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no 43: December 2007
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CONFERENCES,
SEMINARS, LECTURES & COURSES
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This page is edited by Dr Florina Tufescu.
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As with the Calls for Papers, to which this forms a sequel, these items are
given as a rolling list, new ones being added each month, old ones being
removed on expiry.
Lectures, visits and other events arranged by specialist societies and
associations are chiefly on
The Society Page
Conferences on theatre are listed in our section
Details are as supplied by our sources, but should be checked with the
organisers.
French and Francophone conferences will be covered
in greater detail in our sister publication rue
des beaux-arts, the bulletin of the Société Oscar Wilde (branche
française).
Click on its logo for its website, and contact
the Editor, Danielle Guérin, if you have information for publication.
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1. Oscar
Wilde Conference at Oxford |
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2. Oscar Wilde evening at the Bodmer Library |
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3. G.F.
Bodley |
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4. Ford
Madox Ford |
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5. George
Gissing |
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6. Stéphane
Mallarmé |
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7. George
Moore |
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8. William
Morris |
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9.
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
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10. Books |
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11. Council
for European Studies |
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12. Creative Writing |
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13. Fin de Siècle Studies at Oxford |
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14. The
Four Elements |
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15. Irish Women Writers |
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16. Littérature Victorienne et Edouardienne |
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17. Modern Love |
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18. 17.
19th Century Group at UCLA |
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19. 18.
Teaching & Text |
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20. 19.
Victorian Literature & Culture at
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1.
Fin
de Siècle Seminar series at Oxford
This is an interdisciplinary seminar series which
aims to develop fresh perspectives on literature, society, and the arts in
England between 1870 and 1920. In the six years since its inception, the
series has provided a vibrant forum for both graduates and established
academics, hosting presentations on subjects as diverse as the ‘Aesthetic
Eighties’, Jerome K. Jerome and the rise of the literary professional, Oscar
Wilde and archaeology, trouble-making in George Moore’s fiction, Robert
Bridges’ classical poetry, and the aesthetics of smell in literature and art.
Fin de Siècle has attracted the notice of a broad
community of researchers both within and outside Oxford, who value its
atmosphere of rigorous scholarly discussion.
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Faculty
of English Language and The Michaelmas term programme has been concluded; that for
Hilary term is given below. For more
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Week 2, 22nd January |
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Kenneth Longden: ( Dr. Antonio Sanna, |
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Week 4, 5th February |
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Prof. Jeffrey Berlin: ‘The Function of Letters
for Thomas Mann, as revealed in his twenty-nine year unpublished
correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf’ |
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Week 6, 19th February |
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Dr. Anne Anderson (FSA, Cumming Ceramics
Research Fellow 2007): ‘“Coming out of the Dr. Nancy Ireson (National
Gallery): ‘André Derain: Painting and Modern Thought’ |
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Week 8, 4th March |
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Prof. Sukanya Banerjee, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): ‘“What
status shall British Indians occupy outside Dr. Brian Ó Conchubhair
(University of Notre Dame): ‘Fin de Siècle and the Irish Language Revival,
1880-1910’ |
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2. Ford Madox Ford
A Conference on 'Ford Madox Ford: Visual Arts and
Media' took place in Genoa, 17th-19th September 2007. The Guest speakers
were A. S. Byatt and Colm Toibin. We had hoped to carry more information about this
here, but no so far it has not been available (10th December).
3. Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts
Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts, Leuven, Belgium 24th-27th October 2007
With such recent publications as Volumes IV and V of the Field Day Anthology, the Greenwood Guide to Irish Women Writers and the Dictionary of Munster Women Writers, literature by Irish women has come to enjoy an unprecedented critical attention. Across the different genres of modern literature, the writing of Irish women has turned out to be more varied, rich and interesting than had previously been thought. This conference aimed to demonstrate this richness by providing a platform for exchange of research and critical discussion on all aspects of the literature of Irish women writers, both in English and in Gaelic.
The conference was hosted by the University of
Leuven and The Louvain Institute of Ireland in Europe. The conference took
place in the old Irish college in Leuven, which celebrated its 400th
anniversary in 2007. We will be carrying reports by Maureen O’Connor and
Tina O’Toole.
