Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:30-10:00pm
Michael Gillespie's book launch and celebration of The Myth of an Iriah Cinema
UWM's Curtin Hall, Room 368
Please join us for a celebration of Prof. Michael Gillespie's new book, The Myth of an Irish Cinema (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Professor Gillespie teaches at Marquette University. In his book, he presents a groundbreaking challenge to the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. He argues that, given the complexity of contemporary Irish identity, filmmakers can no longer present Irishness as a monolithic entity.
Excerpts from Irish movies will be screened as part of Professor Gillespie's presentation. A reception will follow and copies of The Myth of an Irish Cinema will be available for purchase.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:30pm
Milwaukee premiere of the Irish-Language movie Kings (with English subtitles)
County Clare, 1234 N. Astor St. Milwaukee
As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, National Irish Language week, the Center for Celtic Studies is hosting an evening of Irish conversation for everyone, from beginners to those who consider themselves fluent. To get those Gaelic tongues wagging in style, you will get a dollar off a pint of Guinness if you ask for it in Irish.
The Evening will close with the Milwaukee premiere of the Irish-Language movie (with English subtitles) Kings. Kings is an acclaimed winner of 5 Irish Academy Awards and tells the story of 6 young men who sailed away from Ireland in 1977 with dreams of a better life. 30 years later, they gather at the wake after one of them suddenly dies.
If you have any questions, please contact us at schnei34@uwm.edu or (414) 229-6520.Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Céilí
Tickets: $4 for students/ $6 for others
Where: Green Hall at UWM
A traditional Irish or Scottish social gathering with music dancing, and storytelling. Hosted by Celtic Regions And Irish Club. Learn how to dance and have some good fun! This is a potluck, so bring a dish if you can (and enjoy the food we have). For more information, please contact Kelly at kkgalien@uwm.edu.
Friday, March 27, 2009, 3:00pm
Anthropology Colloquium
Erzsébet Jerem, Senior Research Fellow, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Heritage Preservation and Presentation: Archaeological Parks and World Heritage Sites in Hungary
Location: Room G90, Sabin Hall, UW-Milwaukee
Co-sponsored by the Center for Celtic Studies
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 3:00pm
Erzsébet Jerem, Senior Research Fellow, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Celts in the East: Iron Age Archaeology in the Carpathian Basin
Location: Room G90, Sabin Hall, UW-Milwaukee
Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America, The UWM Center for Celtic Studies, and the UWM Workshop in Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Center for Celtic Studies Open House
Please join the CCS staff, alumni, and current students for an informal open house. Come enjoy refreshments and Gaelic music. Get to know people within the department while learning about upcoming classes, CCS events, and study abroad opportunities.
All Students Welcome
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Greene Hall
3347 N. Downer Avenue
Friday, October 17, 2008
An Leabhar Mór: The Great Book of Gaelic Opening
The Center for Celtic Studies at UW-Milwaukee will host the only American exhibition of the Great Book of Gaelic, a traveling art exhibit from the Gaelic Arts Agency, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The exhibit will be on campus from October through December, 2008 with an October display in the Art History Gallery in Mitchell Hall and an October through December display in the Special Collections Gallery in UWM's Golda Meir Library.
The public is invited to a reception and gallery openings on Friday, October 17. Both galleries, which are not usually open in the evenings, will be open that evening. The reception, sponsored by the St. Andrew's Society of Milwaukee, will be held in the 4th floor Conference Center of the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. from 5-7 pm, with some readings from the Gaelic poetry featured in The Great Book at 6:00. There will be an exhibit of pages from the Great Book on display in the Special Collections Gallery next to the Conference Center. From 7-9 pm, the Art History Gallery in Mitchell Hall 154 will be open.
October 13 - December 30, 2008
An Leabhar Mór/The Great Book of Gaelic brings together the work of more than 200 poets, visual artists and calligraphers from Scotland and Ireland to create a major contemporary artwork in the form of a visual anthology. These poems offer vivid openings into Gaelic culture as a living continuum from around 600 AD to the 21st century.
The 100 Gaelic poems have been nominated by leading poets and writers such as Seamus Heaney, Hamish Henderson and Alistair Macleod as well as the contributing poets themselves. The selection features work from almost every century from the 6th to the 21st and includes the earliest Gaelic poetry in existence. Comedy, tragedy, love, death, the spiritual and the bawdy are all represented in poems by Sorley MacLean, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Iain Crichton Smith, Michael Davitt, Kevin MacNeil and Cathal Ó Searcaígh. The 100 visual artists - 50 from each country - were commissioned to respond to the poetry in a variety of media. The artists include Alan Davie, Rita Duffy, Will Maclean, Brian Maguire, Fances Walker, Anna Macleod, John Bryne, Shane Cullen, Alasdair Gray, Noel Sheridan, Calum Colvin and Alastair MacLennan. A small team of calligraphers and typographer Don Addison worked in collaboration with the artists to integrate the key lines of poetry and the artist's images. The result is an extraordinary celebration in words and pictures of Gaelic culture from the earliest times to the present day.
Friday, February 20th, 7:30pm-9:00pm
Book launch and celebration for James Liddy and Jim Chapson
Green Hall, 3347 N. Downer Avenue
We invite you to the posthumous launch of three books by James Liddy and one by his partner, Jim Chapson. Join us as we celebrate James's work with two new books of poetry, Askeaton Sequence and Wexford and Arcady, as well as the second part of his autobiography, The Full Shilling. Jim Chapson's book of poetry, Daphnis & Ratboy was recently praised in the Irish Times, and will also be launched.
As you know, we at UWM lost our dear friend, colleague and wit James Liddy in November. According to the Irish Times, James was "one of Ireland's leading poets and the creator of a body of work unique in both contemporary Irish and American literature". When he died, Mary Cloake, director of the Irish Arts Council, said: "James Liddy was one of the most independent, engaging and original poets of his time." James was a strong supporter of the Center for Celtic Studies and we were fortunate to have him both as an advisor and as a teacher in our program.
For more about James and his life, visit the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/34240804.html
Monday, February 2, 2009, 3:30pm
Dr. Margot Backus, University of Houston
'Odd Jobs':James Joyce and Oscar Wilde in Trieste
Curtin Hall, Room 368, UWM Campus
In this presentation, Dr. Bakcus connects the two Irish literary geniuses, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. In the Circe section of Ulysses, Joyce represents Bloom as defending himself against the key Savoy hotel evidence used against Wilde. Wilde's crime, like Joyce's, in writing Ulysses, "was to have caused ... a scandal." In other words, Wilde was punished not for his private activities, but for drawing attention to those activities; not for being visible, as male homosexuals often were during this period, but for calling public attention to this visibility. Through the scapegoated figure of Bloom, Joyce launched a preemptive attack of the sort that occurs throughout Joyce's corpus, ridiculing in advance those who would (and did) claim that his writing was simply an ill-bred assault on the tasteful sensibilities of his betters.
Dr. Backus is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston. Her book, Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality and child sacrifice in the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order won the American Conference for Irish Studies' 2001 prize for a distinguished first book. She is currently completing work on a book on Irish and Northern Irish cultures of scandal.
For more information call the Center for Celtic Studies at 414.229.6520 or e-mail gleeson@uwm.edu
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