School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Day in memory of Dr. Mel Boland

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Research Day
In memory of Dr. Mel Boland

To join online: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627

Programme (pdf file available here SLLC Research Day Programme)

9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Rebecca Braun (Dean, CASSCS)
Chaosheng Zhang (Vice-Dean Research, CASSCS)
Anne O’Connor (Chair, Research Committee SLLC)

9.45-10.45 Session 1: Humour

Chair: Pilar Alderete Diez
• Marie Blom: Creativity in Translation: a strategy for translating humour
• Daniela Toulemonde: The subtitling into Spanish of reference and citationality-based humour in RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Ivan Kenny: El México rojo: Entropic Humour, Naturalism and Death in Luis Buñuel’s El río y la muerte and Ensayo de un crimen

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.15 Session 2: Languages of Encounter/International Encounter

Chair: Begoña Sangrador-Vegas
• Deirdre Byrnes: Seán O’Casey in the GDR
• Sara-Louise Cooper: Marie Darrieussecq, Edouard Glissant and Gustave Flaubert: Reading Mediterranean Migration from the Caribbean
• Tony Tracy: Good Enough? Motherhood in Contemporary Irish Cinema

12.15-1.15 Lunch

1.15-2.15 Session 3: Latin America and the Canon

Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Lorraine Kelly
With contributions from: Céire Broderick; Monika Jurkiewicz; Kate Quinn; Jenny Wood

2.15-3.15 Session 4: Linguistics and Translation

Chair: Francesca Nicora
• John Walsh: New speakers of minority languages in Spain
• Andrea Ciribuco and Samantha Goodchild: International encounters in rural Ireland. Participative methods in research with culturally and linguistically diverse communities”
• Martín Veiga: Textual Mobilities: Literary Translation as Research and Creative Practice

3.15-3.30 Coffee

3.30-4.00 Dr. Mel Boland In Memoriam

Owen Harrington Fernandez (Heriot Watt University)
Dan Carey (Director of Moore Institute)
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (President, University of Galway)

4.00-5.00 Translation, poetry and song

Chair: Anne O’Connor
Lorna Shaughnessy: Translation between forms: from written text to visual media
Screening of Short Film Finding Mothers by Barra Convery, based on the poetry of Lorna Shaughnessy
Lillis Ó Laoire: Translating popular songs into Irish: Motivations, methods and metrics.

5.00 Concluding Remarks and Reception
Tina Pusse (Head of School, Languages, Literatures and Cultures)

Zoom Link: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97191090627