THE OSCHOLARS
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Vol. IV
No. 2
issue no 33:
February 2007
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, LECTURES & COURSES
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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 on
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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 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.
For more details contact the Convenor,
Sarah Davison, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, OX2 6HS,
England. e-mail @
Programme
Hilary Term 2007
Thursdays at 5.15 pm in the Meyerstein Room (11), St. Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford
After the seminar refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
1st February, Week 4
John Ballam, Harris Manchester: ‘Not even medical science or custom can bridge over’: Bram Stoker and the Scientific Occult.
15th February, Week 6
Oliver Hertford, University College London: Revisions of the Picturesque in the Travel Essays of Henry James 1875-1909
1st March, Week 8
Michèle Mendelssohn, University of Edinburgh: ‘Why Oscar you's gone wild!’:
American Aestheticism and Race.
2. 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 LIBRARY.
The next papers fall outside our period.
3. Sculpture and the Museum
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2nd – 3rd
February 2007
This two-day international conference brings together academics, curators,
architects, artists, designers and museum professionals to discuss the role of
sculpture and its display in the museum and gallery. It aims to look above all
at the reasons behind the choices of particular works and their placement;
identifying and exploring the programmatic statements of power, prestige and
symbolic value which sculpture has been used to signpost over recent centuries.
How does sculpture signal an institution's (or an individual's) public
aspirations; how does it denote culture, learning or modernity? How does
sculpture affirm or challenge an established reputation? What kind of
comparisons can be drawn between sculpture displays in art museums and
galleries and those in other types of museums?
Friday 2nd February 2007:
Past and Present:
Pauline Hoath (Bergen University): The John Flaxman Gallery at University College London
Marietta Cambareri (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): Italian Renaissance Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Early Years
Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum): The Role of Sculpture in the '17th-century Collector's Study' and 'Chamber of Wonders' at the Walters Art Museum
Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): The Elephant in the Room: George Grey Barnard's Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Suzanne MacLeod (University of Leicester): The Sultanganj Buddha and the Buddha Gallery at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Emmanuelle Heran (Musee d'Orsay): Exhibiting Animal Sculpture: a challenge
Saturday 3rd February 2007:
Christopher Marshall (University of Melbourne):
‘The Greatest Sculpture Gallery in the World’: The Rise and Fall
(and Rise Again?) of the Duveen Sculpture Galleries at Tate Britain
Wouter Davidts (Ghent University): Tate Modern Series: Six Years of Artist's
Commissions at Tate Modern
Marianne Kinkel (Washington State University): Sculptures as Museum Models: Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind Display at the Field Museum of Natural History
Kate Nichols (Birkbeck College, University of London): How do we interpret sculpture on display? New questions raised by plaster casts for the masses at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, 1854.
Antoinette Normand-Romain (INHA, Paris; ex-Rodin Museum, Paris): Rodin: the construction of an image
Sarah Stanners (University of Toronto): Adopting Moore and modernity in Toronto: controversy, reputation and intervention on display
Conference fee: £20 (£10 concessions).
To register please contact Ellen Tait by email or by post to: Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH. @
4. Victorian Literature and Culture seminars at the Harvard Humanities
Adela Pinch: ‘Daniel Deronda and the Omnipotence of Thought’ (co-sponsored by Cognitive Theory and the Arts). Thursday 8th March 6 pm, Barker Center 133
Hilary Schor: Re-Sizing the Victorian Novel: Alice, Nell, and the Curious Heroine. Tuesday 20th March 6 pm, Barker 24
All are welcome. For more details, including directions and parking info,
please see
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi?viewType=monthly&year=2007&month=2&week=&day=&dspAction=next
5. Victorian Periodicals
The University of Ghent is holding a study (half) day in Brussels on 10th March, on Victorian periodicals: defining the field and the genre.
Keynote speaker
Sir Peter Stothard, Editor, The Times Literary Supplement
Speakers
Dr Margaret Beetham, Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor Laurel Brake, Birkbeck College, London
Professor Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent
Professor David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Dr Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent
Dr Mark Turner, Kings College London
Please follow this link to see the programme: http://www.english.ugent.be/events.htm
Dr Kate Macdonald, Department of English,
University of Ghent, Rozier 44, 9000 Ghent
Belgium. +32 9 264 7876; +32 485 313891
6. Matisse
The Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher
Sculpture Center present ‘Matisse: Painter as Sculptor’ Symposium
Keynote Address Friday 16th March 7:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium.
