MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“STRUCTURES OF BELIEF IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND”
16-18 April 2004, DePaul University Chicago, LPC Student Center.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

FRIDAY, 16 APRIL

12pm REGISTRATION

1:15 pm OPENING OF CONFERENCE

1:30 to 3:30 pm PANEL ONE
FROM IRELAND AND ON IRELAND: RELIGION AND INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE
Prof. Walter L. Arnstein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
“Charles Bradlaugh: A Victorian atheist encounters Roman Catholic Ireland."
Prof. Tadhg Foley (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
“From Templeglantine to the Golden Temple: Religion, Empire, and Max Arthur Macauliffe.”
Professor David Latané (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
“ ‘Perge, Signifer’, or where did William Maginn stand?”
Dr Deirdre McMahon (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
“Lloyd George, anti-Catholicism and the Irish question, 1886-1922.”
Dr G.K. Peatling (University of Guelph, Canada)
“Tell this to the Indians: the religious basis of William Warren Baldwin’s Thoughts on the civilization of the native Americans of Ontario, 1819.”

3:30 pm OPENING OF EXHIBITION OF IRISH BOOKS IN RICHARDSON LIBARY
Speaker: Mr Charles Sheehan, Consul General of Ireland in Chicago.

4:15 TO 5:30 pm FRIDAY FIRST KEY-NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Emmet Larkin (University of Chicago, USA)
“The Devotional Revolution revisited.”

5:30 pm RECEPTION

SATURDAY, 17 APRIL

8:30 to 9 am COFFEE AND PASTRY

9 to 11 am PANEL TWO A ANXIETY IN THE AGE OF CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
Dr Claire Connolly (Cardiff University, Wales, UK)
“The dramatic tragedies of Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil and the staging of confessional difference in the romantic period.”
Ms Shirley Matthews (University of Southampton, UK)
“‘Second Spring’ and ‘Precious Prejudices’: Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in Hampshire in the wake of Catholic Emancipation.”
Ms Bridget Matthews-Kane (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
“Sympathetic Siblings and Dastardly Doubles: Romantic Allegory in Banim’s The Boyne Water.”
Ms Teresa O’Brien Walker (Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK)
“‘The enemy of their religion but the loving friend of their country and their souls’: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and the ideology of evangelicalism in the nineteenth-century Ireland.”
Prof. Kevin O’Neill (Boston College, USA)
“Friends and neighbours: Mary Shackleton Leadbeater and the Irish Quakers”

PANEL TWO B FASHIONING POST-FAMINE CATHOLICISM
Professor Jill Brady Hampton (University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA)
“The Catholic Church, colonialism and agency in the fiction of May Laffan.”
Prof. Cara Delay (Denison University, USA)
“A controversial religious episode: the station-mass in post-Famine Catholic Ireland.”
Dr Louise Fuller (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland)
“Walter McDonald's window on Maynooth, 1870-1920”
Prof. Amy E. Martin (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
“Nationalism as blasphemy: political and religious belief in the genre of Fenian recollections.”
Dr Patrick Maume (The Queen’s University of Belfast, NI, UK)
“Father Boyce and the Wild Irish Girl – a study in intertextuality.”

11 am COFFEE BREAK

11:15 am MVSA and SSNCI MEETINGS

11:45 to 1 pm SECOND KEY-NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Marjorie Howes (Boston College, USA)
"Popular Catholicism, popular fictions."

1 to 2 pm BUFFET LUNCH

2 to 3:30 pm PANEL THREE A WOMEN, RELIGION AND RESISTANCE
Ms Andrea Bobotis (University of Virginia, USA)
“Rival femininities: Queen Victoria, Maud Gonne, and the ethics of motherhood.”
Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
“Catholic periodicals and the construction of the ideal woman in late nineteenth-century Ireland.”
Ms Kara M. Ryan-Johnson (University of Tulsa)
“The siege of O’Connell: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s historical novels of Ireland.”
Dr Maureen O’Connor (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
“Frances Power Cobbe and the Patriarchs”

PANEL THREE B RELIGION, INSTITUTIONS AND CRISES
Mr Matthew Brown (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
“Evolution, conversion, and religious faith in nineteenth-century England and Ireland.”
Mr Gabriel Doherty (University College Cork, Ireland)
“The role of religion within the Irish prison system, 1877-1899”
Dr Larry Geary (University College Cork, Ireland)
“Medicine, religion and sectarianism in pre-Famine Ireland.”
Prof. Katherine Parr (North Central College, Illinois, USA)
“Religious associations in Famine poetry: images of guilt, blame and reprisal.”

3:30 to 5 pm NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH OPERA
Professof Nicholas Temperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will deliver a lecture on Irish opera in the nineteenth century with an emphasis on Julius Benedict’s The Lily of Killarney (1862) and Charles Villiers Standford’s Shamus O’Brien (1896). The lecture will be illustrated by songs and duets performed by Alexia Kruger and Timothy Schmidt, graduate students in the University of Illinois opera program, accompanied by Temperley.

7 pm CONFERENCE DINNER

SUNDAY, 18 APRIL

8:30 to 9 am COFFEE AND PASTRY

9 to 11 am PANEL FOUR ULSTER AND THE EVANGELICALS
Dr Mary Burke (University of Notre Dame, USA)
“Post-Darwinian evangelical anxiety and the writings of JM Synge.”
Dr Martin Doherty (University of Westminster, UK)
“Evangelicalism on the streets: religion, community relations and Constructive Unionism: the Arklow disturbances of 1891.”
Dr Gerald Hall (University of Chicago)
“Conquests, commonwealths and political economy: evangelical Presbyterians in the tenant-right movement in Ulster.”
Dr Janice Holmes (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK)
“Irish evangelicals in a British revival network, 1830-1900.”
Dr Willa Murphy (University of Ulster, NI, UK)
“Sermons in Skirts: Evangelical Feminism in Nineteenth Century Ulster”

11 am COFFEE BREAK

11:15 am to 12:45 pm THIRD KEY-NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. D.W. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) O
"Did Ulster Presbyterians have a Devotional Revolution?"

12:45 pm BUFFET LUNCH