Call for Papers
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland
24-25 October 2003
University of Maryland
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/misc/acis2003/
The Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites
paper (20 minute) and "poster session" (15 minute) proposals for its
interdisciplinary conference at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The conference organizers welcome any papers that address Ireland's rich
material past and present, as well as its virtual present and future.
Especially welcome are papers which address the following themes:
·the role of objects in Ireland in the production of knowledge;
·specific artefacts and their histories (physically and/or virtually);
·the relations between ideal and actual historical audiences, or between
local, international, or virtual readers;
·the relationship between peoples' material world and the society around
them;
·the use of multimedia and/or the World Wide Web in Irish arts and
education;
·how the study of objects enrich or problematise our understanding of Irish
culture and art;
·how the study of objects reveal new perspectives on traditional fields of
study, such as the Irish Renaissance or the Eighteenth Century;
·how certain objects have become engines of commodification of Irish
culture, such as the Book of Kells or the shamrock;
·what manuscripts, books and other print culture reveal about the society
that produced/and or rejected them;
·how the existence of the World Wide Web changes, alters, enriches knowledge
production in Irish arts, politics, culture;
·how material artefacts and digital media reinforce perceptions of, for
example, imperial culture or post-colonialism, the Celtic Tiger or The
Troubles;
·what are the relations between literature and its material production
(voice/text, embodied writing, theater props/dramatic space, changing modes
of printing and distribution, etc);
·what the World Wide Web reveals about Irish society, politics, culture,
arts
We also welcome 15 minute "poster session" proposals in which conference
participants can depart from the traditional conference format. Proposals
for the poster session may involve, for example, creative work (readings
from one's own creative writing, or playing music), a response to material
culture (a reading from archival material, for example), or demonstrating a
virtual/multimedia site/product.
All correspondence and enquiries should be sent to: Dr Susan Schreibman
[log in to unmask], Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology
in the Humanities, University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, College Park,
MD 20742. E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Proposals for papers should be
submitted by 11 April 2003, preferably by email, and should include the
following information:
· proposal is for a paper or a poster session;
· speaker's name and affiliation;
· email address;
· 250 word abstract
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