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Sino-Irish Relations and Ireland’s Place in theWorld:
AMultidisciplinary Conference to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of
The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
Beijing·China
22-23 November 2019
纪念中爱建交四十周年
“中爱关系与爱尔兰在世界上的地位的多学科视角”
国际学术研讨会
中国·北京
2019.11.22-23
Hosted by:主办:
Beijing Foreign Studies University北京外国语大学
Organisers:承办:
Irish Studies Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University北京外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心
Irish Studies Centre, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics上海对外经贸大学爱尔兰研究中心
Irish Studies Centre, Dalian University of Foreign Languages大连外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心
Irish Studies Centre, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economics河南牧业经济学院爱尔兰研究中心
British Studies Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University北京外国语大学外英国研究中心
Sino-Irish Relations and Ireland’s Place in the World:
A Multidisciplinary Conference to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of
The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations22nd-23rd November, 2019
Beijing Foreign Studies University
22nd November, 20198:00-9:00 RegistrationThe Conference Hall on the 3rd floor of the Library, East Campus , BFSU(Registering, paying fees and receiving conference material)
8:40-9:00Event: Meeting with Ambassador Eoin O’Leary, Mr. Liu Biwei, former Chineseambassador to Ireland, Mr. Luo Shixi, President of Henan University of AnimalHusbandry and Economy, and some distinguished guests hosted by Prof. YangDan, President of BFSU.Venue: VIP room, the fifth floor of the library
9:00-9:30 Conference OpeningVenue: The Conference Hall on the 2nd floor of the LibraryChair: Prof. Wang Zhanpeng (Director of the Irish Studies Centre, BFSU)
1)Welcome2) Address by Prof. Yang Dan, President of BFSU3)Keynote Speech by H.E. Eoin O'Leary, Irish Ambassador to China4) Address by H.E. Liu Biwei, former Chinese Ambassador to Ireland
(2007-2011)5)Address by Prof. Luo Shixi (President, Director of the Irish Studies Centre,
Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy) on behalf ofCountry and Regional Study Centres (Irish Studies) registered at theMinistry of Education
9:40-10:10 Photo-Taking Break
10:10-10:50 Book Launchesa. Dermot Keogh, Ireland since the Twentieth Century: Revolution and StateBuilding, trans. Wang Zhanpeng, Yan Chuanhai and Xu Zeyu.(People's Publishing House)
b. Jerusha McCormack ed., The Irish and China: Encounters and Exchanges(New Islands Books)
c. Feng Jianming et.al. trans, Stephen Hero by James Joyce; My Brother’s
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Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce and Richard Ellmann(Shanghai SDX Joint Publishing Company)d. Li Yuan, A History of Irish Theatre in the 20th Century(The CommercialPress)
10:55-12:15 Plenary Session IVenue: The Conference Hall on the 2nd floor of the LibraryChair: Feng Jianming (Director of the Irish Studies Centre, Shanghai University ofInternational Business and Economics)
Dermot Keogh (Professor of History, University College Cork): Ireland: Fromstatehood and independence to multilateralism and interdependence
Jerusha McCormack (Guest Professor in BFSU, Visiting Scholar to TCD): Looking atIreland from China
Wang Zhanpeng (Director of the Irish Studies Centre, BFSU): Brexit, Irish Identityand Irish Studies in China
Regina Uí Chollatáin (Head of School, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies andFolklore): Dead or Alive? Language Revival and Cultural Memory
12:30 -13:45 Lunch
14:00-16:10 Plenary Session IIVenue: The Conference Hall on the 2nd floor of the LibraryChair: Liu Fengguang (Director of Research Department, Dalian University ofForeign Languages)
Fu Hao (Foreign Literature Research Centre of Chinese Academy of SocialSciences): An Interpretation of William Butler Yeats’s LAPIS LAZULI
Feng Jianming (Director of the Irish Studies Centre, Shanghai University ofInternational Business and Economics): The Correspondence between ALP andVarious Females in Joyce’s Works
Writers Forum: (20 min)Sinead Mac Aodha (Director of Literature Ireland)Paul Lynch (Writer, works: Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, Red Sky inMorning)Rob Doyle (Writer, works: Here Are the Young Men, This Is the Ritual)
Hedwig Schwall (Director of Leuven Centre for Irish Studies): Travelling inTranslation
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Christian Dupont (Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for SpecialCollections at Boston College): Irish Studies from an American perspective with aview toward China
Li Yuan (Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies): Anna Burns’Milkman and the Female Antibildungsroman
16:30 departure for reception at the Irish Embassy (the coach will wait by thepond opposite the library)
18:00 Reception at the Irish Embassy
Nov. 23, 20199:00-11:00 Parallel Sessions
SESSION ONE: Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature
Chair: Wu Guojie Venue: Room 111, SEIS Building (Ground Floor)
Wu Guojie Foreign Literature Research Centre, Beijing ForeignStudies University
Emigrants, Identity and Memory: theIssue of Identity in the IrishEmigration Fictions
Li Lianghui Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity
Irish Anti-Realist Legacy in The ThirdPoliceman
Chen Cheng Foreign LanguagesCollege, ShanghaiNormal University
Analyzing Collisions in The BeautyQueen of Leenane Under Hegel’sTheory of Collision
Su Jing Xiangtan University On Ethical Dilemmas in JohnMcGahern’s The Barracks
Zhang Yanwei Harbin University Yeats and PoliticsZhu Lei Dalian International
Studies UniversityMeaning Construction and PoliticalMetaphors in Gulliver’s Travel
SESSION TWO: Language, Culture and Dissemination
Chair: Chen Hui Venue: Room 115, SEIS Building (Ground Floor)
Chen Hui English Department,Shanghai NormalUniversity
When Beckett enters The World ofPeking Opera: An Inspiring fusion ofEastern and Western DramaAesthetics
Li Yanshi School of ForeignLanguages, TaiyuanUniversity of Technology
Study on the Translation of Beckett’sDrama in China: Waiting for Godot asCase Study
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Qi Yulong School of ForeignLanguages, NortheastForestry University
On the Cultural Untranslatability ofCertain Parts in Gabriel Fitzmaurice’sPoems for Children
Dang Anqi Dalian InternationalStudies University
A Pragmatic Study of the DiscourseFeatures of Seamus Heaney’sWintering out
Yang Shiyan Dalian InternationalStudies University
A Variational Pragmatic Study of theSpeech Act of Apology in Irish English
Zheng Yu,LiuFengguang
Dalian InternationalStudies University
A Variational Pragmatic Study on theSpeech Act of “Invitations” in IrishEnglish
SESSION Three: Irish Political and Social Studies
Chair: Pang Weidong Venue: Room 309, SEIS Building (Second Floor)
Pang Weidong Irish Studies Centre,Henan University ofAnimal Husbandry andEconomy
From chaos to order: an analysis ofIrish Chinese Society
Lv Dayong British Studies Centre,Beijing Foreign StudiesUniversity
Opportunities and Challenges: IrishStrategy on Global Talents
Qu Bing European Institute,China Institutes ofContemporaryInternational Relations
Why Does Irish Government Take IrishBorder Issue So Seriously?
Liu Yinghe Beijing Foreign StudiesUniversity/ ZhongnanUniversity of Economicsand Law
A Comparative Study of ConflictResolution in Northern Ireland andCyprus
Zhang Xi Beijing Foreign StudiesUniversity
Devolution in Northern Ireland in theContext of Brexit
Paul G.Murphy(onlineSpeech)
Départementd’information et decommunication,Université Laval
Montreal’s Irish Memorial Park: ACanadian Foreign Policy Strategy inHigher Education for the “Third-Era ofGlobalization
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Plenary Session IIIVenue: Room 417, International Building, West Campus of BFSU
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Chair: Liu Yan (Professor, Beijing International Studies University)
Kim Youngmin (Director, Digital Humanities Centre/Institute of Trans Media WorldLiterature Dongguk University, Korea): “Global Ireland and Poetry and Poetics asSoft Power: Dissemination of Yeats Transnational Poetics of Othering”
Li Chengjian ( Head of School of Foreign Languages, Southwest JiaotongUniversity): A Far East Journey: Irish Literature in Japan in the late 19th Century
Chen Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University): Salome’s Trip to China
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:20 Plenary Session IVVenue: Room 417, International Building, West Campus of BFSUChair: Prof. Wang Zhanpeng (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Aglaia De Angeli (Lecturer of Modern Chinese History, Queen’s University Belfast):Queen’s University Belfast: A Bridge Between Ireland and China
Peter E. Hamilton (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Trinity CollegeDublin): Personal Reflections on Parallels between Chinese and Irish History
Lu Wenyue (Lecturer, Dalian University of Foreign Languages): Tax Competitionand Factor Flows -- A Case Study of “Double Ireland”
Zhang Qi (Assistant Professor, School of Applied Language and InterculturalStudies, Dublin City University): Chinese Language Education: the present andfuture development in Ireland (Online Presentation)
16:20-17:10 Closing CeremonyVenue: Room 417, International Building, West Campus of BFSUChair: Chen Li (Vice Director of Irish Studies Centre, BFSU)
1) Reports by representatives from parallel sessions2) Remarks by representatives from Irish Studies Centres registered at Ministry ofEducation3) Remarks by Prof. Wang Zhanpeng of Beijing Foreign Studies University
17:30-19:00 Dinner
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To celebrate 40 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Ireland and
China,
The Ambassador of Ireland
H.E. Eoin O’Leary
and his wife Ms. Anne Delaney
Request the pleasure of your company at
A Reception
on Friday 22nd November 2019 at 18:30
at the Embassy of Ireland
Embassy of Ireland3 Ritan Dong Lu, Beijing 100600
Please bring this invitation & a valid ID
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纪念中爱建交四十周年
“中爱关系与爱尔兰在世界上的地位的多学科视角”
国际学术研讨会
2019 年 11 月 22-23 日
北京外国语大学
2019 年 11 月 22 日
8:00-9:00 会议报到
北京外国语大学东院图书馆三层会议厅(注册交费、领取会议材料等)
8:40-9:00 校领导会见爱尔兰驻华大使李修文、中国前驻爱尔兰大使刘碧伟、河
南牧业经济学院校长罗士喜及部分参会嘉宾(图书馆五层贵宾室)
9:00-9:40 会议开幕式
地点:图书馆三层会议厅
主持人:王展鹏(北京外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心主任)
5)主持人介绍嘉宾
6)北京外国语大学校领导致辞
7)爱尔兰驻华大使李修文(Eoin O'Leary)主题演讲
8)中国前驻爱尔兰大使刘碧伟致辞
9)河南牧业经济学院校长、爱尔兰研究中心主任罗士喜代表教育部国别和区域
研究备案中心致辞
9:40-10:10 合影、休息
10:10-10:50 中国爱尔兰研究学术网络学者新书发布会
a. 发布 Dermot Keogh 教授《二十世纪以来的爱尔兰:革命与国家建构》中
文版(王展鹏、闫传海、徐泽宇译,人民出版社出版)
b. 发布 Jerusha McCormack 教授编著 The Irish and China: Encounters andExchanges(New Islands Books)
c. 发布冯建明教授等(上海外经贸)译作《斯蒂芬英雄》、《看守我兄长的
人:鲁姆斯·乔伊斯的早期生活》(上海三联书店)》
d. 发布李元教授(广外)专著《20 世纪爱尔兰戏剧史》(商务印书馆)
10:55-12:15 大会发言(一)
地点:图书馆三层会议厅
主持人:冯建明(上海对外经贸大学爱尔兰研究中心主任)
Dermot Keogh(爱尔兰科克大学历史系教授):爱尔兰:从主权与独立到多边主
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义与相互依存
Jerusha McCormack (北京外国语大学客座教授、圣三一大学客座教授):从中国
看爱尔兰
王展鹏(北京外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心主任):英国脱欧、爱尔兰身份与中国
的爱尔兰研究
Regina UíChollatáin(爱尔兰都柏林大学爱尔兰语、凯尔特研究和民俗学院院
长):语言复兴与文化记忆
12:30 -13:45 午餐
14:00-16:10 大会发言(二)
地点:图书馆三层会议厅
主持人:刘风光(大连外国语大学科研处处长)
傅浩(中国社会科学院外国文学研究所教授):叶芝的天青石雕:一种解读
冯建明(上海对外经贸大学爱尔兰研究中心主任):ALP 与乔伊斯作品中女性形
象的对应
作家论坛:(20 分钟)
Sinead MacAodha(“Literature Ireland/文学爱尔兰”理事)
Paul Lynch (作家,代表作 Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and RedSky in Morning)Rob Doyle (作家,代表作 Here Are the Young Men, This Is the Ritual)
Hedwig Schwall (比利时鲁汶大学爱尔兰研究中心主任): 翻译中的旅行
Christian Dupont(美国波士顿学院彭斯图书馆馆长、特藏图书副馆长):美国
视角的爱尔兰研究兼论中国
李元 (广东外语外贸大学英语语言文化学院教授):析安娜·伯恩斯小说《送
奶工》中的女性反成长叙事
16:30 在图书馆外水池边登车,前往大使馆参加招待会
18:00 爱尔兰使馆招待会
11月 23 日
上午 9:00-11:00 分组发言
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第一组:现当代爱尔兰文学
主持人:吴国杰 地点:英语学院 111 室
吴国杰 北京外国语大学
外国文学研究所
移民、身份与记忆:爱尔兰移民小说中的身
份认同
李良会 南洋理工大学 《第三个警察》中的爱尔兰反现实主义传统
陈诚 上海师范大学外
国语学院
黑格尔冲突理论视角下《丽南镇的美人》
苏静 湘潭大学 约翰·麦加恩小说《警局》中的伦理困境
