III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES: PROGRAMME

 

THURSDAY, 29 th MAY 2003

 

9:00-9:30  Welcome and registration

 

9:30-11:30   “GARRUCHA” ROOM                                             

CHAIR:  Inés Praga Terente (Univ. de Burgos)

Munira Hamud Mutran (Univ. de São Paulo, Brazil): “Different Ways to Apprehend Landscape”

John McDonagh (Univ. of Limerick, IRL.): “The Unexpected Gods Make Possible” Translating the Cultural Coda in Brendan Kenelly’s Medea”                                

Noreen Doody (Dublin City Univ., IRL): “Oscar Wilde: Landscape, Memory and Imagined Space”

Beatriz Villacañas Palomo (Univ. Complutense de Madrid): “John B. Keane: From the Field to the Landscape of Tragedy”

               

9:30-11:30  “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR: José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez (Univ. de Almería)

Pilar Villar Argáiz (Univ. de Granada): “Evolution in the Perception of the Irish Landscape in Eavan Boland’s Poetry: From a Romantic Pilgrimage to a World of Constellations and Suburbs”

Cristina María Gámez Fernández (Univ. de Córdoba): “‘I Always Knew There Was No Orpheus in Ireland’: Irish Landscapes in Eavan Boland’s Against Love Poetry

Ríóna Ní Fhrighil (St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin, IRL.): “The Vision of the Land; Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Rewrite the Landscape”.

Karen Bennett (Univ. Católica Portuguesa, Viseu, PORT): “Remapping  Hades: Eavan Boland and Ciaran Carson in the No-Go Zone”

 

11:30-12:00  BREAK

 

12:00  OFFICIAL OPENING: “GARRUCHA” ROOM

 

12:30 PLENARY LECTURE:  “GARRUCHA” ROOM

Francisco García Tortosa (Univ. de Sevilla):  “Los orígenes de la poesía de Seamus Heaney”

 

13:30 RECEPTION and buffet lunch hosted BY THE EMBASSY OF IRELAND

 

16:00-17:30  “GARRUCHA” ROOM

CHAIR: Silvia Díez Fabre (Univ. de Burgos)

Mª José Claros Morales (Univ. de Alcalá): “Seamus Heany and Joseph Conrad: Composers in the Heart of Darkness”          

Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas (Univ. de Granada): “Ireland’s Landscape and the Work of Seamus Heaney”

Félix Oviedo Moral (Univ. de Sevilla): “Seamus Heaney and R. S. Thomas: Paternity and Alterity through Rural British Landscape”

 

16:00-17:30  “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR:  Blasina Cantizano Márquez (Univ. de Almería)

Alfred Markey (Univ. de León): “A Dreary Eden?: Landscape in the Work of Sean O’Faolain”

Eibhear Walshe (Univ. of Cork, IRL.): “Austere Landscapes: Spain and Ireland in Kate O’Brien’s Imagined Territories”

Rosana Herrero Martín (Univ. de Salamanca): “The Scaffoldings of Frank McGuinness’ Theatre: Space, Self & Narration in Baglady (1985) and Someone Who’ll Watch over me (1992)”               

 

 17:30-18:00  BREAK

 

18:00-19:30 “GARRUCHA” ROOM             

CHAIR:  José Manuel Estévez Saá  (Univ. de Sevilla)

Alberto Zambrana Ramírez  (Univ. de Sevilla): “Constructing a Landscape: Allusions to Ireland in Samuel Pepy’s Diary (1660-1669)”

Juana Bandó Domínguez (Univ. de Huelva): “’Holyhead’ y ‘Ireland’: El paisaje irlandés en la poesía satírica de Jonathan Swift”

Tamara Benito de la Iglesia (Univ. de Alcalá): “El paisaje (nor)irlandés a través del sacrificio: Lamb, de Bernard Mac Laverty”

 

18:00-19:30 “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR:  Leonardo Pérez García  (Univ. de Burgos)

Blasina Cantizano Márquez (Univ. de Almería): “Irish Landscapes through Irish Music: Examples from U2 and the Cranberries”

David Pierce (York St John College, UK.): “Black Refills: The Afterlife of Literature”

Ronan Lynch (NUI Galway, IRL.): “A Contested Landscape in the Irish Imagination: Knockma in Myth and Reality”

 

20:00 GUIDED VISIT TO THE ALCAZABA  & CONCERT BY SENSI FALÁN

 

22:00 DINNER AT “MUSEO DEL ACEITE”

 

FRIDAY, 30th MAY 2003

 

9:30-11:00  “GARRUCHA” ROOM                                             

CHAIR:  Margarita Estévez Saá (Univ. de Santiago de Compostela)                                                                    

Marisol Morales Ladrón (Univ. de Alcalá): “Soliloquio femenino y violencia doméstica en The Woman Who Walked into Doors de Roddy Doyle”

Auxiliadora Pérez Vides (Univ. de Huelva): “Scandalous Landscapes: Portraits of Abjected Maternity in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction”

María Ángeles Pozo Montaño (Univ. de Sevilla): “The Country Girl in a Pagan Place: Edna O’Brien and her Recollections of the West of Ireland”

 

9:30-11:00  “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR:  Rosa González Casademont  (Univ. de Barcelona)

Luz Mar González Árias (Univ. de Oviedo): “‘Spelt Out in Brick and Mortar’: Re/imagining the Cityscapes in the Poetry of Paula Meehan”

Carlos Menéndez Otero (Univ. de Oviedo): “Márgenes y centro en la representación del paisaje irlandés”

Maurice O’Connor (Univ. de Cádiz): “Cultural Essentialism: The Ambivalent Place of Resistance”

 

11:00-11:30 BREAK

 

11:30-13:30  “GARRUCHA” ROOM                           

CHAIR: José Francisco Fernández Sánchez (Univ. de Almería)

Ian MacCandless (Univ. de Granada): “Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde: Companions in the Impossible”            

José Manuel Estévez Saá (Univ. de Sevilla): “Alienated Landscapes: Sean O’Reilly’s Curfew and Other Stories”    

Carlos Villar Flor (Univ. de La Rioja): “Landscapes and Shadowlands: A Look at C.S. Lewis's Irishness? ”

Juan Francisco Elices Agudo (U.N.E.D): “Demystifying Irish History in Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry”         

 

11:30-13:30  “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR: Patricia Trainor (Univ. de Málaga)

Jean Mercereau (Institut Piaget, PORT): “The Changing Landscape of the Press in Ireland: The Growing Influence of  British Newspapers in the Republic of Ireland Since 1995”

Christian Mailhes (Univ. de Toulouse 1, FR): “A New Skyline for Northern Ireland: The Human Rights Dimension”

Karen Holland (Province College, Rhode Isl. USA): “Widowhood in the Mental Landscape of Sixteenth Century Ireland”

Mª Yolanda Fernández (Univ. de Burgos): “The Hedge School and its Landscapes”

 

 

11:30-13:30  “MILLARES” ROOM

CHAIR:  Carlos Villar Flor  (Univ. de La Rioja)

Asier Altuna García de Salazar (Univ. de Deusto): “Miss Alicia Le Fanu’s Don Juan de las Sierras, or, El Empecinado: Land, Territory and Soil. Irish National Uprisings Through the Spanish  Place”

Manuela Palacios González y Carmen Ríos Fernández  (Univ. de Santiago de Compostela): “Galician and Irish Landscapes in the 1920s: New Hopes for the Regeneration of Atlantic Communities”

Óscar Recio Morales (Trinity College Dublin, IRL.): “Mítica Hibernia e Irlanda Real: Imágenes fabulosas y reales sobre Irlanda y sus habitantes en la España Moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII)”

José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez (Univ. de Almería): “Dubliners de James Joyce y La voluntad de ‘Azorín’: Algunas concomitancias intertextuales”

 

15:30-17:30  “GARRUCHA” ROOM                           

CHAIR:  Mª Elena Jaime de Pablos (Univ. de Almería)              

Patricia Trainor (Univ. de Málaga): “Station Island Revisited”

Margarita Estévez Saá (Univ. de Santiago de Compostela): “Changing Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Irish Poetry”         

Rui Carvalho Homen (Univ. do Porto, PORT.): “‘Out to an Other Side’: Inscapes of Liminality in some Recent Irish Poetry”

Patricia Oliveira Da Silva Mcneill (King’s College London, UK.): “‘Heimlich’ and ‘Unheimlich’: Interior Landscapes in the Post-symbolist Poems of W. B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa”

 

15:30-17:30  “AGUADULCE” ROOM                         

CHAIR: Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas (Univ. de Granada)

Constanza del Río Álvaro (Univ. de Zaragoza): “Urban Imagescapes: The City of Belfast in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man

Karen Yanuba Lezama Morales (Univ. de Burgos): “The Landscape of Violence in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man

Chiara Lucarelli (Univ. College Dublin, IRL): “John McGahern’s ‘That they May Face the Rising Sun’: Landscape as a Bonding and Symbolic Element of  Rural Society”

Mª Luisa Vega Fernández (Univ. Complutense de Madrid): “Scotland’s Ambivalent Response to the 1859 Irish Brethren”

 

17:30-18:00 BREAK

 

18:00-19:00   “GARRUCHA” ROOM                          

CHAIR: Luz Mar González Árias (Univ. de Oviedo)

Mª Ángeles Conde (Univ. Pablo de Olavide): “Daedalian Dialectics: A Portrait of the Colony by James Joyce”

Enrico Terrinoni (Univ. College Dublin, IRL.): “Joyce and the

Hermetic Mind: An Occult outlook”              

 

18:00-19:00  “AGUADULCE” ROOM

CHAIR:  Mª Elena García Sánchez (Univ. de Almería)

Mª Amor Barros del Río (Univ. de Burgos): “Are Irish Mothers Fading Away?”

Mª del Mar González Chacón (Univ. de Oviedo): “Senses and Places: Marina Carr’s Feminine Characters”

 

18:00-19:00  “MILLARES” ROOM

CHAIR:  Nobel Augusto Perdu Honeyman (Univ. de Almería)

Caoimhghin O’Croidheain (Dublin City Univ., IRL): “Language and Landscape: Translating History”       

David Barnwell (Linguistics Institute of Ireland): “Matthias O’Conway: Lexicographer of Spanish and Irish”

 

19:00-20:00  PLENARY LECTURE: “GARRUCHA” ROOM

Roy Foster (Oxford Univ.): “Politics and Literature in Ireland: the Uncomfortable Inheritance of Yeats”

 

20:30 AEDEI GENERAL ASSEMBLY: “GARRUCHA” ROOM

 

22:00 DINNER AT “MALIBÚ PUERTO” RESTAURANT (THE AGUADULCE MARINA)

 

SATURDAY, 31st  MAY 2003

 

10:00-11:00 PLENARY LECTURE: “AGUADULCE” ROOM

Dermot Bolger: “An Irish Writer’s Life: a Conversation with Dermot Bolger”

 

11:00  OFFICIAL CLOSING: “AGUADULCE” ROOM

 

11:15-14:00 GUIDED BUS TOUR OF CABO DE GATA