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ACIS-West 2018: The Human, the Non-Human, and the Posthuman in Irish StudiesOctober 11-13, 2018The Wort Hotel, Jackson Hole, WyomingSponsored by the University of Wyoming English Department, the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, the American Conference for Irish Studies, and the Consulate General of Ireland, San FranciscoConference Committee:Julia Obert, University of WyomingMatthew Spangler, San José State UniversitySarah Townsend, University of New MexicoDonna Potts, Washington State UniversityMatthew Reznicek, Creighton UniversityACIS-West Officers:President: Sarah Townsend, University of New MexicoSecretary-Treasurer: Donna Potts, Washington State UniversityConference Schedule:Thursday, October 114:00-5:30: Registration, upper lobby of Wort Hotel5:30-6:45: Opening Wine Reception (Jackson Room)Friday, October 128:00-11:00: Registration, upper lobby of Wort Hotel 8:00-1:00: Coffee available in Jackson Room8:30-10:00: Panel Sessions1A: The Old and the New in Literary Studies (Jackson Room)Chair: Kathryn Conrad (University of Kansas)Nolan Goetzinger (University of California, Riverside), “’Where do our ghosts live now?’: The West Across Contemporary Indigenous and Irish Poetry”Sarah Townsend (University of New Mexico), “What Was New About the New Irish?”Tiffany Hitesman (Boise State University), “Of Mary, Myth, Meryl, and Man: Motherhood as Performance in Colm Toibin’s A Testament of Mary”Ann Rea (University of Pittsburgh), “Importing the Middlebrow to Irish Literature”1B: ‘These’ Worlds and ‘Other’ Worlds: Exploring the Supernatural in Irish and Irish American Literature and Folklore (Goldpiece Room)Chair: E. Moore Quinn (College of Charleston) E. Moore Quinn (College of Charleston), “‘God is good and the Devil isn't Bad in His Own Way Either’: Countenancing the Supernatural in Irish American Folklore”Beth O’Leary Anish (Community College of Rhode Island), “Giving up the Ghost: Irish-American Assimilation as Loss of the Enchanted in Mary Doyle Curran’s The Parish and the Hill”Rachael Sealy Lynch (University of Connecticut), “Permeable Worlds of the Living and the Dead: Examining the Haunted in Jennifer Johnston’s Novels”1C: “Curry?My?Yogurt?Can Coca Coal Yer”: The Irish Language Act and the Collapse of Stormont (Clymer Room)Chair: Andrew Sanders (Texas A&M University San Antonio)Douglas Byrd (Portland Community College), “Dangerous Words: The Failures of the Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland and the Politics of Language in Modern Europe”Philis Barragan-Goetz (Texas A&M University San Antonio), “Bilingual Education in the Age of Progressivism: Escuelitas in Early Twentieth-Century Texas”Aaron Thornburg (Eastern Oregon University), “The 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language, 2010-2030: A Case for Political Discourse Analysis”Andrew Sanders (Texas A&M University San Antonio), “‘Sceimhlitheoireacht teanga’:?Escuelitas, Bunscoil, and the concept of?‘linguistic terrorism’”10-10:15: Break10:15-11:45: Panel Sessions2A: Poetic Ecologies (Jackson Room)Chair: Julia Obert (University of Wyoming)Peter O'Neill (University of Georgia), “Thomas Kinsella and the Poetics of Memory”Michelle Miles (Kennesaw State University), “‘Along the shoreline, sky-scapes’: Michael Longley and Poetry’s Biosphere”John Waters (New York University), “Searching for Paul Muldoon: Allusion and Poetics after Google”Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Appalachian State University), “‘As the hare fits / to its form’: Lagomorphs in Contemporary Irish Poetry”2B: Sound and Silence (Goldpiece Room)Chair: Eileen Kearney (University of Colorado Denver) Christie Fox (Westminster College), “Forgiveness and Silence in Leslie Daiken’s Short Fiction”Michael Booker (Aims Community College), “Claiming Sonic Space: The Evolution of Protestant Loyalist Ritual Parading in Ireland”Donna Potts (Washington State University), “‘The Harp that Once through Tara’s Halls’: Music in the M3 Motorway Protest”Kathleen Walkup (Mills College), “[Re]humanizing Lolly: A Case Study in Erasure”2C: Mediating Gender (Clymer Room)Chair: Anthony Bucher (Irish Literary & Historical Society of San Francisco)Miriam Mara (Arizona State University), “Posthuman Passive Men in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz”Erin Costello Wecker (University of Montana), “‘Did Your Granny Have a Hammer?’ Militants and Muses: Public Memory and the Irish Suffrage Movement”Sandra Barney (Lock Haven University), “Presenting a New Ireland through an Ancient Medium: Harry Clarke, An Túr Gloine, and Gender in the Portrayal of the Sacred and the Profane, 1900-1930”Elizabeth Hodges (New York University), “Inciting Discontent: A Study of Women’s Social Networking”11:45-12:00: Break12:00-1:00: Keynote 1, Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University), “My Love Affair with Irish Theatre” (Jackson Room)Charlotte Headrick and Eileen Kearney will be signing and selling copies of their book Irish Women Dramatists 1908-2001 (Syracuse UP 2014, 2018) following Charlotte’s talk (Jackson Room)1:00-2:30: Lunch (on your own)2:30-3:30: Why I Chose Irish Studies RoundtableParticipants: Donna Potts (Washington State University), Dave Emmons (University of Montana), & Michael Robinson (University of California, Riverside) (Jackson Room)3:30-3:45: Break3:45-5:15: Panel Sessions3A: Drama and Performance (Jackson Room)Chair: Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)Kellie Hughes (University College Dublin), “Staging Markievicz”Zan Cammack (Arizona State University), “The Abbey Theatre’s Irish Flapper”Maria Szasz (University of New Mexico), “The Devil’s in the Details: ‘Woman and Scarecrow’ and ‘The Seafarer’”3B: ‘Irishness’ in Architecture and Design (Goldpiece Room)Chair: Glen Gendzel (San José State University)Eileen Kearney (University of Colorado Denver), “Iconic ‘Aran Islands’ Knitting: The Mythology”Molly-Claire Gillett (Concordia University), “Home Charms: Unpacking the Irish Immigrant Woman’s Home Through Speculative Design”Bradley Kadel (Fayetteville State University), “The Adjacent Shebeen: Situating the Shebeen House Within the Landscape of Nineteenth Century Irish History”Anthony Bucher (Irish Literary & Historical Society of San Francisco), “Irish Residues in the Post-Human Landscape of Mission Dolores Graveyard”5:15-5:30: Break5:30-6:30: Keynote 2, Myles Dungan (RT? and University College Dublin), “The Alpha Male in Irish History” (Jackson Room)6:30-7:30: Book Launch Wine Reception, paperback version of Animals in Irish Literature & Culture (Palgrave), with editor and contributor Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Appalachian State University) and contributors Sarah Townsend (University of New Mexico) and Donna Potts (Washington State University) (Goldpiece Room) -> Copies of the book available from the Jackson Hole Book Trader, 970 W. Broadway 7:30: Dinner (on your own)Saturday, October 138:00-8:30: Coffee available in Jackson Room8:30-10:00: Panel Sessions4A: Questions of the Human in Joyce and Beckett (Jackson Room)Chair: Donna Potts (Washington State University)Peter Leman (Brigham Young University), “Samuel Beckett and the Legal Absurd”Richard Rankin Russell (Baylor University), “Humanizing Ulysses: The Good Samaritan Parable and Neighborliness”Michael Robinson (University of California, Riverside), “Tensions Between Human Desire and (Non-)Human Conformity in James Joyce’s Play, Exiles”Matthew Spangler (San José State University), “James Joyce’s Dubliners and Asylum-Seeking in Ireland” 4B: What Does it Mean to be Human? (Goldpiece Room)Chair: Kellie Hughes (University College Dublin)Kevin Gardner (Baylor University), “Jonathan Swift and the Posthuman”Michael Brillman (Santa Clara University),?