Thanks a million to all the people who attended Reconstructing the Revival! We hope you enjoyed the conference and Dublin. Excellent papers and stimulating debates made all our organizational efforts more than worthy!
Catherine and Giulia
We cannot wait to welcome you all to UCD this weekend! Please, check the conference programme for a few last minute updates. Safe journey to everyone and we will see you on Friday at the Humanities Institute for Reconstructing the Revival! Catherine and Giulia
We are pleased to announce the titles and topics of our Plenary Speakers’ contribution to the conference.
Ben Levitas will discuss ‘Performance, Performativity and Popular Will in Revival Ireland’ on Friday 9th, 4-5pm and Hugh Denard will be speaking about ‘Reconstructing spaces, deconstructing narratives: new adventures in the old Abbey Theatre’ on Saturday 10th, 12-1pm.
Read more by clicking the ‘Plenary Speakers’ tab above and join us in September for an exciting debate!
We have updated our programme and the booklet with abstracts and bios. Please click on the “Programme and Abstracts” tab above to view all the updates.
The registration form is also available to download by clicking on the “registration form” tab above.
Do get in touch at reconstructingtherevival@gmail.com for any query.
We are delighted to have received such a great number of very interesting abstracts and thank you all for your interest in the conference. Please click on the “Programme & Abstracts” tab above to view the provisional programme.
Should you wish to make any changes to your bio. please notify the organisers at reconstructingtherevival@gmail.com.
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for abstracts is this Friday, May 20th. Abstracts should be emailed to reconstructingtherevival@gmail.com
Please include the title of your paper, name, and e-mail addresses, institutional affiliation and any AV requirements for your presentation.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Reconstructing the Revival: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Friday 9th, Saturday 10th September 2011
UCD, Humanities Institute of Ireland
- Funded by the UCD Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies -
In an article published in 1902 in the French periodical L’Européen, the playwright John Millington Synge describes the Revival as a period characterized by the cross-fertilization of three movements, the Gaelic League, the Irish Agricultural Organization Society and the intellectual and literary movement. He comments on the interconnectedness of these different projects: “…it is hard to find someone who is involved in only one of them, without also being interested in the others at the same time.” Synge’s piece of journalism critically defines a landmark of Irish history by taking into account the osmotic exchange taking place in the spheres of culture, economics and politics. Recent scholarship such as PJ Mathews’ Revival (2003) has stressed the importance of reading the Revival not solely as an elitist movement but as “a progressive period that witnessed the co-operation of the self-help revivalists to encourage local modes of material and cultural development”(3). Among many area-specific contributions, a number of recent critical assessments of the Revival have foregrounded interdisciplinary perspectives: a special issue of the Irish University Review (2003), an edited volume The Irish Revival Reappraised (2004), and Brían Ó Conchubhair’s Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge (2009) have all further enlarged the scope of research in the area.
Reconstructing the Revival: Interdisciplinary Approaches is a two-day conference which seeks to examine the current state of research on the Revival and the direction in which it is moving. Therefore, it seeks to showcase the work being carried out by graduate students and early career researchers. The conference aims to reconstruct a crucial moment of Irish cultural self-determination through innovative scholarly approaches which will privilege an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis. It will also consider the role of digital media (podcasts, online editions, historical visualisations etc.) in both cultural reconstruction and research dissemination within the humanities.
Topics will include but are not limited to:
Submission Guidelines
The conference is aimed at graduate students and early career researchers (postdoctoral fellows etc.) in the arts and humanities. Abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20 minute papers should be sent to and before Friday 20 May 2011. Abstracts must include the title of your paper, name, and e-mail addresses, institutional affiliation and any AV requirements for your presentation. We also welcome proposals for thematic panels.
Please contact the conference organisers, Giulia Bruna and Catherine Wilsdon (UCD, School of English, Drama & Film) at reconstructingtherevival@gmail.com for any queries.
Keynote speakers
Dr Hugh Denard (King’s College, London) is currently working on a project which aims to produce a 3D model of the old Abbey Theatre as it was in 1904 by means of computer modelling. For more information on his project see http://blog.oldabbeytheatre.net/
Dr Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths, University of London) has published widely on J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, cultural nationalism and the history of the book during the Revival.
Conference Fee
A conference fee will apply as follows:
Early career researchers (Postdoctoral candidates etc.) – 20 euro
Postgraduate students – 15 euro
