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The weather looks great here in Boise, and will continue into the weekend. Expect 50-60 in the morning, mid-80s throughout the day, and low 50s at night.
http://www.weathercentral.com/weather/us/cities/id_boise.html
We’re looking forward to a potential picnic lunch Saturday.
We’ll see you all soon. If you have questions, call Jodi Chilson (208-761-6076).
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Conference Information: First Night Information and Details
Name-tag pick-up and pre-registration will be from 3-5pm at the conference hotel, Residence Inn. This will be the only opportunity to pick-up your conference packet until the next morning from 8-9am in the Interactive Learning Center, Room 302, prior to the start of conference panels and presentations.
Residence Inn
1401 South Lusk Avenue
Boise, Idaho 83706
Phone: 208-344-1200
Fax: 208-914-2984
Website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boiid-residence-inn-boise-downtown/
The Residence Inn is one block from the Boise State University campus.
The Welcoming Reception will occur from 5-7:15pm in the Lookout Room in the Student Union Building on the Boise State University campus. The Lookout Room is the only room on the third floor of the Student Union building. There is both stair and elevator access. The Welcoming Reception is a hosted event with drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided.
The Trevor Joyce Poetry Reading will be at 7:30pm in the Jordan A ballroom in the Student Union Building on the Boise State University campus. The Jordan A ballroom is located on the second floor of the Student Union building.
Following the poetry reading, a no-host after-party (though some appetizers may be provided) from the end of the reading until 11pm will take place at the Ha’ Penny Bridge Pub located at 855 Broad Street, Suite 250. This pub is located around the corner of 8th and Broad Street in downtown Boise, only a short distance from campus and the conference hotel. Guests at the conference hotel can take the hotel shuttle to the Ha’ Penny Bridge Pub. Additional information about the pub can be found at the following: http://www.hapennybridgepub.com/#.
Please find a map of the Boise State University campus here: http://admissions.boisestate.edu/map/. Please a map of the Student Union building here: http://sub.boisestate.edu/assets/images/web_maplarge.jpg. Additionally, please find attached a map of downtown Boise here: http://www.downtownboise.org/media/pdf/downtown_boise_map_2009-02.pdf. These maps will also be included in your conference packet.
If you have questions, please contact Jodi Chilson (208-761-6076).
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Below is the tentative program schedule for the ACIS-West 2010 meeting in Boise, Idaho at Boise State University on October 1-3. If you are part of the program and have any changes to request, please contact Jodi Chilson (jodichilson@boisestate.edu) by Sept. 18.
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ACIS-West 2010: “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary / Post-Modern”
October 1-3 Boise, Idaho
Boise State University
Program Schedule
Friday, 1 October 2010
3:00-5:00pm—Registration and Name-Tag Pick-up (Lookout RoomW, Student Union)
5:00-7:00pm—Welcoming Reception (Lookout Room, Student Union)
6:00pm, Introduction of Consul General Gerry Staunton by current ACIS-West President, Kendall Reid.
7:30pm—Reading by Treavor Joyce (Jordan A, Student Union)
9:30-11:00pm—No host after party at Ha Penny, downtown Boise
Saturday, 2 October 2010 (ILC 302)
8:00-9:30am—Defining Irish-ness: Language, Linguistics, and Words [Chair: Jodi Chilson (Boise State University)]
- “Lies Will Set You Free” – Zan Cammack (BYU, Idaho)
- “Defining Irish Style: A Computational Stylistics of Irish and British Prose” – Matthew Jockers (Stanford University)
- “Seamus Heaney: The Syntax and Rhythm of Politics” – George Lessing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
9:30-10:00am—Creative Writer Reading: Michael Corrigan (author of The Irish Connection and Other Stories (2004) and Confessions of a Shanty Irishman (2002))
10:00-10:15am—Break
10:15-10:30am—Film by Carol Moore, This Belfast Thing
10:30-12:00—Re-defining Irish-ness and Recreating History [Chair: Helen Lojek (Boise State University)]
- “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern” – Susan Reese (Portland State University)
- “From Byways to Highways: Changing Landscapes in Contemporary Irish Poetry” – Marthine Satris (UC Santa Barbara)
- “That’s Not How I Remembered It: Creating Nostalgia in ‘The Dead’” – Marguerite Quintelli-Neary (Winthrop University)
12:00-1:00—Lunch Break
1:00-1:10pm—Film by Carol Moore, The Cruelty Man
1:10-2:30pm—Inequality and International Irish Connections [Chair: Tiffany Hitesman, Boise State University]
- “‘Color it Irish’: General Responses to Defining Identity in the Contemporary Post-Modern World” – John Bieter and Dr. Ken Coll (Boise State University)
- “Hybrid Ireland: Roddy Doyle’s Nigerian Irish Identity” – Eva Roa White (Indiana University Kokomo)
- “Native American Presences in Northern Irish Poetry” – Jolynn Amrine Goetz (University of Alabama)
2:30-3:00pm—Creative Writer Reading: Angeline Kearns Blaine (author of Stealing Sunlight: Growing Up in Irishtown (2000) and I Used to Be Irish (2009))
3:00-3:15pm—Break
3:15-4:45pm—Irish Identity in This Life, The Afterlife, and On the State [Chair: Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University)]
- “Beckett’s Play, The Lost Ones, and How It Is: Protestant Hells, Catholic Purgatories, or Agnostic Limbos?” – John Murphy (DeVry University)
- “‘The White Appearance of Their Persons’: White Racial Relationships in the Contexts of Union, Empire, and Nationalism” – Catherine M. Eagan (Las Positas College)
- “Another Look at Yeats’ The Player Queen: A Postmodern Mousetrap” – Brandie Siegfried (BYU)
6:00-9:00pm—Conference Banquet (Simplot C, Student Union)
7:00pm—Keynote Address by Professor Christopher Murray: “ ‘The New Thing That Has Happened, or the Old Thing That Has Happened Again’: Beckett and the Irish Sensibility”
8:00pm—Closing Address
9:30-11pm—No host after party at Ha Penny, downtown Boise
Sunday, 3 October 2010 (ILC 302)
9:00-9:10am—Film by Carol Moore, Crack in the Pavement
9:10-10:00am—Irish Masculine Identities [Chair: Kendall Reid (Tacoma Community College)]
- “George M. Cohan: ‘The Most Talented Man in the History of American Theatre’” – Maria Szasz (University of New Mexico)
- “Body and Soul Laid Bare: Nudity in More Pricks and Murphy” – Mary Powers (University of New Mexico)
10:00-11:45am—Irish Female Identities [Chair: TBD]
- “Losing Her Figure: (Mis)shapen Identities and the Absence of Mothers in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart” – Brianna Rangel (San Diego State University)
- “Expanding the Definition of Irish Drama: The Case of Elizabeth Kuti” – Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University)
- “Why Jane and Not Maria?” – Anne Macdonald (Fort Collins Community Library)
- “‘The Prince of Darkness Is a Daughter’: The Patriarchal Domination and the Struggle for Female Subjectivity in Marina Carr’s The Cordelia Dream” – Nancy Finn (University of Massachusetts)
11:45-12:45—Lunch and Business Meeting (The winner of the Willard Potts and Don Jordan Emerging Scholar Award will be announced.)
