Fugitive Ideas

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Fugitive Ideas: A Cerebration for Hugh Haughton

In honour of our colleague Professor Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature and the Humanities Research Centre hosted a poetic and scholarly “cerebration”. On Friday 8 June, an evening of poetry featured readings by:

GERALD DAWE · KIT FAN · SASKIA HAMILTON · BERNARD O’DONOGHUE · CAITRÍONA O’REILLY · PETER ROBINSON

This was 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 · 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 MATTHEW BEVIS and HERMIONE LEE

Symposium organisers: Dr Bryan Radley and Dr James Williams (Department of English and Related Literature, University of York)
Period8 Jun 2018 → 9 Jun 2018
Event typeConference
LocationYork, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Hugh Haughton
  • Poetry
  • Translation
  • Modern Poetry
  • Modernism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Literature of Nonsense
  • Life Writing
  • Irish Literature
  • War Writing
  • Literature and Aesthetics
  • British Poetry
  • American Poetry
  • Irish Poetry
  • Contemporary Writing
  • Funded by 3 University of York internal funding schemes

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