Department News

Modernism Group conference

4/18/2009 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM

The Spring meeting of the SoCal Irish Studies colloquium will take place on Saturday 18th April at UC Santa Barbara in the McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 6th Floor, HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences building) between 11.00 am and 5.30pm. The topic of the colloquium, which has been organized by Enda Duffy, Marthine Satris, Julia Panko and other graduate students, is “Lingering Borders: Visions of Irish Spaces and Selfhood.” The keynote talk will be given by new member Tony Crowley, the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College. [read more . . .]

Where: UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 6th Floor, HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences building) When: Saturday April 18th, 11.00am-5.30pm All very welcome! Parking is available right next to the HSSB in Lot 27. For visitors, the price for all day on Saturday is three dollars. From Lot 27, the entrance to HSSB is adjacent to the parking lot. A helpful campus map is here: http://www.tps.ucsb.edu/mapFlash.aspx In terms of approaching UCSB, take the HWY 217 exit, which ends in a roundabout at UCSB. Take a right at the roundabout and at the third stop light, take a left. This will be Oceran Road. Continue on Ocean Road through a stoplight and keep following it as it swerves right after a stop sign. At the next light, turn left. The parking lot will be on your right. Schedule: Lingering Borders: Visions of Irish Spaces and Selfhood 11:00am Sarah McLemore, “Esthetic Execution; Ireland, Modernity and the Photograph" 12:00pm Lunch 12:45pm Discussion of Laura O’Connor’s Book, Haunted English: The Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and De-Anglicization and selections from Peter McQuillan’s Native and Natural: Aspects of the Concepts of "Right" and "Freedom" in Irish. Led by Marthine Satris and Julia Panko (UCSB). 1:45pm Graduate Student Panel Judith Hicks, UCSB "Pooka, Cause and the Violation of Worlds in At Swim-Two-Birds" Megan Fernandes, UCSB “Splitting and Object Relations in Patrick MacCabe’s Butcher Boy” Steven Pokornowski, UCSB “Grain Upon Grain, the Impossible Heap: Cyclical Gifting and Anxiety in Endgame” Domino Torres, USC "The Celtic Tiger, Immigration and Irish Literature: An Examination into the Politics of Border Crossings in Contemporary Irish Fiction." 3:45pm Coffee break 4:00pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tony Crowley, Scripps University “Reading the Walls: Republican Murals in West Belfast 1979-2004” 6:00 SCISC Dinner, Location TBA. Participants responsible for the cost of their own meals

Location McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Contact Enda Duffy