Fugitive Ideas: A Cerebration for Hugh Haughton

Friday 8 June 2018, 5.00PM

In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature and the Humanities Research Centre is hosting a poetic and scholarly "cerebration". We commence on Friday 8 June with an evening of poetry, featuring readings by:

Gerald Dawe
Kit Fan
Saskia Hamilton
Bernard O'Donoghue
Caitríona O'Reilly
Peter Robinson

To be followed by a day symposium on Saturday 9 June covering the fields of Irish literature, modern poetics, nonsense, psychoanalysis, and translation, including papers from:

Matthew Bevis
Fran Brearton
Judith Clark
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Ziad Elmarsafy
Hélène Lecossois
Hermione Lee
Patricia Palmer
Lionel Pilkington
Natalie Pollard
Stephen Regan
John David Rhodes
Clive Scott
Jason Scott-Warren

...and Hugh Haughton in conversation with Adam Phillips.

Tickets can be purchased via the Online Store. Please note that there are a limited number of discounted tickets available for current members of the University of York (staff or students) and unwaged attendees. There are also a limited number of symposium-only tickets. All of these tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

For further details, please see the conference website.

Symposium Organisers: Dr Bryan Radley and Dr James Williams

Location: Humanities Research Centre, University of York Heslington West Campus