Genre & Irish Film Conference 2005

Conference Participants:

To view biographies of the Genre & Irish Film Conference participants, please click here.

Schedule:

All panel sessions will take place in the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies in the University Centre (known variously on campus as the “old Faculty Club” or “above the Sage Bistro restaurant”). It is located in the building beside the Graduate studies Centre and opposite the entrance to the Frederic Wood Theatre. The street address is 6331 Crescent Road.

This conference is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Monday, March 14th:

9-10 AM: Coffee and Registration; Book Table Display of Irish Film books and related books. Books may be purchased at this time; following this hour, the display will be located at the UBC Bookstore where further purchases may be made during the week.

10AM-10.15: Welcoming Remarks from Brian McIlroy

10.15-12.15: Panel 1: The fantastic, horrific and apocalyptic

  • Moderator: Lisa Coulthard (UBC)
  • Neil Jordan and the Postmodern Gothic (Maria Pramaggiore, North Carolina State University)
  • Straying From the Path: Horror and the Breakdown of the Cliché in the Films of Neil Jordan (Dana Och, University of Pittsburgh)
  • The Fantastic Spaces of Irish National Cinema (Matthew Fee, New York University/Ithaca College)
  • “The Most Dark and Daring of Conspiracies “: The Ethical Subject and Irish Cinema’s Redemption of the Apocalypse (Christine Evans, University of British Columbia)

12.15-1.45: Faculty of Arts and Film Studies Program Sponsored Lunch for all speakers and moderators in the Sage Bistro.

1.45-2.45: “Thinking Inside the Box”

  • Keynote: Cheryl Temple-Herr (University of Iowa)
  • Moderator: Brian McIlroy (UBC)

2.45-3.00: Coffee break

3.00-4.00: Panel 2: Hegemonic Hollywood Genres?

  • Moderator: Kirsty Johnston (UBC)
  • Hollywood Irish: An Incomplete Identity (Mark Harris, University of British Columbia)
  • Is Californication a Mortal Sin? (Michael Gillespie, Marquette University)

4.00-5.00 pm: Special Presentation

  • Irish Filmmaker James Finlan introduces, screens, and discusses his short film Eireville (2002) winner of the Best Short Film at the Cork Film Festival. James Finlan’s visit is sponsored in part by the Irish Embassy in Ottawa.

Tuesday, March 15:

9.00-9.15: Announcements: Brian McIlroy

9.15-10.45: Panel 3: The Historical Genre: documentaries and biopics

  • Moderator: Mark Harris (UBC)
  • Genre Politics: Bloody Sunday as Documentary and Discourse (Joseph Moser, University of Texas, Austin)
  • Not Black and White or Green: Mythologizing Irish Immigrant History (Michael O’Connor, Syracuse University)
  • ‘Triumph, Terror and Tragedy’: Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins as Biopic (Raita Merivirta, University of Turku)

10.45-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12 noon: “Cinema, City and Imaginative Space: Hip Hedonism in Recent Irish Cinema”

  • Keynote: Martin McLoone (University of Ulster)
  • Moderator: Brian McIlroy

12.00-1.30: Lunch

1.30-2.30: Panel 4: Globalisation and genre

  • Moderator: Patsy Kotsopoulos (UBC)
  • Hollywood Genre Formulas as Contact Zones: The Case of Jim Sheridan’s The Boxer (Tom Hemmeter, Arcadia University)
  • Triangulating Global Influence: Genre in I Went Down, Eat the Peach, and The General (Scott Ruston, University of Southern California)

2.30-2.45: Coffee Break

2.45-3.45: “Genre and Nation”

  • Keynote: Christine Gledhill (Staffordshire University)
  • Moderator: Brian McIlroy

3.45-4.45: Panel 6: The Gaelic Film genre?

  • Moderator: Jennie Carlsten (UBC)
  • Genre na n’Gael?: Filmmaking in Gaelic (Fidelma Farley, University College Galway)
  • Discovering and Uncovering Genre in Irish Cinema (Dervila Layden, University College Dublin)

4.45-5.00: Film Presentation

  • Mary Ann Ryan introduces Ken Waldron and Andrew Friedman’s Undressing My Mother and Useless Dog.

5.00: Informal visit to Museum of Anthropology [Admission by donation]

Wednesday March 16th:

9.00-9.15: Coffee and announcements

9.15-10.45: Panel 6: Crime and punishment

  • Moderator: Renee Penney (UBC)
  • Playing Cops and Robbers: Recent Irish Cinema and Generic Parody (Barry Monahan, University College Dublin)
  • `Guilty One and All’: The Construction of Collective Identity Through the Prison Narrative (Jennie Carlsten, University of British Columbia)
  • Police, Power and Patriarchy—A Comparative Study of the Crime Film in Irish and Spanish Cinema (Conn Holohan, University of Ulster)

10.45-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.00: “Guerin, Gangsters and Genre in Irish Contemporary Cinema”

  • Keynote: Lance Pettitt (Leeds Metropolitan University)
  • Moderator: Brian McIlroy

12.00-1:30: Lunch

1.30-2.30: Panel 7: The Theatrical Film

  • Moderator: Stephen Malloy (UBC)
  • Friel on Film (Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
  • Framing Beckett (Gerald Vanderwoude, UBC)

2.30-3.30: Panel 8: Generic Intersections and Play

  • Moderator: Diane Burgess (UBC)
  • Wishing the Future into Existence: Fantasy,” Goldfish Memory” and the New Ireland (Natalie Harrower, University of Toronto)
  • Bloody Sunday: British and Irish Trauma Meets Hollywood Classicism (Renée Penney, UBC)

Closing announcements