Department of English Seminar Series Autumn 2016
October 3
5pm in NIRSA Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Iontas
Professor Lucy McDiarmaid (Montclair State University)
‘The Muse on the Train: 21st Century Irish Railway Poems’
October 12
4pm in Iontas Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Iontas
Professor Kathleen Lynch (UCD)
'Metrics and Markets in Higher Education: Creating Care-Less Citizens'
October 26
4pm in Iontas Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Iontas
Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia)
‘Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders’
November 16
4pm in Iontas Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Iontas
David Alderson (Manchester)
'Attachment and Possession: The Romance of Family, Politics and Things in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty'
All seminars take place in the Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University
Current Illuminations Exhibition
Illuminations is delighted to host a retrospective of the work of Aleana Egan.
Aleana Egan's art is predominantly intuitive and subjective; she uses simple materials, assembled or barely transformed, to create enigmatic works that have a restrained tone and structure. She groups these pieces into installations that are oddly ambivalent; on the one hand she draws our attention to the way things look, how they settle, sag, curve, or hang; on the other, her forms and shapes act as traces or memories, and as a tentative articulation of shifting responses to remembered places or everyday moments. Gaps and absences are at the heart of what Egan does, and this is what makes her work a little puzzling. Similarly, her frequent literary and historical allusions, which are never explained, are reticent and elliptic.
Aleana Egan lives and works in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Douglas Hyde Gallery, Gallery 2, Dublin, (2015); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2015); Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow (2014); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2013); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2012); The Drawing Room, London (2011); Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (2010); Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2009); and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2008).
Screens:
The works shown here include photographs, videos and films from the last ten years. In the vitrines there are paintings and sculptural assemblages.
‘Clothes pile 1’ 2015 black and white 35mm transferred to digital format
‘Villeneuve Loubet’ 2006 video 1min 21sec loop
‘Caisson’ 2010 16mm transferred to HD 6min 34sec loop collaboration with Michael John Whelan
‘town and terrain’ 2011 16mm transferred to HD 4min 13sec loop
‘Suzy Tells’ 2011 video 4min 52sec loop
no title black and white photo
no title black and white photo
‘Clothes pile 2’ 2015 black and white 35mm transferred to digital format
Vitrines:
‘On not being able to paint after Marion Milner’ 2017
card, tape, filler, paint, casette tape, dyed muslin, linen, cotton
23 x 16 x 3 cms dimensions variable
‘space and separateness’ 2009
acrylic, collage, varnish on canvas
24 x 24 x 2 cms
no title 2016
framed painting, fireback
15 x 28 cms
Selection of books that have informed the artists practice.
For more information on Aleana Egan’s work:
http://www.marymarygallery.co.uk/artists/aleana-egan/
http://www.kerlingallery.com/artists/aleana-egan
http://www.konradfischergalerie.de/artists/aleana-egan/show/
http://illuminationsgallery.wordpress.com
Dramatherapy Events and Workshops
If you wish to learn more about and explore the potential of Dramatherapy as a therapeutic intervention and / or you are considering applying to the Dramatherapy MA Programme at Maynooth University for the next intake in September 2018 come and take part in a one-day introductory workshop. The workshops are held on Saturdays in the Arts building, North Campus between 10.30am and 5pm. The day will include a seminar style lecture on “What is Dramatherapy?” An experiential workshop and time for questions and reflections. Registration is essential. To register, and for further information please contact Eva Lindroos, Subject Leader Dramatherapy MA Programme at Eva.Lindroos@nuim.ie or phone the Dramatherapy Office on 01-7084699. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Price: €70:- per workshop. An ‘early bird’ rate of €60:- is available until Saturday January 14th 2017. Please send your application to eva.lindroos@nuim.ie. Cheques made payable to Department of English should be sent by post to Eva Lindroos, Subject Leader Dramatherapy MA Programme, Department of English, Maynooth University.
Forthcoming Workshops: January 21st and February 4th 2017
Seminar Series Archive
November 25, 2015
Maureen O'Connor (UCC) and Eve Morrison (UCD)
'Researching Revolutionaries During the
Decade of Centenaries'
This visit and talk are sponsored by the Irish Memory Studies Network
November 18, 2015
Professor Shaun Richards (St Mary’s University, London)
‘Little “iconoclastic experiment”?: Ireland’s
Avant-Garde Theatre’
October 21, 2015
Dr Fionnuala Dillane (UCD)
‘“Pineapple for the Million”: Periodicals, Genre
and the Potent Politics of Affect’
April 15, 2015
Bashir Abu-Manneh (Kent)
‘Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948’
March 25, 2015
Professor Thomas Docherty (Warwick)
‘On free speech and academic freedom: responsibilities and complicities’
February 18, 2015
Professor Richard Kirkland (King’s College London)
‘Performative Irishness, diasporic identity, and the Irish Cultural Revival in London 1870 - 1910’
November 12, 2014
Professor Luke Gibbons (Maynooth University)
On Another Man's Text: Ernie O'Malley, James Joyce, and Irish Modernism
October 22, 2014
Professor Vijay Kumar (University of Osmania, Hyderabad)
The Novel in India
April 2, 2014
Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)
‘Meltwater – the revolutionary poetics of spillage and slippage’
March 26, 2014
Dr Shelley Troupe (Department of English)
‘Spaces of Performance: The Textual and Enacted Spaces of Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire’
March 5, 2014
Dr Stephen O’Neill (Department of English)
‘Ophelian Negotiations: Remediating the Girl on YouTube’
February 12, 2014
Dr Brycchan Carey (Kingston)
"A Natural History of Caribbean Slavery? Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)"
December 4, 2013
Postgraduate Forum
Speakers
Dr Clare Gorman
Mariana Bolfarine
Claire Brophy
November 13, 2013
Professor Neil Lazarus (Warwick)
'World-literature: the end of actually-existing Comparative Literature?'
