KEEPING IT REAL: The Fictions and Non-Fictions of Film and Television in Modern Ireland is an international conference to be held at UCD School of Film/Centre for Film Studies University College Dublin and the Irish Film Centre April 19 to 21, 2002.
This conference will interrogate cinematic and televisual fictional and non-fictional representations of contemporary Ireland. In the light of the supposed emergence of an affluent, multicultural, educated, and liberal-minded society, have things really changed? Have more disparate and more radical voices been heard at last, or are the Irish still living in the shadow of the past?
One of the aims of this conference is to encourage the emergence of new voices in Irish film and television scholarship. It will provide a forum for dialogue between those eager to express new ideas on the subject and more established academics whose work has helped to define the field to date.
It is expected that the conference will lead to a publication.
Alphabetical List of Confirmed Speakers
Steve Baker University of Ulster at Coleraine
Keynote Panel:Northern Ireland on Film and Television
Desmond Bell Napier University, Edinburgh
Special Presentation: The Last Storyteller
Elizabeth Butler-Cullingford University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Paper: The Prisoner's Wife: the History of a Trope
Pat Brereton Dublin City University
Into the West and Disco Pigs: A Textual Appreciation
Mary Conway DIT Aungier St.
Double Coding in Neil Jordan's Postcolonial Art
Jennifer C. Cornell Oregon State University
Walking with Beasts: Gary Mitchell and the Representation of Ulster Loyalism
Helen Doherty DLIADT
Open the Box: the impact of interactive broadcasting
Sarah Edge University of Ulster at Coleraine
Keynote Panel: Northern Ireland on Film and Television
Marcus Free University of Limerick
"In the lilt of Irish laughter, you can hear the angels sing": the Republic of Ireland in British and Irish television coverage of the 1994 World Cup
Paula Gilligan Trinity College Dublin
A Taxi to The West: The Ireland Text in Yves Boisset's Le Taxi Mauve/The Purple Taxi
Rosa Gonzalez University of Barcelona
Post-Agreement Cinema in Northern Ireland on Film and Television
Michael Griffin NUI Galway
A Deleuzian Semiotics of Complan: Signifiers of Authenticity in Contemporary Film and Drama
Helen Guerin National Centre for Media Production in Higher Education, UCD
Marketing Irish Films: is the tail wagging the dog?
John Hill University of Ulster at Coleraine
Keynote Panel: Northern Ireland on Film and Television
Diane Negra University of North Texas
The Irish in US: Irishness, Innoccence, and American Identity Politics
Stacy Kowtko Washington State University
Armchair Explorer: An Examination of American "Off the Beaten Track" Travel to Ireland Since the Emergence of Educational Television Networks.
Ruth Lysaght Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown Pobal Scobail
Ros na Run, TG4, and Reality
Brian McIlroy University of British Columbia
"Irish films in America" (untitled)
Cahal McLaughlin Royal Holloway University of London
Testimonies from the Troubles: Performance and Trauma Narrative
Martin McLoone University of Ulster at Coleraine
Keynote Panel: Northern Ireland on Film and Television
Paul O'Brien NCAD
Digital Technology and 21st Century Media: the shape of things to come and the shadow of the past
Diog O'Connell Dublin City University
The Boy From Mercury: The Global and the Local in Irish Cinema
Michael O'Rourke University College Dublin
Made in China: Queer Readings and Cinematic Coding on the Contemporary Irish Stage
Lance Pettitt Leeds Metropolitan University
Keynote Paper and Presentation: Thaddeus O'Sullivan's A Pint of Plain
Kevin Rockett Trinity College Dublin
Keynote Panel: Immigrations/Emigrations/Migrations in Irish Cinema
Rod Stoneman Irish Film Board
Between Monsoon Wedding and Behind Enemy Lines: Issues in Exhibition in Irish Cinemas
Michael Walsh University of Hartford
Hallucination and the Nation: The Butcher Boy
Jerry White University of Alberta
I Could Read the Sky: Irish Cinema's Vision of a 21st Century Avant-Garde
Further information available at: www.ucd.ie/~film.
Conference fees at EUR 65 with concessions for students, etc.
