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Celebrating William Butler Yeats 150th Birthday in Seoul
Time: 10:00 am- 9:00 pm Saturday, June 13, 2015 Place: Dukam Seminar Room, Culture Hall 1st Fl, Dongguk University
10:00-10:30 am I. Opening Ceremony Prof. Youngmin Kim (Dongguk U.), Organizer of Yeats 150 in Seoul: Opening Remarks H.E. Madame Aingeal O’Donohue, Ambassador of Ireland: Congratulatory Remarks Prof. Hoon-sung Hwang, Dean, College of the Humanities, Dongguk University
10:30-12:30 am II. Celebrating Yeats Video Yeats Chronology of Yeats’s Biography: Young Kyung Shin, Senior, English Major, Dongguk University Introducing Yeats and Ireland: David Murphy, Deputy Chief of Mission of Irish Embassy
III. Lecture I by Irish and Korean Scholars: Yeats and Irish Writers Prof. Claire Connolly (National University of Ireland, Cork) “Counting on the Past: Yeats and Irish Romanticism”
IV. Irish Studies in Korea (in Korean language) Prof. Young-Seok Rhee (Hanyang University) “William Butler Yeats Studies in Korea” Prof. Ki-Hyun Nam (Seoul National University of Science & Technology) “James Joyce Studies in Korea” Prof. Hoon-sung Hwang (Dongguk University) “Samuel Beckett’s Endgame: A Postmodern Allegory on the Relationship between Man and Nature”
12:30-2:00 pm Luncheon at Sanrokwon Cafeteria
2:00-5:00 pm V. Lectures II by Irish and Korean Scholars: Yeats East and West and Beyond Prof. Adrian Paterson (National University of Ireland, Galway) “Yeats East and West” Prof. Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University) “Yeats and Transnational Vision” Korean poet/novelist reading in Yeatsian Context Address by Prof. Jungmyung Cho, President of Yeats Society of Korea Closing Remarks
5:00 ? 7:00 pm Dinner at Sangrokwon Cafeteria
7:00-9:00 pm VI. Evening of Irish Music & Literature Music by Seoul Ceoltoiri Irish Music Group Readings from Renowned Irish Author: Christine Dwyer Hickey Q & A
Readings of Ulysses Prof. Patrice Reidy (Sungkyunkwan University) Mr. Bernard Hughes (B&H Productions) Prof. James O’Sullivan ( Dongguk University) Ms. Shin-Hye Kim, Senior, English Major (Dongguk University) Music by Seoul Ceoltoiri Irish Music Group
9:00pm Social Event at a bar:TBA
Attached: Pamphlet
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