New Irelands - Call for conference papers
The British Association for Irish studies
14-16th September 2006
An interdisciplinary international conference 14-16 September 2007 under the combined auspices of the British Association for Irish Studies, the Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Politics of the University of Liverpool
The theme of the conference is the impact of both contemporary and historic change on the island of Ireland.
Recent years have seen steadily accumulating socio-economic, political, cultural and technological developments which have challenged institutions, stereotypes and values in both parts of Ireland. But the island has also experienced significant innovation in the past, and, as well as notable disruptions, the Irish narrative is characterised by some intriguing continuities.
The organisers would like to encourage contributions from the varied disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, including Literature, Politics, Geography, History, Archaeology, Sociology, Film & Media Studies and the Visual Arts, and from people working in other fields of study who have an Irish dimension in their work.
Papers are invited on the following themes:
• Language, Literature and Identities
• Construction & renewal of identities around gender, sexuality or religion
• Commodifying Irish Pasts: Heritage, Landscape and Memory
• The Irish Language, retreats & revivals
• Transformation of the Irish Economies in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
• Northern Ireland Society ‘After the Troubles’
• Imaging Historic and Contemporary Ireland in Film, Music & Performance
• Diasporic Versions of Identity
Each speaker will have 20 minutes for a presentation and will be expected to take questions. Participants are encouraged to put together panel sessions (three papers of 20 minutes each). Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent as either hard copy or email attachment by 31 March 2007 to:
Mervyn Busteed, Geography Discipline, School of Environment & Development, Mansfield Cooper Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. tel: 0161 928 8861.
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