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Ireland and Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 18-19 June 2010
| Location: | Ireland |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-02-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-06-30 |
| Announcement ID: |
169385 |
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Ireland is known internationally as a land of pastoral greenery, but its landscape is an arguably ‘unnatural’ construct, a topography shaped by a history of conflict and suffering. Gerry Smyth asserted in 2000 that ‘Irish Studies and ecocriticism ... have a lot to say to each other’, yet despite the centrality of the land to Irish identity at home and abroad, ecocriticism remains largely absent from Irish Studies in Ireland. One aim of this conference will be to examine this critical recalcitrance, when the land and the landscape feature in a vast range of cultural productions in Ireland, from folklore and music, to poetry and painting. The longstanding tension in Western society between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ has unique implications for the social and political framing of the natural world in an Irish context. This fraught and complicated relationship urgently requires interrogation in an age of rapid climate change. Proposals are welcome from across the disciplines, including environmental studies, anthropology, journalism, migration studies, history, geography, urban planning, music, literary studies, art history, folklore studies, archaeology, education, architecture, women’s studies, philosophy, theology, cultural studies, sociology, film and media studies, and colonial/postcolonial studies.
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Dr Maureen O’Connor
Department of English Language and Literature
Mary Immaculate College
Limerick
Ireland
Email: maureen.oconnor@mic.ul.ie
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