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Joint ISAI / Crosscurrents Conference


The Fifth
Irish Scottish Academic Initiative Conference
UNIONS
Past-Present-Future

ISAI

And

The Sixth
Annual Crosscurrents Conference
The Enclave of My Nation

University of Aberdeen
7-9 September 2007


keynote speakers | panel topics| contact | about ISAI | programme


Keynote Speakers

Geraint Jenkins
(University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)

Ged Martin
(Formerly, University of Edinburgh)

Graeme Morton
(University of Guelph)

Dan Mulhall
(Irish European Office Director)

 

 

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Panel Topics

Panel topics include: Soviet Union; Scottish Perceptions of Union; The United Kingdom’s Impact on Language; Twentieth-Century Poetry; Irish Views on the Making of Union I and II; The European Union’s Impact on Language; Dialect I and II; North America: The State of the Unions; Law and the People in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; The Break up of Britain; Nationhood and Union 1900-1939; Union and the National Tale; Company Colonies; Twentieth-Century Literary Connections

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Contact

Requests for further details should be addressed to the conference organiser:
Dr Michael Brown: m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

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About ISAI

ISAI was set up in 1995 as a formal link between universities in Scotland and Ireland. Members include the University of Aberdeen, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, Queen's University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin.

 

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Programme

Friday 7 | Saturday 8 | Sunday 9

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Friday 7 September 2007

3.30-4.30: Registration

James MacKay Hall

4.30-5.00: Opening

Professor Cairns Craig (Director of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)
Dr Michael Brown (ISAI Conference Convenor)
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy (Crosscurrents Convenor)
King's Conference Centre

 

5.00-6.30: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Soviet Union
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: Paul Dukes (Aberdeen)

Robert Frost (Aberdeen), Poland and the Ghost of Union
Mary Buckley (Cambridge), The Disintegration of the USSR: A Complex Protracted Process
Ron Hill (Trinity College, Dublin), An Unbreakable Union of Free Republics

Session B: Scottish Perceptions of Union
KQF3: Carnegie Room

David Dumville (Aberdeen), The So-Called 'Union of Picts and Scots', 842: A Product of Unionist Imagination?
Kathleen Midleton (Trinity College, Dublin), Protestant Unity and Scottish Immigration in Ulster, 1690-1715
Cheryl Garrett (Aberdeen), The Scottish Civil War and the Dukes of Atholl, 1689-1745

Session C: The United Kingdom’s Impact on Language
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Robert Dunbar (Aberdeen)

John Kirk (Queen’s University Belfast), Does the UK have a Language Policy?
Janet Muller (POBAL), UK Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Respect of Irish and the Impact of the 2006-7 Consultation on Proposed Irish Language Legislation for NI

Aodan Mac Poilin (ULTACH Trust), An Infusion of British Manners’: Linguistic assimilation and the Union

Session D: Crosscurrents - Scottish and Irish Fiction
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Chair: Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen)

Adelaine Amar (Edinburgh), Memory, economy and Modernity: Maturin’s Irish National Tale
Margaret Matthews (Trinity College Dublin), Scotland and Ireland in the Work of Jane Austen
Dan Wall (Aberdeen), Grand Napoleons of the Realm of Print: Lockhart, Scott, and 'Filthy Lucre’

7.00-9.00: Buffet

Aberdeen Art Gallery (Bus from King's College departing 18.50)
Launch of the first issue of the Journal for Irish-Scottish Studies

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Saturday 8 September 2007

9.00-10.00: Plenary Lecture

Ged Martin (Formerly, University of Edinburgh)
Canadian Confederation: The Origins Of The Idea 1854-1864
Chair: Michael Brown
King’s Conference Centre

10.30-12.00: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Poetry
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen)  

Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen), Yeats and MacDiarmid
Fran Brearton (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Curable Romantics'?: Alasdair Reid and Derek Mahon
Peter Mackay (Queen's University, Belfast), An Guth and the Leabhar Mor: Devolved Dialogues in Scottish Gaelic and Irish Poetry

Session B: The European Union’s Impact on Language
KQF3: Carnegie Room
Chair: Barbara Fennell (Aberdeen)

Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen), The New Linguistic Imperial Order: English as an EU Lingua Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia?
Dónall Ó Riagáin, TBC

Session C: Irish Views on the Making of Union I
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Michael Brown

Breandán Mac Suibhne (Notre Dame) The Ghost of Former Days: John Gamble (1771–1831), Uniting and the Act of Union
Jonathan Wright (Queens University, Belfast), The Act of Union and the Political Development of Belfast Presbyterianism, c.1801-1832
Patrick M. Geoghegan (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘The text-book of my political career': Daniel O'Connell, Ireland, and the Union, 1782-1830

Session D: Crosscurrents - Scottish and Irish Film and Television
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Chair: Dan Wall (Aberdeen)

Cristina Serén Bouzas (Amergin Research Institute of Irish Studies, Spain), Irish and Scottish Cinema: Making and Unmaking Mythology of Cinema
Sally Baxter (Aberdeen), Neither Here nor There: Children and Orphans in the Films of Lynne Ramsay
Lindsay Milligan (Aberdeen), Where Have All the Lassies Gone?: An Examination of Proportionate Representation in Scotland’s Gaelic Television Programming

12.00-1.00: Lunch

James MacKay Hall

1.00-2.00: Plenary Lecture

Dan Mulhall (Irish European Office Director)
Chair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen)
King’s Conference Centre

2.30- 4.00: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Dialect
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: David Hewitt (Aberdeen)

Robert McColl Millar (Aberdeen), 'To bring my language near to the language of men'? Dialect and dialect use in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: some observations
Janet Cruickshank (Glasgow), The Move Towards Written Standard English in Eighteenth-Centry North East Scotland John Corbett (Glasgow), Scots Project at Glasgow

Session B: North America: The State of the Unions
KQF3: Carnegie Room
Chair: Rosalyn Trigger (Aberdeen)

James Kennedy (Edinburgh), ‘1867 and all that’: ‘Federalism’ in Britain and Canada
Quincy Lehr (Trinity College Dublin), The Persistence of Region in the United States: The Southern Question
Cairns Craig (Aberdeen), Irish, Scots and the California Secession

Session C: Irish Views on the Making of Union II
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen)

Richard Holmes (Bristol), James Arbuckle and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707
Alison Fitzgerald (NUI, Dublin), Survival of the Fittest: Selling Luxury Goods in Post-Union Ireland

Session D: Crosscurrents - Contemporary Irish and Scottish Poetry
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room

Megan Buckley (NUI, Galway), ‘The Visionary Place, the Obstructed Moment’: Meditations on the ‘Liminal’ in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Mary O’Malley
Val Nolan (NUI, Galway), The Reception of Contemporary Scottish Poetry in Ireland: The Case of Poetry Ireland Review
Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen), The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

4.30-6.00: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Edgeworth
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: David Hewitt (Aberdeen)


Jeremy Smith (Glasgow) Robert Burns's Linguistic Choices
Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen), Some Strange Creature: Representations of Irish Dialect in the Long Eighteenth Century
Barbara Fennell (Aberdeen), Maria Edgeworth’s Linguistic ChoicesDavid Hewitt (Aberdeen), The Politics of Dialect Use in Fiction in Scotland and Ireland 1750 - 1850: a Thesis and a Hypothesis

Session B: Law
KQF3: Carnegie Room
Chair: Elizabeth Macknight

Sean Donlan (Limerick), Arthur Browne’s Acts of Union
John Bergin (Queen’s University, Belfast), Irish Catholic Lawyer-Agents and Lawyer-Lobbyists at the Inns of Court in London, 1687–1797
Andrew Mackillop (Aberdeen), Scots Law and English Empire: Law and Identity in the Eastern British Empire, c.1700-1815

Session C: Break-Up of Britain
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Cairns Craig

Michael Gardiner (Aberdeen)
Gerry Hassan (Glasgow 2020)
John Osmond (Institute of Welsh Affairs)

Session D: Crosscurrents - Seamus Heaney
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Chair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

