Reading and Reception Studies Seminar

A seminar organized by the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE)

Convenor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA <Elinor.Shaffer@sas.ac.uk>

Research Project Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS),

University of London

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. 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 5.30-7.30 pm, in the School of Advanced Study, 2nd 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 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 during the rewiring of Senate House the Project Seminars will be held in Stewart House, at the entrance to the Senate House car-park off Russell Square.

All are welcome!

SUMMER TERM 2009

Tuesday 5 May, 5.00-7.00 pm (NB earlier start time)

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Prof. Emily Eells (Paris Ouest Nanterre)

‘The French reception of Salomé: from Wilde’s text to Mariotte’s opera’

Thursday 21 May, 5.00-7.00 pm

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

Dr Olivia Santovetti (Leeds)

‘The cliché of the Romantic female reader and the paradox of novelistic illusion: Federico De Roberto’s L’illusione (1891)’

Tuesday 2 June, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Prof. Murray Pittock (Glasgow)

‘Robert Burns in Global Culture’

~ Further Summer Term Events ~

Friday-Saturday, 15-16 May

Conference on The European Republic of Letters,

and 10^th British Academy Network Lecture by Prof. Marc Fumaroli, FBA & Académie française, on

‘La République des Lettres: un problème historiographique et une question d'actualité’

Institut du monde anglophone, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris

Thursday 28 May, 6.00-7.00 pm

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

The Darwin Poems

A reading by Emily Ballou to launch her newly published work in the UK, with a wine reception

SPRING TERM 2009

Tuesday 13 January, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Dr Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex)

‘Schiller after Kant: Emotions, therapy and the trouble with philosophy’

Tuesday 27 January, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Prof. Leonee Ormond (King’s College, London)

‘The artists’ reception of the works of Tennyson’

Tuesday 10 February, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Prof. Maria Eugenia Perojo (Valladolid)

‘Politics and aesthetics in the reception of British Romanticism in Spain: Some case studies and a general overview’

Thursday 5 March, 8.00-10.00 pm (NB later time)

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

Prof. Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam)

‘Nationalizing Medieval Literature: Jacob Grimm and the Hunt for Reynard the Fox’

Tuesday 17 March, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Prof. Timothy Mathews (UCL)

‘A Knowing Loss: Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti’

~ Further Spring Term Events ~

Thursday 19 February, 5.30 for 6.00-7.30 pm

Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Dr Lucia Ruprecht (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)

‘Servile virtuosity in Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald and the Brothers Quay’

Thursday 26 February, 9.30 am–7.00 pm

Colloquium on Darwin in Europe

Christ’s College, Cambridge

AUTUMN TERM 2008

Tuesday 14 October, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Dr Maria Thanassa (Oxford)

‘Towards a third Beckett? Approaches to Samuel Beckett’s work on the Greek stage’

Tuesday 28 October, 6.00-8.00 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST274-75

British Comparative Literature Association

National Graduate Seminar: Reading across Boundaries

with the following presentations:

Phoebe von Held (IGRS) ‘In/Comparabilities between Brecht and Diderot: Re-envisaging the Concept of Alienation’,

Jennifer Higgins (St Anne’s, Oxford) ‘Silverpoints, a Collection of Intersections’,

Soo Ng (Goldsmiths) ‘Reading Contemporary Fiction: Race, Gender and Technoscience’

Wednesday 26November, 5.00-7.00 pm

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova (King’s, London)

‘The reception of portraiture’

Tuesday 9 December, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

Dr Matthew Reynolds (Oxford)

‘Translation and interpretation: Dryden, Jonson, Benjamin, Rolle’

~ Further Autumn Term Event ~

Thursday 6 November, 5.30 for 6.00-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

IGRS Working Group Seminar

Dr James Vigus (Jena)

‘Henry Crabb Robinson’s mediation of German aesthetics to Europe: The lectures for Madame de Staël, Weimar 1804’