1025 Advanced Screening Of “Planes”!

Going Serial, Part II: If You Break It, They Will Come

The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of EIre and the UK 2013

The Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK 2013 will take place in the Moore Institute on the 28^th and 29^th of June. The plenary speakers are Professor Bill Richardson, Head of the Spanish Department at NUI Galway, who will give a lecture entitled: “The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation”; Dr. Chris Harris from the University of Liverpool who will deliver a talk on “Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?”; and Clare Murphy who will speak on ‘Storytelling in South America’.

Dr. Mel Boland of the Spanish Department in NUI, Galway will also be launching his recent publication, Displacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) during the conference on Friday, 28 June 2013 in The Moore Institute.

For further information about the conference you may refer to the following Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/202983149775588/, or alternatively: http://hispanic-conference.com

 

 

Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland and the UK, 2013 Programme

Day 1: Friday, 28 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
08.30-09.15	Registration	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.15-9.30	Conference Opening by Dr. Lillis O Laoire and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy	Moore Institute Seminar Room
9.30-10.30	Plenary: Prof. Bill Richardson(NUI Galway)   Title: ‘The Path Not Taken: Borges, Labyrinths, and the Location of Translation’	Moore institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-11.45	Panel 1: Translations   Owen Harrington Fernández (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Indexing Identity in Translation: Character Idiolect and Sociolect in the Spanish Translation of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’’   Dr. Patricia Holmes (NUI Galway) Title: ‘César Aira: innovation and experimentation in process and narrative’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
11.45-12.00	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.00.13.30	Panel 2: Spanish Historiography   Mark McKinty (Queens’ University Belfast) Title: ‘Origen y progresos: Nicolás Fernández de Moratín’sCarta histórica as the start of the modern bullfighting debate’   Francis Kelly (University College Cork) Title: ‘Tales of a Knight Errant or Universal Soldier of Golden Age Spain?’   Antonio Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Title: ‘The Spanish Golden Age, Baroque and Góngora’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Ivan Kenny
13.30-15.00	Lunch	An Bhialann
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Clare Muireann Murphy   Title: ‘Storytelling y cuentos; the power of words’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Kate Quinn
16.15-16.30	Tea/ Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.30-17.30	Panel 3: The Arts of Storytelling   Kate Dunn (University of Edinburgh) Title: ‘How can the Poem Testify? Speaking and the Unspeaking in Alicia Partnoy’sVenganza de la manzana’   Diletta Panero (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Generational Storytelling in Chilean Narrative: Isabel Allende and Marta Blanco’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Dr. Niamh McNamara
18.00-19.00	Book Launch Dr Mel Boland of NUI Galway will launchDisplacement in Isabel Allende’s Fiction, 1982-2000 (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (2013)	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Introduced by Dr. Chris Harris

 

The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 in Viña Mara, 19 Middle St, Galway.

 

 

 

Day 2: Saturday, 29 June, 2013

Time	Event	Location
9.30-10.30	Panel 1: Southern Cone Narratives   Dr. David Conlon (NUI Galway) Title: ‘The Trauma of Nature inZama by Antonio Di Benedetto’   Céire Broderick (NUI Galway) ‘Negotiating the Fragments in Gustavo Frías’ Tres nombres para Catalina: la doña de Campofrío’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Jennie Galvin
10.30-10.45	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
10.45-12.15	Panel 2: Analysing Spanish Visual Media   Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin) Title: ‘The Metamorphis of the Jewish Character in Argentine Cinema’   Ivan Kenny (NUI Galway) Title: ‘Images of Entropy in The Exterminating Angel by LuisBuñuel’   Ruth Miriam Cereceda Gaton (BISC Queen’s University) Title: ‘Marinero en tierra: análisis de la cultura marinera del norte de España en la obra y la persona del pintor Eduardo Sanz fraile’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Diletta Panero
12.15-12.30	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
12.30-13.30	Panel 3: Historical Memory and Contemporary Spain   Imogen Bloomfield (University of Hull) Title: ‘Spain’s (Un)Dead Children: A Haunting Presence in Historical Memory’   Aisling O’Connor (University of Limerick) Title: ‘A postgenerational perspective on Republican women and Spain’s stolen babies: Benjamín Prado’s Mala gente que camina (2006)’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Owen Harrington-Fernández
13.30-15.00	Lunch	37 West
15.00-16.00	Plenary: Dr. Chris Harris (University of Liverpool)   Title: ‘Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory: Do Men and Masculinities Matter?’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Prof. Bill Richardson
16.00-16.15	Tea/Coffee break	Moore Institute Seminar Room
16.15-17.45	Panel 4: Representations of Violence, Gender Roles and Drug trafficking in Popular Culture in Mexico and the Borderlands   Dr. Niamh McNamara (University College Cork) Title: ‘Drugs, Violence and Ambiguity: Breaking Bad on the U.S. – Mexico border’   Jennie Galvin (NUI Galway) Title: ‘El Movimiento Alterado: narrating a world of gender hierarchies, drugs and violence’   Dr. Yolanda Reyes (University College Dublin) Title: ‘Hypermasculinity, Violence and the re-enacted “Macho” in XXI Century Mexican Cinema’	Moore Institute Seminar Room   Chair: Céire Broderick
17.45-18.30	Round table discussion and conference close	Moore Institute Seminar Room

