| Friday 20th April 2007
A: Fiction: Disrupting the Past 9.00 – 10.45
1. Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Voice. Lisa Padden (NUI Galway).
2. The Circumference of Being: a Lacanian reading of T.S.Eliot and
James Joyce. Lillian Burke (Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick).
3. “Harking back in a retrospective arrangement”: the inscription
of VOICES into “Circe”. Ronan Crowley (Trinity College Dublin).
4. “Not What It Used to Be”: Nostalgia in Neil Jordan’s Novel The
Past. Val Nolan (NUI Galway).
B: Against the Grain: Irish Women Poets 9.00 – 10.45
1. “To interface between myth and reality”: Women, Shapeshifting and Irish Fairy Legend in the Poetry of Mary O’Malley. Megan Buckley (NUI Galway).
2. The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: “Work in Progress!” Catherine Kilcoyne
(University College Dublin).
3. Cribs and Collaborations in the Poetry and Translations of Nuala
Ní Dhomhnaill. Shannon Hipp (Emory University, Atlanta).
4. The Mother as the Site of her Proceeding in Pharaoh’s Daughter.
Sarah O’Connor (University College Dublin).
C: Poetry in Revolt 11.15 – 1.00
1. “Of them but not of them”: MacNiece and the ‘thirties poets. Simon
Workman (Trinity College Dublin).
2. Public Anger/Poetic Dissent: Thomas Kinsella’s Reaction to the
Widgery Tribunal. Andrew J. Browne (NUI Galway).
3. The Passing of Time in Kinsella’s Early Poetry. Amy Galvin (Boston
College).
4. Ciaran Carson’s translation of Dante’s Inferno, Jessica Peart (NUI Maynooth).
D: Drama: Provoking Responses 11.15 – 1.00
1. An Irish Theatre Laboratory: Maurice Meldon’s Purple Path to the
Poppy Field. Ian Walsh (University College Dublin).
2. Ibsenism or Patriotism: The Case of Lennox Robinson. Irina Ruppo
(NUI Galway).
3. Tribunal Theatre and the Voice of Dissent as seen in the Tricycle
Theatre
Company’s Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry. Sheila McCormack
(NUI Galway).
4. Theatre on Thin Ice: Joe Tomelty’s April in Assagh at the Ulster
Group Theatre. Paul Devlin (University of Ulster).
E: Education in a Multi-Cultural Nation 2.00 – 3.45
1. Race, Ethnicity, and Education: insights from post-structural
and critical theory. Karl Kitching (St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra).
2. How does the Irish Education System accomodate the new multi-ethnic
and multi-cultural realities presented by a diverse population? John
Lalor and Justin Rami (Dublin City University).
3. Recognising Minority Languages in the Irish
Education System. Rory McDaid . (St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra).
4. From Teaching to Theory: A Study of the Visually Impaired and Blind
in Multicultural Ireland. Esther Katherine Murphy (Dublin City University).
F: The Female Experience in Irish Fiction 2.00 – 3.45
1. What Kate did: Subversive Dissent in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room.
Sharon Tighe-Mooney (NUI Maynooth).
2. Evil Gold: First Principle and Holy Grail - The anti-capitalist
outsider in Kate O’Brien. Aintzane Mentxaka (University College Dublin).
3. Intertextuality, Parody and Jouissance in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing
the Witch. Libe García Zarranz (University of Zaragoza, Spain).
4. The Other Side of the Story: femininity, sexuality and patriarchal
Ireland in the short stories of Mary Lavin, Clare Boylan and Emma
Donoghue. Lori Benett (Boston College).
G: Fiction: Sexual Dissidence 4.15 – 6.00
1. ‘His troubled self-communion’: sexuality, subjectivity and narrative
form in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Michael Cronin (NUI Maynooth).
2. Amongst Women and the Female Dandy. Graham Price (University College
Dublin).
3. Relieving the Tautness in Themselves: Sexual and National Identities
in Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal. Michael A. Moir, Jr. (Catholic University
of America).
H: Language and Identity: the Irish Experience 4.15 – 6.00
1.Ancient Voices, Dissenting Silences: The Translation of Sophocles’ Antigone in Ireland. Loredana Salis (University of Ulster and Facoltà di Lettere, Università di Sassarí ).
2. “Dissonant Tones: The Bell and Anglo-Irish Writing”. Rory Conaty (NUI Maynooth).
3. The Translation of Expletives into German in Roddy Doyle’s The
Commitments. Susanne Ghassempur (Dublin City University).
4. The Status of Hiberno English. Michael Langlet (University of Lille).
SATURDAY 21st APRIL 9.00 – 10.45
I: Women and Fiction: Images of Disquiet 9.00 – 10.45
1. “Voicing Dissent on Good Behaviour”: Molly Keane’s Depiction of
the Ascendancy Decay. Lidia Maria Montero Ameneiro (Dublin City University).
