An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta

XI Annual Conference on Cross-Currents

in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts

Hemispheres

3-5 May 2002

Áras Uí Rathaille/O'Rahilly Building (ORB)

Friday 3 May

2.00 Opening

The Council Room, North Wing, UCC

Professor Peter Woodman, Dean of Arts, UCC

2.30-4.00 SESSION Ia ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Orbs, reflections, mirrors

Dr Angela Ryan, Department of French, UCC

'Two Better Hemispheres': Barthesian Orbs and Images in Donne's The Good- Morrow, Bonnefoy's Le Miroir courbe and van Eyck's The Arnolfini Wedding

Dr Graham Allen Department of English, UCC

Us Ghosts: The Hemispheroidal University and the Triumph of Transparency

2.30-4.00 SESSION Ib ­ Room 1.32, ORB

Containers and contained

Ilaria de Seta, Department of Italian, UCC Containers and Contained in Italo Svevo's Writing

David Best, Department of Italian, UCC

Paolo Volponi's Psychological Landscapes: from Rural Topography to Mental Space in La macchina mondiale

4.00-4.30 Coffee, Social Space, ORB

4.30-6.00 Session 2a ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Invisible opposites

Dr John Scaggs, English Department, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

'Whatever Dies Was Not Mixed Equally': Deconstructing Unity in Revenge Narratives

Dr Birgit Haas, Department of German, University of Bristol

Wessi meets Ossi, or the Wall inside the Head: the Clash of East and West Germans in Post-Reunification Drama

4.30-6.00 Session 2b ­ Room 1.32, ORB

Atlantic and Pacific

Professor Bill Marshall, Department of French, University of Glasgow

The French Atlantic

Professor Juliette Rogers, University of New Hampshire

East meets West: Francophone Bildungsroman in China

6.15-7.15 Session 3

The Council Room, North Wing

Music of the Spheres

Professor Des MacHale, Department of Mathematics, UCC

Music of the Hemispheres: Boolean Bipolarities

7.30 Reception, Staff Common Room

Saturday 4 May

9.30-11.00 Session 4 ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Cosmogonies, boundaries

Thom Moore, Irish Translators' and

Interpreters' Association

Heavens Above: Hemispheres of Rulership and the Dead Weight of Symbolism

Hugh Cronin, Department of French, UCC

Butler's Exclusive Disjunction and Bourdieu's Rite d'institution

11.00-11.30 Coffee: Social Space, ORB

11.30 -1.00 Session 5 ­ Room 1.23, ORB

East and West

Dr John Balcom, Monterey Institute of

International Studies, California

East-West-West-East: Translation and

Hemispheric Merging

Dr Mark Chu, Department of Italian, UCC

Orientalism - Italian Style: Representations of Chinese Immigrants in Carlo Lucarelli's Febbre gialla

11.30-1.00 Session 5b ­ Room 1.32, ORB

North and South Room

Professor David Mackenzie, Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC

Tortilla espanola: Moors and Christians in Medieval Iberia

Dr Rachel Langford, Cardiff University

Re-imagined Geographies: the Spaces of Francophone African Film and Literature between Colonisation and Globalisation

1.00-2.30 Lunch

Staff Common Room, North Wing, UCC

2.30-4.00 Session 6a ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Eyes, halves

Dr Mary Noonan, Department of French, UCC

Breaking the Mirror: The Struggle for Release from Gendered Poesis in the

Theatre of Marguerite Duras.

Dr Margaret Topping, School of

European Studies, Cardiff University

Hemispheres of Inversion in Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu

2.30-4.00 Session 6b ­ Room 1.32, ORB

Transpositions

Dr Toby Garfitt , Magdalen College, Oxford

Holding Together: Jean Grenier between écartèlement and union

Dr Gert Hofmann, Department of

German, UCC

The Self and the Other: Poetry as Quotation

Coffee: Social Space, ORB

4.30-6.00 Session 7a ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Holes and hollows

Dr Massimo Leone, University of Siena

Marine Hemispheres: Some Semiotic Notes on Seashells

Dr Norbert Kelvin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC

Beauty and Power in Music: The Pipe

Organ, the Musical Instrument of Opposites

4.30-6.00 Session 7b ­ Room 1.32, ORB

Eggs, cells, nuclei

Lori Parks, Department of French,

University of Reading

The Valid Body: Identity and the Internal and External Body

Tom Quinn, Dublin City University

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Female: Degradation and Exaltation of

Woman in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit.

6.15-7.15 Session 8 ­ The Council Room, North Wing

Female and male

Professor Naomi Segal, Department of French, University of Reading

'Then some had rather it were She than I': sexing the textual body

8.00 Conference Dinner: Proby's Bistro, Crosses Green, Cork

Sunday 5 May

10.00-11.30 Session 9a ­ Room 1.23, ORB

Imagined geographies

Dermot Fagan, Department of French, UCD

Maurice Blanchot and the "unimaginable geography" of Auschwitz

Marco Sonzogni, University College, Dublin

Real and Imagined Geographies: Montale's New York

10.00-11.30 Session 9b ­ Room 1.32, ORB

Female and male

Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Department of English, UCC

European and Post-colonial Reception of 19th-century Irish Novels: Edgeworth

and Morgan

Dr Eamon Maher, School of Humanities, Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin

Circles and Circularity in the Writings of John McGahern

Coffee

12.00-1.30 Session 10 ­ The Granary Theatre, Mardyke, Cork

Yin and yang

Dr Adam Curtis, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC

(Re)-Joining the Hemispheres: Addressing the Mind/Body Split through Holistic Actor Training ­ followed by a performance.