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An interdisciplinary postgraduate conferenceSupported by the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies,University College DublinFriday 25th September 14.00-14.30Registration and Welcome 14.30-16.00Session 1: Gender, Theory and the Avant-Garde “Pushing the Boundaries: Ambivalence and the body in the work of Salvador Dalì”(Fiona Noble, University of Aberdeen) “Claude Cahun and the French Surrealist avant-garde in the post First World War period” (Rebecca Ferreboeuf, University of Leeds)  “Multiplying the radical – to the root – avant-garde: The rhzomatic Merzbau”(Gemma Carroll, University College Cork) 16.00-16.30Coffee Break 16.30-18.00Session 2: Comparative Perspectives on the Avant-Garde “‘nat language in any sinse of the world’: Avant-Garde approaches to language in Joyce and Tzara”(Paul Fagan, University of Vienna“Soffici between Marinetti’s Futurism and Apollinaire”(Mila Milani, University of Manchester) “Between Repudiation and Homage: European Influences in Polish Poetic and Visual Avant-Garde, 1918-1930”(Justyna Stępień, University of Łódź and Kamila Pawlikowska, University of Kent) 18.00-19.00Wine Reception Saturday 26th September 9.00-9.30Registration 9.30-11.00Session 3: New Approaches to Futurism, Vorticism and Dadaism “‘With our bodies grazed and scraped’: How Futurism fought to forge an avant-garde prototype”(Sarah Hayden, University College Cork)  “A guide to dissolute Berlin”(Jean O’Donovan, University College Cork) 11.00-11.30Coffee Break 11.30-13.00Session 4: Avant-Garde Poetry “Atelier 17 and the Europa Poets” (Sandra O’Connell, Independent Scholar) “Aesthetic Suicide: An allegorical reading of Lorca’s Suicidio en Alejandria”(Tara Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast) “The Reach of Revolutionary Aesthetics: A Comparative Study of the Influence of the European Avant-Garde on the work of the American and Québecois poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gaston Miron”(Muireann Leonard, Independent Scholar) 13.00-14.00Lunch Break 14.00-15.30Session 5: Translating the Avant-Garde “Visual ‘surrealisation’, ludic translation of Surrealism”(Elise Aru, University College London) “‘All the energized past, all the past that is living’: Ezra Pound between translation experiments and avant-garde”(Giovanna Epifania, University of Bari) “Writing into the Future by Recounting the Past—The Mandarin Translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses”(Chih Hsien Hsieh, University College Dublin) 15.30-16.00Coffee Break 16.00-17.30Session 6: Theatre and the Avant-Garde “Bernard Shaw’s Irish characters and the rise of reverse snobbery”(David Clare, University College Dublin)  “‘The margins of the nation displacing the centre’: The Rejection of the Wider European narrative: Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie”(Conor Plunkett, Queens University, Belfast) “Half Beast-Half Angel: Djuna Barnes Nightwood and German Expressionist Drama”(Kate Armond, University of East Anglia) 19.00Conference DinnerSelena DalyPhD candidate (Italian Studies)University College Dublin(Government of Ireland scholar (IRCHSS) and National University of Ireland scholar)