IASIL JAPAN Newsletter2011 No. 1
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
April 2011

1. Plan for IASIL JAPAN 2011 Conference
At the Committee Meeting held on March 12, plans for the 28th Conference ofIASIL-JAPAN have been confirmed.
Dates: Oct. 8 (Sat.) & Oct 9(Sun)
Venue: Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus
Theme: “History and Healing in Irish Writing”
Guest Speakers: Paul Muldoon (Poet) and Clair Wills (Professor of Irish Literature,Queen Mary, University of London)
Symposium1: “Wounds and Cures in Irish Literature”
Chair: Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin University)
Panelists:Toshi Takagishi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Futoshi Sakauchi (Waseda University)
Mika Momoo (Senshu University)

Symposium2: “World War II: Between History and Literature”
Chair: Hiroyuki Yamasaki (Ryukoku University)
Panelists:

Hiroko Mikami (Waseda University)
Masahiro Tsuji (Meiji University)
Saeko Nagashima (Chuo University)

Commentator:

Clair Wills

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated inArmagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as aradio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has livedin the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark „21 Professor at Princeton University1

and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of
The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University ofOxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College.
Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), WhyBrownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990),
The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel(2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), and Maggot (2010). (Quoted from his Homepage)

Clair Wills is a distinguished scholar of twentieth-century Irish literature and culture, andcontemporary English, Irish and American poetry. Her most recent book, That Neutral Island, isa social and cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War, published by Faber andHarvard University Press in 2007. She edited the Contemporary Writing section of the Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes IV and V (Cork University Press, 2002). In addition
to her books on Irish poetry (Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry(1993), and Reading Paul Muldoon (1998)) she has published articles on poets such as RoyFisher, Denise Riley, and Fanny Howe. She regularly reviews contemporary poetry for theTimes Literary Supplement. Her current research, for which she has been awarded a British
Academy Senior Research Fellowship, looks at cultural relations between Britain and Ireland inthe 1950s. (Quoted from the Homepage of the University of London)

2. 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-mail address, andtelephone and fax numbers by the end of May.
2) The length of the paper to be read at the conference should be within 20minutes.
IASIL JAPAN Office
C/o Dr. Kazuhiro Doki
Aichi University of Education
1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho, Kariya-city2Aichi 448-8542
Tel & Fax: 0566-26-2244
E-mail: doki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp

3. Yeats Exhibitions
The renowned exhibition on the life and works of W.B. Yeats at the National Libraryof Ireland will be reproduced in a panel exhibition which tours in Japan throughout
2011-2012. The exhibition celebrates his life, his works and his contribution to the great
debates of his age.
2011
May-June: Waseda University
October 2-14: Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus(You may want to see the exhibition at your liberty during the IASIL Japanconference.)
October 19-30: Aichi Shukutoku University, Hoshigaoka Campus
2012
Spring: University of Tokyo, Komaba*Details to be posted on the „Upcoming Events‟ page of the Irish Embassy‟s website:
http://www.irishembassy.jp/home/index.aspx?id=33449

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