[Grad_history_students] CFP: The Irish World

[esbrunne at uchicago.edu]

The Nicholson Center for British Studies is pleased to announce:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies
 
Conference date: March 5, 2005

Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2005

Papers due: Friday, February 18, 2005.

Submit to: Jenny Ludwig at janne at uchicago.edu or Emily Brunner at 
esbrunne at uchicago.edu.  Call 834-3403 with questions, or visit http://
british.uchicago.edu.


In 1973, both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland officially entered 
the European Union. During the thirty years since, the face of Ireland and 
Irish identity have been drastically altered: Between 1970 and 1980, the 
population of the Republic rose from 3 million to 3.5 million; Between 1996 and 
2000, 200,000 foreigners entered the country, half returning Irish emigrants 
and half other foreign nationals and asylum seekers. Since 1996, over a quarter 
of the 160,000 immigrants has come from countries outside of Europe and 
America. International scholarship tends to view Ireland as a mythic tourist 
spot, the locus of a nationalist struggle, or a forum for rethinking the 
changes wrought in the move from modernity to postmodernity; but new problems 
come with the social complexities of involvement in the world economy and a 
newly diverse citizenship, and Ireland's new face demands a long-overdue change 
in the scope of Irish Studies. 

This conference examines the recent changes wrought by Ireland's rapid 
modernization and entrance into a world economy, as well as the neglected story 
of Irish internationalism throughout history, and the history of Irish 
diasporas. We want additionally to challenge the traditional limits of the 
discipline of Irish studies beyond the interest with nationhood and identity 
politics. 

Our keynote speakers are Professor David Lloyd and Professor Harry White. David 
Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the 
author of Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment (Duke, 
1993), Culture and the State (Routledge, 1993, with Paul Thomas) and Ireland 
after History (UNDP, 1999). Professor Lloyd will be speaking on nineteenth-
century Ireland and the emergence of developmental theories of political 
economy political economy; Harry White, Professor of Music at University 
College Dublin, is the author of The Keeper's Recital: Music and Cultural 
History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork and UNDP, 1998) and the editor of Musical 
Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European 
Musical Culture, 1800-1940, (Cork, 2001). Professor White will speak on a 
subject to be announced.  

We welcome 200 word proposals for twenty-minute papers from graduate students 
from all disciplines that address questions of Irish internationalism, 
globalization and cosmopolitanism. Specific panel topics will be determined 
according to the papers we receive.  We welcome papers from all individual 
disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities as well as papers 
that are positioned interdisciplinarily. 

Please submit a proposal for a twenty minute paper, a copy of your CV, and a
cover letter that specifies your disciplinary and institutional affiliation(s) 
to Jenny Ludwig at janne at uchicago.edu or Emily Brunner at esbrunne at uchicago.edu 
by January 15, 2005. Papers will be due by Friday, February 18, 2005. The date 
of the conference is March 5, 2005.

This conference is being generously co-sponsored by: the Poetry and Poetics
Program, the English Department, the Anthropology of Europe workshop, Ethnoise! 
Ethnomusicology workshop, the Mass Culture workshop, and the Social History 
workshop.

Eva Wilhelm
Administrator
Nicholson Center for British Studies
Judd 325
773-834-3403
ewilhelm at uchicago.edu