NARRATIVES OF RESPONSIBILITY: IRISH STUDIES, HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS
Date: 14-16 October 2024
Venue: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
The Book of Abstract is available here.
The idea for theme of the XIX Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, Narratives of Responsibility: Ethics, the Environment and the Arts, originated from the upcoming COP 30, which will be held in the north of Brazil, in Belém do Pará, in 2025. This is the first time Brazil will host a UN Climate Change Conference, which may inspire the partcipants of the Symposium to reflect upon the role of literature, music, visual and performative arts in telling the history of the present for future generations. We are living in a time in which the consequences of human actions on Earth are the equivalent to natural disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis, climatic disasters and pandemics, which can no longer be ignored. According to Tom Bristow (2015), “From the perspective of the humanities, the metaphor of the Anthropocene asks us to think of the human as one part of the More-than-human world, which is to think of us not within the world but of the World” (p. 2). In this regard, it is essential to bring to the fore the discussion around responsibilities. Bearing responsibility is an inescapable condition in an age of constant changes. After the COVID-19 pandemic, responsibility has become key in human interactions, in the relationship with the planet and the natural environment, in the way we communicate and position ourselves and in the way we read, write and create art. In the Humanities, collective and individual responsibility should aim at building new bridges between various fields of knowledge to understand the environmental crisis that is currently affecting the world and to create solutions that provoke a positive change. It is also an opportunity to consider how Irish Studies, which is often marked by self-reflexivity and affinity with the Humanities, offers a privileged standpoint to enquire about the practice of responsibility in contemporaneity.
The 2024 Academic Committee encourages delegates to present papers and/or posters about, but not exclusively, the following topics:
Programme
Pre-Conference – Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da USP
R. Maria Antônia, 294 - e 258 - Vila Buarque, São Paulo
11 October 2024
15:00 – Segredos do Putumayo, Documentary by Aurélio Michiles.
17:00 – Launch of the anthology Emblemas/ Emblems, by Catherine Phil MacCarthy. Interview with Catherine MacCarthy and her translator Gisele Wolkoff (UFF)
18:00 – Launch of the exhibition “Entanglement”/ “Emaranhado”, by Rita Duffy – Interview with Rita Duffy
Refreshments
XIX Symposium of Irish Studies in South America
Venue: Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da USP
R. Maria Antônia, 294 - e 258 - Vila Buarque, São Paulo
14 October 2024
10:00 – Registration
10:30 – Welcoming Remarks
10:45 – Opening Lecture: “Neither Here Nor There”, Rita Duffy.
Chair: Consul General Robert Jackson
11:45 – Lunch
14:00 – Lecture 2: “In the name of God: Human intervention in the natural environment in Emma Donoghue's Haven”, Marisol Morales Ladrón (Universidad Alcalá de Henares)
Chair: Elisa Abrantes (UFRRJ)
15:00 – Mesa Redonda 1: Translating Irish Voices from History to Poetry and Fiction
Luciana Fonseca (USP), Luci Collin (UFPR), Maria Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam).
Chair: Munira H. Mutran (USP)
16:30 – Refreshments
17:00 – Lecture 3: “Dream of a Sustainable World”
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
Chair: Luci Collin (UFPR)
18:00 – Official opening: Ambassador Fiona Flood; USP Pró-Reitora de Cultura Prof. Marli Quadros Leite; Presidente da Aucani Prof. Sergio P. B. Proença; President of ABEI Profa. Mariana Bolfarine; Coordenadora da Cátedra WB Yeats Profa. Laura P. Z. Izarra.
18:15 – Irish Studies in Brazil
18:30 – Reception hosted by the Embassy and Consulate General of Ireland
15 October
Venue: Aucani
Avenida Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 310 - Bloco B 05508-020 - Butantã, São Paulo (Cidade Universitária)
9:00 Panels
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Mesa Redonda 2: Irish Culture and the Anthropocene
Rejane de Souza Ferreira. “‘Sascha Hanning' Delta and Paul Lynch’s The Prophet Song: narratives of the end”
Karolina Ulloa. “‘I test myself’: the Artful Solace of Sara Baume’s A Line Made by Walking”
Sanio Santos. “Irish Eco-Horror and a World Close to its Demise – Analyzing Dead Meat (2004), by Conor McMahon”
Chair: Fábio Waki (USP)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Lecture 4: “About the Play: Dining at Petitpas” and dramatic reading.
