A one-day symposium on Heaney’s highly influential, as well as controversial, 1975 collection North at 50.
The programme will feature speakers based in Norway and the Nordic region, and will conclude with a reception at the Embassy of Ireland, Haakon VIIs gate 1.
Programme
11:00 - Welcome
11:15-12:45 - Panel 1
Professor Charles Armstrong (University of Agder), "North: A Modern Classic?"
Professor Ruben Moi (Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø), "The Reception of North"
Selma Mikalsen Kollstrøm (doctoral researcher, UiO), "Balance and Buoyancy: Moments in the Composition Process of ‘Act of Union’"
12:45-13:30 - Lunch break
13:30-15:00 - Panel 2
Professor Anthony Johnson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), "‘North Revisited’ Revisited: Recollections of a Late Reading by Seamus Heaney."
Professor Anne Sofia Karhio (Inland University of Norway), "Fossil, Peat, Stone: Heaney's ‘Belderg’"
Dr David Toms (Embassy of Ireland; poet and historian), "Moored in the Mire: The Anxiety of Influence, Bog Bodies and Heaney's North"
15:00-15:15 - Coffee break
15:15-16:45 - Panel 3
Professor Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo), "Heaney and the Dying Gaul"
Professor Janne Stigen Drangsholt (University of Stavanger), "A Glimpsed Alternative: Frontiers of Writing in Seamus Heaney’s North"
Dr Stuart McWilliams (University of Oslo), "On First Impressions"
17:30-19:00 - Reception at the Embassy of Ireland, Haakon VIIs gate 1
Sign up
Please indicate interest in attending to stuartmc@uio.no.
Organizer
English Literature, American and British Studies, ILOS.
The event is organised with support from Anders Jahres fond.