张艳威 哈尔滨学院外语
学院
叶芝与政治
朱磊 大连外国语大学 《格列佛游记》中的意义构建及政治隐喻
第二组:语言、文化与传播
主持人:陈惠 地点:英语学院 115 室
陈惠 上海师范大学外
语学院英语系
当贝克特走进京剧:一场东西方戏剧美学的
精彩融合
李言实 太原理工大学外
国语学院
贝克特戏剧的中国翻译研究——以《等待戈
多》为个案
祁玉龙 东北林业大学外
国语学院
论加百列·菲茨莫芮斯儿童诗歌中的文化不
可译现象
党安琦 大连外国语大学 对谢默斯·西尼《外出过冬》中语言特点的
实用主义研究
喻冬 大连外国语大学
爱尔兰研究中心
后殖民理论视野下的爱尔兰流行音乐场景
杨诗妍 大连外国语大学 对爱尔兰英语中道歉言语行为的变化实用
主义研究
郑禹、刘风光 大连外国语大学 变异语用学视角下爱尔兰英语中的邀请言
语行为研究
第三组:爱尔兰政治、社会问题研究
主持人:庞卫东 地点:英语学院三楼 309 室
庞卫东 河南牧业经济学
院爱尔兰研究中
心
从混乱到有序:爱尔兰华人社会探析
吕大永 北京外国语大学
英语学院英国研
究中心
机遇与挑战:爱尔兰海外人才战略
曲兵 中国现代国际关
系研究院欧洲研
为何爱尔兰政府如此在意爱尔兰边界问
题?
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究所
刘赢和 北京外国语大学
/中南财经政法
大学
北爱尔兰和塞浦路斯冲突和解进程比较
张茜 北京外国语大学
英语学院英国研
究中心
脱欧背景下的北爱尔兰权力下放
Paul G.
Murphy
(网络发言)
加拿大拉瓦尔大
学,信息与通信
系
蒙特利尔的爱尔兰纪念公园:加拿大为全球
化第三阶段在高等教育方面的外交政策
王俊波 大连外国语大学
英语学院
后哲学文化视域下区域国别教育中的批判
性思维
11:45-13:00 午餐
13:30-14:30 大会发言(三):
地点:北外西院国际大厦 417 室
主持人:刘燕(北京第二外国语学院教授)
金英敏(韩国东国大学数字人文科学中心/跨媒体世界文学研究所所长):国际化
爱尔兰、诗歌和作为软实力的诗学:叶芝“他者化”诗学的跨国传播
李成坚(西南交通大学外国语学院院长):19 世纪末爱尔兰文学的日本之旅
陈丽(北京外国语大学英语学院教授):《莎乐美》的中国行
14:30-15:00 休息
15:00-16:20 大会发言(四):
地点:北外西院国际大厦 417 室
主持人:王展鹏(北京外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心主任)
司马兰(英国贝尔法斯特女王大学中国现代史讲师):贝尔法斯特女王大学:连
接爱尔兰和中国的桥梁
韩墨松(爱尔兰都柏林圣三一大学中国现代史副教授):中爱历史相似之处刍议
陆文玥(大连外国语大学英语学院讲师): 税收竞争与要素流动——以“双重爱尔
兰”为例
张绮(网络发言)(爱尔兰都柏林城市大学应用语言和跨文化研究学院):爱尔
兰汉语教育的目前发展和未来展望
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16:20-17:10 闭幕式
主持人:陈丽(北京外国语大学爱尔兰研究中心副主任)
地点:北外西院国际大厦 417 室
1)小组发言汇总报告
2)爱尔兰研究领域教育部国别和区域研究中心代表发言
3) 北京外国语大学王展鹏教授发言
17:30-19:00 晚餐
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To celebrate 40 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Ireland and
China,
The Ambassador of Ireland
H.E. Eoin O’Leary
and his wife Ms. Anne Delaney
为庆祝爱中两国建交 40周年
爱尔兰驻华大使李修文先生和夫人邓兰音女士
诚邀您光临
爱尔兰使馆招待会
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Keynote Speeches
Plenary Session I
Ireland: From statehood and independence
To multilateralism and interdependence
Dermot Keogh
(University College Cork, Ireland)
Abstract: In the struggle for independence in the post-1916 period, insufficientimportance has been paid in contemporary scholarship to the internationalisation of therevolution and to the central part played by the Irish diplomatic service under Dáil Éireann indifferent parts of the world. In mobilising Irish people abroad between 1919 and 1922, theleadership of the nationalist movement realised the significance of interdependence andmultilateralism. That approach came to characterise the foreign policy of the new state fromits inception to the present day. Prof. Keogh will illustrate this with reference to a number ofcase studies.
Looking at Ireland from China
Jerusha McCormack
(Guest Professor in BFSU, Visiting Scholar to Trinity College Dublin)Abstract: Although hugely discrepant in size and culture – and half a world apart –
Ireland and the PRC have been running in a kind of parallel universe. Looking at Ireland fromChina renders their similarities more distinct. Both countries emerged from longstandingempires and foreign domination to proclaim themselves independent republics. Both haveendured colonization as well as a landlord class which exploited their peasantry, with longhistories of famine and diaspora. Both boasted of ancient civilizations which suddenly had tobe squeezed into a modern concept of nationhood. For both, inventing that nation involvedsocial chaos, violence and civil wars – and a crisis in defining their new identities as eitherChinese or Irish. Today, both countries are also suffering from the speed and intensity of rapidsocial change.
From this comparative perspective, it is possible to read Ireland itself in new andunexpected perspectives. This paper explores the fruitful possibilities inherent in this freshlyopened critical frontier.
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Brexit, Irish Identity and Irish Studies in China
WANG Zhanpeng
(Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Abstact: As Irish Studies has emerged gradually as an independent academic discipline,the question of its disciplinary identity has become a topical issue among academia in China.The complexities of Brexit have undoubtedly imposed both tremendous challenges andopportunities to Ireland, North and South. No matter whether there will be a soft or hardBrexit, or whether the UK will ultimately leave the European Union or not, they will leavelasting imprints on the formation of a more confident, open, globalised Irish national identity(or Irishness), particularly on Irish role in the changing world. This converges with China’sendeavor to reverse the rising tide of de-globalisation and to enhance its connectivity with therest of the world. Sino-Irish relations will play an increasingly important part in the Irishendeavour to build this new external aspect of its identity as well.
