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Programme
Friday, 3rd April
Registration: 3-5pm, Humanity Manse (19 College Bounds)
6-7pm Plenary Session: Neal Alexander (University of Nottingham): 'What Might Have Been: Ciaran Carson and the Politics of Memory'
Wine reception and buffet to follow
Saturday, 4th April
9.30-11am Parallel Sessions:
Memory and Northern Ireland
Emma Grey (Aberdeen): The Representation of Memory in Contemporary Northern Irish Visual Arts Stephanie Lehner (Edinburgh): ‘Translating the Past’?: The Ab/pt-Uses of Memory and History in Recent Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish Fiction Mary Kate Coghlan (Queen’s): Music, Tradition and the Northern Irish Peace Process
Attitudes to Language:
Lindsay Milligan (Aberdeen): ‘I’m in with the Out Crowd’: A Study into the Attitudes of Young Gaelic Learners with regard to the Wider Gaelic Community Michael Hornsby (Aberdeen): language Attitudes and Language Ideologies: the Need for Greater clarification in Situations of Language Minoritisation Tom Rendall (Orkney): Attitudes towards the Use of Dialect in the Orkney Islands
Walter Scott
Ainsley McIntosh (Aberdeen): ‘Alive within the Tomb’L: Narrative Closure, Enclosure and Disclosure in Marmion Anna Fancett (Aberdeen): “Narrative Outcasts: The Discourse of the Powerless Kangyen Chiu (Glasgow): Orientalism, Hospitality and Empire in The Talisman
Break: Tea & Coffee
11.30-1pm Parallel Sessions:
Visualising Ireland
Claudia Bossay (Queen’s): Representing Irish History on Screen Zélie Asava (UCD): Identity, Migration and the Nation in Modern Irish Horror Films Giulia Bruna (UCD): On the Road In Connemara with John Synge and Jack Yeats: Visual and Textual Shaping of Irishness
Literature and Gender
Sharon Humphrey (Boston): Seeing Beyond the Misogyny: William Butler Yeats’s Exploration of the Cycle of Beauty and Violence Jacqui Weeks (Notre Dame): Sensing Monsters: The Fairy Tale Poetry of Liz Lochhead and Carol Ann Duffy Charlene O’Kane: Gender, Identity and the Power of Adolescence
The Scottish Highlands
Emily Donoho (Edinburgh): St. Fillan’s Blessed Well Whose Springs Can Frenzies’ Dreams Dispel: Superstitions in Lunacy in the Scottish Highlands and Islands Ashley Powell (Aberdeen): Reading the Highlands of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Social Criticism in Fear Tathaich nam Beann Danielle McCormack (Edinburgh): Literary Evolution and the Changing Perception of the Highland Warrior Ideal: Social and Historiographical Implications
Lunch
Parallel Sessions 2-3pm
Scottish Fiction
Dan Wall (Aberdeen): ‘Changes over time’: Visions of Scotland in O’Hagan and Galt Kenneth Keir (Aberdeen): ‘Communion’ and Neil Gunn’s The Serpent
Irish Identities
Brian Rock (Stirling): Myles na gCopaleen, Flanerie and the Language Revival Movement in Post-Independent Ireland Sonja Tiernan (Trinity College Dublin): Eva Gore-Booth: The Birth of an Irish Political Activist
Negotiating Identity 1
Beth Phillips (Galway): Imaginative Veracity: Little John Nee’s The Derry Boat Aoife Dempsey (Galway): “Negotiating Contemporary Scottish and Irish Identities: A Greek Tragedy in the Making?”
Parallel Sessions 3.15-4.15pm
Memory and Trauma
Victoria Connor (Aberdeen): Textualising Trauma: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s James X Shane Alcobia-Murphy (Aberdeen): Speech and Silence in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry
Home and Away
Margaret Brehony (Galway): Records of Irish Railroad Workers in the Cuban National Archives: ‘Lazy Drunks’ or Purposeful Protestors? James T. O’Donnell (Galway): Clare’s Champions or the Sovereign’s Soldiers?: Letters and Images of the South African War (1899-1902) in Co. Clare
Drama
Fiona Brennan (Cork): Enigmatically Grotesque and Dark Extractions: George Fitzmaurice’s The Toothache Bakare Babatunde Allen: Identities, resemblance and Similarities of the Past in Irish and Scottish Theatre
Break: Tea & Coffee
Parallel Sessions: 4.45-6.15pm
Space, Place and Power 1
Joanne McEntee (Galway): Merely an Issue of Semantics or a Real Place of Power?: A Study of the Scotch Corner in County Monaghan Jill Harland (University of Otago): “Island Heritage and Identity in the Antipodes: Orkney and Shetland Societies in New Zealand” Angela Watt (Shetland): From Creel to College: The Cultural and Visual Impact of External Dictates on Internal Heritage Space
C20th Irish Fiction
Erik Hillskemper (Aberdeen): A Tale Too Often Told: The Question of Historical Authority in the ‘Nestor’ Episode of Joyce’s Ulysses Richard Barlow (Queen’s): James MacPherson in Finnegans Wake
C19th Scottish Fiction
Christy Di Frances (Aberdeen): Mapping Place in Stevenson’s The Black Arrow Philip Hickok (Aberdeen): Identity in George MacDonald’s Sir Gibbie
We hit the town for sustenance ….
Sunday, 5th April
Parallel Sessions 9.30.10.30
Space, Place and Power 2
Amanda Leigh Cox (Concordia University): Acadia and Ireland: Temporally Distant, Akin in Resistance Lisa Clifford (St. Andrews): Scottish Networking and Community Development in London During the Seventeenth century, 1603-1707
C18th Irish and Scottish Poetry
Alex Watson (Edinburgh): Thirteen Ways of Glossing To a Haggis: Paratexts to Burns’ Poems Niamh Ní Shiadhail (UCD): Remnants of Jacobitism?: Identity in the Irish-language Poetry of Late Eighteenth-century Cork
Negotiating Identity 2
Anna Teekell (Washington University): ‘No Abiding City’: Locating the Irish Eva Trout María Leticia del Toro García (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): Inherited Culture
Break: Tea-Coffee
Parallel Sessions 11-12.30pm
Ulster and the Scottish Connection
Robert Whan (Queen’s): Ulster Presbyterians and the Scottish Connection, c.1680-1730 John Sherry (University of Ulster): Scottish and Ulster Presbyterians, 1660-1714: Loyal Protestants or Religious Radicals? John Cunningham (Galway): The Ulster Scots and Transplantation in Cromwellian Ireland
Early Gaelic Literature
Katie Mathis (Edinburgh): Deirdriu Abroad: Longes mac n-Uislenn and the Glenmasan Manuscript in Early Modern Scotland Patrick McCafferty (Queen’s): The Battle of Dougals and Fingals Geo Athena Trevarthen (Edinburgh): Last Man Standing: Cú Chulainn’s Everlasting Fame
Uses of the Past
Sorcha Ni Lochlainn (Queen’s): ‘Mo chamán bán i mo dhorn (My beloved hurl in my fist): Some Aspects of Shinty and Hurling as Represented in the Gaelic Folk Traditions of Ireland and Scotland Jamie Blake Knox (Trinity): The Afterlife of St Columba S.E. Thornbush (Edinburgh): Seriation of Headstone Shape at St. Mary’s Churchyard in Scarborough
Conference close
For more details, contact Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, School of Language & Literature, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2UB. (Email sam@adn.ac.uk; Tel. 01224-272630)
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen