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Heroes, victims or villains? Irish Presentations and Representations in Latin America and the Caribbean

Morelia, Mexico, 15-18 July 2009


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(Updated: 24/08/2009 18:04 )

Venue: Centro Cultural Universitario (map)
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Avenida Madero Poniente y Galeana No. 57, Centro, C.P. 5800
Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

 

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Wednesday
15 July 2009
Thursday
16 July 2009
Friday
17 July 2009
Saturday
18 July 2009

Daytime Sessions

Registration
9.00 - 10.00
Lecture:
Jean Philippe Imbert
"Edward James, Leonora Carrington: Surrealist victims, Surrealist villains"
Chair: Laura Izarra
10.00 - 11.10
  Panels 9 & 10
10.00 - 11.30

Trip to Pátzcuaro and Farewell lunch
11.00 - 19.00

All-day visit to the city of stones on the border of Lake Pátzcuaro, with its "butterfly fishermen" dipping their nets into the lake in search of whitefish. A hired bus will leave at 11.00 from Morelia, arriving at Pátzcuaro at about noon.

$150 MXN per person (to be confirmed). Lunch not included in the price.

Please fill the Pátzcuaro Form and leave it at the registration desk at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

 

Opening
Welcome by the Organisation Committee
10.00 - 10.50
Opening Lecture:
Piaras Mac Éinr
í
"A whiter shade of green?"
Chair: Sarah Mangan
Chargé d'affaires,
Irish Embassy to Mexico
10.50 -
12.10
Coffee Break
11.10 - 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 - 11.50
Coffee Break
12.10 - 12.30
Panels 5 & 6
11.30 - 12.30
Round Table
La Presencia Irlandesa en México

Séamus Ó Fógartaigh (independent scholar); Salvador Mendez Reyes (UNAM); Doris Bieñko de Peralta (INAH); Maria del Rosario Rodriguez (UMSNH)
Chair: Piaras McEinri
11.50 - 14.00
Panels 1 & 2
12.30 - 14.00
Panels 7 & 8
12.40 - 13.40
 

Lecture:
Eugenia Meyer

"De raíces y querencias: Edmundo O´Gorman, historiador"
Chair: Edmundo Murray
16 .00 - 17.00

Round Table
"Unsettling Women:
Latin America, Ireland and Gendered Fictions of History"
Patricia Coughlan (University College Cork); Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick); Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo)
Chair: John Kennedy
16 .00 - 17.40
Lecture:
Edmundo Murray
"Life in the Argentine in not all shooting, polo and sport": Masculine Imperial Mementos in John Macine's Work and Play in the Argentine (1925)
Chair: Lourdes de Ita
16.00 - 17.10

Coffee Break
17.10 - 17.30

Coffee Break
17.40 - 18.00
Final Remarks
17.10 - 17.30
Panels 3 & 4
17.30 - 18.30
Interviewing Iván Portela and Poetry Reading
Chair: Miguel Ángel Sanchez de Armas
18.00 - 19.00
SILAS
Annual General Meeting

17.30 - 19.30
Welcome Reception
Courtesy of
the Irish Embassy

18.40 - 20.00
Dinner
Courtesy of St. James Gate Development Services -
Announcement of 2009-2010 Irish Latin American Research Fund grantees
20.30
(Restaurante Mirasoles, Avenida Madero Poniente 549, Esq. León Guzmán)
 
Other Activities
Optional drinks Optional drinks Optional drinks
 

SILAS is extremely grateful to Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo for the organisation of the conference, and to the sponsors for their generous support: the Embassy of Ireland to Mexico, the Smurfit Kappa Group, and St. James Gate Development Services.


 
 

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