W.B.YEATS CHAIR OF IRISH STUDIES

W.B.YEATS CHAIR OF IRISH STUDIES

SEMINAR OF IRISH STUDIES

26^th & 27^thAugust 2010

 

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 26^th AUGUST

10h - 11h    Room 266

                      Angus Mitchell.  “Irish History Wars in the Age of Post-Revisionism”

11h- 11h40  Room 266

               Angus Mitchell and Laura Izarra interview Jordan Goodman (University College London) on his book The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man’s Struggle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness.

11h40  Launch of Angus Mitchell's Roger Casement in Brazil. Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World, 1884-1916. Edited by Laura P.Z. Izarra. (São Paulo: Cátedra de Estudos Irlandeses W.B.Yeats & Humanitas, 2010).

12h-14h Lunch

14:00- 18:00   Room 260

                       Talk with John T. Davis and Screening of HOBO 

followed by a debate with the director, Lance Pettitt (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Marcos Soares (USP)

  

FRIDAY, 27th AUGUST

09h-10h    Room 266

               Hernán Neira (Universidad de Santiago de Chile).

                "Jonathan Swift en la encrucijada de la modernidad."

                    

               Luz Mar González Arias (Universidad de Oviedo).

                "Bodies that Rebel: Reading Anorexia Nervosa in Contemporary

                      Irish Women’s Poetry".

                 

Moderator: Maureen Murphy

10h15-11h30   Room 266 

                     Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin talks about her work

                      

11h 30  Launch of Luci Collin's Anthology of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poems and of Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos e José Roberto O'Shea's Ilha do Desterro 58 - "Contemporary Irish Theatre". 

12h-14h Lunch