In this context, what Irish studies can offer for the future of Chinese and Irish relations isbecoming an essential question for its efforts to seek a distinctive Chinese disciplinaryidentity. Irish studies in China has developed its own approach by going beyond narrowdisciplinary boundaries by examining Ireland’s historical, political, social, and literarycomplexity. Brexit provides new empirical facts to promote the interdisciplinary andmultidisciplinary dialogues among literary studies, historical studies and other academicdisciplines such as politics, sociology and international relations, which has potentials tocontribute to the emerging global Ireland agenda.
Dead orAlive? Language Revival and Cultural Memory
Regina Uí Chollatáin
(School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin)
Abstract: Opening with some thoughts from the Melbourne Advocate, an Australiannewspaper which hosted a Revivalist ‘Gaelic Column’ from 1912-1920, this talk will examinethe connection between language revival in Ireland and cultural memory in a national andinternational context. Linguistic assessment which focuses on the number of speakers alonedisregards the core principles and vision of the ideology of the Revival movement in itstotality and what it achieved. This paper will explore the connection between nationality andspoken language moving on to the analysis of the ideology of the Revival with ‘Irish ideas’and the power of language to influence, to assist in self-knowledge as a people, and in
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particular to reformulate, revive and re-establish an Irish identity (regardless of location). Thepaper will conclude with an overview of the global connection, or ‘communities ofcommunication’ which are evident in the writings and media sources which have allowed ‘the[Irish] people [to] find that they can live as comfortably in Ireland as they can in any othercountry in the world’(Melbourne Advocate 16/3/1907). Contextualising these perspectives incontemporary scholarly frameworks of memory provides some signposts and snapshots increating a blueprint for a better understanding of the nature and function of memory incommunities where language is contested, even in communities where it is officiallyrecognised as a national language.
Plenary Session II
Yeats’s Lapis Lazuli: An Interpretation
FU Hao(Foreign Literature Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Abstract: W. B. Yeats’s poem “Lapis Lazuli” (1936) not only draws inspiration from aChinese carving but also seemingly borrows something from a English version of a poem byBai Ju-yi. By digging deeply into the sources and drawing a detailed comparison between theoriginal meanings of the Chinese elements and Yeats’s representations in his poem, this papershows that Yeats’s creative imagination actually comes side by side with ignorant misreadingand therefore refutes some Yeats scholars’ interpretations based on irrelevant references andmisunderstandings.
The Correspondence between ALP and
Various Females in Joyce’s Works
FENG Jianming(Irish Studies Center, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics)
Abstract: The uniqueness of Anna Livia Plurabelle or ALP in Finnegans Wake (1939) isher changing identities in symbolic ways. ALP is specially characterized. The roles that shetakes on in the works of James Joyce (1882—1941) are fascinating, and important inrevealing Joyce’s aesthetic ideas. Joyce is not an aesthetician, but his ways in narration offer
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the readers aesthetic pleasure. Joyce believes the concepts of the circulation of human historyand the changeability of an individual. The relation between ALP and diverse female figuresin Joyce’s fictional works can show Joyce’s aesthetic ideas in symbolic ways. This speechfocuses on Joyce’s aesthetic ideas via the correspondence between ALP and various females.First, the circulation in the cyclical theory of history is expressed by virtue of thecorrespondence between ALP and Issy. Second, the idea of the changeability of an individualis expressed by ALP’s so-called parodies. ALP is the incarnation of diverse female figures inJoyce’s fictional works. The transfigurations of the ALP in Finnegans Wake are important forthe readers to comprehend the spontaneous expressions of the human collectiveunconsciousness and they are indispensable for the unity between the content and the form.
Travelling in Translation
Hedwig Schwall
( Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS)/ European Federation of
Associations and Centres of Irish Studies)
Abstract: This paper will touch on four points: (1) the concept and network of EFACIS;highlighting two of its projects, I will present (2) Kaleidoscope and the contributions to TheDanger and the Glory, Irish Authors on the Art of Writing (Arlen House, June 2019) to showwhere literature comes from and what it does; (3) we see how translation fits into this pictureand how translation can travel, connecting students from all over the world in the BanvilleProject. In order to make these points I will refer to EFACIS publications, to John Banville,Michael Cronin and Robert MacFarlane.
Irish Studies from anAmerican Perspective
With a View toward China
Christian Dupont
(Burns Library, Boston College, USA)
Abstract: Maps pretend to be objective, but they really reveal our own perspectives onthe rest of the world. How did mid 20th-century Irish writer Flann O’Brien view China? Howmight 21st-century Chinese scholars explore and engage with contemporary Irish culture?This talk will highlight current themes and genres in Irish writing, and suggest new avenues
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through which Ireland today may be viewed. Along the way, organizations that support IrishStudies will be introduced, including the John J. Burns Library at Boston College, one of anumber of academic libraries in North America that boast major collections of Irish literature,history, music, and art, and that welcome visiting researchers.
Anna Burns’Milkman and the Female Antibildungsroman
LI Yuan
(Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Abstract: Anna Burns’ Milkman belongs to a special genre of the postmodern femalebildungsroman which emerged in the 1960s in reaction to the traditional bildungsroman. Theheroines of the female Bildungsroman challenge the very structure of society, raisingquestions pertaining to class and gender equality. In this novel, Anna Burns usespostmodernist narrative techniques to disrupt the plot and to reflect the fractured, traumaticconsciousness of the protagonist, who comes of age in a tight and closed community rippedby years of violence. Although the setting in Milkman refers to the period of the Troubles inNorthern Ireland in the 1970s, the novel aims to offer a postmodern bildung narrative of ayoung girl’s resistance to the social constraints on female growth by exploring the chaotic age,the failure of mainstream ideology and the fractured identities.
