School of English

Conferences at, or in association with, the School of English

Forthcoming:

• Romantic Lacunae: Silences, Gaps, and Empty Spaces - August 2nd, 2013 Conference website
• International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures - 22 - 26 July 2013 Conference website

Recent:

• A Way of Seeing: Fifty Years of John McGahern in Print - 15-16 March 2013 Conference website | Download the flyer:  McGahern 2013   |  McGahern Call for Papers  
  
• ILinC 2012 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference - Exploring contexts: language at crossroads of society and culture
  Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce its Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference 2012 (ILinC 2012), a student-led venture co-organised by the Schools of Education, English, and Modern Languages. Given the success of the last ILinC, this two-day conference will give researchers studying language in all academic disciplines the opportunity to exchange information about their research practice in the presence of distinguished and esteemed academics in the field of linguistics.  
  Conference details | conference website | Facebook | Twitter
• A Symposium in Honour of Siobhán Kilfeather - Friday 29 – Saturday 30 June 2012
  Plenary speaker: Professor Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Download the flyer:  Kilfeather Symposium  
  
• Women and Media Conference: Representations Past and Present
  A two-day conference to celebrate International Women's Day 
  Friday 9th - Saturday 10th March 2012 
  Full information available at: http://womenandmedia2012.wordpress.com
  New Voices in Irish Criticism: Legitimate Ireland Conference
• A three-day postgraduate conference in Irish Studies 
  Thursday 19th-Saturday 21st April 2012 
  Full information available at: http://newvoicesqub.wordpress.com
  Borderlines XVI: Site and Sound - April 20-22, 2012
• Guest speaker: Professor Paul Strohm (Columbia University)
  Website | Facebook 
• Helen Waddell: A Life in Scholarship - 11-12 May 2012 
  In Association with the Queen's Women's Forum and School of History and Anthropology
  Details: contact Professor Mary O'Dowd 
• Polytropical Joyce - 2-4 February, 2012
• British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference 15-17 September 2011
• Biblical Women: Reading and Writing Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 10-11September 2010 and call for papers
• “Ryght as it is ymad in Fraunce: Franco-English Poetic Translation(s) 1350-1550” An Interdisciplinary Conference 20 March 2010
• Irish Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Conference 26 – 27 February 2010 (15-17 April 2009)

• 1759: An Interdisciplinary Conference
• The Lonely Page Conference (6-7 March 2009)
• United Islands?  A Multi-disciplinary Symposium (13-15 November 2008)
• Text and Context: Bringing Early Modern Literature and Linguistics Together (14-15 November 2008)
• Century's End: Re-Evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (12-13 September 2008)
• The Annual Borderlines conference in Medieval Studies (April 2008)
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Research

• Research Projects
• Conferences
  • Collaboration, Authorship and the Renaissance
  • ILinC 2012 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference
  • A Way of Seeing: 50 Years of John McGahern in Print
  • IASIL Conference 2013
  • Romantic Lacunae
• School Research Seminar
• Doctoral Research
• Completed Ph.Ds in the School of English