Opening and tribute to A. N. Jeffares plenary lecture: Prof. Thomas Docherty "The Place's Fault"

Room: 131

CHAIR: Anna McMullan (Trinity College Dublin)

Mannion, Elizabeth (Trinity College Dublin), “Different C/Kathleens”.

Devlin, Paul (University of Ulster), “‘A Lesson in Ordinary Life’: The Intentional Ethics and Ethical Reception of Thomas Carnduff’s Workers”.

Phelan, Mark (Queen’s University Belfast), “Performing ‘Authentic’ Ireland: (Dis)connecting the Cultural Politics of the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage”.

CHAIR: Patricia Lynch (University of Limerick)

Burleigh, David (Ferris University), “Two Japanese Fans: Helen and Sam Waddell and the Land of Their Birth”.

Monteith, Ken (Fordham University NY), “Passionate Words/Global Desires: The Travels of Dean Mahomet”.

Neville, Grace (University College Cork), “‘Cet horrible jargon’: French Travellers and Language in Ireland”.

CHAIR: Heather Clark (Marlboro College in Vermont)

Kurdi, Maria (University of Pécs), “Words Alone Can Be Certain Good: Overcoming Trauma and Loss in Jennifer Johnston’s Monological Plays”.

Yagi, Naoko (Waseda University), “Multiple Monologues as a Narrative: From Beckett to McPherson”.

Salis, Loredana (University of Ulster), “Feasting in the House of Ghosts: Frank McGuinness’s Versions of Sophocles’ Electra and Euripides’ Hecuba”.

CHAIR: Jacqueline Hurtley (University of Barcelona)

Hong, Sungsook (Chongju University), “Beyond A Global Village Toward Uisneach: Seamus Heaney’s Poetry”.

Tyler, Meg (Boston University), “Consonance, Dissonance, and the Management of Rhyme in Seamus Heaney’s Sonnets”.

Hildebidle, John (MIT), “Seamus Heaney: The Shame of Global Fame”.

Parker, Michael (University of Central Lancashire), “From Winter Seeds to Wintering Out: The Evolution of Seamus Heaney’s Third Published Collection”

CHAIR: Mary Burgess (University of Notre Dame)

Edwards, Heather (University of Notre Dame), “Modernity Through Movement: Irish Women’s Experiences of Modernity in the Works of Rosa Mulholland and Elizabeth Bowen”.

Molidor, Jennifer (University of Notre Dame), “Dying for Ireland: ‘Mother Ireland,’ Modernity and Mediation in the Stories of Dorothy Macardle – 1914-1937”.

White, Sian (University of Notre Dame), “‘I simply feel I’m more than simply me’: Modernist Innovation and the Innovation of Modernism in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love”.

CHAIR: Riana O’Dwyer (NUI Galway)

Holdridge, Jeff (Wake Forest University), “Topographies of Folklore, Family and Myth in Irish Literature”.

Ikeda, Hiroko (Hiroshima City University), “The Transformations of The Tragedy of the Children of Lir in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Hennessey, Kate (University of Notre Dame), “Mad Kings, Mobsters, and Mai-hem: Ancient Irish Legends in Contemporary Irish Theatre”.

CHAIR: Patrick Lyons (Trinity College Dublin)

Blake, James J. (Fordham University NY), “Life Writing in Irish Gaelic Today”.

Nic Dhiarmada, Bríona (University of Limerick), “Re-writing the Gaeltacht – Challenges from the Periphery”.

Room: 131

CHAIR: Robert Mahony (Catholic University of America Washington)

Kilfeather, Siobhan (Queen’s University Belfast), “Translating the Gothic”.

McCormack, W.J. (Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths College, London), “Yeats and Victorian Ulster”.

Donoghue, Denis (New York University), “Yeats’s “The Nineteenth Century and After”, and After”.

CHAIR and Respondent: Angela Bourke (University College Dublin)

Menaghan, John M. (Loyola Marymount University), “Moments of Kindness, Moments of Recognition: The Achievement of Maeve Brennan”.

