Friday 18 November
14:00: Welcome and Tea/Coffee with refreshments
14:30 Paper Session I: Arboreal and Literary Irelands
Chair: Stephen O’Neill
“Ireland’s Arboreal Environments, History, and the Novel” Dr Anna Pilz, Academic Developer, Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh
“English Romantic Writers and Ireland's Trees” Dr Brandon Yen, London
15:30 Under the Yew: Campus Tree Trail provided by Stephen Seaman, MU Grounds Supervisor and Maynooth Green Campus
16:30: Keynote
Chair: TBC
“Words, woods, webs: mapping trees in the works of James Joyce” Dr Katherine O’Callaghan, Department of English, UMass Amherst
18:00 Wine Reception kindly provided by MU Arts and Humanities Institute
20:00 Conference Dinner (self-funded).
Saturday 19 November
10:00 Tea/coffee with scones
10:30 Paper Session II: Roots
Chair: Prof. Pat Palmer Department of English, Maynooth University
“Shakespearean Family Trees: a diffractive memoir of metaphor, literature, and genetics” Dr Timothy Ryan Day, St Louis University, Madrid
“Ventriloquizing (Arboreal) Forms: Finding Tree lines Dr Stephen O’Neill, Department of English, Maynooth University
11:30 Break
11:45 Paper Session III: Deep Time / Tree Time
Chair: TBC
“Deep mapping the arboreal in early modern Munster” Dr Evan Bourke, Dr Phil Mac a' Ghoill, Prof. Pat Palmer, MACMORRIS Team presentation, Department of English, Maynooth University
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Paper Session IV: Arboreal Letters / Images / Words
Chair: Stephen O’Neill
The Irish Tree Alphabet Katie Holten
Artist workshop: visualizing the literary tree Susan Leen
15:30 Tea/Coffee and biscuits
16:00 Paper Session IV: In conversation with Louise Fitzgerald, Department of Geography, Maynooth University