Join renowned scholar Yve-Alain Bois, professor at the Institute for Advanced
Study, for the ‘Matisse: Painter as Sculptor’ symposium opening
keynote address. Among his many credits, Bois has authored influential books on
20th-century art, curated important exhibitions including ‘Matisse and
Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry’, and edited the influential journal October.
Symposium Saturday, 17th March 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Join an international panel of eminent
scholars, curators, and conservators for a day-long investigation into the
sculptural work of Henri Matisse.
Individual sessions will include new research on Matisse's methods of
sculpting and casting, the meaning of modernism in Matisse's sculptures, and
the intersections among the various media employed by Matisse.
Featuring:
. Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
. Valerie J. Fletcher, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
. Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Deputy
Director, Musée national d'art moderne,
Centre Pompidou
. Jay Fisher, Deputy Director for
Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art
. Ann Boulton, Objects Conservator, Baltimore Museum of Art
. Alastair Wright, Assistant Professor of Art History, Princteon University
. Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of
19th- and 20th-century European and
American Art, CUNY
. Lynda Zycherman, Associate Conservator, MOMA
. William Tucker, sculptor
. Steven Nash, Director, Nasher Sculpture Center
. Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and TheBarbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Admission price with advanced registration includes entry to sessions,
exhibition, and permanent collections at both museums, Late Night programs, and
morning reception. To register for the symposium, call 214-922-1826 or email publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org.
Horchow Auditorium, USD 40 for the public, USD 30 for members and seniors, free
for students
Advance registration recommended; call 214-922-1826.
7. Victorian Pantomime
There will be a one-day conference on Victorian Pantomime at the University of Warwick on Saturday 17th March from 9.30 a.m.- 5.30 p.m. Speakers will include Jacky Bratton, Jim Davis, Ann Featherstone, Janice Norwood, Caroline Radcliffe, Jo Robinson and Jill Sullivan. If you are interested in offering a paper or attending please contact Jim Davis. Fuller details will be available shortly.
8. ‘Tradition and Innovation in Fine Printing’
Forum at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Co-sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States. Monday, 26th March, 6:00–7:15 p.m. Reception to follow.
$20 general; $15 seniors and students
and members of the William Morris Society
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY www.bgc.bard.edu
Book production in the 19th-century was revolutionized by technological
change, yet toward the end of the century, a counter-movement emerged to
recover techniques and styles of earlier printing. Today fine printing
still displays these apparently conflicting impulses. In this forum, noted
scholar William S. Peterson will explore 19th-century bookmaking
techniques through the lens of the Kelmscott Press. He will consider how,
although William
Morris (1834–1896) has a reputation as a craftsman who sought
to recover medieval bookmaking methods, he was also responsive to
the artistic innovations of his time. Along with a close examination
of Morris’s own typefaces, and wood engravings of the Kelmscott
Press, he will show that Morris made extensive, pioneering use
of photography as an instrument of design. Joining the conversation, renowned
artist and bookmaker Barry Moser, whose masterful works continue to enrich
the tradition of fine bookmaking, will discuss how he draws inspiration
from both historic and contemporary techniques.
Barry Moser is a renowned author, painter, printer, and printmaker who has designed over 300 books, including an edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (winner of the National Book Award), Jump, Again! The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit (named one of the ten best illustrated children’s books by the New York Times), Appalachia, the Voices of Sleeping Birds, and the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. He is the proprietor of Pennyroyal Press.
William S. Peterson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of numerous essays, reviews, articles, and books including The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure and John Betjeman: A Bibliography. The recipient of many prestigious grants and fellowships, he is editor of Printing History.
This program is a complement to the conference, Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th-Century Book in Britain, France, and Beyond from 29th March through 31st March 2007, organized by the Bibliographical Society of America and being held at the Grolier Club, the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Fales Library, New York University (see next item). For more information go to: www.bibsocamer.org.
William Morris Society in the United States www.morrissociety.org
9. ‘Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in Britain, France, and Beyond’
New York, 29th-31st March 2007
The Bibliographical Society of America invites you to attend its ‘Birth
of the Bestseller’ conference in March. This innovative event will
gather participants from around the world and from a wide range of
disciplines, including art history, literary history, and
cultural studies. Together we will explore the terrain of 19th-century
bestsellers and consider how they came to dominate the public imagination.
