Call for Papers
Technologies in Transition: Ireland 1000-2000
The Second Annual GRIAN Interdisciplinary Conference on Irish Studies
March 3-5, 2000
Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
In recent years, Ireland has become a center for technology; the economy has
boomed and social structures long in place have been transformed. This
conference aims to examine not only modern Ireland in terms of technology,
but Ireland across the millenium as a place created and influenced by a
variety of technologies. 'Technologies,' then, becomes a broadened, more
useful term for examining everything from the metrics of poetry to the
impact of photography on national identity, from agricultural and scientific
innovation to the effect of e-mail on the emigre.
We invite papers from all disciplines of Irish Studies which consider the
introduction and reception of new technologies, the artistic and literary
constructions of technology, resistance to technologies, and the uses and
mis-uses of technology. It is our hope that a deeper understanding of the
term 'technology' can help us to articulate the histories of Communication,
Education, Transportation, Material Culture, and Politics in Ireland from
the eleventh to the twentieth century.
Suggested Topics include: * Investigative Technologies and the
Historioigraphy of Ireland's Past * Narrative in Ireland as (Exportable)
Technology * Shipbuilding and Trade * Oral Tradition: An Early "Web"? *
Artists and Popular Media * Technology and Terrorism * Gendered Uses of
Technology in Irish Hagiography * Battlefield Technologies: Real and
Imagined * The (in)Significance of Science to Irish Writers * Underwater
Archaeology * Print Technology and the Counter-Reformation * Translation
Technologies * Technology in/of Irish Music * Medicine and Medical
Institutions * Cartography and Surveying * Literacy and Book Production *
Leisure and Entertainment * Colonial Constructions of "The Primitive" * The
Irish Internet * The Anti-Technology/Anti-Progress Investments of the
Revivalists * Time Keeping and the Social Order * Media and Famine
Narratives * Filming Ireland * Technological Change as Paradigm *
While a portion of the conference will necessarily be devoted to modern and
contemporary Ireland, papers examining the technologies of Ireland in the
early part of this millenium, or papers which treat a topic diachronically,
are especially encouraged. One-page abstracts for twenty-minute papers
should be submitted by November 29, 1999 to:
(New York) (Dublin)
Lahney Preston Oona Frawley
149 Sixth Avenue #2 7 Seabank Court
Brooklyn, NY 11211 Sandycove, Co. Dublin
USA Ireland
email: LMP1624@is.nyu.edu oona@oceanfree.net
Please include name, affiliation, paper title, special requirements (audio,
visual, electronic) and contact information (mailing address, phone number,
e-mail). Notification of acceptance will be made by January 1, 2000. For
more information, contact Lahney Preston or Oona Frawley at the above
addresses.
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