2. (Post) Colonial Trauma – Postmodern Recovery? Unremembering Traumatic
Herstories in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction. Stefanie Lehner
(University of Edinburgh).
3. “Anything neurotic, exotic, experimental or new”: Trauma and Representation
in Women’s Writing on the Troubles. Anthea Cordner (University Newcastle
upon Tyne).
J: Poetry: Subversion in the Mythic and Modern 9.00 – 10.45
1. Subversion and Humour in Modern Irish Poetry. Caitriona Ni Chleirichin
(University College Dublin).
2. “Stabbed up the line”: Myth and Dissent in the Poetry of Brendan
Kennelly. Sandrine Brisset (St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra/Sorbonne
Nouvelle).
3. Theory and the Preservation of Dissent in the Poetic World. Brian
Walsh (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick).
4. “Almost Forgotten Names”: Irish Women Poets of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Kathy D’Arcy (University College Cork).
K: Politics and Fiction 11.15 – 1.00
1. Dividing an “Audience”: The Role of the Reader as a Geograpically-Grounded
Subject in Postcolonialist Literature. Martina Cullen (University
College Cork).
2. Serious Fancy: Oscar Wilde and the Literary Fairy Tale in Colonial
Discourse. Katherine O’Keefe (University College Dublin).
3. Oh But I Will Ring Your Heart Yet: Sex and Savagery in Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness and Donleavy’s The Ginger Man. Peter Guy (National
Centre for Franco-Irish Studies).
4. Murder in the Margins: Descent and Dissent in Patrick McCabe’s
Winterwood and Sherman Alexei’s Indian Killer. Jessica McMichael (University
of Notre Dame).
L: Crisis and Confrontation 11.15 – 1.00
1. ‘The fructifying chaos of anteriority’: mythology and dissent
in Angela
Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.” Catherine Smith (University College
Cork).
2. Captain Jack White DSO: Irish Imperialist and Anarchist: the perilous
path
of a pacifist and proleptic postructuralist. Leo Keohane (NUI Galway).
3. “A zero planted in the midst of community”: Transgression, Dissent
and the
New Narrative. Danny Kennedy (University College Cork).
4. “Our wills are formed by curious disciplines beyond your laws”:
Mina Loy’s curiously conflicted championing of the individual genius
over avant-garde notions of the creating collective. Sarah Hayden
(University College Cork).
M: Fiction: Acts of Rebellion 2.00 – 3.45
1. “They are all Pagans at heart”, Telling the Truth and Shaming
the Devil, The Historical Realism of Liam O’Flaherty. Conor McNamara
(St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra). Micheál Ó’Fahartaig (Trinity College
Dublin).
2. Moralising the Immoral: Chuck Palahniuck’s Fight Club. Garret O’Malley
(NUI Galway).
3. Imagined Riots: Crafting Scenes of Mass Protest. Emily DeDakis
(Queen’s University Belfast).
4. “We are the Heroes of Ireland.” Sorcha de Brun (St. Patrick’s College
Drumcondra).
N: Dissent and Protest in the Contemporary Moment 2.00 – 3.45
1. Disobeying Gilles Deleuze: Is Quentin Tarantino the voice of dissent?
Jenny Murphy (University College Dublin).
2. Performing dissent: The AIDS body in Irish broadcasting in the
mid nineteen eighties. Deidre Quinn (NUI Maynooth).
3. Hijab, a two-way filter? by Jan de Pauw. (Erasmushogeschool, Brussels).
4. Gothic as Counter-Literature: Exorcising the Self. Maria Beville
(University of Limerick).
O: Fiction: Breaking Boundaries 4.15 – 6.00
1. “To Shape a Silence while Breaking it”: Toni Morrison, as a Dissenting
Voice in the Canon. Marita Ryan (Mary Immaculate College, University
of Limerick).
2. Broken Masquerades and the Formation of the Self in Katherine Thurston’s
Max. Alan Bergin (NUI Galway).
3. Beyond Postmodernism: Narrative Ethics in Contemporary Literature.
Nessa Collinge-O’Connor (University College Dublin).
4. “Religious Dissent or Assent?: A Postmodern Reading of Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials Trilogy.” Sinead Carey (Mary Immaculate College,
University of Limerick).
P: International Writing and Cultural Subversion 4.15 – 6.00
1. Postcolonialism and Imagination: Celtic Diaspora dissenting voices
in twentieth century Spanish fiction. Ruben Jarazo-Alvarez (University
of Coruna, Spain).
2. Challenging Orthodoxies: English Reformation Dissent. Brian Gourley
(Queen’s University Belfast).
3. Folk Devils and Moral Panic - Sedition, Subversion and Sensation
in Victorian Popular Culture. Michael Flanagan.
4. “Fireflies caught in Molasses”: Naming and Claiming in Walcott’s
Poetics. Maeve Tynan (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick).
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