Conférence : "Ireland, Landscapes", Nantes, 12-13/03/10

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FRENCH SOCIETY FOR IRISH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

IRELAND : LANDSCAPES

Université de Nantes – Centre International des Langues 12-13 March 2010

Organizer : Marie Mianowski



FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening address Room 410

9:30-11:15 Panel sessions

PANEL 1.A. LANDSCAPES OF FAMINE AND EXILE Room 410

Chair: Wesley Hutchinson

9:30am: Jose Manuel Estevez-Saa: Landscapes of Famine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry, University of A Coruña (Spain)

10:00am: Anne-Catherine Lobo : Political uses of the picturesque: describing pre-Famine Ireland, Université de Caen

10 :30am: Hanae Berrezoug: Landscape, Heritage and Nationalism : Bridging the Gap Between Ireland and Irish Exiles in Rambles in Eirinn, by William Bulfin, Université Dr. Moulay Tahar, Saida (Algeria)

COFFEE BREAK

11 :15am : Amélie Dochy: The Irish landscape in British representations 1840-1922, Université de Toulouse

11 :45am : Gaïd Girard: Esthetic consensus revisited in Le Fanu’s gothic landscapes, HCTI/CEIMA, UBO, Brest

PANEL 1.B. CHANGING LANDSCAPES Room 412

Chair: Marie-Claire Considere-Charon,

9:30am: Véronique Guibert de la Vaissière : Irlande au corps de femme.

10:00am: Philippe Brillet : Cultural Geography in Ireland today, Université de Toulouse

10 :30am: Marie-Jeanne Da Col Richert : Paysages changeants en Irlande et évolution du rôle et du statut des femmes dans la société, Université de Strasbourg

COFFEE BREAK

11 :15am : Karen Foley: Tourism and the changing Irish landscape, School of Architecture Landscape and Civil Engineering University College Dublin

11:45am : Claire Portal: Landforms, landscapes and geomorphological heritage of Killarney National Park (Kerry, Ireland): a first inventory of Irish ‘geomorphosites’, Université de Nantes



PANEL 1.C. NARRATING LANDSCAPE Room 446

Chair : Sylvie Nail

9:30 am: Helen Maulion: Open pathways: walking and narrating the Irish landscape, Université de Nantes

10:00am: Nessa Cronin: Lived and learned geographies: literary landscapes and the Irish topographical tradition, University of Galway

10 :30am: Vanina Jobert-Martini: A Sense of place in That they May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern, Université Lyon III

COFFEE BREAK

11:15am : Frédéric Barbe : Aran, la langue, le milieu et l'horizon - paysages performatifs de John Millington Synge et Robert Joseph Flaherty, Université de Nantes

11:45am : Nathalie Caradec: De Bretagne en Irlande, Enssat Lannion - Rennes 1


12:00 Plenary address- Room 410: Terry Stewart, Vice President of the Irish Institute for European Affairs

12:45 Lunch : Room 446

FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH

2 pm-3:30 pm

Plenary session, room 410: Navigating the Politics of Irish Landscape: New Readings, New Directions

Chair: Karine Bigand

Philippe Cauvet: Natural landscape vs the wishes of inhabitants : Irish nationalism and the question of territory before partition, MIMMOC Université de Poitiers

Cathal McCall: The Irish Border as a cultural landscape, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University

Mathew Staunton: Monumental Landscapes: riding the boundaries of an independent Ireland with the early Sinn Féin movement, ENSAD, Paris III

Gerry Cahill: The Altered Edge: the impact of the construction boom on the landscape of the urban periphery, UCD School of Architecture/Gerry Cahill Architects


3:30 pm Coffee Break, salle du Conseil


PANEL 2.A. LANDSCAPE VALUES AND PLANNING – Room 410

Chair: Grainne O’Keeffe

3:45 pm: Marcus Collier: Attitudes and values in Irish peatland landscapes, University College Dublin

4:15 pm: Karen Ray & Brendan O’Sullivan The Metropolitan Cork Green belt: synergies and tensions between strategic and local understandings of landscape value, University of Cork

COFFEE BREAK

5:00 pm Dominique Seve: Country planning and the Irish economy, Université du Havre

5:30 pm Marie-Claire Considere-Charon: Rural development in the border areas, from borderscaping to crossborder planning, Université de Strasbourg


PANEL 2.B. LANDSCAPE AND ART- Room 412

Chair: Anne Goarzin

3:45 pm: Paula Murphy: Sculpture in the Irish landscape, School of Art History, University College Dublin

4:15 pm: Yvonne Scott: The Renaissance of the Forest in Irish Contemporary Art, TRIARC, Trinity College Dublin

COFFEE BREAK

5:00 pm: Catherine Grout: The geography of the place » Willie Doherty, ENSAP , Lille

5:30 pm: Daithi Kearney: Seeing sounds of the past: Monuments to musicians in the Irish landscape, University College, Cork


PANEL 2.C. LANDSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES- Room 446

Chair: Martine Pelletier

3:45 pm: Hedwig Schwall : Brian Friel’s The Home Place, K.U. Leuven, Belgique.

