Reading and
Reception Studies Seminar
A seminar organized by the Reception
of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE) Research Project
Convenor: Dr
Elinor Shaffer (Director, RBAE Research Project; Senior Research Fellow, Institute
of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS), School of Advanced Study, University of
London; e-mail: Elinor.Shaffer@sas.ac.uk)
Topics relating to reading and reception studies
are considered in this seminar, which takes place in the School of Advanced
Study and Clare Hall, Cambridge, under the auspices of the RBAE Research
Project. Volumes on the European reception of Virginia Woolf, Laurence Sterne,
James Joyce, Walter Pater, Ossian, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift have now
been published by the Project. Volumes underway include the reception of works
by the Romantics (Byron, Shelley, Coleridge), the fin de siècle (Yeats,
James) and philosophers and scientists (Hume, Darwin,
The informal sessions consider both critical
approaches (all varieties of reader-response theory and critical reception in
books, periodicals and the work of other authors) and material approaches
(history-of-the-book topics relating to publication, distribution and circulation).
Translation is also a major concern. Case studies of all kinds are welcome. The
seminar is also hospitable to those working on European authors in Britain.
Papers need not be confined to Europe. There will be opportunities to publish
and to contribute to the Research Project, to give a paper to a seminar, or
simply to air ideas and discuss work-in-progress with other interested parties.
Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5.30-7.30pm, in
the School of Advanced Study, Second Floor, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square,
London WC1 (unless otherwise indicated). Anyone interested in participating
should contact Dr Elinor Shaffer at the above e-mail address. Other Colloquia
and Seminars are held at Clare Hall, Cambridge (indicated in green), the Institute of Germanic and Romance
Studies (IGRS), and at European venues.
Listed below are also events organized by the IGRS
Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature in Britain,
of which Dr Shaffer is also convenor.
Please note that the School of
Advanced Study has moved from Senate House to Stewart House (32 Russell Sq., at the entrance to the Senate House car
park). The Project Seminars have been accordingly relocated to Room 276 in
Stewart House.
All are welcome!
SUMMER TERM 2006
Tuesday, 2 May
17.30-19.30, Room ST276,
Stewart House
Gilles Soubigou (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Literary Reception in the Visual Arts: British Literature in Early
Nineteenth-century France
Thursday, 11 May
17.00-19.00,
The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Rd, Cambridge
Prof. Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent)
Romantic Indians and British Culture
part of the ‘Travels to
the Exotic’ series at Clare Hall
Thursday, 18 May
17.00-19.00,
The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Rd, Cambridge
Dr Jenny Mander (Newnham)
Metamorphoses of the expatriated European: Raynal's representation of the
Caribbean in Histoire des deux Indes
part of the ‘Travels
to the Exotic’ series at Clare Hall
Tuesday, 30 May
17.30-19.30, Room ST276
Prof. Kenneth Johnston (Indiana)
Unusual Suspects: Biography of the Lost Generation
(The impact of Pitt's
'Reign of Terror' on writing in the 1790s)
Tuesday, 6 June
17.30-19.30, Room ST276,
Stewart House
Dr Michael Rossington (Newcastle)
Shelley's Europe
- further Summer Term event -
Saturday,
8 July
International Colloquium on the Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe
A
one-day conference at University College, Oxford
For
further details visit the Shelley web page
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SPRING TERM 2006
Tuesday, 17 January
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Prof. Isabel Fernandes (Lisbon)
Tuesday, 31 January
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Prof. David
Punter (Bristol)
Postmodernism and the Relic
Tuesday, 14 February
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Prof. Flavio Gregori (Venice)
Alexander
Pope: a Marginal and Central Poet
Tuesday, 28 February
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Dr
Ernest Schonfield (UCL)
Mann Re-Joyces: The Dissemination of Myth in Ulysses and Joseph,
Finnegan and Faustus
Tuesday, 14 March
5.00-7.00 pm
The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road. Cambridge
Dr Alison Martin (Kassel)
Annotation and Authority: Georg Forster’s
footnotes to Nachrichten von den Pelew-Inseln (1789)
inaugurating
the ‘Travels to the Exotic’ series at Clare Hall
Tuesday, 21 March
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Patricia Silva McNeill (King's, London)
Affinity and Influence: The Reception of W. B. Yeats by Fernando Pessoa
Venue for London seminars:
School of Advanced Study
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1
(at the
Other Spring Term Dates
Thursday, 9 March
5.30 for 6
pm, Room 274, Stewart House
Florian Mussgnug
(UCL)
IGRS programme: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 March
GSMD/ IGRS Conference
Performance and Adaptation
European
Theatre on the London Stage after 1945: Spanish Golden Age Drama and Marivaux
At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y
Programme details: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conf_adaptation1.htm
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AUTUMN TERM 2005
Tuesday, 18 October
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 350, Senate House
Prof. James Mays (University College Dublin)
Author- and Audience-based Perspectives on Editing Coleridge
Tuesday, 1 November
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 350, Senate House
Dr Sandro Jung (University of Wales, Lampeter)
The German Reception of Samuel
Richardson
Thursday, 17
November
5.30-7.30 pm, Room 350, Senate House
Prof. Jeremy Adler (King’s College, London)
'Le manier en ziczac':
Counter-cultural Method in Pascal, Sterne and Lichtenberg
Tuesday, 22 November
5.00-7.00 pm
The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel
Rd, Cambridge
Dr Michael John Kooy
(Warwick)
Romantic
‘Civic Humanism’: Coleridge on War
Tuesday, 13 December
5.30-7.30 pm
Room 274, Stewart House
(access via second floor of Senate
House)
Dr Luisa Calè (Birkbeck)
Bernardin de Saint Pierre's Paul
et Virginie in England
Venue for London seminars:
School of Advanced Study
Third Floor, University of London Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1
Provisionally from November: Stewart House, 32 Russell
Square, London WC1
(at the
Other Autumn Term Dates
Friday, 28 October
5.00-6.30 pm, Room 349, Senate House
RBAE British Academy Network Public Lecture
William St Clair FBA (Trinity College, Cambridge)
The Reading Nation in the
Romantic Period: Responses, Critiques, and New Research
Thursday, 24 November
5.30 for 6 pm, Room 273, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square
Seminar at the Institute of Germanic & Romance
Studies, as part of the programme of
the Working Group on the Reception of
German/Austrian/Swiss Literature in
IGRS programme: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 December
Colloquium at the University of Tübingen, Germany,
organized by
Prof. Eve-Marie Engels (Tübingen) and Prof. Thomas Glick (
Editors of The
Reception of Charles Darwin in
Further details can
be obtained from the Project Office.