Conference Schedule
Detailed Schedule
May 9th 2012 (subject to revision)
Tuesday 29th May 2012
2.00pm – 4.00pm Registration in the Global Institute, UCD campus
5.00pm sharp Bus for Delegates to National Gallery leaving campus
5.45 Opening reception in The National Gallery of Ireland attended by Uachtaráin Michael D. Higgins
Dr. Hugh Brady, President of UCD will introduce the President.
Speeches by Professor Leonard Conolly, President of International Shaw Society and Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery
Professor Nicholas Grene keynote speech Dalkey Outlook: Shaw’s Scenic Sense chaired by Professor Leonard Conolly
Wine and canapé reception
Music by Rowsome Ensemble
Wednesday 30th 2012
The conference sessions will take place in the Global Institute UCD campus
8.00am – 9.00am Registration in Global Institute
Plenary Session
9.00am – 10.00am Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel Shaw, The Poor Law,
and 1910 Dublin: The Rocky Road to Connolly
Chair: Peter Gahan
10.00am -10.30am Coffee Break
Brief meeting for session chairs at 10.15
Concurrent Sessions
10.30am – 12.00pm
Session A Bernard Shaw the Irishman
Chair:- Dr Ian Walsh
Kurt Bullock (Grand Valley State University)
“Preceding Pearse: Peter Keegan’s Nationalist Jeremiad in Shaw’s John Bull’s Other
Island
David Clare (UCD) “Viewing Henry Higgins as a Diasporic Irishman
Lizzie Dunford (Shaw’s Corner) “Bernard Shaw's other Island: the presence of Ireland at 'Shaw's Corner'
Session B Shaw the Virtuoso
Chair:- Dr. Eamonn Jordan
Rachel McArthur (University of Toronto)“Beyond ‘Frightful Irony’ Comic resolution in Major Barbara” Eva Urban (University of Rennes) Humanist Dialectics in G.B. Shaw's plays and International Drama Lawrence Switzky (University of Toronto) “No symbols where none intended ": Shaw, Beckett and Directorial Modernity
12.00am – 1.00am Vouchers supplied for campus restaurant in welcome packs
Single Session
1.00am – 2.00am
Bernard Shaw: ‘A feminist in spite of himself
(Sally Peters)
Chair: - Dr. Cathy Leeney
Rajni Singh (Indian School of Mines) "Bernard Shaw and Feminism"
Katherine O’Keefe (UCD) “New Women in the 90's: Shaw and Wilde
Coffee Break
2.00 pm – 2.30pm
Single Session
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Bernard Shaw and the ‘Woman’ Question
Chair:- Dr. Eva Urban
Atalay Gunduz (Celal Bayer University Turkey)
The late Victorian G.B. Shaw and the 'Woman' Question Lori Comerford (UCD) Masculine Women! Feminine men! Gender Bending in Shaw’s The Philanderer
5.00 pm Book Launch
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and the Socialist Provocation
A Reading of O’Flaherty VC
Directed by Mike Wilcock
Thursday 31st May
8.00am – 9.00am Registration in the Global Institute, UCD Campus
Plenary Session
9.00am – 10.00am Peter Gahan Bernard Shaw: Irish Nationalist
Chair: Professor Anthony Roche
10.00am – 10.30am Coffee Break
Single Session
10.30am – 12.00am Exploration of the ancient narrative in Shaw’s Plays
Chair:- Dr Katherine O’Keefe
Sanjit Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology) Quest for a comparative analysis Sri Aurobindo and G.B. Shaw
Audrey McNamara (UCD) Candida: an Oedial Crisis
Padraig O’Clerigh (University of Guelph)
The Superman as old as Prometheus
Lunch
12.00pm -1.00pm Vouchers supplied for campus restaurant in welcome
packs
Jay Tunney
1.00pm – 2.00pm ‘The Irish Wellspring’
An interesting talk on the friendship that Jay’s father,
Gene Tunney shared with Bernard Shaw. Jay has
written a book on the subject titled The Playwright
and The Prizefighter.
Introduction by Professor Richard Dietrich
Concurrent Sessions
2.00pm -3.30pm
Session A Bernard Shaw’s European Theatre
Chair:- Dr.David Clare
Anna Suwalska-Koleka (The State School of Higher Education, Plock)
George Bernard Shaw on the Polish Stage – a brief overview
Barry Keane (Warsaw University)
Asking Awkward Questions: Polish Stage Productions of G.B. Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession (1907-1905)
Raquel Merino University of the Basque Country) G.B. Shaw Plays: translations
and adaptations staged and published in 20th century
Spain
Session B
Bernard Shaw’s Nationalist Philosophy: The
Wearing of the Green
Chair:- Professor Michael O’ Hara
Julie Sparks ( San Jose State University)
Not Charity but Justice; Shaw's Socialist Alternative to 'Posionous' Philanthropy
Conor Morrissey (Trinity College Dublin)
George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Fitzgerald and the Irish Revolution
Jim Ellison (University of London)
G.B. Shaw: Utopian Nationalist
Delegates to meet again at 6.45pm in the Stillorgan Park Hotel
Stillorgan Park Hotel
7.00pm sharp Peter Gahan’s Celebration of Shaw 30: Shaw and
The Irish Literary Tradition
7.45pm Complimentary glass of wine
8.30pm The Banquet Begins (please note that all drinks are
at your own expense)
Friday 1st June
Dalkey Castle
Plenary
10am – 11.00am Professor Anthony Roche (UCD) Shaw and Yeats:
Theatre and its anti-self
Chair:- Professor Nicholas Grene
Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30
A Reading
11.30am – 1.00pm The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
An adaption by David Clare and performed by professional actors
