Program

Dates are Wednesday 25 October to Saturday 28 October 2023. On Saturday 28 October there is a visit to the City Hall for a guided tour 10.00.

Panel sessions – for detailed information, please go to the end of this page.

PANEL SESSIONS

Special panel for International Yeats Studies Journal (“Yeats and Materiality”); Wednesday 15:30

Clare Hutton, “The Textual Culture of the Irish Literary Revival”
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, “Embroidering Yeats”
David Holdeman, “Material Artifacts, Thoor Ballylee, and Yeats’s Later Poetry”

Chairs for all panels

Materiality and immanence: Neil Mann
Yeats and Sweden I: Charles Armstrong
Form and (Dis)embodiment: Marjorie Howes

Irish Narratives: Matthew Campbell
Yeats’s Towers: Youngmin Kim
Spiritual Dialogues: Seán Golden

Individuality and Context: Wit Pietrzak
Elevation and Paradox: Alexandra Poulain
Yeats and the Sacred: Maria Rita Drumond Viana

Art and Aesthetics: Adrian Paterson
Yeats and Sweden II: Joakim Wrethed
Between Extremities, Man Runs His Course: Hedwig Schwall

W. B., Jack B., and Elevation: Tom Walker
Yeats in Troubled Times: Lucy Collins

Parallel panels 1; Wednesday 17:00-18:30 (19:00)

Materiality and Immanence. Chair: Neil Mann
Seán Golden, “‘A movement down upon life not upwards out of life’: W.B. Yeats and Immanence”
Michael Cade-Stewart, “Elevating Matter”
Matthew DeForrest, “Negative Elevation: Memorializing Erasure in ‘To A Wealthy Man’ and Other Poems”

Yeats and Sweden I. Chair: Charles Armstrong
Britta Olinder, “Yeats and the Nobel Prize Process”
Nicholas Allen, “Thought, Reality and Justice: Yeats, Heaney and the Nobel Prize”
Joakim Wrethed, “Spectral Aesthetics in Yeats and Strindberg”

Form and (Dis)embodiment. Chair: Marjorie Howes
Adam Piette, “High Pitch in Yeats”
Hedwig Schwall, “Phantasms as Signposts of the Invisible: Yeats’s Mask Theory Revisited”
Melinda Szuts, “Absence and Disembodiment in Yeats’s Plays”

Parallel panels 2; Thursday 9:00-10:30

Irish Narratives. Chair: Matthew Campbell
Irina D. Rasmussen, “Joyce Sparring with Yeats: The National Library Episode of Ulysses as a Laboratory of the Literary”
Peter McDonald, “‘High and airy’: Yeats, Hyde, and the Altitudes of ‘At the Abbey Theatre’”
Matthew Fay, “‘The Irish Dramatic Movement’: Images of ‘fellow workers’ in Yeats’s Nobel Prize Lecture and
Other Related Speeches”

Yeats’s Towers. Chair: Youngmin Kim
Alex French, “Anxious for Legacy: Progeny and Natural Monuments in Yeats’ The Tower”
Yuki Tanaka, “Poetic Legacy and Revision in ‘The Tower’”
Ketevan Grdzelidze, “Tower Counter Tower: Yeats’s Images of Gallery and Circus”

Spiritual Dialogues. Chair: Seán Golden
Adrian Paterson, “‘Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing’: Ficino and Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’”
Pawan Kumar, “Spiritualism, Revivalism, and Modernism in Yeats and Aurobindo”
Dionisius Psilopoulus, “The Sacred in Yeats and Nikos Kazantzakis’s A Vision and The Saviors of God”

Parallel panels 3; Thursday 11:00-12:30

Individuality and Context. Chair: Wit Pietrzak
Nicholas Meihuizen, “Yeats, William James and the Personal Equation”
Sirshendu Majumdar, “The Poet as Public Intellectual”
Aoife Lynch, “The Sacred Heart of W. B. Yeats”

Elevation and Paradox. Chair: Alexandra Poulain
Neil Mann, “How far away the stars seem”: W. B. Yeats and the Constellations of Heaven”
Lucy Collins, “Climbing the Narrow Stairs: W. B. Yeats’s Vertical Spaces”
Wit Pietrzak, “Beautiful and Lofty: The Self-Annulling Poetry of New Poems”

Yeats and the Sacred. Chair: Maria Rita Drumond Viana
Akiko Manabe, “Sacredness, Heroism and Laughter in Yeats’s Drama”
Laura McCloskey, “‘Dreams that Fly’: Symbology of Transcendence and Ascent as Connection to Sacred
Universality in the Works of William Butler Yeats”
Kathryn Wills, “Our Poet as Esoteric Protestant Prophet Confronting a Sacramental Universe”

Parallel panels 4; Friday 9:00-10:30

Art and Aesthetics. Chair: Adrian Paterson
Tom Walker, “Romancing Romance: William Morris, Early Yeats and the Religion of Art”
Giles Whiteley, “Inspiration, Elevation, Decadence: Yeats, Symons and Pater Revisited”
Dana Garvin, “Reflections from the Gyres: The Evolution of Yeatsian Imagery”

Yeats and Sweden II. Chair: Joakim Wrethed
Lars-Håkan Svensson, “Yeats in Sweden”
Yuki Takahashi, “‘A Vast Design’ of Artistic Unity that W.B. Yeats Found in the Stockholm City Hall”
Charles I. Armstrong, “The Reluctant Tourist: ‘The Bounty of Sweden’ as Travelogue”

Between Extremities, Man Runs his Course. Chair: Hedwig Schwall
Marie Lucie Lopez, “Becoming a Nobel Prize Laureate: Reading W. B. Yeats’ Nature Poems through the Aristotelian Lens”
Charika Swanepoel, “Revelation by Chance and Choice: The Path of the Chameleon and the Peacock’s Tail”
Youngmin Kim, “Mask, Gyres, and Violence: War within versus War without in Yeats’s Poetics of Elevation”

Parallel panels 5; Friday 11:00-12:30

W. B., Jack B., and Elevation. Chair: Tom Walker
Anne Karhio, “Yeats’s Blues: Brilliance and Depth, Light and Shadow”
Anthony Johnson, “‘Stilts and Ladders: W. B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and the Prosthetic’”
Michael Connerty, “Popular Literary Sources in the Comic Strips of Jack B. Yeats”

Yeats in Troubled Times. Chair: Lucy Collins
Alexandra Poulain, “‘A player, a playwright, and the most famous poet in the world’: Highs and Lows in The Player Queen”
Matthew Campbell, “Breakfast, Accident Incoherence: Yeats, Civil War and the Nobel in 1923”