Justin MacCarthy (playwright) & Eda Nagayama
Chair: Camila Franco Batista (UFR)
15:00 – Mesa redonda 3: Interdisciplinary Dialogues of the Alliance of Chairs of Irish Studies in Latin America.
Juan José Delaney. “Borges and Irish Writing Revisited: Scottus Eriugena and Berkeley”.
Thiago Cass. “O ‘alto-falante irlandês’ e ‘Miss Edgeworth’: a Irlanda em Jacob’s Room”
Camila Batista. Territoriality in Torto Arado and Famine: Oppression and resistance in colonial contexts.”
Chair: Laura P.Z. Izarra (USP)
16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Posters
17:30 Piano Concert by Cathal Breslin
Chair: Eduardo Medeiros (USP)
Address: Prédio 6 da ECA - R. da Reitoria, 215 - Butantã, São Paulo
20:00 Jantar de confraternização (por adesão)
16 October
Venue: Aucani
Avenida Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 310 - Bloco B 05508-020 - Butantã, São Paulo (Cidade Universitária)
9:00 Panels
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Panels
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Video at Ireland Corner: “What is it that Cinderella and Snow when they wait?”
Adaptation of Waiting for Godot (UFSC) by Dirce Waltrick do Amaral and performed by UFSC students of Artes Cênicas.
14:30 Lecture 5: "Irish Poetry and Some Translations, a Personal Approach"
Heleno Godoy (UFGo)
Chair: Chair: Vitor Alevato (UFF)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Lecture 6: “Responsibility for the Narrative of Ireland’s Future “
Maurice Fitzpatrick (filmmaker)
Chair: Niamh Casey (Deputy Consul)
17:00 Closing remarks
Elisa Abrantes (Vice-presidente da ABEI)
18:00 Get-together (por adesão)
Guideline for abstract submission
Deadline extension: 15 September 2024
Registration
Participants can register at: https://forms.gle/b6RNSjNJrwq1hBVV7
Fees
- Brazilian full-time researchers delivering papers: R$ 200 (R$ 150 ABEI
membership + R$ 50 registration fee)
- International researchers delivering papers: R$ 100 (registration fee)
- MA/PhD/Part-time researchers delivering papers: R$ 100 (R$ 75 ABEI
membership + R$ 25 registration fee)
- Undergraduates presenting posters: R$ 20 (registration fee)
- Registered attendants: R$ 10 (registration fee, attendance only)
Payment
The fees above are payable at registration until the 1st of October by PayPal below. Brazilians can use PIX (Chave: CPNJ 61.368.742/0001-69). International delegates should direct inquiries to [email protected].
Main organizers
Mariana Bolfarine (ABEI)
Laura P. Z. de Izarra (USP/ W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies)
Victor Pacheco (PG/USP)
Consultative Committee
Munira H. Mutran
Rosalie R. Haddad
Local Committee
Ana Carolina Vilalta Caetano
Bárbara Bom Angelo
Eda Nagayama
Esther Gazzola Borges
Fábio Waki
Jessica Grant
Michelle Alvarenga
Priscila Borges Rodrigues
ABEI Committee
Elisa Abrantes (vice-president of ABEI)
Camila Franco Batista
Alessandra Cristina Rigonato
Luci Collin
Maria Rita Drumond Viana
Michelle Alvarenga
Vitor Alevato Amaral
Academic Committee
Adriana Capuchinho
Aurora Piñeiro
Gisele Wolkoff
Marisol Morales
Maria Graciela Eliggi
Noélia Borges Araújo
Rejane Ferreira
Sanio Santos
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
Tarso do Amaral (UERJ)
Keynote speakers (provisional)
Marisol Moráles-Ladrón (UAH, Spain)
Maria Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam, Argentina)
Catherine MacCarthy (Irish poet)
Rita Duffy (Irish painter)
Juan José Delaney (Irish-Argentine writer)
Justin MacCarthy (Irish playwright)
Maurice Fitzpatrick (Irish film director- to be confirmed)
Cathal Breslin (Irish pianist)
Support
Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI)
W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (FFLCH/USP)
Emigrant Support Programme (ESP- Embassy of Ireland)
Date: 14-16 October 2024
Venue: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
The Book of Abstract is available here.
The idea for theme of the XIX Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, Narratives of Responsibility: Ethics, the Environment and the Arts, originated from the upcoming COP 30, which will be held in the north of Brazil, in Belém do Pará, in 2025. This is the first time Brazil will host a UN Climate Change Conference, which may inspire the partcipants of the Symposium to reflect upon the role of literature, music, visual and performative arts in telling the history of the present for future generations. We are living in a time in which the consequences of human actions on Earth are the equivalent to natural disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis, climatic disasters and pandemics, which can no longer be ignored. According to Tom Bristow (2015), “From the perspective of the humanities, the metaphor of the Anthropocene asks us to think of the human as one part of the More-than-human world, which is to think of us not within the world but of the World” (p. 2). In this regard, it is essential to bring to the fore the discussion around responsibilities. Bearing responsibility is an inescapable condition in an age of constant changes. After the COVID-19 pandemic, responsibility has become key in human interactions, in the relationship with the planet and the natural environment, in the way we communicate and position ourselves and in the way we read, write and create art. In the Humanities, collective and individual responsibility should aim at building new bridges between various fields of knowledge to understand the environmental crisis that is currently affecting the world and to create solutions that provoke a positive change. It is also an opportunity to consider how Irish Studies, which is often marked by self-reflexivity and affinity with the Humanities, offers a privileged standpoint to enquire about the practice of responsibility in contemporaneity.
The 2024 Academic Committee encourages delegates to present papers and/or posters about, but not exclusively, the following topics:
- Ethics and literature
- Responsibility and the Environment
- Ethics and Gender
- Narratives of diversity and inclusion
- Arts and technology
- Responsibility and Writing and enacting human rights
- Responsibility and the affective turn
- Literature, the Anthropocene and the posthuman
- Ireland and Ibero-América
- Literature and ecocriticism
Programme
Pre-Conference – Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da USP
R. Maria Antônia, 294 - e 258 - Vila Buarque, São Paulo
11 October 2024
15:00 – Segredos do Putumayo, Documentary by Aurélio Michiles.
17:00 – Launch of the anthology Emblemas/ Emblems, by Catherine Phil MacCarthy. Interview with Catherine MacCarthy and her translator Gisele Wolkoff (UFF)
18:00 – Launch of the exhibition “Entanglement”/ “Emaranhado”, by Rita Duffy – Interview with Rita Duffy
Refreshments
XIX Symposium of Irish Studies in South America
Venue: Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da USP
R. Maria Antônia, 294 - e 258 - Vila Buarque, São Paulo
14 October 2024
10:00 – Registration
10:30 – Welcoming Remarks
10:45 – Opening Lecture: “Neither Here Nor There”, Rita Duffy.
Chair: Consul General Robert Jackson
11:45 – Lunch
14:00 – Lecture 2: “In the name of God: Human intervention in the natural environment in Emma Donoghue's Haven”, Marisol Morales Ladrón (Universidad Alcalá de Henares)
Chair: Elisa Abrantes (UFRRJ)
15:00 – Mesa Redonda 1: Translating Irish Voices from History to Poetry and Fiction
Luciana Fonseca (USP), Luci Collin (UFPR), Maria Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam).
Chair: Munira H. Mutran (USP)
16:30 – Refreshments
17:00 – Lecture 3: “Dream of a Sustainable World”
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
Chair: Luci Collin (UFPR)
18:00 – Official opening: Ambassador Fiona Flood; USP Pró-Reitora de Cultura Prof. Marli Quadros Leite; Presidente da Aucani Prof. Sergio P. B. Proença; President of ABEI Profa. Mariana Bolfarine; Coordenadora da Cátedra WB Yeats Profa. Laura P. Z. Izarra.
18:15 – Irish Studies in Brazil
18:30 – Reception hosted by the Embassy and Consulate General of Ireland
15 October
Venue: Aucani
Avenida Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 310 - Bloco B 05508-020 - Butantã, São Paulo (Cidade Universitária)
9:00 Panels
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Mesa Redonda 2: Irish Culture and the Anthropocene
Rejane de Souza Ferreira. “‘Sascha Hanning' Delta and Paul Lynch’s The Prophet Song: narratives of the end”
Karolina Ulloa. “‘I test myself’: the Artful Solace of Sara Baume’s A Line Made by Walking”
Sanio Santos. “Irish Eco-Horror and a World Close to its Demise – Analyzing Dead Meat (2004), by Conor McMahon”
Chair: Fábio Waki (USP)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Lecture 4: “About the Play: Dining at Petitpas” and dramatic reading.
Justin MacCarthy (playwright) & Eda Nagayama
Chair: Camila Franco Batista (UFR)
15:00 – Mesa redonda 3: Interdisciplinary Dialogues of the Alliance of Chairs of Irish Studies in Latin America.
Juan José Delaney. “Borges and Irish Writing Revisited: Scottus Eriugena and Berkeley”.
Thiago Cass. “O ‘alto-falante irlandês’ e ‘Miss Edgeworth’: a Irlanda em Jacob’s Room”
Camila Batista. Territoriality in Torto Arado and Famine: Oppression and resistance in colonial contexts.”
Chair: Laura P.Z. Izarra (USP)
16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Posters
17:30 Piano Concert by Cathal Breslin
Chair: Eduardo Medeiros (USP)
Address: Prédio 6 da ECA - R. da Reitoria, 215 - Butantã, São Paulo
20:00 Jantar de confraternização (por adesão)
16 October
Venue: Aucani
Avenida Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 310 - Bloco B 05508-020 - Butantã, São Paulo (Cidade Universitária)
9:00 Panels
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Panels
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Video at Ireland Corner: “What is it that Cinderella and Snow when they wait?”
Adaptation of Waiting for Godot (UFSC) by Dirce Waltrick do Amaral and performed by UFSC students of Artes Cênicas.
14:30 Lecture 5: "Irish Poetry and Some Translations, a Personal Approach"
Heleno Godoy (UFGo)
Chair: Chair: Vitor Alevato (UFF)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Lecture 6: “Responsibility for the Narrative of Ireland’s Future “
Maurice Fitzpatrick (filmmaker)
Chair: Niamh Casey (Deputy Consul)
17:00 Closing remarks
Elisa Abrantes (Vice-presidente da ABEI)
18:00 Get-together (por adesão)
Guideline for abstract submission
- Abstracts should include a title, followed by 3-5 keywords, and should not exceed 250 words for twenty-minute papers.
- Abstracts should be submitted as a Word Document, Times New Roman, 12 pts.
- Abstracts can be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
- Include a brief biographical note of up to 50 words, including academic title and affiliation.
- Undergraduates may propose posters.
- Abstracts and posters should be sent via email to: [email protected]
Deadline extension: 15 September 2024
Registration
Participants can register at: https://forms.gle/b6RNSjNJrwq1hBVV7
Fees
- Brazilian full-time researchers delivering papers: R$ 200 (R$ 150 ABEI
membership + R$ 50 registration fee)
- International researchers delivering papers: R$ 100 (registration fee)
- MA/PhD/Part-time researchers delivering papers: R$ 100 (R$ 75 ABEI
membership + R$ 25 registration fee)
- Undergraduates presenting posters: R$ 20 (registration fee)
- Registered attendants: R$ 10 (registration fee, attendance only)
Payment
The fees above are payable at registration until the 1st of October by PayPal below. Brazilians can use PIX (Chave: CPNJ 61.368.742/0001-69). International delegates should direct inquiries to [email protected].
Main organizers
Mariana Bolfarine (ABEI)
Laura P. Z. de Izarra (USP/ W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies)
Victor Pacheco (PG/USP)
Consultative Committee
Munira H. Mutran
Rosalie R. Haddad
Local Committee
Ana Carolina Vilalta Caetano
Bárbara Bom Angelo
Eda Nagayama
Esther Gazzola Borges
Fábio Waki
Jessica Grant
Michelle Alvarenga
Priscila Borges Rodrigues
ABEI Committee
Elisa Abrantes (vice-president of ABEI)
Camila Franco Batista
Alessandra Cristina Rigonato
Luci Collin
Maria Rita Drumond Viana
Michelle Alvarenga
Vitor Alevato Amaral
Academic Committee
Adriana Capuchinho
Aurora Piñeiro
Gisele Wolkoff
Marisol Morales
Maria Graciela Eliggi
Noélia Borges Araújo
Rejane Ferreira
Sanio Santos
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
Tarso do Amaral (UERJ)
Keynote speakers (provisional)
Marisol Moráles-Ladrón (UAH, Spain)
Maria Graciela Eliggi (UNLPam, Argentina)
Catherine MacCarthy (Irish poet)
Rita Duffy (Irish painter)
Juan José Delaney (Irish-Argentine writer)
Justin MacCarthy (Irish playwright)
Maurice Fitzpatrick (Irish film director- to be confirmed)
Cathal Breslin (Irish pianist)
Support
Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI)
W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (FFLCH/USP)
Emigrant Support Programme (ESP- Embassy of Ireland)