Papers presented and participation at Conferences & Seminars - Willy Maley
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1. Conference coordinator and participant at The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature, a conference organized by Derek Attridge, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, and Colin MacCabe, University of Strathclyde, Clyde Conference Centre, Glasgow, 4-6 July 1986.
2. Co-founder, with Lisa Jardine and Keith Wrightson, of Cambridge Early Modern Seminar in 1987.
3. 'Social and Sexual Politics: D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love', Guest Lecture, Course D: Politics and Literature, Programme for James Madison College, Michigan State University, 16 August-11 September 1987, St Catherine's College, Board of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cambridge, 20 August 1987.
4. 'The Ideology of Imperialism: Ireland as the Testing-Ground for Colonial Imperialism', Social and Political Science Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge, 22 October 1987.
5. 'Milton, English Radicals, and Ireland', Cambridge Early Modern Seminar, February 1988.
6. 'The Shepheardes Calender as Colonial Text', Renaissance Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge, March 1988.
7. Chair of Session VII, Day 2, The Politics of Drama 1610-1650, Wadham College, Oxford, 28-30 June 1988.
8. 'Palaeography and Ways of Reading and Writing Early Modern English', Postgraduate Seminar, Programme in Literary Linguistics, University of Strathclyde, November 1989.
9. 'Marxism and Deconstruction: Contradictions and Correspondences', Literature Across the Language Barrier, Higher Education Teachers of English (HETE) Conference, University of Strathclyde, March 1990.
10. 'Theories of Renaissance Literature: Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism', Postgraduate Seminar, Programme in Literary Linguistics, University of Strathclyde, November 1990.
11. 'The End of Eagleton: Marxism, Deconstruction, and Ireland', The End of the Grand Narratives, HETE Conference, North Staffordshire Polytechnic, 25-27 March 1991.
12. 'The Trial and Execution of Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding, Irish Labourers on the Glasgow-Edinburgh Railway Line, 1841', The Industrial Triangle: Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool, The Thirteenth Lipman Seminar on Ireland, Kinlay House, Dublin, 2-4 April 1991.
13. 'Post-performance discussion of Gallowglass: The Story of the Glasgow-Edinburgh Railway Murder of 1840', Gorbals Unemployed Workers Centre, Glasgow, 4 June 1991.
14. 'The Springburn Railway Murder of 1840: A Sidelight on British Justice', Law and Representation, Critical Legal Studies Conference, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 6-8 September 1991; paper presented on 7 September, Session 2: Common Law and Common People.
15. 'The Trial and Execution of Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding, Irish Labourers on the Glasgow-Edinburgh Railway Line, 1841', address to Branch 13 of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), Drury Lane, Glasgow, October 1991.
16. 'Irish and Scottish Identity', Department of Modern Studies, St Stephen's High School, Port Glasgow, October 1991.
17. Organiser, Arts Festival, Barlinnie Special Unit, HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, 18-20 December 1991.
18. 'Forging Ireland: Cultural Nationalism and National Culturalism', The Fourteenth Lipman Seminar on Ireland, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, 3-5 April 1992.
19. 'Marx and Derrida: A Note on a Footnote in Margins of Philosophy', Research Seminar, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 17 March 1993.
20. ''This Sceptred Isle': Shakespeare and the British Problem', Shakespeare and the Teaching of English Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 6-7 April 1993.
21. 'Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland', Session title: Spenser and Politics, 8 April 1993, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, 8-10 April 1993.
22. Conference Organiser and Chair for 'Reckoning Marlowe', a conference to mark the quatercentenary of the death of Christopher Marlowe, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 29 May 1993.
23. 'Salvaging Spenser', Renaissance Topographies Colloquium, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 4 June 1993.
24. 'Representing Ireland: Milton's Observations (1649) and Spenser's View (1596; 1633)', British Milton Seminar, Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, 25 September 1993.
25. 'Reading Politics: Text and Context in Contemporary Critical Theory', Critical Theory Seminar, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff, 25 October, 1993.
26. '"A Complication of Interests": Milton's Observations (1649) and the British Problem', Postgraduate Seminar, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 4 November 1993.
27. '"The Land of Ire": Early English Representations of Ireland', Travel Writing: The Experience of the Other?, German Department, University College, Newman House, Dublin, 11 March, 10-12 March 1994.
28. 'Philip Sidney and Ireland', Session 212, Sidney at Kalamazoo II: Making and Modelling the Poet, 6 May 1994, 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-8 May, 1994.
29. 'Representing Ireland in the Renaissance: Milton's Observations and Spenser's View', session entitled (De)facing Ireland and Rebellion in Early Modern England, 13th May 1994, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, 12-15 May 1994.
30. 'The History of A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596)', The London Renaissance Seminar, Keynes Library, Birkbeck College, University of London, 18 May 1994.
31. Conference organiser, one-day colloquium, Purchasing Power: Trade and Traffic from Renaissance to Enlightenment, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 3 June 1994.
32. 'Credit Union: Importing Colonialism, Exporting Empire', Purchasing Power: Trade and Traffic from Renaissance to Enlightenment, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 3 June, 1994.
33. Participant, 'The Formation of the United Kingdom', 63rd Anglo-American Conference of Historians 1994, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 30 June-2 July 1994.
34. 'Britannia Major: Writing and Unionist Identity', Writing and National Identity, Bath College of Higher Education, 2 July 1994.
35. 'Britizenship: The Subject of the British State', Citizenship and Cultural Frontiers Conference, Staffordshire University, 14-17 September 1994.
36. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Guest Lecture, University of Dundee, 19 October 1994.
37. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Graduate Seminar, Reading and Writing Room of the Senior Common Room, Department of English, University of Aberdeen, 1 November 1994.
38. '"Another Britain"?: Francis Bacon's Certain Considerations on the Plantation in Ireland (1609)', Scottish Renaissance Seminar: Inaugural Conference, University of Stirling, 19 November 1994.
39. 'Contemporary Scottish Drama', Creative Writing Workshop, University of Glasgow, 5 December 1994.
40. '"Another Britain"?: Francis Bacon's Certain Considerations on the Plantation in Ireland (1609)', one of four in a series of seminars on the Wilderness: Images of Wild Things, Lancaster Renaissance Seminar, Northern Renaissance Society, Bowland Senior Common Room, University of Lancaster, 14 December 1994.
41. Participant at Scottish Renaissance Seminar, Dundee University, 21 January 1995.
42. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Graduate School of Literature, Culture and Communication, University of Strathclyde, 15 February 1995.