Sukanya Basu (Aberdeen), Learning from Eliot? Seamus Heaney and Exemplarity
María Elena Morado Sobrido (Amergin Research Institute of Irish Studies, Spain), Heaney slays the Linguistic Beowulf Monster
Ashley Lange (Aberdeen) Seamus Heaney and James Joyce

6.15- 7.15: Plenary Lecture

Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
'Taffy-land historians' and their own Union
Chair: Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen)
King’s Conference Centre

7.30: ISAI Dinner and Entertainment

Crynoch at Lairhillock
Book in Advance
Entertainment

7.30: Crosscurrents Reception

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies


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Sunday 9 September 2007

9.00-10.30: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Nationhood and Union, 1900-1939
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen)

Bob Purdie (Ruskin College, Oxford), ‘Croose London Scotties’:  Scottish Nationalists in London, Irish Nationalism and the Formation of the SNP
Marnie Hay (Trinity College Dublin), The 1907 Amalgamation of Sinn Féin:Unifying against the 1801 Union between Great Britain and Ireland
Margery Palmer McCulloch (Glasgow), Emigrating from North Britain: The importance of Little Magazines in the Interwar Movement for Scottish Renewal

Session B: Union and the National Tale
KQF3: Carnegie Room
Chair: Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen)

Aaron Clayton (Binghamton), Enunciating Difference: Sydney Owenson's (extra-) National Tale
Penelope Cole (Colorado, Boulder), The ‘ethno-symbolic reconstruction’ of Scotland: Joanna Baillie’s The Family Legend in Performance
Yuki Yoshino (Edinburgh), Writing the Borders: Faeries and Ambivalent National Identity in Andrew Lang’s The Gold of Fairnilee

Session C: Intellectual Unions
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen)

Gavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan), A death in Aberdeen is an unheard-of-career in itself’: The Intellectual Union of Adler’s Psychoanalysis with Scottish Ideas
Paul Shanks (Aberdeen), MacDiarmid and Beckett
David Clark (University of A Coruña, Spain), Between Corkery and Joyce: Irish Intellectuals and Scottish Writing 1924-1932

Session D: Crosscurrents - Northern Irish Literature I
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Chair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

Lynne Crook (Lancaster), Comedy in the Community: Confrontation in Mary Costello’s Titanic Town
Katherine Meffen (Aberdeen): Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark
Margaret Maxwell (Aberdeen), Atalkin’ to you’self’: R. D. Laing and The Divided Self in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!

11.00-12.30: Parallel Sessions

Session A: Crosscurrents - Migrations
KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room
Chair: Rosalyn Trigger (Aberdeen)

John Sherry (Ulster), ‘Weaklings Sucking at England’: A Re-assessment of Scottish Migration during the Plantation of Ulster
Robert McLaughlan (Glasgow), The Mission at Home – Dawn in the Districts
Katrin Urschel (NUI, Galway), Disrupted Identities: Irish Emigrant Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Session B: Crosscurrents - Northern Irish Literature II
KQF3: Carnegie Room
Chair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

Michela Dettori (Queen’s University, Belfast), Images of Children and Adolescents in Troubles Poetry
Daniel Smith (Aberdeen), Representing the Hunger Strike
Gavin T.A. Browne (Aberdeen): Louis MacNeice and Paul Muldoon

Session C: Crosscurrents - The Cultural History of Music
KQG3: Multimedia Room
Chair: Daniel Smith (Aberdeen)

Emily Cullen (NUI, Galway), Functions of the Harper Bard Trope in Textual Constructions of Irish and Scottish Identity
Sharon Phelan, De-Anglicizing Irish Dance: Disputing Identity

Session D: Crosscurrents - Constructions of Identity
KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Chair: Sukanya Basu (Aberdeen)

Andrea Redmond (Ulster), Irish Traveller Women’s Identity and the ‘Metaphysical Economy’
Helen O’Shea (Edinburgh), ‘Bloody Mavericks in ‘Never Never Land’? Irish Response to the Cyprus Question in the Context of British Decolonisation and UN Intervention
Aisling Macquarrie (Aberdeen), ‘From Bombay to Canton’: The Development of the NorthWest Company’s Trans-oceanic Activities

12.30-2.00: Lunch

James MacKay Hall

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