In January 2023, Andrew Gibson gave a plenary lecture titled `An Irreducible Ambivalence: Byron and
Misanthropy 1814-24’ to the Critical Misanthropy conference, University of Amsterdam (25-27 January).
Professor Andrew Gibson to give lectures and presentations at universities in Australia and New Zealand, July-August 2019
Andrew Gibson will be giving the following lectures and research papers in Australia and New Zealand in July-August 2019: `Producing Historicity: Foucault, Joyce and European Art Cinema 1945-80’: plenary lecture, conference, Literature and the Moving Image, Macquarie University, Sydney, July, 2019`Coetzee and Trust in Grace: Dusklands and The Schooldays of Jesus’, University of Western Sydney, August, 2019; and `Coetzee and the Refusal of Contemporary Theodicy: The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello’, research paper, English Department, University of Wellington, July, 2019.
Professor Andrew Gibson to act as general Editor of the Penguin centenary Editions of the Works of James Joyce
Andrew Gibson has been appointed General Editor of the new 2022 editions of James Joyce to be published by Penguin. 2022 is the centenary of the publication of Joyce’s Ulysses. It is also the centenary of the formation of the Irish Free State, and therefore of the beginning of (at least a certain kind of) independence for Ireland. This supplies the rationale for a set of centenary editions produced by a British and Irish team of scholars. Gibson himself will write the introduction to Ulysses and assist Steven Morrison of Nottingham University in annotating it. Clare Hutton, an Irish scholar currently teaching at Loughborough University, will provide a scholarly account of the text. Anne Fogarty of University College Dublin will write the introduction to and annotate Dubliners. Joe Brooker of Birkbeck College, London will write the introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, with Morrison again providing the notes. Hutton will provide the introduction and notes to a new edition of Joyce’s Poems. Gibson will write the introduction and notes to Exiles. He will also edit the new Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake, though this will appear later, in 2024.
Professor Andrew Gibson to give lectures and presentations at universities in Australia and New Zealand, July 2019.
Andrew Gibson will be giving a presentation on `Historicity, Affect, the Body and European Art Cinema 1950-80’ at the `Literature and the Moving Image’ conference at Macquarie University on 12-13 July, 2019. Plans for lectures and talks at the University of Melbourne, the University of Wellington and other institutions in Australia and New Zealand are currently under discussion.
Professor Andrew Gibson to give series of masterclasses at the University of Adelaide.
Andrew Gibson will be giving a series of masterclasses on `Criticism as Intervention and the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee’ at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide in August and September, 2019.
Professor Andrew Gibson appointed Visiting Professor at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice in Adelaide.
Professor Andrew Gibson has been appointed Visiting Professor at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. The appointment is for a three year period.
Professor Andrew Gibson, Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity is now under contract!
Professor Andrew Gibson’s Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity is now under contract to Bloomsbury.
Professor Andrew Gibson speaking with Irish Ambassador about James Joyce in Liverpool, 13th October 2016
Along with the Irish Ambassador to London and other invited guests, Professor Andrew Gibson will be speaking on 13th October 2016 about Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, to mark the hundredth anniversary of its publication.
Professor Andrew Gibson, Lectures in Australia, June 2016
Professor Andrew Gibson gave a plenary lecture commemorating the Easter Rising of 1916 on Joyce and the Rising at the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales.
He also gave a lecture on `Rancière and Orwell: Critique of the Intellectuals and the Cause of the Demos’ to the English Department, UNSW.
On 22 June, Andrew gave the keynote lecture at the postgraduate conference in the English department, University of Adelaide. The title of the lecture was `In Defence of the Event (ii): Badiou, Kant, Woolf’
On 27 June, Andrew gave a lecture on `Modernity and the Political Fix: Rancière, During’ to the English department, University of Melbourne.
On 30 June, he also gave a developed version of the Beckett lecture below at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide
Professor Andrew Gibson, Beckett Keynote, London, May 2016
At the Beckett conference 26-28 May, 2016 on Samuel Beckett: Performance/Art/Writing at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Professor Andrew Gibson gave a keynote lecture entitles `“An Intellectual Justification of Unhappiness”: Beckett’s Aesthetic War on the Theodicies’
Professor Andrew Gibson, Belfast Lecture, May 2016
On 4 May, 2016, Professor Andrew Gibson gave a presentation to the English Department at Queen’s University Belfast entitled `In Defence of the Event (i): From Wordsworth to Woolf’