CFP: Irish Studies Conference

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

 From the Early Medieval EMF-L list
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Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
Midwest ACIS Conference: 18-20 October 2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City

The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the 
thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices 
and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines.

This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore 
interactions among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and 
culture in Ireland from earliest times to the present.

Plenary Speakers:

Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of 
Art and author of Ireland's Art / Ireland's History: Representing 
Ireland (1845-Present) (2007), and of numerous articles on art and 
its role in Irish national identity.

Pat Collins, director of over thirteen documentaries including the 
award winning John McGahern: A Private World (2005), Frank O'Connor: 
A Lonely Voice (2004), Tory Island (2003), Talking to the Dead 
(2000), and most recently a documentary on the Irish language poet 
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and 
author of The Keeper's Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in 
Ireland (2005) and Music and the Irish Literary Imagination 
(forthcoming).

The conference welcomes papers on any aspect of Irish studies from 
new or present ACIS members.  Please propose twenty-minute papers in 
250-300 word abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Joan Dean, at 
deanj at umkc.edu by August 1, 2007.  Include your name, institutional 
affiliation, and contact information in that document, as well as in 
the body of your email.  (To join ACIS, see 
http://www.acisweb.com/members.php?type=join)

The University of Missouri-Kansas City, host to this year's Midwest 
meeting, is in the heart of Kansas City.  The conference will begin 
with a plenary lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum at 6 p.m. on 
Thursday, October 18 and conclude on Saturday evening, October 20 
with a performance by the Elders.


"You know you know the way to Kansas City."
-Van Morrison


Virginia Blanton
University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer/Instructor in Linguistics
Penn State University
ejp10 at psu.edu

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/

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