Plenary Session III
Global Ireland and Poetry and Poetics as Soft Power: Dissemination
of Yeats Transnational Poetics of Othering
Youngmin Kim
(Digital Humanities Center/Institute of Trans Media World Literature
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea)
Abstact: The objective of this presentation is to trace the trajectory of Yeats’s poeticsand rhetoric and invent the transnational poetics out of preexisting poetics and rhetoric ofYeats. Yeats reveals his major shift from the poetics to the rhetoric in the midst of themulti-level "twists and turns" which mark an important manifestation of the process oftransmigration toward the Unity of Culture, and I argue that Yeats’s quest for the Unity ofCulture manifest a transnational poetics. In fact, Unity of Culture is paradoxically theprimordial structure from which, and toward which, Yeats’s own poetic development directs
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its own goal. As a result, the development manifests the on-going process of contestation andfragmentation on the bridge between the poetics and the rhetoric. The bridge is a site ofturbulent aporia site in which duplication of contestation creates a simultaneous centripetaland centrifugal movement, comingled with multiplication of fragmentation. In fact, Yeats’spoetics demonstrates heterogeneous “twists and turns” between description and analysis,narration and commentary, symbol and actual sight, verbal representation and visualrepresentation, voice and vision, visionary structure and rhetorical structure, magical allusionand awakening renovation, obsession and liberation, irony and allegory, and one can addmore.
AFar East Journey: Irish Literature in Japan
in the Late 19th Century
LI Chengjian
(Southwest Jiaotong University)
Abstract: It was during the late 19th century that Irish literary works were introducedand translated into Japan. The paper focuses on the three decades from 1890s to 1920s andsummarizes the main features of the specific introduction. It aims at discussing the culturalreasons why Japanese writers intended to fix on Irish literature. The paper argues that thethree decades at the turn of the centuries was a key time for Japanese society to adjust andreform its national image in the field of politics, international and regional relationship, andtherefore the introduction of Irish literature meant to learn from western good examples onthe one hand, and indicated the beginning of Imperial consciousness and its practice on theother hand.
Salome’s Trip to China
CHEN Li
(Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Abstract: Studies of Irish Literature is a lively and developing academic field in China.An interdisciplinary interest in Irish literature and culture, including the production of bothtranslations and critical studies of literature, has long attracted Chinese scholars. Oscar
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Wilde’s play Salome is put within the context of early encounters between Irish and Chinesescholars of the early twentieth century to explore its assimilation into China’s literaryproduction. The visually shocking elements of the play that combine violence with eroticism,as is most forcefully embodied by Salome’s blood-stained kiss, were surprisingly welcome bya new generation of Chinese scholars as weapons against the stiflingly conservative feudalistculture and subsequently appropriated for literary expressions of freedom in both individualand political senses.
Plenary Session IV
Queen’s University Belfast: A Bridge Between Ireland and China
Aglaia De Angeli
(Queen’s University Belfast)
Abstract: Queen’s University Belfast was the alma mater of Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911)and Dr Stanley Fowler Wright (1873-1953), two men who developed and sustained a bridgebetween Ireland and China for almost a century. The presentation will deliver a briefbiographical sketch of Hart and Wright, to be followed by a discussion of the two collectionsof their private papers held at Queen’s University Belfast. Therefore, with a bibliographicalapproach focused exclusively on primary sources, we may trace some conclusive thoughts onthe impact of Hart and Wright’s role to develop and foster significant relations betweenIreland and China.
As a matter of fact, Hart’s collection contains a range of interesting and insightfulmaterial relating to his official duties and experiences in Beijing during his long career incharge of the Chinese Customs Service. Significant in this regard is the long series of 77personal journals which Hart kept during this time. In his journals he comments with candoron both his professional life and acquaintances and his personal family concerns. Thecollection also contains a substantial series of correspondence amounting to over 7,000 lettersdating from 1899 to 1911, and more than 2,500 photographs.
Comparable in size is Wright’s collection, which includes manuscripts, books in Chinese,books and pamphlets on China and on the Chinese Customs, many official publications,reports, etc., and copies of Customs publications, some with manuscript annotations byWright, evidence also of revisions for later editions. Among the manuscripts in this collectionare Wright's own notes and papers for his various published works, including, 'Hart and theChinese Customs' (Belfast, 1950).
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Personal Reflections on Parallels
Between Chinese and Irish History
Peter E. Hamilton
(Department of History, Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin)
Abstract: Many people would assume that there is little connection between Chineseand Irish histories. In fact, however, key themes link these two societies ’ historicalexperiences, such as anti-colonial nationalism and a deep attachment to rural communitiesand the land. As an American historian of China who recently moved from Beijing to Dublin,I will examine several of these themes and suggest how these common aspects of the Chineseand Irish experience might shape the twenty-first-century bilateral relationship and open newopportunities for engagement and collaboration.
Tax Competition and Factors Flow:
an Example of Double Irish
LUWenyue
(Dalian University of Foreign Languages)
Abstract:For the development of domestic economy, a country tends to cut taxes inorder to introduce foreign capital. On the one hand, lower tax rates will do good to capitalinflow, and promote domestic economic growth. On the other hand, lower tax rates will effectnegative externality, and become impediment to international governance of taxation. Thetax policy of Double Irish has long been praised by foreign companies, pushing forwarddomestic economic growth. However, in recent years, as the major economies in the worldare lowering their tax rates one by one, the advantages of Double Irish policy are diminishing,which brings a new challenge to Ireland in its transition period. This paper extends TieboutModel and takes Ireland as an example, analyzing the relationship between taxationcompetition and factors flow, and discussing the intrinsic mechanism and development path
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Chinese Language Education:
the Present and Future Development in Ireland
ZHANG Qi
(School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City
University)
Abstract : China’s booming economy is indeed one of the main reasons for thepopularity of learning Chinese as a foreign language (henceforth CFL). With this growinginterest in CFL, Ireland is likely to be behind global trends as Chinese is not yet included as aState-examined subject at any level in the Irish schooling system. Chinese language teaching(henceforth CLT) began to develop significantly in formal UK schooling during 2004-2005(Zhang & Li, 2010), whereas the earliest occurrence of CLT seen in the Irish educationsystem was in 2006-2007 when two Confucius Institutes were set up in Ireland. During thistime, Mandarin Chinese was also introduced first as a subject and later as a degree in somehigher education institutions in Ireland. The current study reviews the past and present ofCLT in Ireland at second and tertiary level. This information, together with survey datacollected among approximately 3,700 students learning CFL in Irish schools as a subject notexamined by the State, provides recommendations for a future State-examined CFL course tobe introduced to Irish secondary schools. These recommendations include items such ascontact hours, tasks, and content to be implemented in the classroom. Furtherrecommendations are also supplied in relation to the bridging of secondary and tertiary-levelCLT. These recommendations come in light of former Irish Minister for Education RichardBruton's announcement that Chinese will be taught on the State-examined school curriculumas part of the Languages Connect strategy plan.
