Irish Seminar 2008.

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This year's Irish Seminar begins on Bloomsday, 16 June, and runs until 4 July. To mark its first decade, the Irish Seminar has invited three very distinguished international intellectuals to offer free public lectures at the National Gallery of Ireland, (entry Merrion Street West entrance), over three successive Tuesdays at 8pm.

On Tuesday 17 June, Professor Jacqueline Rose, will deliver a lecture on "Partition, Proust and Palestine." An internationally distinguished feminist and literary critic, Rose has in recent years also become one of Britain's most outspoken critics of Zionism and has written widely on that topic. Her many publications include /The Haunting of Sylvia Plath/ (1992), /Why War?—Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein/ (1993), States of Fantasy (1996), /Sexuality in the Field of Vision/ (1996, reissued 2006), The Question of Zion (2005); and The Last Resistance (2007).

On 24 June, the renowned economic historian Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing, will discuss the economic decline of American empire and the Rise of Asia. Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and, with Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading international theorists in the field of world systems analysis. /The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times/ (1994) /Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century/ (2007) are widely recognised as classic studies of the history and economics of European and American imperialism.

On 1 July, Perry Anderson, whose family comes from the south of Ireland, will discuss the current collapse of American global hegemony and the situation of the contemporary left in a now rapidly-changing international arena. A founder-editor of the /New Left Review /and a polymath intellectual historian of enormous range and ambition, Anderson has been one of the most influential figures on the intellectual left for decades. He teaches at UCLA (where he has a joint appointment in History and Sociology) and is the author of numerous works including Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974); /Lineages of the Absolutist State /(1974); Considerations on Western Marxism (1979); In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983);/English Questions/ (1992); A Zone of Engagement (1992); /The Question of Europe/ (1997); The Origins of Postmodernity (1998); and Spectrum (2005).

This year's Seminar also features a number of lecture series: Clair Wills will discuss women's writing and culture in twentieth-century Ireland; Seamus Deane will survey the intellectual history of Irish republicanism from Toland and Hutcheson through Tone and Mitchel to Davitt and Connolly; Luke Gibbons will consider issues of race, spectrality and Irishness; Chris Morash will track the development of modern Irish theatre 1900-1950; and Joe Cleary will review the careers of some influential twentieth-century Irish cultural critics. Other highlights include a forum on The Novel in the New Ireland led by Patrick McCabe and Barry McCrea, a Symposium on the works of Thomas Moore to mark the bi-centenary of his /Irish Melodies/, and lectures on a range of leading contemporary Irish writers and artists from Edna O'Brien to Sinead O'Connor. For full details of the programme, see http://irishsem.googlepages.com <http://irishsem.googlepages.com/>

Best wishes,

Joe


Professor Joe Cleary
Executive Director, Irish Seminar
Keough Notre Dame Centre
O'Connell House
58 Merrion Square South
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: 353-1-708-3765 or 353-1-611-0611

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