| Thursday, March 9 |
| 6:30-8:00 pm |
Registration |
| Friday, March 10 |
| 8:15-9:00 am |
Registration
JSB Room 108
Coffee and pastries |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Session 1 |
- EMIGRATION AND THE IRISH ABROAD
JSB Room 108
Chair: William H. Mulligan Jr., Murray State University
William H. Mulligan Jr., Murray State University, “The Irish Diaspora and the English/British Diaspora: Conjoined Twins?”
Kay Retzlaff, University of Maine at Augusta, “Transplanting Irish Roots: Rewriting Irishness in Belfast, Maine”
Gamze Katı Gümüş, University of Kansas, “What are the Irish Catholics fighting for?”: The Pilot, the Irish and the American Civil War”
Beth O’Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, “Cultural Memory and Forgetting in the Fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan”
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MEMORY & SILENCE IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
JSB Room 161N
Chair: Sandra Sprayberry, Robert Luckie Professor, Birmingham-Southern College
Meg Tyler, Boston University, “Remembering Not to Forget: Derek Mahon and Belfast”
Barbara Burch, Georgetown College, “‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing:’ Forms of silence in Yeats, Heaney, Carson and Longley”
April Fallon, Kentucky State University, “Before the Boom: Paula Meehan’s Dublin”
Emily Leithauser, Emory University, “Measuring Motherhood: Memory and Scale in Sinéad Morrissey and Leontia Flynn”
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CONTEMPORARY FICTION
JSB Room 361N
Chair: Kristina Varade, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Jason Buchanan, City University of New York—Hostos Community College, “Aggro-Entrepreneurialism: Depictions of Hyper-Masculinity in Post-Tiger Literature”
Julie Fowkes, Georgia State University, “Negotiating the Burden of the Past: David Park’s Treatment of Sin in the Northern Ireland Conflict”
Bowie Hagan, Georgia State University, “The Embodiment of the Past through Personal and Public Narrative in David Park’s The Truth Commissioner”
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| 10:30-11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am-12:30 pm |
Session 2 |
- W.B. YEATS
JSB Room 108
Chair Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University
John Hoffmann, Johns Hopkins University, “’Weaving Olden Dances’: W B Yeats and Collective Movement”
Marti Lee, Georgia Southern University, “Political Poetry 1916 and 1972: W. B. Yeats and Thomas Kinsella”
Ben Rawlins, Baylor University, “The Incarnation of Tragic Joy in Yeats’s ‘Lapis Lazuli’”
Sandra Sprayberry, Birmingham-Southern College, "Remembering the Stolen Children: From Sligo to Birmingham"
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IDENTITY POLITICS & HYBRID IDENTITIES
JSB Room 161N
Chair: Heather Corbally Bryant, Wellesley College
George Bornstein, University of Michigan, “Irish and Jewish: Hybrid Identities of David Marcus, Stanley Price, and Myself”
Wanda Balzano and Angéla Kóczé, Wake Forest University, “Bread and Circuses: Re-Imagining Identity Politics and Feminist Resistance through Juanita Casey’s work”
- FICTION, BIOFICTION & BIOGRAPHY
JSB Room 361N
Chair: TBA
Tramble Turner, Penn State University, Abington, “Ghosts and Memory: Colm Toibin’s Jamesian Explorations”
Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, Morris, “Oscar Wilde and the Origins of Contemporary Biofiction”
Kristina Varade, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, “Irish ‘Exiles’ and Continental Margins: Charles Lever’s and James Joyce’s Memoirs from Trieste”
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| 12:30-2:00 pm |
Lunch on your own at area restaurants |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
KEYNOTE LECTURE
The Great Hall, Margaret I. King Library, 179 Funkhouser Drive
“Spiritual Dramas: Yeats's Conflicted Remembrance of the Tragic Generation”
W. Ronald Schuchard
(Goodrich C. White Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Emory University) |
| 3:30-4:00 pm |
Coffee |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
POETRY READING
University of Kentucky Art Museum, 405 Rose Street
Joan McBreen and Heather Bryant |
| 6:00-8:00 pm |
RECEPTION
Live music with Maeve and Brendan Draper
Hilary J. Boone Faculty Center, 500 Rose Street |
| Saturday, March 11 |
| 8:15-9:00 am |
Coffee and pastries |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Session 3 |
- HISTORY, NATION, MEMORY
JSB Room 103
Chair: Beth O’Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island
