Yeats & the Arts Programme

ECHO is delighted to confirm the final programme for the interdisplinary symposium ‘W.B. Yeats and the Arts’, taking place at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.  The two-day symposium is funded with help from the NUI Galway Millennium Fund and the  ‘1916 and after’ project, and is free to those from NUI Galway, and only €50 (€40) otherwise. There will be a conference dinner,  and FREE TO ALL courtesy of the NUI Galway English Department at 7.30 pm on Friday an evening’s entertainment of Joycean and Yeatsian songs with the Shannon Colleens.  

All are hugely welcome. Registration begins at 11 am and proceedings start at 12 noon on Friday 26th, and close at 3pm on Saturday 27th August. All sessions take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.

For more information do please contact the organisers:  

Dr Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway adrianpaterson@yahoo.com

Dr Tom Walker, University of Oxford/Trinity College Dublin thomas.walker@ell.ox.ac.uk

W.B.Yeats and the Arts.

 

W. B. Yeats & the Arts

Final Programme

All events take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, National University of Ireland, Galway, unless stated.

 DAY ONE: Friday 26^th August.

11.00-12.00           REGISTRATION & WELCOME

12.00-1.30             Panel 1: VISUAL ARTS

Warwick Gould (Institute of English Studies, London)

‘Yeats’s Sacred Book’

Deirdre Toomey (Institute of English Studies, London)

‘Yeats and Olivia Shakespear in the National Gallery, 1894-1896’

Karen E. Brown (University of Dundee)

‘Sister Arts Aesthetics in the Early Career of W. B. Yeats: The Case of The Secret Rose’

1.30-2.30               LUNCH

2.30-4.30               Panel 2:THEATRE

Lauren Arrington (University ofLiverpool)

‘Yeats and the Arts of Education’

Brian Arkins (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‘Yeats and Symbolist Drama’

Stoddard Martin (Institute of English Studies,London)

‘Lady Cunard’s Drawing Room: Noh End to a Wagnerian Ambition’

Lionel Pilkington (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‘Yeats and Ideas of Theatre’

4.30-5.00               COFFEE

5.00-6.30              Panel 3: SOUND

Emilie Morin (University ofYork)

‘“I beg your pardon?”: Yeats and Audibility’

Adrian Paterson (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‘Broadsides: “O any old words to a tune”’

Aidan Thomson (Queen’s University, Belfast)

‘Bax’s musical reception of Yeats’

7.30–8.30           JOYCE & YEATS SONGS (Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway)

9.00                       CONFERENCE DINNER  (Artisan restaurant, 2 Quay St, Galway)

DAY TWO: Saturday 27^th August

9.30-11.00             Panel 4: VISUAL ARTS

Rupert Richard Arrowsmith (University College London)

‘“To Copy the East and Live Deliberately”:  Yeats, Global Modernism, and the Art and Theatre of Japan’

Nicola Gordon Bowe (National College of Art and Design)

‘Words and Images: W.B. Yeats and the Morrisian Recreation of the Ancient Arts of Irelandin a Modern Idiom 1900-1926’

Tom Walker (TrinityCollege, Dublin)

‘Sailing to Byzantium: Some Alternative Visual Contexts’

11.00-11.30           COFFEE

11.30-1.00           Panel 5: DANCE

Sue Jones (University of Oxford)

‘Mallarme, Yeats and the Dancer’

Margaret Mills Harper (University of Limerick)

‘Yeatsian Rhythm and Tradition: “never have I danced for joy”’

Deirdre Mulrooney (Independent Scholar)

‘Late W. B. Yeats’s New Bodily Visions’

1.00-2.00             LUNCH

2.00-3.00               Panel 6: VISUAL ARTS

Nicholas Allen (National University of Ireland, Galway)

‘The Interior Yeats’

Terence Brown (TrinityCollege, Dublin)

‘Yeats and the Colours of Poetry’

3.00-3.15               CONCLUDING REMARKS & CLOSE

Yeats & the Arts

ECHO is proud to present an international interdiscipliary conference on W.B. Yeats & the Arts, funded with help from the NUI Galway Millennium Fund and the  ‘1916 and after’ project, at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. Only €50 (€40) for two days – and free to all members of NUI Galway.

for further details contact adrianpaterson@yahoo.com

Yeats & the Arts

‘The arts have failed’, wrote W.B.Yeats, ‘fewer people are interested in them in every generation.’  Fortunately, however, this gloom over the fate of ‘ingenious lovely things’ only spurred him on to ever greater artistic engagement. His poetry, prose, and drama repeatedly address and incorporate music, dance and visual art, while his publications self-consciously deploy design and iconography. Yet Yeats was not only a author; he was also a cultural entrepreneur. He changed Irish public life by helping to found institutions such as Dublin’s Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, the Abbey Theatre, and the Abbey School of Ballet. In collaboration with his sisters, Lilly and Lolly, he set up a printing press as a forum for Irish design and illustration. Together with his wife, George, he renovated the tower at Ballylee using local craftsmen. He took to the concert platform and later the airwaves to promote poetry spoken with music. Moreover, as a theatre director, journalist, public speaker and politician, he inspired numerous other cultural productions in Ireland and beyond.

This two-day international symposium seeks to promote research on all aspects of Yeats’s interactions with the arts, from storytelling to stained-glass windows. It is presented by ECHO, NUI Galway’s Humanities Research Forum, and funded by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund and as part of the international research project ‘1916 and After’, offering a forum for discussing different historical, methodological and theoretical approaches, crossing disciplines to bring together critics of literature and drama, musicologists, and historians of dance and the visual arts. It thus features panels on Yeats and Music, Yeats and Dance, Yeats and the Visual Arts, Yeats and Drama, Yeats and the Book, and Yeats and the Wider Arts, presented by the finest scholars in the field. 

