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Thursday, July 31st, 2008Second Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS)
“Heroes, victims or villains? Irish Presentations and Representations in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Morelia, Mexico
15-18 July 2009
Organised by the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Call for Papers
The time has come for SILAS to convene its first conference in the Americas. The Second SILAS Conference will be held in colonial Morelia, with the local support of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Researchers, students and independent scholars will share their work and experience on different aspects of Irish-Latin American relations.
Under the general title “Heroes, victims or villains? Irish Presentations and Representations in Latin America and the Caribbean”, this meeting proposes to foster international and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of connections between Ireland, Latin America, the Caribbean and Iberia.
SILAS was founded in July 2003 to promote the study of relations between Ireland and Latin America. The range of interest of the Society spans the settlement, lives and achievements of Irish migrants to Latin America and their descendants, the contemporary presence of Ireland in the life and culture of Latin America and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
The Society invites papers on any aspect of Irish-Latin American links from scholars and students in disciplines such as humanities and social sciences, including for example history, literature, geography, politics, economy and the arts. The aim of the conference is to promote the exchange of views and research findings on a diverse range of issues and on an inter-disciplinary basis. For further details and updates, please see the conference pages.
Abstracts in English, Portuguese or Spanish (c.300 words) should be sent by email to the conference organisers, to arrive no later than 1 November 2008. Should you wish to attend the conference without presenting a paper, please register by sending your details to the organisers by 1 April 2009.
Organising Committee
Lourdes de Ita, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
MartÃn Pérez Acevedo, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Miguel �ngel Sánchez de Armas, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Laura Izarra, Universidade de São Paulo
Edmundo Murray, University of Zurich
Send Paper Proposals to: mexico2009@irlandeses.org
Conference Pages: www.irlandeses.org/mexico2009.htm
“Coming home? Conflict and return migration”. Southampton, April 2009
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Call for papers: Coming home? Conflict and return migration in
twentieth-century Europe.
1-3 April 2009, University of Southampton.
The question of return has long been thought to be central to an exilic discourse and yet relatively little is known about how return migration is actually experienced and subsequently remembered by exiles and also by migrants more widely. In order to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘official’ end of the Spanish Civil War and the start of the Second World War, events which led to the mass displacement of refugees, this conference seeks contributions for papers on the broad theme of conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe. We welcome individual papers or panels in English that focus on any exile, refuge or migrant return episode that has Europe as its point of arrival or departure. We are particularly interested in addressing the experiences, memories and conceptual issues of return in relation to the following questions:
- What were the motivations for returning? How did institutions, political and social networks influence return? How was return organised?
- What strategies did migrants adopt to deal with the impossibility of return?
- How were migrants received, perceived and represented by the authorities and communities upon their return?
- To what extent were attitudes and post-return daily practices (e.g. rituals, cultural practices, language etc.) influenced by the experience of migration? In what ways, if at all, did migrants re-construct questions of home and homeland upon their return?
- How does return relate to the wider migratory process? To what extent does return signify the end of exile, diaspora, and the closure of the migration cycle?
- How has return been remembered at an individual and group level? Does this vary between different categories of migrants?
- How has return been represented in literature, art and film? What are the epistemological and ontological implications of these representations? Does an adequate representation or performance of return exist?
Keynote speakers:
- Alicia Alted Vigil, Professor of History, UNED, Madrid
- Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Historian and Director of the BDIC, Paris
- Franziska Meyer, Associate Professor of German Studies, University
- of Nottingham
Organised with The Exilio Network: Research into Refugees and other Migrations, which is supported by the AHRC, and Outcast Europe.
A selection of papers will be considered for publication after the conference. Please send abstracts (250 words) before 01/08/08 to:
- Dr Alicia Pozo Gutiérrez   apg@soton.ac.uk
- Dr Scott Soo ssoo@soton.ac.uk
Conference website:Â Â http://www.soton.ac.uk/ml/research/cominghome.html
Ireland: Arrivals and Departures. ACIS: Minnesota, October 2008.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Call for Papers: Midwest American Conference: Ireland: Arrivals and Departures
From the organisers:
This year’s Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies will be held at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference will open with a reception on the evening of Thursday, October 9.
The conference theme is IRELAND: ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. We encourage attendees to think of these concepts in the broadest possible way — not merely as the migration of individuals and groups, but as of the arrival of new ideas and new critical perspectives, and concomitantly, as the departure of received wisdom. We note the arrival of new literary voices, and the arrival of new conceptions of Ireland. And we believe all papers are best conceived as a “point of departure” for further research and discussion.
This conference hopes to explore the movements of ideas, peoples, and more in Irish art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland from earliest times to the present. We welcome papers on any aspect of Irish studies from new or present ACIS members.
Please propose 20-minute papers in 250-300-word abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Professor Thomas O’Connell at Thomas.OConnell@metrostate.edu by midnight on August 1, 2008 (Early submissions encouraged.). Include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information in document, as well as in the body of your email.
New Media & the Global Diaspora. Rhode Island, 2-4 Oct 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The organisers of the New Media and the Global Diaspora have issued their call for papers.
The 2008 New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University is an interdisciplinary humanities conference addressing the global migrations of the past 100 years and the role media has played in transmitting ‘living traditions,’ particularly as these traditions are subject to loss, gain, and interpretation. What impact do media have on the forging and sustaining of cultural identities? How can the humanities guide us to understand why ‘living traditions’ are at the nexus of questions about the global diaspora? This three-day event will feature paper and roundtable sessions, an International concert, and culminate in a tour of Newport, Rhode Island, a significant immigrant destination for nearly 400 years.
The symposium is a plenary experience; no overlapping presentations will be scheduled. Symposium participants hear all presentations and stay for the entire program in order to build the kind of feedback and informal discussions that mark the nature of this event. Most presentations are given a time slot of 20 minutes. This format allows for a respondent and audience questions. We are very pleased that the proceedings of this symposium will be published in our new peer-reviewed journal Reason & Respect: civil discourse in a global context, to be published beginning Fall 2008.
The organizers of the 2008 Symposium invite the submission of position papers addressing one of the following topics:
- Locating Interdisciplinarity: Technology and the Humanities
- Real Places-Virtual Spaces: Creating Cultural Communities
- Exploring Gender at the Crossroads of Media and Culture
- Seeing Diaspora: Media, Community and Visual Rhetoric
The deadline for papers is 15 June 2008.
Enquiries: roconnell@rwu.edu
Web address: http://newmediasymposium.org
Sponsored by: Roger Williams University
Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies will host a conference exploring musical links between Ireland and the US.
Organisers say
This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and American musical relations. These relations have a long and deep history, intertwining the cultures and identities of Irish and American peoples. The event will explore and celebrate these relations via a programme that combines conference presentations and musical performances.
Wavelengths will focus on the back-and-forwards movement of musical traditions between Ireland and the United States and identify newer currents and fusions in transatlantic music. We invite proposals for conference presentations – individual papers and panels. Conference themes will include, but will not be limited to:
- Race and ethnicity
- Nation and identity
- Class and work
- Innovators (performers, technicians, collectors, commentators)
- Emigration and diaspora
- Historical events
- New technologies
- Scotch-Irish influences
- Genres – traditional, folk, country, rock, jazz, soul, Celtic punk, hip hop…
- Social functions of music
- Representations of music in other media – film, photography, literature
Brief abstracts (200 words) plus a short biographical statement should be sent to Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie by 1st June 2008.
See the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies website.
Irish Theatrical Diaspora focuses on Dublin Theatre Festival
Monday, August 20th, 2007The Irish Theatrical Diaspora group will hold its 2007 conference in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute.
The conference will explore the history of the Dublin Theatre Festival in its first five decades, focusing on
- landmark Irish plays first staged at the DTF
- visiting companies and productions from abroad that have influenced Irish theatre practice, and
- Â DTF plays and productions that have highlighted social and political issues of their time.
The conference will be held at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre from 4-5 October.
Irish Theatrical Diaspora’s purpose is to develop and co-ordinate research on the production and reception of Irish drama in its local, national and international contexts. By “Irish drama” is defined as all theatrical performances within the island of Ireland, and any theatrical performances outside the country involving Irish-born personnel or having substantial Irish content.
The group’s previous conferences focused on “Irish Theatre on Tour” (in 2004), “Irish Theatre in England” (2005), and “Irish Theatre in America” (2006). Conference proceedings of all these events have been published or are in process.
Visit the Irish Theatrical Diaspora website.
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