4. Nineteenth-Century Group at UCLA
Courtesy of Professor Jonathan Grossman, we are now
receiving information about the programme of this group in the UCLA Department of English. The papers
presented are available in .pdf format and we will post those that treat of the
period 1880-1914 in our section ‘And I? May I Say Nothing?’ when permission is
given.
5. Victorian Literature and Culture and other seminars at the Harvard Humanities Center
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8th December 2007
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International
Conference on C.P.Cavafy with guests, in order of appearance: Kathleen
Coleman (Harvard University), Richard Thomas (Harvard University), Mark Doty
(University of North Texas), Paola Marrati (The Johns Hopkins University),
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (The Johns Hopkins University), Richard
Dellamora
(Trent University), John Chioles (New York University), and Eve Sedgwick
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For more details, please see http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi
6. Morris Society Sessions at 2007 MLA
Convention
Chicago, 27th-30th
December 2007
For this year's annual convention of the Modern
Language Association we are presenting two sessions of papers. The first
session, ‘The Pre-Raphaelite (and Aesthetic) Family,’ moderated by Hartley
Spatt, includes
· Bansari
Mitra, North Georgia College and State University, ‘'Goblin Market': A New
Pre-Raphaelite Christian Myth’
· Monica
Duchnowski, New York University, ‘Morris in Context: The Pre-Raphaelite Family
as Sign’
· Pamela
Gerrish Nunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, ‘Kate Greenaway's Place in
the Pre-Raphaelite Family?’
For
‘Morris as Metatext: Editions/Printforms/Illustrations,’ the second session (chaired
by Kathleen O'Neill Sims) the speakers are:
· Elizabeth
C. Miller, Ohio University, ‘Socialism in Walter Crane's Political Cartoons’
· Charles
Sligh, Wake Forest University, ‘'Love Clad as an Image Maker': The Morris
Online Edition and NINES’
· Florence
S. Boos, University of Iowa, ‘Jason's Voyage from Notebook to Kelmscott
Edition’
For details of time and place and for other Morris events at the convention,
please write florence-boos@uiowa.edu or marksl@udel.edu after 1 September.
The topics for MLA
2008--should you wish to plan early--are ‘Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Prose’
and ’William Morris: His Friends and Associates.’ Proposals are due 20th March 2008.
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7. Michael Hall – G. F. Bodley and the House Beautiful
Victoria & Albert Museum Friday 11th January 19.00-20.00 |
8.
The
Four Elements
The
annual Colloque of the Société Française d’Études Victoriennes et Édouardiennes
will be held at the Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille 1) 18th-19th January
2008 on the theme ‘Représentations victoriennes et édouardiennes des
quatre éléments’.
Of particular interest to us are the following
papers:
Laurence
Constanty (Université Toulouse III)
A world in stones:
John Ruskin and Geology.
Laurence
Gasquet (Université Bordeaux III)
« Between
the heaven and man came the cloud » : John Ruskin et la
représentation des états de la matière dans Modern Painters.
Anne-Sophie
Leluan-Pinker (Université Paris XII)
“A unique
aura of ancient, elemental evil”: les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan d’Arthur Machen.
9. Bibliography
Week 2008
Bibliography Week happens each year at the end of January in New York City when
many of the principal national organizations devoted to book history -- the
American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America,
the Grolier Club, among others -- have their annual meetings. Other groups plan
interesting events, too, and many of these are open to the public.
A preliminary schedule of Bibliography Week events for 2008 (22nd-26th January 2008) has been mounted on the Grolier
Club website, at http://www.grolierclub.org/bibliographyweek2008.htm. Please
visit, and if you have any questions, comments, or corrections, send them
to Eric Holzenberg, Director, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York,
NY 10022. e-mail: ejh@grolierclub.org.
Website: www.grolierclub.org
10.
SEMINAIRE
de Littérature Comparée“ :
Mallarmé et les mots anglais” Responsable : Eric Dayre
ENS-LSH
15,
Parvis René Descartes
75007
LYON, M° Debourg
Salle
F004
Thursday
31st January, 14h-17h
Introduction, Eric Dayre, CEP, ENS-LSH : Méthodes
anglaises de Stéphane Mallarmé.
Thursday 7th February, 14h-17h
Isabella
Checcaglini, Paris VIII : “Je ne connais de l’anglais que les mots
employés dans le volume des poésies de Poe”.
Thursday 13th March,
14h-17h
Claire
Hennequet, CERC, Paris III : “Poésie et traduction: le cas Baudelaire”.
Thursday 20th March,
14h-17h
Alessandro
de Francesco, CEP, ENS-LSH : "Car c'eût été la Vérité!" : polysémie du
poème et ontologie de l'absence chez Mallarmé.
Thursday 27th March,
14h-17h
Barbara Bohac, Paris IV: "Mallarmé et
Whistler: l'esthétique au cœur du quotidien, du Ten O'Clock aux Récréations
postales".
Thursday 4th April,
14h-17h
Janny Berretti, Paris III, CERC, revue Formules:
“Mallarmé et la traduction”
Thursday 11th April, 14h-17h
Eric
Dayre, CEP, ENS-LSH : Bilan, réponses et nouvelles questions.
11. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny,
Geneva, Switzerland :
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La Comédie s'invite... Monday 28th January
2008 18h30 |
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Je
te baiserai ta bouche, Jokanaan. Intervention de Charles Méla, directeur de la Fondation Martin Bodmer |
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Qui
est cette femme qui me regarde? Reading by Anne Bisang from Salomé, metteure en scène, directrice
de la Comédie de Genève |
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On dit que l'amour a une âcre saveur... Mais qu'importe? Lecture by Martin Leer, University of Geneva. |
12. L.I.V.E.
L.I.V.E –'Littérature Victorienne et Edouardienne
(texte, image, médias)' –will be considering literature in the
nineteenth-century as an 'event' as well as a 'live' performance at its meeting
at Charles V Paris-Diderot on Friday 22nd February 2008.
In France the nineteenth-century has been called the media era and it is the immediacy of literature's aesthetic and ideological models which will be our focus and a key to our understanding of how the novel as well as poetry helped provide access to many forms of knowledge and culture - be they philosophical, technological, economic, social or commercial. The powerfully disseminating and performative aspects of literature can be discerned in the textures of Romantic and Victorian writing - its forms and strategies - as well as in the impact of illustrations and in practices of publishing and distribution. Part of our work will be to consider the very same qualities as they appear in nineteenth-century French literature which will act as a prism for our understanding of British writing. We will also explore the force and potency of the literary text within the myriad forms of discourse created by the burgeoning culture of print. Literature, rather than being submerged and diluted, emerges as a force which colonizes and invades other forms of representation such as photography and painting (although the latter in turn also exploit and alter the literary text). We may consequently also imagine the ways in which literature, the novel in particular, created a pre-filmic universe and lead the way to cinema - literature being a space in which the Victorian era might imagine the era to come. Taking our cue from Eisenstein who spoke of Dickens's 'dream of cinema' we will measure the influence of nineteenth-century literature on present-day media production in the areas of text, image or film.
To enrol on the mailing list, please contact Sara Thornton @, mentioning THE OSCHOLARS.
13. Council for European Studies
The Sixteenth International Conference of the
Council for European Studies will be held at the Drake Hotel in Chicago from 5th to 8th March 2008.
Please visit the website at www.councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conf/conf.html
for more information about the event, including the Call for Papers submission
form.
Nicholas Ross, Program Assistant, Council for European Studies, Columbia
University, 420 West 118th Street, MC 3310, New York, NY 10027. Tel.
212-854-4172. Fax. 212-854-8808
14. Oscar Wilde Conference at Oxford, 8th March 2008
The Call for Papers for this has been issued and
will be found on our NOTICEBOARD (click its logo for access). Full
coverage will be given, and this will be a good opportunity for Wildëans to
gather and meet many of the team that has created www.oscholars.com and its constituent
parts.
