Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Professor Gerald Dawe
We
are delighted to announce that our symposium will close on June 14 with a
poetry reading and talk by Professor Gerald Dawe, Professor of English at
Trinity College Dublin:
The Guardian
'The
war came down on us here': Aftermaths of WW2
Gerald
Dawe discusses the impact of the Second World War in the writing lives of some
Irish contemporaries, including Brian Moore, Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, and
examines how the critical legacy of the war continues to influence Irish views
of Europe and European views of Ireland.
Gerald Dawe has published several collections of poetry, including Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008) and Selected Poems (2012). He edited the ground-breaking anthology Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 (2008).
Gerald Dawe has published several collections of poetry, including Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008) and Selected Poems (2012). He edited the ground-breaking anthology Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 (2008).
'Gerald Dawe teaches in Dublin at the heart of a Europe that informs his work
as richly as it has infused, in turn, that of Joyce, Mahon and Paulin.'
The Guardian
'His
clear and unadorned voice articulates an imagination of European scope.'
Terence Brown
Monday, 4 March 2013
Professor Harry Clifton
We are delighted to announce that Writing Home: Irish Culture and Wartime Europe, 1938-48 will be launched on Thursday 13 June 2013 with a reading by Professor Harry Clifton.
Professor Clifton is the author of several poetry collections, including Comparative Lives (1982); Night Train through the Brenner (1996); The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973-1988, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks, 1994-2004, winner of the 2007 Irish Times/Poetry Now Award.
He has also written an account of his year spent in the Abruzzo Mountains, On the Spine of Italy (1999); and a collection of short stories, Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions (2000). His work has been translated into many languages.
Professor Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952, and educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin. He was International Fellow at the University of Iowa, and has lived in Africa, Asia and Europe. From 2010 to 2013 he was Ireland Professor of Poetry, spending his second year of the Professorship in Trinity College, where he gave the lecture ‘The Unforged Conscience: Europe in Irish Poetry’ in February 2012.
Professor Clifton is a member of Aosdana, and lives in Dublin.
Professor Clifton is the author of several poetry collections, including Comparative Lives (1982); Night Train through the Brenner (1996); The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973-1988, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks, 1994-2004, winner of the 2007 Irish Times/Poetry Now Award.
He has also written an account of his year spent in the Abruzzo Mountains, On the Spine of Italy (1999); and a collection of short stories, Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions (2000). His work has been translated into many languages.
Professor Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952, and educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin. He was International Fellow at the University of Iowa, and has lived in Africa, Asia and Europe. From 2010 to 2013 he was Ireland Professor of Poetry, spending his second year of the Professorship in Trinity College, where he gave the lecture ‘The Unforged Conscience: Europe in Irish Poetry’ in February 2012.
Professor Clifton is a member of Aosdana, and lives in Dublin.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Call for Papers
Writing Home: Irish Culture and
Wartime Europe, 1938-48
Trinity College Dublin, 13-14 June
2013
Call for papers
If Europe, as Dan Diner has written, ‘seems
more and more to be finding a common unifying memory in the events of World War
II’, then what are the cultural consequences of this dynamic process for
Ireland?
The decade between 1938 and 1948 was a time
of immense revolutionary upheaval across Europe, but tends to have been
characterised as a time of stagnation and isolation for Ireland. During these
years, however, many Irish writers and artists travelled extensively across the
continent, whilst several of their European counterparts arrived in Ireland.
Taking these migrations as a starting point, this symposium will examine afresh
the history of this decade and its impact on Irish cultural memory. Writers
under consideration may include, but are by no means limited to: Samuel
Beckett, John Betjeman, Christabel Bielenberg, Hubert Butler, John Hewitt,
Denis Johnston, Thomas McGreevy, Brian Moore, Francis Stuart, and Rebecca West.
As cultural memory is mediated through a wide
variety of discourses and artefacts, from literature to visual art,
architecture, film, music and journalism, we welcome interdisciplinary
participation from the fields of modern languages and literature, media studies,
history and history of art. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Memory, migration and identity
Art as a memory trigger
War reportage
Cultural communities
Emigrés and refugees
Life writing
The visual arts and architecture
Allegiances and affiliations
Censorship
Secret histories
Diaspora
Collaboration
Forgotten writers and artists
Documents and archives
We invite abstracts for papers of twenty
minutes duration, and also invite proposals for panels that provide a platform
for innovative or challenging approaches to these issues. We particularly
welcome proposals from early career academics and graduate students.
Please send a 250-word abstract with a brief biographical
note to Dorothea Depner and Guy Woodward at writinghome2013@gmail.com by 10 March 2013.
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