43. Convenor, Scottish Renaissance Seminar on National Identity, University of Strathclyde, 18 March 1995.
44. Chair, Scottish Renaissance Seminar on National Identity, University of Strathclyde, 18 March 1995.
45. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Postgraduate Seminar, Edinburgh University, 21 April 1995.
46. Co-ordinator, National Seminar on The Role of the Arts in Institutions and in the Community, convened by Cat. A Theatre Company, Old Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow, 4 May 1995.
47. '"Henceforth I will yield my selfe beholding unto souldiers": Masculinity and Militarism in the Writings of Barnaby Rich', Session 4A - Early Modern England and Ireland: Poetry, Politics and Self-formulation, Saturday 24 June, Culture and Colonialism: Gender, Economics, Cultural Production: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University College, Galway, Ireland, 22-25 June 1995.
48. 'D-Day: Call it a Day for Derrida', Fins de Siècles: Writing, History and Culture Day Conference, Bath College of Higher Education, 1 July 1995.
49. Chair of Session, 'Future States', Fins de Siècles: Writing, History and Culture Day Conference, Bath College of Higher Education, 1 July 1995.
50. 'Bodies Talking: Working out with Lyotard', Body Matters Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, 6-7 July 1995.
51. Chair of session, 'Empire and Influence', Tuesday 11 July, Fifth International Milton Symposium, University of Wales, Bangor, 9-14 July 1995.
52. Participant, Applied Derrida Conference, Luton University, 20-23 July 1995.
53. 'James Joyce and National Identity', Scottish Universities' International Summer School, Edinburgh, 24 July 1995.
54. 'Grasping the Nettle: The Art of Independence in Contemporary Scottish Culture', 5 September 1995, Changing States: Constitution and Identity in Contemporary Britain, 5 September 1995, The Fourth International Warwick Seminar and Conference on British Cultural Studies, 3-10 September 1995.
55. 'Specters of Engels: The Case of Co-Authorship and the Mysterious Disappearance of Marx's Lovely Assistant', Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History, hosted by the School of English, University of Leeds, 9 September 1995.
56. 'Spenser and Scotland: The Limits of Anglo-Irish Identity', Section 16, Irish Studies, Session 4, Formations, Chair: Chris Morash, 10 September 1995, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 3rd Conference, Glasgow, 8-12 September 1995.
57. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Renaissance Graduate Seminar, Faculty of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 24 October 1995.
58. 'Spenser's View and the British Problem', Fall Semester Seminar, Text and Conquest: Political Ideology in Ireland, 1570-1630, The Folger Shakespeare Institute, Washington, 27 October 1995.
59. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Renaissance Graduate Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 1 November 1995.
60. 'Gender and Genre: Masculinity and Militarism in the Writings of Barnaby Rich', Gender and Renaissance, Scottish Renaissance Seminar, University of Stirling, 4 November 1995.
61. 'Manifesting Marx: Materialism, Scientific Socialism and the Victorian Supernatural', The Victorian Supernatural: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of North London, 25-26 November 1995 - 26 November.
62. Chair of Session entitled 'Romanticism, Rationalism and the Victorian Supernatural', The Victorian Supernatural: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of North London, 25-26 November 1995 - 26 November.
63. 'Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness', Border Crossings: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Conference on Postcolonial Literatures, University of North London, 20 January 1996.
64. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Guest Lecture, Department of English, CND Lecture Theatre, Liverpool Hope University College, 31 January 1996.
65. Participant at Scottish Renaissance Seminar, Nationalism and Militarism, University of Aberdeen, 3 February 1996.
66. 'Busking Kelman', Guest Lecture, The Canon and its Discontents, Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 29 February 1996.
67. Conference organiser, Renaissance Theories/Theories of the Renaissance, Scottish Renaissance Seminar, University of Glasgow, 16 March 1996.
68. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Guest Lecture, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 29 March 1996.
69. 'Postcolonialism before Postcolonialism: Academic Periodisation and the Anachronisms of Literature', Literature and Empire, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 20 April 1996.
70. Participant, 'Troping Desire', Scottish Renaissance Seminar, University of St Andrews, 9 June 1996.
71. 'Postcolonial Joyce: Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, Revisionism, Universalism, and other Varieties of Nationalism', Session entitled 'Semi-colonial Joyce', XVth International James Joyce Symposium, Zurich, 16-23 June 1996.
72. 'Spenser: Poet Historical', Session K: Spenser, 30 June, Poetry and History, The University of Stirling, 27-30 June 1996.
73. 'Specters of Joyce: Morality, Mortality and Mourning in "The Dead"', Literature and Ethics', University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 4-7 July 1996.
74. 'Specters of Joyce: Interpreting for the Dead', Workshop session 'A': Modernism and Modernity, Irish Encounters, Bath College of Higher Education, 5-6 July 1996.
75. Chair of session, Workshop session 'B': Images of Irishness, Irish Encounters, Bath College of Higher Education, 5-6 July 1996.
76. '"Fares please, and fuck the Eskimos": Social Transport in Kelman's The Busconductor Hines', Subversion and Scurrility: The politics of popular discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, 11-13 July 1996, Session One: Bad Language, 11 July 1996.
77. 'Specters of Joyce: Interpreting for the Dead', Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS), Edinburgh, 15 July 1996.
78. 'Lost in the Hyphen of History: The Limits of Anglo-Irishness', Irish Studies: Old and New Worlds, The International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 17-20 July 1996.
79. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
80. 'Deconstruction and National Identity', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
81. 'Sexuality and Identity in Restoration Drama: William Wycherley, The Country Wife', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
82. 'Culture, Heritage, and Adaptation: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
83. 'Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
84. 'Family, Marriage and Morality: Henry James, What Maisie Knew', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
85. 'Four Words for Joyce: Christ, home, ale, master', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
86. 'Contemporary Scottish Fiction: James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines; Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
87. 'Specters of Joyce: Interpreting for the Dead', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
88. 'Gender and History in Contemporary Irish Poetry', Eleventh British Studies Seminar, British Council, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 July 1996.
89. 'Spenser and Scotland: The Limits of Anglo-Irish Identity', The Eighth International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 17-21 August 1996.
90. 'Specters of Joyce: Memory and Mourning in The Dead', Session IV, Workshop number 114, Memory and Estrangement, The 5th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Utrecht, 19-24 August, 20 August 1996.
91. 'Braveheart and History', Film/Culture/History: An International Conference, Cultural History Group, Aberdeen University, 26-28 August 1996.
92. 'Nightmares of History: Nationalism and Apocalypse', Plenary Lecture, Dreams of Nationhood: An International Conference, Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick, 10 September 1996.
93. 'Second City, Second Site: Glasgow and the Limits of Representation', City Limits Conference, Staffordshire University, 11-14 September 1996.
