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| The Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University—and Friends! During the most recent academic year, almost 200 students took Irish Studies courses—a record. In addition, over 6,000 people attended the Center's public events—another record. The Center is a self-supporting, inter-disciplinary unit of Georgia Southern University with special institutional ties to the Department of Literature and Philosophy and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. • The University's Continuing Education Division (CED) is helping the Center with the Conference. Special thanks go to CED staff members Ms. Jan Reynolds and Ms. Karen McNeaney. Please say hello to Jan and Karen at the check-in area. • The Center gratefully acknowledges financial and/or logistical conference assistance from the American Conference for Irish Studies; the Hampton Inn, Statesboro, GA; Pladd Dot Music, Statesboro, GA; the Department of Literature and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University; Club Gael (the Irish Studies student club), Georgia Southern University; the Honors Program, Georgia Southern University; the Museum, Georgia Southern University; and Marti Lee of the University of South Carolina at Columbia. |
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| Light Refreshments with Hors d'Oeuvre |
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| Fellow, Institute for Ulster-Scots Studies, University of Ulster
Former Principal and Chief Executive, Lisburn Institute of Further and Higher Education |
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| Historian, educator, and BBC broadcaster, Alister McReynolds is a noted authority on the Ulster Scots (or Scots Irish). In 2007, he retired from a thirteen-year career as Principal and Chief Executive of Lisburn Institute of Further and Higher Education. Almost immediately, McReynolds took up a special lectureship at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and then became a Fellow of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies at the University of Ulster (Magee Campus). He holds Honorary Membership in the City and Guilds of London and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Northern Ireland: The American Connection, a recent volume on behalf of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, is just one example of McReynolds's published opus, which ranges from the scholarly to the popular. He continues to lecture extensively at universities across Ireland, Britain, and the United States. |
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Continental Breakfast (Lobby): 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM |
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Panel hosted by Janet Nolan PhD, Loyola University, Chicago, IL (Former President, Midwestern ACIS) |
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Sophie Sweetman McConnell |
Independent Scholar, New York City |
The Sweetmans: From Cromwell to Sinn Féin |
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Carole O'Malley Gaunt |
Independent Scholar, New York City |
Excerpts from and Discussion of Gaunt's Award-Winning Memoir Hungry Hill |
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Janet Nolan PhD |
Loyola University, Chicago, IL |
The Place of Family History in Writing Irish-American History |
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Panel hosted by June K. Davison, Brunswick Community College, Supply, NC |
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Irene Martyniuk PhD |
Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA |
Christy Brown's Other Foot |
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Earl G. Ingersoll PhD |
State University of New York at Brockport |
Colum McCann: Irish Writer, Irish-American Writer, of What? |
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Sheena Denney |
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
The One and Only Henry Smart: Cosmic Specialness in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry |
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Panel hosted by Robin Jackson Boisseau PhD, Hampton University, Hampton, VA |
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Erin Sells |
Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
"Room of Infinite Possibilities": Joyce's Ulysses and the Modernist Origins of the Day-Long Novel |
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Amy Ward Bricker |
Catholic University of America, Washington, DC |
Dog-Gods: The "Bark in the Street" at Divinity in Joyce's Ulysses |
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Elizabeth Jenkins |
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
"Melancholy Air of Italy": The Church's Role in Eveline's Shift from Assent to Dissent |
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Inter-Session Break: 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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Panel Hosted by Joseph McFadden PhD, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX (President Emeritus, University of St. Thomas) |
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Joseph McFadden PhD |
University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX |
Ireland Says "Yes" to Repeal: Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, and the Nation in the 1843 Repeal Campaign |
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Lee Williams PhD |
University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX |
The Freeman's Journal in 1905: Ireland Says "Yes" to Europe and "No" to Colonialism and Imperialism |
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Michael de Nie PhD |
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA |
Ulster will Fight? The British Press and Ulster, 1885-1886 |
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Panel hosted by Richard Rankin Russell PhD, Baylor University, Waco, TX |
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Rand Brandes PhD |
Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory , NC |
Circling Back to the Existential in Seamus Heaney's District and Circle |
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Amanda Sperry |
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC |
The Poetic Capacity of Objects' Materiality in Tension with Seamus Heaney's Spiritual Bent |
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Richard Rankin Russell PhD |
Baylor University, Waco, TX |
Transcending Polarities: Michael Longley's Exotic Musical Identities in "Words for Music Perhaps" |
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Bryan Giemza PhD |
University of South Carolina at Columbia |
Four Contemporary Irish Poets Imagine the American South as a "No-Place" for New Starts |