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Parellel Session I: Modern and Contemporary
Irish Literature
1. Wu Guojie (Foreign Literature Research Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University)“Emigrants, Identity and Memory: the Issue of Identity in the Irish EmigrationFictions”
Owing to the growth of the Irish settlements in America where Irish culture was imported andthe Irish language was still widely used, as well as the lasting impact of “American Wakes”,which intensified their Catholic faith, enriched the Irish folk culture and forged a collectiveunconsciousness, emigrants in the 19th century Irish emigration fictions identified themselveswith Ireland, with the continuity of memory of the past. By contrast in the 20th & 21stcenturies novels, Irish emigrants developed transnational identities, with the break-off fromand activation of the memory of the past. When voluntarily being assimilated into newcultures, Irish emigrants suspended their past experiences and played down their Irishidentities. However, the memory of the past appeared again at critical moments to interferewith the process of Irish emigrants identifying themselves with the new countries. Eventually,they tended to become cosmopolitans.
2. Li Lianghui (Nanyang Technological University)“Irish Anti-Realist Legacy in The Third Policeman”
There is a lineage of Irish novelists who write against the petrification of the novel genre byRealism. Dating back to Laurence Sterne, the anti-realist thrust thrived in works of Joyce andBeckett and resonates in contemporary Irish novels. The experimental venture seeks to renewthe novel genre and also explores a myriad of narrative possibilities pertaining to theconception of reality. Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman registers this anti-realistic thrust.Keith Hopper has pointed out O’Brien’s disagreement with the “two towers” in Irish literature,namely, Yeat’s Irish Revival and Joyce’s Modernism. In fact, O’Brien’s rejection of the twosuggests a similar rationale: a disagreement upon realism and its masterly invisible author. Byemploying the device of mise en abymes thematically and formally, Flann O’Brienundermines the existence of reality and delves into the inadequacy of perception and thefailure of language.
3. Chen Cheng (Shanghai Normal University)“ Analyzing Collisions in The Beauty Queen of Leenane Under Hegel’s Theory ofCollision”
This paper tries to analyze the tragedy of the protagonist Maureen in the play The BeautyQueen of Leenane written by Anglo-Irish playwriter Martin McDonagh through Hegel’s
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theory of collision which is proposed in his Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. The collisioncaused by Pato’s impotence is the collision based on physical or natural circumstances. ThatMaureen has a tough time in London because of her Irish birth is the collision caused by thenatural birth. The fundamental cause of her matricide is spiritual difference between her andher mother Mag. This kind of collision is relied on a man’s deed. These three kinds ofcollision denote the inevitability of Maureen’s tragedy.
4. Su Jing (Xiangtan University)“On Ethical Dilemmas in John McGahern’s The Barracks”
John McGahern was one of the most outstanding Irish writers in the twentieth century. Hewas the author of six highly acclaimed novels, in which The Barracks was his first creation.The main clue of this novel was Elizabeth’s awakening to an authentic sense of herself, whichpresented the ethical dilemmas of her personal freedom from the claustrophobia of thebarracks routines, her thirst for live from death, moreover, intimacy and isolation. Withdistinctive realistic quality, the novel exposed the burden of being a women or a man in thecontemporary social context after the War of Independence. Meanwhile, the traces ofMcGahern’s childhood experience in The Barracks gave the novel autobiographical features.
5. Zhang Yanwei (Harbin University)“Yeats and Politics”
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), born in Dublin, was one of the greatest poets andplaywrights in 20th century. He took an active part in the Celtic Revival and was appointedsenator of Irish Free State in 1922. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.As a great poet in Ireland, he can’t separate himself from Ireland. It was Ireland who gavehim unique perspective, vision and inspiration for artistic creation and in return he devotedhimself to eulogizing Ireland and promoting Irish culture, thus made an indelible contributionto the independence of Ireland. With close reading of Yeat’s poem “politics”, my paper willexplore Yeat’s relationship with politics: his early eager involvement in politics, his lateraversion to political violence & his subsequent determination to go beyond politics and returnto the eternity of arts.
6. Zhu Lei (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)“Meaning Construction and Political Metaphor in Gulliver's Travels”
Gulliver's Travels is the masterpiece of the famous writer Jonathan Swift. The multiplepolitical metaphors used in the novel play an important role in understanding the connotationof the work. Political metaphor is the structural mapping of the cognitive domain of politicalsentiment to the political cognitive domain. Its research field involves the role and function ofmetaphor in politics. Because of its strong symbolic and explanatory power, politicalmetaphor is also used in literary works. Combining Lakoff & Johnson's (1980) ConceptMetaphor Theory, this thesis deeply studies Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels and
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analyzes the mapping relationship between works and real society in order to explore themeaning construction and political metaphor in the novel, to expose the corruption and sin ofthe British ruling class and to criticize Britain's exploitation and oppression of Ireland.
Parallel Session II: Language, Culture and
Dissemination
1. Chen Hui (Shanghai Normal University)“When Beckett enters The World of Peking Opera: An Inspiring fusion of Eastern andWestern Drama Aesthetics”
Waiting for Godot of Wu Hsaing-Kuo’s Contemporary Legend Theater (2019) is a ChineseBeckett performance under the genre of Peking opera. This adaptation is loyal to Beckett’sboth in content and in drama aesthetic thought. This essay intends to explore how theadaptation represents Beckettian aesthetic pursuit of “emptiness”, “uncertainty”, and“meaning under the words”.The adaptation makes valuable exploration and experiment in promoting the modernizationand internationalization of traditional Peking opera.
2. Li Yanshi (Taiyuan University of Technology)“Study on the Translation of Beckett’s Drama in China: Waiting for Godot as CaseStudy”
The translation of literary text from one cultural context to another different one relies onsocial and political situation, ideology, market needs, reading interests and cultural traditionsof the recipient country. Therefore, the strategies the translator takes is very important forreception. Regretfully, there are more researches on introductions of Beckett’s drama thanthose of translations in China. And the differences between dramatic translation, as a specialliterary text, from other literary texts are overlooked. It is necessary to study the strategies andgains and losses of translation so as to discuss the generation and missing of meanings in thetranslating process from the aspects of dramatic translation, literature reception and culturalcommunication.
3. Qi Yulong (Northeast Forestry University)“On the Cultural untranslatability of Certain Parts in Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s Poems forChildren”
In the process of translating Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s Poems for children into Chinese, I foundcertain parts can’t be translated to, or rather, accepted by Chinese readers, which is due to theobstacle of understanding from a cultural rather than linguistic perspective. These partsinclude poems appearing at some Catholic occasion, some about death which is still quite a
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taboo for Chinese children, and some showing the different ways of communication. Fromthese parts different educational suggestions can be found, and some of which can be quiteinspiring for Chinese parents.