94. '"Cogadh na dTrí Ríocht": The British Problem and the English Civil War', Times Trans-shifting: Cultural Politics in the English Civil War, Birkbeck College, University of London, 21 September 1996.
95. 'A View of the Present State of Spenser Studies: Dialogue-Wise', in dialogue with Andrew Hadfield, Plenary Session, The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Yale Center for British Art, 27-28 September 1996.
96. 'Elizabethan Scotland?: Sovereignty and Multiple-Kingdoms in the "English" Renaissance', Scotland and Renaissance Literature, Scottish Renaissance Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 26 October 1996.
97. 'Specters of Joyce', Phantom fx seminar, University of Stirling, 14 November 1996.
98. '"This Sceptred Isle": Shakespeare and the British Problem', Visiting Speaker's Programme, University of St Andrews, 27 November 1996.
99. 'Renaissance Arcadias', Homer, Vergil, and the Classical Tradition, Departments of Classics and English Literature, University of Glasgow, 29 November 1996.
100. 'Braveheart and History', Fireside Frat Chat, Phi Delta Alpha Fraternity, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 10 February 1997.
101. 'Milton and "the complication of interests" in Early Modern Ireland', Colonial Contexts: Indians, Irish, and Others, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 February 1997.
102. 'Shakespeare, Holinshed and Ireland: Resources and Contexts', Renaissance Seminar, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 6 March 1997.
103. '"Fares please, and fuck the Eskimos": Social Transport in Kelman's The Busconductor Hines', Contemporary Scotland: Fiction, Theatre, Film, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, 17 May 1997.
104. Participant at Scottish Renaissance Seminar on 'Myth', University of Glasgow, 21 June 1997.
105. 'Postcolonial Shakespeare: British Identity Formation in the Late Plays', Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Contexts and Approaches, University of Newcastle, 10-11 October 1997.
106. 'Braveheart and History', Approaches to University Teaching (Level One), Teaching and Learning Service, University of Glasgow, 28 October 1997.
107. 'Milton and "the complication of interests" in Early Modern Ireland', Session 33: Religion and Warfare in the English Literary Renaissance, 1570-1650, North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), 1997 Annual Meeting, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, 31 October to 2 November 1997, 1 November 1997.
108. 'The Wordsworths: Dorothy and William', Dartmouth College Reading Party, Grasmere, Lake District, 8 November 1997.
109. 'Braveheart: Raising the Stakes', School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, 13 November 1997.
110. 'Jockularity: Joyce and Scotland', Joyce Research Seminar, School of English, University of Leeds, 21 November 1997.
111. 'How to Get Published', Graduate Seminar, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 25 November 1997.
112. 'Court, Caste and Culture in Edmund Spenser's A View of the State of Ireland', Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow, 22 January 1998.
113. Chair for Bernard MacLaverty, reading from Grace Notes, Graduate Seminar, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 17 February 1998.
114. 'Border Crossings: The Multi-national Contexts of British Cultural Studies', Plenary Session, British Cultural Studies: Cross-Cultural Challenges, The British Council Croatia, and the Department of English, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 27 February 1998 (26-28 February).
115. Chair of Plenary Session, Janja Ciglar-Zanic, 'Shakespearean Cross-Cultural Migrations: Contentions, Containments, Contentments', British Cultural Studies: Cross-Cultural Challenges, The British Council Croatia, and the Department of English, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 28 February 1998.
116. Panel Discussion with Kenneth Parker, Michael Byram, Martin Montgomery, Janja Ciglar-Zanic, Stipe Grgas, François Poirier, and John Drakakis, British Cultural Studies: Cross-Cultural Challenges, The British Council Croatia, and the Department of English, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 28 February 1998.
117. '"Who talks of my Nation?": The Revenge of Macmorris in Contemporary Irish Culture', session convened by Lynda Boose and Richard Burt, Citing Shakespeare in American Popular Culture, Friday 20 March, 3:30-5:30 pm, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 19-21 March 1998.
118. 'Milton's Colonial Republicanism: Ireland and the British Problem', Department of English, John Carroll University, Ohio, 24 March 1998.
119. 'Macboth?: Scotland, Ireland, and the British Problem', session TB 9, Cultural Identities in the Early Modern British Isles, convened by Clare Carroll, Renaissance Society of America Conference, College Park, Thursday, March 26, at 3:45 pm, Baltimore, Maryland, 26-29 March 1998. ['Localizing Britain: England, Scotland, and Ireland', Chair and organizer: Clare Carroll, CUNY Graduate School and Queens College: Speakers: Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, 'Macboth?: Scotland, Ireland, and the British Problem'; Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales; 'Rethinking the Black Legend: English Identity in the 1580's and 1590's and the Anti-Christ'; Vincent Carey, SUNY-Plattsburgh, '"Neither good English nor Good Irish": Gaelicisation and Identity Formation in Sixteenth-Century Ireland'.]
120. 'Braveheart: Raising the Stakes', English Department, Dollar Academy, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, 23 April 1998.
121. 'The Evidence of Texts', response to a keynote lecture by Hiram Morgan entitled 'Political Thought in Early Modern Ireland', Ireland 1598: Contexts, Representations, and Revolts: A conference on literature and history concerning the crisis in Anglo-Irish relations at the end of the sixteenth century, under the aegis of the Early Modern Forum (Ireland), The Departments of English and History, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 8-9 May 1998, 8 May 1998.
122. Chair, 'Alienation, Exclusion and Dissent', Centre For Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Summer Research Workshop Series 26 May to 5 June, University of Glasgow, 1 June 1998.
123. 'Coming of Age, and Other Irish Fictions', Department of English, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 9 September 1998.
124. 'Introduction to Reading by Seamus Deane of Reading in the Dark', Department of English, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 September 1998.
125. 'Ireland, Verses, Scotland', Department of English, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 September 1998.
126. 'Race, Class, and Gender in Irish-Scottish Studies', Department of Sociology, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 September 1998.
127. 'Braveheart and History', Department of English, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 24 September 1998.
128. Respondent to Derek Coyle, 'A Second Gift: Poetry as a Daylight Moon', Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology, and the Arts, The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 28 October 1998.
129. 'Spenser and Ireland: Race and Culture', Graduate Seminar, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 24 November 1998.
130. 'Braveheart: Film, Culture, and History', Logie Lecture Theatre, Royal Society of Edinburgh Regional Lecture, Logie Lecture Theatre, Stirling, 25 November 1998.
131. 'Language, Self and Social Mobility in James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines (1984)', Keynote Lecture, Winter School, Distance Learning MLitt in Cultural Studies, Livingstone Tower, University of Strathclyde, 11 am, 12 January 1999.