As well as addressing key issues within Yeats’s work, it looks to wider debates in Irish studies, and cultural history and theory. It  considers questions about the value and relationship of the arts,Ireland’s role in European modernism, and the links between late-Victorian and modernist culture. Examining the interaction between aesthetics and politics, it also reflects on the political operation of centres of cultural production and the role played by art in political radicalism inIrelandin the period, leading up to the 1916 uprising and the revolutionary conflicts that followed. Through a focus on Yeats’s work and career, it seeks to encourage further a growing body of cultural history and criticism based on genuinely interdisciplinary research.

We are delighted to welcome as our keynote lecturer Daniel Albright of Harvard University. Our panels of Yeatsians and other scholars from across many disciplines include such distinguished speakers as Nicholas Allen, Brian Arkins, Richard Rupert Arrowsmith, Nicola Gordon Bowe, Terence Brown, Adrian Frazier, Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper, Sue Jones, Stoddard Martin, Emilie Morin, Aidan Thomson and Deirdre Toomey. There will be a conference dinner and an evening’s entertainment of Joycean and Yeatsian songs. 

The two-day symposium is free to all from NUI Galway, €50 (€40) otherwise. All are hugely welcome. Proceedings begin at 12 noon on Friday 26th, and close at 4pm on Saturday 27th August. All sessions take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.

For more information do please contact the organisers:  

Dr Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway adrianpaterson@yahoo.com

Dr Tom Walker, University of Oxford/Trinity College Dublin thomas.walker@ell.ox.ac.uk

ECHO summer

ECHO thanks everyone for their support, and takes a summer break. The beach in question is hardly Caribbean, but is still pretty, and the grog is recommended.

Salthill, Galway

ECHO will return in the autumn, with papers on ethics, politics, and words among others in prospect from September. Look out also for a conference hosted by ECHO at the Moore Institute on ‘Yeats and the Arts’ 26th- 27th August.

Caribbean Islands

This week Echo invites you to a Caribbean island, or even to Bermuda which is pretty nearly in the Caribbean.  From 5pm in the Moore Institute we have two fine speakers and grog, so do come along.

ECHO presents: Caribbean Islands

EMILY O’FLAHERTY

‘‘“Some Guardian Pow’rs”: Patronage and Berkeley’s Bermuda Scheme in the poems of Mary Barber and Constantia Grierson’

ORLA POWER

‘The Irish West Indies, 1756-1763’

5pm Thursday 31st March

Moore Institute Seminar Room

All welcome. Grog will be served.

ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment. Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com  or marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

 

Irish Writing Going Places

You are again cordially invited to another ECHO seminar this Thursday at 5pm in the Moore Institute. We’ve two very fine speakers and wine. What better way to spend a Thursday?

Going Places with Irish Writing

MARK CORCORAN (NUIG)

‘Spotting Dubliners in Trainspotting’

 

ALEXANDRA TAUVRY (TCD)

‘Immram Maíle Dúin: Paul Muldoon’s Voyage (Tall) Tales’

 

5pm Thursday 24th March

Moore Institute Seminar Room

All welcome. Wine reception to follow.

REMINDER:  Next week @ 5pm Thursday 31st March:

Orla Power & Emily O’Flaherty on Caribbean Islands

ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their research in a friendly and rigorous environment.Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

Images of Irish Violence

This week at ECHO we have another two excellent speakers on Thursday 3rd March at 6pm – NB time – speaking at the Moore Institute on ‘Images of Irish Violence’. We can promise an interesting panel, and fine wine served from the start: great incentives both.

Images of Irish Violence

TIMOTHY KEANE

‘Literary Faces of Captain Rock: From Irish Rebel to English Radical’

NIALL WHELEHAN

‘Gendered Images of Irish Violence in the

Nineteenth Century New York Press’

 

NB time: 6pm Thursday 3rd March

Moore Institute Seminar Room

All welcome. Wine will be served.

Dr. Tim Keane teaches for the English department, the Academic Writing Centre and on the M.A. in Irish Studies at NUI, Galway.  He has recently completed his PhD in English Literature at the university, where he examined the intersection between English radicalism and Irish nationalism in nineteenth-century popular culture.

Dr. Niall Whelehan is an IRCHSS postdoctoral fellow at NUI, Galway. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University, Berkeley, California and the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His doctoral dissertation examines transnational revolutionaries in the late-nineteenth century, with an emphasis on militant Irish nationalism. His current project explores collective violence in rural areas of Ireland and Italy in the nineteenth century.

ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment. Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com  or marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie or see our website: http://echoforum.wordpress.com

French African Identities

We’re very pleased to advertise here this Thursday 24th February an ECHO panel on French African Identities at 5pm in the Moore Institute. We have two very fine speakers and expect two very interesting and complementary papers. There will be fine wine to follow, so I do hope you all can attend.

FRENCH AFRICAN IDENTITIES

AOIFE CONNOLLY
‘Women as keepers of Algerian and pied-noir identity’

SHEILA WALSH
‘At the crossroads of culture and identity: Thomas Ismayl Urbain & nineteenth-century North Africa’

5pm Thursday 24th February
Moore Institute Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine reception to follow.

Aoife Connolly completed an MA in French at NUI, Galway in 2005, in which her research focused on the role of Algerian women in the anticolonial movement and their subsequent fight for women’s rights. She then taught at second level before returning to NUI, Galway in September 2009. She is in her second year of a structured PhD, with a research interest in the former European settlers of Algeria known as pieds-noirs. Aoife was a Galway Doctoral Research Fellow 2009-2010, and became an IRCHSS scholar in September 2010.

ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their research in a friendly and rigorous environment.
Contact as ever adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie