Friday 25th September

THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE 1890-1930

An event supported by the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies, University College Dublin

14.00-14.30 Registration and Welcome

14.30-16.00 Session 1: Gender, Theory and the Avant-Garde

Chair: Dr. Emma Radley

“Pushing the Boundaries: Ambivalence and the body in the work of Salvador Dalì” (Fiona Noble, University of Aberdeen)

“Claude Cahun and the French Surrealist avant-garde in the post First World War period” (Rebecca Ferreboeuf, University of Leeds)

“Multiplying the radical – to the root – avant-garde: The rhzomatic Merzbau” (Gemma Carroll, University College Cork)

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.00 Session 2: Comparative Perspectives on the Avant-Garde

Chair: Prof. Deirdre O’Grady (UCD)

“‘nat language in any sinse of the world’: Avant-Garde approaches to language in Joyce and Tzara” (Paul Fagan, University of Vienna)

“Soffici between Marinetti’s Futurism and Apollinaire” (Mila Milani, University of Manchester)

“Between Repudiation and Homage: European Influences in Polish Poetic and Visual Avant-Garde, 1918-1930” (Justyna Stępień, University of Łódź and Kamila Pawlikowska, University of Kent)

18.00-19.00 Wine Reception

Saturday 26th September

9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.30 Session 3: New Approaches to Futurism, Vorticism and Dadaism

Chair: Ms Selena Daly (UCD)

“Poetry is in the street. It goes arm in arm with laughter”: Blaise Cendrars and the “violent incursion of life into art.” (Sarah Hayden, University College Cork)

“A guide to dissolute Berlin” (Jean O’Donovan, University College Cork)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 Session 4: Avant-Garde Poetry

Chair: Dr. Ron Callan (UCD)

“Atelier 17 and the Europa Poets” (Dr. Sandra O’Connell, Independent Scholar)

“Aesthetic Suicide: An allegorical reading of Lorca’s Suicidio en Alejandria” (Tara Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast)

“The Reach of Revolutionary Aesthetics: A Comparative Study of the Influence of the European Avant-Garde on the work of the American and Québecois poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gaston Miron” (Muireann Leonard, Independent Scholar)

12.30-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30-15.00 Session 5: Translating the Avant-Garde

Chair: Prof. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin (TCD)

“Visual ‘surrealisation’, ludic translation of Surrealism” (Elise Aru, University College London)

“‘All the energized past, all the past that is living’: Ezra Pound between translation experiments and avant-garde” (Giovanna Epifania, University of Bari)

“Writing into the Future by Recounting the Past—The Mandarin Translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses” (Chih Hsien Hsieh, University College Dublin)

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-17.00 Session 6: Theatre and the Avant-Garde

Chair: Ms Monica Insinga (UCD)

“Bernard Shaw’s Irish characters and the rise of reverse snobbery” (David Clare, University College Dublin)

“‘The margins of the nation displacing the centre’: The Rejection of the Wider European narrative: Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie” (Conor Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast)

“Half Beast-Half Angel: Djuna Barnes Nightwood and German Expressionist Drama” (Kate Armond, University of East Anglia)

19.00 Conference Dinner at the Tenors Grill Room in Donnybrook, Dublin 4:
http://tenorsgrillroom.ie/dinner_menu_3.html