IASIL JAPAN Newsletter2012 No. 3
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
August 2012

1. IASIL JAPAN 2012 Conference
As has been announced IASIL Japan 2012 Conference will meet on Oct. 6 (Sat.) &Oct 7(Sun) at Meiji University, Surugadai Campus. Please find the program andresumes in the envelope. One of the guest speakers has been changed from Dr. Irene deAngelis to Dr. Wolfgang Zach, whose background introduction is as follows:
Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck since 1994.
Former Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish
Literature and of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature andLanguage Studies. Dr. Zach’s research interests comprise Shakespeare, 18th- and20th-Century British Literature and Culture, Anglo-Irish Literature and Culture, New
Literatures in English (esp. transcultural aspects), Literary Theory (esp. metacriticism,postcolonial criticism) and National Images and Stereotypes.
Dr. Zach has been invited as Visiting Professor/Research Fellow at the Universityof Münster, Mansfield College Oxford, University of Trieste, National University ofSingapore, University of Nigeria, Doshisha University Kyoto, University ofHalle-Wittenberg, Concordia University Montreal etc. Also, he hosted several
international conferences and received various awards for his scholarly work. He is acoeditor of two journals and three series of monographs.

Please find a reply postcard in the envelope and fill in. The card must reachus no later than September 22, 2012.

2. Election of New Executive Committee Members
The Ballot Counting for the Next Committee Members was conducted and observedby Ohno Mitsuko, Bev Curran, Yamada Sachiyo, Doki Kazuhiro on June 9, 2012 at1

Aichi Shukutoku University, Hoshigaoka Campus. The total of 46 ballots returned and37 were valid and 9 not valid. The high rate invalidity was caused by the confusion insending incomplete ballot sheets first and replacement of them later, so the officedeeply apologizes again for the confusion.
Newly elected Committee Members are David J. Burleigh, Beverley Curran,Kazuhiro Doki, Andrew Fitzsimons, Akiko Manabe, Seishi Matsuda, Ken’ichi
Matsumura, Hiroko Mikami, Tetsuko Nakamura, Masami Nakao, Mitsuko Ohno, YokoSato, Masaya Shimokusu, Fuyuji Tanigawa, Nobuaki Tochigi, Masazumi Toraiwa,Naoko Toraiwa, Kumiko Yamada (Rikkyo Uni.), Hiroyuki Yamasaki.

3. 2012 Membership Fee
Please find 2012 Membership Fee remittance sheet in the envelope. If you have notpaid past year membership fee, your payment record is printed below your address on
the envelope. For example, if you find U2011 there, it means you have not paid your fee
for the year yet, so please pay the fee along with 2012 membership fee. If you find noremittance sheet in the envelope and no record on the envelope, it means you havealready paid for the year 2012 and for past two years membership fees.	  If you live abroad, please transfer your membership fee to the following account. Themembership fee does not include the transfer charge, so please make sure that the exact
amount will reach us. Also please add the postal charge following the table below:
Bank Name: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, LTD.
SWIFT CODE: BOTKJPJT
Branch Name: Kakuozan Branch Motoyama Agency (Branch No. 670)
Branch Address: 5-14-1 Suemoridori Chikusa-ku Nagoya Aichi Japan
Tel: (+81) (0) 52 764 2321
Beneficiary’s Name: IASIL JAPAN Treasurer Sachiyo Yamada
Benneficiary’s Account No.: 3788295

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¥ 1,000¥ 2,0002¥ 1,300¥ 2,600IASIL Conference, Concordia University, Montreal
2012 IASIL Conference was held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada from 30
July to 3 August. The conference theme is: Weighing Words: Interdisciplinary
Engagements with and within Irish Literatures. Concordia University is situated inone of the most lively and bustling street blocks in Montreal. The delegates couldenjoy cosmopolitan, modern-city atmosphere around the conference venue. Thedeliberate and heart-warm welcome of the organizers, Prof. Michael Kenneally, Dr.
Rhona Richman Kenneally and Dr. Susan Cahill, and sincere efforts of the staff
members boosted academic exchanges and solidified IASIL members’ comradeliness.
In the final printed version of the programme, 142 papers can be found. Joep
Leerssen, Gerardine Meaney and David Lloyd delivered keynote lectures. Jane
Urquhart, Kevin Barry, Leontia Flynn, Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy did author
readings. In a roundtable discussion, “The Future of Irish Literary Studies,” thedelegates from all over the world considered the contemporary situations of Irish“literary” studies and exchanged their views and opinions.
Thanks to the organizers’ deep consideration and friendship for Japanesemembers, the period of this conference was set at the end of July and the beginning ofAugust. The panel organized by three delegates from the University of Kitakyushu
was very conspicuous in the programme. Nevertheless, it may have been desirable, if
more papers or panels by the members of Japanese branch could have been found there.
At the IASIL Executive Meeting and the Annual General Meeting, Prof.
Margaret Kelleher, the President of IASIL, and top executives presented how stably
IASIL was being operated, although a modest proposal on membership fee may be done
the next year. The plan for the next conference was shown as follows: it will be heldat Queen’s University, Belfast from 22 July to 26 July 2013. The conference theme
will be: Urban Cultures.
Masaya Shimokusu, Doshisha University3