FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
LIMINAL BORDERLANDS: IRELAND PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Interdisciplinary Conference in Irish Studies (12/15/03; Sweden,
4/22/04-4/24/04)
The 4th Biannual Conference of NISN (Nordic Irish Studies Network) will be
held at Dalarna University College, SWEDEN, from 22-24 April, 2004
Plenary Speakers:
Prof Emeritus, Bo Almqvist (Dept of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin)
Prof Richard Kearney (Dept of Philosophy, Boston College)
Dr Anthony Roche (Dept of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University
College Dublin)
Readings by: Medbh McGuckian and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne
The conference theme is Liminal Boundaries: Ireland Past, Present and
Future. The conference will be interdisciplinary and we welcome submissions
for panels and papers in literature, language, drama, film, art, music,
history, politics, philosophy, cultural studies, folklore, and other
relevant academic disciplines that can relate the conference theme to the
subject of Irish Studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to
* exile; hybridity; nomadism
* local/global communities; nationalism/postnationalism
* postcolonial subjectivity; migration studies; cultural/linguistic identity
* translation; language politics
* liminal bodies/spaces; threshold experiences; memory
* transgressive identities; cyborgs
* gender; queer theory
Please submit 250-word abstracts/panel proposals, including a short CV, by
15 December, 2003. Papers should be limited to 20 minutes in length.
Presenters of papers are required to be members of NISN (Nordic Irish
Studies Network) by March 04. For information on membership see the NISN
website on www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/nisn.
Those who wish to co-ordinate special interest sessions are very welcome to
do so and should notify the conference organiser of the topic and names of
participants. Topic proposals for round-table discussions are also welcome.
The following panel has been proposed: Negotiating Ethnicity and Identity in
Irish American Literature
What are the realities of being Irish AND American? How is it different from
being Irish OR American? Papers addressing questions of
subjectivity,identity and ethnicity, or any other other issues related to
Irish American literature, are welcome.
For this panel please send abstracts of 250 words no later than 31 January,
2004, to:
Dr Mats Tegmark
Assistant Professor of English
Dalarna University College
SE-79188 Falun, SWEDEN
mte@du.se
Address all other proposals and inquires to conference organiser:
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin
DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies)
Dalarna University College
SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN
E-mail: ign@du.se; Phone: +46 23 77 8308; Fax +46 23 77 8080
http://www.du.se/ducis
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Dr. Irene Gilsenan Nordin Director of DUCIS
Senior Lecturer in English Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies
Dept. of Arts and Languages Phone: +46 23 778308
Dalarna University College Fax: +46 23 778080
SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN DUCIS web page: http://www.du.se/ducis
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