Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition (2020) American Launch

Join this online event to celebrate the American launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. Speakers will include Prof. Claire Connolly (NUI Cork/UCC), editor of Vol. 2, 1780 – 1830 and Prof. Marjorie Howes (Boston College), editor of Vol. 4, 1880 -…

Radical Diversity: Houston

A discussion series with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid Radical Diversity is presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its pop-up branches, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. This event takes place September 16, at 2.00 PM CDT via Zoom. ZOOM…

Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French

To sign up for this virtual conversation, RSVP here. Stolen Song (Cornell University Press, 2020) documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French…