\u2018Crossover Literature: definitions, boundaries, and educational possibilities\u2019, Southwest\/Texas Popular Culture\/ American Culture Associations Annual Conference, New Mexico, March 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Hell and Back: the Katabatic Imagination,\u2019 keynote address for Undergrounds<\/em>, a British Comparative Literature Conference, University of Manchester, Jan 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Tolkien, Dante and Crossover Epic,\u2019 Tenth Annual NCRCL\/British IBBY Conference, Books and Boundaries: Writers and their Audiences, University of Surrey, Roehampton Institute, 15 Nov 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Teaching Primo Levi,\u2019 English Subject Centre Conference, Teaching Holocaust Writing and Film, London University, 18-19 Feb 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Teaching \u201cDual-aged\u201d Fiction,\u2019 English Subject Centre Conference, Teaching Children\u2019s Literature, Durham University, 20 May 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Philip Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials<\/em> and its adult cross-readers\u2019, University of West of England, 15 Oct 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The London Underground and the Descent to the Underworld,\u2019 keynote address for Urban Underworld: London’s cultural and spatial undergrounds from 1820 to the present<\/em>,<\/em> University of Cambridge, Sept 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Katabatic narratives, global politics and religion,\u2019 opening address for Hell and Its Afterlife,<\/em> a week-long international, inter-disciplinary conference organised by the University of Utah, Oct 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Heterochronic Representations of the Fall: Bakhtin, Milton, DeLillo\u2019; one of fifteen invited international speakers delivering papers at Bakhtin\u2019s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives, University of Ghent in Brussels, 28-29 June 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Imagination in Children\u2019s Literature,\u2019 University of Newcastle Research Seminar series, 20 April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Releasing your Inner Angel: David Almond’s Skellig<\/em> for children and adults\u2019, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, Oct 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Can Literature Help Save the Planet?\u2019 What Happens Now: 21C Writing in English \u2013 the First Decade, <\/em>University of Lincoln, July 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Primo Levi’s If This is a Man<\/em>‘. Literature and the Human. <\/em>University of Neuchatel, MA Seminar, 20 April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Afflatious Encounters: les oiseaux dans la po\u00e9sie contemporaine britannique’, Inaugural Lecture, University of Lausanne, 22 March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Litt\u00e9rature et musique anglaise du 17e<\/sup> au 21e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle: r\u00e9flexion et interrogation autour de l’\u00e9volution de la litt\u00e9rature et de la musique \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieure d’un m\u00eame pays’. Lecture and concert of English music performed by cellist Pascal Desarzens and other musicians, for Association \u00e0 Piacere<\/em>. Caveau du Singe Vert, Lutry, 13 April 2012. Repeat performance at Eglise Saint-Vincent, Montreux, 20 April 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Afflatious Encounters: birds in contemporary British poetry’, keynote address, SAUTE (Swiss Association of University Teachers of English), University of Neuch\u00e2tel, 27 April 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Birds, Poetry and Music\u2019. Interdisciplinary conference, Inspiration for Life, Lectures in Celebration of the Life of Dr Tim Richardson, <\/em>Department of Physics, University of Sheffield, March 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Yeats and Heaney: reading and discussion’, To the waters and the wild: A Selection of Irish Maritime Poetry through the Ages<\/em>, Lausanne Irish Study Group. 