CHAIR: Dillon Johnston (Washington University, St. Louis)

Delattre, Elisabeth (Université d’Artois), “Tradition and the (Re)writing of Poetry in Roman Script by Derek Mahon”.

Gillis, Alan (University of Ulster at Coleraine), “Repetition and Reification in the Recent Verse of Paul Muldoon”.

Karhio, Anne (University of Helsinki), “‘Cargoes’: America and the Early Poetry of Paul Muldoon”.

CHAIR: Bríona Nic Dhiarmada (University of Limerick)

Cahill, Susan (University College Dublin), “Corporeal Configurations in the Fiction of Anne Enright”.

Coughlan, Patricia (University College Cork), “‘Home is a place in the mind’: Maeve Brennan and The Failure of Domesticity”.

Sullivan, Moynagh (NUI, Maynooth), “Chicklit: The “I Want a Big House” Novel”.

CHAIR: Stanley van der Ziel (University College Dublin)

Andreu, Cristina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona), “Shifting Cultural Identities in Maeve Binchy's Dublin Novels”.

Jacquette, Kathleen (Farmingdale State University of New York), “European Connections in the Stories of Edna O’Brien and Desmond Hogan”.

Seve, Dominique (University of Le Havre), “Peter Sheridan: A Traditional Versus a Globalised Ireland”.

CHAIR: Csilla Bertha (University of Debrecen)

Arrington, Lauren (University College Dublin), “Brian Friel’s Pietas: Integrating Revisionism and Post-colonialism in Translations”.

Dixon, Ros (NUI, Galway), “‘Oh Chekhov! Thou art translated! : A Study of Brian Friel’s Irish Versions of Chekhov’s Dramas”.

Pelletier, Martine (Université François-Rabelais Tours), "Darwin in Ballybeg : Brian Friel's
The Home Place".

Room: 131

CHAIR: Anna McMullan (Trinity College Dublin)

Cerquoni, Enrica (University College Dublin), “Neither 'Local' nor 'Global': A Phenomenological Approach to Conall Morrison's Production of Synge's Riders to the Sea”.

Cronin, Finola (University College Dublin), “Pleasure and Pain: Lyrical violence in Fabulous Beast’s Giselle”.

Leeney, Cathy (University College Dublin), ““That Within Which Passes Show”: Reason, Unreason and Performances of the Body in Loose Canon’s H”.

Sweeney, Bernadette (University College Cork), “Out of Touch - Remembrance and Embodiment”.

CHAIR: Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Bracken, Claire (University College Dublin), “‘Becoming-Irish-Woman’: The Fiction of Anne Enright and the Poetry of Catherine Walsh”.

Faragó, Borbála (University College Dublin), “Brushed Out Words: The Ethics of Linguistic Care in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”.

CHAIR: Deborah Fleming (Ashland University)

Allen, Nicholas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Yeats and A Vision after Empire”.

Kim, Youngmin (Dongguk University Seoul), “Yeats’s A Vision as A Rhizomatic Book and Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

Nakamura, Hisami (University College Dublin), “Burning Green Tree: Yeats, Oe and the Issue of Transcendental Other”.

Hurtley, Jacqueline (University of Barcelona) “Desire under Dictatorship: W.B. Yeats, playwright, in Primo de Rivera's Spain”.

CHAIR: Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo)

Murphy, Maureen (Hofstra University), “The Maids in their Midsts:  Domestic Discourse in the Literature of the Irish Diaspora”.

Murray, Tony (London Metropolitan University), “‘Strange, Thwarted, Sacrificial Women’: Edna O’Brien’s Migrant Heroines”. OHP

Izarra, Laura (University of São Paulo), “Retelling Stories of the Irish in South America”.
Respondent: Michael Kenneally (Concordia University)

CHAIR: Bruce Stewart (University of Ulster, Coleraine)

Barnes, Christopher (Trinity College Dublin), “From Derry to the Congo: Political Position and Geographic Location in Ronan Bennett’s The Catastrophist”.