The 19th century witnessed enormous
changes in the world of books. The rise of a mass readership, the
invention of machine-driven technologies, new reproduction methods, and an
astonishing variation in literature, authorship, publishing, periodicals,
printing, typography, illustration, marketing, taste, and design all made
the 19th century an era of intense complexity. Despite growing
interest in this period, many of its aspects remain largely unstudied.
This three-day conference offers numerous short papers and lectures by
five distinguished speakers: John Sutherland, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu,
Marie E. Korey, Michael Winship, and Margaret D. Stetz.
Registration for all participants is a modest $40 per person. This fee covers all sessions, receptions, and coffee/tea breaks.
An updated schedule and registration
form will be found on the BSA website, www.bibsocamer.org.
‘Birth of the Bestseller’ is organized by the Bibliographical
Society of America and co-sponsored by the Grolier Club of New York,
the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Fales Library, New York
University, with the collaboration of the Museum of Biblical Art. The project
is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities, a
state
affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation. Generous financial support has also been
provided by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Bauman
Rare Books (New York), Fay and Geoffrey Elliott, Kelmscott Books
(Baltimore), 19th Century Shop (Sevenson, MD), and Ursus Books (New
York). The media sponsor is Fine Art Connosseur magazine.
The conference topic and location are
occasioned by concurrent exhibitions at the Grolier Club
(‘Illustrating the Good Life: Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s
Eragny Press’), the Morgan Library & Museum (‘Victorian
Bestsellers’), and the Fales Library, New York University
(‘Nothing New: The Persistence of the Bestseller’).
Related exhibitions and events will be held at the Bard Graduate Center,
the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, the
New-York Historical Society, and the New York Public Library.
For further information contact: Mark
Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, 181
South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717. Tel (302) 831-3250
marksl@udel.edu or biblio@aol.com
10. GEORGE MOORE: ACROSS BORDERS
30th-31st March 2007. Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, France
A cosmopolitan Irishman, George Moore (1852-1933), is a European writer who, in his day, practised, promoted and facilitated significant intermeshing of the arts, aesthetic trends and national literary movements. Although not currently accorded the literary stardom bestowed on his compatriots Yeats and Joyce, his name is readily associated with Naturalism in the novel and in the theatre, with Impressionism in painting, with Paterian aesthetics, with the Irish literary Revival, with Wagnerism, with the suffragettes, and so much more. Eclectic, a dilettante and a self-confessed 'chameleon', Moore moves between countries, always exploring and promulgating a variety of artistic developments. Moore goes beyond genre boundaries, he translates the visual into prose, and he infuses the physical with the spiritual. It is these journeys, contacts, crossings, revisions, conversions and re-conversions that this conference proposes to explore.
Conference Committee: Fabienne Dabrigeon-Garcier (Université Lille 3), Bernard Escarbelt (Université Lille 3), Ann Heilmann (University of Hull), Christine Huguet (Université Lille 3), Alain Labau (Université de Caen), Mary Pierse (University College Cork). Further information from Fabienne Dabrigeon-Garcier @ or Christine Huguet @.
Programme
Friday, 30th March
9.00: Registration
9.30 – 10.00: Official Opening by Michel Crubellier (Vice-President of the University of Lille 3) and Catherine Maignant (Head of the English Department, UFR Angellier)
10.00 – 12.00: Session 1. Exploring / Exploding Borders
Chair: Fabienne Garcier (University of Lille 3)
Speakers:
- Stoddard Martin (University of London), ‘George Moore and the Appropriation of Wagner to Literature: A Revisitation’
- Brendan Fleming (Independent), ‘George Moore’s ‘A Flood’: The Forgotten 1901 Irish Version’
- Fabienne Gaspari (University of Pau), ‘Painting and Writing in Confessions of a Young Man and Lewis Seymour and Some Women’
- Christine Huguet (University of Lille 3) and Marie-Josèphe Lussien-Maisonneuve (University of Lille 3), ‘The Prima Donna and the Convent: Border Crossings in Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa’
12.00 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 15.00: Session 2. Mapping Moore’s Œuvre
Chair: Alain Labau (University of Caen-Basse Normandie)
Speakers:
- Alex Murray (University of Melbourne), ‘Between London and Paris: George Moore’s Urban Cultural Geography’
- Mary Pierse (University College Cork), ‘No More Than a Sketch’
- Ann Heilmann (University of Hull) and Mark Llewellyn (University of Liverpool), ‘A Bibliographical Jungle: On Editing George Moore’
15.00 – 15.30: Coffee
15.30 – 17.00: Session 3. Moore in/and Perspective
Chair: Christine Huguet (University of Lille 3)
Speakers:
- Robert Becker (University of Reading), ‘George Moore in the 21st Century: How Should He Come Back?’
