2017 International Yeats Society Conference
October 20-22, 2017
New York City
Hosted and sponsored by:
The New School University, Fordham University, and New York University/Glucksman Ireland House
Friday 20 October
Friday’s program all takes place at the New School University (66 West 12th St., New York) excepting registration and the afternoon reception, which are at Glucksman Ireland House.
10.00-12.45REGISTRATIONGlucksman Ireland House
New York University, 1 Washington Mews, New York (on 5thAvenue between 8th St. and Washington Square)
Registration will also be available at the New School (outside room A715) during Friday afternoon and Saturday morning panel sessions.
10.00-12.00IYS BOARD MEETINGB-03 seminar room, Glucksman Ireland House
12.45-1.00WELCOME(room A715)New School University (66 West 12th St.)
1.00-2.10SESSION ONE
1.A Yeats in the USA(room A615)
Chair and moderator, Miriam Nyhan(Glucksman Ireland House)
SirshenduMajumdar“Awakening the pipe of the world: Yeats’s 1904 American lecture”
Stephen Butler “Yeats in the Irish-American Press, 1903-1904”
Michiko Harada“Ballads Again: The influence of Yeats’s American tours on his interest in ballads”
1.B PerAmicaSilentiaLunae(room A715)
Chair and moderator, Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University)
Maria Rita Viana“ ‘A little book to be read by ‘Maurice’ some day…’; the framing of Per AmicaSilentiaLunae”
Nicholas Meihuizen“Yeats and the Daimonic Otherness of the Future”
Wit Pietrzak“ ‘Read it some day when ‘Minoulooshe’ is asleep’: the Daimon as Lover in Per AmicaSilentiaLunae”
1.C Yeats and Politics: 1916 and after (1) (room A716)
Chair and moderator, Charles Armstrong (University of Agder)
Robert Brazeau“Yeats, Robert Gregory, and Mass Political Action”
Alex French“ ‘Easter, 1916’ and the Gendering of Becoming Christ”
Mary Burke“ ‘My Poet, Dark and Slender’: Yeats and 1916 in ÓConaire’s post-Rising Irish-language short story”
COFFEE BREAK
2.30-4.00SESSION TWO
2.A Scripting the Daimon(room A615)
Chair and moderator, Maria Rita Viana (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Dana Garvin“ ‘Your Daimon is a White Bird’: Mystery and Meaning in the Automatic Script”
DionysiousPsilopoulos“Yeats’s Surrender to the Goddess and the New Divinity”
Chia-Lin Chang“The Order of Things: A Man of Phase 17 in Yeats’s Last Poems”
2.B Nationalism, Populism, and Lady Gregory’s Influence(room A715)
Chair and moderator, Keri Walsh (Fordham University)
Seamus O’Malley “Yeats and the Languages of Populism”
Matthew DeForrest“ ‘Cool’ Park: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and a move to a Populated Poetry”
Elizabeth Redwine“Collaboration and Yeats’s Deirdre: ‘passionate and solitary’ or ‘the voice of the crowd’?”
Taura Napier“Lady Gregory’s ‘Emigrant’s Notebook’: Autobiography, Drama and the inception of the Irish Literary Revival”
2.C Yeats in Transition 1916-1917(room A716)
Chair and moderator, Alison Armstrong (The School of Visual Arts)
Tomoko Iwatsubo“ ‘Easter, 1916,’ ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and the Initial Stages of Yeats’s Tower Project”
Anita Feldman“ ‘Passion or Conquest’: Text and Context in ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ ”
Andrey Mashinyan“The Mythological image of the Swan in ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ ”
4.15-5.15 RECEPTIONGlucksman Ireland House
5.30-6.30KEYNOTE LECTUREWollman Auditorium, The New School
Maureen Murphy
“Yeats and the 1917 Centenary”
Dinner Break(please see restaurant recommendations on website)
8.00READINGWollman Auditorium, The New School
Iggy McGovern
Saturday 21 October
All events at the New School University
9.00 MORNING COFFEE
9.30-10.40SESSION THREE
3.A Yeats and the Noh (room A715)
Chair and moderator, Lauren Arrington (Liverpool University / Boston College)
Tim Keane“Irish for Noh: Yeats and the Aestheticand Political Functions of the Mask”
Melinda Szuts“Recovering Yeats’s Performance Texts: composition in the manuscripts of At the Hawk’s Well
Dennin Ellis“At the Hawk’s Well”
3.B. Yeats and Politics: 1916 and after (2)(room A716)
Chair and moderator, Robert Brazeau (University of Alberta)
James Farrelly“The Dreaming of the Bones: A centennial counterpoint to the Ambiguity in Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ ”
Thomas O’Grady“MacGreevyand Yeats: ‘A lonely impulse of delight’?”
