The Irish Association for American Studies, in association with the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies,
Ireland’s America
William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD Belfield, Dublin
30-31 March 2007
Programme
Friday 30th March
Venue : William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD
6.00 Registration
6.50 Welcome - Liam Kennedy, Clinton Institute for American Studies
7.00 The Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, Chair: Ron Callan (UCD)
Professor Denis Donoghue (New York University)
'First Stirrings'
8.15 Reception
Saturday 31st March
Venue: - William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium
9.00 Registration
9.30 - 11.00 Panel A - C
Panel A
Hilary Bracefield (University of Ulster)
'The Kingston Trio, folk or 'folk': the Irish perspective on an American phenomenon'
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis)
'Forty Shades of Americana: Johnny Cash and Folk Balladry'
Ruth Barton (University College Dublin)
'HONK IF YOUR'RE LONELY! - Irish cinema and the emotional space of American Country music'
Panel B
Pat Brereton (Dublin City University)
'Ireland's America: A case study of Sheridan's films: including Into the West, In America and Get Rich or die Tryin.'
John Mitchell (NUI Maynooth)
'What is this film doing here?: The Presence of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Mickeybo and Me'.
Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmith College)
"Take 'em to Missouri, men": Patrick McCabe's Huckleberry Finn
Panel C
Michael Coleman (University of Jyväskylä)
'Counterfactuals I'd rather not contemplate: What if the nineteenth-century educational campaigns to Americanize the Indians and to Anglicize the Irish had never taken place?'
Marie Coleman (Queen's University Belfast)
'The Irish Hospitals Sweepstake in the USA in the 1930s'
11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.20 - 12.30 Roundtable Discussion
American Literature in Ireland: chaired by Philip Coleman (TCD)
Denis Donoghue (New York University)
John Montague (former Ireland Professor of Poetry)
Peggy O'Brien (University of Massachusetts)
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
Annual General Meeting of the IAAS
2.00- 3.30 Panels D & E
Panel D
Gerard Naughton (UCD)
'Sexual Exile and Indomitable Forces in the fiction of James Baldwin and Colm Toibin'
Sinean Moynihan (University of Nottingham)
'"Ships in Motion": The Black and Green Atlantics in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea (2003)
Barry Shanahan (UCD Clinton Institute)
'The Irish & their famous profanity": Hip Hop & Identity in Roddy Doyles "Home to Harlem"
Panel E
Megan Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
'The Production of Doubt in Contemporary Ireland'
Sarah Keating (Trinity College Dublin)
'There's Nothing Romantic About Poverty' or is there? Tom Murphy and the Myth of the Other West
Marisa Ronan (UCD Clinton Institute)
Evangelical Christian Fiction, Reflections of a ‘Culture in Transition’
3.30 - 4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00 - 5.30 Panels F & G
Panel F
Victoria Kennefick (University College Cork)
"Why Don't You Write About America?" Representations of relations between Ireland and America in the work of Frank O'Connor'
Peter Denman (NUI Maynooth)
''"Dreaming of Cambridge, Mass. in Inis Oirr": Images of America in Irish Poetry, 1950-1980'
Maria Johnston (Trinity College Dublin)
'Somewhere Else': Louis MacNeice and America
Panel G
Madeleine Lyes (UCD Clinton Institute)
'Unsettling Visions of Home: Maeve Brennan's "Talk of the Town" and the Grand Project of the New Yorker.
Ellen Rowley (Trinity College Dublin)
'From Dublin to Penn and Back Again: An Exploration of the Influence of American Modernisn on Irish Architecture of the 1970's'
5.45 - 6.45 - Roundtable Discussion
American History in Ireland.
Ciaran Brady (Trinity College Dublin)
David Doyle (University College Dublin)
William Riches (University of Ulster)