Draft Programme:
Thursday 19th June 2014
12 noon: Arrival. Light lunch.
1pm: Introductions
1:15 Keynote Presentation by Neil Buttimer, Department of Modern Irish, University College Cork, Ireland.
2:00 Macgnímrada
Chair: Donncha Kavanagh (University College Dublin). Discussant: John Desmond (University of St Andrews)
Marion Deane: Birth-tales of Cú Chulainn: the birth and maintenance of economic structures in early Irish society
Anu Harju, & Johanna Moisander (both Aalto University School of Business, Finland): Fans on the threshold: Steve Jobs, the sacred in memorialisation and the hero within.
Kieran Keohane (University College Cork) & Carmen Kuhling (University of Limerick): Recurrence of the Táin, foretold: Corruption of the Gift Relation
3:30 pm: Afternoon tea
4:00 pm: Ríastartha
Chair: Andy Prothero (University College Dublin). Discussant: Donncha Kavanagh (University College Dublin)
Angus Cameron (University of Leicester): Money's Unholy Trinity: Trickster, Devil, Fool
Stephen Dunne, Jo Grady, Chris Grocott (all University of Leicester): The Centrally Planned Production of Neo-Liberal Ideology:
Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper and the Closed Mont Pelerin Society
Philip Roscoe (University of St Andrews): Dr Pangloss and the best of all possible markets: evolutionary fantasies and justifications in contemporary economic discourse
Anna Zueva-Owens (Bradford University School of Management): Fools and Jesters: The Role of Corporate Responsibility Managers
5:30 End of Presentations
7:30 pm: Dinner in Ghan House:
Keynote address by Edel Bhreathnach, Director of the Discovery Programme: Ireland's research institute of archaeology
Friday 20th June
9 am: Tórann
Chair: Aidan O’Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology). Discussant: James Fitchett (University of Leicester)
Dominique Bouchet (University of Southern Denmark): Marketing and the Permanency of the Myth
Fuat Firat (University of Texas): Market Myths and Iconographic Culture
Gianluca Miscione (University College Dublin): Myth, Knowledge, Management of the unknown
10:30 am Morning break
11:00 Echtra
Chair: James Fitchett (University of Leicester). Discussant. Norah Campbell (Trinity College Dublin)
Robert Caruana & Sarah Glozer (Nottingham University Business School): The myth of the Responsible Consumer: a poststructuralist analysis
Katherine Casey, Maria Lichrou, Lisa O’Malley (University of Limerick): Spinning and Frame Making: Mobilising Movements
Jack Tillotson & Diane Martin (Aalto University School of Business, Finland): Myth annd Marketing
Gareth Brown (University of Leicester): In Iron Light: Eeriness, Problematics, and Social Movements
Amee Kim (University of Leicester): Creating harmony in crisis periods: Exporting cultural values through Yin-Yang mythology
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Ére
Chair: Pierre McDonagh (Dublin City University). Discussant: Aidan O’Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Deirdre Duffy (Dublin Institute of Technology): The Commodification of the GAA: Irish Men’s Negotiation of Mediated Mythology
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University): The Austerity Myth: Parenting and Thrift culture in the New Ireland
Hilary Downey (Queen's University Management School, Belfast) & John Sherry (University of Notre Dame, USA): Modulating Mythology in a Post-Traumatic Era: Murals and Re-Imaging in Northern Ireland
3:30 pm Afternoon break
4:00 pm Myth Activity TBA
7:30 pm Dinner in Ghan House
Saturday 21st June
9 am: Oc ól chorma
Chair: Norah Campbell (Trinity College Dublin) Discussant: Andy Prothero (University College Dublin).
Chris Hackley (Royal Holloway, University of London), Amy Hackley (Queen Mary, University of London): The Cultural Production of Celebrity in the Convergent Media Landscape
Christina Goulding (Keele Management School) & Mike Saren (Univerity of Leicester): The Faking of the English Working Past
Terry Witkowski (California State University , USA): Mythical moments in Remington brand history
Andrea Davies, James Fitchett, (University of Leicester) & Per Ostergaard ( University of Southern Denmark) : Ideologies of convenience in myths of domestic consumption
10:30 am Morning Break
11:00 Cless
Chair: John Desmond (University of St Andrews) Discussant: Pierre McDonagh (Dublin City University)
Peter Armstrong (University of Leicester): Health, safety and myth-based policy
Norah Campbell, (Trinity College Dublin) & Aidan O'Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology): Bacteria and the Market
Tom Keenoy (Cardiff Business School): Materializing Myth: some reflections on quantum objects, hybrid objects and marketing
Keir Milburn & David Harvie (University of Leicester): On the uses of fairy dust. Or, how political action goes both viral and supernatural
1pm Light lunch
2pm Depart after lunch.
Optional hill-walk after lunch.
