St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

DAY ONE: FRIDAY 20th APRIL 2007

REGISTRATION:                                    08:30 - 09:00

CONCURRENT SESSIONS                    09:00 - 10:45

                      Panel A: Fiction: Disrupting the Past

                      Panel B: Against the Grain: Irish Women Poets

TEA / COFFEE BREAK                           10:45 - 11:15

SESSION 2                                              11:15 - 13:00

                      Panel C: Poetry in Revolt

                      Panel D: Drama: Provoking Responses

LUNCH & LATE REGISTRATION          13:00 - 14:00

SESSION 3                                             14:00 - 15:45

                       Panel E: Education in a Multicultural Nation

                       Panel F: The Female Experience in Irish Fiction

TEA / COFFEE BREAK                           15:45 - 16:15

Panel H: Language and Identity: the Irish Experience                             

Panel G: Fiction: Sexual Dissidence                     16:15 - 18:00           

Guest Panel Discussion: 18:30 - 20:00

"The Creative Voice in Today's Society:

More Compliant than Defiant?"

CHAIR: Dr. Mary Shine-Thompson

Panellists: 

Prof. Anne Fogarty, Prof. Terence Brown, 

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Micheál O Siadhail

WINE RECEPTION 20:00

DAY TWO: SATURDAY 21st APRIL 2007

REGISTRATION:                                    08:30 - 09:00

SESSION 1                                            09:00 - 10:45

                                 Panel I: Women and Fiction: Images of Disquiet

                                 Panel J: Poetry: Subversion in the Mythic and Modern

TEA / COFFEE BREAK                           10:45 - 11:15

SESSION 2                                            11:15 - 13:00

                                  Panel K: Politics and Fiction

                                  Panel L: Confrontation and Crisis

LUNCH & LATE REGISTRATION          13:00 - 14:00

SESSION 3                                            14:00 - 15:45

                                  Panel M: Fiction; Acts of Rebellion

                                  Panel N: Dissent and Protest in the Contemporary Moment

TEA / COFFEE BREAK                           15:45 - 16:15

   SESSION 4                                             16:15 - 18:00 

                                  Panel O: Fiction: Breaking Boundaries

                                  Panel P: International Writing and Cultural Subversion

PLENARY LECTURE             18:30 - 19:30

                            "In a Landlord's Garden: Synge and Parnell"

                        Dr. P J MATHEWS (UCD)

                              CHAIR:Prof. DECLAN KIBERD (UCD)