Yuki Tanaka“Syntax in Ruins: The Sense of an Ending in Yeats’s ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ ”
COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.15SESSION FOUR
4.A Visionary Yeats (room A615)
Chair and moderator, WitPietrzak (University of Łódź)
Ryuji Ishikawa“The Formation of the Double Gyres in 1917: The Beginning of Generative Harmony”
Laura McCloskey“Conjuring the Spirit: Exploring the Relationship between the Conscious and Unconscious Worlds in the work of William Butler Yeats”
Lawrence Wang“Yeats, the Ladder, and the HodosChameleontis”
4.B Yeats: Place, Identity and Collaboration (room A715)
Chair and moderator, Tim Keane (BMCC, City University of New York)
Sung Sook Hong “Yeats as an inner émigré”
Elena Cotta Ramusino“1917: Yeats’s search for rootedness”
Alexandra Poulain“The Politics of Collaboration in Yeats’s The Cat and the Moon and Beckett’s Rough for Theatre I”
4.C Yeats and the USA (2) (room A716)
Chair and moderator, Rand Brandes (Lenoir-Rhyne University)
Charles Armstrong“The Idea of America: Yeats’s Views in the Context of Modernist Critique”
Matt Kilbane“Hobo Yeats: Speaking to the Psaltery in Depression America”
Rita Barnes“Re-crossing the Boards: the 1934 Abbey Production of O’Neill’sDays without End”
Lunch Break(please see restaurant recommendations on website)
1.45-3.00SESSION FIVE
5.A Yeats and “Unity of Being” (room A715)
Chair and moderator, Nicholas Meihuizen (North-West University)
Andrew Beutel“Yeatsian Autonomy: A Challenge to the ‘Unity of Being’ Thesis”
Alison Armstrong“ ‘It is myself that I remake’: Yeats’s Masks”
Caron Barry“Yeats’s Ideal Others”
5.B Yeats: Influence, Reception, Production: Pound, Lafcadio Hearn, Heaney(room A716)
Chair and moderator, GiTaekRyoo (Chungbuk National University)
Lauren Arrington“Did Yeats Eat Pound’s Heart? The Rapallo Circle and the Making of ‘Parnell’s Funeral’ ”
Akiko Manabe“Irish-Japanese Literary Renaissance in 2017: New Productions of The Cat and the Moon, At the Hawk’s Well and Lafcadio Hearn’s Stories”
Rand Brandes“Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s ‘rook-delighting heaven’ and ‘old bitter world’ ”
COFFEE BREAK
Please note: no food or drinks are allowed in Kellen Auditorium for the following events
3.3o-4.15DISCUSSION SESSION: “Georgie’s Vision”Kellen Auditorium
Chair and moderator, Rob Doggett (SUNY Geneseo)
Deirdre Mulrooney’s RTE Radio-documentary “Georgie’s Vision” will be made available as a link for conference participants in advance of 20 October, and an audio-visual version will be accessible on a continuous loop during the conference itself. Deirdre will take questions during this discussion.
4.3o-5.45PLENARY SESSIONKellen Auditorium
Introduced by Margaret Mills Harper (University of Limerick)
Joe Hassett “Building ThoorBallylee, Constructing The Tower”
James Pethica “ ‘Uttering, mastering it’?: Lady Gregory’s Ballylee”
Dinner Break(please see restaurant recommendations on website)
8.00POETRY READINGKellen Auditorium
Nick Laird
Sunday 22 October
All events at Fordham University’s Lincoln Centre Campus(Lowenstein, 12th Floor; 113 West 60th Street at 9th Avenue, New York)
9.00-9.45MORNING COFFEE & AGM(Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge)
9.50-11.00SESSION SIX(Lowenstein 11th floor)
6.A Yeats: Music, Metrics, and Melody (room LL1104)
Chair and moderator, Thomas O’Grady (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Kurt Bullock “A ‘Peculiar Metrical Quality’: W.B.Yeats, Thomas MacDonagh, and the ‘Irish Mode’”
Nuria de Cos“W.B.Yeats in the Music of Juan Ramón Jiménez”
Mariko Nishitani“Yeats’s Editorial Approach to Broadsides (1935)”
6.B A Yeatsian Bestiary (room LL1116)
Chair and moderator, Akiko Manabe(ShingaUniversity)
Sebastian Williams“Creaturely Poetics and Radical Ethics: Rethinking Animals in Yeats’s Poetry”
PanayiotaArgyrides“ ‘Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood’: W.B.Yeats and Swan Lake”
Joseph Lennon“Dividing Salmon in The King’s Threshold”
6.C Late Yeats and Yeats of Late: Mediumship, Rupture, Violence (room LL1120)
Chair and moderator, John Harrington (Fordham University)
Felix Green“Yeats’s Eugenicist Style”
Jeremy Lakoff“Mediumship/Mediation: The Problem of the Authentic Voice in The Words Upon the Window Pane”
Rob Doggett“Yeats’s Deep Modernism: ‘The Second Coming’ and The Sopranos”
11.00-11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.15-12.25 PLENARY SESSION: Georgie, WBY—and Jack (Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge)
Introduced by Andy McGowan, President of the Yeats Society of New York
Michael Connerty“Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist, 1892-1917”
Anne Margaret Daniel“Touring America: Hail and Farewell from George and Willie”
Youngmin Kim“Georgie the Medium versus Yeats the Revisionist: Automatic Writing versus Creative Writing”
12.30-1.00 PRESIDENT’S PLENARY(Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge)
Introduced by Alexandra Poulain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Margaret Mills Harper “Dobbs and the Tiger”
2.30-4.00 (OPTIONAL)WALKING TOUR of J. B. Yeats’s (and W. B. Yeats’s) New York
Meet at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street east of Park Avenue South). The tour finishes at 317 West 29th Street, just west of Eighth Avenue.