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Panel Hosted by Crystal O'Neal, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
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Jeffrey Fowler |
University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL |
The Protestant-Catholic Debate over the Cultural Ownership of Cuchulainn |
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Marnie Jones PhD |
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
Dissent as a Form of Assent: Theology and Religious Tradition from the Book of Kells to Narnia |
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Matthew M. DeForrest PhD |
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC |
The Greatest Story Ever Re-Told: The New Testament and Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer |
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Panel Hosted by Sabryna Sarver, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Keith Pluymers |
University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
Cattle, Culture, and Commerce in Early-Modern Munster |
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Monica Hunt |
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
Longshoremen as a Prototype for Organized Labor: Irish Migrants and the Workingmen's Benevolent Society of Savannah |
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Meg Keiley-Listermann PhD |
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA |
Female Republican Dissidence in the 1980s |
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Inter-Session Break: 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Global Distinguished Professor of Music, New York University |
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| Mick Moloney PhD teaches in the Department of Music, New York University, and at that institution's Irish Studies Program (Glucksman Ireland House). He combines multiple careers: university professor and public lecturer; musicological researcher and professional singer-instrumentalist; folklorist and cultural critic; concert presenter and arts advocate. Moloney has amassed a vast storehouse of instrumental scores and song lyrics from the Irish and Irish-American tradition. His book Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American History Through Song (Random House, 2002) includes an accompanying CD (Shanachie Records). Moloney is author of many articles in academic journals, as well as specialized collections of essays. Since earning a doctorate in folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught ethnomusicology, folklore, and Irish Studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Boston College, and Villanova University. For the past five years he has directed The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra, the only Irish music ensemble in a US university. |
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| ACIS South Business Meeting Chaired by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary PhD, Regional President |
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Panel hosted by Gavin Foster, Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN |
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Seán O'Brien PhD |
Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN |
Michael Davitt and the Irish Republican Brotherhood |
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Gavin Foster |
Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN |
Republicanism and Liberty in Early-Twentieth-Century Ireland |
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Jennifer Molidor |
University of Indiana at South Bend |
Rebel Writer: Dorothy Macardle, Female Solidarity, and the Irish Civil War |
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Panel Hosted by Howard Keeley Phd, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Steven G. Farrell |
Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC |
Mickey Machine Gun is Back: The Irish-American Gangster Returns to the Big Screen |
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John Daily |
Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL |
No Non-Irish Need Apply in Boss Pendergast's Kansas City |
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Panel hosted by Marti Lee, University of South Carolina at Columbia |
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Geraldine Higgins PhD |
Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
The Second Coming of William Butler Yeats in Popular Culture |
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Sinead Moynihan PhD |
School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England |
In Ireland? Race, Immigration, and Citizenship in Jim Sheridan's In America |
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| Thomas C. Ware PhD |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| The Irony of Disintegration in Ann Enright's The Gathering; or, What it Takes to Win a Man Booker Award These Days |
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Panel hosted by Elizabeth MacCrossan, University of Texas at San Antonio |
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Peter M. Carriere PhD |
Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA |
What Intertexuality? William Butler Yeats and Lafcadio Hearn |
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Jennifer O'Brien |
University of Dublin-Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
The Irische Bulletin: Irish Separatist Propaganda in Berlin, 1921-1922 |
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Rebecca Ziegler PhD |
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
J.G. Farrell's "No" to the British Empire |
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| Limerick-born Mick Moloney was a key figure in the Dublin folk-song revival in the 1960s. After relocating to Philadelphia, he became a leader in contemporary Irish-American music through his teaching, producing, recording, performances, and academic folklore activities. In 1999, he received the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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| San Francisco native Athena Tergis has played fiddle nearly all her life. Winning the National Scottish Fiddling Championship in Virginia at age 11, she later turned her bow to the traditional music of Ireland. In collaborations with Laura Risk and Harry Bradley, in appearances with the Sharon Shannon band, and as the principal fiddler in Riverdance Broadway, Athena has distinguished herself as a musician of great scope, with influences ranging from Celtic traditional to jazz. |
