Seminar Series Archive
May 1, 2013
Postgraduate Forum
Speakers
Mark Tyndall
Thomas Connolly
Mary O’Byrne
April 3, 2013
Professor Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, London)
‘Edmund Burke and the British Empire in India’
March 13, 2013
Professor Katharina Rennhak (Wuppertal)
‘Cross-Gender Narratives and the Construction ofMasculinity in Women Writers’ Novels around 1800’
February 27, 2013
Professor John McLeod (Leeds)
‘Transcultural Adoption and Postcolonial Writing’
February 20, 2013
Professor Claire Connolly (UCC)
‘War, Affect and Divided Identity in the National Tale
December 5, 2012
Postgraduate Forum
Speakers
Bridget English
Sarah Byrne
Brenda Farrell
Jessica Peart
November 28, 2012
Dr Íde Corley (NUIM)
‘Literature and the Defense of Sexual Rights in Contemporary South Africa’
November 14, 2012
Digital Humanities Forum
Speakers:
Sonia Howell
Shane Murtagh
Conor Lynch
Dr John Keating (Director of an foras feasa)
October 24, 2012
Patrick Flanery
Described as "elegant and eloquent", his debut novel Absolution has received widespread critical acclaim and has also been nominated for the Guardian first book award 2012.
October 22, 2012
Professor Vera Kreilkamp (Boston College)
‘Falling Down and Lurching Up: Big Houses in Irish Fiction’
May 2, 2012
Postgraduate Forum
Speakers
Theresa Harney
Bridget English
Patrick Boyle
Daria Kholina
Veronica McDermott
April 18, 2012
Professor Mark Boyle (Geography, NUIM)
‘Sartre’s Theory of Colonialism: An Excavation’
March 14, 2012
Dr Sean Campbell (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
‘A Sort of Homecoming: Irish-English Musicians in 1980s Ireland’
March 7, 2012
Digital Humanities Seminar
Speakers:
Sonia Howell
Aja Teehan
Dr Catherine Smith
Éamonn Kearns
Professor Margaret Kelleher
Sharon Webb
Professor Chris Morash
February 29, 2012
Dr Oona Frawley (English, NUIM)
‘“Global Civil War” and Post 9/11 Discourse in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil’
December 7, 2011
Postgraduate Student Forum
Speakers:
Alan Carmody
Theresa Harney
Paul Donnelly
Chair: Declan Kavanagh
November 23, 2011
Dr Michael McAteer (Queen’s University of Belfast)
‘Rattling on about Nothing? Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City and Translations’
November 9, 2011
Dr Moynagh Sullivan (NUI Maynooth)
"'Looking at being Someone': Gender and Class in the Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins"
October 27, 2011
Brian Chikwava
October 19, 2011
Dr John Regan (University of Dundee)
‘Conor Cruise O'Brien and the meanings of Irish liberalism’
April 27, 2011
Katie Moylan (NUIM)
‘How's Your House? Negotiating spatiality in Treme’
April 13, 2011
Dr John Cullen (NUIM)
‘Knowledge Work, Self and Belabourment in Douglas Coupland's Post-Industrial Novels’
April 6, 2011
Professor Michael Parker (University of Central Lancashire)
‘His Nibs: Self-reflexivity in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain’
March 23, 2011
Professor Seamus Deane (University of Notre Dame)
‘The Heresy of Modernism’
February 23, 2011
Professor Anne Fogarty (UCD)
‘"But who was Gerty?": "Nausicaa" and Nineteenth-Century Genre Fiction’
February 2, 2011
"Arctic Passages: Rethinking Notions of Place and Mobility"
Dr. Michael Bravo
December 10, 2010
Professor Jean Howard (Columbia)
‘Tony Kushner’s America and its Angels’
November 24, 2010
Dr Denis Condon (NUIM)
"Loyal and Peaceful? Interpreting Films Shot in Ireland during the Boer War."
November 22, 2010
Rita Ann Higgins
November 10, 2010
Dr Rachel Potter
University of East Anglia
“Obscene Modernism”
October 20, 2010
Professor Nicholas Grene
‘Shakespeare Our Contemporary’
October 13, 2010
Dr Conrad Brunstrom (NUI Maynooth)
'"With BEER let us grow mellow, brisk, and brave...": georgic, convivial consumption, and the eighteenth-century London Irish.'
April 30, 2010
Dr Sinead Kennedy (NUIM)
‘“… and all the pieces matter”: Metanarrative and political economy in The Wire’
April 23, 2010
‘The Future of Literary Studies’
A Roundtable Discussion with
Dr Conrad Brunstrom
Dr Oona Frawley
Declan Kavanagh, MA
April 16, 2010
Dr Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin)
‘What I don't know about Hedy Lamarr - the hazards of biography writing’
February 19, 2010
Professor Michael Cronin (Dublin City University)
‘On Transparency or Why the Humanities Do Not Count’
February 23, 2010
Abdulrazak Gurnah
December 4, 2009
Dr Jim Kelly (Department of English, NUIM)
‘The Beggar at the Door:
Thomas Moore, Charles Maturin, and the tone of Irish Romanticism’
November 20, 2009
Professor John Barrell, Department of English and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, York University
‘William Fox: Tory, Jacobite, Abolitionist, and Supporter of the French Revolution’
October 16, 2009
Dr Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
‘Crusoe, Friday, and the Problem of Slavery’