Timothy White, Xavier University, “What Do We Choose to Remember? History and Memory in Ireland’s Centenary Celebration”
Nicole Trobaugh, University of Kentucky, “Tom Kettle, Nationalism and the Great War”
Drew Timmons, Northern Kentucky University, “The Irish Folk Tale and National Memory”
- EAVAN BOLAND
JSB Room 108
Chair: Jessica O’Hara, The Pennsylvania State University
Daniel Benyousky, Baylor University, “Occluded Narratives in Eavan Boland’s Poetry”
Helen Emmitt, Centre College, “‘The Trials of our Faith’:Eavan Boland’s Recent poems on Religion”
Jessica O’Hara, The Pennsylvania State University, “‘Between inheritance and instinct’: The Three Irish Poets anthology of Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, and Eavan Boland”
- FICTION, LANDSCAPE & MEMORY
JSB Room 114
Chair: TBA
Jefferson Holdridge, Wake Forest University, “History, Memory and Guilt in Sean O’Faoláin’s ‘Admiring the Scenery’”
Antoinette Larkin, University of Cincinnati, “Remembering the Pre-Christian Goddess Brigit and St. Brigid: New Imaginaries in the Fiction of Maeve Kelly and Mary O’Donnell”
Jill Brady Hampton, University of South Carolina - Aiken, “Sporting Memory in Letters and Literature: Somerville and Ross’s R.M. stories”
Chelsea Brislin, University of Kentucky, “Sheridan Le Fanu and the 19th century horror story”
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| 10:30-11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am-12:30 pm |
Session 4 |
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ELIZABETH BOWEN & MEMORY
JSB Room 103
Chair: Anna Stone, University of Kentucky
Heather Corbally Bryant, Wellesley University, “Elizabeth Bowen and Memory"
Ann Rea, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, “‘Unnatural Living Runs in a Family:’
Elizabeth Bowen’s Orphans, Ghosts, Final Heirs, and Uneasiness with the Past"
Sarah Harsh, Emory University, “Against the Past? Remembering the Great War in Bowen’s A World of Love”
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SEAMUS HEANEY
JSB Room 108
Chair: Meg Tyler, Boston University
Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University, “Remembering Heaney’s Things"
Michelle Miles, Kennesaw State University, “‘Step the fleshy earth and follow’: Seamus Heaney and the Pilgrim’s Arc”
Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Baylor University, “Risk and Redress in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Punishment’”
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DRAMA OF THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL
JSB Room 114
Chair: Martin Kearney, Southeastern Louisiana University
Martin Kearney, Southeastern Louisiana University, “From Folk Memory to Performance: Composing the Present from the Past in Lady Gregory’s The Rising of the Moon”
Emily Handy, University of Kentucky, “An Authentic National Theatre: Simulacra, Scandinavian Drama, and the Production of the Irish National Theater”
Luke Mitchell, Baylor University, “Yeats and the Noh Drama”
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| 12:30-2:00 pm |
ACIS Business lunch in the Atrium of JSB |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session 5 |
- RETURNING HISTORY: SHARING WITH SAVANNAH HOW IT’S IRISH
JSB Room 103
Chair: Jill Hampton, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Howard Keeley and Sarah Ryniker, Georgia Southern University
- SEAMUS HEANEY 2
JSB Room 108
Chair: Tramble Turner, Penn State University, Abington
Rand Brandes, Lenoir-Rhyne University, “Seamus Heaney’s Publishing Life”
Anna Stone, University of Kentucky, “Striding Ghosts and Hiding Places: The Sonnet Sequence and the Power of the Past in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Glanmore Sonnets’”
- HOLY WELLS, SACRED SPRINGS & ‘LIFE HISTORY METHOD’: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
JSB Room 114
Chair: Michael Simonton, Northern Kentucky University
Celeste Ray, University of the South, Sewanee, “Ireland’s Holy Wells as Lieux de Mémoire"
Michael Simonton, Northern Kentucky University, “Life in a Rearview Mirror: Reconstructing Twentieth Century Ireland from Memory”
Jackson Feezell, Emory & Henry College, “Border Voices: Cross-Border Identity in North-West Ulster”
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| 3:30-4:00 pm |
Coffee |
| 4:00-5:00 pm |
FICTION READING: Patrick O’Keeffe
JSB Room 103 |
| 5:00-6:30 pm |
Board bus for exclusive downtown Brewery Tour at The Alltech Lexington Brewing & Distilling Company
401 Cross Street, Lexington, KY 40508 |
| 6:00 pm |
Reception |
