International Ph.D Seminar, Prague, 2011

BOUNDARY CROSSINGS

The 2nd International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

16 - 17 September 2011

Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2011

9:00 Conference opening

9:30 – 11:00 History, Myth and Politics

Chair: Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague)

Michael Diaz (Charles University, Prague) Suzanne and the Sovereigns: “A Mangled version of historical events” in Ulster (respondent Radvan Markus)

Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague) Bits of Broken Pottery: Metahistorical Elements in Thomas Flanagan’s 1798 Historical Novel The Year of the French (respondent Maciej Ruczaj)

Maciej Ruczaj (Charles University, Prague) Beyond the Boundaries of the Self: Pearse’s The Singer (respondent Rhona Carroll)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Alternative Voices

Chair: Kateřina Jenčová (Charles University, Prague)

Hana Pavelková (Charles University, Prague) Contemporary Female Voices on Stage (respondent Michael Diaz)

Monika Urbanski (Trinity College, Dublin) Minor Elements in J.M.Synge’s Plays and Turkish-German Contemporary “Gastarbeiterliteratur” (respondent Matthew Reznicek)

Claire Louise Noelle Mann (Trinity College, Dublin) Crossing Nomadic Cultural Boundaries: To what extent can Irish Traveller writing be described as “Resistance Literature”? (respondent Hana Pavelková)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Nomadic Poets

Chair: Michaela Marková (Trinity College, Dublin)

Daniela Theinová (Charles University, Prague) My Dream Sister: Deconstructing the Muse (respondent Kacie Hittel)

Kacie Hittel (Trinity College, Dublin; Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee) The Nomady of a Suburban Poet: A Study of Eavan Boland through Space and the Nomad’s Global Sense of Place (respondent Daniela Theinová)

Florence Impens (Trinity College, Dublin) “A Very European Poet”: European Intertextuality in Derek Mahon’s The Yellow Book (1997) (respondent Nils Beese)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Modernists Across Boundaries

Chair: Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague)

David Vichnar (Charles University, Prague) From Inheritors to Survivors – Crossing the Boundary Within (respondent Ondřej Pilný)

Nils Beese (Trinity College, Dublin) Kafka in the Criticism and in the late Poetry of Louis MacNeice (respondent Florence Impens)

20:00 Beer, food, music

Venue: LOKÁL U Bílé kuželky, Míšeňská 66, Prague 1

SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2011

10:00 – 11:30 Queering and Schizophrenia – Challenging Established Identities in Northern Ireland

Chair: Hana Pavelková (Charles University, Prague)

Michaela Marková (Trinity College, Dublin) Motherhood and schizophrenia as alternative strategies to imposed identity – Kate O’Riordan’s Involved and Anna Burns’s No bones (respondent Ramona Boban Vlahovic)

Megan Minogue (Queen’s University, Belfast) Forcing Change: The Challenges of Loyalist Paramilitaries in the Post-Good Friday Agreement Drama of Gary Mitchell (respondent Michaela Marková)

Ramona Boban Vlahovic (University of Zagreb) Oh, so serious: Queering the Troubles in Saint Oscar and Breakfast on Pluto (respondent Michaela Marková)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Trespassing Individuals

Chair: Clare Wallace (Charles University, Prague)

Sarah Wride (Mansfield College, Oxford University) Oscar Wilde and Murder: ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’, ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’ and the Picture of Felo de Se (respondent Clare Wallace)

Matthew Reznicek (Queen’s University, Belfast) Her Italian Self: Opera, Economics and Self-Determination in Kate O’Brien’s As Music and Splendour (1925) (respondent Sarah Wride)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Grá agus cumha – Ag trasnú theorainn na Gaeltachta

Chair: Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague)

Rhona Carroll (Coláiste Phádraig) ‘Nár bhreá bheith thiar sa mbaile....’ Aisling na haisimirce mar a léirítear í in amhráin nuachumtha Chonamara agus Árann (freagróir Justin Quinn)

Daithí Mac Fhlaithimh (Coláiste Phádraig) Ról na mBan i mBánú Oileán Ghabhla (freagróir Hynek Janoušek)

Hynek Janoušek (Prifysgol Aberystwyth/University of Aberystwyth)

Gearóid Iarla agus Dafydd ap Gwilym: Nuálaithe sa Traidisiún (freagróir Daithí Mac Fhlaithimh)

19:00 Concluding remarks

Venue: DEJVICKÁ SOKOLOVNA, Dejvická 2, Prague 6