IASIL JAPAN Newsletter2003 (1)International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, JapanMay 2003
1. Planning for the 2003 IASIL JAPAN Conference
At the Committee Meeting held on February 22nd 2003, plans for the20th Conference of IASIL JAPAN were discussed.
a) Date: October 12 and 13, 2003.
b) Place: Waseda Universityc) Conference Theme: A Look Backward and A Step Forward
・Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Frank O’Connor’s birth.
d) Guest Speaker: Cathal Ó Searcaigh (Poet)e) Keynote Lecture: Prof. Tetsuro Sano (To commemorate the 20th anniversaryof IASIL JAPAN.)
f) Symposiai) Frank O’Connor’s Short Stories
Chair & Organizer: Prof. George Hughes
Speakers: Professors Mika Momo, Peter O’Connor and Hidemitsu Tohgo.
ii) Short Irish Poems
Chair & Organizer: Prof. David BurleighSpeakers: Professors Andrew Fitzsimons, Mitsuko Ohno and Nobuaki Tochigif) Call for Papers!
Applicants for the paper reading are requested to send the office a synoposisby the end of May. The following items must be either
1.

saved in a FD and sent with a hard copy typed on A4-sized sheetsor2.

sent as an attachment to e-mail or written as an email message

Name, University or other Affiliation, Address, Title of the Paperand 250–300 Word Summary.
Papers read at the conference should be 3,000 words and given within 20minutes.
2. Journal of Irish Studies
Please see the letter from the Editorial Board on a separate sheet.
Prof. Richard Kelly has been working for the international distribution. Thanks
to his hard work, 90 copies were distributed to the main libraries in the UK,
Europe, and the USA. The income by the end of March 2003 was ¥300,000.
Postage costs were ¥710 per parcel. We have been receiving good responsesfrom universities such as Trinity College Dublin. Also listed in OPAC website
in which the contents of the Journal are described.
Thanks to Prof. Hiroko Mikami’s efforts, ¥800,000 has been awarded to theJournal of Irish Studies by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(学術振興会). (The final decision as to the amount will be announced
following our submission of another set of forms).
3. Information Leaflets
Please find enclosed the following information leaflets:a) Zurich Annual International Workshop (Zurich James Joyce
Foundation, August 3-9, 03)b) The Seventh Annual Trieste Joyce School (University ofTrieste, June 29-July 5, 2003)
4. Other Societies in Japana) James Joyce Society, Japan
Annual conference will be held at Aoyama Gakuin University（青山学院大学）
on June 14. (Office: c/o Prof. Hiroaki Natsume, Aoyama Gakuin University,Ahbeesee@aol.com).
b) The Yeats Society of Japan

Annual conference will be held at Kyushu Sangyo Universit（九州産業大学）
on September 20 and 21. (Office: c/o Prof. Fuyuji Tanigawa, Baika
Women’s Junior College, tanigawa@baika.ac.jp).
c) Japan Ireland Society
Annual Conference will be held at Seiju University （成城大学）onNovember 29 and 30. (Office: c/o Prof. Setsuko Mori,mori-mcelwain@mtg.biglobe.ne.jp).
5. Other Information
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Dear Manabe-sensei,
Would you be interested in exchanging links with my site?
www.greenspeak.info. It complements my book Greenspeak - Ireland in
her own Words, which I believe will be of great use to your IASIL JAPANmembers. Best wishes from Dublin, Ireland.
Yours sincerely,Paddy Sammon
6. The 2003 Membership Fee
The postal transfer sheet is enclosed. Please do not fail to send the 2003
membership fee!
Regular membership ¥8,000
Married couples ¥12,000
Student membership ¥5000. (Students who wish to receive IUR haveto pay ¥8,000).
Our Bank Account changed at the beginning of April, 2003.
Details are as follows:
Name of the Bank: UFJ Bank,
Name of the Branch: Kyoto Ekimae
Branch no 434
Account no: 4538506
Under the name of: IASIL JAPAN Office	  Reiko Taniue
銀行名	  	  UFJ	  銀行	  京都駅前支店
口座番号	  4538506
名義	  	  	  イアシル・ジャパン事務局	  谷上れい子

7. Address Book
This Year we will create a new address book. Please find a slip on
which your name, address, phone number, fax number, affiliation ande-mail address are written. If you need any change at all, please correct
the part(s) you would like to change in RED, and return the slip toProfessor Reiko Taniue549-12

Wakamiya-cho, Rokujo-sagaru, Wakamiya-dori,Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8314
600-8314京都市下京区若宮通六条下る若宮町549-12
谷上 れい子様Please send it to her by JUNE 30.

IASIL JAPAN Secretariat
Akiko Manabe
Shiga University, Faculty of Economics
1–1–1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522–8522
Tel & fax: +81-(0)749–27–1111
e–mail: akiko–m@biwako.shiga–u.ac.jp