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CLAI Annual General Meeting, Research Workshop, Symposium:
GENDER AND IDENTITY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
FINAL PROGRAMME

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND

Third Annual Postgraduate Symposium : Gender and Identity in Comparative Literature

Organisers: Dr Michael G Kelly and Dr Marieke Krajenbrink

UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK - Friday 26 – Saturday 27 November 2010

Friday 26 November 2010
14.30-16.00	Registration and Welcome, Venue: Wood Room, Plassey House Formal opening at 3.00pm (Prof Jane Edwards, Assistant Dean of Research, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UL )
15.15-16.45	PARALLEL SESSION I, PLASSEY HOUSE
Session 1: Comparative cultural memory Chair: Venue: Wood Room, Plassey House	Session 2: Queer comparisons Chair: Dr David Coughlan, UL Venue: Board Room, Plassey House
Aisling O'Connor (UL) Contemporary Women's Writing and Cultural Memory: The Spanish Context. David Conlon (NUIG) Irish Blood, Cuban Heart: Cultural Memory and Change in the Stories of Rodolfo Walsh. Evelyn Glynn (LSAD) ‘Left Holding the Baby' (Limerick's Magdalen Laundry)	Jana Bedaňová (Independent Scholar). Trees, Trolls, Robots and Other Species: Construction of Queer Identities in Contemporary Literature Jack Fennell (UL) Ersatz Men and Queers from Outer Space: Nationalist and Unionist Masculinities of the Nineteenth Century Kerstin Fest (UCC) Finding a Place: Sexuality and Nation in Christa Winsloe and Radclyffe Hall
17.00-18.00 Symposium Keynote Lecture	Chair: Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, UL Venue: LCB009, Languages Building Professor Ann Rigney (Utrecht University): Memory, Identity, Ambivalence; or, Why Ivanhoe Survived
18.00-19.00	Wine Reception Staff Common Room, Millstream Building

Saturday 27 November 2010
09.30-11.30	PARALLEL SESSIONS II, MAIN BUILDING
Session 3: Identity construction worldwide. Chair:                                                        Venue: Main Building, CG055	Session 4: Fictional contexts. Chair: Venue: Main Building, CG057
Neslihan Demirkol Sonmez (Bilkent University). Gender and Identity of Woman in Tuhaf Bir Kadın (A Strange Woman) by Leylâ Erbil and Two Women in One by Nawal El-Saadawi Ciara Griffin (NUIG). Contrary Imperatives and Subjective Identities in the Novels of Eunice de Souza Patricia Garcia (DCU). J.G. Ballard's Utopias of the Mind: The Symbiotic Relationship of Architecture and Intimacy Elena Rodríguez Murphy (University of Salamanca) The Power of Storytelling on the Construction of Identities. Re-writing Africa in English	Claudia Reese (UL). They Have a Different Way of Seeing Things: Immigrant Identities and the Immigrant Perspective in Recent Irish Fiction Clair Sheehan   (UL) “Muted Voices: Identifying Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ” Barbara Siller (TCD) Identity as a Process of Story-Telling – Kurt Lanthaler's Das Delta Sonka Ihnen (UCD) “La vita non è né brutta né bella, ma è originale”: a comparison of James Joyce's Ulysses and Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno
11.30-12.00	COFFEE
12.00-13.00	CLAI Founding General Meeting Venue: LCB009, Languages Building See note below *
13.00-14.30	LUNCH (own arrangements)
14.30-16.00	PARALLEL SESSIONS III, LANGUAGES BUILDING
Session 5: Yarns of different weaves. Chair: Venue: LCB002, Languages Building	Session 6: Men representing Women. Chair: Venue: LCB003, Languages Building
Dearbhla McGrath (DCU) Weaving Words; The Subjective Role of Gender in the work of Robin McKinley Nina Shiel (DCU) Human/Nature: Johanna Sinisalo's Not Before Sundown as a ‘Reversed' Retelling of Beauty and the Beast and its Questions of Identity Monica Insinga (UCD). Narratives of Others in Luigi Pirandello's U' Ciclopu [The Cyclops] and Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats …	Bevin Doyle (DCU) Visual Art, Ekphrasis, and the Representation of Women in John Banville's The Sea and The Infinities – Are They Still Framed? Jeff Lambert (UL) Loving the Alien: Narrative Subjectivity in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing Michael Pyper (TCD) Kafka's Judgement on the Feminine: Utopia or Peril?
16.00-16.30	COFFEE
16.30-17.30	Closing plenary presentation      , Venue: LCB009, Languages Building Chair: Dr Michael G Kelly, UL Professor Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG). The Return of the Thing in Critical Theory and Art

* Since its creation in November 2008, the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland has worked to enhance Irish comparative literary studies at home and abroad. CLAI has so far functioned as a network, but now wishes to affirm its association status.

To that effect, elections will be held at the AGM to take place at CLAI's Third International Postgraduate Symposium – University of Limerick, 26-27 November 2010, on "Gender and Identity in Comparative Literature" – to fill the positions of

President
Secretary
Treasurer
Postgraduate Representative.

Expressions of interest and nominations (with the agreement of the colleague nominated) should be submitted to Dr Brigitte Le Juez (brigitte.lejuez@dcu.ie) with a short description of relevant research and experience.