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Irish Modernism Conference Programme

Irish Modernism Conference Programme
Arts Building
Trinity College Dublin, 19-21 October 2007

Friday, 19th October

16:00 – 17:30 Conference Registration
(outside Swift Theatre, Arts Building)

18.00-19.30 Wine Reception

19:30 – 20:30 OPENING ADDRESS (Swift Theatre)

Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

‘Irish Modernism vs. International Modernism, 1913’

Chair: Dr Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin

Saturday, 20th October

9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Swift Theatre)

Dr Joe Cleary, NUI Maynooth

‘Modernism After Modernism: Reconfiguring the Trinity’

Chair: Prof. Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin

10:00-11:30 PANEL SESSION I

The Politics of Time: Irish Modernist Temporalities (Swift Theatre)

John Waters (NYC), 'Theorizing Irish Counter-Modernism: Realism, Genre, and Progressive temporality in Irish fiction, 1920-1923'
Gregory Dobbins (University of California, Davis), ‘Work-time, Leisure-time, Story-time and Irish Time’
Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway), 'Modernity and Moving Statues: Ireland, 1985'
Chair: Dr Carol Taaffe, Beijing Foreign Studies University

James Joyce and Irish Modernism (Rm 3071)

Sam Slote (TCD), ‘Garryowen and the Bloody Mangy Mongrel of Irish Modernity’
Margot Backus (NUI Galway), ‘“The Cracked Lookingglass of a Servant”: Scandal as Cultural Strategy in Ulysses.’
Eugene O’Brien (MIC Limerick), ‘ “He Had Read Her out a Ghost Story”: Hauntological Identifications between James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’ and Claire Keegan’s ‘The Parting Gift’’
Chair: Prof. Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin


Memory and Destiny: The Shape of Irish Modernity (Rm 4050A)

Jim Shanahan (TCD), ‘Frank Mathew’s The Wood of the Brambles (1896): A Forgotten Irish Modernist Novel’
Eimear O’Connor (UCD), 'Modernity and Realism: Sean Keating and The Playboy of the Western World'
John Borgonovo (UCC), ‘Dawn, Nation, and Destiny: Irish Cinema and the War of Independence’
Stanley Van Der Ziel (UCD), ‘John McGahern’s The Leavetaking’
Chair: Dr Angelina Lynch, University College Dublin

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:15 PANEL SESSION II

Scholars and Shopgirls: The Reception of Modernism (Rm 3071)

Lisa Fluet (Boston College), ‘James Joyce, Scholarship Boys and British Cultural Studies’
John Nash (Durham University), ‘Irish Modernism? The Reception of Joyce in Ireland, 1915-1930’
Jenny McDonnell (TCD), ‘ “The Brassy Little Shopgirl”: Frank O’Connor and the Legacy of Katherine Mansfield’
Chair: Prof. Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross

Ireland and Europe (Swift Theatre)

Robert Baines (TCD), ‘Seeing through the Mask: Valery Larbaud’s ‘James Joyce’ and the Problem of Irish Modernism’
Seán Kennedy (St.Mary’s University), ‘Ireland/ Europe… Beckett/ Beckett’
Peter Fifield (University of York), ‘ “Art has nothing to do with clarity”: Samuel Beckett and the Language of Visual Aesthetics’
Chair: Prof. James Wilson, East Carolina University

Modernism, Revolution and Popular Culture (Rm 4050A)

Deaglán Ó Donghaile (NUI Maynooth), ‘Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Revolutionary Bohemia’
Eamonn Hughes (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Flann O’Brien, Modernism and Popular Culture’
Steve Coleman (NUI Maynooth), ‘Modernism and Vernacular Culture: Maude, Ó Cadhain, Ó Conaire, Ó Riada’
Chair: Dr. Carol Taaffe, Beijing Foreign Studies University


13.15-14.30Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Swift Theatre)

Dr Alex Davis, University College Cork

‘Irish Modernisms and the Modern Movement’

Chair: Mr Gerald Dawe, Trinity College Dublin

15:30 – 17:15 PANEL SESSION III

Modernism and the Catholic Intellectual (Swift Theatre)

