On Thursday, March 1 students and faculty from the English Department will be holding a public reading of selections from Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its publication. (11am-3pm; Great Hall of O'Shaughnessy)
A Graduate Student conference exploring the relationship between Hybridity and Irish Literature
March 29-31, 2012
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Conference Center (McKenna Hall)
http://hybridie.nd.edu/
Presenters for Thursday include:
5:00 – 6:15 Plenary: Terry Eagleton (University of Notre Dame) "Against Hybridity" [Auditorium]
7:00 – 8:00 Poetry Reading: Richard Berengarten (University of Cambridge) [Auditorium]
8:30 – 10:00 Poetry & Prose Readings: Kathleen Hill & Ailbhe Darcy [Auditorium]
Richard Berengarten (previously known as Richard Burns) is a British and European poet who was briefly a visiting professor at Notre Dame in 1982.
Berengarten studied English at Cambridge and Linguistics at University College London. In 1975, he founded the international Cambridge Poetry Festival, which ran until 1985. He has lived in Italy, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, and the USA…
A Graduate Student conference exploring the relationship between Hybridity and Irish Literature
March 29-31, 2012
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Conference Center (McKenna Hall)
http://hybridie.nd.edu/
In addition to many panels, presenters for Friday include:
11:30 – 12:45 Plenary: Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London) '''Turning a Shade Darker': Hybridity, Race and Population'' [Auditorium]
8:00 – 9:30 Poetry Reading: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paula Meehan [Auditorium]
A Graduate Student conference exploring the relationship between Hybridity and Irish Literature
March 29-31, 2012
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Conference Center (McKenna Hall)
http://hybridie.nd.edu/
In addition to many panels, presenters for Saturday include:
10:00 – 11:15 Plenary: David Lloyd (University of Southern California) '''To Live Surrounded by a White Song', or, The Sublimation of Race in Experiment: on the Margins of Susan Howe'' [Auditorium]
5:15 – 6:45 Concluding Round Table with Conference Speakers [Auditorium]