Kennedy, John (Trinity College Dublin), “John McGahern and Death’s Place”.

McCourt, Ian (Trinity College Dublin), “The Results of the Dismantling of the Ideology behind Place on the Protagonists of The Butcher Boy and Vernon God Little”.

Mullen, Raymond (Trinity College Dublin), “From Stony Grey Soil to Plymouth Rock: History, Memory and Location in Carlo Gébler’s How to Murder a Man and Ernest Gébler’s The Plymouth Adventure—The Voyage of the Mayflower”.

Walker, Tom (Trinity College Dublin), “The Mapping of Ireland’s Past in the Contemporary Novel”.

CHAIR: Maurice Elliott (York University, Canada)

Joseph, Susan (Howard University Washington), ““Tuta tamen Sappho:” Ovid in the Trans-National Poetry of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon”.

de Petris, Carla (Università di Verona), “‘Translation as a Form of Reading’: The Use of Dante in Contemporary Irish Poetry, Yeats, Heaney, Carson et alii”.

Benini, Davide (Università di Verona), “The deeper I got into the inferno, the more I walked”: An Analysis of Carson’s Translation of Dante’s The Inferno”.

CHAIR: Mark Schreiber (International University Bremen)

Bebiano, Adriana (University of Coimbra), “An Irishman in Africa: Ronan Bennett’s Catastrophist”.

Heininge, Kathleen (George Fox University), “Transculturation and Geraldine Aron: The Irish Diaspora in Africa”.

King, Jason (NUI, Maynooth), “Black Saint Patrick: Interculturalism, Immigration, and the Politics of Recognition on the Irish Stage”.

LAW FACULTY, Nám. Curieových 7

Room: 131

CHAIR: Jim Smyth (University of Notre Dame)

Dougherty McMichael, Jessica (University of Notre Dame), “Wild Irish and Noble Savages: Interrogations of Race and History in Contemporary Irish and Native American Literatures”.

Gibbons, Luke (University of Notre Dame), “Gael Skulls: Race and Celticism in Brian Friel’s The Home Place”.

Wilson, Ivy (University of Notre Dame), “Ireland and the Spectre of Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and Frederick Douglass Interpellated.”

CHAIR: Alan Gillis (University of Ulster at Coleraine)

Frawley, Oona (Queen’s University Belfast), “Spenser’s Trace: Cultural Memory and Cognition”.

Matsumura, Ken’ichi (Chuo University, Tokyo), “Flight and Exposure: Poetic Tradition from Sweeney to Heaney”.

Carvalho Homem, Rui (University of Oporto), “‘Old fathers’, Old Masters: Canon, Self, and Dutch Painting in Contemporary Irish Poetry”.

CHAIR: Werner Huber (University of Chemnitz)

Murray, Christopher (University College Dublin), “Beckett, the Local and the Global”.

D’Arcy, Michael (University of Western Ontario), ““The frog-spawn of a blind-man’s ditch”: Beckett, Yeats, and the Corruption of Culture”.

Saunders, Graham (Lancaster University), “'‘Reclaiming Beckett for Ireland’: The Beckett on Film Project”.

CHAIR: Melissa Sihra (Queen’s University Belfast)

Murphy, Paul (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘Woman Gives to the State’: The Role of Female Ontology in National Ideology”.

Singleton, Brian (Trinity College Dublin), “Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities in Performance”.

Trench, Rhona (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘Breathing the Same Air’: Cultural Difference in Marina Carr’s By The Bog Of Cats…”.

CHAIR: Denis Sampson (Vanier College, Montreal)

Olinder, Britta (Gothenburg University), “‘I Remember’ Childhood Events, Professional Experience and Political Developments in John Hewitt's Autobiographical Works".

Sampson, Denis (Vanier College, Montreal), “Eire Abu! and Vive Moi! Autobiographers of the Thirties”.

CHAIR: Donald Morse (University of Debrecen)

Berchild, Christopher (Indiana State University), “Mapping Alternative Irish Space: Dermot Bolger and the Irish (Sub)Urban Utopian Wasteland”.

