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)