Monday 26th July

Denis Donoghue (New York University), Yeats: Trying to be Modern

James Pethica (Williams College) Yeats's lyric drought,
1903-1908

Tuesday 27th July

Marc Conner (Washington and Lee University)

Yeats, Joyce and the Concept of the Irish Poet

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Yeats and Joyce

Wednesday 28th July

David Holdeman (University of North Texas)

Yeats, Magic and the Material text

Geraldine Higgins (Emory University)

Yeats and Popular Culture

Thursday 29th July

John Harrington
(Fordham University)

Yeats, Irish Theatre and Global Contexts

Susan Cannon Harris (University of Notre Dame)

What we Noh Now : Yeats, World Drama and "Global Modernism"

Friday 30st July

Ronan McDonald (University of Reading)

Losing the Theme: Animal cries in Yeats's Poetry

John Goodby (Swansea University)

Apocalypse and Endings in Yeats

Monday 2nd August

Jim Mays (University College Dublin)

The Textual  "State of Yeats"

Rob Doggett (SUNY Geneseo)

Money, Cultural Patronage and Responsibilities

Tuesday 3rd August

Stephen Regan (Durham University)

"Singing School" : Yeats and Heaney

Alexandra Poulain (University of Lille)

Yeats and the Grotesque Tradition

Wednesday 4th August

Nicky Grene (Trinity College Dublin)

Yeats's Counter-Heroic Voices

Eileen Reilly (New York University)

Yeats and History

Thursday 5th August

Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University)

Yeats and the Poetics of Exterior Intimacy: :Transgressing Modernity

Claire Nally ( University of Sunderland)

The "Secret Society" of Theatre : Yeats's Middle Plays and the Occult


Friday 6th August

Tony Roche (University College Dublin)

Tradition or Counter Tradition ?:Yeats's Drama and Contemporary Irish Theatre

Anne Margaret Daniel  (New School University), The Tower