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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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Released: 02 February 2009

Amended: 19 August 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract

Lectures  

Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University, Ireland). "Edward James, Leonora Carrington: Surrealist victims, Surrealist villains"

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Piaras Mac Éinrí (University College Cork). "A whiter shade of green?" X
Eugenia Meyer (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). "De raíces y querencias: Edmundo O´Gorman, historiador" X

Edmundo Murray (University of Zurich, Switzerland). "'Life in the Argentine is not all shooting, polo and sport’: Masculine Imperial Mementos in John Macnie’s Work and Play in the Argentine (1925)"

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Round Table: "Unsettling Women: Latin America, Ireland and Gendered Fictions of History"  
Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick). Introduction: “Irish Women's Literature and Diaspora” X
Patricia Coughlan (University College Cork). “Ángeles Mastretta and Anne Enright: Querying Masculine Histories” X
Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo). “Kate McCafferty and Anne Enright: Irish heroines-villains-victims in the Latin western hemisphere” X
   
Round Table: "La presencia irlandesa en México"  

Ó Fógartaigh, Séamus (independent scholar, Mexico). "The Irish Diaspora in Mexico"

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Méndez Reyes, Salvador (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). "Tomás Murphy y la Independencia de Hispanoamérica"

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Bieñko de Peralta, Doris (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico). "Reflexiones en torno a la obra e influencia de Michael Wadding o Miguel Godínez (1591-1644), S.J."

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Rodriguez, Maria del Rosario (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico). "La Guerra de 1847. Notas periodísticas acerca de la participación del Batallón de San Patricio"

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Panel One: Politics and Religion in Latin America  

Méndez González, Lucía (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México). "Un Fraile de Origen Irlandés en la Nueva España: Sir Thomas Gage y su experiencia americana"

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Bossay, Claudia (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland). "Latinoamérica e Irlanda: Una mirada a las congregaciones religiosas del viejo continente en el nuevo"

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Martínez Villegas, Austreberto (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Campus Iztapalapa, Mexico). "Política y religión en la era de los fascismos: Paralelismos y divergencias entre la Unión Nacional Sinarquista de México y la National Guard de Irlanda en la década de los treinta"

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Panel Two: The Legal System  

Ruiz Martínez, Herlinda (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico). "William of Lamport en la Nueva España"

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West, Katharine Hazel (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia). "Victims or Villains? – the legal defense of the Colombia Three"

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De Ita Rubio, Lourdes (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico). "William Cornelius: Un joven barbero irlandés en la Nueva España" X
   
Panel Three: Migrant Narratives  

Wall, Sinead (University of Westminster, UK). "(Un)settling the Irish emigrant identity: Reconstructing Irish identity in the travel narratives of Kathleen Nevin and William Bulfin"

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O'Brien, Sarah (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland). "Mujer de la Casa/ Béan a Tí; a comparative study of Irish and Puerto Rican women's migrant narratives"

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Panel Four: The Irish in Argentina  

Alvarez, Juan Pablo (independent scholar, Buenos Aires, Argentina). "Los descendientes del Dresden

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Cruset, Maria Eugenia (IRI-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina). "El espejo irlandés: vascos e irlandeses en Argentina"

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Panel Five: Industrial and Commercial Enterprises  

Roman Jaquez, Juana Gabriela (Centro INAH Coahuila, Mexico). "El que no arriega no gana. Las empresas de Guillermo Purcell en Coahuila"

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McEvoy, Gabriela (University of California, San Diego, USA). "Utopía irlandesa en el lejano Perú"

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Panel Six: Transcultural James Joyce  

Garcia Rodriguez, Analia (National University of Ireland, Galway). "Authority and Transgender Bodies in Miguel Ángel Asturias's Hombres de maíz and James Joyce's Ulysses"

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Tynan, Maeve (University of Limerick, Ireland). "'Still splitting heirs, dividing a Shem from a Shaun': Transcultural Joyce and the Postcolonial Hybrid"

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Panel Seven: Irish Settlements and Individual Enterprises  

McCarthy, Daniel (Boru Cultural Enterprises, Ireland). "Bernardo O'Brien and seventeenth century Gaelic colonies in the Americas"

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Phillips, Anthony George (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina). "Irish Emigration to the Americas since before the famine; The vagabond element (a 2008 update)"

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Panel Eight: Representations of Mexico  

Murphy, Cliona (California State University, Bakersfield, USA). "Porfirian Mexico through Finerty's Irish Eyes"

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Cowan, Mimi (Boston College, USA). "John Finerty: An Irish-American in Mexico"

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Panel Nine: Intertextuality and Literary Dialogues  

Flores Varona, Félix (independent scholar, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba). "José Martí: el retrato olvidado de Oscar Wilde"

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King, Kristen (Northwestern University, USA). "Borges's re-writing of Argentina's literary mythology as inherited by a colonial past and his creation of a national narrative in terms of his influence from James Joyce"

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Vela, David (Diablo Valley College, California, USA). "Jorge Luis Borges y Los Otros: James Joyce, Flann O'Brien y Samuel Beckett"

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Panel Ten: Transatlantic Identities  

Moya Sordo, Vera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). "Navegando por el mar del descubirmiento. El irlandés y el Atlántico."

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Rodríguez McKeon, Lucía Elena (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico). "El imaginario de una identidad. Una reflexión sobre la experiencia de ser descendiente irlandesa"

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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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