Programme
Friday,
April 23, 2004
16:00 - 18:00
Arts Building: Registration
19:00 Graduate
Memorial Building (GMB): Keynote Address by Dr. John Bowman, to be
followed by reception.
Saturday,
April 24, 2004
(all events take place in Arts Building unless stated otherwise)
9:30 - 11:00
Session One
Room One - 3051 Modern Scottish Literature
- Scott Hames, 'Description and Struggle: Kafka, Failure and James
Kelman's Narrative Theatre', Aberdeen
- Paul F. Shanks, 'Double Nots and Beckettian Loopholes in James Kelman's
"Not not while the giro"', Aberdeen
- Kirsten Stirling, 'Bella Caledonia? Deformed Theories of Scotland',
Lausanne
- Andy Wood, '"The Affectionate Punch": Constructions of
Identity, Masculinity, Race and Gender in Contemporary Scottish Fiction',
Dundee
Room Two -
3071 Constructing Identity Through Language - Scottish and Irish Literary
Voices
- David Clark, 'The "Hitherandithering Waters of the Gaelic
Soul": Pragmatic Idealism and Idealistic Pragmatism in Neil M.
Gunn's Vision of Ireland', University da Coruna
- Aoife Kernan, 'George Friel's Mr. Alfred M.A. - The Crosscurrents
of Internal Voices', University of Strathclyde
- Niall O'Gallagher, 'Sectarianism and the Scots Language', University
of Glasgow
- Aoife Leahy, 'Vile Verdicts: Scottish and Irish Law in the Novels
of Wilkie Collins', UCD
11:00 - 11:30
BREAK
11:30 -
13:00 Session Two
Room One - 3051 Millennialism
- Steven Doran, 'Ayr, Armagh and Armageddon: Milleniarianism in
the New Year Odes of Scotland and Ulster, 1786-1806', Aberdeen
- Crawford Gribben, 'Antichrist in Ireland', TCD
- Andrew Holmes, 'Millennialism and Ulster Presbyterianism', UU Magee
Room Two - 3071 Twentieth Century Irish Literature
- Sukanya Basu, 'Yeats and Heaney: Voices of the Nation?', Aberdeen
- Sema Taskin, 'A Reading of Seamus Heaney's Poetry as a Means of
Nationalism and Cultural Identification', Turkey
- Peter Mackay, '"Or, as we said" - the Linguistic Mix of
Seamus Heaney's Wintering Out', TCD
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:00
Session Three
Room One - 3051 Seventeenth Century Scottish History
- Kristeen Mackenzie, 'Loyalty to King or Covenant Retained: Presbyterians
in the Three Nations and the English Commonwealth 1649-1653', Aberdeen
- Barry Robertson, 'The House of Huntly and Gaeldom, c. 1600-1649',
Aberdeen
- Tom McInally, 'The Impact of Irish Catholic Priests in Gaelic-speaking
Scotland in the 17th Century', Aberdeen
Room Two -
3071 Nineteenth Century Welfare and Reform
- Liz Thomas, 'Ideological Architecture or Regional Identities?
Workhouses in Ireland', QUB
- William Gunn, 'A Remarkable Woman, a Remarkable Institution, and
a Remarkable Man: Susan Carnegy', Aberdeen
16:00 - 16:30
BREAK
16:30 - 18:00
Session Four
Room One - 3051 Transient Nations: Narratives of Migration and Displacement
- Geraldine Vaughan, 'Irish Immigrants in Scotland and Local Politics:
a Path to Integration? A Case Study: the Irish Community in the Monklands
and Local Politics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century',
Sorbonne University Paris
- Angela McCarthy, 'Irish and Scottish Migrants', Aberdeen
Room Two -
3071 Constructing Ulster Identity
- Emma Faulkner, 'Music and Space: the Dramaturgy of Brian Friel',
Glasgow
- Anthea Cordner, 'Neither Irish nor British: Exploring the Image
of Nation in Northern Irish Protestant Fiction', University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
18:30 GMB:
Booklaunch of Unity in Diversity
19:30 GMB:
Keynote Address 'Writing the Twentieth Century Histories of Small
Nations'. Speakers:
Dr. Richard Finlay, University of Strathclyde
Dr. Diarmaid Ferriter, St. Patrick's, Drumcondra
Discussant: Prof. T. Brown
20:45 CONGRESS
DINNER at Fitzer's, Temple Bar
Sunday,
April 25, 2004, Arts Building
9:30 - 11:00
Session Five
Room One - 3051 Joyce, Religion and Representation
- Michael O'Sullivan, 'Incarnation and Importance: Joyce's Response
to Criticism's "Turn to Theology"', UCC
- Louise Fuller, 'Catholic Cultural Consciousness: Ritual, Memory
and Identity', NUI Maynooth
- Carol Taaffe, 'Brian O'Nolan's At Swin-Two-Birds and the
National University of Ireland', TCD
Room Two -
3071 Self and Other: Smollett, Scott, Maturin
- Carol Stewart, 'Tobias Smollett, Novelist and Gentleman: A Contradiction
in Terms?', TCD
- Tina Morin, 'Vampires, Cannibals, Half-Breeds, and Jews: The Colonial
Encounter in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer', TCD
- Ashley Hales, 'Walter Scott's Jews and How They Shaped the Nation',
University of Edinburgh
11:00 -11:30
BREAK
11:30 - 13:00
Session Six
Room One - 3051 Figuring the Rural Past
- Janice Fairney, 'Macpherson's Legacy: the Publication of the
Gaelic Originals by the Highland Society of London', University of
Edinburgh
- Barbara Bell, 'Kings of the Field: the Figure of the Ploughman',
Lancashire
- Margitta Rouse, 'Benevolent or Malign - Performing Mythology in
Representations of St. Kilda's Lost Community', Berlin
- Tok Thompson, 'The Return of the Fairy-Folk: A View from the Tourist
Shops of Ireland', TCD
Room Two -
3071 Constructing Irish Identity
- Marnie Hay, 'The Propogands of Na Fianna Eireann, 1909-16',
UCD
- Andreas Boldt, 'Leopold von Ranke and Ireland: the Creation of an
Irish Identity in Ranke's Work History of England', NUI Maynooth
- Kevin De Ornellas, 'Acknowledging Ireland's British Infrastructure:
the Documentary Films of Norris Davidson', QUB
13:15 Ussher
Theatre, Closing Lecture by Prof. Murray Pittock, University of Manchester