Christopher Fauske ( Salem College, Mass. ): The Bishop, his son, the poetry, the prose

David Fitzpatrick (TCD): “I will acquire an attitude not yours”: Was Frederick John MacNeice a Home Ruler, and why does this matter?’

Nicholas Allen ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ): Autumn’s Ghosts: Jack Yeats and Ernie O’Malley

Tom Herron (Leeds Metropolitan): In search of Ireland … in the Hebrides: I Crossed the Minch

Maria Johnston (TCD): “This endless land”: MacNeice’s America as an Important Elsewhere

Konstantina Georganta ( Glasgow University ): Louis & the Modern Greek Encounter

Brian Arkins (NUI Galway): Greek and Roman Themes in MacNeice

Richard D. Brown (Open University): O Master Pedlar: MacNeice & Shakespeare

Guinn Batten (Washington University, St Louis): MacNeice & Romantic crisis-autobiography

Neil Jones ( Oxford University ): The impact of Modernism on MacNeice’s early poetic development

Simon Ward ( Aberdeen University ): Corner Seat: MacNeice’s mobile modern subject

Hugh Haughton ( York University ): MacNeice's Vehicles

Conor Carville (St Mary’s, Strawberry Hill): ‘“Both Brute & Ghost”: MacNeice’s spectral materialism

Michael Thurston (Smith College, Mass.): “Damn My Skin and Save My Conscience”: Irony & commitment in Autumn Journal

Ben Clarke (East Carolina University): ‘“The equation will come out at last”: MacNeice & the narration of history’

Katie Fleming (Queen Mary, University of London): “It was all so unimaginably different”: Antiquity in Autumn Journal

Anne Margaret Daniel ( New School University , NYC): “The ladies would say that he looked like a poet”: Tom & the selling of Louis

Val Nolan (NUI Galway): MacNeice & the Faber poets photograph

Renata Senktas ( University of Warsaw ): It starts to snow: Reception of MacNeice in Poland

Katherine Firth (Oxford Brookes): “Queen of the boys”: Hedli Anderson & the “Auden Gang”

Tom Walker (Lincoln College, Oxford): “Even a still life is alive”: MacNeice & Visual Art

Karen Brown (QUB): "Poems after a Painting" : MacNeice, Yeats & Durcan in the National Gallery of Ireland’

Charles Armstrong (University of Bergen): Out of the Museum: MacNeice & the Confines of Aesthetic Space

Antony Shuttleworth (Ohio State University): Out of the Pictures: MacNeice’s art of the Thirties

Seth Martin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “A rather agreeable nightmare”: Narratives of disintegration & the sinister in Zoo

Peter Golphin (Open University): “Propaganding”: Radio & Poetry in the early 1940s

Damien Keane (University of Buffalo-SUNY): Cross-fade of Silence to Stillness: MacNeice’s “The Unoccupied Zone”

Simon Workman (TCD): “Not matching pictures but inventing sound”: MacNeice & auditory imagination

Kit Fryatt (TCD): ‘“The paradox of a sentimentalist”: Reassessing MacNeice’s middle stretch

Alan Gillis ( Edinburgh University ): “As if I had known you”: MacNeice’s “All Over Again”

Andrew J. Browne (NUI Galway ): Newspapers or Surrealism? MacNeice’s reading of Beckett

John Goodby ( Swansea University ): “Bulbous Taliesin”: MacNeice & Dylan Thomas

Stephen Regan ( Durham University ): MacNeice & Philip Larkin

Rui Carvalho Homem ( University of Porto ): “Degrees of being alive’: MacNeice, drama & contemporary Northern Irish poets