Chairpersons Welcome

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As Chairperson, and on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, I hope that we will have the opportunity to welcome you to Dublin and to the Symposium in August 2008. Our preparations are progressing well and we look forward to sharing with you a professionally rewarding and personally satisfying experience.

Dublin was originally built as a Viking settlement over a thousand years ago and is situated on the river Liffey. Today it is a thriving cosmopolitan city, steeped in culture and with a long and proud literary tradition. It is the birthplace of many famous novelists, dramatists and poets among them Jonathon Swift, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan.

The principle venue for the Symposium is The University of Dublin,Trinity College, founded in 1592. Standing on a self-contained site in the heart of Dublin City, the college covers some 40 acres of cobbled squares and green spaces around buildings which represent the accumulated architectural riches of more than four centuries. Other buildings of significant historical and architectural interest will also be used and are a short walking distance from Trinity College.