18th Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School
July 23 - 29, 2005
Lectures are given each morning during the festivals by experts and enthusiasts from around the world. This year, the theme of Talks is: Influences of Hopkins
Sunday July 24 Maynooth Day
12.00 THE NEW IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY: President John Hughes
Professor John G. Hughes is President of National University of Ireland, Maynooth and is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The National University of Ireland.
Professor Hughes has extensive international links in Europe, the US and Asia. He has initiated a large number of successful research collaborations with prestigious institutions including the Max-Planck Institutes, Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Monday July 25 10.00 am
Hopkins's Poetic Heritage: What Did He Leave for His Followers?
Joseph Feeney SJ, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Father Feeney is Editor of The Hopkins Quarterly
Hopkins and Ursula Bethell:
Peter Whiteford, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
Moderator: Hikaru Kitabayashi, Daito Bunka University, Japan.
MC: Elaine Murphy, The Hopkins Society.
Read Professor Whiteford on Ursulla Bethell and Hopkins here
11.00 - 11.45 am Coffee
Hopkins and Milton
Patrick Murray, Athlone.
A distinguished teacher and scholar, Patrick has published widely.
Hopkins and Norman White
Brian Arkins, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Brian Arkins has published widely on Yeats and Modern Irish Poetry. His latest book, Hellenising Ireland will be launched during the Summer School.
Moderator: Michael O'Dwyer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
MC: Michael Jacob, The Hopkins Society.
Read Dr. Arkins's Lecture on Hopkins and Norman White here
Tuesday July 26 10.00 am
Hopkins and American Modernist Poets
Michael J. Dennison, Carlow University Pittsburgh, USA.
Michael Dennison is a poet and teacher presently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Besides many books of poetry, his literary study Vampirism: Literary Tropes of Decadence and Entropy has been lauded as "a mandatory addition to any collection on nineteenth-century literature,".
Read Dr. Dennison's on Hopkins and Modernist American Poets here
The Golden Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Beauty therefore is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.'
Hannah Loach, University of York, United Kingdom.
Hannah is currently researching 'Hopkins and the Visual'. She has published articles in The Times and has widely reviewed books.
Moderator: William Adamson University of Ulm, Germany.
MC: Noel McAlinden, The Hopkins Society.
11.00 - 1145 am Coffee
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites
Miho Takahashi, Kansai University, Japan.
Moderator: Hikaru Kitabayashi, Daito Bunku University, Tokyo
MC: Pat Lonergan, The Hopkins Society.
Wednesday July 27
10.00 am
Gerard Manley Hopkins - An English Perspective
Joseph Sweeney, London, United Kingdom;
The Trail of Hopkins: His Influence on One Writer Today (Illustrated)
Read text of Margaret Smyth's Lecture here
Margaret Smyth, Seattle.
In addition to her book on Hopkins, A Holy Struggle, Margaret Smith has published three other books. She lives in Astoria, Oregon, teaches workshops on poetry and journal keeping, and works as a freelance writer/editor.
Moderator: Joseph Feeney SJ, St. Joseph's University Philadelphia
MC: Ann Edghill, The Hopkins Society.
11.00 - 11.45 COFFEE
God's Grandeur and 5 Composers (Illustrated)
Lee Dunleavy, Oxford University.
Hopkins and Egan: Comparisons in Rhythm
Hikaru Kitabayashi, Daito Bunku University, Tokyo.
Moderator: Brian Arkins, NUI Galway.
MC: Conor Mahony, The Hopkins Society.
Thursday July 28, 2005
10.00 The Nature of Hopkins: Irene Kyffin, United Kingdom.
Irene has devised a programme on Hopkins with the famous jazz musician Stan Tracey and presented it at many Literature Festivals in the UK. More recently, she has appeared with another leading jazz pianist, Ian Henry. Irene has presented a number of jazz/poetry fusion programmes and is currently preparing a poetry/jazz CD.
Hopkins's Influence on American College Students
Evelyn Wilson, Tarrant County College, USA
Dr. Wilson examines influences of Hopkins's poetry on US College students.
Read this lecture here
Gerard and Gerontius: Hopkins and Newman
Michael Woods, United Kingdom.
Moderator: Margaret Smith (Seattle) MC: Rory Connor, The Hopkins Society.
11.00 - 11.45 am Coffee
Hopkins's Ireland: Early Christian Monasteries
Read Sean Bagnall's Hopkins's Ireland: Early Christian Monasteries
Sean Bagnall
Moderator: Séamus MacGabhann
MC: Richard O'Rourke, The Hopkins Society.
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