An Island at the Center of the World

Conference Schedule

Friday, 20 April

3:00-3:30 pm: Registration and Welcome Refreshments

3:30-4:00 pm: Opening Remarks and Address by Drew University President, MaryAnn Baenninger

4:00-5:00 pm: Plenary Presentation, Caoimhín De Barra (Drew University) "The Coming of the Celts: AD 1860"

5:00-7:00 pm: Rebel Rossa (Screening and Q&A with Williams Rossa Cole, Director and Great-Grandson of Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa) and Judy Campbell (Drew University)

7:00-9:00 pm: Break: We will provide recommendations for dinner options, as no meal will be served at this time

9:00 p.m.: Pub Night/Pop-Up Gaeltacht (Live Music with All-Ireland Champion Brian Conway on the Fiddle)

Saturday, 21 April

Personalities, Pictures, and Protest 9:00-10:15

Sarah Churchill (Housatonic Community College) - Odalisques and Madonnas: The Pictorial Colonization of Marie Louise O'Murphy
Josh Roeder (Drew University) - Captain America or Captain Ireland?: Examining Irish and Irish-American Comic Book Characters and their Creators
Daphne Wolf (Drew University) - James Connolly in Newark

Stair agus Litríocht na Gaeilge 9:00-10:15

Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáith (Lehman College) – Inis Fáil (1904-1910) agus An t-Éireannach (1910-1913): Léiriú ar ról an Diaspóra Ghaelaigh i Londain
Aindriú Ó Ciardha (Scoláire neamhspleách/Club Leabhar Nua-Eabhrac) - An Ghaeilge san Fhicsean Tuairimeach agus Ficsean Tuairimeach na Gaeilge
Lorcán Burns (Fulbright Scholar, Drew University/NYU) – An Piarsach agus An t-Oideachas

The Expansive Troubles 9:00-10:15

Engy Gadelmawla (Drew University) – Countering Terrorism Finance Compliance in Northern Ireland
Deborah Fallon (Drew University) - Bobby Sands as a War Poet
Nina Sprenger (Pepperdine University) - Religion, Conflict, and Peace: The Case of Northern Ireland in Comparative Perspective

Beyond the Tiger: Contemporary Ireland 10:30-11:45

Mary McGlynn (Baruch College, CUNY) - The Old West and New Ireland: Westward Expansion in Recession Literature
Victoria Tralies (Saint Joseph's University) - A Crazed Tiger: Irish Literature in a Post-Celtic Tiger Era
Deasúin Ó Nualáin (Fairfield Gaelic-American Club) - “The Celtic Rising”: Restoring Irish as the Spoken Language of Ireland in a Single School Cycle

Artistic Responses to the Troubles 10:30-11:45

Deborah Saleeby-Mulligan (Manhattanville College) - Troubled Walls: Reinventing Political Street Murals in Belfast
Conor Carville (University of Reading) - Poetry, Crisis and the Arts Institution in Northern Ireland 1971-1972
Maureen Reustle (Kean University) - Hatred to Hope: Murals of Northern Ireland and the Peace Process

Teaching Irish 10:30-11:45

NYU/Drew Panel, “Irish Language Learners at Drew and NYU”

11:45-1:00 pm: Keynote Address - Class, Geography, and the Novel: What the Irish Language Can Tell Us - Barry McCrea (Notre Dame)

1:00-1:55 pm: Lunch and Address by Deputy Consulate General of Ireland, Anna McGillicuddy

Ireland and the Atlantic World 2:00-3:15

Timothy Madigan (St. John Fisher College), Frederick Douglass and Ireland: Then and Now
John Roney (Sacred Heart University) The Wild Atlantic Way: Changing Images of Ireland, 1850-Present
Patrick McGrath (Rutgers University) The Irish-American One-Percent: John Crimmins and Gilded Age New York

Cross-Cultural Connections 2:00-3:15

April D. Fallon (Kentucky State University) – Paula Meehan: Divination and Place in Geomantic
Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo (Seton Hall University) - Ireland in Post-Colonial Discourse: Exploring Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Understanding of Ireland and Decolonization
Kristina Varade, (CUNY) - Identity Traps and Trauma: Multiculturalism and Irishness in Contemporary Fiction from Ireland

Irish Stand 2:00-3:15

Ellen O’Brien, Caroline Heafey and Fran Mulraney, Irish Stand: The Inside of a Grassroots Movement

Un(der)recognized Voices of Twentieth Century Irish History 3:20-4:35

Aisling Ní Churraighín (OÉ Gaillimh) - Scéalaíocht na hImirce: Micheál Ó hIghne in Ireland and America
Síobhra Aiken (NUI Galway) – The Unspeakable within the Unspeakable: Testifying to Gender-Based Violence During the Irish Civil War
Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) - A moderate western position-Europeanization and Ireland’s Rejection of the ‘Shadow Metropole’

Narrative and Theory in Northern Ireland 3:20-4:35

Nicole McClure (Kutztown University) - The Past is the Past: Testimony and Performance in Survivor Narratives of Northern Ireland
Erin Keating (Drew University) - Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement: Activism and Literature
Lauretta A. Farrell (Kean University) – Hooded: Ireland and the Five Techniques

Myth and Religion in Early Ireland 3:20-4:35

Michael Rogers, S.J. (College of the Holy Cross) - Beyond the Rock: Pilgrimage in Pre and Post Christian Ireland
Rev. abby mohaupt (Drew University) - Reforming the Body: Analyzing Presbyterianism in Northern Ireland and the US
David Pecan (SUNY Nassau Community College) - An (Early) Ireland at the Center of Space: The Importance and Influence of Togal Bruidne De Derga

4:45 Doors Open- 5:00-6:30 p.m: The Shirley Sugerman Interfaith Forum 2018: "The Good Friday Agreement, 20 Years On," Laurence McKeown, Tom Kelly, Jonathan Golden

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