VIII SYMPOSIUM OF IRISH STUDIES IN SOUTH AMERICA &
IV CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR IRISH LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (SILAS)
The Art of Movement and Transformation:
Ireland and the Americas Looking Forward
13 to 15 August, 2013
Venue: Universidad Nacional de La Pampa - Argentina
IV CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR IRISH LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (SILAS)
The Art of Movement and Transformation:
Ireland and the Americas Looking Forward
13 to 15 August, 2013
Venue: Universidad Nacional de La Pampa - Argentina
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To view the official circular of the events, click here.
To check the official website of the event, click here.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, we are facing a socio-economic crisis which, due to the global nature of the time we are living in, is reaching every corner of the world. In their multiple expressions, the Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, Economics, Journalism and Media Studies, as well as Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies are being affected and trying to creatively respond to the crisis.
Crises also contribute to the weakening of borders, across which many people choose to move in search of improved conditions of life and the pursuit of personal dreams. Migration processes play a crucial role in critical world scenarios, as they are propelled by the hopes of those who leave and also re-signified by those who stay behind. National borders, however, are not the only ones we dare to cross; there are also class, race and gender barriers that are in the process of fading or of being dismantled and erased. In every crisis, then, there is opportunity and, in every opportunity, the chance for the art of movement and transformation to be enacted.
In times of crisis, what and how do we learn from History and from the visions of our predecessors? How does revisiting the past inform the ways in which we look forward?
What do societies do to find relief in threatening environments? How do individuals respond at the personal level? Is there room for hope, dreams and pleasure? What are the visions and illusions that we have regarding our future? How can they configure utopias, heterotopias or dystopias?
In the first century of the new millennium, what is the mission of those responsible for the world’s future and how is the world’s population affected by those decisions?
How do we creatively react to the movement and transformation of our times? How do we present and represent both personal and communal crises along spatial and temporal axes? How do the realities we live in, and the borders we cross, shape diverse spaces, places, or non-places? How do our representations compare with those in similar situations in the past?
This multi -, inter-, and cross -disciplinary conference and symposium aimed at providing a ground on which to discuss all the possible answers to the questions above at the crossroads between Ireland, Iberia and the Americas.
Thus, the works presented were concerned about the following fields of study:
• Ireland and the Americas in times of crisis: Common views or different strategies?
• Learning from History: Revisiting the visions of our predecessors
• Communal visions of the future: Utopias, heterotopias and dystopias. Personal hopes, dreams and pleasure
• The new missions of the twenty-first century
• Movement and transformation: Space, place, and non-places; borders and migration
• The representation of crisis, movement and transformation in Ireland and the Americas
The following keynote speakers participated in the conference:
• Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, Nova York-ACIS)
• José Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
• Guest Writer: Hugo Hamilton - Award-winning author of eight novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories.
• Guest Writer: Juan José Delaney - Irish-Argentine fiction writer and essayist.
• Clíona Murphy (California State University Bakersfield, USA) (SILAS).
• Lance Pettit (St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, England)
• Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Irish film director.
• Gabriela McEvoy (Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, USA).
• Margaret Brehony (National University Ireland, Galway)
• Ailbhe Ó Corráin (University of Ulster/Magee)
Organisers:
María Graciela Eliggi, Clíona Murphy and Laura Izarra.
Local Organizing Committee:
María Graciela Eliggi María Graciela Adamoli Norma Liliana Alfonso Graciela Obert Miriam Patricia Germani María Elena Pérez Bustillo Griselda Gugliara Liliana Monserrat Natalia Muguiro Enrique Alejandro Basabe María Cristina Nin
Academic Committee:
Laura Izarra (USP, Brazil, ABEI, SILAS) María Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam, Argentina, SILAS) María Graciela Adamoli (UNLPam, Argentina, SILAS) Munira Mutran (USP, Brazil, ABEI) Clíona Murphy (California State University, EE.UU., SILAS) Jean-Philippe Imbert (DCU, Ireland, SILAS), María Eugenia Cruset (UNLP, Argentina, SILAS), Stella Maris Shmitte (UNLPam, Argentina), Rosalie Rahal Haddad (ABEI) and Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos (ABEI)
To view the official circular of the events, click here.