Lojek, Helen (Boise State University), “Meeting the World in a Local Space: Conor McPherson’s The Weir”.

Nally, Kenneth (NUI, Galway), “At Home Only When Abroad: The Significance of Setting in the Plays of Frank McGuinness”.

CHAIR: Mícháel Mac Craith (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh)

Lyons, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin), “In Search of Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara”.

Nic Eoin, Máirín (St Patrick’s College), “‘Kafkachas’: The Influence of Kafka on Irish-Language Literature”.

Ní Ghairbhí, Róisín (University College Dublin), "Reimagining a Gaelic Tradition - Intertextuality in Michael Hartnett’s Fís Dheireanach Eoghain Rua Uí Shúilleabháin/ The Last Vision of Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin".

Room: 131

CHAIR: Dawn Duncan (Corcordia College)

Lanters, José (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), ““Cobwebs on Your Walls”: Resistance to the Global in Irish Drama”.

Duncan, Dawn (Concordia College), “From Beirut to Belfast: Conal Morrison Stages Issues of Justice”.

Murphy, John (DeVry University), “Antoine Ó Flatharta’s Elviad: from Grásta i Meiriceá to Grace in America”.

Respondent: Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin)

CHAIR: Moynagh Sullivan (NUI, Maynooth)

Arrowsmith, Aidan (Staffordshire University), “Fantasy Ireland: Cultural Memory and the Irish Diaspora”.

Kenneally, Michael (Concordia University) “Negotiating Otherness in Nineteenth-Century Irish-Canadian Life Writing”.

Meaney, Gerardine (University College Dublin), “Dark Imaginings and White Anxieties: the Gothic Republic”.
Mulhall, Anne (Independent Scholar),”Kitsch / Camp / Queer: ‘Irishness’, Authenticity and Subcultural Parody”.

CHAIR: Joan Fitzpatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn, (Appalachian State University), “Representing Maud Gonne”.

Curtis, Keiron (University of Wales, Swansea), “P.S. O’Hegarty and the Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition”.

Harrington, John P. (Rensselaer Troy, NY), “Lord Dunsany, “The Abbey Style,” and Lower Manhattan”.

CHAIR: Claire Bracken (University College Dublin)

Garcia, Antonio (University of Houston), “Beckett's Shit-Starter: The Narrator and Coprophilic Drive in First Love”.

Kennedy, Sean (St Mary’s University Halifax), “Explore other channels": Beckett, Homosexuality and the Politics of Fertility”.

Parrott, Jeremy (Szged) “From Samsa to Sam: The Metamorphoses of Beckett’s Ms.”.

CHAIR: Christina Mahony (Catholic University of America Washington)

Cregan, David (Villanova University), “Incarnating the Mystical: Liminality and the Performance of the Spiritual in the Work of Sebastian Barry”.

Gleitman, Claire (Ithaca College), ““In the dank margins of things”: Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire”.

Stewart, Bruce (University of Ulster), “Sebastian Barry’s Early Prose and the Joyce-Beckett Continuum”.

CHAIR: Denis Sampson (Vanier College, Montreal)

Malcolm, David (University of Gdansk), ““Make What You Can of That”: John McGahern’s Fiction and the World”.

van der Ziel, Stanley (University College Dublin), “Pornography and the Decay of Lying: Art and Reality in John McGahern’s The Pornographer”.

Rowley, Rosemary (Independent) “‘Gone for Good’ - The Theme of the Emigrant in the Novel That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern”.

CHAIR: Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, NY)

Szmigiero, Katarzyna (Akademia Swietokrzyska Poland), “Cultural Diversity and Censorship in Ireland”.

Taaffe, Carol (Trinity College Dublin), “A ‘streptococcus-ridden gang of natural gobdaws’: The Irish Writer and the Plain People of Ireland”.

O’Brien, Paul (Dublin), “Sean O’Casey and Hugh MacDiarmid: Politicians Who Couldn’t Help Being Writers”.

