Calls For Papers

If you have a call for papers you would like included here, please e-mail your inquiry to the attention of our executive director at alsc@bu.edu.

Added Friday, August 1, 2008:

Call for Papers: NEACIS 2008, "Marvels and Monuments"

The 2008 meeting of the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies will take place at Boston University (College of General Studies) on Saturday, November 8th, 2008.

In "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927), an older Yeats writes wistfully of the preoccupations of the young:

Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.

Whether the "marvels" in our conference title refer to the focus of artists or philosophers and the "monuments" to historical occasions, the relationship between the terms reminds us of scholarship and the practice of Irish Studies more generally. In this year's conference, we hope to be both reflective and prospective. We will attend to Irish literary and historical preoccupations with both the marvelous and the monumental, including but not limited to the marvelous in art, literature, and philosophy, and the monumental in all its meanings, including commemoration of the personal and the historical, and the permanence or impermanence of the "unageing intellect" in cultural scholarship. We will have an opportunity to encourage commitment to and further the aims of Irish Studies as a discipline, while asking where Irish Studies is heading. The conference organizers are calling for 20-minute contributions on any aspect connected with or suggested by the conference theme, and welcome papers on any topic related to Irish Studies.

The NEACIS is an interdisciplinary conference fostering the exchange of ideas between scholars working in fields of study ranging from history, literature, sociology, and linguistics to cultural studies, musicology, dance, film, anthropology, theater, and political science.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please e-mail paper and/or panel proposals (300-400 words) to Meg Tyler
(mtyler@bu.edu) by August 20th, 2008. Please include your proposal in the body of the e-mail and not as a separate attachment.

Please note that all who attend the NEACIS must be members of the ACIS
(http://www.acisweb.com/index.php) with dues paid through the end of the year.

If you have further questions about the conference, please contact Meg Tyler (mtyler@bu.edu) or Sally Sommers Smith (ssommers@bu.edu) at the College of General Studies, Boston University.