Registration

7:00 p.m. Opening Talk

Marion Casey, Adjunct Associate Professor of Irish Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, Selling Value: Marketing Irish Products in the United States, 1890-1950

9:00 a.m. Glucksman Ireland House

Registration

9:00-9:30 Breakfast

9:30-11:00

Joyce’s Food

Chair:  Maria McGarrity, Long Island University

David Clark, University of Coruna, Spain, Shite and Onions: How James Joyce Plays with his Food in Ulysses

Miriam Mara, Ohio Northern University, Liquids I Can Eat: Stephen Dedalus Channels Feminine Anorexia

Lynne Bongiovanni, College of Mt. St. Vincent, "'Hagende Hunger': The Insatiable Appetite of Joyce's Ulysses."

Chris Washington, Miami University, Ohio, Take, Eat; This is My Body: Constituting the Body and Attaining Grace in Text

11:15-12:45

Food, Nostalgia and Power

Chair: Joe Lee, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Daniel Melia, University of California, Berkeley, Framing Food: Gluttony and Blasphemy in 12^th Century Ireland

Michael Cronin, Boston College, Eating in Ireland: Food and Dining on St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland and America

Peggy Regan, Concordia University, Canada, The Way to the Heart: Food, Nostalgia and Cultural Identity

Mary Burke, University of Connecticut, Appetite and Desire in Edna O’Brien’s Early Novels

1:00-2:15 Lunch

2:30-4:00

The Drink

Chair: Sara Brady, Montclair State University / Grian

Christopher Kennedy, Providence College, When the Drink is in, the Truth Comes Out: Exploring the Nature of Irish Nationalist Opinion 1914-1916

Brenda Murphy, University of Malta, Consuming Irishness, Consuming Guinness Construction Irish Identities in London and New York

Kelly J. S. McGovern, University of Maryland, College Park, Wheelchair Races, Bendy Straws and Guinness: Disabled Masculinity in John Crowley’s Intermission and Damien O’Donnell’s Rory O’ Shea was Here.

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:30

Chair: Mick Moloney, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Food in Song and Poetry

Sean Cahill, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, Fantasies of Feasting After Revolution: Hunger, Obesity, and Political Struggle in the Songs and Poems of Maire Bhuí Ní Laoire, Eoghan Ruadh Ó Suilleabhain and Sean-nós

Fintan Vallely, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Hallucination Once Again: Food Fantasy in Irish Song

Saturday Evening: Bar Crawl: Lower Manhattan

10:00-11:15

Contemporary Fiction

Chair: Joseph Lennon, Manhattan College

Moira Casey, Miami University, Ohio, Stir Fries, Toast Parties and Crumbling Pastry: Food and Lesbian Desire in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Michelle Woods, Dublin City University, Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Shall I Eat You Now?: Cannibalism, Careerism, Kidnapping in Ernest Gebler’s Fiction

Sarah Wagner-McCoy, Harvard University, Mary Gordon’s Pearl

Nicholas Allen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, The Starving Citizen

11:30-1:00

The Market and Commodification

Chair: Cóilín Parsons, Columbia University

James Ryan, University College, Dublin, Brand Central at Rathdowney

Donal O’Driscoll, University College, Cork, From Offal to Olives: the English Market, Cork

Elizabeth Venable, University of California, Riverside, Irish Dance/Irishness

Christina Quinlan, Dublin City University, Counter Culture: Ireland in Late Modernity

1:15-2:30  Lunch

2:30-4:00 Keynote Talk

Hasia Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University

Food, Migration and the Memories of Hunger

 4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:00 Poetry Reading Anne Fitzgerald, author of Swimming Lessons

5:00 Reception