132. 'Getting Your Research Published', Graduate Seminar, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 27 January 1999.
133. Launch of Nine Lives, a collection of poetry and prose from the University of Glasgow's Creative Writing course, The Lismore Bar, Partick, Glasgow, 18 February 1999.
134. Chair, 'Theory in the Flesh', one-day colloquium with guest speakers Jonathan Dollimore and Pam Morris, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 6 March 1999.
135. Launch of Nine Lives Anthology, The Scotia Bar, Glasgow, 23 March 1999.
136. 'Spenser and Ireland: Between Race and Culture', Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History, International Research Seminar Series, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 24 March 1999.
137. 'An Uncertain Union', Plenary Session, in dialogue with David Baker, Archipelagic Identities, 1485-1707, Abingdon House, Oxford University, 9-10 April 1999 (paper presented on 9 April 1999).
138. Co-convenor, with David Baker, and Chair, 'Contested Peripheries', panel consisting of John Kerrigan, 'Orrery's Ireland', Murray Pittock, 'Whig Centres and Jacobite Peripheries: Stuart politics and State Formation in Scottish Literature and Culture', and Philip Schwyzer, "'The British History' and British History: The Matter of Wales", Archipelagic Identities, 1485-1707, Abingdon House, Oxford University, 9-10 April 1999.
139. Co-convenor, with David Baker, 'Britain's Brave New World', panel consisting of Andrew Hadfield, 'Questioning the British Project: John White's Picts (1580s) and Michael Drayton's PolyOlbion (1613, 1622)'; Andrew Murphy, 'Archipelagic Attractions: Ireland and the British Problem'; Linda Gregerson, 'The Commonwealth of the Word: England and the Praying Indians', Archipelagic Identities, 1485-1707, Abingdon House, Oxford University, 9-10 April 1999.
140. 'Can Making Matter?: Creative Writing in the Study of Literature', Panel consisting of Philip Hobsbaum, Robert Alan Jamieson, Willy Maley, and Dave Manderson, Graduate School of Literature, Culture and Communication, Evening Seminars, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 15 April 1999.
141. Compere, with Linda Jackson, launch of Nerve, a new literary magazine, Borders Bookshop, Glasgow, 20 May 1999.
142. Compere, with Linda Jackson, launch of Nerve, a new literary magazine, Scotia Bar, Glasgow, 25 May 1999.
143. 'Spenser and Ireland: Race and Culture', Department of English, University of Dundee, 27 May 1999.
144. 'Contemporary Scottish Fiction', The Mitchell 50+ Lecture Series, The Burns Room, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 2 June 1999.
145. 'Apropos of Marx: Attribute to Derrida', Deconstruction Reading Politics, Staffordshire University, 26-29 July 1999, 28 July 1999.
146. 'A Thistlestop Tour of Contemporary Scottish Culture', Dartmouth College Reading Party, The Burn, Edzell, 27 September 1999.
147. 'Braveheart: Film, Culture, and History', Dartmouth College Reading Party, The Burn, Edzell, 28 September 1999.
148. 'Success Stories', short talk given on the Introductory Day at Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, for students on the MLitt in Creative Writing at Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities, 1 October 1999.
149. 'Spenser and Ireland: Between Race and Culture', Research Seminar, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 18 October 1999.
150. 'Radical Literature: Radical Media Workshop', Socialism 2000, Scottish Socialist Party (weekend of debates, workshops, theatre and music), Glasgow, 5-7 November 1999, 7 November 1999.
151. 'Spectres of Joyce: Memory and Mourning in The Dead', Critical Mass Seminar, University of Glasgow, 23 February 2000.
152. Chair of session entitled Locating the Renaissance, with Jonathan Sawday (Strathclyde) and John Drakakis (Stirling), Consultative Meeting of the Scottish Institute for Northern Renaissance Studies (SINRS), Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, University of Strathclyde, 19 May 2000.
153. Meeting of Organizing Committee for International Spenser Conference, University of Cambridge, 5-8 July 2001, held at Merton College, Oxford, 18-19 July 2000.
154. 'Is there a Radical Literature?', Books & Booze, The Literary Society, University of Glasgow, Offshore Cafe, Gibson Street, Glasgow, 25 October 2000.
155. 'Better Read, Then Dead: Joyce, Parnell, and Yeats', The Dead Ireland: Explorations of Place in Irish Culture, Irish Studies Symposium, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The Department of English, The Seminar Room, The Humanities Manse, University of Aberdeen, 11 November 2000.
156. 'Ireland, Verses, Scotland: Across the (English) Language Barrier', In the Making, Glasgow University Crichton Campus, Creative and Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 5 March 2001.
157. 'Ireland, Verses, Scotland: Crossing the (English) Language Barrier', Postgraduate Ways and Means Seminar, University of Wales at Bangor, Bangor, Wales, 7 March 2001.
158. Participant, Creative Writing and Translation, a one-day conference held by The Scottish Writing Centre, Burns Room, Mitchell Library, 10 March 2001.
159. 'Ireland in the English Renaissance: The Case of John Milton's Observations upon the Articles of peace (1649)', Graduate Seminar, MA in Reconceiving the Renaissance: Literatures, Places, Cultures, School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, 15 March 2001.
160. 'Ireland, Verses, Scotland: Writing Across the (English) Language Barrier', Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Scottish Literature, Seminar 6: Ireland, Departments of English Studies and Modern Languages, University of Strathclyde, and Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, Collins Building, University of Strathclyde, 16 March 2001.
161. 'Communing with the Church: Revelation and Revolution in Engels' "On the Early History of Christianity" (1894-95)', Graduate Seminar, Newbold College, Bracknell, 26 April 2001.
162. 'Better Dead, Then Read: Joyce, Yeats, and the Tolling of Parnell's Death Knell', Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, 8-9 June 2001. Day 2, First Session, Panel 3, Paper 3, Saturday 9 June, panel title: Modernism, Inheritance and the Cultural Figuration of Mortality.
163. Facilitator, First Breakout Session: Financial and Professional Support, Group 1. Awards, Fees, Prizes, The Scottish Arts Council Writers' Consultation Day, South Hall, Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh, 21 June 2001.
164. Conference co-organizer, The Place of Spenser: Words, Worlds, Works: An International Conference, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, July 6-8, 2001. Sponsored by the International Spenser Society. Organizing Committee: Colin Burrow; Patrick Cheney, Chair; Elizabeth Fowler; Roland Greene; Andrew Hadfield; Willy Maley; Richard McCabe; John Watkins; Andrew Zurcher.
