Please join us on Friday, September 11th in Faculty house to hear our guest speaker, Prof. Michael Parker. He will be presenting a paper entitled “Out of the Blue: Seamus Heaney’s Poetic Responses to 9/11 and its Aftermath.”
Michael Parker is the 2015 Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar at Columbus State University, Georgia. An Emeritus Professor of English Literature, he is a part-time tutor in Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education. His books include Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet, The Hurt World: Short Stories of the Troubles, Contemporary Irish Fiction, Northern Irish Literature 1956-2006 and William Trevor: Revaluations. His next book will be Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives, due out from Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.
We will meet as usual at Columbia’s Faculty House, 400 W. 117th St. The social gathering will begin downstairs around 6 o’clock, with a buffet dinner following at 7, and the talk promptly at 8pm. Please RSVP to our Arden Hegele (aah2155@columbia.edu) by Tuesday, September 8th, if you would like to attend dinner, which is $25 per person, payable only by check (made out to Columbia University, with “dinner sem 535” in the memo line). No reservation necessary to attend the talk, which is free of charge. We very much hope to see you there.
The full schedule of Irish Seminars at Columbia University is available here.