Somewhere In Between: A Musical Performance Based on “The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney
Click here to enter the online session “Somewhere in Between” is a musical composition that we have composed for the ACIS Southern Conference. The conference takes its theme from Seamus Heaney’s poem “Gravel Walks.” After reading the poem we asked ourselves; “Do we preserve the ‘river gravel’ of ‘High summer’ or drive the ‘cement mixers…come […]
Unfamiliar Places: Comings and Goings
Click here to enter the online session Richard Rankin Russell Baylor University Caelan Elliott Baylor University Caelan Elliott is a student at Baylor University studying Irish literature under Richard Russell. She works as a research assistant to the Dean of the Honors College and is an editor for The Pulse, Baylor’s undergraduate research journal, and the […]
Defend, Deflect, Resurrect: From Bog Bodies to Ascendant Landscapes
Click here to enter the online session Francis Ittenbach Emory University Francis Ittenbach is a student in the English PhD program at Emory University. He focuses primarily on ecocritical approaches to twentieth-century Irish and British poetry. Francis is currently co-curating an exhibit of poetry by Irish women drawing on Emory’s archival collections at the Stuart […]
He Bid His Soul Fly Upwards: Yeats and Transcendence in the Suburbs
Click here to enter the online session It’s well known that Yeats’s, Lake Isle of Innisfree, was inspired by Thoreau’s Walden escape from industrialised society, a theme central to the ethos of semi-pastoral Utopian artist’s colony and first garden-suburb, Bedford Park, where John Butler Yeats found for his family a Land of Heart’s Desire that transcended the […]
Love, Death, and Queer Time in Irish Literature
Click here to enter the online session Time, as queer theorists remind is, is both ideological and heteronormative. These four papers come together under a rubric of queer time to think about resistance to what Jack Halberstam calls “repro-time” and Elizabeth Freeman calls “chrononormativity,” the ways that gender and sexual identity may be synched […]
Meditations in Time of War: Heaney and His Precursors: A Panel Discussion
Click here to enter the online session As the shape of Seamus Heaney’s trajectory as a poet starts to come into sharper focus for us, we have come to understand more clearly the path he followed from mapping a negotiated engagement with the conflict in Northern Ireland, to positing a form of poetic transcendence in […]