- David Rose (The Oscholars), ‘Homage to Manet: George Moore and the Dislocation of Perspective’
- Isabelle Enaud-Lechien (University of Lille 3), ‘Moore and Whistler ou les différends de la plume et du pinceau’
17.30 – 18.30: First Keynote Address
Adrian Frazier (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘George Moore and Collaborative Authorship’
Chair: Mary Pierse (University College Cork)
20.00: Dinner
Saturday, 31st March
9.15 – 10.45: Session 4. Reworking Motifs
Chair: Bernard Escarbelt (University of Lille 3)
Speakers:
- Michele Russo (University of Pescara), ‘The Limitations Connected to Class and Gender in George Moore’s Esther Waters: A Study of ‘Ideological Regionalism’’
- Konstantin Doulamis (University College Cork), ‘Classical Motifs and Aesthetic Communication in George Moore’s Aphrodite in Aulis’
- Corinne François-Denève (University of Liverpool), ‘A Novel in between? A Mummer’s Wife’
10.45 – 11.15: Coffee
11.15 - 12.45: Session 5. Correspondence
Chair: Maryvonne Boisseau (University of Paris 3)
Speakers:
- Alain Labau (University of Caen-Basse Normandie), ‘George Moore on the Margin’
- Michel Brunet (University of Valenciennes), ‘‘Mais qui voudrait me lire en français?’: Reading George Moore’s Letters to Edouard Dujardin’
- Fabienne Garcier-Dabrigeon (University of Lille 3), ‘Fictional Correspondence and Role-Shifting in The Lake’
12.45 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.30: Session 6. Cross-Influences
Chair: Ann Heilmann (University of Hull)
Speakers:
- Nathalie Saudo (University of Amiens), ‘Naturalisms and Incarnation in Germinie Lacerteux (1865) by the Goncourt Brothers and Esther Waters (1894) by George Moore’
- Catherine Cole (University of Technology, Sydney), ‘Zola Gone to Seed: The Interrelationship between the Short Story Collections of James Joyce and George Moore’
14.30 – 15.30: Second Keynote Address
Elizabeth Grubgeld (Oklahoma State University), ‘George Moore and the Body’
Chair: Ann Heilmann (University of Hull)
15.30: Vale to All Delegates!
See also http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/recherche/colloque-george-moore
11. Victorian Cosmopolitanism
The Northeast Victorian Studies
Association, Harvard University, 30th March to 1st
April.
Friday, 30th March
1-3:15 p.m. Nineteenth-Century Highlights: Houghton Library mss. & Fogg Museum prints and drawings (space limited; prior registration required.)
4:00 p.m. Contagion and the Troubles of
the Cosmopolitan Body: Barker Center Rm. 110.
Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator
Christopher Keirstead (Auburn U),
‘Swinburne, Aestheticism, & the Fleshly School of
Cosmopolitanism’
Aaron Worth (Brandeis), ‘The Cosmopolitan Wire: Telegraphic Models of
Postnationality in Late Victorian Britain’
Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queens U), ‘Cosmopolitanizing Cholera: Inside/outside Pathologies in Middlemarch’
Saturday, 31st March
9-10:45 Keynote Panel: Barker Center Rm. 110
Jonah Siegel (Rutgers), Moderator
Antoinette Burton (U of Illinois); James Buzard (MIT); Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
11:00-12:30 p.m. Cosmopolitan Theories
I: Transnational Contexts: Barker Center Rm. 110.
