Date: Friday March 11th & Saturday March 12th 2011
Location: Dublin City University
Venue: All Hallows College (DCU), Purcell House Conference Centre, Room 1
Contacts: Mr Jean-Philippe Imbert

Conference - Abstracts

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Angus Mitchell, National University of Ireland Galway/Summer School, Ireland
“A year of Living Dangerously: Roger Casement’s 1911 Amazon Voyage.”

Prof. Laura Izarra, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Translating Secrets and Lies: Mario Vargas Llosa's El sueño del celta and Roger Casement's The Amazon Journal
lizarra@usp.br

Dr. Barbara Freitag, Dublin City University
“The Metamorphosis of Hy Brasil - from Cartographic error to Celtic Elysium.”
barbara.freitag@dcu.ie

Parallel Session Speakers

Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos, The Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI)
Irish Theatre on the International Stage: Cia Ludens in Brazil
castelmar@uol.com.br

Ms. Margaret Brehony, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
“The Charms of Liberty: Irish Free Wage Labour on the Cuban Railroad 1835”
margaret.brehony@gmail.com

Dr. Gera Burton, University of Missouri, USA
“Who Fears to Speak?”: Bonifacio Byrne's Poetic Voice in Cuban History
burtong@missouri.edu

Mr. Karst de Jong, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Cromwellian Transport from Ireland to Jamaica of 1655/6
kdejong01@qub.ac.uk

Ms. María Graciela Eliggi, National University of La Pampa, Argentina
Strategic Forgetfulness: a device to construct female characters
mgeliggi@yahoo.com

Dr. Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, Penn State University - Altoona College, USA
“Leaving and Hiding Traces of Oneself: Miguel Delibes’s Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso.”
yxa3@psu.edu

Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, Lebanon Valley College, USA
William R. Grace: el inmigrante irlandes como personaje de ficcion
mcevoy@lvc.edu

Dr. Jadwiga Pieper Mooney, University of Arizona, USA
Learning from Life with Sponsors and Spies: Chilean Political Exiles in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1973-1989
jadwiga@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Clíona Murphy, California State University Bakersfield, USA
Thomas Coulter's involvement with British Mining in Mexico 1825-29
cmurphy@csub.edu

Dr. Farrell O'Gorman, DePaul University, USA
Ireland, Latin America, and the Caribbean in the U.S. Literary Imagination
wogorman@depaul.edu

Ms. Patricia de Aquino Prudente, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Nationalism in William Bulfin’s Late Years Epistolary and Journalistic Discourse
patriciadeaquino@yahoo.com.br

Dr. Nini Rodgers, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Arcedeknes of eighteenth-century Jamaica
ninirodgers@btinternet.com

Ms. Monica O'Reilly Vazquez, Dublin City University, Ireland
Unveiling the Secrets of the Leabhar Gabhála Éireann
salsabravadub@hotmail.com

Mr. Rafael Francisco Diaz Vasquez, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia - Universidad Industrial de Santander, Spain
CULTURA POLÍTICA EN COLOMBIA 1898-1948.
El establecimiento de un sistema de participación y consulta política ciudadana
radiaz_@hotmail.com

Ms. Sinéad Wall, University of Westminster, UK
Revealing the inner self in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)
S.Wall1@wmin.ac.uk