Events

SouthHem Seminar Series 2020-2021

Our seminar series for 2020-2021 has two themes: 1. Indigenous Knowledge-Brokers, Natural History Collecting, and Environment; and 2. Periodical and Media Studies

Below is a list of speakers for February-April 2020. Further speakers and details will be added as they emerge.

February 2020

• Thursday 6 February 2020
  Dr. Michelle Keown (University of Edinburgh)
  “Isles of Voices: The Politics of Representation and Translation in Graphic Adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Stories”
  4pm, UCD Humanities Institute
  
  

April 2020

• Wednesday 1 April 2020:
  Dr. Geoff Bil (University of Delaware)
  “The Making of an Imperial Onomastics: Botany and Territoriality in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa New Zealand”
  4pm, UCD Newman Building, J208
  
  
• Wednesday 15 April 2020:
  Prof. Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford)
  “Marilyn Booth in Conversation with Sharae Deckard: On Arabic Translation, Literary Prizes, and the Politics of Publishing”
  4pm, UCD Newman Building, J208
  
  
• Wednesday 29 April 2020
  Prof. Mark Turner (Kings College London)
  “Seriality, Miscellaneity and the Dynamics of Print in the Nineteenth Century”
  4pm, UCD Newman Building, J208