The IRISH SEMINAR 2008 PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

THEME: REPUBLICS & EMPIRES


Keynote Speakers

Perry Anderson
(UCLA)

Giovanni Arrighi
(Johns Hopkins University)

Jacqueline Rose
(Queen Mary, University of London)

WEEK 1

THEME: INTELLECTUAL HISTORIES: REPUBLICS & EMPIRES

Monday 16 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Joe Cleary—History of Modern Irish Criticism 1
                    Daniel Corkery

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Seamus Deane Intellectual History of Irish Republicanism                         1—John Toland

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Richard Bourke—Enlightenment & Empire

5.00-6pm        Pizza & Registration                                                

Tuesday 17 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Joe Cleary—History of Modern Irish Criticism 2
                    Seán Ó Faoláin & Frank O’Connor

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Seamus Deane—Intellectual History of Irish Republicanism                         2—Francis Hutcheson
 
2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Richard Bourke—Edmund Burke, Rousseau & Republicanism

6.15               Seminar Photograph 

6.30-7.30pm    Opening Reception at O'Connell House

8pm              Public Lecture:                                                                                Jacqueline Rose                                                                                Partition, Proust and Palestine                                                            National Gallery of Ireland            

Wednesday 18 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Jacqueline Rose: Edward Said on Arab & Israeli Writing

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Seamus Deane—Intellectual History of Irish Republicanism                         3—Wolfe Tone

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Sean Ryder—Thomas Moore & Empire


Thursday 19 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Joe Cleary—History of Modern Irish Criticism 3
                    Thomas Kinsella & Vivian Mercier

11.30-12.00     Discussion

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Seamus Deane—Intellectual History of Irish Republicanism                         4—James Fintan Lalor & John Mitchel

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Sean Ryder—Young Ireland & the Discourse of Empire


Friday 20 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Joe Cleary—History of Modern Irish Criticism 4
                    Seamus Deane

11.30-12.00      Discussion

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Seamus Deane—Intellectual History of Irish Republicanism                         5: Michael Davitt & James Connolly

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Interview with Terry Eagleton

7pm              Joe Cleary - Introduction to Brian Friel's Three Sisters

8pm              Brian Friel's Three Sisters
                    ABBEY THEATRE
                   

Saturday 21 June

10am- 8pm         Field Trip to Coole Park & Thoor Ballylee led by
                        Kevin Whelan

WEEK 2

THEME: MODERNISM AND POPULAR CULTURE

Monday 23 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am      Luke Gibbons-Colonial Hauntings 1—Spirits of the Nation

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Jed Esty—The Soul of Man Under Capitalism: Oscar Wilde                         and H.G. Wells

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Ronan MacDonald—Darwinism, Degeneration & the Irish                             Revival: Yeats and Synge
 

Tuesday 24 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Interview with Giovanni Arrighi

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Jed Esty—Modernism and Empire: British & Irish Fictions of                         Development

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Barry McCrea—Joyce, Proust & the Family

8pm              Public Lecture:                                                                                    Giovanni Arrighi                                                                                Hegemony Unravelling: American Imperial Decline and the                        Ascent of China                                                                                    National Gallery of Ireland  

Wednesday 25 June

9.30-10am      Coffee

10-11.30am     Luke Gibbons - Colonial Hauntings 2—Joyce, ‘Pale Phantoms                     of Desire'

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Ronan MacDonald—The Place of Beckett in Irish Studies

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Luke Gibbons—Colonial Hauntings 3—Joyce: 'Ghostly Lights’

Thursday 26 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Luke Gibbons—Colonial Hauntings 4—Ghosts in Both Camps:                     Irish and Native Americans

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Michael G. Cronin—Sex and the Irish Bildungsroman: From                         James Joyce to Edna O’Brien

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Emer Nolan—Sinéad O’Connor: Gender and Protest in Irish                        Popular Music
 
Friday 27 June

9.30-10am      Coffee

10-11.30am     Luke Gibbons—Colonial Hauntings 5—Old Haunts: Theory &                     its Otherworlds

12-1pm          Lunch

1-2.30pm        Lionel Pilkington—Theatre on Stage & on Street: An                                Alternative Irish Theatre History

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        FORUM: THE IRISH NOVEL IN THE NEW CENTURY
                    Authors: Pat McCabe and Barry McCrea

Saturday 28 June 

9am-8pm        Field Trip to Maynooth Castle, Maynooth University, Carton                        Estate & Castletown House                                                                    Led by Terence Dooley

WEEK 3 

THEME: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURAL HISTORY: WOMEN’S STUDIES AND THEATRE STUDIES

Monday 30 June

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Chris Morash – Irish Theatre 1: There is No National                                Theatre: W.B. Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile’s                        Strand; Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Clair Wills—Women & Sexuality in the Free State

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        ART TOUR of the Hugh Lane Gallery
                    To view the Hugh Lane pictures, completely assembled for                     the first time since 1913, as well as the Francis Bacon and                         Sean Scully collections.                                                                        Conducted by Kevin Honan.

Tuesday 1 July

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Chris Morash—Irish Theatre 2:  Playboys—J.M. Synge,                             Playboy of the Western World

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Clair Wills—Women, Emigration & Race in the 1950s

2.30-3pm        Coffee      

8pm               PUBLIC LECTURE                    
                     Perry Anderson                                                                                  After Hegemony?                                                                                  National Gallery of Ireland                      

Wednesday 2 July

9.30-10am       Coffee

10-11.30am     Perry Anderson - The Historical Novel

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Clair Wills—Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Chris Morash—Irish Theatre 3: Just Say No—Denis Johnston,                     The Old Lady Says ‘No’

Thursday 3 July

9.30-10am       Coffee

10.30am         Chris Morash—Irish Theatre 4: Lost in Translation: Brian                             Friel, Three Sisters & Translations

12-1pm           Lunch

1-2.30pm        Clair Wills—Irish Feminism & Post-feminism  

2.30-3pm        Coffee

3-4.30pm        Boom City: A Walking Tour of Celtic Tiger Dublin                                    Led by Sineád Kennedy.                                                                      Meet at the Ambassador Theatre at the top of O'Connell                         Street.

Friday 4 July

9.30-10am       Coffee

10.30-11.30am Sean Ryder - Moore in the Digital Age                                                    Ronan Kelly - The Life and Lives of Thomas Moore   
                  
12-1pm           Lunch

2.30-3.30pm    SYMPOSIUM ON THOMAS MOORE:                                                            Seamus Deane - Thomas Moore and Liberal Catholicism                            Emer Nolan - Moore's Reputations and Irish Studies

3.45-4.45pm    Thomas Moore Exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy

7pm              CLOSING RECEPTION and Book Launch of Emer Nolan                                There will be a wine reception in O'Connell House to mark                     the close of the 10th Irish Seminar and a celebration of Emer                     Nolan's Catholic Emancipations (Syracuse University Press,                         2007)