Nolan, Jerry (London), “Eimar O’Duffy: Irish Global Villager”.

Room: 131

CHAIR: Christopher Fox (University of Notre Dame)

McKibben, Sarah (University of Notre Dame), “West Coast/West Bank: Global Postmodernity in Irish”.

Doody, Margaret (University of Notre Dame) “Ireland and the Image of the Woman in Swift and Sheridan”.

Foster, Gavin (University of Notre Dame) “The Politics of Respectability in the Irish Civil War”.

CHAIR: Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Fuchs, Dieter (University of Vienna), “‘A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog’: Joyce, Lucian and Menippus”.

Pioro, Tadeusz (University of Warsaw), “The Irish Pervert and the British Subject: Leopold Bloom’s Civic Imagination”.

CHAIR: Rita McCann (Dublin City University)

McCann, Rita (Dublin City University), “See abstract”.

Caffrey, Colm (Dublin City University), “See abstract”.

Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin (Dublin City University), “See abstract”.

CHAIR: Marie Arndt (Thames Valley University)

Kopschitz Bastos, Beatriz (University of São Paulo),“War and Globalisation in Denis Johnston’s A Fourth for Bridge”.

Bertha, Csilla (University of Debrecen), “Creation and Destruction - The Artist as Parent: Thomas Kilroy’s The Shape of Metal”.

Satake, Akiko (Rikkyo University, Tokyo) “World War II in Irish Drama”.

CHAIR: Michael D’Arcy (University of Western Ontario)

Okamuro, Minako (Waseda University), “Joycean Narrative in Beckett's Ohio Impromptu”.

Atkinson, William (Appalachian State University), “Samuel Beckett: The Last Gothicist”.

Morin, Emilie (Queen’s University Belfast), “Translation and Ireland in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy and Malone Dies”.

CHAIR: Michal Lachman (University of Łodz)

Moi, Ruben (University of Bergen), “I am not trying to say anything at all! That’s my whole thing’: Nothingness and Play in the Double Sessions of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillow Man”.

Alemdaroglu, Nuvid (Celal Bayar University), “Martin McDonagh’s Critically Humanist Insight into Terrorism: The Lieutenant of Inishmore”.

Mikami, Hiroko (Waseda University, Tokyo), “Not ‘Lost in Translation’: Martin McDonagh in Japan”.

CHAIR: Justin Quinn (Charles University Prague)

Patke, Rajeev (National University of Singapore), “Contemporary Irish Poetry: the ‘Post-’ in ‘Postcolonial’, and the ‘Post-’ in ‘Postmodern’”.

Batten, Guinn (Washington University, St. Louis), “Contemporary Irish Poetry: Poetic Form and the Psychic Life of Power”.

Room: 131

CHAIR: Louis Armand (Charles University Prague)

Dumitrescu, Alexandra (Babes-Bolyai University), “Bootstrapping Finnegans Wake in Search for Truth”.

Groden, Michael (University of Western Ontario), “Ulysses: A Biography”.

CHAIR: Lucy Collins (University of Lancaster)

Ní Fhrighil, Ríóna (Coláiste Phádraig, Dublin City University), “In the Lap of Pharaoh’s Daughter: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in translation”.

Shay, Cary A. (University of Kent), “Theorizing Translation: Feminist Discourse, Post-structuralism and Postcoloniality in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill”.

Burke, Margaret G. (Hofstra University), “Framing Masculinity in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ”.

CHAIR: Elizabeth Grove-White (University of Western Ontario)

Busch, Trilby (Normandale Community College MN), “Leprechauns Jack into the Matrix: Contemporary Science Fiction in Ireland and America”.

Tallone, Giovanna (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), “The Dynamic of Space and Global Issues in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Bray House”.

Ito, Noriko (Tezukayama University Japan), “Illusion as Depicted by Brian Moore”.

CHAIR: Louise Fuller (NUI Maynooth)

Mac Craith, Mícháel (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh), “Charles Henry Wilson (c1756-1808): An Early Anglo-Irish Novelist”.

