11 a.m. – Screening: Red Mist: The Roy Keane Story (dir. Eamonn Little)
              Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

7 p.m. – Reading: Irish novelist James Ryan, 2008 Gerson Irish Reader
             Alumni House

 

12 p.m. – Screening: Pavee Lackeen (dir. Perry Ogden)
               Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

 

3 p.m. –  Screening: Saviours (dirs. Ross Whitaker & Liam Nolan)
               Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

 

7 p.m. –  Screening: Small Engine Repair (dir. Niall Heery)
              Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

 

9 a.m.. – Panel #1 – Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
              Yeonsik Jung, Texas A&M University
              “Silent Cinema as the Institution of Americanization: The Films of Buster Keaton as Immigrant Narrative”
              Nadine Chan, National University of Singapore
              “Re-thinking the Transnational: Letters From Iwo Jima and the Problem with a ‘Transnational’ Hollywood,"
             Suzanne Ondrus, University of Connecticut
             “Traditional Supernatural Subversion in Les Saignantes”

 

9 a.m. – Panel #2 - Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center
            Molly Ferguson, University of Connecticut
            “The New Irish Masculinity in Conor McPherson's I Went Down”
            Emmie McFadden, Sheffield Hallam University
            “Memory to Film: Reviving the Irish Diaspora in Stephen Frears' Liam”
            Jean Antoine Dunne, University of the West Indies
            Title to be decided

 

11 a.m. – reading by Irish novelist Martin Roper

 

12 p.m. – Screening: short film collection

 

1 p.m. – Panel #3 – Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
             Daniel Paliwoda, US Military Academy - West Point
             “Message of Hope from Katyn's Golgotha: Andrzej Wajda's Katyn: Polish Film, and the American Moviegoer”
             Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, University of Connecticut
            “Space in Cinema and Culture: Applications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory”
             Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut
            “Italian Transnational Cinema in the 1990s”

1 p.m. – “Gender and Humor in Post-Celtic Tiger Troubles Films”, Konover Aud., Dodd Research Center
              Lucy McDiarmid, College of William & Mary
              "Damien O'Donnell’s Chrono Perambulator (1998)"
             Christy Burns, College of William & Mary
             "Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto (2005)"

 

3 p.m. –Roundtable Discussion
            Moderator: Caroline Walsh
            Participants: Tony Tracy, Martin Roper, Lucy McDiarmid (and James Ryan?)
            Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

 

7 p.m. – Keynote speaker: Tony Tracy, Assoc. Director Huston School of Film, NUI Galway
           “Rogue Cops and Raparees: The Law, The Irish and American Cinema of 1950s”
            Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

 

8 p.m. – Screening: Once (dir., John Carney)
             Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

12 p.m. – Screening: Songs and Stories: New York Remembers Rory Gallagher (dirs. Stephanie Silber & Vic Zimet)
               Followed by Q&A with directors Stephanie Silber & Vic Zimet

               Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center