This is a past event
Desire Lines: Mapping the City in Contemporary Belfast and Glasgow Poetry
Aaron Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
Outwith the Pale: Irish-Scottish Studies as an Act of Translation
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) Seminar Room, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Queen's University Belfast, 2.30-5.30 p.m. Further information, and to confirm attendance, please contact Dr Peter Mackay on p.mackay@qub.ac.uk or 00353 85 719 6107.
There will also be an open round-table discussion.
Aaron Kelly is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently completing a number of monographs including 'Class and the City in Contemporary Northern Irish Writing', 'The Blackwell Crime Fiction Handbook' and 'Cultures of Globalization: Disagreements with Democracy'.
Michael Brown is lecturer in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is currently writing a study of the Irish Enlightenment, and a monograph on the impact of the French Revolution on Scottish intellectual life, as well as working on a political biography of the Irish freethinker John Toland. He directs a RIISS project on Irish and Scottish Diasporas from 1600 to the present day.