It’s been a difficult few years for researchers in Irish disapora studies, but things are looking up now with the Global Irish Studies Conference in South Africa in July (see What’s On ), and here in Australia it is pleasing to see the ISAANZ conference 26 is planned for December in Melbourne. The call for papers for this conference has been extended to June 16. See below for details.
Please note that the Irish Studies Associaton of Australia and New Zealand’s conferences are open to presenters and non-presenters alike. They offer a friendly and inclusive immersion in Irish Australian studies over three days wherever they are held – usually rotating among Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand venues. You can read about past conferences on their website at https://isaanz.org/ where you will also see details and updates about the December Melbourbe conference as they come to hand.
ISAANZ 26 | Disruptions and Transitions
12-14 December 2023, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ 26)
Call for Papers: closing date extended 16 June 2023
From the recent disruptions of the pandemic to those of emigration and diaspora, Irish history and literature include both large-scale and personal divergences from anticipated futures. These disruptions have initiated transitions to new cultural, political, social, and disciplinary terrains that are often connected to Australia and New Zealand.
For ISAANZ 26, the convenors welcome papers on any aspect of Ireland, Irish Australia or Irish New Zealand, or the Irish diaspora generally. In particular, we invite papers addressing the themes of disruption and transition through topics that might include:
- Crossing scales of reference, from local, national, regional, and global
- Emigration, immigration, and diaspora
- Transnationalism and Irish studies
- Trauma, memory, and affect
- Women’s histories and literatures
- Histories of modernism and the new modernist studies
- Commemoration and the present
- Indigeneity and Irish studies
- Relationships between postcolonialism and ecocriticism
- Borders, sovereignty, and citizenship
- Irish studies and the digital or medical humanities
- Oceans and islands
- Queer literatures and histories
- Interdisciplinarity in Irish studies
- Religious and secular worlds
- Imagined homelands and imagined futures
Proposals for papers, including a title and an abstract of no more than 150 words, should be emailed to conference26@isaanz.org . The extended closing date for abstracts is 16 June 2023. Proposals for themed sessions would also be welcomed. Conference participants will have the option to present their paper online or to deliver it face to face.
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