Schedule
of Events:
Thursday,
October 15
4-7
pm Registration at Holiday Inn-Carbondale
5-7
pm Unhosted meet & greet at Houlihan’s
Friday,
October 16
8-3
Registration
at Student Center - Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
8-12 Coffee
and pastries in Saline Room - Student Center
8:45
Welcome – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Don Rice, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor; Alan Vaux, Dean, College
of Liberal Arts;
Beth Lordan, Director, Irish and Irish Immigration Studies Program
9-10 Lawrence
McBride Memorial Lecture, Brian O Conchubhair, Kaskaskia/Missouri
Room
10:15-11:50 1st
session:
Irish
Women and the Public Sphere – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Timothy McMahon, Marquette University
The
Allegory of Self in Maud Gonne’s Autobiography
Tyler
Farrell, Carroll
Legacy
of the Ladies’ Land League in America
Tara
McCarthy, Central Michigan
Formation,
Cooperation, and Commemoration in the North – Sangamon Room
Chair:
Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University
Female
Orangemen: A History of the Association of Loyal Orangewomen of
Ireland, 1798-Present
Christi
McCallum, SIUC
“Literary
Ireland” as Cross-Border Cooperation
Shannon
Grady Blaha, Northwestern
Irish
Music – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Joan Dean, University of Missouri Kansas City
Making
Celtic Connections: The Production of a Weekly Syndicated Public
Radio Program
Bryan
Kelso Crow, SIUC
Take
This Sinking Boat and Point it Home: Once
and Representations of Reality in Irish Film
Matthew
Paproth, Georgia Tech
Singers’
Aesthetics and the Irish Printed Ballad
Julie
Henigan, Notre Dame
12-1 Lunch
2:20-4 Refreshments in the
Saline Room
1-2:20 2nd
session:
Gender
in 20th
Century Ireland:
Views from Marquette – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Mary Ann Ryan, Saint Xavier University
Understanding
the Mission: The Opportunities for Women in the Hibernian CMS
Timothy
G. McMahon, Marquette
Promoting
the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme to Irish Women: Reconciling
Modernity with Nationalism
McKayla
Kay Sutton, Marquette
Put
the Laggards Out! Fianna
Fail and the Aesthetics of Masculinity in the Economic War
Kenneth
L. Shonk, Jr., Marquette
Subverting
the Nation: Representations of Women and Sexuality in Maeve Kelly’s Necessary
Treasons
and Edna O’Brien’s The
Country Girls
Sarah
Nestor, Marquette
Fin-de-Siecle – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
You’ve
Come a Long Way, Baby!: Irish American Lesbian Writers at
Fin-de-Siecle
Sally
Barr Ebest, University of Missouri St. Louis
Through
the Looking Glass: The Refracted Reader and Maureen Howard’s
Expensive Habits
Monica
Swindle, University of Missouri St. Louis
How
Bad is the Current Recession: Putting Ireland’s Recent Economic
Downturn in Perspective
Timothy
J. White, Xavier
Irish
Landscapes – Sangamon Room
Chair:
Donna Potts, Kansas State University
Traces
of Ireland’s Past: An Historical Ecology Approach
Charles
Ruffner, SIUC
Island
Cross-Talk and
The Islandman:
Two Views of Blasketer’s Search for Identity in a Modern World
Karen
B. Golightly, Christian Brothers
Hearing
Literary Tunes: Tim Robinson’s Stones
of Aran
Eamonn
Wall, University of Missouri St. Louis
2:35-3:55 3rd
session
Irish
Women’s Bodies, Irish Women’s World – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, SIUC
The
Body in Desire, Kinship, and Gender: Anne Enright’s Short Fiction
Katherine
M. Gray, Lynchburg College
Postmodern
Feminisms and Irish Medicine: The feminization of cancer in The
Light of Evening
and the Irish
Medical Journal
Miriam
O’Kane Mara, North Dakota
Pregnancy,
Illness, and Violence in Postmodern Ireland: The Power Discourses of
Motherhood in Mary Morrissy’s Mother
of Pearl
Rebecca
Oster, North Dakota
Irish
Migrants – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Charles Fanning, SIUC
Identity
as Conformity: Identity Migration in Oscar Wilde’s The
Importance of Being Earnest
Eva
White, Indiana University Kokomo
A
Convert Culture?: The Trials of Andrew Savage of Portaferry, Co.
Down, c. 1720-1750
Tyler
Crogg, SIUC
Comparative
Approaches to Irish Literature – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Tyler Farrell, Carroll University
Anne
Enright: the one who writes like Joyce?
