Genius of the East? Moore's Orientalism
When
Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 13:00Where
Tickets
Dr Daniel Roberts will give the third lecture in our series on 'Discovering Thomas Moore'. Listen back.
This lecture series accompanies our current exhibition 'Discovering Thomas Moore: Ireland in nineteenth-century Europe'. Curated by musicologist Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB, the exhibition exposes the breadth of Moore’s research and writing about Ireland and explores Moore’s role as an Irish writer with an international reputation in positioning Ireland within Europe through cultural exchange. It also addresses contemporary European fascination with the orient and Moore’s influential role in depicting eastern culture, particularly via his hugely successful work, Lalla Rookh.
Speaker:
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts teaches Eighteenth-Century and Romantic-Period Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. He has edited Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey and written extensively on Romanticism and the East.
Other lectures in this series:
9 October, 2019: ‘Re-imagining Moore’ by Prof. Harry White, MRIA, School of Music, UCD
30 October, 2019: ‘Thomas Moore in Paris’ by Dr Tríona O'Hanlon, Independent Scholar
13 November, 2019: ‘Sentiment and song in Moore's Irish melodies and Lalla Rookh’ by Dr Sarah McCleave, School of Arts, English & Languages, QUB
20 November, 2019: ‘The politicization of the harp through Moore's Irish melodies’ by Prof. Úna Hunt, Conservatory of Music and Drama, TU Dublin
Free admission. No individual booking required. Group bookings please contact: library@ria.ie / 01-6090620