IASIL JAPAN Newsletter2009 No. 2
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
April 2009

1. Plan for IASIL JAPAN 2009 Conference
At the Committee Meeting held on March 14, plans for the 26th Conference ofIASIL-JAPAN were discussed.

Dates: Oct. 10 (Sat.) & Oct 11 (Sun)
Venue: Shiga University, Hikone Campus
Theme: “Echo Chambers: Reverberations in Irish Writing”
Guest Speaker: Prof. Riana O’Dwyer (NUI Galway)
Symposium1: Contemporary Irish Theatre (To be organized by Prof. Hiroko Mikami)
Symposium2: James Joyce (To be organized by Prof. Kazuhiro Doki)Prof. O’Dwyer, whom we also know as the current Chairperson of IASIL, is planningto speak on the Irish drama after 1960. We may also expect her to join the discussion
following Symposium 1. Shiga University Hikone Campus looks out on the Lake Biwa,
the largest inland lake in Japan. The area is also full of culture and history, such as
Hikone castle and many temples and gardens. If you can afford an extra day, you may
travel by train to Koka, famous Ninja place or Shigaraki, famous for Tanuki pottery,from the venue, maybe after the conference.
Call for Papers!
1) Applicants for the paper reading are requested to send the office below
250–300 Words synopsis as an MS Word attachment. Besides the synopsis
itself, please send details of the author’s affiliation, full postal and e-mailaddress, and telephone and fax numbers by the end of May.
2) The length of the paper to be read at the conference should be within 20minutes.

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IASIL JAPAN Officec/o Dr. Kazuhiro Doki
Aichi University of Education
1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho, Kariya-city
Aichi

448-8542

Tel & Fax: 0566-26-2244
E-mail: doki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp

2. Yeats International Summer School (copied from the mail delivered by IASIL office)
The Yeats International Summer School will run from 25 July to 7 August 2009 in
the year of its 50th anniversary. There will be a full academic program of lectures andseminars, with readings by some of the most exciting names in modern poetry,
including Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Dennis
O’Driscoll, Sinead Morrissey, Gerald Dawe, Julie O’Callaghan, Bernard O’Donoghue,
Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Moya Cannon, Peter Fallon, Justin Quinn, MauriceHarmon, Peter McDonald and others.
The Drama Workshop, run by Sam and Joan McCready, will run throughout the twoweeks and culminate in the production of a Yeats play. Award-winning poet Sinead
Morrissey will conduct the Poetry Workshop which takes place over the central
weekend. The first school, fifty years ago, was directed by Denis Donoghue , now Henry
James Professor in English and American Letters at New York University; he will
return to Sligo for the anniversary year, to deliver a lecture entitled “Three Presences:Yeats, Eliot and Pound.” Helen Vendler of Harvard University will open the schoolofficially, on Sunday 25 July, and will remain at the school to give seminars on Yeats’s
middle and later poems and to present a lecture: “Vacillation: the Yeatsian Contraries.”
Other speakers include George Bornstein, Terence Brown, Liz Cullingford, David
Fitzpatrick, Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, Meg Harper, John Kelly, Declan Kiely, EdnaLongley, Ron Schuchard, and Deirdre Toomey.

A full list of lectures, seminars andreadings can be found on the newly-updated website:www.yeats-sligo.com<http://www.yeats-sligo.com>

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