Past Events

Symposium Archive 2007

'Befitting Emblems of Adversity':
Lyric and Crisis in Northern Irish Poetry 1966-2006

April 17 – 18, 2007

“Sing yourself to where the singing comes from.”
--Seamus Heaney

Poetry readings and round-table discussions on Northern Irish poetry out of a time of trouble.

PAUL MULDOON • CIARÁN CARSON • MICHAEL LONGLEY • MEDBH MCGUCKIAN • EDNA LONGLEY • NICK LAIRD • LEONTIA FLYNN • GREG DELANTY • FRANK ORMSBY • BERNARD O’DONOGHUE • SINÉAD MORRISSEY • GERALD DAWE

SEAMUS HEANEY & DENNIS O’DRISCOLL • In Conversation Video recording made at Dublin, March 1, 2007...More>

Writers, Masses, Multitudes
Liberation Movements and the Neo-Liberal World Order

February 13-14

The two-day symposium will engage questions such as tribal activism and resistance in India; the critical legacies of decolonization in the academy; climate change and its relationship to human emancipation; literature and the aesthetics of resistance; and other topics.

NGUGI WA THIONG’O • GANESH DEVY • KIM STANLEY ROBINSON • DAKXIN BAJRANGE CHHARA • OMEKONGO • DINAW MENGESTU • NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO • HENRY SCHWARZ

BLACK THEATRE ENSEMBLE • AWAAZ (“VOICE”)

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