Annual Conference of the Irish Association for American Studies
***DRAFT programme***
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 4-6 April 2008
Friday, 4 April 2008
2:00-2:30
Welcome (Logic Hall, Logic House, NUIM South Campus)
2:30-3:45
Panel: from Atlantis to the transatlatic (Logic Hall, Logic House, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, NUIM
Sinéad Moynihan, Nottingham University
From The Commitments to “The Deportees”:
Roddy Doyle’s Transatlantic Musical Vision of a Multicultural Ireland
Anthony Caleshu, Plymouth University
'My Theory is Simple-Minded to Be Sure': The Posture of 'New Knowledge' in Contemporary American and British Poetry
Jennifer Eckel, University of Texas
Center and Periphery: Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis and the Geography of Civilization
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:00
IAAS annual general meeting (Logic Hall, Logic House, NUIM South Campus)
5:30-7:00
Keynote lecture (Physics Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Clive Webb, Department of American Studies, University of Sussex
Title t.b.a.
7:00 Dinner (Pugin Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Saturday, 5 April 2008
9:30-11:00
Panel: Worlds in the making (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: Michael Hinds, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University
Ann Walsh, University College Cork
An American Abroad: Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement
Richard Hayes, Waterford Institute of Technology
“Homemade” Forms: American Dramatists, Hollywood and the World
Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College
Remodeling the Driver: Automobility and Governmentality in Midcentury America
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:45
Panel: America in Maynooth (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: t.b.a.
Brian Bridges, Department of Music
Product of Culture-Clash: Social scene, patronage and group dynamics in the Theatre of Eternal Music and the early Downtown scene in New York
Larry Taylor, Department of Anthropology
Title t.b.a.
Brian Hanley, Department of History
Irish left republicans in the United States: the case of the Irish Republican Clubs 1970-1981
12:45-2 Lunch (Pugin Hall, NUIM South Campus)
2:00-3:00
Artist’s talk (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Artist and photographer Maeve Hickey will discuss aspects of her work as it engages with the Mexican/US borderlands
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-4:45
Panel: Ireland, America (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: t.b.a.
Brian McKenzie, Kutztown University
The Political Economy of Americanization: the Case of Ireland
Mary Cathryn Cain, Agnes Scott College
‘Nothing Rough or Dirty, or Slavish’: White Women, Race and the Logic of Household Labor in the Antebellum North
Brian Coughlan, NUIM
James Hack Tuke: An analysis of his role in the government financed assisted migration schemes from Achill Island, Co Mayo to locations in North America in the years 1883/1884
5:00-6:30
Alan Graham Memorial Lecture (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Professor Jerusha McCormack, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Shifting the Focus: Teaching American Studies in China Today
Following the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, there will be a dinner at 8:30 at the Avenue Restaurant in Maynooth. All participants are welcome to attend.
Please contact JoAnne Mancini if you would like to reserve a place. Please note that the cost of dinner is not included in the conference fee.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
9:30-11:00
Panel: American fictions (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Jennifer Daly, Open University
De/Constructing Identity: Evangelicals versus the natives in The Poisonwood Bible
Adam Kelly, University College Dublin
Moments of Decision in Contemporary American Fiction
Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
The Land is Haunted Because it is Stolen: The Amityville Horror and the Suburban Gothic
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:45
Panel: Poetry, Politics, Kinship, and Ecstasy (Renehan Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Chair: t.b.a.
Anna Dillon, Queen’s University Belfast
The Ecstatic Self in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Kevin McGuirk, University of Waterloo
Politics and Things: American Poetry and Robert Lowell’s ‘For the Union Dead’
Hanna Hoorenman, Trinity College Dublin
Kinship, Otherness and the Cycle of Life in the Poetry of Galway Kinnell
1:00-2:00 Lunch (Pugin Hall, NUIM South Campus)
Conference fees are to be paid by cheque made out to ‘Irish Association for American Studies’ and sent to JoAnne Mancini, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. The fee is €40 before 20 March or €60 after 20 March (£32/£48). This fee includes tea and coffee, dinner Friday and lunch Saturday and Sunday.
Transportation and map: Please click on http://www.nuim.ie/location/ for transport information and http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/CampusMapsNorth&South2.pdf for a map of NUIM. Queries may be directed to JoAnne.Mancini@nuim.ie