Workshop: Translation, Adaptation, and Rewriting in Irish & Scottish Literature and Film

Workshop: Translation, Adaptation, and Rewriting in Irish & Scottish Literature and Film
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FRIDAY

2.00 - 2.30  Welcome and introduction

2.30 - 3.30  Panel 1:

Prof. Patrick Crotty, TBC

Dr. David Wheatley, 'This infinitesimal lag, between arrival and departure’: Allegories of Verbal Transformation in Beckett’s Words and Music

3.30 - 4.30  Panel 2:

Paula ?ledzi?ska, 'Textual and Musical Discourse in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart '

Nick Collins, 'Queen Elizabeth I and Edna O'Brien: Biopolitics Through the Ages.'

4.30 - 5.30  Round table discussion:

Adaptation and the Northern Irish Peace Process

5.30  Wine reception

 

SATURDAY

9.30 - 10.00  Coffee

10.00 - 11.00  Keynote 1:

Prof. Michael Parker, ‘Greek Gifts: Seamus Heaney’s The Burial and Thebes, its inception, composition and reception’

11.15 - 1.00  Panel 1:

Dr. Shane Murphy, Medbh McGuckian’s The High Caul Cap

Stuart Johnston, ‘Looking for Home’: Translation and Trauma in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon

Donald Givens, ‘Even your palm knows the argument is crude’: Home and the Poetry of Miriam Gamble

1.00 – 2.15  Lunch

2.15 – 4.00  Panel 2:

Dr. Tim Baker, 'Like Water in Water’: Animality and Estrangement in Michel Faber’s and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin

Dr. Paula Blair, Duncan Campbell's Make It New John

Victoria Connor, Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy

4.00 - 5.00  Keynote 2:

Prof. Rui Carvalho Homem, Troubled Transit: Sineád Morrissey’s Verbal Renderings of the Visual

7.00  Dinner

Venue
RIISS, Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds
Contact

for further information please contact Blake Anderson