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Aleana Egan at Illuminations
Illuminations is hosting a retrospective of the work of Aleana Egan.
When: Wednesday, 01 February 2017
Department of English: Farewell reception for Professor Joe Cleary
Professor Joe Cleary will shortly be moving from the Department of English at Maynooth to take up a new post at Yale University. We hope that you can join us for a reception to celebrate Joe’s commitment to the English Department over twenty-three years and to wish him well as he moves towards new horizons.
When: Wednesday, 14 December 2016
English Department Symposium: ‘Transcendental Homelessness’ A century of James Joyce’s A Portrait and Georg Lukács’s Theory of the Novel
The Department of English at Maynooth University will host a symposium to reflect on the varied legacies of James Joyce’s A Portrait and Georg Lukács’s Theory of the Novel.
When: Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Defending the Rights of Displaced Communities in the Gaza Strip Dr. Ibrahim Natil
This talk relates to a project implemented by Society Voice Foundation, in cooperation with the Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law Secretariat, around the rights of communities in Gaza displaced by Israeli bombardment in 2014.
When: Thursday, 24 November 2016
Department of English Seminar Series: David Alderson
David Alderson (Manchester) 'Attachment and Possession: The Romance of Family, Politics and Things in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty'
When: Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Commemoration after 2016
Keynotes by Professor Anna Reading, King's College London; and Professor Graham Dawson, University of Brighton.
When: Thursday, 03 November 2016
Women and the Decade of Commemorations Series: Comparative Perspectives from Memory Studies
Keynote by Professor Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University - ‘Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders’
When: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Department of English Seminar Series: Professor Marianne Hirsch
Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) ‘Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders’
When: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
‘Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders’
The Department of English is hosting a reading and presentation of work by Writer in Residence Joanna Walsh and Screenwriter in Residence Lindsay J. Sedgwick following a lecture by Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University).
When: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Shakespeare 400 Ireland Symposium
Shakespeare Lives Across the Island: Conversations and Celebrations A one-day symposium
When: Saturday, 22 October 2016