CFP: Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland (4/11/03; 10/24/03-10/25/03)

Call for Papers
American Conference for Irish Studies
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland
24-25 October 2003
University of Maryland

The Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites
paper (20 minute) and "poster session" (15 minute) proposals for its
interdisciplinary conference at the University of Maryland, College Park on
24-25 October 2003. The conference organizers welcome any papers which
address Ireland's rich material past and present, as well as its virtual
present and future. Especially welcome are papers which address the
following themes:

* the role of objects in Ireland in the production of knowledge;
* specific artifacts and their histories (physically and/or virtually);
* the relations between ideal and actual historical audiences, or between
local, international, or virtual readers;
* the relationship between people's material world and the society around
them;
* the use of multimedia and/or the World Wide Web in Irish arts and
education;
* how the study of objects enrich or problematise our understanding of Irish
culture and art;
* how the study of objects reveal new perspectives on traditional fields of
study, such as The Irish Renaissance or the Eighteenth Century;
* how certain objects became/have become engines of commodification of Irish
culture, such as the Book of Kells or the shamrock;
* what manuscripts, books and other print culture reveal about the society
that produced/and or rejected them;
* how the existence of the World Wide Web changes, alters, enriches
knowledge production in Irish arts, politics, culture;
* how material artefacts and digital media reinforce perceptions of, for
example, imperial culture or post-colonialism, the Celtic Tiger or The
Troubles;
* what are the relations between literature and its material production
(voice/text, embodied writing, theater props/dramatic space, changing modes
of printing and distribution, etc);
* what the snapshot of the World Wide Web at the present moment reveals
about Irish society, politics, culture, arts

We also welcome 15 minute "poster session" proposals in which conference
participants can depart from the traditional conference format. Proposals
for the poster session may involve, for example, creative work (readings
from one's own creative writing, or playing music), a response to material
culture (a reading from archival material, for example), or demonstrating a
virtual/multimedia site/product.

All correspondence and enquiries should be sent to: Dr Susan Schreibman,
Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities,
University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail:
ACIS-2003_at_mith2.umd.edu Proposals for papers should be submitted by 11 April
2003, preferably by email. Proposals should include the following
information:

* proposal is for a paper or a poster session;
* speaker's name and affiliation;
* email address;
* 250 word abstract

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