165. 'Lethe Said, Soonest Minded: Being a Draft of a Paper intituled Dismembering Ireland: from Henry Sidney's Memoir (1583) to Barnaby Rich's Remembrances (1612)', Memory Workshop, The Place of Spenser: Words, Worlds, Works: A Conference of the International Spenser Society, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, July 6-8, 2001. (Workshop took place 7 July)
166. Participant in brainstorming session for Universities Scotland Cultural and Social Campaign, Universities Scotland (formerly the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals [COSHEP]), a National Council of Universities UK, Edinburgh, 10 August 2001.
167. 'Ireland, Verses, Scotland: Writing Across the (English) Language Barrier', Literary Scots 1975-2000, a one-day conference, Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Conference Room, David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh, Saturday 8 September 2001.
168. 'British Problem, English Literature: Marx, Milton, the Monarchy, and the Military', The New British Histories: Where Do We Go From Here?, Workshop on the Future of The New British Histories. Discussions led by Professor Willy Maley (Department of English, University of Glasgow); Professor Allan Macinnes (School of History and History of Art, University of Aberdeen); Dr Mike Braddick (Department of History, University of Sheffield), Centre for Early Modern Studies, Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen, 11 October 2001.
169. 'This England, That Shakespeare', Shakespeare and Britain, British Shakespeare Association (BSA) Inaugural Conference, Shakespeare Insititute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2-3 February 2002. Paper presented in Session One, Saturday 2nd February (other papers in panel: Terence Hawkes, University of Cardiff, "Speaking to you in English", and Ania Loomba, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Shakespeare and the Postcolonial Nation").
170. Chair, Session Three, Shakespeare and Britain, British Shakespeare Association (BSA) Inaugural Conference, Shakespeare Insititute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2-3 February 2002. Panel comprising: Peter Donaldson, MIT, "Shakespeare and Britain in the Digital Age"; Ann Thompson, King's College, London, "Shakespeare and the King's English"; John Joughin, University of Central Lancashire, "Speaking Native Shakespeare".
171. Rehearsed reading of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City (1974), directed by Alasdair Gray, part of a weekend of discussions, music, readings, and screenings entitled A Right to Justice? Writing the Truth..., Gilmorehill Theatre, University of Glasgow, 8-10 February 2002. Reading took place Saturday 9 February, 4.30-6.00 pm. (Cast: Grizelda Gordon, Alasdair Gray, Bernard MacLaverty, Michal McNally, Willy Maley, Adam Piette, John Quereshi, Lynsey Rodden.)
172. Creative Writing Away Day, a brainstorming session with Susan Castillo, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Willy Maley, Rob Maslen, Adam Piette, and Alan Riach, Buchanan Arms Hotel, Drymen, 16-17 February 2002.
173. Session co-organizer, with Professor David J. Baker (University of Hawai'i), 'New British History, New British Shakespeare?', Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Minneapolis, 21-23 March 2002.
174. 'How to Get Published', Graduate Workshop, Department of English Literature, School of English and Scottish Language and Literature (SESLL), University of Glasgow, 1 May 2002.
175. Chair, Readings and Discussion: Philip Hobsbaum, Liz Lochhead, Edwin Morgan, Creative Writing Programme, Gilmorehill G12, University of Glasgow, 11 May 2002.
176. 'Conference Papers: Purpose, Preparation, Presentation, Publication', Graduate Workshop, Department of English Literature, School of English and Scottish Language and Literature (SESLL), University of Glasgow, 15 May 2002.
177. 'The British Problem and the State of Early Modern Studies', Writing Britain, Early Modern Literature Graduate Seminar, Michaelmas Term, University of Oxford, Faculty of English Language and Literature, History of the Book Room, St Cross Building, Manor Road, 15 October 2002.
178. 'British ill done: Shakespeare's Macmorris and a Chorus of Disapproval', Cambridge Graduate Renaissance Seminar, Lloyd Room, Christ's College, University of Cambridge, 5 November 2002.
179. 'Scotland v. Ireland: Cultural Difference and Postcolonialism', with Paddy Lyons, Books & Booze, Glasgow University Literary Society, The Doublet Bar, Park Road, 20 November 2002.
180. 'British ill done: Shakespeare's Macmorris and a Chorus of Disapproval', Research Seminar, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, 12 March 2003.
181. Chair, Panel 2: Monarchical Rhetoric. Conference on Renaissance Rhetoric, Gender & Politics, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, 24-25 April 2003 (24 April).
182. 'À propos of Marx, Attribute to Derrida: A Note on a Note in Margins of Philosophy', Glascolloquy Literary Theory Group, University of Glasgow, 12 May 2003.
183. 'Part of the Union or Part of the (British) Problem?', King James and the Union: A Retrospective, 1603-2003, Kennedy Hall Room 1, University of St Andrews, 26 September 2003.
184. 'Divorced from Reality or in the Spirit of the Letter?: Manipulation and Metaphor in Milton's "Charitable" Readings of Scripture', What is Literature, Theology and the Arts?, Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, 9 October 2003.
185. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats and Scotland', Leverhulme Lecture in Scottish and Irish Literature, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, 27 November 2003.
186. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats and Scotland', Leverhulme Lecture in Scottish and Irish Literature, Conference Room, Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 28 November 2003.
187. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats and Scotland', Graduate Seminar, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 30 January 2004.
188. 'Can Creative Writing Be Taut?', Panel on The Writing Business, Write to the Point: Glasgow's Festival of Creative Writing, University of Glasgow, 18 June 2004.
189. 'Alasdair Gray's Poor Things: An Embarrassment of Riches', Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present, Scottish Universities International Summer School (SUISS), University of Edinburgh, 19 August 2004.
190. 'Celtic Minded: A discussion of what makes a Celtic Supporter - the Irish in Scotland, Community and Identity: Is Scotland truly multicultural?', a forum featuring Joe Bradley, James Macmillan, Willy Maley and Eddie Toner, Thirsty Lunch Fringe Event, Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh, 25 August 2004.
191. Chair, Pat Kane, Work and Society: The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living, Studio Theatre, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 25 August 2004.
192. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats, Ulster and Scotland', Irish Scottish Exchanges, 11 September 2004, National Identity and Cultural Exchange in Ireland and Scotland, University of Edinburgh (Supported by the Leverhulme Trust), 9-11 September 2004.
193. 'Spenser and Ireland: The View from Here', Irish Studies Conference: The Word, The Icon and The Ritual, University of Sunderland, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at Saint Peter's, 12-14 November 2004, Plenary Lecture 1, 13 November 2004.
194. Chair, Irish Poetry, Irish Studies Conference: The Word, The Icon and The Ritual, University of Sunderland, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at Saint Peter's, 12-14 November 2004, Session 1d, 13 November 2004.
