DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UCC
Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2023

Time: Wednesdays 3-4pm

Venue: O’Rahilly Building 2.12 (hybrid presentations, accessible on MS Teams, unless otherwise indicated)

27 September

Sandrine Ndahiro, University of Limerick

"Livingness in a Death Game: African Cultural Texts’ Response to the Anthropocene"

NB: this seminar will be online; Microsoft Teams Meeting link available from michael.booth@ucc.ie

11 October

Renée Landell, Royal Halloway, University of London

"The Human, the Nonhuman and the Superhuman in Anglophone Caribbean Neo-Slave Narratives"

25 October

Ellen McWilliams, University of Exeter

"Resting Places: On Wounds, War, and The Irish Revolution"

8 November

Charley Armstrong, University of Agder, Norway

"The Event of Ekphrasis: Irish Poetry Responding to Images"

22 November

Ken Rooney, University College Cork

"‘A fine tale, all told, of true chivalric romance’: The medieval and renaissance romance traditions of Miyazaki and Martin’s Elden Ring"

6 December

Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA (virtual presentation)

Paper title TBC

NB: this seminar will be online; Microsoft Teams Meeting link available from michael.booth@ucc.ie