15. Third International George Gissing
Conference: Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing's Imagination
LILLE, FRANCE
27-28 March 2008
(Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
The efforts of scholars in the last half-century
have served to confirm George Gissing's ranking among the major writers of
fiction of his age. The steady flow in recent years of multifaceted comment on
his writings speaks for itself, and the impressive amount of unpublished
material made available over the last two decades is providing invaluable new
clues to his artistic practices. Interestingly, Gissing's growing pertinence is
not merely that of a leading exponent and translator of late Victorian culture.
His art is also increasingly regarded as rooted in his recognition of
separateness, understood as aesthetic gesture as much as theme.
Advisory Committee: Professor Pierre Coustillas
(University of Lille 3); Professor Constance Harsh (Colgate University); Dr
Christine Huguet (University of Lille 3); Dr Simon J. James (Durham
University); Dr Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University);
Dr Diana Maltz (Southern Oregon University); Dr Bouwe Postmus
(University of Amsterdam); Dr John Sloan (Harris Manchester
College, Oxford).
More details will be given here as they become
available.
16. Creative
Writing Workshop
Desmond
Traynor is facilitating a week-long Creative Writing workshop in a vineyard
in the Tuscan hills, near Siena, next May
Daily 3 hour workshop for six days, plus trips to
Siena & nearby villages
Tuition, accom, breakfast, dinner & wine,
transfers, only $1600 (€1100)
The dates available are: 10th – 17th May; 17th – 24th May; and
possibly 7th – 14th June.
Visit www.ilchiostro.com for more information, and contact Mr Traynor at classescourses@yahoo.com
Des Traynor is a Hennessy Award Winning
Short Story Writer, who has also been nominated for the Hughes & Hughes
Irish Novel of the Year Award, and has many creative and critical publications
and reviews, with an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature from UCD and an M Phil with
Distinction in Creative Writing from Trinity College. Visit www.desmondtraynor.com.
17. An Investigation of Modern Love
The Durrell School of Corfu
will host 'An Investigation of Modern Love', an international seminar, at its
Library and Study Centre, 18th-23rd May 2008. Dr. Shere Hite and
Professor Joseph Boone, University of Southern California, will act as
moderators. More details will be given here as they become available.
18. SHARP 2008: Teaching & Text
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 24th-28th June 2008
The sixteenth annual conference of the Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will be held at the
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University,
24th-28th June 2008.
Our conference theme, Teaching and Text, reflects
the historical and contemporary position of Oxford as a seat of learning and a
centre of academic and professional publishing. It will be developed through an
opening plenary lecture by Professor Juliet Gardiner, author of Wartime
Britain 1939-1945, and by a panel on the History of Oxford University Press
led by Professor Simon Eliot, Chair in the History of the Book at the School of
Advanced Studies, University of London. There will also a special panel on
Literary Prizes and a closing panel featuring Dr Peter McDonald, Dr David
McKitterick, Dr Sydney Shep, and Professor Kathryn Sutherland which will debate
the future of the discipline.
The AGM will be hosted by Oxford University Press,
and followed by a reception. Additional social events will include a banquet at
Magdalen College and receptions at Blackwell's bookshop and the Bodleian
Library.
There will also be pre-conference graduate
workshops at the Bodleian, OUP and Brookes.
Conference website: http://www.sharp2008.org.uk/
Organising committee: Claire Squires & Jane
Potter (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa
University) & Kate Longworth (Magdalen College, Oxford).
19.
RLS 2008 European Stevenson
The fifth biennial Stevenson conference, 30th June
– 3rd July 2008, University of Bergamo (Italy) Conference website: http://dinamico.unibg.it/rls/RLS2008.htm
Venue: The Conference will be in the medieval Upper Town of Bergamo, hosted by
the Dept. of Languages and Comparative Literatures and Cultures (Faculty of
Foreign Languages and Literatures).
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Early Registration |
1st January 2008 – 31st March 2008 |
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Standard Registration |
1st April – 31st May 2008 |
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Late Registration |
1st June – 21st June 1008 |
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Submission of papers for publication |
by 30th November 2008 |
Convenor: Richard Dury, Universita'
degli Studi di Bergamo, Piazza Rosate, 2, 24129 Bergamo (Italy) www.unibg.it/rls
20.
George Moore
The Conference 'George Moore and his
Contemporaries', University of Hull, will take place on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th September 2008.
Watch our sister journal Moorings for
details.
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