Events

HII Print Cultures Symposia

Print Cultures I - History of the Early Modern Book

This workshop is the first in a projected series of such events which aim to further study of the history of the book in Ireland and elsewhere from diverse inter-disciplinary perspectives, especially cultural and material. The inaugural workshop will focus on two themes: (r)evolutions in the French early modern livres à figures and manuscript and printed cultures in early modern Ireland – a creative nexus. The two sessions will be preceded by a general overview session chaired by Professor Andrew Carpenter which aims to chart the current status of research in the history of the book in France, Ireland and the Anglo-Saxon world. This event was organised with the College of Arts 7 Celtic Studies Early Modern research Strand.

For a copy of the programme please click here.

Date: 1 June 2007

Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2

Print Cultures II - The Written and the Verbal

Following the success of the UCD Humanities Institute's June 2007 symposium on the history of the early modern book, the Humanities Institute in partnership with the UCD School of English, Drama and Film is organising a second such event focusing on the links between written and verbal cultures in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. While Ireland's written and oral traditions in both Irish and English have been the subject of much research and discussion in recent years, so far little attention has been paid to the complex and diverse interactions between print and oral cultures. This symposium will investigate aspects of the synamic cross-fertilisation between print and oral traditions in Ireland from the early seventeenth-century onwards. Leading Irish and international experts will address aspects of interlinked patterns of influence across oral and written cultures and boundaries in their field of expertise.The symposium will be inter-disciplinary in focus and speakers will be encouraged to draw on a wide range of printed and oral material in both Irish and English with a view to enhancing understanding of this fascinating and important topic as well as providing a theoretical and empirical framework for research in an emergent area of cultural history.

For a copy of the programme please click here.

Date : 20 June 2008

Venue : Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2

Print Cultures III - Visualising Antiquarianism

This symposium is the third in the series on print cultures in Ireland and Europe. The current event focuses on intersections between the written and the visual in Ireland's antiquarian tradition. It aims to generate inter-disciplinary conversations between scholars working on different but overlapping aspects of Ireland's cultural history. This symposium also provides a platform for reflection on the role of digital technologies in research on antiquarian traditions through networked interaction between the UCD Humanities Institute'sIrish Virtual Research Library and Archive and Stanford Humanities Lab Bibliographia Universalsi Antiquaria. The event was organised in partnership with the UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies.

For a copy of the programme please click here.

Date: 11 September 2009

Venue: H204, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, Belfield

Print Cultures IV - The Poet and the Publisher in Twentieth-century Ireland

This event, the fourth in the series, concentrates on English-language material printed by Ireland’s poetry publishers in the twentieth century and will include an assessment of the Poetry Ireland collection. The seminar as a whole is designed to interest poets, publishers (and poet/publishers) as well as critics, bibliographers and those who would like to learn more about poetry publishing in Ireland. Though this seminar will be concerned with poetry published in the English language, it is planned to hold a seminar on Irish-language publishing in the not-too-distant future.

Surprisingly little research has been done on the publishing of poetry in Ireland from days of the Yeats sisters’ Cuala Press to the world of the internet – though several thousand volumes and pamphlets have appeared during this period. UCD is now particularly well placed to host research on this material as the Poetry Ireland library of books and pamphlets, much of it originally collected by Austin Clarke, is on long-term loan in the UCD Library.

For a full copy of the programme please click here. The poster can be downloaded here.

Date: 5-6 March 2010

Venue: H204, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, Belfield