Zach, Wolfgang (University of Innsbruck), “European and Global Thinking in the 18th Century: Oliver Goldsmith”.

CHAIR: Heather Edwards (University of Notre Dame)

Fischerová, Jana (University College Dublin), “Ante-Room as an Alternative in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room and Mary Lavelle”.

Keown, Edwina (Trinity College Dublin), “The Flâneuse of Empire, Portia Quayne in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart (1938)”.

Wydenbach, Joanna (Queen's University Belfast), “A Complete Picture?: Katharine Tynan's Novel Writing as Presented in her Autobiographies”.

CHAIR: Jana Fischerová (University College Dublin)

D’hoker, Elke (K.U.Leuven), “‘I did it’: Female Narrators and Unreliability in Three Irish Novels”.

Facchinello, Monica (University of York), “Reinventing Ireland through a Dialogic Perspective of Local and Global in Banville’s Novella The Newton Letter”.

Morse, Donald (University of Debrecen), “Anton Chekhov Meets the Celtic Tiger in Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003)”.

CHAIR: Carol Taaffe (Trinity College Dublin)

Olszewska, Kinga (NUI, Galway), “Preliminary Notes to the Issue of Exile: Poland and Ireland”.

Furomoto, Taketoshi (Aichi-gakuin University Japan), “Enlargement of the Context of Irish Literature—Some Scottish Interest in the Things Irish”.

Shanks, Paul F. (University of Aberdeen), “James Joyce and Recent Glasgow Fiction”.

Room: 131

CHAIR: Séan Kennedy (National Uuniversity of Ireland Galway)

Barry, Elizabeth (Warwick University), “Voyeurism and the Ethics of Narrative Realism in Beckett's Prose Fiction”.

Gontarski, S.E. (Florida State University), “Samuel Beckett’s ‘Keyhole Drama’: Voyeurism and the Scopic Drive”.

Stewart, Paul (Intercollege Nicosia), “‘Then everything went kaputt.’ Belacqua's Sexuality in Dream of Fair to Middling Women”.

CHAIR: Tadeusz Pioro (University of Warsaw)

Jordan, Carmel (Baruch College, City University of New York), “Italian Opera and Egyptian Geometry: Intertextual Richness in Joyce’s Dubliners”.

Chircop, Karl (University of Malta), “Eveline and Mommina by the Window at Twilight: On the Window Motif in Eveline by James Joyce and Leonora Addio! by Luigi Pirandello”.

Pushkarevskaya, Yulia (University College Dublin), “The Return to the Revival: the Mythification of Irishness in John Huston's adaptation of James Joyce’s “The Dead””.

CHAIR: Keith Hopper (University of Oxford)

Merivirta, Raita (University of Turku), “Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins: Between Irish National Cinema and Hollywood”.

O’Brien, Harvey (O’Kane Centre for Film Studies UCD), “Local Man, Global Man: The Horror/Fantasy Films and Writings of Neil Jordan”.

Schreiber, Mark (International University Bremen), "Screening the Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger. Contemporary Dublin in Film”.

CHAIR: Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)

Yamasaki, Hiroyuki (Osaka City University, Japan), “The Structure of Yeats’s Attitude and Reference to the Country and the City”.

Fleming, Deborah (Ashland University Ashland, OH), “Freedom of the Will and Dionysian Regeneration in W. B. Yeats’s Plays on the Crucifixion and Resurrection”.

Ingelbien, Raphael (K.U. Leuven), “Symbolism at the Periphery: Yeats and Maeterlinck’s (Trans)national Poetics”.

O’Brien, Denise (Trinity College Dublin), “Louis MacNeice: An Intertextual Dialogue with W.B. Yeats”.

CHAIR: Maria Kurdi (University of Pécs)

Lachman, Michal (University of Lodz), “Global or local? Society and the Individual in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan and Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City”.

Moon, Hyeweon (University of Warwick), “Ourselves Alone, or Maybe Themselves Alone: The Questions of Home and Nation in Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone”.

