CALL FOR PAPERS
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) Mid-Atlantic Regional Annual
Meeting
November 1st and 2nd, 2002
Lehman College, The City University of New York, Bronx, New York
"IRELAND'S CULTURES"
Most Irish Studies scholars are familiar with Eamon de Valera's vision of
an Ireland with comely maidens dancing at the crossroads--this oft-cited
line is regularly used to point out the narrowness of de Valera's
conception of Ireland. "Ireland's Cultures" will ask us all to question
the scope of our own work and to consider topics and approaches beyond what
can be a narrow Irish Studies emphasis on literature and history.
The conference committee seeks submissions that will explore the diversity
of cultural practices and productions in Ireland past and present. The
"cultures" to be considered might encompass: immigrant cultures, emigrant
cultures, subcultures, countercultures, youth culture, high, middle, and
popular cultures, working-class cultures, political culture, media culture,
or religious culture
While traditional literary and historical approaches are welcome, we hope
as well to encourage papers and panels drawing on other academic cultures,
whether cultural studies, anthropology, art history, economics, sociology,
political science, or linguistics. Interdisciplinary and comparative work
is especially sought. Topics could include: Ireland and Atlantic History,
Ireland and Globalization, Urban Ireland, Ireland and Romanticism, Class in
Ireland, Visual and Multimedia Ireland, and Ireland and the New Economic
History.
Please submit proposals of up to 500 words along with a short (2 page)
scholarly biography to the Conference Committee, care of Martin Burke or
Mary McGlynn. Proposals should be faxed, mailed or emailed by May 1st,
2002. Email proposals should not use attachments but include the abstract
and CV in the main body of the text.
Martin J. Burke
Department of History
Lehman College, CUNY
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, New York 10468
e-mail: martinj@lehman.cuny.edu
fax: (718) 960-1104
Mary McGlynn
Dept. of English, Box 7-240B
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10010
e-mail: mary_mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu
fax: (646) 312.3911
Mary McGlynn
Dept. of English
Box 7-240B
Baruch College
City University of New York
55 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10010
(646) 312.3961 (office)
(646) 312.3911 (fax)
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