American Prohibitions
Alan Graham Lecture: Professor Liam Kennedy "American Studies and the United States of the West"
Papers Presented:
Michael Hinds, "Wilson Says No: Pet Sounds, Hedonism and Prohibition"; Therese Smith, "'Shun Evil Companions': Saints versus Sinners in African-American Fundamentalist Christianity"; Philip Coleman "William Burroughs and the Idea of prohibition in The Yager Letters"; Caroline Blinder, "'Literature is Guilty': Georges Bataille, Jean Paul sartre and the Case for Henry Miller"; Ann Coughlan, "Frederick Douglass and Father Matthew: Irish, american, and Irish-American Engagements with Temperance"; Siobhan Kilfeather, "'The Sherriff's A Nigger': Talking Race in post-War American Cinema"; Judy Rohrer: "'The Vanishing Native': The 'Problem' of Native Identity and the Impossibility of Indigeneity in the US"; JoAnne Mancini, "Art, Smuggling, and Madness in Eighteenth Century New Spain"; Jennifer McCarthy: "The Masses and the Espionage Act: Images of Dissent"; Anne Rice, "'There Is No More Time': Marion Palfi's prohibited Lynching Photographs"; Bernice Murphy, "American Parricide: Murderous Children in the Work of Shirley Jackson and Lionel Shriver"; Mark Quinn, "Schizoid Tendencies: Thomas Pynchon's Technique of self-Relevation and Soliloquy in Gravity's Rainbow"; Philip McGowan, "Sexton and the Unspeakable"; Marisa Ronan, "Morality, prohibition and the Apocalypse: Towards a New Kind of Christian"; Paula Murphy, "'Top Guns' and 'Scud Scuds': Terrorism and the Media; Aoileann ni Eigeartaigh "The American Superhero as Repressive Mythology"; Eugene O'Brien "'Three Stars and a Keffiyeh: Shia Clerics, Prayer breakfasts and the Prohibition of Comparison"; Nikolai Duffy "Nothing to Say and Saying It: Rosemarie Waldrop 9/11 and the Poetics of Emergency"; John-Paul Colgan, "Duty or Taboo?: Some Issues Surrounding the Representation of 9/11"
Original Call for Papers
The Irish Association of American Studies invites proposals for papers and/or panels on the topic of American Prohibitions for its annual conference which will take place at Queen's University Belfast, 31 March & 1 April 2006. The theme of the conference is open to wide and varied definition. Proposals on a range of topics including film and literary censorship, government policy, moments of America's prohibitive culture from the times of the Puritans to the present day and other related concerns are welcomed from academics, scholars and postgraduates working in the various fields of American studies.