UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Research Seminars Spring 2020
Wednesdays, 4pm J208
22 January
Dawn Campbell (University of South Carolina), “#MeToo: A Pedagogical Tool for Classroom Engagement Surrounding Harassment and Consent.”
29 January
Thomas Lynch (Poet and Funeral Director), “The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be.”
5 Feb
Philip Coleman (Trinity College Dublin), “John Berryman's Letters.”
12 Feb
Lucy Cogan (University College Dublin), “‘Suffer the Little Children’: Jesus, Female Pedagogues and Systems of Enslavement in William Blake’s ‘The Little Black Boy.’”
26 Feb
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary, University of London), “Beautiful Penitent Whore: The Contested Celebrity of Mary Magdalene.”
4 March
Ian Davidson (University College Dublin), “Cauldrons of Poetry: Ancient bodies and landscapes in a contemporary poetic practice.”
25 March
Claudio Gaetani (University of Macerata), title tbc.
1 April
Geoff Bil (University of Delaware), “The Making of an Imperial Onomastics: Botany and Territoriality in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa New Zealand.” Presented in conjunction with the ‘South Hem’ ERC project.
8 April
Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), “Marilyn Booth in Conversation with Sharae Deckard: On Arabic Translation, Literary Prizes, and the Politics of Publishing.”
Presented in conjunction with the ‘South Hem’ ERC project.
22 April
Caoilinn Hughes (Creative Writing), Caoilinn will discuss her latest novel The Wild Laughter.
29 April
Mark Turner (Kings College London), “Seriality, Miscellaneity and the Dynamics of Print in the 19th Century.” Presented in conjunction with the ‘South Hem’ ERC project.
19 May
(Please note: this event will be held in the Humanities Institute)
Alix Beeston (Cardiff University), “Mothering Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight.”