ACIS Conference: De-Hibernicizing Irish Studies
Friday, October 13, 2023 - Sunday, October 15, 2023 | Connolly House | Boston College | Registration
Please note that this conference will only be available to attend in person and will not be streamed online.
The 2023 ACIS New England & Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference will take place at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA on October 13-15.
The theme for the conference is 'De-Hibernicizing Irish Studies'. Whereas the Irish Revival, asadvocated by Douglas Hyde, was driven by an introspective ‘necessity for de-Anglicizing Ireland’, it is now timely for Irish Studies to focus on how Ireland and Irish diasporas relate toglobal/international issues of current relevance. We welcome submissions from any academicfield or time period addressing the theme. We would like to specifically highlight topics of race,migration, environment, reproductive rights, and geopolitics as the conference intends to explorethe implications of such currently relevant issues for redefining Irishness.
As part of our initiative to update Irish Studies, this double-regional ACIS will experiment with 'unconference' formats in which participants will present their work in a variety of interactivesessions. We hope that these more flexible and participant-oriented formats will create a spacefor more in-depth discussion, greater peer collaboration, and increased cross-disciplinaryconversations. We encourage participants to consider presenting their work in these sessions, which will be allotted the same weight as ‘traditional’ conference presentations. We also urgeparticipants at every academic stage to consider engaging with an ‘unconference’ format – noprevious experience with such format is necessary. The planning committee will facilitate organizing and explaining all ‘unconference’ formatting to participants. To get a general idea inadvance, you can visit this site for information and examples on 'unconference' formats.
Note registration deadline is October 1, 2023.
Any registration after October 1 will include a $20 late fee.
Schedule and RegistrationFriday, October 13, 2023 | Multiple Locations | Please register to attend | |
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3:00-5:00 PM | Registration | Connolly House |
5:00-5:30 PM | Opening Remarks | Burns Library
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5:30-6:30 PM | Interactive Book Event | Burns LibraryThe Irish Revival: A Complex Vision, edited by Joseph Valente and Marjorie Howes |
6:30-8:00 PM | Opening Reception | Burns Library |
Saturday, October 14, 2023 | Multiple Locations | Please register to attend | |
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9:00-9:30 AM | Breakfast | Stokes South
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9:30-11:00 AM | Panel 1 | Stokes South
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11:20 AM-12:20 PM | Panel 2 | Stokes South
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12:20-1:40 PM | Lunch | Stokes South
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1:40-3:10 PM | Panel 3 | Stokes South
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3:30-4:30 PM | Panel 4 | Stokes South
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5:15-6:30 PM | Keynote | Stokes S195
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6:30-8:30 PM | Conference Dinner | Gasson 100 |
Sunday, October 15, 2023 | Stokes South | Please register to attend | |
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9:00-9:45 AM | Breakfast | Stokes South
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9:45-11:15 AM | Panel 5, 9:45-11:15 am, Stokes South
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11:45-1:00 PM | Keynote | Stokes S195
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1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch | Stokes South
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Speakers
Dr Zélie Asava
Dr Zélie Asava is a specialist in questions of race, gender, screen studies and visual culture. She is the author of The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Peter Lang, 2013) and Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Bloomsbury, 2017), and co-editor of a Special Issue of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on black and ethnic minority representation (2022). She has held teaching and research positions at University College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology (where she was Programme Director of the BA in Film Production and the BA in Creative Multimedia), as well as at Trinity College Dublin and Dún Laoghaire’s Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She sits on the Boards of Screen Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, the journal French Screen Studies, Catalyst International Film Festival and the arts magazine Unapologetic, works for the Irish Film Classification Office and is a member of the European Commission’s ‘Capital of Culture’ panel of experts.
Malcolm Sen
Malcolm Sen is associate professor in the Department of English. His work focuses on the role of non-STEM disciplines in confronting the multi-scalar challenges of the climate crisis. His research is especially focused on the changing nature of political governance, at local, national, and international levels because of climate pressures. He is also a scholar of race politics and is interested in the transforming landscape of violence, warfare, and migrancy in the twenty-first century. He directs the Environmental Humanities Specialization in the Department of English and leads the Environmental Humanities Initiative at UMass Amherst.
He is the editor (with Lucienne Loh) of Postcolonial Studies and Challenges of the New Millennium (Routledge, 2016). He is the editor of The History of Irish Literature and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Race in Irish Literature and Culture (with Julie McCormick Weng) to be published by Cambridge University Press in January 2024. Sen’s monograph Unnatural Disasters: Irish Literature, Climate Change and Sovereignty is under review.
Recent articles include “An Ordinary Crisis: Covid-19 and Irish Studies” in Mike Cronin et al., Eds., A Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge, 2021);“Sovereignty at the Margins: The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern,” in Barbara Haberkamp-Schmidt, Ed., Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World (Amsterdam: Brill, 2022); “Joyce and Race in the Twenty-First Century” in Catherine Flynn, Ed., The New Joyce Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
His forthcoming essay “Climate Wars in the Anthropocene: Migrant Lives and Militarized Statehood,” will be published in Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff, and Treasa DeLoughrey, Eds., Routledge Companion on Literature and the Environment (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).
Hotel, Campus Map and Parking
Accommodation:
The AC Hotel Boston Cleveland Circle has set aside a discounted block of rooms for conference participants.
You must register before September 27 in order to receive the discounted rate.
Campus Map and Parking:
Parking is available at the nearby Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue Garages.
Boston College is also accessible via public transportation (MBTA B Line - Boston College).
Boston College strongly encourages conference participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccination before attending events on campus.