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Tenth International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, Oviedo (Spain)
| Location: | Spain |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-03-16 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-12-27 |
| Announcement ID: |
181675 |
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X AEDEI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: “(Un)Becoming Irishness: Imperfections and National Identities”, University of Oviedo, 25-28 May 2011.
Over the last decades Ireland has experienced deep transformations in its economic, cultural and physical landscapes that have called into question all the idealisations upon which the identity of the nation had been based. In his latest publication, Enough is Enough (Faber 2010), Fintan O’Toole suggests that the Irish Republic was built upon false myths that are at odds with the harsher – and altogether more dystopian – realities of Irish life. The sole comprehension of utopian national mythologies proves unable to tackle issues such as the degradation of Irish landscapes in the name of “progress”, the religious scandals or the crumbling down of previously sacred pillars of Irishness. Addressing the shadowy side of life appears to be particularly relevant in a time characterised by deep instability.
We invite papers that will assess the important role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian have historically had – or are currently having – in the construction of Irish identities. Papers should not exceed the 20-minute delivery, in English or Spanish, and may address, from a variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge, topics such as:
-Imperfect Republic/s: political, religious and economic failures
-Progress Imperfect: environmental damages
-Scars: physical, emotional, (post)colonial
-Memories and distorted remembering; childhood and stunted growth
-Imperfect bodies: disabilities and illnesses
-Ageing, ugliness and identity
-Freaks: the grotesque, the monstrous
-Humorous distortions
-Dysfunctional norms: family models and heterosexual compulsion
-The limitations of whiteness: ethnic and racial diversities
-“Barbarous uses of language”?: Irish-English
-The dynamics of negative prefixing
-“The Irish for No”: representations of the negative in Irish culture(Mis)translations and identity
-Past Imperfect: historical reflections
Submission of proposals
Abstracts of around 250 words should be emailed to AEDEI2011@gmail.com by Wednesday 16th March 2011. Please do not hesitate to contact the organiser for any queries you may have.
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Conference organiser:
Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias
Dpto. Filología Anglogermánica y Francesa
Campus de Humanidades “El Milán”
Universidad de Oviedo
33071 Oviedo, Asturias
Spain
Email: aedei2011@gmail.com
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