Grian Conference 2008

The 10th Annual Grian Conference:
Cosmopolitical Ireland

March 13-15, 2008

Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

Conference Schedule for the 10th Annual Grian Conference: Cosmopolitical Ireland

Thursday, March 13, 2008

6-7pm: Open registration

7pm: David McWilliams on Ireland's new elite

Broadcaster & author David McWilliams launches the US edition of The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite (Wiley, 2008).  RSVP required to (212) 998-3950 (option 3) or ireland.house@nyu.edu.

Friday, March 14, 2008

9:00 - 9:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast (included in price of registration)
9:30 - 11:00am	Panel One: Cosmopolitan Nation  Chair: Cóilín Parsons, Columbia University
	Damien Keane, Buffalo-SUNY, An Irish Republic of Letters and the Diplomatic Mailbag
	Eve Walsh Stoddard, St. Lawrence University, Primordial Irishness: Undermining Cosmopolitanism in Post-1937 Ireland
	John Brannigan, UCD, 1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress
	Dathalinn O’Dea, Boston College, Dana (1904): A Magazine of Independent Thought and the Seeds of Cosmopolitical Ireland
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 12:30pm	Panel Two: Contemporary Local  Chair: Vivian Valvano Lynch, St. John’s University
	Bridget English, Brooklyn College, Old Fashioned Ghosts in a Modern World: The Gathering as a Meditation on Life in the New Ireland
	Lindsay Haney, Boston College, Balaclavas & Feather Boas: From Peace Process to Prosperity in Two Versions of Breakfast on Pluto
	Patrick Maley, Indiana University, The Midlands Our Neighbor: The Localizing Effect of Marina Carr’s Dialect
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch (included with registration)
2:00 - 3:30pm	Panel Three: Cosmopolitan Performance  Chair: Abby Bender, NYU
	Fintan Walsh, TCD, Redressing the Past, Cross-Dressing the Future: Homosexuality, Queerness and Cosmopolitanism in Irish Theater
	Elizabeth Mannion, Temple University, Not Entirely Peasant: The City, the Tenement and the Abbey Theatre’s Early Years
	Mary Burke, Univ. Conn, Unsettled: The Returned Emigrant in Tom Murphy’s Drama
	Brian Stone, Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Absurd Form: Sentimental Mythology, Terrorist Violence, and the Situatedness of Audience in Receptions of McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Cripple of Inishmaan
3:30 - 3:45pm	Break
3:45 - 5:00pm	Language Abroad  Chair: Pádraig Ó Cearúill, NYU
	Hilary Mhic Suibhne, NYU, The Pursuit of Status in Cosmopolitan Ireland
	Elaine Ní Bhraonáin, CUNY, The Irish Language at Home & Abroad: the Cycle of Respect & Disdain
	Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, CUNY FLTA, Ar son na Cúise?! The cúis I write filíocht
5:00 - 5:30pm	Break
5:30 - 6:30pm	Plenary Talk  Introduction: Elizabeth Gilmartin, Monmouth University
	Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College, Joyce’s Cosmopolitans

Saturday, March 15th, 9am to 6:30pm

9:00 - 9:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast (included in price of registration)
9:30 - 11:00am	Panel One: Literature Liberated  Chair: Heather Clark, Marlboro College
	Jody Allen Randolph, Indep. Scholar, Reconfiguring Irish Studies: Thinking Beyond the National: Irish & Caribbean Poetry
	Kerri Farrell, NYU, An Duanaire, Women Poets, Domestic Images and Cosmopolitan Ireland
	Claire Bracken, Union College, Catherine Walsh’s City West: The Self in Irish Postmodernity
	Jason King, Concordia University, Irish Multicultural Literature: Migrant Memory & National Identity
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 12:45pm	Panel Two: Elites and Migration  Chair: Marion R. Casey, NYU
	Aine O’Neill, NUI Maynooth, Irish Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America: Ethnic Enclaves & Transnational Cosmopolites
	Kit Nicholls, NYU, The Union (of the Atlantic and Pacific): Eliot Warburton & Darien; Or, The Merchant Prince (1852)
	Nels Pearson, Fairfield University, “The Journey Westward”: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in Irish Expatriate Modernism
	Robert Spiegelman, Indep. Scholar, “Going Cosmopolitan”: or, How to Remain Gentry when being Irish or American Simply Won’t Do
12:45 - 2:00pm	Lunch (included with registration)
2:00 - 2:45pm	Special Talk  Introduction: Eileen Reilly, NYU
	Jim Kennelly, Skidmore College, Capitalizing on Culture, Competing on Place: Innovation & Revival in a Globalizing Ireland
2:45 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 4:15pm	Panel Three: World Stage  Chair: Sara Brady, TCD
	Labhras Joye, National Museum of Ireland, Saints, Scholars and Soldiers: Ireland’s Cosmopolitan Military History
	Fintan Vallely, Dundalk IT, Meta-Trad, Trad-Pop and Cosmo-Trad – Challenges to Indigenous Irish Aesthetics in a Global Arena
	Rebecca Troeger, Boston College, “Voices of the World”: John McCormack On the Global Stage
4:15 - 6:00pm	Closing remarks and reception

The Grian conference is open to the public, but attendees must register. Registration includes a light breakfast and lunch both March 14th and 15th.

Full conference: $40
Full conference for Members of Glucksman Ireland House NYU: $25

One day: $20
One day for Members of Glucksman Ireland House NYU: $13

NYU students with valid ID may attend the conference for free without registering, but no meals will be provided; NYU students intending to participate in meals must register at the Members rate ($25/$13).

The registration fee is to cover the costs of the conference, including meals.

Please register at the door as you enter the conference and bring applicable ID for discounts.

If you have questions, please email ireland.house@nyu.edu.