Conference News and Notes will be posted on this regularly updated page
A Draft of the Conference Program is now available, and Society member and co-organizer, Philip Coleman, offers us this guide to our time in Dublin.
CFP and Peer Seminar Information linked here, for your convenience
As a reminder, the dates of this year’s annual meeting are 2-5 July.
Registration for the Society’s 2025 meeting is open! We invite you to join us at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on July 2–5 for the 46th annual gathering of the International T. S. Eliot Society.
- Note: In the event that you need to cancel your registration, you can do so for a full refund until 2 June. After that date, a refund minus $70 is available. Please register for the conference using this link by June 2 for our regular rates; after that date, rates will go up by $20. (Reminder: You must be a member of the Society to register. Here’s the membership link. Please join (or rejoin) us!)
We are pleased to feature Fran Brearton, Professor of English at Queen’s University Belfast, as our Memorial Lecturer. The title of her lecture is “Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940).” Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry, Reading Michael Longley, and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy. She is a former president of the Robert Graves Society and appears regularly on BBC R4’s ‘In Our Time’ to discuss modern poetry. She was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.
We have planned four days of seminars, panels, meals, receptions, and other opportunities for new discoveries and stimulating conversation. We will gather in the Trinity Long Room Hub on Wednesday, July 2. Peer Seminars will be held in nearby meeting rooms in the morning; in the afternoon we’ll meet in the Long Room Hub’s Neill Theatre for panels and for the Memorial Lecture. Thursday’s, Friday’s, and Saturday’s events will take place primarily in the Long Room Hub as well, and we have some exciting additional events planned, all included with your registration:
- A reception following the Memorial Lecture, sponsored by UNESCO, at the Pearse Street Library;
- on Thursday, a performance of Sweeney Agonistes at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, produced by Nicholas Johnson of Trinity’s Drama Department;
- a formal three-course dinner in one of Trinity’s exclusive dining halls on Friday evening, followed by “Eliot Aloud”;
- and on Saturday, a poetry reading and discussion featuring four notable poets: John F. Deane, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Jessica Traynor.
- Regarding the free passes to the Book of Kells Experience in the Old Library, for the afternoon of July 4th: while we cannot provide everyone with a ticket, we can make the best use of the passes we’ve been generously provided by not giving them to folks who won’t use them. If you are presenting a paper and do not want or need a free pass, please let Patrick Query or John Morgenstern know, so that they can make these available to others at the conference.
There are spaces remaining in each of our Peer Seminars (information about those seminars may be found on our website’s Peer Seminars page. Participants may register for their chosen seminar simply by sending an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Peer Seminar”) by Monday, 2 June, though the seminars do have a size limit and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. When each of the seminars closes, we’ll post that information on this page and on the Peer Seminars Page.
Accommodations: Primary lodging for the conference is at Printing House Square, but there are additional options available at Trinity. Rooms go fast in the summer months, so book now, safe in the knowledge that full refunds are available up to 72 hours before your arrival date. If you have any problems completing your reservation, please contact Trinity accommodations at [email protected].
Other accommodations may of course be found elsewhere in Dublin as well. If you have questions about these, or about transportation in Dublin, please contact Elena Valli at [email protected].
We are looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