4:15 pm: Helen Lojek : The Dramatic Landscapes of Brian Friel and Conor McPherson, Boise University, Idaho, USA.

COFFEE BREAK

5:00 pm: Christelle Seree-Chaussinand: Derek Mahon’s seascapes, Université de Bourgogne

5:30 pm: Laury-Nuria André : Des géographes antiques au périple des Argonautes: l'île d'Ierné, un paysage insulaire entre deux mondes, ENS LSH & Paris X Nanterre


6:30 pm Cocktail at Nantes City Hall (Hôtel de Ville)



8:30 pm Dinner at Le Bistrot de l’Ecrivain, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau


SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH

Centre International des Langues


8:30 am-9:30 am SOFEIR General Assembly, room 410

9:30 am- 10:30 am: PLENARY ADDRESS, room 410:

Malachi O’DOHERTY:

The city of Belfast as the contested space of paramilitaries and
government

10:30 am-10:45 am Coffee Break Salle du Conseil


PANEL 3.A. URBAN LANDSCAPE- Room 412

Chair: Gaid Girard

10:45 am: Emile-Jean Dumay: Ballymun dans l’oeuvre dramatique de Dermot Bolger : Au-delà du paysage urbain, Traducteur

11:15 am: Sylvie Mikowski: Landcapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann’s novels, Université de Reims

11:45 am: Fiona McCann: From Derry to Dublin: Apocalyptic cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly, Université de Lille 3.

12:15 am: David Clark: Green, Black and Grey: Urban Landscape in Recent Irish Crime Fiction, Universidade da Coruña, Spain.


PANEL 3.B. BELFAST- Room 446

Chair : Jean Guiffan

10:45 am: Stephanie Schwerter : Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

11:15 am: Agnès Maillot: The Landscape of sectarianism, University College, Dublin.

11:45 am: Hélène Alfaro Transforming the City : the stakes of « artistic and cultural landscaping » in post-conflict Belfast, Paris XII

12:15 am: Christian Giriat et Catherine Crochet : La ville aveugle, Metteur en scène et chorégraphe, artistes en résidence à Belfast


PANEL 3.C WITTGENSTEIN’S IRISH LANDSCAPES- Room 410

Chair: Hedwig Schwall

10:45 am: Catherine Conan: Les jardins de Wittgenstein dans Shamrock Tea de Ciaran Carson, Université de Brest

11:15 am: Flore Coulouma: Changing landscapes: Wittgenstein and The Third Policeman, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre

11:45 am: Cliona Ni Riordain : The Language of the Landscape: Wittgenstein and the poetry of Sean Dunne, Université Paris III.

12:15 am: Carle Bonafous-Murat : On the way from A to Z': Wittgenstein, la lettre et le chemin, Université Paris III


12:30 Lunch at the Centre International des Langues – Room 442



SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH

Centre International des Langues



2pm- 3:00 pm: PLENARY ADDRESS- Room 410:

Frank McDonald, Environment Editor of The Irish Times: The effects of the boom on the Irish landscape

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break, Salle du Conseil

PANEL 4.A. LANDSCAPES AND SEASCAPES IN POETRY- Room 410

Chair: Cliona Ni Riordain

3:45 pm: Caitriona O’Reilly, Representations of landscape in the works of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Vona Groarke and Medbh McGuckian, Poet, Trinity College Dublin

4:15 pm: José-Miguel Alonso-Giraldez: Landscape and Identity in Bernard O’Donoghue and Paddy Bushe’s Poetry, University of A Coruna, Spain.

4:45 pm: Joanna Kruczkowska: Seascape in contemporary Irish and Greek poetry, University of Lodz, Poland


PANEL 4.B ECOCRITICISM-

Room 412

Chair: Carle Bonafous-Murat

3:45 pm: Maureen O’Connor: The Mythopoetic Landscape in George Egerton’s Fiction, St Mary Immaculate College Limerick

4:15 pm: Margarita Estevez-Saa: James Joyce’s Ecological Landscapes, University of Santiago de Compostela

4:45 pm: Julia Kathy Grosu: Prendergast: A Personal Geography of the Female Body, Université de Limoges

PANEL 4.C THE METAMORPHOSES OF LANDSCAPE- Room 446

Chair: Sylvie Mikowski

3:45 pm: Thierry Robin: Horizons étranges dans The Third Policeman de Flann O'Brien, Université de Brest.

4:15 pm: Mohammad Reza Ghorbanyan: Unheimlich: the Uncanny Landscape in Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist, Université de Caen

4:45 pm: Jean Mercereau : Idealizing landscapes: de Valera’s Ireland and Salazar’s Portugal

Universidade do Minho & Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal)

PANEL 4.D. THE WORDS OF LANDSCAPE – Room 609

Chair: Flore Coulouma

3:45 pm: Jackie Whelan: Standardising terminology for landscape categorisation – an agri-environment perspective, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin

4:15 pm : James McCabe: Language and Landscapes of Ireland, Université de Paris Ouest, Nanterre-La Défense

4:45 pm: Fionn Bennett : Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language:

Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Ireland, Université de Reims

5:45 pm: Conference closure

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