An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
Supported by the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies,
Friday 25th September
14.00-14.30
Registration and Welcome
14.30-16.00
Session 1: Gender, Theory and the Avant-Garde
“Pushing the Boundaries: Ambivalence and the body in the work of Salvador Dalì”
(Fiona Noble, University of Aberdeen)
“Claude Cahun and the French Surrealist avant-garde in the post First World War period”
(Rebecca Ferreboeuf, University of Leeds)
(Gemma Carroll, University College Cork)
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
Session 2: Comparative Perspectives on the Avant-Garde
“‘nat language in any sinse of the world’: Avant-Garde approaches to language in Joyce and Tzara”
(Paul Fagan, University of Vienna
(Mila Milani, University of Manchester)
“Between Repudiation and Homage: European Influences in Polish Poetic and Visual Avant-Garde, 1918-1930”
(Justyna Stępień, University of Łódź and Kamila Pawlikowska, University of Kent)
18.00-19.00
Wine Reception
Saturday 26th September
9.00-9.30
Registration
9.30-11.00
Session 3: New Approaches to Futurism, Vorticism and Dadaism
“‘With our bodies grazed and scraped’: How Futurism fought to forge an avant-garde prototype”
(Sarah Hayden, University College Cork)
(Jean O’Donovan, University College Cork)
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
Session 4: Avant-Garde Poetry
(Sandra O’Connell, Independent Scholar)
(Tara Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast)
“The Reach of Revolutionary Aesthetics: A Comparative Study of the Influence of the European Avant-Garde on the work of the American and Québecois poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gaston Miron”
(Muireann Leonard, Independent Scholar)
13.00-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.30
Session 5: Translating the Avant-Garde
(Elise Aru, University College London)
“‘All the energized past, all the past that is living’: Ezra Pound between translation experiments and avant-garde”
(Giovanna Epifania, University of Bari)
“Writing into the Future by Recounting the Past—The Mandarin Translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses”
(Chih Hsien Hsieh, University College Dublin)
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-17.30
Session 6: Theatre and the Avant-Garde
(David Clare, University College Dublin)
“‘The margins of the nation displacing the centre’: The Rejection of the Wider European narrative: Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie”
(Conor Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast)
“Half Beast-Half Angel: Djuna Barnes Nightwood and German Expressionist Drama”
(Kate Armond, University of East Anglia)
19.00
Conference Dinner