The Development and Alumni Relations Office warmly invite you to this alumni event featuring a talk by Deputy Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Professor Maebh Long.

Long White Clouds: Irish literature from New Zealand

In this talk Professor Long discusses the work of the Centre for Irish Studies, its connections with the newly founded Centre for Medical Humanities, and reflects on what it means to view Irish literature from New Zealand and the Pacific.

Professor Long is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (2014) and editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien (2018). She is president of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand and president of the International Flann O’Brien Society.

Maebh led a Marsden-funded project exploring the ways 'immunity' became a contagious metaphor for modernist writers. Maebh also works on Pacific literature, with her publications including New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (2019) and The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism (2024), both with Matthew Hayward. The Rise of Pacific Literature received the 2025 Modernist Studies Association book prize.

This event is a wonderful opportunity to hear from a leading Otago academic about their research, share stories, and strengthen your connection with the Otago community.

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This event will take place from 6:00pm–8:00pm Dublin local time.