195. 'The Font of History and the Matter of Britain in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: From Times New Roman to Italic Type', Visiting Speakers Series, School of English, University of Exeter, 17 January 2005.
196. 'Waste Lands Under Construction?: The American Lyric from T. S. Eliot to Missy Elliott', English Literary Society lecture series, University of Glasgow, The Doublet Bar, Glasgow, 7 February 2005.
197. 'Building and presenting a CV', Research Training Seminars, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 17 February 2005.
198. 'Getting the thesis published', Research Training Seminars, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 24 February 2005.
199. 'Coming of Age (and other fictions) in Three Irish Novels by Seamus Deane, Roddy Doyle, and Patrick McCabe', Contemporary Irish Writing, CPD Events for Teachers 2004-5, Department of Curriculum Studies, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of English Language, 12 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Saturday 26th February 2005.
200. 'Tuning in to the Troubles: Northern Irish Poets', Contemporary Irish Writing, CPD Events for Teachers 2004-5, Department of Curriculum Studies, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of English Language, 12 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Saturday 26th February 2005.
201. Chair, 'Franco, Glasgow and Anarchism', with Stuart Christie, author of Granny Made Me An Anarchist (London: Scribner, 2004), 27 February, Aye, Write!: Glasgow Book Festival, Burns Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 19-27 February 2005.
202. 'Scottish books are best by far', Launch of the List Magazine's 100 Best Scottish Books of all time', Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh, 3 March 2005.
203. Chair, Panel 7: Identity Constructions and the Female Body - Tudor Balinisteanu, 'Ingénue or Harlot? Explorations of Literary Constructions of the Persephone Figure in Eavan Boland's "The Pomegranate" and Liz Lochhead's "Lucy's Diary"', Kristina Nell Weaver and Lorna Callery, 'Plastic and Concrete' (Creative Writing), Masks and Masquerading: Performing Identities and the Textual Subject, Postgraduate/Creative Writing Conference, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Saturday, 5 March 2005.
204. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats, Ulster and Scotland', Peer Speaker, NUIM Research Open Day, Session 2, John Hume Lecture Theatre, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 9 March 2005.
205. 'Saxon Agonistes: Milton's History of Britain (1670) and the New British History', Milton, Nationalism, and Seventeenth-Century Politics, The Inaugural Canada Milton Seminar, Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies, Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 16 April 2005.
206. 'What's Your Favourite Scottish Book?' (Sponsored by Orange), A discussion featuring James Naughtie, Alastair Reid, and Zoe Strachan, chaired by Willy Maley, The Literary Landscape, Wigtown Spring Festival 2005, 29 April -1 May 2005, Bladnoch Distillery, 30 April 2005.
207. 'Firing the Canon: Radical Writing', The Gas Board, West End Baths, Glasgow, 4 May 2005.
208. 'Spenser and Ireland: The View from Here', Keynote Lecture, BISS: The British and Irish Spenser Seminar, National University of Ireland at Cork, Cork, 7 May 2005.
209. 'Away with the Fairies (Or, It's Grimm Up North): Yeats, Ulster and Scotland', Graduate Seminar, Modern School of Research, Department of English and Related Literatures, Raymond Burton Library Seminar Room, University of York, 11 May 2005.
210. 'What's Your Favourite Scottish Book?' (Sponsored by Orange), a discussion featuring Anne Donovan, Rodge Glass, Willy Maley, Andrew O'Hagan and Christopher Whyte, chaired by Vice-Principal Graeme Roberts, Word - University of Aberdeen Writers Festival, 13-15 May 2005, King's College Centre, Aberdeen, 14 May 2005.
211. Chair and Convener, 'Ten Years of Talent: A day of readings to mark the 10th anniversary of Glasgow's Creative Writing MPhil', University of Glasgow, 17 June 2005.
212. 'Debate: Creative Learning; Teaching or Mentoring?', Willy Maley and Robert Crawford, Impart: Creative Education in the UK, British Council Seminars (Edinburgh), 20-25 June 2005, The Poetry House, University of St Andrews, 21 June 2005.
213. '100 Best Scottish Books: The Orange Event', A discussion chaired by James Naughtie, featuring Ian Rankin, Zoe Strachan, and Professor Willy Maley, Lloyds TSB Scotland Main Theatre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Saturday 27 August 2005.
214. '100 Best Scottish Books Debate', Chaired by Marc Lambert, with Willy Maley, Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh, 10 September 2005, an event sponsored by Orange and the Scottish Books Trust, Wordplay 2005, Shetland Book Festival, Bowls Hall, Clickimin Leisure Complex, Lerwick, Shetland, 9-11 September 2005.
215. Chair, 'In conversation with Vikram Seth, author of Two Lives (London: Viking, 2005)', an Ottakar's event at The Hub, Castlehill, 22 September 2005.
216. '100 Best Scottish Books', University of Glasgow Scottish Literature Society, Uisge Beatha, 10 November 2005.
217. 'Peer reviewing a Literature paper', Session 1, eSharp Online Journal and Book House Training Course, St Andrew's Building, University of Glasgow, 11 November 2005.
218. 'Teaching Creative Writing: Group Therapy, Exercise Yard, or Solitary Refinement?', Theorising and Performing Knowledge: Teaching, Learning and Research Conference, Arts & Humanities Graduate School, University of Glasgow, 25-26 November, workshop session 26 November 2005.
219. 'Waste Lands Under Construction?: Wrapping Up The American Lyric from T. S. Eliot to Missy Elliott (This is the Remix)', English Literature Society, Committee Room 2, QM Union, University of Glasgow, 12 December 2005.
220. An Audience with Ian Rankin, Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, 29 January, Winter Words Festival 2006, 26-29 January 2006.
221. Co-presenter, with Kirstie Blair, 'Building and Presenting a CV', Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 16 February 2006.
222. 'Structuring a Synopsis', Strathkelvin Writer's Group, St James the Less Church, Bishopbriggs, 21 February 2006.
223. 'Getting the Thesis Published', Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 23 February 2006.
224. 'Two Shakes of a Bard's Tale: Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare', Shakespeare and the Irish Writer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 24-25 February 2006 (paper presented 25 February).
225. 'Better Dead, Then Read: Joyce, Yeats, and the Tolling of Parnell's Death Knell',
Irish Classics: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, with Paddy Lyons, CPD Events for Teachers 2005-6, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Session 4, Saturday 11 March 2006.226. 'Exchanging Pleasantries with the Peasantry: Playboys, Ploughboys, Prostitutes, Protestants and Priests', Irish Classics: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, with Paddy Lyons, CPD Events for Teachers 2005-6, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Session 4, Saturday 11 March 2006.
