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Marina Warner

For our 5th week seminar, Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex) will be speaking on –


'Playing with Sorcery after the Tales of 1001 Nights'


Thursday 28th May, 5:15pm, Ferrar Room, Hertford.


To find a little bit out about Marina Warner's work, go to http://www.marinawarner.com/.

Trinity Term 2009

The seminar will meet every Thursday during term, 5:15 – 6:45 pm, in the Ferrar Room, Hertford College.

Week 1 – Thursday 30th April
'Truth and Reality in Byron's Don Juan'
Dr Nicholas Halmi (University College, Oxford)

Week 2 – Thursday 7th May
TBC
James Baxendine (Magdalen College, Oxford)
&
'Keats reading Catullus - a glance into Cockney Classicism'
Henry Stead
(St Hilda's College, Oxford and the Open University)

Week 3 – Thursday 14th May
'"May JOHN look on PAT as his brother": The Stage Irishman in the 1790s'
Dr David O’Shaughnessy (Linacre College, Oxford)

Week 4 – Thursday 21st May
'"Lost in Stormy Visions": Shelley's Adonais and The Triumph of Life'
Prof. Michael O'Neill (Durham University)

Week 5 – Thursday 28th May
'Playing with Sorcery after the Tales of 1001 Nights'
Prof. Marina Warner (University of Essex)

Week 6 – Thursday 4th June
'Romantic Ruin: Dwelling in the Time of Waste'
Will Viney (The London Consortium)
&
'"The clear universe of things around": Lucretius, Michel Serres, and Shelley's early poetry'
Heather Yeung (Durham University)

Week 7 – Thursday 11th June
'The Road to Ruins: relics, pilgrimage, and the Romantic imagination'
Kathryn Barush (Wadham College, Oxford)
&
'"I will write a book on leaves of flowers":
Hermeneutics and Blake’s Ecopoetics'
Devin Zuber (University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Week 8 – Thursday 18th June
'On Byron, editing and exile'
Dr Jane Stabler (University of St Andrews)

William Blake in Paris

Click on the link above for information about the exhibition.

For more Blake-related events (Conferences at the College de France, BlakeConference on June 5th-6th at the English Department of Paris VIIuniversity), as well as contacts in Paris, please email jean-marie.fournier@univ-paris-diderot.fr or laurent.chatel@paris-sorbonne.fr.

Romantic Graduate Forum: Michaelmas Term Call for Papers

Tuesdays of Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 of Michaelmas Term
5.30-7.30pm The Bajpai Room, Balliol College

Romantic Graduate Forum invites proposals for papers for the Michaelmas Term schedule. RGF provides an arena for postgraduates to try out ideas, prepare for conferences and discuss their work in progress. Papers on all topics bearing on the field are welcome and should be around 20 minutes; please contact either James Baxendine (james.baxendine@magd.ox.ac.uk) or Anna Camilleri (anna.camilleri@balliol.ox.ac.uk) with a title and short summary of your topic.

Call for Papers

'"SATIRE'S GLASS": SATIRE AND VISUAL ARTS IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY'.

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE IN 18TH CENTURY AND ROMANTIC STUDIES - ENGLISH FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - EXTERNAL RESPONDENT: PROFESSOR VIC GATRELL.

This conference run by students for students provides the opportunity for graduate students from around the country to discuss their research in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. It provides an excellent first conference experience for new graduate students, but the range of panels chaired by eighteenth century and Romantic studies experts from the University of Cambridge are equally suitable for PhD and post-doctoral students. Papers need only relate to one aspect of the conference title.

SATURDAY 18TH AND SUNDAY 19TH APRIL 2009
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 3rd April 2009

The English Faculty's Graduate Seminar in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies will host a two-day conference on satire and visual arts in the long eighteenth century. We invite academic paper proposals from graduate students and post-docs that explore this theme from a literary or interdisciplinary perspective and may focus on any aspect of the period.

Papers may consider but are not limited to: - Satire of individuals, institutions or society and its role in poetry, prose (either factual or fictional), or drama - Visual arts, print culture, and forms of visual representation - Visual satire or the relationship between any of the above

We welcome papers from a variety of arts and humanities disciplines (historians, art historians etc.) and submissions need not be limited to students of English Literature.

Papers should last no more than 20 minutes. Proposals should take the form of a 500-word abstract, to be submitted by 3rd April 2009 at noon.

Please e-mail abstracts as a Word attachment, along with your university affiliation and contact information including e-mail and postal address, to Caitlin Hanley, cmh90@cam.ac.uk.

If you would like more information, or would like to attend the conference without presenting a paper, please visit our website: www.english.cam.ac.uk/noticeboard/romanticism/index.htm

The price for the two-day conference will be £20, including lunches, refreshments, and entry to all conference events.

All other queries, please contact Caitlin Hanley (cmh90@cam.ac.uk) or Jennifer Stockill (jhs51@cam.ac.uk).

Week 9 - Luisa Cale

This week, Dr Luisa Cale (Birkbeck College, London) will be speaking on ‘William Blake, the Flaxmans, and the Alternative Bodies of Thomas Gray’s “Odes”’

Thursday 19th March, 5:15pm, Ferrar Room, Hertford College.