Benjamin Keatinge (SEEU), ‘Coffey, Devlin, MacGreevy and the Poetry of Prayer’
Rhiannon Moss (Queen Mary, London), ‘Thomas MacGreevy, Catholicism and Modernism in 1930s Ireland’
James Matthew Wilson (East Carolina University), ‘“Ireland’s Eliot?”: Late Modernism, Mysticism and the Marketplace in Denis Devlin’s The Heavenly Foreigner’
Jennika Baines (UCD), ‘A Rock and a Hard Place: Sweeny’s Role as Sisyphus and Job in At Swim-Two-Birds’
Chair: Dr Karen Brown, University College Dublin

Sinning Against the State: Rewriting Irish Cultural History (Rm 4050A)

Shillana Sanchez (Arizona State University), ‘Of Mimicry and Mockery: Flann O'Brien Relates the Nation'
Eibhlín Evans (UCD), ‘'a lacuna in the palimpsest': A Reading of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two Birds’
Kathy D'Arcy (UCC), 'Experiment in Error: Irish Women Poets Engaging with Modernism in the 1930s, 40s and 50s'
Chair: Dr. Eammon Hughes, Queens University Belfast


Irish Modernism and the Literary Revival (Rm 3071)

Julia Whittredge (UCC), ‘Modern, Modernising, Modernism: Revisiting the Poetry of the Irish Literary Revival’
Wit Pietrzak (University of Lodz), ‘Predefining Modernism: W.B.Yeats and Symbolic Ontology’
Anne Markey (TCD), ‘Modernism, Maunsel and the Irish Short Story’
Chair: Prof. Lisa Fluet, Boston College

17.15-17.30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:30 ROUNDTABLE SESSION (Swift Theatre)

Chair: Dr Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin

Participants:

Prof. Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin
Dr John Nash, Durham University
Dr. Derek Hand, St Patrick's College, DCU
Dr Eve Patten, Trinity College Dublin

21.00 CONFERENCE DINNER

Eliza Blues Restaurant, Wellington Quay


SUNDAY, 21st OCTOBER

10.00 – 11:30 PANEL SESSION 4

The Irish Avant-Garde: Surreal Landscapes (Rm 3071)

Karen E. Brown (UCD), ‘Thomas MacGreevy and Irish Modernism: Between Word and Image’
Jaki McCarrick (NUI Maynooth), ‘The Great Hunger: An Apocalypse of Irish Modernism and Surrealism’
Caitríona Ryan (Swansea University), ‘The Poetics of Tom MacIntyre’
Chair: Dr Eibhlin Evans, University College Dublin

Experimentalism and Irish Theatre (Swift Theatre)

Dathalinn O’Dea (Boston College), ‘Staging the Nation: W.B.Yeats and Theatre as the Third Space’
Michael McAteer (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘German Expressionism and Irish Drama: Yeats, O’Casey and McGuinness’
Maeve Tynan, (MIC Limerick) ‘ “Let us not speak”: Language and the Diminishing Self for Beckett’s Women’
Chair: Dr Carol Taaffe, Beijing Foreign Studies University

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:15 PANEL SESSION 5

New Languages: Modernism and the Visual Arts (Swift Theatre)

Róisín Kennedy (National Gallery of Ireland), ‘The White Stag Group – Experimentalism or Mere Chaos?’
Elaine Sissons (IADT), ‘Look Behind You!: Experimental Theatre and Design in Ireland 1918-1932’
Bernadette McCarthy (UCC), ‘Painting Stories, Telling Pictures: W. B. Yeats and Word Image Ideologies’
Chair: Dr. MIchael McAteer, Queens University Belfast

Building Modern Ireland: Architecture, Media and Transport (Rm 3071)

Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross), ‘Colleen Modernism: Media and Materiality in Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing’
Edwina Keown (St Pats, DCU), 'Shannon Airport, 1950s modernity and a late modernist romance of the West in Elizabeth Bowen's A World of Love (1955)’
Ellen Rowley (TCD), ‘Dublin Architecture 1945-1960: The Case of Catholic Church Design’
Chair: Prof. Gregory Dobbins, University of California, Davis


13:30 – 14:00 CLOSING REMARKS (Swift Theatre)