LinguistList: Conference on Irish Studies

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

>
>LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-3332. Wed Dec 3 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.
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>Subject: 14.3332, Calls: General Ling/Sweden; Translation/Ireland
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>Date:  Tue, 2 Dec 2003 04:01:34 -0500 (EST)
>From:  uca at du.se
>Subject:  The 4th Biannual Conference of NISN (Nordic Irish Studies Network)
>
>The 4th Biannual Conference of NISN (Nordic Irish Studies Network)
>
>Date: 22-Apr-2004 - 24-Apr-2004
>Location: Dalarna University College, Falun, Sweden
>Contact: Irene Gilsenan Nordin
>Contact Email: ign at du.se
>Meeting URL: http://www.du.se/ducis
>
>Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
>Subject Language: English
>Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2003
>
>
>Meeting Description:
>
>LIMINAL BORDERLANDS: IRELAND PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
>Interdisciplinary Conference in Irish Studies
>
>The 4th Biannual Conference of NISN (Nordic Irish Studies Network)
>will be held at Dalarna University College, SWEDEN, from 22-24 April,
>2004.
>
>The conference theme is Liminal Boundaries: Ireland Past, Present and
>Future. The conference will be interdisciplinary and we welcome
>submissions for panels and papers in literature, language, drama,
>film, art, music, history, politics, philosophy, cultural studies,
>folklore, and other relevant academic disciplines that can relate the
>conference theme to the subject of Irish Studies. Possible topics
>include, but are not limited to
>
>
>* exile; hybridity; nomadism
>* local/global communities; nationalism/postnationalism
>* postcolonial subjectivity; migration studies; cultural/linguistic
>identity
>* translation; language politics
>* liminal bodies/spaces; threshold experiences; memory
>* transgressive identities; cyborgs
>* gender; queer theory FINAL CALL
>
>Please submit 250-word abstracts/panel proposals, including a short
>CV, by 15 December, 2003. Papers should be limited to 20 minutes in
>length.  Presenters of papers are required to be members of NISN
>(Nordic Irish Studies Network) by March 04. For information on
>membership see the NISN website on www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/nisn.
>
>
>Those who wish to co-ordinate special interest sessions are very
>welcome to do so and should notify the conference organiser of the
>topic and names of participants. Topic proposals for round-table
>discussions are also welcome.
>
>
>The following panels have been proposed:
>
>
>1) Negotiating Ethnicity and Identity in Irish American Literature
>
>
>What are the realities of being Irish AND American? How is it
>different from being Irish OR American? Papers addressing questions of
>subjectivity,identity and ethnicity, or any other other issues related
>to Irish American literature, are welcome.
>
>
>For this panel please send abstracts of 250 words no later than 31
>January, 2004, to:
>Dr Mats Tegmark
>Assistant Professor of English
>Dalarna University College
>SE-79188 Falun, SWEDEN
>mte at du.se
>
>
>2) Hiberno English and the Construction of Identity
>
>
>How do Hiberno English dialect and accent affect the construction of
>identity? How and when is dialectical identity marked? How are
>language features modified in Irish vs. non-Irish contexts? Papers
>addressing the linguistic construction of identity, or any other other
>issues related to Hiberno English, are welcome.  Send abstracts of 250
>words no later than 31 January, 2004, to
>
>
>Dr Una Cunningham
>Associate Professor of English
>Dalarna University College
>S-79188 Falun, SWEDEN
>uca at du.se
>
>
>Address all other proposals and inquires to conference organiser:
>Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin
>Assistant Professor of English
>DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies)
>Dalarna University College
>SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN
>
>
>E-mail: ign at du.se; Phone: +46 23 77 8308; Fax +46 23 77 8080
>http://www.du.se/ducis
>


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