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.
10.00-5.00 REGISTRATION Glucksman Ireland House
New York University, 1 Washington Mews, New York (on 5th Avenue between 8th St. and Waverly Place)
11.00-12.00 IYS BOARD MEETING Venue TBA
1.00 WELCOME
1.10-2.20 SESSION ONE
1.A Yeats in the USA (room A615)
Sirshendu Majumdar “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 Per Amica Silentia Lunae (room A715)
Maria Rita Viana “ ‘A little book to be read by ‘Maurice’ some day…’; the framing of Per Amica Silentia Lunae”
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 Amica Silentia Lunae”
1.C Yeats and Politics: 1916 and after (1) (room A716)
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 Ó Conaire’s post-Rising Irish-language short story”
2.30-4.00 SESSION TWO
2.A Scripting the Daimon (room A615)
Dana Garvin “ ‘Your Daimon is a White Bird’: Mystery and Meaning in the Automatic Script”
Dionysious Psilopoulos “Yeats’s Surrender to the Goddess and the New Divinity”
Pawan Kumar “The Creative Experiment of Mr and Mrs Yeats: Eastern Philosophical Ideas and the Art of Automatic Writing in A Vision”
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)
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)
Sung Sook Hong “Yeats as an inner émigré”
Tomoko Iwatsubo “ ‘Easter, 1916,’ ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and the Initial Stages of Yeats’s Tower Project”
Elena Cotta Ramusino “1917: Yeats’s search for rootedness”
Anita Feldman “ ‘Passion or Conquest’: Text and Context in ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ ”
4.15-5.15 RECEPTION Glucksman Ireland House
5.30-6.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE Wollman Auditorium, The New School
Maureen Murphy “Yeats and the 1917 Centenary”
Dinner Break (please see restaurant recommendations on website)
8.00 READING Wollman Auditorium, The New School
Iggy McGovern
Saturday 21 October
All events at the New School University
9.00 MORNING COFFEE
9.30-10.45 SESSION THREE
3.A Yeats and the Noh (1) (room A615)
Tim Keane “Irish for Noh: Yeats and the Aesthetic and Political Functions of the Mask”
Melinda Szuts “Recovering Yeats’s Performance Texts: composition in the manuscripts of At the Hawk’s Well
Rashmi Attri “Kathakali and At the Hawk’s Well: A Study in Comparison”
3.B. Yeats and Politics: 1916 and after (2) (room A715)
James Farrelly “The Dreaming of the Bones: A centennial counterpoint to the Ambiguity in Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ ”
Thomas O’Grady “MacGreevy and Yeats: ‘A lonely impulse of delight’?”
Yuki Tanaka “Syntax in Ruins: The Sense of an Ending in Yeats’s ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ ”
3.C Yeats and Mythology (room A716)
Uchenna Vasser “Cuchulain and Changó: Mythmaking and Literary Decolonization”
Alexander McKee “(Un)masking the Self in The Only Jealousy of Emer”
Andrey Mashinyan “The Mythological image of the Swan in “’The Wild Swans at Coole’ ”
11.15-12.30 SESSION FOUR
4.A Visionary Yeats (room A615)
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 Hodos Chameleontis”
4.B Yeats and the Noh (2) (room A715)
Dennin Ellis “At the Hawk’s Well”
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”
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)
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’s Days without End”
Lunch Break (please see restaurant recommendations on website)
2.00-3.15 SESSION FIVE
5.A Yeats and “Unity of Being” (room A615)
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 and Reception (room A715)
Antonio Bibbó “Which Yeats? The early reception of Yeats in Italy”
Nuria de Cos “W.B.Yeats in the Music of Juan Ramón Jiménez”
Jack Quin “W.B.Yeats and the sculpture of Brancusi”
5.C Yeats, Pound, Heaney (room A716)
Kayleigh Quarterman “Ezra Pound’s Influence During W.B.Yeats’s Move Toward Modernism”
Lauren Arrington “Did Yeats Eat Pound’s Heart? The Rapallo Circle and the Making of ‘Parnell’s Funeral’ ”
Rand Brandes “Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s ‘rook-delighting heaven’ and ‘old bitter world’ ”
3.30-5.00 PLENARY SESSION Kellen Auditorium
Joe Hassett “Constructing Yeats’s Tower”
James Pethica “ ‘Uttering, mastering it’?: Lady Gregory’s Ballylee”
5.30-6.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE Kellen Auditorium
Christopher Cahill “Gratitude to the Known Instructors: Political Spirituality in Yeats and Pound”
Dinner Break (please see restaurant recommendations on website)
8.00 POETRY READING Kellen 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)
9.00-9.45 MORNING COFFEE & AGM
9.50-11.00 SESSION SIX
6.A Yeats: Music, Metrics, and Melody (room TBA)
Kurt Bullock “A ‘Peculiar Metrical Quality’: W.B.Yeats, Thomas MacDonagh, and the ‘Irish Mode’ ”
Adrian Paterson “ ‘A mouthful of air’: the music of At the Hawk’s Well”
Mariko Nishitani “Yeats’s Editorial Approach to Broadsides (1935, 1937)”
6.B A Yeatsian Bestiary (room TBA)
Sebastian Williams “Creaturely Poetics and Radical Ethics: Rethinking Animals in Yeats’s Poetry”
Panayiota Argyrides “ ‘Where the swan drifts upon the 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 TBA)
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
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
Meg Harper
Lunch Break
2.30-4.00 WALKING TOUR of J. B. Yeats’s (and W. B. Yeats’s) New York
Meeting Place TBA