PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

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1 PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Representations of Ireland Conference Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary Budapest, August 2012 The venue of the conference is the Faculty of Humanities of Károli University, 1088 Budapest, Reviczky u. 4. Wednesday, 29 August 2012 Pre-conference events Time Event Venue 18:00-19:00 Trilingual (Scots, English, Hungarian) Literary Evening from the Works of Tom Hubbard Díszterem ( ), 1st floor 19:00- Informal Dinner and Socializing Fecske Restaurant (beside the University) Thursday, 30 August 2012 Time Event Venue Event 9 am - 15 pm 10:00-11:00 Registration Official Opening of the Conference. Addresses by Prof. dr. Péter Balla, Chancellor of Károli University, Dr. Enikő Sepsi, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Károli University, Mr. Kevin Dowling, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland in Budapest, Dr. Tamás Magyarics, Ambassador of Hungary in Dublin, and Dóra Pődör, Head of the Department of English Linguistics. (Harp: Anna Szombathy; song: Ildikó D. Kiss), Ground 1st floor 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Outside the

2 11:30-12:30 SESSION 1 (PLENARY ) The Brier-Patch in the Kailyard: Realism Versus Sentimentality in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Irish, Scottish and American Fiction (Tom Hubbard, Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh) 1st floor 12:30-14:00 Lunch break Optional: Tables will be reserved in the Fecske Restaurant beside the University. Optional cultural programme: visit to the magnificent 19 th - century palace building of Szabó Ervin public library (just beside the university; free) SESSION 2 Panel 2A : Drama 1 st (PANELS) 14:30 14:30-15:00 15: :00 Ireland as Excess in Dion Boucicault s The Colleen Bawn (1860) (Michael McAteer) Interart relations in Frank McGuinness The Bird Sanctuary (Csilla Bertha) Young Women and the Expression of Violence on the Celtic Tiger Stage: Stella Feehily s Duck (2003) (Mária Kurdi) Coffee Break Outside the Panel 3A: Poetic self-representations SESSION 3 16:30 "How can I call for protection by using words that I cannot pronounce?" (Tibor Tóth) 16:30- "The Other Side" -- Separation and Compromise in some of

3 17:00 Seamus Heaney's later poems (Edit Bődy) 17:00-17: Places and Identities in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Iain Crichton Smith (Emília Szaffner) HUSIS (Hungarian Society for the Study of Irish Studies) Meeting 18: Roundtable discussion about Irish Studies in Hungary 19:00-21:00 Conference Reception (Sponsored by the Irish Embassy) Pinceklub, Faculty of Humanities SESSION 2 Panel 2B: American perspectives Room 104, 1 st (PANELS) 14:30 14:30-15:00 15:00- SESSION 3 16:30 16:30-17:00 Representations of the Irish by Cartoonist Thomas Nast (Irén Annus) Ezra Pound and the Irish dialect (Réka Mihálka) The "Map of Ireland" on their Faces: Allusions to Irish Identity in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (Katalin G. Kállay) Panel 3B: Migrant perspectives Walk My Walk : Migrant Poetic Representations of Irishness (Borbála Faragó) Portraying Migrants Experiences in Irish Documentary Film (Ágnes Kakasi) Room 104, 1 st

4 17:00- The Irish-Americans in the Gangster film Genre (Małgorzata Martynuska) Friday, 31 August 2012 Time Event Venue Event Venue 9 am - 1 pm Registration, ground floor 9:30 11:00 SESSION 4 Panel 4A: Historic perspectives Panel 4B: Self-representations Room 104, 1 st 9:30 10:00 Far from Terra Firma (Tadhg Ó hannracháin) Irish Self-Representation in Tourism (Márta Adorján) 10:00-10:30 An Armed Catholic Ireland? Firearms and Faith in Eighteenth Century Ireland (Stephen Dean) The Irish Character : Typography and Self-Representation (Tekla Mecsnóber) 10:30-11:00 Charles de Montalembert and Ireland (Claire Dubois) Scraping the Surface: An Archaeological Representation of Ireland (Tamás Péterváry) 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Room 104 (1 st floor) 11:30-12:30 SESSION 5 (PLENARY) Manannán, Merchants, and Myth in Medieval Irish Tradition (Joseph Falaky-Nagy, University of California, Los Angeles) 1 st 12:30-14:00 Lunch break Optional: Tables will be reserved in the Fecske Restaurant beside the University.

5 SESSION 6 Panel 6A: Revolutionary perspectives Panel 6B: Irishness in fiction Room 104, 1 st 14:30 Hungarian-Irish Parallels: Young Irelanders About the Hungarian Reform Age and War of Independence (Márta Pintér) Ideas of Social Reform in Maria Edgeworth s Ennui (Eglantina Remport) 14:30-15:00 The importance of small nations in constructing Irish national identity before 1922 (Lili Zách) Samuel Beckett's Murphy: Irish Everyman or Noman of Noland (Jeremy Parrott) 15:00- National Heroes in Mass Graves for How Much Longer? Patrick Pearse v. Imre Nagy Transculturing Ulysses: The Irish Dimension of the Reworked Hungarian Translation of James Joyce s Ulysses (Marianna Gula) Dilemmas of Reburial in Ireland and in Hungary (Júlia Fodor) - 16:00 Coffee Break 18:00 SESSION 7 Panel 7A: English perspectives Panel 7B: Linguistic perspectives Room 104, 1 st 16:30 The Device of the Savage Irish as a Form of Apology and Compliment to Queen Elizabeth (Erzsébet Stróbl) Reflections of Gaelic Identity in Irish Place-Names (Andrea Bölcskei) 16:30-17:00 The Role of Performers in John Derricke's The Image of Irelande (Gáborján Kovács) "We had tings den dat dey don't have now" -- Language change in Galway City English (Arne Peters) 17:00- The Irish Rover. Reflections of Ireland in EFL (Andrew Mile) Representations of the Irish English Pragmalect (Péter Furkó) - (option slot) The Image of Ireland in English- Hungarian Bilingual Lexicography

6 18:00 (Dóra Pődör) 18:00-21:00 Cold Buffet Dinner (Sponsored by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs) Pinceklub, Faculty of Humanities The Conference is sponsored by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.