Samantha Landau (The University of Tokyo, Japan) contributed a video lecture to the asynchronous portion of the Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century Symposium, which was held through Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and organized by Janice Deitner, Dara Downey, Stephen Matterson, and Bernice M. Murphy. The conference is dedicated to discussing and exploring the past and future of Jackson studies, as well as celebrating the life of the author herself. Academics and independent scholars from several countries were invited to contribute video lectures and short essays to the website; a synchronous component including round tables and panels was also featured.
The conference materials, including the live panels, were made free and open to the public, and were featured in The Irish Times in an article emphasizing the importance of Jackson’s literary legacy here
The conference website contains the asynchronous content and and recordings of the live panels that took place on December 14, 2021 and can be found here
Samantha Landau’s lecture, “Ritual and Contagion in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House” is available to the public on Youtube here