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| One of the most exciting guitarists in Irish traditional music today, Dublin-born Asheville resident John Doyle made a name for himself with his striking propulsive style in both the innovative groups he helped found, The Chanting House and Solas. Impossibly in demand in the studio and on the road, immensely talented and blessed with an acute ear, a wicked sense of rhythm and seemingly endless bag of tricks in his playing, composing, performing and producing, John is solidly establishing himself as one of the most versatile, creative and prolific voices in folk and traditional Irish music. |
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Continental Breakfast (Lobby): 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM |
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Panel Hosted by Joe Pellegrino PhD, Center for Irish Studies, Gerogia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Marguerite Quintelli-Neary PhD |
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC |
All that Is Sacred: How Joyce and Mahler Build Texts |
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Jack W. Weaver PhD |
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC |
The Piety of Dissent: (Sub)Merged Profane and Religious Emblems in Works by James Joyce and Charles Ives |
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Panel Hosted by Sabryna Sarver, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Robin Jackson Boisseau PhD |
Hampton University, Hampton, VA |
Lady Gregory Says "No": Censorship and the Early Abbey Theater |
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Andrew J. Garavel PhD |
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA |
Facing Both Ways: The Unionism and Nationalism of Somerville and Ross |
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Joan Dargan PhD |
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY |
Responses to the Great War: Michael Longley and Sebastian Barry |
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| Panel Hosted by Kelly Twilley, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Jill Brady Hampton PhD |
University of South Carolina at Aiken |
Emerging Landscapes in Irish-American Poetry: Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty |
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Kristine Byron PhD |
Michigan State University, Lansing, MI |
Mulligan's Stew: Literary and Geographic Spaces in Contemporary Collaborative Irish Fiction |
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Jefferson Holdridge PhD and Wanda Balzano PhD |
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC |
Tracking the LUAS between the Human and the Inhuman |
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Panel hosted by David T. Gleeson PhD, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC |
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William H. Mulligan, Jr. PhD |
Murray State University, Murray, KY |
"It Would Be Best to Reduce the Number of that Nationality": Opportunity, Discrimination, and Irish Miners in Michigan's Copper Country |
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Brian Walker PhD |
School of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Irish Identity and the Irish in America |
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Inter-Session Break: 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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Panel hosted by Pamela Zeiser PhD, Irish Studies Program, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
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Jonathan Bolton PhD |
Auburn University, Auburn, AL |
The Enchanted Island: Rathlin in Michael McClaverty's Call My Brother Back (1939) |
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Pamela Zeiser PhD and Paul Harwood PhD |
Irish Studies Program, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
Differences among Dissenters: A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Irish Republicans' Turn to Terror |
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| Elizabeth MacCrossan |
| University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Where the Walls Talk: Counternarrative Discourse in Northern Ireland's People's Gallery |
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Panel Hosted by Marti Lee, University of South Carolina at Columbia |
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Michael Cavanagh PhD |
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA |
Dante's Disciple: William Butler Yeats's "Cuchulainn Comforted" |
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Brendan Corcoran PhD |
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN |
"I Shall Be Made Thy Music": Paul Muldoon's Undermusic |
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Christopher Parsons PhD |
University of South Carolina at Columbia |
Molly Bloom's "Yes" for Women: The Literary Legacy of James Joyce's "Penelope" in Poetry by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland |
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Panel hosted by Amy Ward Bricker, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC |
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Emily Kader |
Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
Irish Folklore and the Changeling Myth in Bram Stoker's Dracula |
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Jamieson Ridenhour PhD |
University of Mary, Bismark, ND |
Drinking the Blood Sacrifice: Aislings, Communion, and the Irish Vampire |
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Michelle Miles |
Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
"Great Rivers and Dreadful Streams": Homer's Kingdom of the Dead in the Voice of Contemporary Irish Poetry |
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Panel Hosted by Jefferson Holdridge PhD, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC |
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Mary Power PhD |
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , NM |
After Molly: Irishwomen's Monologues in Contemporary Novels |
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Owene H. Weber PhD |
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
Frank O'Connor and Claire Keegan: Foolish Women Assent to Glad-less Ends |
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Jennifer Parrott |
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL |
"Rules Is Rules": Assent and Dissent in Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill |
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Inter-Session Break: 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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Sara and Jess Cloud Visiting Professor of English, College of William and Mary Professor of English, Villanova University Former National President, ACIS |
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Lucy McDiarmid (PhD Harvard) has been the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University and a Visiting Professor of English at Princeton University. A former President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, she is Professor of English at Villanova University. McDiarmid's most recent book is The Irish Art of Controversy. She is also the author of Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars and Auden's Apologies for Poetry. She coedited High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889–1939 and Lady Gregory: Selected Writings. In 2005-2006, she was a Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library; she has also been a a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. |
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Break for Lunch (On Your Own): 12:50 PM - 2:15 PM |
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Panel hosted by Sally K. Sommers Smith PhD, Boston University, Boston, MA |
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Christopher Smith PhD |
Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University School of Music, Lubbock, TX |
Níl 'Na Lá / It's Not Yet Day: Traditional Irish Song—Assent and Dissent in Languages and Landscapes |
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Sally K. Sommers Smith PhD |
Boston University, Boston, MA |
"Play He Single": Chance and Necessity in the Traditional Music of Newfoundland |
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Paul F. Wells PhD |
Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN |
Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and the Publication of Irish Tunes in America Prior to Captain Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland |
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Panel Hosted by Geraldine Higgins PhD, Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
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Eleanor Owicki |
University of Texas at Austin |
Staging Conversions: The Theatricality of Lady Gregory's The Rising of the Moon |
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Kelly Twilley |
Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
Representative Space: Up and Down in Brian Friel's Translations |
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Deidre O'Leary PhD |
Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York City, NY |
No Go / New Show: Contemporary Site-Specific Theater in Belfast |
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Panel hosted by Marti Lee, University of South Carolina at Columbia |
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Aaron Thornburg |
Duke University, Durham, NC |
St. Patrick's Day Parade, Dublin, 2007: "City Fusion" and Sikhs; or, Whatever Happened to Our Irishness? |
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William Smith PhD |
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
Kiss Me, I'm Irish: Maintaining an Ethnic Identity in Savannah |
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Barbara Hendry PhD |
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
Expressing Continuity and Change in an Irish-American Community: The "Irish Season" in Saannah |
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| Panel hosted by Howard Keeley PhD, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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| Michael Griffin PhD |
| University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland |
| Traditions of the Future: The Irish Utopian Archive |
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| Charles Fanning PhD |
| Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL |
| Visions of Irishness at the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair, 1933-1934 |
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| Christopher Boettcher PhD |
| University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR |
| Public Introspection in the Unfinished Writing of Standish O'Grady |
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Panel hosted by Paul Fox PhD, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
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Megan Estierre Noojin |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
From Our Own Correspondent: Conditions in Famine Ireland |
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Paul Fox PhD |
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
Oscar Wilde and Forms of History |
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Terry Ballard PhD |
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT |
An Irish Digitization Project at Quinnipiac University |
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Panel Hosted by Howard Keeley PhD, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
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Crystal O'Neal |
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
Writing Ireland: Coming to Terms with Irish Identity in Frank O'Connor's "Uprooted" |
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Elizabeth Chase |
Center for Irish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
"The Horror of Little Details": Remembering the Troubles in Works by Deidre Madden |
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Mary-Kathryn Rawlings |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, SC
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The Interrelationship of Mural Painting, Conflict, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Northern Ireland : Local Community versus National Politics |
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Panel Hosted by Christopher Smith PhD, Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University School of Music, Lubbock, TX |
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Matthew W. Paproth PhD |
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
U2 in 3D: Even Better than the Real Thing? |
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Kathleen Ochshorn PhD |
University of Tampa, Tampa, FL |
Poet of the Borderlands: Bandanas, Magic Mushrooms, and Metaphors in Selected Poems by Paul Muldoon |
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Sandra M. Pearce PhD |
Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN |
Sight and Sound Imagery in Anne Le Marquand Hartigan's Dramatic Trilogy Jersey Lilies |
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At 5:00 PM, Please Make Your Way to the Auditorium for a "Parting Glass" of Poetry |
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| Panel hosted by Nathalie F. Anderson PhD, Swathmore College, Swathmore, PA |
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Thank You for Attending the 2008 ACIS Southern Regional Conference |