FW: [IASIL] FW: Mid Atlantic ACIS regional conference

[Marion Gunn]

Now, here's an interesting one. An unusual upcoming conference, I mean.

I haven't been to an ACIS conference in many years, although I do recall 
some interesting ACIS encounters in Limerick and Galway, if memory 
serves me correctly, where I first got to know some fascinating people 
I'm not going to name here. Those conferences, way back then,  had 
nothing at all to do with the topic of this year's conference, called 
"(Wo)manning Up" (it also took me a while to work that one out), so I'm 
particularly intrigued by that choice of title (so I'm asking SEANCHAS-L 
and CELTLING members and others to share the notice below with contacts 
they feel might like that).

Ádh mór oraibh,
mg



Foinse/Source: sullivkp at lemoyne.edu <mailto:sullivkp at lemoyne.edu> (via HII).



Scríobh 05/03/2012 11:14, Valerie Norton:
>
> 2012 ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
>
> Call for Papers
>
> DaemenCollege
>
> Amherst, New York
>
> October 5-6, 2012
>
> *(Wo)Manning Up:*
>
> *Performing Gender in Irish Culture*
>
> From mythical representations of Mother Ireland and warrior culture to 
> postcolonial and “New Irish” studies of Irishness, renderings of male 
> and female figures have played a key role in determining political and 
> religious conflict, social rituals, literary production, and 
> historical transformations. We invite papers from these and other 
> perspectives in any genre that engage with and interrogate the 
> performance of gender in Ireland throughout history. As usual, strong 
> papers on other topics will be considered as well. Topics may include, 
> but are not limited to, the following:
>
>     * Gender and religious conflict
>     * Models of the maternal and paternal
>     * Traditional and non-traditional marriage
>     * Gender and childhood acculturation
>     * Gender and sex scandal
>     * Gender and crime
>     * Gender in film and other visual media
>     * Representations of LGBT experience
>     * Hypermasculinity/Hyperfemininity
>     * Gender and colonialism/postcolonialism
>     * Gender and ecocriticism
>     * Gender and architecture
>     * Gender and economics
>
>
> We are pleased to announce that*Dr. Joseph Valente,*Professor of 
> English and Disability Studies, SUNY-Buffalo,and Dublin novelist*Mary 
> Rose Callaghan*have agreed to serve as keynote speakers during the 
> conference.
> Please send 250-word abstracts by*July 15*to: Dr. Shirley Peterson 
> <speterso at daemen.edu <mailto:speterso at daemen.edu>>
>
> --
>
> Kate Costello-Sullivan
>
> Associate Professor, English Dept
>
> Director, Irish Literature Program
>
> Coordinator, Scholarships and Fellowships
>
> Le Moyne College
>
> 1419 Salt Springs Road
>
> SyracuseNY 13214
>
> 315 445 4215 (teaching, Irish program)
>
> 315 445 4470 (Scholarships and Fellowships)
>
> sullivkp at lemoyne.edu <mailto:sullivkp at lemoyne.edu>
>