American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region, 2010

ACIS-West 2010 – Tentative Program Schedule

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.)

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