“'One Man Betrayed with a Kiss:' Sir Roger Casement's Arrest, Trial, and Execution”Erin Abraham (University of Wyoming), “Saints & Slaves: People as Property in Early Medieval Ireland”Lawrence Eson (Independent Scholar, Denver, Colorado), “The Magic Cloak: Chastity and Female Honor in the Irish Fenian Cycle and Parallels in Medieval Welsh and Arthurian Literature”4C: Environments of Religion (Clymer Room)Chair: Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State University)John L. Murphy (Cogswell College), “Pope Francis Explains it All: Irish Responses to Laudato Si, the Environmental Encyclical”Irene Whelan (Manhattanville College), “Mannix and the Media: Archbishop Daniel Mannix and the Globalization of Irish Nationalism, 1917-25”Fergal MacHale (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Conflict Between the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation and the Catholic Hierarchy, 1956-1962: The Ballina Case”Caleb Richardson (University of New Mexico), “Localism and Southern Irish Protestants: Robert Smyllie’s Sligo”10-10:15: Break10:15-11:45: Panel Sessions5A: Into The Wild (Jackson Room)Chair: Sarah Townsend (University of New Mexico)Andrew Mara (Arizona State University), “Making Your Own Personal Irish Epic: Marketing the Wild Atlantic Way”Sandra Sprayberry (Birmingham-Southern College), “The Wild in W.B. Yeats’s ‘The Stolen Child’”Cherlyn Jones (Pacifica Graduate Institute), “The Fenian Brotherhood, Ecocriticism and the Politics of Sustainability: Learning from the Lands that Bore the Fenian Uprising”5B: The Cultural Politics of Place (Goldpiece Room)Chair: Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University)Laura Coffey Banks (University of New Mexico), “Teaching ‘Beyond the Famine’ to Help Students Shift their Urban Frame of Reference toward Agrarian Culture” Shaney Herrmann (Concordia University), "Seeping into Stones: Visual explorations of emotions in the short stories of Kevin Barry"Glen Gendzel (San José State University), “The Waterboys: How Two Irishmen Slaked the Thirst of Los Angeles and San Francisco”Ruby Harris-Gavin (New York University), “The Forests and Landscapes of Ireland: Historical Cultural Impact and What Their Decline Means for the Future”5C: Politics and Horror: Frights, Tyrants, and Degenerates (Clymer Room)Chair: Bradley Kadel (Fayetteville State University) Bryan McGovern (Kennesaw State University), “‘Tyrant or No Tyrant!’: Andrew Jackson and the Philadelphia Irish”Nick Harrington (Washington State University), “Heroes, Gods, and Degenerates: Perceptions of the 18th Century Volunteers”David Emmons (University of Montana), “The Great Green Scare, Wilson, Lloyd-George, and ‘Celtic Communism’”11:45-12:00: Break12:00-1:00: Keynote 3, Kathryn Conrad (University of Kansas), “The Politics of Posthumanism in Irish Studies” (Jackson Room)1:00-2:30: Lunch (on your own)2:30-4:00: Panel Sessions6A: Northern Ireland’s Humans and Non-Humans (Jackson Room)Chair: Richard Rankin Russell (Baylor University)Charles Andrews (Whitworth University), “Bloody Peaceable Kingdom: Animals and Anti-Violence in Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman and Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore”Brian McCabe (Claremont Graduate University), “‘A whale came to Belfast’: Dramatic Environments in the Context of the Troubles”Michael Williamson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Sectarian Bigotry and the Non-Human: James White’s Resistance to Fundamentalism in Underkill and the Sector General Novels”6B: Irish Contexts of Identity-Formation (Goldpiece Room)Chair: Matthew Spangler (San José State University)Adeline Davis (University of Tampa), “The Birth of New Identities”Kathleen Ochshorn (University of Tampa), “William Trevor’s Novel The Story of Lucy Gault: A Metaphoric Exploration of Anglo-Irish Identity”Kendall Sooter (San José State University), “Pseudo-Irish: An Auto-Ethnography and Qualitative Study of the Role of DNA Tests in the Formation of Identity”Maura McDonnell (New York University), “The Human at its Limit: Carceral Community in the War of Independence”4:00-4:15: Break4:15-4:45: Business Meeting (Goldpiece Room)4:45-5:45: Plenary Panel, “The Lost Children of Tuam and the Search for Historic Justice,” sponsored by the University of Wyoming College of Law (Jackson Room)Participants: Catriona Crowe (National Archives Ireland), Noah Novogrodsky (College of Law, University of Wyoming), Myles Dungan (RT? and University College Dublin)Moderated by Julia Obert and Matthew Spangler 5:45-6:45: Break6:45-8:15: Closing Banquet (Jackson Room)At the banquet, we will also give out the Donald E. Jordan, Jr.