FRIDAY February 27
5:00-7:00p.m. Pre-registration
7:00-9:00p.m. Lavender & Green: A Decade of Being Irish and Gay in America, a screening selection from the Silence To Speech Video Project
Introduction by Brendan Fay
9:00p.m. Reception
SATURDAY February 28
10:00-10:30a.m. Breakfast
10:30-10:45a.m. Welcome/Opening Talk, Elizabeth Gilmartin (Monmouth University) and Will Hatheway (CUNY Graduate School)
10:45-12:15p.m. PANEL: Irish Studies in the Field: Teaching, Technology, and Travel. Moderator: Sara Brady (New York University)
Nainsi J. Houston (Creighton University), “From Glorvina to Buffy: Using Technology in the Irish Studies Classroom”
Kathryn A. Conrad (University of Kansas), “Flying Solo: Doing Irish Studies without Irish Studies”
David Gardiner, Director of the Summer School in Ireland (Creighton University), “‘What Do You Mean We’re Not Kissing the Blarney Stone?’ Or, ‘What’s With All the Cell Phones?’ The Evolution of Study Abroad Programs in Ireland”
12:15-2:15p.m. Lunch
2:15-3:15p.m. PANEL: Genres in/of Anthologies. Moderator: Elizabeth Gilmartin
Lachlan Whalen (Marshall University), “‘The National Library Archives Would Never Accept It:’ The Irish Canon and the Counter-Aesthetics of Republican Prison Writing”
Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew (University of Pennsylvania), “The 'Sean-Chló' and ‘Nua-Aoiseachas’ in Two Mid-Twentieth Century Irish Gaelic Anthologies: Nuabhéarsaíocht and Nuascéalaíocht”
3:15-3:30p.m. Coffee Break
3:30-4:30p.m. TALK: Stephen Enniss (Director of Special Collections at Emory University)
Collecting Ireland in America
4:30-4:45p.m. Coffee Break
4:45-5:45p.m. TALK: Nicholas Allen (UNC Chapel Hill)
The Cities of Belfast
5:45-6:30p.m. Pre-Screening Pizza Break
6:30-9:00p.m. Screening of Nora with an introduction by Jessica Scarlata (Cinema Studies, NYU), Anthologizing the Reader:
Pat Murphy and Female Spectatorship
Cantor Film Center
9:00p.m. Post-film Gathering @ The Four-Faced Liar
(a bar owned by a former GRIAN presenter on W. 4th St. just west of 6th Ave.)
SUNDAY February 29
10:00-10:30a.m. Breakfast
10:30-12:30p.m. PANEL: Categorizing and [Mis]Labeling
Moderator: Joseph Lennon (Manhattan College)
Claire Norris (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “‘Dear, dirty Dublin:’ What Makes Irish Literature Irish”
John Redmond (University of Liverpool), “Defining Irishness and Britishness in Anthologies of 20th Century Poetry”
Erica Secchini (Boston College), “George Moore: A Part of the Irish Catholic Upper-Middle-Class Project”
Phil Walsh (University of Sheffield) “‘disenfranchised / In the constituencies of quartz and bog-oak:’ Louis MacNeice, Ireland and the Canon”
12:30-2:00p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30p.m. PANEL: Anthologizing Beyond the Book
Moderator: Abby Bender (Princeton University)
Elizabeth Crooke (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, Magee Campus), “The Contested Museum: Collection and Display of Ireland”
Kathleen O’Brien (Concordia), “Landscapes of Death in Image and Text: More Than a Family Story”
Sara Brady (NYU), “Irish Sport and Culture at New York’s Gaelic Park”
3:30-3:45p.m. Coffee Break
3:45-5:45p.m. PANEL: The Curriculum, the Classroom, and the Syllabus as Anthology
Moderator: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University)
Mary Burke (Keogh Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame), “Introducing the Traveler Voice into the Irish Literature Curriculum”
Jim Vincent (Robert Morris University), “Black and Green: An African-American and Irish-American Literature Course Online”
Karen Hill McNamara (Drew University) “Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults: Incorporating Literature of the Great Irish Famine and the Holocaust in a Graduate Course”
Maureen Fadem (The Center and Hunter College, CUNY), “Recognizing Difference: On Irish Postcoloniality”
5:45-6:00p.m. Coffee Break
6:00-7:30p.m. TALK and PERFORMANCE: Scott Spencer (NYU), Eamon O’Leary (Guitar and Banjo), and Patrick Ourceau (Fiddle), Live at Mona’s: Anthologizing New York’s Traditional Irish Music Scene
7:30p.m. Closing Comments by Joe Lee (NYU) and Sara Brady (NYU)
Reception to follow
