Thursday May 6th
08.00-11.00 [Final Registration]
Finnish Time [Please note: 11.00 Finnish time is 10.00 CET and 9.00 in Ireland)
11.30-12.30 Keynote Lecture (+ brief Q&A): Adam Hanna (Chair: Ruben Moi)
“Poetic Justice: Poetry, Politics and the Law in Modern Ireland”, Adam Hanna, University College Cork
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.40 Panel 1: Irish Literature and Alternative Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(4 papers; Chair: Anne Karhio)
- “Medieval Irish Law as Alternative Justice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland”, Ciaran McDonough, University College Dublin
- ‘“A Young Man Is Dead, a Legend Has Been Born.’ The Death of Bobby Sands: an Extreme Act of Redemptive Violence?”, John Braidwood, University of Oulu
[14.30-14.40 Break]
- “Poetry and «the Pencil of Love»: The Early Anglo-Irish Ekphrasis of Mary Tighe”, Charles I. Armstrong, University of Agder
- “Divine (In)Justice in Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer”, Joakim Wrethed, Stockholm University
15.40-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.30 Panel 2: In Search of Spatial Justice: Readings in Irish Literary Urban Studies
(3 papers; Chair: Anthony Johnson)
- “Beckett and the Bedsit: The London Rented Rooms of Murphy”, Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University
- “Migrants in the City: Spatial Injustice and Inward Migration in Contemporary Irish Literature”, Deirdre Flynn, Mary Immaculate College
- “Insurgent Spaces: The Many Dublins of Contemporary Irish Literature”, Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
17.30-18.00 Coffee
18.00-19.00 Reading and Music: Irish author David Toms (Oslo) (Chair: Anthony Johnson)
with Anthony Johnson and Friends
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Friday May 7th
09.30 – 11.00 NISN AGM
11.00-12.30 Panel 3: Travel and Diaspora – Justice and Migration
(3 papers; Chair: Charles Armstrong)
- “Justice in the War and at Home – Utopian Hopes of Fair Solutions in Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End”, Hedda Friberg-Harnesk, Mid-Sweden University
- “‘A Map of Bird Migration’: Redefinitions of National Identity through Transnational Mobility and Multidirectional Memory in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky”, Carmen Zamorano Llena, Dalarna University
- ‘“Out of the Lamp-Bestarred and Clouded Dusk’: The Poetries of Lola Ridge and Rudolf Nilsen in Comparative Perspective”, David Toms, Oslo
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Panel 4: The Troubles and Beyond
(2 papers; Chair: Anne Karhio)
- “‘You Can’t Grab Anything with a Closed Fist’: Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy´s Memoir Men that God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland”, Billy Gray, Dalarna University
- “‘The Battles We Refuse to Fight Today Become the Hardships Our Children Must Endure Tomorrow’: The Troubles and Its Legacy in Children’s/Young Adult Fiction”, Michaela Marková, Technical University of Liberec
14.30-14.45 Coffee Break
14.45-15.45 Panel 5: (Re)Defining the Nation
(2 papers; Chair: Carmen Zamorano Llena)
- “New Strands in the Fabric of the Nation – English Migrants to Irish Citizens?”, Vikki Barry Brown, Queen Mary University of London
- “‘A Society of Blatant Inequalities’: Identifying Injustice in Rocky Road to Dublin (Peter Lennon, 1967)”, Seán Crosson, NUI Galway
15.45-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Panel 6: Literature, Justice, and Northern Ireland
(2 papers; Chair: Deirdre Flynn)
- “The State of the Prisons”: A Historic Perspective, Britta Olinder, Gothenburg University
- Poetry, Prisons and Voices from Beyond the Grave: Some Thoughts on Sinéad Morrisey’s The State of the Prisons (2005) and Current Memoirs of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Ruben Moi, UiT The Arctic University Norway
17.00-18.00 Break
18.00-19.00 Panel 7: Perspectives on 21st Century Poetry
(2 papers; Chair: Anthony Johnson)
- “From the ‘Dim Coming Times’: The Call to Justice of Ireland’s Spoken Word Poetry and Internet Culture”, Charika Swanepoel, University of Turku
- “Environmental Justice and Posthuman Poetics in Contemporary Irish Poetry”, Anne Karhio, National University of Ireland
19.00-19.15 Coffee Break
19.15-20.00 Poetry Reading: Colette Bryce (Chair: Ruben Moi)
20.00-20.15 Closing Words (Anthony Johnson)