Martha Vicinus (U of Michigan), Moderator
Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U),
‘Contesting Contemporary Citizenship Theories: Abolitionist and
Risorgimento Politics, Social Justice Networks, and 19th-Century Cosmopolitan
Citizenship’
Rachel Buurma (U of Pennsylvania), ‘Anarchism, Cosmopolitanism, Print Culture’
Carla Peterson (U of Maryland), ‘'Cosmopolitan Thieves': U.S. Black Cosmopolitanism in the Nineteenth Century’
2:15-3:45 p.m. Cosmopolitan Politics and Poetics: Barker Center Rm. 110Jason R. Rudy (U of Maryland), Moderator
Julia Saville (U of Illinois),
‘Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the Poetics of Algernon Charles
Swinburne’
David Kurnick (Columbia), ‘Unspeakable Ethnicity in George Eliot’
Beverly Taylor (U of North Carolina), ‘Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Cosmopolitanism: 'Universality Plus Difference'‘
4:00-5:30 p.m. Session A: Literary Crossings: Barker Center Rm. 110
Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator
Lisa Fluet (Boston College), ‘Late James, Early Wells’
Priti Joshi (U of Puget Sound),
‘John Lang, Cosmopolitanism, and the Uses of the Picturesque’
Katherine Brundan (U of Oregon), ‘The Cosmopolitan in the Desert: Exile,
Colonization, and the Vernacular in Ouida's Under Two Flags (1867)’
4:00-5:30 p.m. Session B: Portable Cosmopolitanism: Barker Center Rm. 133
Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin), Moderator
Erik Gray (Columbia), ‘Subjective: Objective; Milton: Shakespeare; Parochial: Cosmopolitan’
Emily Steinlight (Brown), ‘'A Regular Polly': Conspicuous Cosmopolitanism and the Genders of Consumption’
Pamela M. Fletcher (Bowdoin), ‘Modern Masters and 'Cheap French Chic': Cosmopolitanism in the Victorian Art Market’
Sunday, 1st April
9:00-10:30am Cosmopolitan Theories II: Colonial Contexts: Barker Center Rm. 110
Seth Koven (Rutgers), Moderator
Tanya Agathocleous (Yale), ‘From
Victorian Print Culture to
Postcolonial Theory: Cosmopolitanism's Serial Transformations’
Eddy Kent (U of British Columbia), ‘Cosmopolitanism, Inc.; or the Painful Manufacture of Imperial Civility’
David Wayne Thomas (Notre Dame), ‘Political Legitimation in Late-Victorian British India: The Higher Journalism and the Ilbert Bill’
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Cosmopolitan Consumption: Barker Center Rm. 110
Barbara Black (Skidmore), Moderator
Sarah Felicia Gracombe (Stonehill College), ‘Consuming Cosmopolitanism in George Du Maurier's Trilby’
Natalie Kapetanios Meir (NYU),
‘Vicarious Cosmopolitanism: On Becoming a Dining Connoisseur’
Ross Forman (Skidmore), ‘East is Eat: Asian Food and Victorian
Cosmopolitanism’
For registration information, see http://www.stonehill.edu/nvsa/NVSAProg07.htm
Anna Henchman and Vanessa Ryan
Vanessa L. Ryan, Harvard Society of
Fellows, 78 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-0048. vryan@fas.harvard.edu
12. Museums and the Web 2007
San Francisco, California, USA. 11th – 14th
April 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/
The 11th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage
on the Web
Preliminary Program Available http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/sessions/
Full abstracts of all accepted papers, workshops mini-workshops, and interactions are now on the MW2007 Web site, along with biographies of presenters.
Speakers List On-line http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/speakers/
A full list of speakers, with links to biographies and abstracts is available on-line. Once again, we've got an international group of presenters from a great mix of institutions.
On-line Registration http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/register/
Registration forms for MW2007 are now available. Early registration ended 16th December 2006. Please remember that registration rates are calculated based on the date payment is received. Give yourself enough lead-time to get institutional cheques produced, or use a credit card when you register on-line, at the last minute.
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman,
Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web email: @
13.
The Society for Theatre Research
2006-07 Lectures
Vivian Gardner, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Manchester: ‘The Eccentric Theatrical Career of the Fifth Marquis of Anglesey: Narcissism, Performance and Postcards’.
Henry Cecil Paget, fifth Marquis of Anglesey, died in 1905 at the age of 28, having bankrupted his family and estates with a brief and extravagant theatrical career, mounting a series of spectacular productions in the converted family chapel. Knowingly or not, he challenged Edwardian notions of class, gender and propriety.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
7.30 p.m., Thursday 19th April 2007
The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1 [nearest Underground: Russell Square or Holborn]
Information on the web: www.str.org.uk
14. Theatre, fin-de-siècle and the Boundaries of Modernism
Booking now open www.drama.bham.ac.uk/modernismtheatre
Modernism and Theatre: New Perspectives, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, Thursday 26th April 2007, 10-5.30 p.m.