Thursday 19th June 2014
12 noon: Arrival. Light lunch.
1pm: Introductions
1:15 Keynote Presentation by Neil Buttimer, Department of Modern Irish, University College Cork, Ireland.
2:00 Macgnímrada
Chair: Donncha Kavanagh (University College Dublin). Discussant: John Desmond (University of St Andrews)
Marion Deane: Birth-tales of Cú Chulainn: the birth and maintenance of economic structures in early Irish society
Anu Harju, & Johanna Moisander (both Aalto University School of Business, Finland): Fans on the threshold: Steve Jobs, the sacred in memorialisation and the hero within.
Kieran Keohane (University College Cork) & Carmen Kuhling (University of Limerick): Recurrence of the Táin, foretold: Corruption of the Gift Relation
3:30 pm: Afternoon tea
4:00 pm: Ríastartha
Chair: Andy Prothero (University College Dublin). Discussant: Donncha Kavanagh (University College Dublin)
Angus Cameron (University of Leicester): Money's Unholy Trinity: Trickster, Devil, Fool
Stephen Dunne, Jo Grady, Chris Grocott (all University of Leicester): The Centrally Planned Production of Neo-Liberal Ideology:
Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper and the Closed Mont Pelerin Society
Philip Roscoe (University of St Andrews): Dr Pangloss and the best of all possible markets: evolutionary fantasies and justifications in contemporary economic discourse
Anna Zueva-Owens (Bradford University School of Management): Fools and Jesters: The Role of Corporate Responsibility Managers
5:30 End of Presentations
7:30 pm: Dinner in Ghan House:
Keynote address by Edel Bhreathnach, Director of the Discovery Programme: Ireland's research institute of archaeology
Friday 20th June
9 am: Tórann
Chair: Aidan O’Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology). Discussant: James Fitchett (University of Leicester)
Dominique Bouchet (University of Southern Denmark): Marketing and the Permanency of the Myth
Fuat Firat (University of Texas): Market Myths and Iconographic Culture
Gianluca Miscione (University College Dublin): Myth, Knowledge, Management of the unknown
10:30 am Morning break
11:00 Echtra
Chair: James Fitchett (University of Leicester). Discussant. Norah Campbell (Trinity College Dublin)
Robert Caruana & Sarah Glozer (Nottingham University Business School): The myth of the Responsible Consumer: a poststructuralist analysis
Katherine Casey, Maria Lichrou, Lisa O’Malley (University of Limerick): Spinning and Frame Making: Mobilising Movements
Jack Tillotson & Diane Martin (Aalto University School of Business, Finland): Myth annd Marketing
Gareth Brown (University of Leicester): In Iron Light: Eeriness, Problematics, and Social Movements
Amee Kim (University of Leicester): Creating harmony in crisis periods: Exporting cultural values through Yin-Yang mythology
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Ére
Chair: Pierre McDonagh (Dublin City University). Discussant: Aidan O’Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Deirdre Duffy (Dublin Institute of Technology): The Commodification of the GAA: Irish Men’s Negotiation of Mediated Mythology
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University): The Austerity Myth: Parenting and Thrift culture in the New Ireland
Hilary Downey (Queen's University Management School, Belfast) & John Sherry (University of Notre Dame, USA): Modulating Mythology in a Post-Traumatic Era: Murals and Re-Imaging in Northern Ireland
3:30 pm Afternoon break
4:00 pm Myth Activity TBA
7:30 pm Dinner in Ghan House
Saturday 21st June
9 am: Oc ól chorma
Chair: Norah Campbell (Trinity College Dublin) Discussant: Andy Prothero (University College Dublin).
Chris Hackley (Royal Holloway, University of London), Amy Hackley (Queen Mary, University of London): The Cultural Production of Celebrity in the Convergent Media Landscape
Christina Goulding (Keele Management School) & Mike Saren (Univerity of Leicester): The Faking of the English Working Past
Terry Witkowski (California State University , USA): Mythical moments in Remington brand history
Andrea Davies, James Fitchett, (University of Leicester) & Per Ostergaard ( University of Southern Denmark) : Ideologies of convenience in myths of domestic consumption
10:30 am Morning Break
11:00 Cless
Chair: John Desmond (University of St Andrews) Discussant: Pierre McDonagh (Dublin City University)
Peter Armstrong (University of Leicester): Health, safety and myth-based policy
Norah Campbell, (Trinity College Dublin) & Aidan O'Driscoll (Dublin Institute of Technology): Bacteria and the Market
Tom Keenoy (Cardiff Business School): Materializing Myth: some reflections on quantum objects, hybrid objects and marketing
Keir Milburn & David Harvie (University of Leicester): On the uses of fairy dust. Or, how political action goes both viral and supernatural
1pm Light lunch
2pm Depart after lunch.
Optional hill-walk after lunch.