FRIDAY March 4, 2005
5:00-7:00p.m. Registration
7:00p.m. TALK: James Hunter, Professor Emeritus
(University of Ulster at Coleraine)
Ireland and Its Islands Reception to follow
SATURDAY March 5
9:00a.m. Breakfast/Registration
9:30-11:00a.m. PANEL: The Governance and Practice of the Irish Body
Moderator: Sophie Sweetman McConnell (Grian)
Elaine Moriarty (Trinity College Dublin)
"Dialectical Interrelations of Knowledge, Power and Subjectivity in the Representational Struggle for Irishness and Otherness"
Patrick O’Callaghan (University of Bremen, Germany)
"Law and Identity: The Question of Citizenship in Irish Constitutional Law"
Deirdre Egan (University of Iowa)
"Irishness as White Bodily Practice"
Cassie Farrelly (Trinity College Dublin)
"Writing Refugees Onto the National Stage: Asylum! Asylum! and the Abbey National Theatre"
11:00-12:30p.m. Keynote Speech:
Bill Rolston, Professor of Sociology (University of Ulster at Jordanstown)
Ireland of the Welcomes: Equiano and Douglass in Ireland
12:30-1:30p.m. Lunch at Glucksman Ireland House
1:30-3:00p.m. PANEL: Divergent Perspectives: Ireland and the New World
Moderator: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University)
Claire Norris (Bryant and Stratton College)
"A Nation of Brilliant Failures: Learning How to Deal with the Irish Double Consciousness"
John Brannigan (University College Dublin)
"Ireland and Black: Reading Race in Irish Literature and Culture"
Jennifer Keating (University of Pittsburgh)
"Explorations of Affiliation: Representatives of Irish Indentured Servitude in English West Indies"
Eileen Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Depictions of the Other in Irish and Puerto Rican Narratives"
3:00-4:15p.m. PANEL: "Others" at Home: The Travellers of Ireland
Moderator: Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University/ Grian)
Christine Walsh (Concordia University)
"The Representation of the Traveller as "Outsider" in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats: Archetype or Stereotype?"
Moira Herbst (UCC)
"Migrant Workers in a Changing Ireland: The Invisible Hands of a "Globalized" State"
Mary Burke (University of Connecticut)
"The Irish Traveller Figure in American Popular Culture"
4:15-4:30p.m. Coffee Break
4:30-6:00p.m. PANEL: Globalizing Gaeilge/ Gaelicizing Globalism
Moderator: Beth Gilmartin (Monmouth University)
Siobhan O'Connor (University of Limerick)
"The Situation and History of German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945"
Michelle Woods (Dublin City University)
"Transluding the Otherman: Transnational Identity in Irish-Czech Literary Discourse"
Brian Ó Broin (William Paterson University)
"The Unusual Racism and Racial Tolerance of the Graveyard Residents in Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille"
6:00-8:00p.m. Dinner Break
8:00p.m. CONCERT: Mick Moloney's Irish American Music and Dance Festival
(gathering at the Four-Faced Liar pub to follow)
SUNDAY March 6
9:00a.m. Breakfast
9:30-10:45 a.m. PANEL: Identifying Ethnicity: Prominent Voices from Ireland, Africa, and America
Moderator: Eileen Reilly (New York University)
Angus Mitchell (St. Lawrence University)
"Mapping Roger Casement Inside the African Space Race"
Charles Strauss (University of Notre Dame)
"Shall We Trust in Liberty: Irish Americans and the Boer War"
Damien Keane (University of Pennsylvania)
"De Valera, du Bois, and the Ethiopia Crisis"
10:45-12:00 PANEL: Identifying Ethnicity Within and Without Ireland
Moderator: Will Hatheway (CUNY/ Grian)
Irene Furlong (NUI Maynooth)
"A Renegade Irishman and a Racist in His Own Land- Frank O'Connor and the Non-promotion of Irish Tourism"
Peter O'Neill (University of Southern California)
"Ships That Pass in the Night: The Contrasting Transatlantic Journeys of Frederick Douglass and the Irish"
Suzanna Chan (University of Ulster)
"Masquerade, Marching and Minstrelsy: Performing "Whiteness" as "Blackness" in Northern Ireland"
12:00-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-1:30 PANEL: Holy Catholic Ireland: At Home and Abroad
Moderator: Claire Culleton (Kent State University)
Ciaran O'Carroll (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
"The Ethnic, Religious, Educational and Social Contribution of Irish Catholic, Religious and Clergy to Canadian Culture and Identity from 1850 to 1914"
Fiona Bateman (NUI Galway)
"Race and Religion: The Irish Encounter with the Pagan in Africa"
Helen Kelly (Trinity College Dublin)
"Irish Nationalism and the Formation of the Argentine Nation-State in the Nineteenth Century: Compatible Movements or Conflicting Identities?"
1:30-2:30p.m. Lunch at Glucksman Ireland House
2:30-3:30 p.m. TALK: John Waters, Assistant Professor of Irish Literature (New York University)
Race in Discipline: Irish Studies and Its Others
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 p.m. PANEL: Imagining the East: Irishwomen in Asia
Moderator: Kerri Anne Burke (Grian)
Omaar Hena (University of Virginia)
"Taken for a Turkish Woman: Paula Meehan and the Middle East"
Sealy Gilles/ Allison Gilles (Long Island University, Brooklyn / World Monitors)
"Emily Lucy French de Burgh Daly: An Irishwoman in China"
Coilin Parsons (Columbia University)
"From Romance to Realism: the Life of Sydney Owenson's The Missionary: An Indian Tale"
5:15p.m. Closing Remarks
Reception to follow