227. 'Ireland and Scotland" Parallels and Differences', Irish Classics: Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, with Paddy Lyons, CPD Events for Teachers 2005-6, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, Session 4, Saturday 11 March 2006.
228. 'Research Contexts 4: Literary Theory, Anyone?', with Dr Alex Benchimol, Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 16 March 2006.
229. 'A Few Shakes of a Bard's Tale: Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare', University of Newcastle, The North East Irish Culture Network at the Universities of Sunderland and Durham, The Vardy Gallery, Ashburne House, University of Sunderland, 29 March 2006.
230. 'The Academic CV - A Closer Look', Arts Faculty Research Training Course (Generic) Workshop, 6 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, 12 April 2006.
231. 'Saxon Agonistes: Milton's History of Britain (1670) and the Lament for a Lost England', John Stachniewski Memorial Lecture, Humanities Lime Grove A113, University of Manchester, 2 May 2006. Sponsored by the Manchester University Association of University Teachers and English and American Studies, University of Manchester.
232. Introductions (MC), Launch of Creative Writing MLitt anthology, Snacks After Swimming (Freight Design, 2006), G12, Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow, 16 May 2006.
233. Concluding Roundtable, Spenser's Civilizations, a conference sponsored by the International Spenser Society and the Department of English, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 18-21 May 2006, 21 May 2006.
234. Roundtable featuring Derek Attridge, Richard Brown, Willy Maley, and Fritz Senn, chaired by Stephen Regan, James Joyce Study Day, Durham Joyce Reading Group in association with North-East Irish Cultural Network (NEICN), Leech Hall, St John's College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, 10 July 2006.
235. Chair, David Ashton and Brian Cox, discussing the McLevy Detective Series, The Freemasons' Hall, 96 George Street, Edinburgh, 21 August 2006.
236. 'Getting Published: A Roundtable', with Dr Alasdair Young, Co-editor, Politics, Dr Alison Phipps, Editor of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, and Daniel Soule, Publications Coordinator, HealthQWest, SharpEdge Works: Writing Skills Course, Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, 11-15 September 2006 (session took place 15 September 2006).
237. Guest Speaker, 15th International Brigade Commemoration 2006: Guest Speakers, Music, Wreath Laying, organised by Cairde na h'Eireann, La Pasionaria Memorial Statue, Custom House Quay, Glasgow, 16 September 2006.
238. 'Reflections on the 100 Best Scottish Books: The Best, The Rest, the Backlist and the Backlash', Melrose Literary Society, Melrose, 10 October 2006.
239. 'That Fatal Boadicea: Depicting Women in Milton's History of Britain (1670)', Visiting Lecture, Department of English, Sussex University, 31 October 2006.
240. 'Better Dead, Then Read: Joyce, Yeats, and the Tolling of Parnell's Death Knell', Session: Joyce 2, Ireland: Renaissance, Revolution and Regeneration, Fourth Annual Irish Studies Conference, The University of Sunderland in Association with (North-East Irish Culture Network (NEICN), University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Campus at Saint Peter's, 10-12 November 2006 (paper presented 11 November).
241. 'Saxon Agonistes: Milton's History of Britain (1670) and the Lament for a Lost England', Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar (EMSIS), Department of English Literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 18 November 2006.
242. 'Publishing Your Research', Research Training Course (RTC), Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (GSAH), Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 18 January 2007.
243. '"I Predict A Riot": Playboy of the Western World (1907-2007)', Synge Centenary Lecture, North-East Irish Cultural Network (NEICN), University of Sunderland, 26 January 2007.
244. Co-presenter, with Kirstie Blair, 'Getting Published, Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 1 February 2007.
245. Chair, 'Don Paterson on Orpheus', reading and discussion with the author of Orpheus: Versions of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (Faber and Faber, 2006), 17 February, Aye, Write!: Bank of Scotland Book Festival, Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 16-25 February 2007.
246. Irish Short Stories, with Paddy Lyons, CPD Events for Teachers 2006-7, Department of Curriculum Studies, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of English Literature, 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Saturday 24th February 2007.
247. Chair, 'Rachel Seiffert on Afterwards', reading and discussion with the author of Afterwards (Heinemann, 2007), 25 February, Aye, Write!: Bank of Scotland Book Festival, Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 16-25 February 2007.
248. 'Analysis of a New Novel', Strathkelvin Writer's Group, St James the Less Church, Bishopbriggs, 13 March 2007.
249. Co-presenter, with Kirstie Blair, 'Building and Presenting a CV', Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 15 March 2007.
250. 'Saxon Agonistes: Milton's History of Britain (1670) and the Lament for a Lost England', Graduate Seminar, Newbold College, Bracknell, 3 April 2007.
251. 'The Academic CV', Research Training Course (RTC), Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (GSAH), Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 12 April 2007.
252. Co-organizer, with Katie Gough and Paddy Lyons, Romantic Ireland - From Tone to Gonne, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Glasgow, 22-24 June 2007253. 'A Few Shakes of a Bard's Tale: Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare', English Literary Society, QM Union, University of Glasgow, 16 April 2007.
254. 'The Font of History and the Matter of Britain in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: From Times New Roman to Italic Type', Early Modern Graduate Forum, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 27 April 2007.
255. Interview with Mark Johnson, author of Wasted (London: Sphere, 2007), Main Hall, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 16 April 2007.
256. Introduction to launch of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, edited by Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Blackwells Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 21 May 2007.
257. Co-organizer, with Katie Gough and Paddy Lyons, Romantic Ireland - From Tone to Gonne, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Glasgow, 22-24 June 2007.
258. Chair, 'Fenians and Football': 'Sport and the Irish in late 19th and early 20th century Scotland: Celtic FC and the Gaelic Athletic Association', Joe Bradley (University of Stirling); 'Fenianism and Irish Associational Culture in Glasgow, 1863-68', Terence McBride (Bell College, Hamilton), Romantic Ireland - From Tone to Gonne, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Glasgow, 22 June 2007.
259. '"The period of extermination": Engels and the History of Ireland', 'Jacobite Dreams, Gothic Tales, Marxist Spectres, Chair: Alex Benchimol (University of Glasgow): other papers were, 'Aspects of Romantic Ireland: Charles Robert Maturin's Manuel (1817), and Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)', Asier Altuna-García de Salazar (University of Deusto, Bilbao); 'Jacobitism and the Irish Literary Revival', Frank Shovlin (University of Liverpool). Romantic Ireland - From Tone to Gonne, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Glasgow, 22-24 June, paper presented 23 June 2007.
