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no 42: October-November 2007
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CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, LECTURES & COURSES
This page
is edited by Dr Florina Tufescu. Please send information to her at
her e-mail address:
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« After we have discussed some
Chambertin and a few ortolans, we
will pass on to the question of the critic considered in the light of the interpreter »
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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will take you to an abstract or précis of the paper if so
flagged.
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Oscar
Wilde Conference at |
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Oscar
Wilde: Putting Music into Words |
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Ford Madox Ford |
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George Gissing |
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5. George Moore |
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William Morris |
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Fin
de Siècle Studies at Oxford |
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8. Books |
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9.
Council for European Studies |
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10. Digression
in Literature |
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11. Irish
Women Writers |
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12. Modern Love |
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13. 19th
Century Group at UCLA |
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14. Victorian
Literature & Culture at Harvard |
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1.
Fin de Siècle Studies at Oxford
This is an interdisciplinary seminar series which
aims to develop fresh perspectives on literature, society, and the arts in
Fin de Siècle has attracted the notice of a broad
community of researchers both within and outside
The splendid programme for this term is printed
here:
Faculty of English Language and
FIN DE SIECLE SEMINAR SERIES
Michaelmas
2007 Programme
Tuesdays at
After the seminar refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
Convenor: Dúnlaith Bird (St. Catherine’s College)
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Jeremiah
Merceruio (St. Andrew’s) ‘Max Beerbohm and the Art of Decadent
Illustration’ This
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Week 4, 30th October ‘Dracula, Hypnosis and the Literature
of Possession’ |
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Week 6, November 13th Annabel Rutherford ( ‘The Case of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley,
and the Creation of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes’ Julia Happ ( ‘Dekadenz in the German Fin de Siècle:
plurality of discourses, literary theory and poetics’ |
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Week 8, November 27th |
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Dr. Judy Greenway ( |
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For more details contact the Convenor, Dúnlaith
Bird, St Catherine’s College,
2. 'Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Digression in Literature'.
This conference and workshop will be held at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
To see the programme for this event, please go to:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/spanport/documents/digression_programme.doc
To secure your place, please fill in the form at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/spanport/documents/digression_registration.doc and return it to Rhian Atkin at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Leeds.
Registration is free of charge, and lunch will be provided for all those who return the registration form at least 48 hours in advance of the conference. The conference is primarily aimed at postgraduate research students, but all are welcome.
3.
Oscar
Wilde: Putting Music Into Words
The Inaugural William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde and Music was given by Merlin Holland at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Tiffany Perala has provided for us a review/essay that appears in pour section ’And I? May I Say Nothing?’
4. Oscar Wilde Conference at
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.
5. 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
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Matt Dubord |
Adam Lowenstein |
6. Victorian Literature and Culture
seminars at the Harvard Humanities Center
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Stephanie
Weiner ( |
All are welcome. For more details, please see http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi
A Conference on 'Ford Madox Ford: Visual Arts and
Media' took place in
8. Morris Society Sessions at 2007 MLA Convention
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
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Monica Duchnowski,
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Pamela Gerrish Nunn,
For ‘Morris as Metatext: Editions/Printforms/Illustrations,’
the second session (chaired by Kathleen O'Neill Sims) the speakers are:
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Elizabeth C. Miller,
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Charles
Sligh,
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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
9. Irish Women Writers: National and
European Contexts
Irish Women
Writers: National and European Contexts,
Contact: Elke D’hoker (elke.dhoker@arts.kuleuven.be)
or Hedwig Schwall (hedwig.schwall@arts.kuleuven.be)
Confirmed Plenary speakers: Patricia Coughlan, Anne
Enright, Ann Owen Weekes, Anne Fogarty and Sinéad Morrissey
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 wants 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. We invite historical, theoretical, political,
cultural or textual analyses of literary texts and would particularly welcome
papers that seek to situate these texts within the larger framework of a female
literary tradition, both in an Irish and in a European context. The larger
cultural context of literary production and reception for Irish women writers
of the last three centuries also provides topics for discussion.
The conference is hosted by the
2008
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 (
10. Council for European Studies
The Sixteenth International Conference of the
Council for European Studies will be held at the Drake Hotel in
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,
11. Third International George Gissing Conference: Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing's Imagination
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.
12. 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,
13. SHARP 2008: Teaching & Text
The sixteenth annual conference of the Society for
the History of Authorship,
Our conference theme, Teaching and Text, reflects
the historical and contemporary position of
The AGM will be hosted by Oxford University Press,
and followed by a reception. Additional social events will include a banquet at
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 (
14. George Moore
The Conference 'George Moore and his
Contemporaries',
« After we have discussed some
Chambertin and a few ortolans, we
will pass on to the question of the critic considered in the light of the interpreter »
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