 6- Thursday, April 2, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies 7:30 AM-6:00 PM Attendee Registration; Exhibit tables open Lamar Lamar & 7:30 AM-9:00 AM Breakfast Grand Ballroom C 8:00 AM-9:00 AM ACIS South Breakfast Meeting Austin Panel Session 3: 9:00 AM-10:15 AM Panel 3A Crossing Boundaries, Partitions and Borderlands Galveston Chair: Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dublin City University Rachel Oppenheimer, University of Pittsburgh, Breaking Out: Boundaries, Bridges, and Paramilitary Prisoners in Northern Ireland, 1972-1981 James Rynne, Boston College, Defining and Defensing the Borderland: Threat and Security at the 1950s Northern Irish Border Kenneth Shonk, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, A Fair Knowledge of Irish History—Partition, the Cold War, and Korean Nationalism in the Shadow Metropole, 1938-1988 Panel 3B Crime Fiction & #MeToo Intersections Travis Chair: Brian Cliff, Trinity College Dublin Shirley Peterson, Daemen College, Adapting the Female Sleuth to the #MeToo Era in Dublin Murders Kersti Powell, Saint Joseph's University, “On the Edge of Foreign”: Race in Contemporary Irish Crime Fiction -Thursday 1- Thursday, April 2, 2020 American Conference for Irish Studies Panel 3C Intellectual History Harris Chair: Michael de Nie, University of West Georgia Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Boston College, Regionalism, Nationalism, Transnationalism: Transcending Borders in the Lives and Works of Two Irish Antiquarian-Historians Michael Griffin, University of Limerick, Superannuated Pain? 250 Years of Goldsmith's Deserted Village Wade Mahon, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Education, Fake News, and the Perils of Print Culture in Late Eighteenth Century Dublin Newspapers Panel 3D LGBTQ Agency and Activism Hidalgo Chair: Kelsey Rall, Vanderbilt University Samantha Haddad, New York University, Our Day Will Come: ILGO, Nationalism, and the North Ed Madden, University of South Carolina, Under the Sign of the Clock: Queer Sexuality, Queer Time, and Cleary’s Clock Lachlan Whalen, Purdue University, “Subject to Critical Analysis, Open to Change”: