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Conference Programme
| Friday, 18th
March |
9.00-10.45
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Continental Travel and German Speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933-45
K114 |
Multiculturalism and Irish identities
E114 |
Marginalised Voices (re)visioned readings
J208 |
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| Chair |
Georg Grote |
Maureen Reddy |
Katherine O'Donnell |
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| Speakers |
1. Gisela Holfter: The German-speaking exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 Project
2. Siobhan O'Connor: A vision of Ireland and the reality in relation to German-speaking Refugees in Ireland from 1932-1939
3. Birte Schultz: Questions of Identity German Refugees in Ireland
4. Ivana Milivojevic: A View from the Balcony |
1. Martin Dowling: Constructing Difference in Northern Ireland: Ulster Scots Culture Before and After The Agreement
2. Declan Kiberd: Multiculturalism Now
3. Mary E. Daly: Cultural and economic protection and xenophobia in independent Ireland.1920s-1960s
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1. Mary McAuliffe: Qu(er)rying Mother Ireland
2. Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka: Recognition - Two Anglo-Irish Texts Building on Lesbian Literary Tradition
3. Sonja Tiernan: 'A Pair of Oddities': Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper
4. Luz Mar Gonzalez: The Margins of Bodily Representation: Religion and Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Recreations of Irish Sheela-na-gigs |
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| 10.45-11.05 |
COFFEE C108 |
| 11.05-12.50 |
Italian and Vietnameese integration in Ireland
K114 |
Cultural representations of ethnicity
E114 |
Central-Eastern Europeans in Ireland
K115 |
Categorisation, classification and performances of identities
J208 |
| Chair |
Suzanna Chan |
Harvey O'Brien |
Borbála Faragó |
Piaras MacEinrie |
| Speakers |
1. Mark Maguire: Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish Lives
2. Vera Sheridan: With Loneliness and Satisfaction: Narratives of Vietnamese Refugee Integration in Irish Society
3. Carla de Tona: How Do They Cook Fish and Chips in your Place in Italy? Visibility and Invisibility of Italian Migrants in Ireland
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1. Jackie Blackman: Samuel Beckett - an Irish Jew or a French peasant?
2. Maria Loftus: Pollinisation in Irish identity through filmic representation in 'Yu Ming is ainm dom'
3. P.J. Mathews: In Praise of Hibernocentricism: Globalisation and Contemporary Irish Culture
4. Debbie Ging: Invisible Voices, Inaudible Images: the Representation / Articulation of
Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema
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1. Charlotte Hedrick: In the margins: Elizabeth Kuti's Treehouses
2. Carmen Frese: Romanians' Irish Dilemma: Integration Via Community or Community Versus Integration?
3. Adam Drazin: Romanian Hospitality and Home-making in Ireland
4. Márta Körösi: In-Between Identities: A Comparison of Hungarian and Irish Women's Experience of Migration |
1. Carole Holohan: The arrival of the teen-ager. Reaction to a new identity in Ireland, 1956-74
2. Eibhear Walshe: Queering History and the Post-Gay Moment in Contemporary Irish Lesbian and Gay Writing
3. Festus Ikeotuonye: 'Relatedness and Autonomy': Imagining 'Identity' in Non-Modern African Thought
4. Marie Moran: Social Exclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism |
| 12.50-2.20 |
Hot Lunch UCD restaurant (with vouchers) |
| 2.20-3.50 |
GENDER PLENARY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, Theatre Q |
| Chair |
Prof. Patricia Coughlan, Department of English, NUI Cork |
| Speakers |
Dr. Gerardine Meaney
School of English, UCD
Dr. Margaret MacCurtain
School of History, UCD
Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne
School of History, UCD
Dr. Eibhear Walshe
Department of English, NUI Cork
Other speakers to be confirmed. |
| 3.50-4.10 |
COFFEE, C108 |
| 4.10-5.55 |
Race, representation and the liminal self
E114 |
Borders and Deportations: Tension and Duality
K114 |
Hugo Hamilton
J208 |
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| Chair |
Moynagh Sullivan |
P.J. Mathews |
Declan Kiberd |
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1. Gerardine Meaney: Migrant Bodies: Maternity and the Construction of White Identities in Ireland
2. Lucy Collins:Derek Mahon: Revising Identities
3. Suzanna Chan: Deconstructing Ireland's Whiteness
4. Pat Coughlan: The "Double Vision" of Maeve Brennan |
1. Kit Fryatt: Alone, important and wise : Paul Durcan Speaking for Francis Stuart
2. Sarah O' Connor: Working Class Dialect in Frances Molloy's No Mate For a Magpie
3. Killian McMorrow: Deportation
4. Carmen Szabó: Problematic Dualities in Thomas Kilroy's Double Cross |
1. John L. Murphy: Aiséirí's "Daily Uprising" in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People
2. Jessica March: Self-Identification to Self-Resolution: The Father-Son Conflict in Rearden Conner's A Plain Tale from the Bogs (1937) and Hugo Hamilton's Speckled People (2003)
3. Eamonn Hughes: Stories that you have to write down are different : Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People and Contemporary Autobiography
4. Dore Fischer: "Walking on the Wall": Biculturalism and Interculturality in Blake Morrison s Things my Mother Never Told Me and Hugo Hamilton s The Speckled People" |
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| 6.00-6.40 |
Wine Reception Hosted by SPAR, Official Opening of the Conference by Margaret MacCurtain, C108 |
| 6.40-7.40 |
Reading by HUGO HAMILTON, Chair Professor Declan Kiberd, Theatre Q |
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| Saturday, March 19 |
| 9.00-10.45 |
Multiple Visions of Immigration E114 |
Spaces, Bodies and Destinations
K114 |
Ireland's Others - Other Irelands
J208 |
| Chair |
Steve Loyal |
Anne Mulhall |
Pat Coughlan |
| Speakers |
1. Abel Ugba: Not Double but Multiple Visions: deconstructing the gaze of Ireland's African Pentecostals
2. Piaras MacEinri: "Homeland and Diasporic Liminality" 3. Patricia Towey: The New Orientalism : Representations of Islam and its effects in Ireland 4. Abassi, Zohair: Ireland/France: Law and Immigration: Integration/Desintegration and
Marginalisation |
1. Theresa Mac An Airchinnigh: Body as a Corporeal Field of Cultural Play 2. Anne Cleary: Out of vision identities: The Narratives of Marginalized Irish Men
3. Susan Bailey: Re-Imagining Communities: Lesbian Representation and Visibility within Straight Communities in Ireland
4. Ross Higgins: Nancy Boys and Narcissism: Gay Male Identity & Hetro-normative Perceptions |
1. Claire Bracken: A Poetics of Becoming: Liminal Transformation and Repetitive Difference in the Poetry of Catherine Walsh 2. Fintan Walsh: "Voices from the Fringe: dialogues with the Other at the Dublin Fringe Festival, 2004."
3. Carlos Bruen: Constructing the 'Developing' Other in Irish Political Discourse
4. Alice Feldman: Facing the Other in Ireland s Diaspora Space: New Communities, Transforming Subjectivities |
10.45-11.05
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COFFEE C108 |
| 11.05-12.50 |
Exclusion, bereavement and return: Maternity and widowhood in Ireland
K114 |
Theatres of the Real: Race, Asylum and Gender
E114 |
Irish Travellers in culture and society
J208 |
| Chair |
Maureen Murphy |
Madeleine Reid |
Micheal O hAoadhna |
| Speakers |
1. Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Excluding the Bereaved: The Treatment of Widows in 20th-Century Ireland
2. Deirdre O Byrne: A Will of Her Own: The Figure of the Widow in the Short Stories of Mary Lavin
3. Tony Murray: 'Journeys Home' : The Role of the Maternal in Recent Second Generation Irish Narratives of Return
4. Donna Potts: Reviving the Lass of Aughrim: Mary Lavin's Sarah |
1. Patrick Lonergan: More Strangers in the House : Globalisation, Multiculturalism, and the Theatrical Construction of Irish Identity
2. Jason King: "Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre"
3. Anne Mulhall: 'Kitsch/Camp/Queer: 'Irishness', Authenticity and Subcultural Parody
4. Eoin Devereaux: Public exercises in othering: Irish media representations of asylum seeking |
1. Andrea Grunert: Figures of Otherness: Images of Irish Travellers in Traveller and Into the West
2. Harvey O' Brien: A Document in Difference: Alen MacWeeney and John T. Davis' Travellers
3. Paul Delaney: Travellers and Irish Literature
4. Kevin Ryan: Governing Space through Time: Vagabonds, Travellers, and the Politics of Order |
| 12.50-2.20 |
Lunch Perk Café, Quinn School of Business (with vouchers) |
| 2.20-3.20 |
Reading by URSULA RANI SARMA - Chair Professor Patricia Coughlan Theatre Q |
| 3.20-3.40 |
Coffee C108 |
| 3.40-5.25 |
All the world seems bright and gay': Irish modernity and Queer Identity
J208 |
Making and breaking codes of racialisation in contemporary Ireland
E114 |
Insanity, disease and abjection
K114 |
| Chair |
Michael O' Rourke |
Alice Feldman |
Lindsey Earner-Byrne |
Speakers
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1. Katherine O' Donnell: How the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization became the KKK
2. Noreen Giffney: The Queer Necessities ? Queer(s) in the Irish Gay Media
3. Michael Cronin: Pluralism, Modernity and Gay Men in Contemporary Irish Fiction
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1. Fidele Mutwarasibo: Affirmation of Irishness Amongst People of Colour in the Republic of Ireland