–Willard C. Potts, Jr. Award, which recognizes exceptional work by emerging scholars in Irish Studies. It is awarded annually to the ACIS-West member judged the most meritorious emerging scholar (current graduate students and scholars within three years of having received a PhD), and is accompanied by a $500 honorarium. The recipient is chosen by a committee of ACIS-West members appointed by the President. For more information about the award and the generous donors who have made it possible, see . 8:15 onwards: Merriment out & about in Jackson Hole Sunday, October 14No scheduled conference events—please go and enjoy Grand Teton and Yellowstone and/or wander around lovely Jackson Hole!Keynote/Plenary Speaker Bios:Kathryn Conrad is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Kansas. She? is? co-editor,? with? Cóilín? Parsons? and? Julie? McCormick? Weng,? and contributor to the forthcoming edited collection Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (Syracuse UP 2019). She is at work on a book project currently entitled Knowing Networks: Technology and the Matter of Irish Modernism, and has published on a range of subjects, from the writing of James Joyce to the ethics of contemporary technology. Catriona Crowe is former Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. She was Manager of the Census Online Project, which placed the Irish 1901 and 1911 censuses online free to access. She is editor of Dublin 1911, published by the Royal Irish Academy in late 2011. She presented the RTE documentary, Ireland before the Rising, which was shown in February 2016. She is Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute, which promotes and supports Irish theatre and has created an award-winning website of Irish theatre productions. She is an Honorary President of the Irish Labour History Society, and a former President of the Women’s History Association. She is Chairperson of the SAOL Project, a rehabilitation initiative for women with addiction problems, based in the North Inner City of Dublin, and also Chairperson of the Inner City Renewal Group, which delivers employment and welfare rights advice and support to the community in the North Inner City. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.Myles Dungan holds a PhD in History from Trinity College, Dublin, has won two Fulbright scholarships to the University of California Berkeley, has taught at the undergraduate level in TCD, UCD and Berkeley, and is the author of more than a dozen books on Irish and American history. Myles presents 'The History Show' and the weekly Drivetime 'On This Day' column on RTE Radio 1. He is also a former, and an aspiring, crime novelist.Charlotte J. Headrick is a professor emerita of Theatre Arts at Oregon State University. A past president of ACIS-West, she has directed numerous premieres and productions of Irish plays all over the United States. Having directed and acted in more than one hundred productions, she is widely published in the field of Irish drama. A former Moore Visiting Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway, she is co-editor along with Eileen Kearney of Irish Women Dramatists 1908-2001 (2014, 2018 Syracuse University Press). She is an award-winning teacher at both Young Harris College in Georgia and Oregon State University. Her last Irish role was Rima in Frank McGuinness’s Dolly West Kitchen and in 2014, she directed the American Premiere of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Noah Novogrodsky is the Carl Williams Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Wyoming College of Law. He teaches International Human Rights, Immigration Law, Civil Procedure and International Law. He is a scholar of Transitional Justice and has written extensively about accountability for mass crimes in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Argentina and Cambodia. Things to Do In & Around Jackson Hole:Restaurants & BarsPersephone Bakery: breakfast & brunch, 145 E. BroadwayBin 22: tapas/wine bar, 200 W. BroadwayLotus Organic Restaurant & Bakery: new American + vegan/vegetarian, 140 N. CacheGather: new American/wine bar, 72 S. GlenwoodLiberty