4. Dang Anqi (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)“A Pragmatic Study of the Discourse Features of Seamus Heaney’sWintering out”
Wintering out is the third collection of poems written by the Nobel Literature Prize winner,Seamus Heaney in 1995. It is the poet’s initial work during his peak 10 years (1970-1980). Itwas the time that religious conflicts and violent conflicts broke out in Northern Ireland. In thecollected poems, the poet found his unique way about Irish culture and political expressionthrough the excavation of the Irish language and topography. Thus, the poet’s personalexperience extended towards broad national experience. It confirmed his poetic view thatpoetry was the self-return realization. This thesis analyzes the poetic discourse features ofSeamus Heaney’s poem, Wintering out from three aspects: detail description, rhetoric deviceand dialect words. So as to understand how Heaney explored his cultural identity deeply. Wecan also explore the power of national spirit redemption in his works.
5. Yang Shiyan (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)“A Variational Pragmatic Study of the Speech Act of Apology in Irish English”
This article takes a variational pragmatic approach to investigate formulae of apology andapology strategies by comparing the Irish English of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.Using Irish component of the International Corpus of English, the analysis does not onlycenter on the apology frequency and strategies of two regions, but also on the contextualconstraints of the use of apology. The findings also highlight the influence of politicalpatterns on the use of apology speech act.
6. Zheng Yu, Liu Fengguang (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)“A Variational Pragmatic Study on the Speech Act of ‘Invitations’ in Irish English”
Irish English, as a variety of English, has been examined on a myriad of linguistic levels,increasingly researched from a pragmatic perspective, with current empirical studies onpragmatic issues varied in focus, but still remaining to be further expanded. Existingresearches in Irish English in the domain of pragmatics mainly center on linguistic forms,politeness strategies, and speech acts, among which studies on speech acts such as responsesto compliments, requests, offers and refusals of offers are particularly salient, with fewtouches on invitations, a crucial and effective way to help to establish and maintaininterpersonal relationship. Furthermore, variational pragmatics probes into varieties of thesame language influenced by geographical factors along with macro and micro level of socialfactors, which has been applied in Irish English studies. To address this gap, this article,building on the foundation of variational pragmatics, investigates the use of language with thefocus on the speech act of “invitations” in Irish English. Adopting a corpus-driven
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methodology based on the Irish component of the International Corpus of English (hereinafterreferred to as ICE-IRE), the analysis concentrates on the pragmatic strategies, differences andrelevant causes in invitation realisations.
Parallel Session III: Irish Political and Social
Studies
1. Pang Weidong (Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economics)“From chaos to order: an analysis of Irish Chinese Society”
Since Ireland opened to China its student visa at the end of the last century, Chinese hasbegun to enter Ireland on a large scale. Over the next ten years, Chinese society hasundergone a process from chaos to an orderly development. With the arrival of a largenumber of Chinese, various types of Chinese associations have emerged. At the same time,social networks, based on personal networks and linked by associations, have graduallyformed. Affected by objective factors such as language, culture and education, the Chinese inIreland still face some difficulties in social integration. A considerable number of Chinesestill have doubts about whether to integrate into Ireland and whether to settle in Ireland for along time. Although the situation of Chinese in Ireland has improved significantly, theirpolitical influence is still weak, and their traditional industries are facing the crisis of laborshortage.
2. Lv Dayong (Beijing Foreign Studies University)“Opportunities and Challenges: Irish Strategy on Global Talents”
Having the 4th highest international workforce in Europe, Ireland takes a critical position onglobal talent competition. Dublin ranks among the top 10 in the 2018 Global TalentCompetitiveness Index. Ireland’s current attractiveness to global talents is evaluated as a goodexperiment. Based on the theory of talent flows and talent incentives among regions andcountries, various aspects of Irish policy framework on international talents are analyzed,including Ireland's open economic and social environment, its immigration policy which isgradually leaning toward high-tech talents and an increasingly diverse international studentcommunity in Ireland. In the context of Brexit, Ireland seizes the opportunity to enhance itsappeal to EU and non-EU talents. At the same time, Ireland still has shortcomings inattracting global talents, such as housing shortage, high personal income tax, and regionalimbalance of attractiveness to global talents. Studying the status quo of Ireland's overseastalent policy not only offers evidence for improving the general principles of global talentpolicy, but also provides a reference for enhancing China's international competitiveness.
3. Qu Bing (China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations)
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“Why Does the Irish Government Take Irish Border Issue So Seriously?”
Irish border problem re-emerged due to Brexit and had and will have a strong negative effecton Ireland. The Irish government is desperate to avoid the so called "hard border" and hasbeen lobbying the EU intensively. At the heart of Irish concerns, the Irish border is a matter oflife and death, not merely increased trade costs. Resolving the problem involves greatercooperation between Britain and Ireland and the Irish government holds the key to someextent. As we have witnessed, without the support of the Irish government, Boris Johnsonwould not have reached a revised Brexit deal with the EU.
4. Liu Yinghe (Beijing Foreign Studies University/Zhongnan University of Economics andLaw)“Comparative Study of Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland and Cyprus”
Ireland and Cyprus are both divided islands in Europe. The ethnic conflicts in NorthernIreland and Cyprus which are multi-faceted and multi-layered, have a lot of in common, .They undermine peace and stability in Europe. This article starts with the historicalbackground of the conflicts to explain the rationale. Then the article exaimines the conflicts’influence on bilateral relations, and the roles of ethno-guarantors, the EU and other third-partyexternal actors in the conflict resolution process. Thereafter the success and failure ofconsociational democracy in respective cases are deliberated. Finally, it is contended thatunder current international circumstances, there is increasing uncertainty to Northern Irelandissue, while due to the intransigence of relevant parties, the peaceful reunification of Cyprusremains particularly difficult.
5. Zhang Xi (Beijing Foreign Studies University)“Devolution in Northern Ireland in the Context of Brexit”
Brexit has profoundly impacted devolution and the peace process in Northern Ireland whilethe Irish border is a major obstacle to it. Social groups and major political parties in NorthernIreland are deeply divided over the Brexit agreement, which poses a serious threat to thepeace maintained in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement. The uncertaintycaused by Brexit also challenge the economic and social stability of Northern Ireland.However, although Brexit has triggered discussions on holding a referendum on a unitedIreland, it still confronts considerable difficulties due to institutional and realistic constraints.The fundamental status of governing framework in Northern Ireland established by GoodFriday Agreement still remains.
