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Call For Papers

 American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, October 27-28, 2006, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.

 “Which Direction Ireland?”

Papers are sought touching on any aspect of the idea of direction and Ireland...
Especially welcome are presentations addressing questions of modernization and technology, Ireland in the international sphere, immigration and emigration past and present, even projections for the future.  These areas can be considered in light of literature, history, language, social science, geography, or any other heading appropriate to the topic of Ireland and direction.  In addition, any paper proposal relevant to Irish studies will be considered.

Proposals/abstracts of no more than 200 words may be submitted to Dr. Donald McNamara, Department of English, Lytle Hall, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530, or mcnamara@kutztown.edu.

Featured Speakers

The ACIS Mid-Atlantic Region is pleased to announce that Dr. Catherine Nash and Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin will be featured as the plenary speakers at the 2006 meeting.  Dr. Nash is a Reader in Cultural Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London.  Dr. Nash’s research explores questions of identity, embodiment, and belonging in Ireland and Northern Ireland and in the Irish diaspora. She has addressed these themes in early twentieth century imaginative geographies of the nation and in late twentieth century cultural practices and cultural policy.  Most recently her work has focused on the meanings of ancestry and origins in popular genealogy, in population genetics and in new applications of genetics in Irish clan and surname studies, and on the practice and politics of local history in Northern Ireland.  She is working on a collaborative project on the material and social geographies of the Irish border.  Her work has been published in journals such as Cultural Studies, Antipode, Political Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and History Workshop Journal and is forthcoming as Of Irish Descent: Origin Stories, Genealogy and Diasporic Imaginaries.

Dr. Ó Ciosáin teaches in the Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway.  He studied at Trinity College Dublin and at the European University Institute Florence, and has published Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850, as well as articles on book history, printing in the Celtic languages, the Irish Famine, folklore, and memory.  The title of his presentation at the ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting will be “Print and the Celtic Languages, 1750-1900—Contrasting Fortunes.”

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