Emancipating Performance in Theater and Film:
Chair, TBA

After the Abbey: Sarah Allgood’s search for Artistic Emancipation
(Mary Trotter, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Pat Kinevane’s Forgotten and Silent: Humanizing the Abject
(Joan Dean, University of Missouri- Kansas City)

“The Frail Salvation of the Final Curtain”

The Field Day Production of Thomas Kilroy’s The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theater (Jose Lanters, University of Wiscosin-Milwaukee)

The Brothers M: Relativity,
Race Matters and Resisting the Postmodernist Police in the work of Martin McDonagh and John Michael McDonagh
(Mary Ann Ryan, Chicago State University)

Emancipating “Ireland” in Anglo/British/Irish relations
Chair: Thomas Hachey, Boston College,
Beaumier Suite B

Hugh Law’s shifting efforts to accommodate politics from 1880s-1920s (Patrick Witt, University of Missouri-Columbia)

Becoming “Equal Citizens in the Free State”:
Irish Veterans of World War I
(Alissa Dean Condon, Marquette University)

Shadow Metropole: Ireland’s Varieties of Anti-Colonial Rhetoric
(Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Superior)

The 1962 Wolfe Affair: Exploring Nationalist Networking in the British Isles (Andrew Devenney, Mid-Michigan Community College)

Thematic Emancipation: Literature through Place and Time
Chair: TBA
Beaumier Suite C

George Moore and the Transnational in Literature (Mary Mullen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

The Pastoral in Conor McPherson’s “The Weir”
(Sarah Nestor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)

Anglo-Irish Legacies in Novels of Jennifer Johnston (Patrick J. Whiteley, Northern State University)

Emancipation in Letters at Home and Abroad:
Chair: TBA
Beaumier Suite A

Navigation: Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea in the Creative Writing Classroom (Karen Babine, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Varieties of Silence: Reflections on Irish-American Memoirs (James Rogers, University of St. Thomas)

Early Years of the Troubles in Pages of the New Yorker (Brian Nerney, Metropolitan State University)

James Liddy’s Milwaukee (Tyler Farrell, Marquette University)

Violence and Remembrance in Modern Ireland (NIU Panel):
Chair, Sean Farrell (NIU)
Beaumier Suite B

Potent Legacies: Irish Canal Workers and Political Networks in Jacksonian Maryland (Mathieu Billings, Northern Illinois University)

More Than Words: Reevaluating the Howth Gunrunning of 1914 (Ian Burns, Northern Illinois University)

One Hundred Years On: Memory and Ireland’s Struggle with the Legacy of the South African War (David Downs, Northern Illinois University)

Emancipating Thematic “Familiars”:
Catholicism, Language and the Shannon:
Chair, Sean Farrell Moran, Oakland University
Beaumier Suite A

Choosing ‘God or Mammon’: The Jesuits and the Intellectual Foundation of Irish Catholic Social Action, 1910-1914
(Connor Lewis, University of Missouri-Columbia)

“A Big Advertisement for the Free State in General and for Limerick in Particular”: Situating the Shannon Scheme as a National, Regional, and Local Undertaking (McKayla Sutton, Marquette
University)

"God May Not Need a Passport, Priests Do: Exploring the Migration Experience of Polish Catholic Priests in Ireland"
(Agata Piekosz, University of Toronto)

Grand Legacy? Ireland’s Gaelic Revival, Past and Present
(Tim McMahon, Marquette University)

Emancipating Atlantic Ireland from Early Modern to the Age of O’Connell: Chair, TBA
Beaumier Suite B

The Politics of Tobacco in Late Seventeenth-Century Ireland
(James Guilfoyle, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga)

A History of Acrimony: Daniel O’Connell’s Irish-American Problem (Brandon Corcoran, University of Toronto)

Reacting to the Select Committee on Orangeism in 1835: Initial Reactions in O’Connell’s Ireland (Seth Torpin, University of Missouri)

Emancipating Literature: Unsettling Sensibilities:
Chair, TBA

“Cyclops” and James Joyce’s Monster Audiences
(Leah Flack, Marquette University)

“The Danger of Hope” Joyce’s Eveline and Trevor’s “Death in Jerusalem”
(Jeannie Kidera, Western Reserve Academy)

Joycean Echoes in MacLaverty, Barry and McEwan
(Sandy Pearce, Minnesota State University)

“The Dead Can be Turned into Anything”: Remembering Political Violence in John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun (John Malloy, Marquette University)

Clashing Symbols: Re-tuning Ireland’s 19th Century Cacophony:
Chair, Mary Trotter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Evangelical Protestantism and Working Class Conservatism in Early Victorian Belfast (Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University)

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Irish Famine and the 1853 Dublin International Exhibition (Caroline Malloy, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Violent Masculinity and Affective Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Broadsides (Ellen O’Brien, Roosevelt University)

The “Irish Question” through Dublin Unionist Eyes: The Union’s Loyalist Cartoons in the Late Nineteenth Century
(Daniel Conner, University of Missouri-Columbia)

Emancipating Identities from the Troubles through the Celtic Tiger Era: Chair, TBA
Beaumier Suite A

“That Explosion of Things as They Are”: Eamon Grennan’s Poetry of Stillness, Mortality, and the “Quickened Breath of Appetite”
(Joseph Heininger, Dominican University)

Who is Irish? Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities
(Eva Roa White, Indiana University Kokomo)

The New Old Place: Immigration and Dublin Identity in Sebastian Barry’s “The Pride of Parnell Street”
(Laura Farrell-Wortman, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

No Longer at the Kids’ Table: Irish Chick Lit as a Testament to Change (Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan)