Gothic Meets Irish Studies at Postgraduate Conference Day

The Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary’s University, Twickenham is to host its second annual postgraduate conference on Memory and Modernity on Saturday 15th November. The conference, which forms part of the MA programmes within St Mary’s School of Arts and Humanities and its core module Researching Modernities, will focus on Gothic and Irish Studies through the lens of modernity and memory. Open to external postgraduate students, academic staff and members of the public, the conference will benefit from visiting keynote lecturers. Dr Emilie Pine (University College Dublin) will discuss Theatre as Memory and Dr Paul Hodkinson (University of Surrey) will consider harassment and identity among contemporary Goths. There will also be a paper from St Mary's Professor of Romanticism Cian Duffy, an expert on English poet Percy Shelley, on the poet’s relationship to Ireland’s revolutionary dead. Graduates of the University’s MA Gothic: Culture, Subculture and Counterculture and MA Irish Studies programmes will showcase their current research by discussing the commemoration of St Patrick’s Day parades in London and the 1916 Rising and Remembrance. Visiting PhD students will also deliver papers on trauma and memory in the Irish Novel, memory in James Joyce’s Hades, and death in nineteenth century Ireland. There will also be a featured presentation on specialist research from the National Archives on Records of the Troubles 1969-93. The conference runs from 10am to 5pm, with doors opening at 9.30am, and all are welcome to attend. Tickets are £25, inclusive of lunch and refreshments, with a discounted rate of £10 for concessions. For further inquiries please contact samantha.walcot@stmarys.ac.uk or book a ticket on the website.