"Freedom Proclaimed": The IAAS Annual Conference

"Freedom Proclaimed" the Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference, will take place in University of Limerick from 26 - 27 April, 2013. 

Full programme available after the jump.

FREEDOM PROCLAIMED

University of Limerick

26-27 April 2013

Programme

Friday 26 April
9.00-9.45	Registration (Plassey House hall)
9.45-10.00	Welcome (Board Room)
	Conference opened by Glucksman Professor Emeritus Tom Moylan, University of Limerick
10.00-11.30	Panel Session 1A (Board Room): Proclaiming Freedoms
	Elisa Joy White, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa “It’s a Free Country” and Other Contemporary Tales of American Freedom Neil Brooks, University of Western Ontario “A Blanket, A Glass of Water, and Nobody But Me to Tell My Life Story:” Freedom and Necessity in The Book of Negroes Marta Werbanowska, University of Warsaw “All we want is make us free” – Kevin Young’s Ardency
	Panel Session 1B (Wood Room): The Horrors of Freedom
	Jack Fennell, University of Limerick Huddled Masses in Wide Open Spaces: ‘Prairie Madness’ in American Horror Narratives Dara Downey, Trinity College Dublin Wandering Mediums and Absent Spectres in the Ghost Stories of Emma Frances Dawson Rosemary Gallagher, NUI Galway “Jeopardizing [the] traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them”: The Catch-22 of Liberating Yossarian from the Liberators
11.30-12.00	Coffee
12.00-1.00	Panel Session 2A (Board Room): Architects of Freedom
	Jan Frohburg, University of Limerick Of Liberty and Happiness Miriam Fitzpatrick, Waterford Institute of Technology A Chair to Move; the Value of Freedom of Choice to the Social Life of the City
	Panel Session 2B (Wood Room): Picturing a Free World
	Sasa Miletic, University of Vienna Freedom of Speech in the American Courtroom Drama of the 1990s Rachel Wallace, Queen’s University Belfast On Kara Walker (TBC)
1.00-2.00	Lunch
2.00-3.00	Alan Graham Memorial Lecture (Board Room) Chaired by Prof. Margaret Harper, UL
	Prof. Barbara Ladd, Emory University Beyond the Plantation: Race and Class at the Edge of the Swamp
3.00-4.30	Panel Session 3A (Board Room): Rights to be Free
	Rebecca Isaacs, University of Birmingham A Zeal for American Democracy? Academic Freedom in the Cold War, 1947-1957 Colm Whelan, NUI Galway The Occupy Wall Street Movement and Freedoms of the First Amendment Serban-Dan Blidariu, West University Of Timisoara  The Difference Between Moral Assertion and Actual Enforcement: Dred Scott’s Quest for Freedom
	Panel Session 3B (Wood Room): Race, Diaspora, Identity
	Angeline O’Neill, University of Notre Dame Australia Irish American and Irish Australian Women’s Writing: an ongoing exploration of freedom and oppression Lisa Bogert, Queen’s University Belfast National Appetites: Transatlantic Loyalties and Food Semiotics in the Irish American Dialogue, 1909-1921
4.30-5.00	Coffee
5.00-6.30	IAAS AGM 2013 (Board Room)
	Irish Association for American Studies Annual General Meeting (all welcome)
6.30	Pre-Dinner Drinks (Plassey House)
7.00	Dinner and Awards Ceremony (East Room, Plassey House)
Saturday 27 April
9.30-10.00	Registration (Plassey House hall)
10.00-11.30	Panel Session 4A (Board Room): Literary Landscapes and Liberties
	Michael Griffin, University of Limerick Freneau’s American Auburn: Landscape and Liberty in Eighteenth-Century American Poetry Joan Dargan, St Lawrence University “Sweetest Curves” and “Magic Descents”: The Romance of the Road in Edith Wharton’s A Motor-Flight Through France Stanley van der Ziel, St Patrick’s College Fun and Games: The Self-Conscious Art of Netherland
	Panel Session 4B (Wood Room): Constituting Freedom
	Mário Alves, Portugal Jefferson’s Paradox – Antecedents of the Emancipation Proclamation Bryce Hal Taylor, Heidelberg University The Unconstitutional Constitution: Re-Examining the Generational Binding of the United States Sovereign Bart Verhoeven, University of Nottingham Brushfires of Freedom: Robert Welch, Business Nationalism and the Founding of the John Birch Society
11.30-12.00	Coffee
12.00-1.30	Panel Session 5A (Board Room): Let Freedom Ring
	Bonnye E. Stuart, Winthrop University The power of U.S. Civil Rights media images in Northern Ireland from Martin Luther King, protest signs and singing “We Shall Overcome” Frank Austermuehl, The University of Auckland New Zealand “We Will Redeem the Promise of America” – A Pragmatic Analysis of Allusions to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. in the Speeches of Bill Clinton Peter G. Cornett, King’s College London A Social Propagandist – Christopher Hitchens and the Rhetoric of Freedom
	Panel Session 5B (Wood Room): After Slavery
	Yianna Liatsos, University of Limerick On Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (TBC) Laura Sarnelli, University of Naples L’Orientale Melancholic Freedom and Forms of Agency in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Parisa Vaziri, University of California, Irvine On Jules Dassin’s Uptight! (TBC)
1.30-2.30	Lunch
2.30-3.30	Plenary Session (Board Room) Chaired by Dr Philip McGowan, QUB, IAAS Chair
	Dr Peggy O’Brien, University of Massachusetts Amherst Telling the Time with Emily Dickinson
3.30-4.00	Coffee
4.00-5.00	Roundtable Session on “Emancipations” (Board Room)
	Prof. Catherine Clinton, Queen’s University Belfast (Chair) Prof. Tom Moylan, University of Limerick Rachel Wallace, Queen’s University Belfast Clair Sheehan, University of Limerick
5.00	Conference Closing (Board Room)