Cultural Identities and Cultural Transmission

CALL FOR PAPERS

14th Irish-Australian Conference

Cork, 22-24 June 2005

Cultural Identities and Cultural Transmission

This international Irish Studies conference invites papers relating to Ireland and to the Irish abroad, with particular emphasis on the Irish in Australia and New Zealand. Culture will be one of the key conference themes. Cork is the designated European Capital of Culture for 2005, a circumstance that provides both an opportunity and an environment to focus on this important area of human contact.

Topics that might be addressed include:

Material culture; folk culture; literature; music; dance; fine art; film; architecture; written and oral cultural transmission; cultural influences; intercommunal cultural transference; cultural assimilation and dissemination within host communities; cultural retention or dilution within these societies.

The cultural theme is apposite, given Cork’s 2005 European role, but the conference also welcomes papers on history, politics, religion, gender, migration, geography and economics as they relate to Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and to the links between these countries.

The conference will be based at University College Cork. A website containing a programme and registration form, together with information on accommodation will be set up later this year.

Inquiries and offers of papers, with a title and a 100-word abstract, should be sent before 1 May 2005 to:

Dr Larry Geary, History Department, University College Cork, Ireland. Phone: 353 21 4903047, Fax: 353 21 4273369, Email: l.gearyucc.ie

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