The details about the 39th IASIL Japan Conference (online) have been released!
We are very much looking forward to hosting Anne Haverty’s reading, Claire Connolly’s online lecture, symposia and paper-readings by our members. For further details, please visit the conference webpage.
Please register for the conference by 30th September, using the online registration form.
Draft Programme (Subject to Change)
Dates: 28 & 29 October 2023
Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus
Theme: Evolutions/Dissolutions
Reading and Q&As: Anne Haverty
Online Lecture: Prof Claire Connolly (University College Cork), “A Watery History of Irish Literature: Crossing the Irish Sea with John Keats”
Symposium 1: “Evolutions/Dissolutions: Changes in Irish Writing and Performance”
Chair: Beverley Curran (ICU) Panelists: Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University), Rina Kikuchi (Shiga University), Mika Yoshimoto Murtagh (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) & Beverley Curran (ICU)
Symposium 2: “How Were They Cuttin’?: Joyce, Beckett, O’Flaherty,
and Corkery and Post-Independence Ireland.”
Chair: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University) Panelists: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University), Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s University), Yuta Imazeki (Edogawa University) & Kiminori Fukaya (Hosei University)
Panel Sessions with presentations by Tomoya Arai, Hawk Chang, Chih-hsien Hsieh, Shan-Yun Huang, Nao Igarashi, Iain Twiddy & Akemi Yoshida
All welcome!
Further details and an online registration form will be released in early September 2023 at http://iasil.jp/conference.html.
The deadline for submissions to the Journal of Irish Studies (JIS), Vol. 38, is
25 February 2024. This is earlier than normal in order to be ready for the main
IASIL conference in August 2024, which is being held in Japan. After this,
the submission deadline will revert to 25 April as normal.
Extended Call for Papers!
The CFP deadline for the 39th IASIL Japan Conference (28th & 29th October 2023), has been extended to 30th June:
Applicants for a 20-minute paper reading are requested to send a synopsis of 250–300 words as a Word attachment to the IASIL Japan office at <secretary[@]iasil.jp>. Besides the synopsis itself, please send details of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers by 30th June.
Dates: 28th & 29th October, 2023
Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus
Theme: Evolutions / Dissolutions
Guests: Anne Haverty (in-person) and Claire Connolly (online)
Call for Papers!
Applicants for a 20-minute paper reading are requested to send a synopsis of 250–300 words as a Word attachment to the IASIL Japan office. Besides the synopsis itself, please send details of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers by 31 May 2023.
For further details, please check the April 2023 Newsletter.
Members will be requested to fill in an online registration form. Further details will be given in September 2023 at the following website:http://iasil.jp/conference.html.
In 2024, the Journal of Irish Studies will celebrate the 40th anniversary of IASIL Japan (1984-2024). Proposals for material for this special anniversary edition include:
• Bibliography of publications in Japan within the field of Irish Studies 2003-2023 (NOT limited to the Journal of Irish Studies) in English and in Japanese. All publications by IASIL Japan members may be included, regardless of where they were published.
• Reflections from original and long-standing members of IASIL Japan
• Photographs (from IASIL Japan conferences 1984-2024, etc.)
IASIL Japan members are encouraged to send any of the above material to the editor of the Journal of Irish Studies (editor@iasil.jp) before 25 April 2024. All photographs should be sent as either JPEG or PDF (if scanned) files to the editor by email attachment. All publications for the bibliography should be in the following format (for consistency, we will follow the same format as the 1984-2003 bibliography):
Journal Articles:
Name (year of publication) ‘title.’ In Journal Title [vol:no], [pages].
Example:
Abe Kazuko (1994) ‘The Poetry of Derek Mahon, 1962-1982.’ In Kasumigaoka Review 1, 91-107.
― (1994) ‘Father-Son Relations in Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia Here I Come!”.’ In Éire 14, 21-31.
IASIL offers scholarships for postgraduate students to attend the IASIL 2023 conference at the British University in Egypt. For further details, please go to: https://www.bue.edu.eg/iasil/. The closing date is 20th January 2023.
IASIL Japan also offers a scholarship for a postgraduate student in Japan to attend the IASIL 2023 conference. For further details, please go to: http://iasil.jp/scholarship.html. The closing date is 31st January 2023.
IASIL Japan Office has sent Zoom IDs and passcodes for the online conference rooms to those who registered. If you have registered but not received the login details, please contact IASIL Japan.
The newsletter contains information about the 38th Conference and other news. Please go to: http://iasil.jp/newsletter.html.
