Programme for NISN 2000

Friday May 19
9.00-9.30	Registration
9.30-10.00	Opening (Arne Axelsson, Monica Fryckstedt)
10.00-10.45	Presentation of The Irish Section (Mícheál Ó Flaithearta, Astrid Sandberg, Karin Hansson)
10.45-11.15	Coffee
11.15-12.30	Session 1: Michael Böss, "Nation and Nationality in the Writings of Eavan Boland". Elin Holmsten, "The Abrahamic Journey in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry" Irene Gilsenan Nordin, "The Sacred and the Profane: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and the Language of the Body"
12.30-13.30	Lunch at Matikum
13.30-14.45	Session 2: Marie Arndt Björn Thysdahl, "Narrative Motifs in Joyce's Dubliners" Ruth Sherry, "Irish Jail Journals and Prison Literature"
14.45 -15.15	Coffee
15.15-17.00	Workshop on inter-disciplinary research
19.00-23.15	Boattrip to Skokloster. Dinner and music on the boat.
Saturday 20
9.00- 10.15	Session 3: Ruben Moi, Crossing the Lines: The Postmodernism of Paul Muldoon's Poetics within the Contexts of Northern Ireland Britta Olinder: "The Magic World of Michael Longley"
10.15-10.45	Coffee
10.45-11.45	Session 4: Jacob Nielsen on Colm Tóibín Åke Persson?
12.00-13.00	General Meeting
13.00	Lunch

All sessions will take place at the Department of English, Språkvetenskapligt Centrum, Villavägen 4 (behind the university library) in room 16-1058.