260. Chair, 'Edgeworth and Scott': 'Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott: Towards a Comparative Criticism', Niall O'Gallagher (University of Glasgow); 'The "losing side ever": Charles Lever, Walter Scott, and the Irish National Tale', Jim Shanahan (Trinity College Dublin); 'One Title, Three Works? Marianne Moore, Maria Edgeworth and The Absentee', Tara Stubbs (University of Oxford), Romantic Ireland - From Tone to Gonne, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Glasgow, 24 June 2007.
261. 'Writing about the Central Belt - New Scottish Perspectives', Shifts: Projections into the Future of the Central Belt, a seminar and book launch organized by The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, 1 October 2007. [The Shifts exhibition created by The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City is part of the ACCESS to Architecture Programme, The Lighthouse, from 18 August-14 October. Touring nationally from November 2007.]
262. 'Waste Lands Under Construction?: Wrapping Up The American Lyric from T. S. Eliot to Missy Elliott (This is the Remix)', English Literature Society, 15 October 2007.
263. 'Engels and the History of Ireland', Research Seminar, Research Institute in Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS), Humanity Manse, University of Aberdeen, 1 November 2007.
264. Chair, Irish Poetry, Session 2C: Natalie Pollard (University of York), 'I speak to you: On Lyric Address and the Poetry of Derek Mahon'; Terry Phillips (Liverpool Hope University), 'Irish Women Writers and the First World War'; Keiron Winterson (University of Liverpool), 'Green flags on their bayonets: Winifred Letts, the Irish Mode, and the Great War', Ireland: At War And Peace, The University of Sunderland, in Association with WEICN, Fifth Annual Irish Conference, University Of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Campus At St. Peter's, 9-11 November 2007 (session held 10 November).
265. 'War and Peace: W. B. Yeats' 'Meditations in a Time of Civil War', Keynote Roundtable Discussion with Paddy Lyons (University of Glasgow), Dan Ross (Columbus State University), and Nick Serra (Upper Iowa University), Chair - Alison O'Malley-Younger (University of Sunderland), Ireland: At War And Peace, The University of Sunderland, in Association with NEICN, Fifth Annual Irish Conference, University Of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Campus At St. Peter's, 9-11 November 2007 (session held 11 November).
266. 'Engels and the History of Ireland', English Literary Society, University of Glasgow, 19 November 2007.
267. '"Stands Scotland Where it Did?" The Bard North of the Border', Early Modern Collections Seminar: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Collections in Edinburgh, a seminar co-hosted by the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh University, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 24 November 2007.
268. 'James Maley and the Spanish Civil War', short talk given as part of Playbusters Easy Spanish exhibition, The People's Palace, Glasgow Green, 28 November 2007.
269. 'That Fatal Boadicea: Depicting Women in Milton's History of Britain (1670)', Research Seminar, Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, 12 December 2007.
270. 'Engels and the History of Ireland', University of Glasgow, Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Seminar Series, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, 22 January 2008.
271. 'Counting on Collaboration, Accounting for Success: eSharp, The Kelvingrove Review, and Historical Perspectives', Introduction to launch of eSharp Issue 10: 'Orality and Literacy', 1st issue of The Kelvingrove Review, and 5th anniversary of Historical Perspectives, Melville Room, University of Glasgow, 1 February 2008.
272. 'You'll Have Had Your Burns Supper', The Immortal Memory, Poloc Cricket and Tennis Club Burns Supper, The Clubhouse, Shawholm, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, 15 February 2008.
273. Co-presenter, with Christine Ferguson and Churnjeet Mahn, 'Final Stages II: Preparing for a viva', Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 21 February 2008.
274. 'Engels and the History of Ireland', Visiting Speaker Programme, Edinburgh University, 22 February 2008.
275. Irish Drama, with Paddy Lyons, CPD (Continuing Professional Development Events for Teachers 2007-8, Department of Curriculum Studies, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language (SESLL), Department of English Literature, 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, 23 February 2008. 'Introduction: Abbey National. The Irish National Theatre'; 'Shaw and Tell. GB Shaw: Mrs Warren's Profession; Pygmalion'; 'Synge and the Song of the Peasantry. JM Synge: The Shadow of the Glen, The Well of the Saints'; 'The Challenge of New Irish Drama I. Marina Carr: Portia Coughlan'; 'The Challenge of New Irish Drama II. Martin McDonagh: The Pillowman'; 'Theatre and Conflict. Brian Friel: Freedom of the City; Translations'.
276. 'Building and Presenting a CV', Research Training Seminars, Graduate Training Programme, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 28 February 2008.
277. Chair, 'Karen Campbell, The Twilight Time', reading and discussion with the author of The Twilight Time (Hodder, 2008), Aye, Write! Book Festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 8 March 2008.
278. Contributor to 'From Saturn to Glasgow: A Celebration of Edwin Morgan', Aye, Write! Book Festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 9 March 2008. (Other readers were Iain Banks, Liz Cameron, David Kinloch, Liz Lochhead, Jim McGonigall, Bernard MacLaverty, Robyn Marsack, Donny O'Rourke, James Robertson, Michael Schmidt, and Louise Welsh.
279. 'Rising in Surprising Ways: "Coming Of Age" (And Other Irish Fictions) in Three Novels by Seamus Deane, Roddy Doyle, and Patrick McCabe', Ireland: Readings and Risings, A North-East Irish Cultural Network (NEICN) Seminar, with Claire Nally and Alison O'Malley-Younger, Priestman Building, University of Sunderland, 17 March 2008.
280. The Scotsman Book Club, discussing Anne Donovan's Being Emily (Canongate, 2008), with David Robinson, Lee Randall, Lesley McDowell, Philippa Cochrane and Karen Campbell, Green Room, Mitchell Library, 25 April 2008.
281. 'Down the Tunnel and Below Stairs: The Bhoy from Croy and the Little Lives of Ordinary People', Croy Historical Association, Croy Miners Welfare Club, Croy, 7 May 2008.
282. Presentation of Denise Mina for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Arts Faculty Graduation Ceremony, Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, 27 June 2008.
283. Chair, Launch of Chiew-Siah Tei, Little House of Leaping Fishes (Picador, 2008), Waterstone's Bookstore, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 3 July 2008.
284. Postgraduate Information Seminar, Scottish Universities International Summer School (SUISS), University of Edinburgh, 6 August 2008.
285. 'Bernard MacLaverty: In Conversation with Willy Maley', Wigtown Book Festival 2008, Festival Marquee, Sponsored by Bladnoch Distillery, 28 September 2008.
286. 'Sleep No More! Macbeth Does Murder Sleep', pre-show talk for The Lyceum co-production of Macbeth with Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, as part of Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Henry Irving Room, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 3 October 2008.
287. Stuart Kelly and Willy Male