Tuesday, February 24, 2009

TERRY EAGLETON Cultural Modernism 2 Seminar




Seminar : Cultural Modernism 2
Speaker : Terry Eagleton
Date : Tuesday 10th of March, 2009
Location : Seminar Room, Moore Institute, NUIG
Time : 11.00

All members of the APT reading group are welcome at this seminar.

There is no set reading list but you might acquaint yourself with his earlier works, like Heathcliff and the Great Hunger for example.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton


A Catholic turned Marxist from a working-class background, Terry Eagleton was an influential English don - and active militant - at the heart of the establishment in Oxford. Now based in Dublin, he finds himself a 'semi-outsider' once more.

The above text is taken from the link below for the full go to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/feb/02/academicexperts.highereducation

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Irish Socialist Lives - Symposium, Galway

An 'Irish Socialist Lives' Symposium in Nun's Island Theatre on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of February.

A range of contributors, including several leading historians, will describe the lives and consider the ideas of some of the syndicalists, social democrats, trade unionists, agrarian radicals, Christian socialists, Marxists, Chartists, anarchists and co-operators who worked in Ireland during the past few centuries.

For a full timetable please see:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&attid=0.1&thid=11f6609f07d1dfd7&mt=application%2Fpdf&pli=1