New Voices in Irish Criticism
After two successful conferences in Dublin and Belfast, the third New Voices in Irish Criticism Conference will be held in Galway 2 - 4 February 2001. The aim of this annual conference is to provide a forum for the upcoming generation of critics within the Irish Academy and postgraduate students working on Irish material overseas; and to give them the opportunity to engage in critical debate with their colleagues.
In order to promote interdisciplinary panels, we encourage not only proposals in the field of Irish studies, but also on international topics such as postcolonial cultures, British and American literature, international politics,... To give as many postgraduate students the opportunity to present a paper at this conference, priority will be given to proposals from ‘new’ voices which have not been heard at the previous New Voices-conferences. Nevertheless, everyone is welcome to submit material and to participate in the conference. Also more established academics are warmly invited. A discussion panel of ‘new’ and ‘older’ voices is envisaged as part of the programme.
Suggested topics for twenty-minute papers include:
· Translation and cultural confrontations
· Reconstructions of the past
· Poetics and aesthetics
· Ireland and urbanisation
· Fiction and faction
· Gender, race, class and identity
· Issues of postmodernism in Ireland and abroad
· Challenging Irish critical orthodoxies
· Theatre and performing arts
· Changing landscapes
· The creative critic and the critical artist
These and other topics can be discussed from various disciplines within the humanities, including art, film, politics, sociology, philosophy, archaeology, literature and other sciences. The conference will be conducted mainly in English, but we welcome Irish language papers.
One page abstracts are to be posted (by pigeon or e-mail) before 1/11/2000 to:
Karen Vandevelde
New Voices
English Department
NUI
Galway
KarenV@oceanfree.net
For further inquiries and programme information, please contact Karen Vandevelde at the above address.
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