MA in American History University College Dublin

Click to access American.pdf

The Idea of America(Semester 1)
Professor Maurice J Bric
America is many things to many people and fixing the “idea” (referring to the mental representation
and conception of America and, more particularly, the United States) in a historical moment of time
can seem problematic. The module aims to introduce students to the formation and development of
ways people have conceived of America. The module consists of a weekly two-hour seminar
structured around both the positive and negative aspects of a particular historical idea of America,
including the United States and Canada. This is not a narrative module and neither is it confined to
purely American ideas – the global perspective is also explored. This module offers a historical
understanding of the key ideas of America, the debates surrounding them and the way they have
developed and changed over time.
The Making of United States Foreign Policy from FDR to GWB (Semester 2)
Dr Sandra Scanlon
is module uses a range of source materials to explore the making of United States foreign policy
from the Roosevelt to the Bush administrations. Students will consider the various inuences on
presidential foreign policymaking, including ideology, public opinion and relationships with allies.
Domestic constraints on presidential policymaking inuenced the grand strategies pursued by
administrations from Franklin Roosevelt’s attempts to overcome Congressional isolationism during
the 1930s to George W. Bush’s eorts to sell the Iraq War to a reluctant public in 2002-3. Case studies
are used to explore the relationship between domestic political considerations and foreign policy, for
example American responses to the Holocaust are examined to determine the extent of their
inuence on President Truman’s decision to recognise Israel in 1948. While the role of lobby groups
and ideological political action committees expanded over this period, the emergence of television
news and the Internet changed the ways in which the public learned of international events; each
altered the context in which the president could create and ‘sell’ his foreign policies.
In addition to these two core courses, students take one option (either in Semester I or in Semester 2)
from the wide variety of courses available in the School. These options include a course from the Mary
Ball Washington Professor of American History. The holder of this chair changes from year to year.
He/she will also be available to students for advice on dissertations.
continued overleafIn addition to the above academic modules, students will also take research training.
is training focuses on those skills required by research students to develop their work and
introduce students to dierent types of methodologies and archives. Of great importance is the
seminar itself which allows students to present their ideas, to structure an argument, and to have
these challenged. In this way, we encourage a variety of skills which can be used in ways other than
research.
e culmination of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation which is based on original research
and due at the end of July. Each student will be supervised by a member of the School who will meet
with him/her to assess progress and to discuss the project. ere is also an opportunity to present
aspects of their work to their peers.
Who does this MA?
e underlying objective of this MA is not only to provide upper-level students with a sense of how
the United States has evolved but more particularly to allow them to explore in greater detail areas
in which they have a special interest. As such, both the overarching core courses and the more
detailed optional modules allow the student to realise both a particular and a general knowledge of
the United States within the conceptual framework of “how America is perceived”.
In more general terms, this MA will give students a keener and more informed knowledge of politics
and society in the United States and how they impact on the world at large. We receive students
from diverse backgrounds and our students return to many backgrounds. Some of course decide to
pursue further study and we gave such students every encouragement to do so.

Dr Louis de Paor

Dr Louis de Paor, Director Centre for Irish Studies, NUIG

Having graduated with First Class Honours in Irish and Léann Dúchais (Irish and Cognate Studies) at UCC, Louis de Paor completed his doctoral research on narrative technique in the short fiction of Máirtín Ó Cadhain under the supervision of Seán Ó Tuama and was awarded a PhD by the National University of Ireland in 1986 for his thesis, Teicníocht agus aigneolaíocht san insint liteartha; anailís ar mhúnlaí teicníochta agus ar mhúnlaí tuisceana i dteanga na hinste i ngearrscéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at UCC and Thomond College, Limerick, before moving to Australia in 1987, where he worked in local and ethnic radio in Melbourne and taught evening classes in Irish language and literature at Melbourne University and the Melbourne Council for Adult Education. He was Visiting Professor of Celtic Studies at Sydney University in 1993 and Visiting Fellow in 1992. He returned to Ireland in 1996 and worked as proof editor of the Irish language newspaper Foinse before being appointed Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway in 2000.

His published works include a monograph on the work of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Faoin mblaoisc bheag sin: an aigneolaíocht i scéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (1991) , an anthology of twentieth-century poetry in Irish, Coiscéim na haoise seo (1991) , co-edited with Seán Ó Tuama, a bilingual edition of the selected poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, An paróiste míorúilteach/The miraculous parish (2011) and a critical edition of the selected poems of Liam S Gógan, Míorúilt an chleite chaoin (2012).

He was Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellow at the University of St Louis-Missouri in 2002 and received the Charles Fanning medal from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2009.