To check the official website of the event, click here.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, we are facing a socio-economic crisis which, due to the global nature of the time we are living in, is reaching every corner of the world. In their multiple expressions, the Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, Economics, Journalism and Media Studies, as well as Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies are being affected and trying to creatively respond to the crisis.
Crises also contribute to the weakening of borders, across which many people choose to move in search of improved conditions of life and the pursuit of personal dreams. Migration processes play a crucial role in critical world scenarios, as they are propelled by the hopes of those who leave and also re-signified by those who stay behind. National borders, however, are not the only ones we dare to cross; there are also class, race and gender barriers that are in the process of fading or of being dismantled and erased. In every crisis, then, there is opportunity and, in every opportunity, the chance for the art of movement and transformation to be enacted.
In times of crisis, what and how do we learn from History and from the visions of our predecessors? How does revisiting the past inform the ways in which we look forward?
What do societies do to find relief in threatening environments? How do individuals respond at the personal level? Is there room for hope, dreams and pleasure? What are the visions and illusions that we have regarding our future? How can they configure utopias, heterotopias or dystopias?
In the first century of the new millennium, what is the mission of those responsible for the world’s future and how is the world’s population affected by those decisions?
How do we creatively react to the movement and transformation of our times? How do we present and represent both personal and communal crises along spatial and temporal axes? How do the realities we live in, and the borders we cross, shape diverse spaces, places, or non-places? How do our representations compare with those in similar situations in the past?
This multi -, inter-, and cross -disciplinary conference and symposium aimed at providing a ground on which to discuss all the possible answers to the questions above at the crossroads between Ireland, Iberia and the Americas.
Thus, the works presented were concerned about the following fields of study:
• Ireland and the Americas in times of crisis: Common views or different strategies?
• Learning from History: Revisiting the visions of our predecessors
• Communal visions of the future: Utopias, heterotopias and dystopias. Personal hopes, dreams and pleasure
• The new missions of the twenty-first century
• Movement and transformation: Space, place, and non-places; borders and migration
• The representation of crisis, movement and transformation in Ireland and the Americas
The following keynote speakers participated in the conference:
• Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, Nova York-ACIS)
• José Francisco Fernández (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
• Guest Writer: Hugo Hamilton - Award-winning author of eight novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories.
• Guest Writer: Juan José Delaney - Irish-Argentine fiction writer and essayist.
• Clíona Murphy (California State University Bakersfield, USA) (SILAS).
• Lance Pettit (St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, England)
• Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Irish film director.
• Gabriela McEvoy (Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, USA).
• Margaret Brehony (National University Ireland, Galway)
• Ailbhe Ó Corráin (University of Ulster/Magee)
Organisers:
María Graciela Eliggi, Clíona Murphy and Laura Izarra.
Local Organizing Committee:
María Graciela Eliggi María Graciela Adamoli Norma Liliana Alfonso Graciela Obert Miriam Patricia Germani María Elena Pérez Bustillo Griselda Gugliara Liliana Monserrat Natalia Muguiro Enrique Alejandro Basabe María Cristina Nin
Academic Committee:
Laura Izarra (USP, Brazil, ABEI, SILAS) María Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam, Argentina, SILAS) María Graciela Adamoli (UNLPam, Argentina, SILAS) Munira Mutran (USP, Brazil, ABEI) Clíona Murphy (California State University, EE.UU., SILAS) Jean-Philippe Imbert (DCU, Ireland, SILAS), María Eugenia Cruset (UNLP, Argentina, SILAS), Stella Maris Shmitte (UNLPam, Argentina), Rosalie Rahal Haddad (ABEI) and Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos (ABEI)