Burger: 160 N. Cache Snake River Brewery/Grill: microbrews, burgers, pizza, 265 S. MillwardKing Sushi: 75 King St.Wild Sage: fancy splash-out dinner in the Rusty Parrot Lodge, 175 N. JacksonThe Rose: cocktail bar + small plates, 50 W. BroadwaySights & ActivitiesGrand Teton National Park () Yellowstone National Park () (Companies officially licensed to conduct guided tours by bus, car, bicycle, and horse in Yellowstone can be found here, along with a list of fishing and hiking outfitters: .) Jackson Hole Mountain Resort () Snow King Mountain Resort () National Elk Refuge () National Museum of Wildlife Art () Jackson Hole Center for the Arts () Trail Rides () Teton County Fair () Bookshops: Valley Book Store, 125 N. Cache St.; Jackson Hole Book Trader, 970 W. Broadway Index of Participants:Abraham, Erin (University of Wyoming) 4BAndrews, Charles (Whitworth University) 6AAnish, Beth O’Leary (Community College of Rhode Island) 1BBanks, Laura Coffey (University of New Mexico) 5BBarney, Sandra (Lock Haven University) 2CBarragan-Goetz, Philis (Texas A&M University San Antonio) 1CBooker, Michael (Aims Community College) 2BBrillman, Michael (Santa Clara University) 4BBucher, Anthony (Irish Literary & Historical Society of San Francisco) 2C, 3BByrd, Douglas (Portland Community College) 1CCammack, Zan (Concordia University) 3AConrad, Kathryn (University of Kansas) 1A, Keynote 3Crowe, Catriona (National Archives Ireland) Plenary PanelDavis, Adeline (University of Tampa) 6BDungan, Myles (RT? and University College Dublin) Keynote 2, Plenary PanelEmmons, Dave (University of Montana) Roundtable, 5CEson, Lawrence (Independent Scholar, Denver, Colorado) 4B Fox, Christie (Westminster College) 2BGardner, Kevin (Baylor University) 4BGendzel, Glen (San José State University) 3B, 5CGillett, Molly-Claire (Concordia University) 3BGoetzinger, Nolan (University of California, Riverside) 1AHarrington, Nick (Washington State University) 5CHarris-Gavin, Ruby (New York University) 5BHeadrick, Charlotte (Oregon State University) Keynote 1, 5BHerrmann, Shaney (Concordia University) 5BHitesman, Tiffany (Boise State University) 1AHodges, Elizabeth (New York University) 2CHughes, Kellie (University College Dublin) 3A, 4BJones, Cherlyn (Pacifica Graduate Institute) 5AKadel, Bradley (Fayetteville State University) 3B, 5CKearney, Eileen (University of Colorado Denver) 2B, 3BKirkpatrick, Kathryn (Appalachian State University) Book Launch, 5ALeman, Peter (Brigham Young University) 3A, 4ALynch, Rachael Sealy (University of Connecticut) 1BMacHale, Fergal (National University of Ireland, Galway) 4CMara, Andrew (Arizona State University) 5AMara, Miriam (Arizona State University) 2CMcCabe, Brian (Claremont Graduate University) 6AMcDonnell, Maura (New York University) 6BMcGovern, Bryan (Kennesaw State University) 5CMiles, Michelle (Kennesaw State University) 2AMurphy, John L. (Cogswell College) 4CNovogrodsky, Noah (College of Law, University of Wyoming) Plenary PanelO'Neill, Peter (University of Georgia) 2AObert, Julia (University of Wyoming) 2A, Plenary PanelOchshorn, Kathleen (University of Tampa) 6BPotts, Donna (Washington State University) 2B, 4A, Roundtable, Book Launch Quinn, E. Moore (College of Charleston) 1BRea, Ann (University of Pittsburgh) 1ARichardson, Caleb (University of New Mexico) 1C, 4CRobinson, Michael (University of California, Riverside) Roundtable, 4ARussell, Richard Rankin (Baylor University) 4A, 6ASanders, Andrew (Texas A&M University San Antonio) 1CSooter, Kendall (San José State University) 6BSpangler, Matthew (San José State University) 4A, 6B, Plenary PanelSprayberry, Sandra (Birmingham-Southern College) 2AStover, Justin Dolan (Idaho State University) 4CSzasz, Maria (University of New Mexico) 3AThornburg, Aaron (Eastern Oregon University) 1CTownsend, Sarah (University of New Mexico) 1A, Book Launch, 5AWalkup, Kathleen (Mills College) 2BWaters, John (New York University)2AWecker, Erin Costello (University of Montana 2CWhelan, Irene (Manhattanville College) 4CWilliamson, Michael (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) 6A ................
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