6. Paul G. Murphy (Département d’information et de communication, Université Laval)“Montreal’s Irish Memorial Park: A Canadian Foreign Policy Strategy in HigherEducation for the ‘Third-Era of Globalization’”
Canada is a nation built on ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. This foundation haspermitted a tradition of navigating sovereignty in the shadow of great superpowers, beginning
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with Great Britain and the United States today. As we enter into the “third-era ofglobalization,” plagued with crises of technological secular stagnation and non-renewableresources, Canadian Foreign Policy must exercise its soft power in Higher Education. Seizingopportunities presented by the Montreal Irish Memorial Park, this could take the forminstitutionally using resources from the “Canada–China Scholars Exchange” and the “IrelandCanada University Foundation.” There is reasonable doubt that failing to provide analternative to Toronto’s Sidewalk Lab model for Smart Cities, Canada will fail to traverse thechanging world ecology that welcomes China and other Newly Industrialized Countries (NIC).The Four-Leaf Model for a Living Laboratory between Canada, Ireland, and China, using apragmatist approach of the Right to Play, Art, Research, and the City, provides hope in theabsence of global commitments to the principals of the Club of Rome’s Limits of Growth(1972).
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大会发言
第一组:爱尔兰:从主权与独立到多边主义与相互依存
Dermot Keogh
爱尔兰科克大学历史系
内容摘要:在 1916 年复活节起义之后的独立斗争中,学界未能充分重视革命的国
际化倾向,以及由下议院领导的爱尔兰外交机构所发挥的重要作用。1919 至 1922 年间,
民族主义运动的领导层在动员爱尔兰民众出国的过程中认识到了相互依存和多边文化
主义的重要性,。这种做法成为爱尔兰从建国到现在外交政策的特点。Keogh 教授将通
过一系列案例研究来说明这一点。
从中国看爱尔兰
Jerusha McCormack
(北京外国语大学客座教授、圣三一大学客座教授)
内容摘要:尽管爱尔兰和中华人民共和国在规模和文化上存在巨大差异,并且相隔
半个世界,但是两国的发展轨迹颇有平行之处。从中国的视角看爱尔兰,这使它们的相
似性更加明显。两国都经历了漫长的帝国和外国统治,才成为独立的共和国。两者都经
历了殖民统治以及剥削农民的地主阶级的统治,同时有着漫长的饥荒和侨民历史。两者
都有着古老的文明,同时又不得不经历急剧的变化 ,成为现代意义上的民族国家。两
国在建国前都经历了社会混乱、暴力和内战,也曾面临如何定义中国人和爱尔兰人身份
的危机。今天,两国正经历着快速发展和社会巨变。
从这一比较研究的角度来看,我们或可以一种出乎意料的全新视角来解读爱尔兰。
本文拟探索这一新近开拓的研究领域内的丰富可行性。
英国脱欧、爱尔兰身份与中国的爱尔兰研究
王展鹏
(北京外国语大学英语学院)
内容摘要:随着爱尔兰研究逐渐成为一个独立的学科领域,其学科身份成为中国学
者关注的一个问题。脱欧问题的复杂性无疑给整个爱尔兰,无论是北方还是南方,都带
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来了巨大的挑战和机遇。无论英国最终是否脱欧,或者是以软脱欧还是硬脱欧的方式离
开欧盟,这一进程都将会对一个更加自信、开放、全球化的爱尔兰身份的形成产生持久
的影响,这一影响尤其体现在变化的世界中爱尔兰的角色方面。这与中国抵御逆全球化、
增强与世界的互联互通的努力相契合。中爱关系也将在爱尔兰新的国家身份的探索中扮
演日益重要的角色。
在此背景下,爱尔兰研究能在中爱关系的未来发展中做出怎样的贡献正成为中国学
者探索中国爱尔兰研究学科身份过程中的根本问题。中国的爱尔兰研究正在通过审视历
史、政治、社会、文学的复杂性,超越狭隘的学科界限,形成自身的特色。英国脱欧为
促进文学、历史、政治、社会、国际关系等学科间跨学科、多学科的对话提供了经验事
实,有潜力为日益显现的“全球爱尔兰”研究议程做出中国的贡献。
语言复兴与文化记忆
Regina UiChollatain
(爱尔兰都柏林大学凯尔特研究与民俗学院)
内容摘要:本文以澳大利亚报纸《墨尔本先驱报》1912-1920 年的“盖尔语专栏”中
的一些观点作为切入点,探讨爱尔兰语言复兴与国家和国际文化记忆之间的关系。语言
评估只关注说话者的数量,而忽视了复兴运动的整体意识形态的核心原则和愿景以及它
所取得的成就。本文将探讨民族与口头语言之间的联系,进而分析“爱尔兰思想”的复
兴意识形态和语言的影响力,对民族自我认识的帮助,特别是重新制定、复兴和重新建
立爱尔兰身份(而无论地域)。论文最后将概述全球联系,即“交流社区”,这在著作和
媒体来源中很明显,它们使“(爱尔兰)人民发现,他们可以像在世界上任何其他国家一
样舒适地生活在爱尔兰”(《墨尔本先驱报》16/3/1907)。将这些观点置于当代记忆的
学术框架中,为我们提供了一些路标和快照,从而为更好地理解语言存在争议的社区的
记忆的性质和功能提供了蓝图,甚至在官方承认语言为国家语言的社区也是如此。
第二组:叶芝的天青石雕:一种解读
傅浩
(中国社会科学院外国文学研究所)
内容摘要:叶芝的《天青石雕》(1936)一诗不仅得灵感于中国文物实物,而且涉
嫌借鉴白居易诗作英译。本文通过详细考证其素材来源,仔细比较其中所涉中国元素的
本义与诗人的再现表述,说明叶芝的想象发挥其实是基于误读臆解,同时对某些叶芝学
者运用不当论据得出的不正确的说法也有所驳正。
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ALP 与乔伊斯作品中女性形象的对应
冯建明
(上海对外经贸大学爱尔兰研究中心)
内容摘要:《为芬尼根守灵》(1939))中的安娜·利维娅·普卢拉贝尔(ALP)这一人物的独特性在于她角色转换所带来的象征意义。ALP 被特别刻画出来。在詹姆斯·乔伊斯(1882——1941)的作品中,她的角色引人入胜,对揭示乔伊斯的审美观十分重要。乔伊斯虽不是美学家,但他的叙述方式带给读者审美快感。乔伊斯相信人类历史周期理论和个体易变性。ALP 和乔伊斯小说中其他各式各样女性之间的关系通过象征充分体现了他的审美观念。本次演讲将通过分析 ALP 和其他女性形象的对应,重点关注乔伊斯的审美观念。首先,历史周期理论中的“循环”通过 ALP 和伊西的对应。其次,个体易变性通过对 ALP 的“模仿”。ALP 是乔伊斯小说中女性形象的典型代表。《为芬尼根守灵》ALP 的变形对读者理解人类集体无意识的自发表现具有重要意义,对于小说内容和形式的统一也不可或缺。