Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture: Malcolm Sen

Prof. Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst): 'Irish Anthropocene: Literary Ecologies and Political Geologies'
Wednesday 30th September 2026, 5.00pm (BST) in the Great Hall at QUB, and online via MS TeamsThe annual Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture in Irish Studies is a new collaborative initiative between the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, and the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies, University of Sao Paulo.Malcolm Sen is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests focus on questions of justice, statecraft, and postcolonial politics as they emerge in this contemporary moment of climate crisis. Malcolm holds a PhD from UCD and was an Irish Research Council Elevate Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Environment. He was also awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Notre Dame. His books include Race in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2021), The Cambridge History of Irish Literature and the Environment (Cambridge, 2021), and, most recently, Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty (Syracuse UP, 2026).