Sihra, Melissa (Queen’s University Belfast), “‘For She’s a Jolly Good Fella’: Birthdays, Deathdays and Rituals of Transformation in the Theatre of Marina Carr and Samuel Beckett”.

Rollo, Natalie (DePaul University), “Humanness Undefined: The Realm of Nothingness in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…”.

CHAIR: Neil Sammells (Bath Spa University College)

Weintraub, Stanley, (Professor Emeritus P.A State University) “Bernard Shaw's Irish Goddess: Lady Colin Campbell”.

White, Eric (University of Colorado at Boulder), ““Whatever...is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks”: Oscar Wilde and Sophistic Thought”.

Haddad, Rosalie Rahal (University of São Paulo), “Bernard Shaw and the Demystification of Stereotypes”.

CHAIR: Borbála Faragó (University College Dublin)

Toraiwa, Naoko (Meiji University), “Homesickness in Contemporary Women Poets”.

Sullivan, Sara (Boston University), “Writing from Home: The Transnational Poetry of Eavan Boland”.

Poloczek, Katarzyna (University of Łodz), “Desire in Irish Women’s Contemporary Poetry and Female Incarnate Consciousness”.

Wolkoff, Gisele G. (Universidade de São Paulo./Universidade de Santo Amaro), “Art and Identity: Nationalism and Femininity: A Reading of Eavan Boland”.

Theatre Roundtable

ROOM: 131 (AULA)

Reception: hosted by Modern Drama

Room: 131

CHAIR: Louis Armand (Charles University Prague)

CHAIR: Jeff Holdridge (Wake Forest University)

Johnston, Dillon (Washington University, St. Louis), “Kinsella’s Dublin”.

McCabe, James (Freelance Author), “The Double Impulse: Thomas Kinsella and World War II”.

Schreibman, Susan (University of Maryland), “The Thomas MacGreevy Archive”.

CHAIR: Ros Dixon (NUI, Galway)

Burke, Patrick (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University), “Consistency and Variation in the Apparent Politics of Friel’s Plays”.

Mutran, Munira (University of São Paulo), “Ireland – A Global Village”.

Nunes, Domingos (Universidade de São Paulo), “Staging Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa in Brazil”.

Fish, Harold (University of Mainz) “Music in Dancing at Lugnasa: The Play and the Film”

CHAIR: José Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Dean, Joan FitzPatrick (University of Missouri-Kansas City), “Britain’s Lord Chamberlain and the Irish Literary Revival”.

Clark, Heather (Marlboro College in Vermont), ““A brief new dawn”: The Ulster Renaissance”.

CHAIR: Rodelle Weintraub (Independent)

Gibson, Matthew (University of Surrey), “Jane Anne Cranstoun, Countess Purgstall: A Possible Source for Le Fanu’s
Carmilla”.

Lynch, Patricia (University of Limerick), “Medicine as Motif and Recurrent Narrative Element in Irish Fiction of the Early Nineteenth Century”.

Murphy, James H. (DePaul University), “Social Radicalism and Homoeroticism in Charles J. Kickham's Knocknagow (1873)”.

CHAIR: Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin (Dublin City University)

Filipova, Filipina (University of Sofia), “How Does Gulliver Travel in Bulgaria?”

Sweney, Matthew (Palacký University, Olomouc), “Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green/The Insect Play/Ze života hmyzu”.

Kovachev, Ognyan (St. Kliment Okhridski University of Sofia), “Submission or Appropriation: Translating Irish Literature in Bulgaria”.

CHAIR: Marie-Claire Considère-Charon (Université de Franche-Comté)

Trainor de la Cruz, Patricia (Universidad de Málaga), “The Land of Saints and Scholars ”.

Murray, Ciaran (Chuo University, Tokyo), “Light and Enlightenment: Eriugena to Zen”.

Room: 131

CHAIR: Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario)

Anderson, Dustin (Florida State University), “Forging and Forgetting: Fraudulence, Postnationalism, and Finnegans Wake”.

Hanson, Zachary (Florida State University), “R.I.P.: Beckett’s Investigations of Nationalist Forgery in ‘Recent Irish Poetry’”.