D’Unbelievables – One Hell of a Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ynAhPyoF3w&feature=player_detailpage

theatre books I would to like to own

The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh (Critical Companions) [Paperback]

Martin McDonagh is one of the world’s most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating analysis of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his stage plays and the films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for students and practitioners it is unrivalled, providing an authoritative and enquiring approach to his work that moves beyond the tired discussions of national identity to offer a comprehensive critical exploration. Patrick Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of each of his plays and films, their original staging, critical reception, and the connections within and between the Leenane Trilogy, the Aran Islands plays and more recent work. It includes an interview with Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company, and offers four critical essays on key features of McDonagh’s work by leading international scholars: Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Eamonn Jordan, Jose Lanters and Karen O’Brien. A series of further resources including a chronology, glossary, notes on McDonagh’s use of language and a list of further reading makes this the perfect companion to one of the most exciting dramatists writing today.

Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era [Paperback]

Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek to exploit new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world – and the stage – differently. And, as national borders became more fluid, the barriers between economics and culture are also becoming weaker. In this groundbreaking study, now available in paperback, Patrick Lonergan explores these developments, placing them in the context of the transformation of Ireland – the ‘most globalized country in the world’ – since the early 1990s. Drawing on archival material that has never before been published, this study sheds new light on the culture of Celtic Tiger Ireland , focusing on such writers as Brian Friel, Sean O’Casey, Marie Jones, Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr and Conor McPherson. In doing so, it shows how globalization poses difficult questions for authors and audiences – and reveals how we can begin to come to terms with these new developments

Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007: 3 (Irish Theatrical Diaspora) [Paperback]

This publication is a must for any student of Irish theatre or any theatre practitioner or admirer interested in the cultural history of modern Irish theatre. –Books Ireland, March 2009

Echoes Down the Corridor: Irish Theatre – Past, Present, and Future (IASIL Studies in Irish Writing) [Paperback]

his collection of fourteen new essays explores Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives. How has Irish theatre been received internationally and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures writers like Synge, O’Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr, and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined? And is it time to remember less established Irish writers? Drawing together a range of international experts, this book aims to answer these and many other important questions

Irish Drama: Local and Global Perspectives

Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Contributors: Chris Morash, Martine Pelletier, José Lanters, Richard Cave, James Moran,Werner Huber, Rhona Trench, Christopher Murray, Ursula Rani Sarma, Jesse Weaver, Enda Walsh, Elizabeth Kuti.

Synge and his Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School [Paperback]Book of Essays

he year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one of the world s great dramatists. To mark the occasion, this book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama, aiming to explore the writers and movements that shaped Synge, and to consider his enduring legacies. The essays discuss Synge s work in its Irish, European and world contexts showing his engagement not just with the Irish literary revival but with European politics and culture too. It also explores Synge s influence on later writers: Irish dramatists such as Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Marina Carr, as well as international writers like Mustapha Matura and Erisa Kironde. It also considers Synge s place in Ireland today, revealing how The Playboy of the Western World has helped to shape Ireland s responses to globalisation and multiculturalism, in celebrated productions by the Abbey Theatre, Druid theatre, and Pan Pan theatre company. Contributors include Ann Saddlemyer, Ben Levitas, Mary Burke, Paige Reynolds, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mark Phelan, Shaun Richards, Ond ej Pilný, Richard Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Emilie Pine, Melissa Sihra, Sara Keating, Bisi Adigun, Adrian Frazier and Anthony Roche.

Patrick Lonergan,  is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway He blogs at http://patricklonergan.wordpress.com : “Scenes from the Bigger Picture”

Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School at NUI Galway

Scenes from the Bigger Picture

We’ll be running a Summer School on Performance and Globalization at NUI Galway later this week. We’re going to be looking not just at theatre (David Greig, Conor McPherson) but also at such performances as the Eurovision Song Contest, Mad Men, and more.

The event is intended for postgraduate students of theatre, but if anyone would like to attend, just drop me a line on patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie

Performance, Nation and Globalization Summer School

Funded by the Irish Research Council

National University of Ireland, Galway

17-18 July 2013

This two-day Summer School explores the interrelationships between performance and nation in an era of increasing globalization. We will consider major international dramatists such as J.M Synge and David Greig, but the discussion will also take in other forms of performance, including the Eurovision Song Contests, recent American TV drama including Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and new devised work from Ireland by…

View original post 3,044 more words

From the Sopranos to the Americans

Scenes from the Bigger Picture

Like many others this morning, I’m sad to learn of the death of James Gandolfini, and shocked that he was only 51. As his recent performance in Zero Dark Thirty showed, he seemed on the verge of shaking off his associations with Tony Soprano – and of doing something that could match or even surpass his achievement in playing that role. And I understand that he became a father again last year. It’s terrible to see someone so young passing away.

I am sure that there will now be many articles reminding us that The Sopranos re-defined television – that, without that show, there would have been no Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or The Wire.

The Sopranos itself could probably not have happened without Twin Peaks, of course – but David Lynch’s show had always seemed anomalous, with its innovations misunderstood as…

View original post 1,149 more words

And there’s one for everyone in the audience(s): Macbeth and the ordinary spectator