Irish Drama of the XX and XXI Century: Changes and Evolutions

Lodz 9-11 June 2011

University of Lodz
Poland

Venue for all the sessions and lectures: New Art Museum (ms2) 19 Ogrodowa Street
Venue for the conference reception: Biedermann Palace 1/3 Franciszkanska Street
THURSDAY 9 JUNE
11.00 Lodz Art Museum tour (English)
11.00 13.00 Registration
13.00 Opening of the conference
13.15 14.00 Plenary Lecture 1
Barry Keane (University of Warsaw, Poland): Upstarts, Hopeful Heroes and Awkward Questions.
An Overview of the Presentation and Reception of Irish Drama in Poland from 1900-1970
14.00 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 - 16.30 Session 1
Grzegorz Koneczniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru, Poland): (Post)Colonial Poetics of
Lady Augusta Gregorys Drama: Selected Perspectives
Laurel Arrington (University of Liverpool, UK): Casimir Markieviczs Irish Drama: antiimperialism and the avant-garde in Dublin, 1903-1913
Lisa Cohen (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland): Ploughing on: The Plays of Sean OCasey on
International tour by the Abbey Theatre
17.00 17.30 Coffee break (Biedermann Palace)
17.30 18.30 Christina Reid interview (Biedermann Palace)
18.30 Conference Reception (Biedermann Palace)

FRIDAY 10 JUNE
9.30 11.00 Session 2
Robert Looby (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Stage Directions in Brian Friels
Translations
Micha Lachman (University of Lodz, Poland): Theatricality in Frank McGuinnesss Drama
Megan W. Minogue (Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland): Forcing Change: The
Challenges of Loyalist Paramilitaries in the Post-Good Friday Agreement Drama of Gary
Mitchell
11.00 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 12.30 Session 3
Jagoda Uchman (University of Lodz, Poland): Samuel Beckett and Ireland
Katarzyna Deszcz (Jan Kochanowski Theatre, Radom, Poland): Presentation of Catholicism in
selected plays of Brian Friel and Martin McDonagh practitioners perspective
12.30 13.00 Coffee
13.00 14.00 Plenary lecture 2
Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Against Eloquence: Irish Drama at Century's
End
14.00 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 16.00 Session 4
Katarzyna Ojrzyska (Univeristy of Lodz, Poland): Irish Nasty Nineties and the (Re)Introduction
of the Dancing Body onto the Irish Stage
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Lodz, Poland) Who is the translator in Brian Friels
Translations?
16.30-17.30 Book launch: Dialog Anthology of XX Century Irish Drama; Polityka, historia,
tosamo. Antologia wspczesnego dramatu irlandzkiego (Politics, History, Identity. Anthology of
Contemporary Irish Drama, Panga Pank, Krakow), Tradycyjnie w opozycji. Antologia modego
dramatu irlandzkiego (Traditionally in Opposition. Anthology of New Drama from Ireland ADiT)

SATURDAY 11 JUNE
9.00 10.30 Session 5
Stephen Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Female Monuments and Cultural Memory in
Dublin
Katherine O'Keefe (University College Dublin, Ireland): Passion Plays: The Mortal Women of
Oscar Wilde and Marina Carr
Monika Wasilewska (University of Lodz, Poland): Forgotten, exiled womens dramas in
modern Ireland
10.30 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 12.30 Session 6
Maciej Ruczaj (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): The bermensch of the Western
World: the Self and the Nation in Padraic Pearses The Singer
David Malcolm (University of Gdansk, Poland): McGaherns The Power of Darkness
Katarzyna Poloczek (University of Lodz, Poland) A New Ireland. Forward to...something. The
imagery of imprisonment in Paula Meehan's play Cell
12.30 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 15.00 Drama workshop
15.00 walking tour of Lodz
SUNDAY 12 JUNE
A post-conference day-trip to Warsaw