'"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).
30/03/2009
16/03/2009
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.
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
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
05/03/2009
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)
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)
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