FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline 20 January 2007

The 2007 IASIL conference takes place at University College Dublin
Monday 16 July - Friday 20 July

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline 20 January 2007

Varieties of Irishness
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you to attend the 2007 conference at University College Dublin. The Conference theme is designed to highlight the diversity which has always been at the heart of Irish writing and to accommodate the widespread interests of IASIL delegates.

The Conference activities will take place on the extensive campus of University College Dublin located at Belfield, Dublin, 4, four miles from the city centre. The conference activities will chiefly take place in the Global Irish Institute Building near the entrance to campus; the closing dinner will be held in the O'Reilly Hall. Accommodation choices will include five-star student accommodation in the Glenomena Residences and the Montrose Hotel beside the campus, which will be offering a special rate to delegates.

Proposals for papers of twenty minutes' duration (i.e. papers that, when completed, will be approx. 2,800 words in length) are welcome on any aspect of the literatures of Ireland, especially those on the conference theme. Please include the following information with your proposal:

. A 300 word description of your paper;

. The full title of your paper;

. Your name, postal address and e-mail address;

. Your institutional affiliation and position (e.g. Professor, Lecturer, Postgraduate Student, etc.);

. Any AV requirements you might have;

. Your IASIL membership status (i.e. present member, membership to be renewed, membership application submitted/to be submitted).

Most participants in the conference will submit individual papers and be allocated to panels by the conference organisers.

We are also offering participants the opportunity to form their own panels. Panel proposals are being accepted from:

. Groups of 3 or 4 people who wish to deliver papers around one theme;

. Individuals who will issue their own calls for papers for the conference.

At present, we are asking the latter to submit proposals only. Details of speakers, when available, are welcome - but these need not be finalised until a later date.

All speakers must be members of IASIL. To join IASIL, go to the membership page.

All speakers must pay the conference registration fee in advance. Registration details will be posted online in April 2007.

All speakers are responsible for their own registration, travel and visa arrangements, and accommodation. We will provide relevant information on this site.

If you are making your submission by e-mail, please do so the conference organiser, Professor Anthony Roche. Please send your proposal in plain text in the body of your e-mail and as an attachment in a Word document. E-mailed confirmation of receipt of all e-mails will be sent within 10 working days.

If you are making your submission by post, please do so to: Professor Anthony Roche, School of English and Drama, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland.

Organising panel: Dr. John Brannigan; Professor Andrew Carpenter; Professor Anne Fogarty; Professor Gerardine Meaney.

IASIL 2007 is hosted by the School of English and Drama and the Global Irish Institute at University College Dublin.

More on http://www.iasil.org/ucd/

ISTR Inaugural Symposium Second Call for Papers

Irish Society for Theatre Research ( Cumann Taighde Amharclannaiochta na hEireann )
Inaugural Symposium
Friday 13 April to Sunday 15 April 2007, Queen’s University Belfast

Second Call for Working Group Submissions and Panel Paper Submissions

The theme of the Inaugural Symposium of ISTR is ‘Theatre and Conflict’ which is designed to encompass notions of conflict on intra-national as well as international levels. The following information outlines
submission criteria for both the Working Groups taking place on the Friday of the Symposium and also the Panel Sessions taking place on the Saturday of the Symposium.

Working Group Submissions

The working group dynamic involves the submission of papers no more than 2,500 words in length which are then disseminated for all members of the working group to read before the symposium. During the working group sessions on the Friday of the symposium, working group members will give a brief synopsis of their paper lasting no more than 10 minutes, after which the group as a whole will discuss the paper for 20 minutes.

The following working groups have been proposed in order to begin the process of encouraging members to develop more specialized groups in subsequent symposia in order to more fully engage with the broad
spectrum of Irish theatre from page to stage:

Cultural Identities: seeks papers exploring issues of Irish theatre and performance that frame the construction and categorization of cultural identities such as: gender, sexuality, race, nation, ethnicity.
Performances that are a part of institutional culture as well as alternate performance cultures are included, and projects that study popular as well as elite cultural performances will be welcomed.

Theatre History and Historiography: seeks papers pertaining to any aspect of research into the history of theatre as a practice and as an institution in Ireland or the history of Irish theatre in its international contexts. This working group is also concerned with investigating the methodologies of theatre history and/or the theoretical and historical assumptions that underpin these.

Textual Practices: seeks papers which engage with the relationship between Irish textuality and performance, specifically in terms of the transformation of the play on the page into the play on-stage. Of
particular interest are papers that examine the performance possibilities implied by a script, score and other textual or documentary sources.

Performance Studies: seeks papers which explore ways to analyse Irish theatre and performance in its multiplicity of elements and meanings. Participation is encouraged from practitioners, critics and academics in the disciplines of theatre and drama, digital technology, and performance art.

Panel Paper Submissions

We invite proposals of up to 250 words for panel papers lasting no more than 20 minutes to be delivered on the Saturday of the symposium on various conflictual issues represented in Irish theatre and performance
such as:

• sectarianism
• class disparity
• gender hierarchy
• domestic violence
• racial discrimination
• cultural dissonance

Panel Group submissions of up to 3 papers are particularly welcome.

The deadline for both Working Group and Panel Paper submissions is 1 March 2007.

The Registration Form and further details about the Inaugural Symposium including a link to a comprehensive Accommodation List is available on the ISTR website: www.qub.ac.uk/istr