Forging Identities : Past into Present

Friday Feb. 15th

Venue: HG22

9.00

Registration

9.30

Coffee

10.20

Official Opening

10.30-12.00

A. “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” (Yeats):

Exiles and Identities

CHAIR: Mr Jean-Philippe Imbert

From Hungarian through English: Narratives of Marginality and Exile

Dr Vera Sheridan, Dublin City University

A Retrospective Approach to the Irish Famine: Poetic Voices

Dr José Manuel Estévez-Saá Universidad de Sevilla

Identity and Immigration: the Dangerous Liaison

Dr Agnès Maillot, Dublin City University

12.30-14.00

Lunch (1838)

Venue: HG19

14.00-15.30

B. “I rhyme/To see myself, to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney):

Re-definitions of Identity

CHAIR: Dr Brian Trench

Identities, Ideologies and Intellectuals

Pr Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University

O’Faolain’s Conflict between Tradition and Modernity

Dr Manuela Susana Domínguez Pena, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Unstable Genres: Textual and Bodily Metamorphosis

Dr Bruce Swansey, Dublin City University

16.00-17.00

Plenary Conference

CHAIR: Dr Brigitte Le Juez

In Search of Identity: Irish Literature and Some Spanish Writers in 20th Century

Pr Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos

17.00-17.30

Coffee Break

17.30-19.00

C. “But knowledge is found among the branches” (Clarke):

Architectures of Identity

CHAIR: Mr Rubén Jarazo Alvarez

The Construction of the Multi-Minority Identity: Case Study of the Blind Immigrant in Ireland

Ms Esther Murphy, Dublin City University

The Development of Identity in Education in a Culturally Diverse Setting

Mr John Lalor & Mr Justin Rami, Dublin City University

Irish University Identities as Expressed in Mission and Vision Statements

Dr Heinz Lechleiter, Dublin City University

20.30

Conference Dinner (City Centre)

Saturday Feb. 16th

Venue: HG19

9.30 - 11.00

D. “Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges” (Kavanagh):

Wordings of Identity

CHAIR: An Dr Peadar Ó Flatharta

Translating Jules Verne, and Forging the Verne Translator's Identity: A diachronic Study of Complex Emergence of the Text, and Interacting Causes of Translation

Mr Kieran O’Driscoll, Dublin City University

Identity through Language and Culture: Irish and Galician

Ms Paula Lojo Sandino, N.U.I. Galway

“At the Wellhead” by Seamus Heaney: Proposal of a Spanish Translation

Ms Raquel Paradela Macía & Ms Paula Rábade López, Universidad de A Coruña

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.10

E. “Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets” (Wilde):

Aesthetics of Identity

CHAIR: Prof. Michael Cronin

Irish Accented Comedy: From The Quiet Man to When Brendan Met Trudy

Dr Pat Brereton, Dublin City University

Stanford and Yeats. The Irish Musical Renaissance that Wasn't.

Mr Barra O Seaghdha, Dublin City University

Forging the Future or Forging Ireland’s past? Damien Dempsey and Contemporary Ireland

Dr David Clark Mitchell, Universidad de A Coruña

13.30-14.30

Lunch (in pub across)

15.00-16.30

F. “These are outsiders, always” (Boland):

Women Voicing Identity

CHAIR: Dr Lidia Maria Montero Ameneiro

Current Debates on the State of Contemporary Irish Fiction by Women

Dr Margarita Estévez-Saá, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Rosa Mulholland, a ‘New Woman” Writing of Ghostly Times

Dr Maria Luisa Venegas Lagüéns, Universidad de Sevilla

Theodora Thirdman ‘housewrecker’ in Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends and Relations (1931)

Dr Edwina Keown, Saint Patrick’s College Drumcondra

16.30

Conference closure