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Call for Papers
The 13th Graduate Irish Studies Conference
October 12-13, 2001
Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA
The graduate students of the Boston College Irish Studies Program and the Irish American Cultural Institute invite your participation in "Set Apart? Locating Ireland," the 13th Graduate Irish Studies Conference. The conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2001, on the Boston College Campus. Proceedings will include conference panels, a plenary discussion, keynote address, and GISC business meeting. All papers submitted in full before the conference will be considered for a $500 prize sponsored by IACI, and possible publication in Eire-Ireland.
We especially encourage interdisciplinary projects and papers that use the title conference as a window into Irish history, literature, and culture. Possible panel topics include, but are not limited to:
- New immigrants to/ asylum seeking in Ireland
- Ireland and the EU/ adoption of the Euro
- Comparative literatures
- Ireland and the visual arts
- Ireland, Irish Studies, and theory in the academy
Celtic Tiger economics and contradictions
- Medieval history and literature
- Ireland in the context of European modernism
- Law and literature
- Language and translation
- Irish cinema
- The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland
- Post-Good Friday Accords Northern Ireland
We will consider detailed (2-3 pp) abstracts, or conference length (15-20 min) papers until April 15, 2001. Please send e-submissions to
the e-mail address below. Or send hard copies to address below.
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