Fugitive Ideas: a cerebration for Hugh Haughton
Friday 8 June 2018, 5.00PM to 9 June
In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature and the Humanities Research Centreis hosting a poetic and scholarly “cerebration”. We commence on Friday 8 June with an evening of poetry, featuring readings by:
GERALD DAWE · KIT FAN · BERNARD O’DONOGHUE · CAITRÍONA O’REILLY · PETER ROBINSON
To be followed by a day symposium on Saturday 9 June covering the fields of Irish literature, modern poetics, nonsense, psychoanalysis, and translation, including papers from:
MATTHEW BEVIS · FRAN BREARTON · JUDITH CLARK · ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST · ZIAD ELMARSAFY · HÉLÈNE LECOSSOIS · HERMIONE LEE · PATRICIA PALMER · LIONEL PILKINGTON · NATALIE POLLARD · STEPHEN REGAN · JOHN DAVID RHODES · CLIVE SCOTT · JASON SCOTT-WARREN
…and HUGH HAUGHTON in conversation with ADAM PHILLIPS.
Fee: £40 waged / £15 unwaged or current member of the University of York. To pre-register, and receive an e-mail alert when the online store is live, please email happybdayhugh@gmail.com, stating your name, institutional affiliation, and whether waged or unwaged.
For further details, please see the conference website.
Symposium Organisers: Dr Bryan Radley and Dr James Williams
Location: Humanities Research Centre, Berrick Saul Building