Preliminary programme, CAIS / ACÉI, 2021

All times and dates Ottawa / Quebec City [overseas times in italics and brackets]

Tuesday 22 June

10h00–11h30: Opening session: Irish Heritage Trust’s work on the Famine
[15h00– 16h30 IE] Co-sponsored with Celtic Studies, St. Michael’s College / University of Toronto. Jason King interviews Caroilin Callery

12h30–13h00: The Irish Abroad
Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary’s): An Afrikaner Stanger in Ireland
Patrick Mannion (Memorial): Friends of Irish Freedom in Panama

13h00–14h00: CAIS Annual General Meeting. Bring your lunch!

14h30–15h30: Narratives of Irishness
Kyla Fanning (Concordia): Detachment & Negotiation in Mary Lavelle
Michael Quigley (Hamilton): Telling Tales on the Border

16h30–17h30: Cinema and Ireland
Rosemary O’Flaherty (UOttawa): The Irish in H'Wood & a Catholic Code
[21h30–22h30 UK] Anne Burke (Middlesex): Imagining Irishness in Beneath Clouds

19h30–21h00: Keynote Address
[11h30–13h00 NZ] Sonja Tiernan (Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, University of Otago)

Wednesday, 23 June

10h00–11h30: Plenary roundtable: Translating Máirtín Ó Cadhain
[15h00–16h30 IE] Co-sponsored with School of Irish, Celtic Studies & Folklore, University College Dublin. 
Discussion of the process of bringing the works of Máirtín Ó Cadhain into
English. With the team that translated his Selected Stories (forthcoming
from Yale University Press and Cló Iar-Chonnachta): Louis de Paor,
Lochlainn Ó Tuairisc, Katherine Duffy and Úna Ní Chonchubhair.

In advance of the panel, we will distribute a special PDF of the new
translation Ó Cadhain’s most famous story, “The Year 1912,” to all
conference participants.

12h00–13h00: The Irish Language in/and North America
[17h00–18h00 IE] Dean Farrell (Dublin): Maillet’s La Sagouine & Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille
Matthew Knight (U. of S.Fla.): Bardic Contentions in the Irish-American

14h00–15h00: Irish Prose from the 1890s to the 1930s
Keelan Harkin (Concordia): Irish Women, Futurity & Novels in the 1930s
Michael Moir (Georgia SW State): Decadence & the Weird in Yeats Stories

15h30–16h30: Irish Performance
Kate Bevan-Baker (Concordia): Songs of the Sea in Irish & Canadian Culture
Jane Koustas (Brock): Embargo: Conflict on the Irish Stage

19h30–21h00: Irish Studies in New Zealand: Papers from the University of Otago
[11h30–13h00 NZ] Jane Malthus: Rosaria Hall, Fashion Designer
“ ” Majella Cullinane: Irish Emigrant Women in New Zealand
“ ” Emer Lyons: Sea and Fog: Second Generation Irish Diaspora Poets in NZ

Thursday, 24 June

9h00–10h00 Ireland and Quebec
Aileen Ruane (Concordia): Translating and Staging Doldrum Boy
Kester Dyer (Carleton): Post-Apocalyptic Ireland and Quebec

10h30–12h00: Special Session: Canadian Contributions to the NI Peace Process
Co-sponsored with Celtic Studies, St. Michael’s College / University of Toronto.
Moderator: Bridget Brownlow (Saint Mary’s)
Gen. John de Chastelain

[15h30–17h00 IE] Ambassador Ray Bassett
Bonnie Weir (Yale)

13h00–14h00: Ulster and Parts Thereof
[18h00–19h00 NI] Liam Kennedy (Queen’s Belfast): Writing a History of the Troubles in NI
“ ”                        Samuel Beckton (Ulster University): Could Unionists Have Controlled a 9-County State?

14h30–15h30: Northern Ireland in/and Canada
[19h30–20h30 NI] Steven Egan (Queen’s Belfast): The Canadian Dimension to Partition
David Wilson (Uni. Of Toronto): The Fenian Underground in Toronto

16h00–17h30: Irish Women and Cuba: Travellers, Sojourners, and Immigrants
Chair: Kerby Miller (University of Missouri)

[21h00–22h30 IE] Margaret Brehony (UCC): Irish and African Genealogies in C19 Cuba
Giselle Gonzáles Garcia (Concordia): Uncovering Irish Women C19 Hava
Gera Burton (University of Missouri): Dervla Murphy’s Travels in Cuba