The boundaries of Modernism have been fixed in ways which exclude as much as they include. For perhaps too long, literary Modernism has been seen as poetry and the novel. The theatre, and the theatrical, have a tenuous, and at times problematic relationship with the canons of Modernism. Looking back over the ‘great divide’ now, it is time to reassess its generic and aesthetic boundaries. This colloquium seeks to ask questions about the narratives and ideologies of Modernism and its historiography. We're particularly interested in an interrogation the boundaries of Modernism by exploring the interdisciplinary themes of science, philosophy and theatrical Modernism within the context of an examination of the work of the canonical theatre writers Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg.
Speakers at the seminar include Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University, (Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism), Professor Astradur Eysteinsson, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Reykyavik. (Umbrot. Bókmenntir og nútími (0n Literature and Modernity), Professor Edward Braun, University of Bristol, (The Director and the Stage, Dr Liisa Byckling, University of Helsinki, Mikhail Chekhov v Zapadnom Teatre I Kino (Michael Chekhov in Western Theatre and Film)., Professor Nick Worrall (The Moscow Art Theatre)
Registration: £15 (£10 for students), includes lunch and morning and afternoon tea/coffee.
Supported by University of Birmingham, Dean's Special Initiative Fund, and the Barry Jackson Fund, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts.
Prof. Kate Newey, Head, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, The Old Library (SOVAC), 998 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LQ. Tel. 0121 414 5548 k.newey@bham.ac.uk
15. Seminar on Oscar Wilde
Professor Joseph Bristow is directing a seminar on Wilde this summer. Full information about the seminar can be found at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/neh-sum07/index.htm.
This five-week program is for college-level
instructors and established independent scholars
only. The seminar cannot include graduate students.
Here is the seminar description:
The proposed five-week Summer Seminar titled ‘The Oscar Wilde Archive:
His Life, His Work, His Legend’ will take place from 25th June to 27th July 2007. The seminar aims to introduce fifteen
participants to a broad selection of printed and unpublished sources held in
one of the three principal collections belonging to the William Andrews Clark
Library of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Clark Library’s
archive dedicated to the life and works of Oscar Wilde and his circle is the largest
of its kind in the world, and it provides an excellent resource for enabling
seminar participants to understand how the holdings of a major rare book
library can enhance their knowledge of the achievements of a major writer of
legendary repute whose works are very widely taught on humanities syllabi. In
particular, the seminar offers those colleagues who have not had the
opportunity to make use of archival sources so far in their careers to assess
how manuscripts, typescripts, and other unpublished materials (especially items
of correspondence) can throw light on Wilde’s diverse oeuvre which
includes fiction, poetry, drama, critical essays, and journalism. The assigned
readings cover key moments in Wilde’s twenty-five career all the way
from his time as a budding poet and aesthete at Oxford University in the
mid-1870s to his period of impoverished exile after his release from his
two-year sentence in the spring of 1897 (the year when he started work on his
polemic in support of prison reform, The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898)).
Since the Clark Library holds each and every primary and full-length secondary source relating to Wilde’s productive professional life, it will be possible for participants to acquire informed insights into how and why this distinguished Irish author remains the focus of much advanced research in the humanities.
Professor Joseph Bristow, UCLA English Department, 415 Portola Plaza, 149
Humanities Building Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530, USA. Tel (no voicemail). 310 825 3363. Tel (messages, 9.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. weekdays):
310 825 4174 Fax. 310 267 4339.
16. Hungarian Society for Irish Studies
This is to announce that the first HUSIS (Hungarian Society for Irish Studies) Conference will be hosted by the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pécs and the English Studies Research Group of The Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Pécs, on 14th-15th September 2007. The event intends to bring together academics who specialise in Irish Studies and are interested in the subject of literary, cultural and historical encounters (including parallels, influence, reception, translation) between Ireland, Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. Plenary speakers will be invited from Ireland and there are plans for the publication of a selection of the papers.
Organiser: Dr. Kurdi Mária @
17. 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 our website at www.councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conf/conf.html
for more information about the event, including our 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
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