October 16, 2013
"Queen of Flowers and Pearls": Narrative performance by Gabriella Ghermandi
October 9, 2013
Dr. Colin Graham (Department of English)
‘“Strange Architecture”: Ciaran Carson’s Until Before After’
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 (Department of English)
‘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, Maynooth University)
‘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 (Department of English)
‘“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 (Department of English)
"'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 (Department of English)
‘How's Your House? Negotiating spatiality in Treme’
April 13, 2011
Dr John Cullen (Maynooth University)
‘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
Dr. Michael Bravo
"Arctic Passages: Rethinking Notions of Place and Mobility"
December 10, 2010
Professor Jean Howard (Columbia)
‘Tony Kushner’s America and its Angels’
November 24, 2010
Dr Denis Condon (Departments of English & Media Studies)
"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 (Department of English)
'"With BEER let us grow mellow, brisk, and brave...": georgic, convivial consumption, and the eighteenth-century London Irish.'
April 30, 2010
Dr Sinead Kennedy (Department of English)
‘“… 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)
‘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’- See more at: http://www.nuim.ie/english/our-news-events#sthash.ccG2fayX.dpuf
Maynooth University Commemorative Events: Women and the Decade of Commemorations
Women and the Decade of Commemorations: An All Island Perspective
Maynooth University
https://allislandcommemorationnetworkireland.wordpress.com
Three notable aspects of the ‘Decade of Commemorations’ thus far have been the lack of an all-island commemorative strategy; the underrepresentation or outright exclusion of women scholars/ artists/ writers/ activists / stakeholders from major events (the RIA’s ‘Global Perspectives on the Rising’ series and the Abbey Theatre’s ‘Waking the Rising’ programme are two high profile examples); and its domination by historical discourse and by historians. These public talks and roundtable events, taking place at Maynooth University, aim to diversify approaches to the ‘decade of commemoration’. They focus intentionally on ‘women and the decade of commemorations’ as a corrective to the current national conversation, seeking to showcase the scholarly and creative work of women working in an Irish cultural context, as well as to initiate discussion about women of the period of a century ago. Finally, they aim to consider the ways in which the ‘decade of commemoration’ has in fact limited discussion and debate about commemorations perceived to lie outside of its remit (such as the 20th anniversary of the closing of the last Magdalene laundry).
Tuesday January 19th
Roundtable discussions with talks by:
Dr Mary McCauliffe, Women’s Studies, University College Dublin;
Dr Roísin Higgins, Department of History, Teeside University;
Dr Sinéad Kennedy, Department of English, Maynooth University;
Dr Emilie Pine, School of English and Drama, University College Dublin.
Listen to podcasts of this event by clicking on these links:
Friday February 19th
Dr Diane Urquhart, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool,
‘Unity of unionism? Gender, covenant and commemoration'.
11am, An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, Iontas Building
Tea and coffee from 10.30
All welcome
Wednesday April 6th
Roundtable discussions with talks by:
Catriona Crowe, National Archives (TBC);
Martina Devlin, Writer, Journalist and Broadcaster;
Professor Gerardine Meaney, Director of Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin;
Professor Margaret Ward, Department of History, Queen’s University Belfast.
This event is open to the public and free of charge. Registration is required as places are limited. Please contact Dr Oona Frawley (oona.frawley@nuim.ie) for further information and to register to attend.
May Keynote (date to be confirmed)
Liz Gillis, Women of the Irish Revolution
September 8/ 9
After the Rising, After the Somme: Reflections on Commemoration in 2016
Invited Keynotes:Dr Marie Coleman, School of History, QUB
Professor Senia Paseta, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Roundtables with contributions by (among others):Dr Dominic Bryan, Director, Institute of Irish Studies, QUB
Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne, Department of History, UCD
Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, Department of Art History, UCD
This event is open to the public and free of charge. Registration is required as places are limited. Please contact Dr Oona Frawley (oona.frawley@nuim.ie) for further information and to register to attend.
October keynotes (dates to be confirmed):
Professor Lucy McDiarmid, Department of English, Montclair State University
Professor Marianne Hirsch, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
The Great Famine and its Impacts: Visual and Material Culture. Maynooth University, 14-16 March 2016
↵The Great Famine of 1840s Ireland left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent groundbreaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the relationship of the Famine and its related experiences (migration, eviction, poverty, institutionalization and urbanization) to the visual and material cultures of Ireland. This conference, which was hosted by Maynooth University and organised as part of the NWO-funded International Network of Irish Famine Studies, aimed to consider broadly how the material and visual cultures of Ireland and its diaspora (including painting, sculpture, photography, drama, architecture, film, dance, ritual, musealisation, heritage, archaeology) intersect with the multiple impacts and experiences of the Famine.
Taking a broad approach to the impact of the Famine on visual and material cultures, the conference bought together scholars from various fields to promote new, cross-disciplinary dialogues to deepen our understanding of the Famine’s cultural history.
Plenary speakers:
Professor Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham
Dr Jason King, NUI Galway
Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald, University College Dublin
Professor Chris Morash, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Niamh O’Sullivan, Curator, Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University
Consultation Day - Undergraduate Examination Results in ENGLISH
Consultation Day for Undergraduate Examination Results - 10am to 1pm; 2pm to 4pm.
When: Tuesday, 27 June 2017