Caitriona
Moloney and Jamie Jones, Bradley
Fancydancing
in the In-Between: Creating a Hybrid Space in Sherman Alexie’s
Reservation Fiction and William Carleton’s Traits
and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
Shawn
Nichols-Boyle, Indiana South Bend
Interstitial
Famine: Changing Conception of the Great Famine in 20th
Century Irish Fiction
Matthew
Schultz, St. Louis
4:15-5:15 Plenary, Morris Library Auditorium
‘The Land for the People’: The
Irish Revolution as a Revolution of Rising Expectations”
Timothy McMahon, Marquette
University
5:30-7
Consul’s
reception, Morris Library Hall of Presidents
8-10
Poetry reading, Faner Hall – Room 1326/Harry T. Moore Auditorium
Chair: Tyler Farrell,
Carroll University
Saturday,
October 17
8-12
Coffee and pastries in the Saline Room
9-10:20 4th
session
Irish
“Realities” – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Michael Griffin, University of Ireland - Limerick
“Tell
all the truth but tell it slant”: The Parodic in Seamus Deane’s Reading
in the
Dark
Nathaniel
Myers, Notre Dame
The
Real Housewives of County Offaly: Representations of the Domestic in
Marina Carr’s Midlands Trilogy and Bravo’s The
Real Housewives
Series
Jennifer
Parrott, Georgia Tech
Intersections
of Oppression: Famine Roads and Female History in the Poetry of Eavan
Boland
Rebecca
McCloud, Kansas State
Misreading
Martyrdom: The Afterlife of Joseph Mary Plunkett’s Poetry
Kurt
Bullock, Grand Valley State University
Ireland
and the World – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Jose Lanters, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Some
Reflections on Heaney’s International “Blackbird”
David
Kelly, SIUC
The
Sepoys of Sandy Row? Irish Sectarianism and the Lessons of South
Asian Historiography
Sean
Farrell, Northern Illinois
Nuala
Ni Dhomhnaill’s “Great Mother” and Ecofeminism
Donna
Potts, Kansas State
Irish
Teachers – Sangamon Room
Chair:
Eva White, Indiana University Kokomo
Francis
Sheridan’s Penetrating Moral Lessons
Jane
Elizabeth Dougherty, SIUC
Teaching
Trevor, Teaching “The Troubles”
William
Kerwin, Missouri
Demented
Mentors: Joyce’s “The Sisters” and Scott Fitzgerald’s
“Absolution”
John
Matthew Morgan, MST
10:30-11:45 5th
session
Roundtable:
How I Became Irish-American (Or Didn’t) – Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Sean
Farrell (Northern Illinois), Charles Fanning (SIUC), others
18th
Century Ireland – Sangamon Room
Chair:
George Boulukos, SIUC
Vain,
delusive dreams: Poetics and Politics in R. Buggin’s Inchanted
Garden (1716)
Michael
J. Griffin, Limerick
Locating
the Irish Enlightenment: On the Margins or Mainstream?
Scott
Breuninger, South Dakota
Essential
Doggerel: Matthew Cary’s Hudibrastic Verse
Eric
Jurgens, Northern Illinois
Irish
Myth – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri St. Louis
The
Rhetoric of Mythological Discourse: The Epistemic Strategy and
Persuasiveness of Irish Myths in Acallam
na Senorach
Brian
James Stone, SIUC
Speaking
a Crisis of Culture: Language, Fiction, and Identity in Edna
O’Brien’s Down
by the River
Christopher
M. Flavin, SIUC
A
Dál Cais Origin Legend
Dan
Wiley, SIUC
12-1
Luncheon
and Business Meeting, Student Center – Old Main Restaurant
1:15-2:30 6th
session
Irish
Communities – Kaskaskia/Missouri Room
Chair:
Karen Golightly, Christian Brothers
Gleason,
Carney, Brooklyn: Looking for Ireland in The
Honeymooners
James
Rogers, Saint Thomas
Love,
Sweat and Tears: Irish Women’s Survival Strategies and the
Resilience of the Irish Community
Laura
D. Kelly, Tulane
Irish
Families and Households on a Mining Frontier: The Michigan Copper
Country, 1850-1860
William
H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State
Technology
and Media in 20th
Century Ireland – Sangamon Room
Chair:
Bryan Kelso Crow, SIUC
Identity
in Hypertext: Transitioning Ulysses
into an Electronic Medium
Erin
Garrow, NYU
Technological
Entanglements: Emma Donoghue’s Landing
Stacia
Bensyl, Missouri Western
O’Dea’s
Your Man:
Flann O’Brien and the Irish National Media
Amy
Nejezchleb, SIUC
Vagabonds,
Violence, and Violins: Drama of Crisis and Transformation– Mackinaw Room
Chair:
Sandy Pearce,
Music
and Myth in Tom Murphy’s Too
Late for Logic
Jose
Lanters, Wisconsin
Abject
Lesson IV: Slaps, Clouts, and a Power of Beaten Lads: The Semiotics
of Sarah Casey in J. M. Synge’s The
Tinker’s Wedding
Mary
Ann Ryan, Saint Xavier
Frank
McGuinness’s Uses of the Renaissance
Joan
Dean, University of Missouri Kansas City
3:00-4:00 2nd
Annual Charles Fanning Lecture, Morris Library Auditorium
Louis de Paor, Director, Center for Irish
Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
4:00-5:30 Fanning Reception, Morris Library Hall of
Presidents
