“Re-memory” and “Disremembering”: The Role of Memory in the American Construct
Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin
Saturday 29th January
9:00-9:30 Registration
Panel 1: 9:30-11:00: Re-mem[bering] Stereotype
Chair: TBC Michael Taylor (University of Heidelberg): “Pious Persecution: Religious Intolerance in Antebellum America” David Deacon (University College, Dublin): “Ethnic Resistance with regards to the ‘Hyphenated Identity’ in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.” Leah Harte (University of Limerick): “The might of the Hyphen: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Identity and Fiction as a ‘Shifting Equation’
11:00-11:20 Break
Panel 2: 11:20-12:30: Subjective Disremembering
Chair: (Louise Walsh) Jasmine Kitses (UC Davis): “Lorine Niedecker: Unrecognizable Objects of the Mind” Clare Hayes-Brady (Trinity College, Dublin) “Of Lies and Forgetting: The Fictive Trap in David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion.”
12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided)
Panel 3: 1:30-3:00: Collective Re-memor[ies]
Chair: Kate Kirwan Maeve O’Brien (University of Ulster) ‘“Rat courts” or “a great, loud cats’ bag”: Sororities, Schooling and Reconstruction of Identity in the Short Stories of Sylvia Plath”. Helen Wainwright (University of Nottingham) “Tracing Memory: Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces” Miranda Corcoran (University College, Cork) ‘“A is for Atom”: Atomic Age Educational Films and the Legacy of American Utopianism”.
3:00-3:30 Break
Panel 4: 3:30 -5:00: Conflict[ing] Memory
Chair: (TBC) Gavin Wilk (University of Limerick) “American Fears and IRA Bombs: The 1939 Irish Republican Propaganda Campaign in the United States” Clair Sheehan (University of Limerick) “Muted Voices: The Use of Trauma and Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”.
5:00 Wine Reception, Clinton Institute.
Dinner: Fire Restaurant on Dawson St. On the 46A Bus Route from UCD. Please note that dinner is not included in the registration fee.
Please email Louise and Kate to confirm your attendance - iaas.symposium@gmail.com