Round Table: 30 years of ABEI and 10 years of WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies

Laura P. Z. Izarra,Munira H Mutran,Rosalie Haddad,Alessandra Cristina Rigonato,Mariana Bolfarine,Eduardo Boheme Kumamoto

doi:10.37389/abei.v21i2.3811

Abstract

The round table commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI) and tenth year of the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies was part of the XIV ABEI and II AEIS Symposium of Irish Studies - “The State of the Art: Local and Global Contexts in Dialogue”, and was held on August 15, 2019. The session was comprised by Dr Munira H. Mutran, honorary president of ABEI and director of the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies; Dr Laura P.Z. de Izarra, coordinator of the W.B. Yeats Chair and advisory member of ABEI; Dr Rosalie R. Haddad, advisory member of ABEI and researcher in the W.B. Yeats Chair, Alessandra Cristina Rigonato, PhD candidate at the University of Sao Paulo, and Eduardo Kumamoto, graduate from the University of Sao Paulo and Master in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin. The discussion, which revolved around the history of the founding of both ABEI and the Chair, and their current developments, was conducted by Dr Mariana Bolfarine, head of ABEI and researcher at the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies.

Highlights

The round table commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI) and tenth year of the W.B
Fernanda Sepa, from Guarulhos, on Yeats; Geraldo Ferreira de Lima, from Bahia, on Synge; Gisela Borges Manfio, from PUC-São Paulo, on Lennox Robinson; Peter Harris, from UNESP, on Séan O’Casey; Beatriz Kopschitz, from Niterói, on Denis Johnston; and Domingos Nunes, actor and director – a valuable addition to a group working on drama, who wrote about Stewart Parker
In the second cultural moment, we started with Laura Izarra, from Santo Amaro College at that time, who developed her studies on James Stephens; Rosicler Diniz, from Santos, on Elizabeth Bowen; Heleno Godoy, from Goiás, on Flann O’Brien; Noélia Borges, from Bahia, on Kate O’Brien; and Rosalie Haddad with her PhD on Bernard Shaw’s novels, very little known in criticism

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Introduction

The round table commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI) and tenth year of the W.B. In all these years of teaching and researching Irish Studies, I felt very isolated at the Department of Modern Languages at the University São Paulo, because most of colleagues were in the fields of English and American literature.

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