2. Steve Loyal: Seeing Like the State; Struggles Over Classification and Representation of Immigrants of Ireland
3. Maureen Reddy: Talking the Talk: Codes of Racialization
4. Iroh, Anaele Diala (Adis): Framing the Nigerian Transnational Family in Ireland: New Gendered and Class Formations |
1. Catherine Cox: Following Foucault to Ireland: Asylum Admissions the Dangerous Lunatic Legislation in the 19th Century
2.Inga Brandes: Narratives of Poverty and Ill-Health in Patrick MacGills Novels Children of the Dead End and The Rat Pit
3. Benjamin Keatinge: Beckett and Mental Illness
4. Derek Byrne: Hepatitis C Intravenous Drug Users and Equivalence of Care |
| 5.25-5.40 |
COFFEE C108 |
| 5.40-7.10 |
IMMIGRATION / RACE PLENARY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Theatre Q |
| Chair |
Madeleine Reid: Legal Adviser, Equality Investigations |
| Speakers |
Dr. Ronit Lentin
Course Coordiator, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, TCD
Prof. Declan Kiberd
Head of Department of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, UCD
Prof. Maureen Reddy
English and Women's Studies, Rhode Island
Dr. Steve Loyal
Department of Sociology, UCD
Kensika Monshengwo (NCCRI) |
| 8.30 |
Conference Dinner |
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| Sunday, March 20 |
| 10.00-11.45 |
Maternity, modernity and marginalisation
K114 |
Access, exclusion and disability in modern Ireland
J208 |
Religious, historical, and racial minorities in Ireland
E11 |
| Chair |
Gerardine Meaney |
Sue Norton |
Catherine Cox |
| Speakers |
1. Moynagh Sullivan: Seeing through 'My Mother-to Be dreams' : Borders of Identity in the work of Medbh McGuckian
2. Nathalie Sebanne: Magdalene Asylums: Discourses of Invisibility
3. Borbála Faragó: Silences of Dust, Impossible Signatures : Hearing the Mother in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Archer
4. Mary O Donoghue: I ll tell me Ma when I go home: Mothers and their Children s Schooling, a Key Site where the Social Relations of Class and Gender can be Interrogated |
1. Julianna Gillen and Susan Foley-Cave: the Integration of Deaf Children into Mainstream Schools
2. Gabriella Hanrahan: How does a working class, middle-aged, able-bodied women, that supports the emancipation of individuals disabled by society, legitimate her work, where such work will be scrutinized on the academic standard of objectivity?
3. Jurgen De Wispelaere: Rights or Policy? Arguing for the Rights-based Approach to Disability Services
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1. Sean Kennedy: Historicising Beckett: Beckett, W.B. Stanford and Irish Protestantism after the Treaty
2. John Brannigan: Ireland, and black! : Reading Race in Irish Literature and Culture
3. Leeann Lane: Representative of '1 majority and 2 minorities': republican and feminist politics in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937 - the case of Rosamond Jacob |
| 11.45-12.00 |
COFFEE C108 |
| 12.-1.30 |
SOCIAL EXCLUSION PLENARY Theatre Q |
| Chair |
Mal Murphy, chairperson of Irish Council for Civil Liberties |
| Speakers |
Dr. Micheál Ó hAodha
University of Limerick
Dr. Piaras MacEinri
Department of Geography, NUI Cork
Olan McGowen
RTE Presenter of Outside the Box, Irish Wheelchair Association
Other speakers to be confirmed. |
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| CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS |
Registration
Delegates can register and collect badges and conference packs in C108 from 8.30am on Friday, 18th March on Saturday, 19th March from 8.30am- 5.30pm and on Sunday from 10.00 am. |
Locations
All conference activities, except lunches, will be held in John Henry Newman Building (Arts / Commerce). Each of the parallel sessions will take place in K114, K115 (First floor, School of History), E114 (First floor) or J208 (Second floor, School of English). Plenary sessions and readings are located on the ground floor, in Theatre Q. Tea and coffee will be served in C108 (First floor). All rooms and theatres are wheelchair accessible. |
Car Park
All car parks on campus are free and available. The nearest to Arts / Commerce is Car Parks Number 4 (beside the bank) and 5 (a, b and c) |
Catering
Hot lunch will be served on Friday in the Restaurant, and on Saturday there is soup and sandwiches in Perk Café in Quinn School of Business. Please use the vouchers provided in your conference packs. Sunday lunch to be confirmed. |
Bank/ATM
The AIB bank on campus is open on Friday, 18th March from 10am to 4pm. There is one ATM machine located at the bank, and another one at the Library building. |
Toilet facilities
Ladies’ toilet is on the first floor beside the School of History, men’s is on the second floor, beside School of English. Other toilets are available and well signposted on the ground floor with wheelchair access. |
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