2010

Welcome back to Romantic Realignments! The term's events will be released here very soon.


Below I post the papers given at Romantic Realignments in Trinity term 2009, since they are now relegated from "recently at Romantic Realignments" to the dusty depths of the archive.


TRINITY TERM '09


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


Week 2 – Thursday 7th May
'Keats reading Catullus - a glance into Cockney Classicism' Henry Stead (Open University / St.Hilda's College, Oxford)


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 clear universe of things around": Lucretius, Michel Serres, and Shelley's early poetry'
Heather Yeung


Week 7 – Thursday 11th June
''Upon the Spanish Mountains, Jerusalem': the role of St. Teresa of Avila in William Blake’s visual pilgrimage narratives'
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)

Call for Papers - 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.

How to find us

Once your in Oriel College, just ask for the MacGregor Room (for weeks 2-8) Week 1 we're in the Basil Mitchell Room.



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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.

Impossible Dialogue?: Irish Studies and Utopian Studies

A one-day workshop on 27 March 2009 at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

The day will bring together scholars from different disciplines to debate the persistence of utopian impulses in Irish political, social and cultural history. Ireland functions as a case study to question linear models of change from tradition to modernity or postmodernity, or from colonial to postcolonial – one that is particularly relevant given the recent developments in the Irish political and economic landscape. The critical framework of Utopianism allows us to think about the experience of living under any set of conditions, by reflecting upon the desires which those conditions generate and yet leave unfulfilled. Thus the day's workshop is about reflecting on Utopian methodology as the most suited to enable future debates within Irish studies and ultimately postcolonial studies.

Confirmed speakers are: Prof Tom Moylan, Prof Lyman Tower Sargent, Dr Michael Griffin and Dr Virginia Crossman.

For information, please contact:
Dr Eóin Flannery eflannery@brookes.ac.uk
Dr Nicole Pohl NPohl@brookes.ac.uk

Burns and the Poets

BURNS AND THE POETS

A CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, 25/26 MARCH, 2009
TO CELEBRATE THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ROBERT BURNS.

ORGANISERS: FIONA STAFFORD, Somerville College, Oxford, OX2 6HD, and BERNARD O’DONOGHUE, Wadham College, Oxford, OX1 3PN

2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. ‘Burns and the Poets’ will take place in Oxford, gathering together scholars, critics, musicians and practising poets to celebrate the astonishing achievement and legacy of Robert Burns. The focus is on Burns as a poet and in relation to other poets – not only his own predecessors, contemporaries and literary heirs, but also leading contemporary poets. In order to explore Burns’s achievement as creatively as possible, there will be scholarly and critical papers on various aspects of his work, including the language, literary connections and influences, philosophical and political contexts, music, biography, reception and material culture. There will also be poetry readings, performances of the songs and personal responses by practising poets. The combination of creative and critical work seems an appropriate way to pay tribute to Burns, as well as contributing to the development of a new understanding of the poetry by drawing together critical and practical approaches.

The first day of the Conference begins at 12 noon on 25th March, with an Opening Address from one of Scotland’s most distinguished poets, Douglas Dunn, and concludes with a Poetry reading by Douglas Dunn, Don Paterson and Robert Crawford. The Conference will conclude on Thursday 26th March, with an evening of music and poetry featuring Bernard O’Donoghue, Tom Paulin and Mick Henry. Both days will offer a full programme of lectures, papers and round table discussions.

Speakers and performers so far include Douglas Dunn, Don Paterson, Robert Crawford, Mick Henry, Bernard O’Donoghue, Tom Paulin, Patrick Crotty, Jon Mee, Murrray Pittock, Stephen Gill, Brean Hammond, Claire Lamont, Andrew Noble, Gerard Carruthers, Neil Vickers, Freya Johnstone, Hamish Mathieson, Rhona Brown, Gill Hughes, Meiko O’Halloran, Mina Gorji, Shelley Meagher, Caroline Bertoneche, Adrian Paterson, Fiona Stafford.

To register for the Conference, offer a paper or to make informal enquiries, please contact Fiona Stafford (fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk) or Bernard O’Donoghue (Bernard.odonoghue@wadh.ox.ac.uk)

Week 5 - Prof Martin Kemp

On Thursday 19 February, Prof Martin Kemp (Trinity College, Oxford) will talk on:

‘Beastly Humans: some thoughts on pre-Darwinian motifs’

5:15pm, Ferrar Room, Hertford College, all are very welcome.

To find out more about Prof Kemp's work, see www.martinjkemp.co.uk

Luisa Cale's paper rescheduled for 9th week

Luisa Cale's paper, 'William Blake, the Flaxmans, and the Alternative Bodies of Thomas Gray’s “Odes”', has been re-scheduled for Thursday of 9th week, 19th March, 5:15 in the Ferrar Room, Hertford College.

Week 3 - Cancelled

Unfortunately, due to the inclement weather the Romantic Realignments seminar this evening is cancelled, hopefully to be rescheduled.

Romantic Graduate Forum

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

A new 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 20minutes; 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.

Week 2 - CANCELLED

Regrettably, and due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to cancel the seminar for Week 2. Please accept our apologies. Romantic Realignments will of course resume next week.

Poetry Reading 5th February 2009

7pm The OCR, Balliol College

Robert Rehder will be reading from his most recent collection of poetry, First Things When (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation).

All are welcome.
Contact anna.camilleri@balliol.ox.ac.uk

Hilary Term 2009

Every Thursday, 5:15 – 6:45 pm
Ferrar Room, Hertford College

Week 1 – Thursday 22nd January
‘Readers Respond to Godwin: the Fabrication of Political Justice’
Prof Pamela Clemit (Durham University)

Week 2 – Thursday 29th January
‘Shelley and Familiarity’
Dr Tony Howe (Birmingham City University)

Week 3 – Thursday 5th February
‘William Blake, the Flaxmans, and the Alternative Bodies of Thomas Gray’s “Odes”’
Dr Luisa Cale (Birkbeck College, London)

Week 4 – Thursday 12th February
Please note change of time and venue: Massey Room, Balliol, 3:30 – 5:00
‘T.S. Eliot's Byron’
Prof Christopher Ricks (Oxford and Boston University)

Week 5 – Thursday 19th February
‘Beastly Humans: some thoughts on pre-Darwinian motifs’
Prof Martin Kemp (Trinity College, Oxford)

Week 6 – Thursday 26th February
'”Not Dead Yet!” Walter Scott and the Anatomy of the Scottish Nation’
Prof Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming)

Week 7 – Thursday 5th March
‘Investing in the Academy: William Etty as Perpetual Student’
Dr Martin Myrone (Tate Britain)

Week 8 – Thursday 12th March
‘Wordsworth and the Picture of the Mind’
Dr Simon Swift (University of Leeds)