McFeaters, Andrew V. (Florida State University), “Repeating Joyce: Poetics and Pathologies of Nostalgia and Exile”.

CHAIR: Anne Mulhall (Independent)

Ó Gallchoir, Clíona (University College Cork), “’Sell-Out?’ Commercialism, Femininity and the Commodification of Irish Identity after 1800”.

Collins, Lucy (University of Lancaster), “Reading History: National Cultures in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”.

CHAIR: Róisín Ní Ghairbhí (University College Dublin)

Lucchitti, Irene (University of Wollongong, Australia), “The Islandman at Home and Abroad”.

Conneely, Mairéad (University of Limerick), “Synge, Lawless and Inis Meáin: Their Global Village”.

Housková, Mariana (Charles University, Prague), “Synge’s Vision of the Aran Islands: The Universal in the Local”.

CHAIR: Karen Fricker (Trinity College Dublin)

Lonergan, Patrick (NUI, Galway), ““More Strangers in the House”: Globalisation, Multiculturalism, and the Theatrical Construction of Irish Identity”.

Richards, Shaun (Staffordshire University), “‘To me, here is more like there’: Towards a New Paradigm for Irish Theatre Criticism”.

CHAIR: Micheal Kenneally (Concordia University)

Ballin, Malcolm (Cardiff University), “Media and Genre: The Review in Dublin and London: 1668-1968”.

Kelleher, Margaret (NUI, Maynooth) “The Spirit of the Nation: Young Ireland’s ‘home-grown production’?”

Burke, Martin J. (City University of New York), “Daidra from Georgia: Thomas Holley Chivers’ The Sons of Usna”.

CHAIR: Gerold Sedlmayer (Universität Passau)

CHAIR: Meg Tyler (Boston University)

Abbate Badin, Donatella (University of Turin), “From a Nation of Villains to a Land of Patriots: Irish Views of Italy”.

Bendelli, Giuliana (Università Cattolica di Milano), “From Brendan Kennelly's The Florentines to I Fiorentini: Trans-Navigatio (Sancti) Brendani”.

Fitzgerald-Hoyt, Mary (Siena College), “Inventing Italy: William Trevor’s My House in Umbria and The Story of Lucy Gault”.

Room: 300

CHAIR: TBC

Ito, Eishiro (Iwate Prefectural University Japan), “Anti-Semitism/Anti-feminism in Giacomo Joyce”.

Shimokusu, Masaya (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), “What are you seeing?—Fairy Belief and James Joyce’s Ulysses”.

CHAIR: TBC

Sedlmayr, Gerold (Universität Passau), “Between Copacabana and Annaghmakerrig: Paul Durcan’s Global Perspective”.

De Angelis, Irene (University of Turin), ““For Saké? Irish Whiskey.” Andrew Fitzsimons and His Representation of Japan”.

CHAIR: Enrica Cerquoni (University College Dublin)

Fitzpatrick, Lisa (Institute of Technology, Waterford), “Stage Irishry: Performing Irishness on the Contemporary Canadian Stage”.

Szábo, Carmen (University College Dublin), “Artscapes of Meaning: Performance and Multimedia Installation in Northern Irish Art”.

Respondent: Cathy Leeney (University College Dublin)

CHAIR: TBC

Carpenter, Andrew (University College Dublin), “Tri-lingualism in Late Seventeenth-Century Ireland: The Evidence of Verse Satires”.

Lynch, Angelina (University College Dublin), “Faithful Teate and Irish Puritan Poetry”.

CHAIR: Ruben Moi (University of Bergen)

Kuch, Peter (University of New South Wales), “The Gigli Concert in Brisbane and Sydney”.

Abbass, Sahar A. (Helwan University, Cairo), “Looking for Ireland Elsewhere: A Study of Perspective and Form of Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire and Conor McPherson's The Weir in the Light of a ‘Globalised Ireland’”.

Closing Banquet

OBECNI DUM, Nám. Republiky 5