20 April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Wonderstruck, the Threshold Crossing into Other Worlds: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland <\/em>and The Narnian Chronicles<\/em>\u2019. Formation Continue, University of Lausanne, 12 Sept 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘Listening with Poetry: Jean-Luc Nancy and Seamus Heaney’. University of Geneva, Modern and Contemporary Literature Doctoral Workshop, 16 Oct 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Seamus Heaney and the Underworld Journey in Virgil\u2019s Aeneid 6<\/em>\u2019. Classical Presences in Seamus Heaney\u2019s Poetry. <\/em>University of Oxford, 17 July 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Gravitas and Light: Heaney\u2019s Virgilian Measure\u2019, Traduire le rythme, <\/em>Centre for Translation Studies, University of Lausanne, 29 April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Byron, the Shelleys and the Summer of 1816\u2019, public event organised by Prof Patrick Vincent (Neuchatel University), Chateau de Chillon, Veytaux, 23 May 2016. Participant in reading of \u2018Prisoner of Chillon\u2019 and panel discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Hosting Otherness: Lyric, Epic, Rhythm, Voice\u2019, Interdisciplinary CUSO conference, \u2018Internationaliser les \u00e9tudes lyriques\u2019, Leysin & Grand Chalet, Kuklos, 6-7 Oct 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Epic Distortions of Lyric in Heaney\u2019s \u2018Riverbank Field\u2019 First International Conference of the Network for the Study of Lyric, <\/em>Boston University, June 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Of Bugs, Birds, and Poets: Undersongs of the Natural World\u2019, Green Thought in a Green Shade: Literature and the Environment, <\/em>Formation Continue, Lausanne, Sept 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Seamus Heaney\u2019s \u201cRoute 110\u201d and Virgil\u2019, guest seminar in \u2018Seamus Heaney and Translation\u2019, Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Wordsworth UnEnglished: the Aeneid <\/em>translations\u2019, keynote lecture for The Wordsworth International Summer Conference, Rydal, Cumbria, 12 August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Coming of Age in a Fantasy World: Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials<\/em>\u2019, Formation Continue. University of Lausanne, 6 Sept 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Afflatious Encounters: Human and Avian Encounters in Modern and Contemporary Poetry\u2019 for The Place of Poetry in 21st<\/sup> Century Culture<\/em>. University of Lausanne, Sept 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Heaney and Virgil\u2019, LA TRADUCTION LITT\u00c9RAIRE AUJOURD\u2019HUI : La PO\u00c9SIE entre le XIXe<\/sup> et XXIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle.<\/em> Bergame University Summer School, 3 – 8 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018From the Prado to Hades : Seamus Heaney in the Underworld\u2019, plenary lecture, Mythos, Pathos, Ethos, <\/em>Complutense University, Madrid, 17 June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Hot Poets: Poetry in a Time of Climate Change\u2019, Cours public, Durabilitt\u00e9rature, <\/em>Centre interdisciplinaire d\u2019\u00e9tude des litt\u00e9ratures de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne, 12 Oct 2022. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w3PUIJmVwMo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Migration and Exile in Heaney\u2019s Virgilian Pastoral\u2019, Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity, <\/em>Aarhus University, Denmark, 1-3 November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Tolkien\u2019s Environmentalist Vision\u2019, lecture for SCOPE (Students\u2019 Committee Obsessively Passionate about English), plus Q&A, University of Lausanne, 21 March, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Contemporary ecofeminist poetry\u2019, introductory lecture for \u00c9crire les eaux <\/em>(Writing water<\/em>), dans le cadre du Printemps de la Po\u00e9sie<\/em>, Centre Interdisciplinaire d\u2019\u00e9tude des litt\u00e9ratures (CIEL), in conjunction with Pascale Petit poetry reading, University of Lausanne, 29 March, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Katabasis and the Anthropocene\u2019, opening keynote lecture, Underground Imaginaries, <\/em>Universidad de Alcal\u00e1, Spain, ESCL (European Society of Comparative Literature), 24-26 May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Mapping a Life through the Elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Air in Seamus Heaney\u2019s Poetry\u2019, Department of English, University of Oslo, Norway, 13 October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Crossover Literature: definitions, boundaries, and educational possibilities\u2019, Southwest\/Texas Popular Culture\/ American Culture Associations Annual Conference, New Mexico, March 2001. \u2018Hell and Back: the Katabatic Imagination,\u2019 keynote address for Undergrounds, a British Comparative Literature Conference, University of Manchester, Jan 2003. \u2018Tolkien, Dante and Crossover Epic,\u2019 Tenth Annual NCRCL\/British IBBY Conference, Books and Boundaries: Writers and their … <\/p>\n