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

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 Senate House (south block, ground floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (unless otherwise indicated). Anyone interested in participating should contact Dr Elinor Shaffer at the above e-mail address. Other Colloquia and Seminars are held in 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.

 

Project Seminars are held in the University of London Senate House. Nearest underground stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly line), Goodge Street (Northern line, Charing Cross branch) and Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern lines).

 

All are welcome!

 

Summer Term 2011

 

Tuesday, 10 May, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35 (ground floor)

Comparative Literature Graduate Students end-of-year Reception

sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association

 

Tuesday, 24 May, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35 (ground floor)

Prof. Laura Marcus (Oxford)

‘Theories of the novel in the 1920s: French critics and British writer-critics (with special reference to Virginia Woolf)’

 

Tuesday, 7 June, 5.30-7.30 pm

Classical Reception Seminar

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35 (ground floor)

Dr Francesco Montarese (Mander Portman Woodward)

‘Whose Lucretius? Interpretations and translations of De rerum natura in seventeenth-century England’

 

 

 

Spring Term 2011


Tuesday, 11 January, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G32 (ground floor)

Sara Parolai (Genoa)

‘The Influence of British Romanticism on Blanco White’

Tuesday, 25 January, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35 (ground floor)

Elisa Bizzotto (IUAV Venice)

‘Oscar Wilde’s Reception in Italy’


Tuesday, 22 February, 5.30-7.30 pm

Database Workshop

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35 (ground floor)

Alexa Alfer (Westminster)

‘The Bibliographer’s Tale: Archiving A. S. Byatt’

Thursday, 10 March, 5.30 for 6 pm

IGRS Working Group Lecture

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

2nd floor, Room 273

Peter Davies (Edinburgh)

‘Holocaust Testimony in Translation’

Due to industrial action by the UCU this meeting has been cancelled:

Tuesday, 22 March, 5.30-7.30 pm

Classical Reception Seminar

Senate House (south block), Malet Street, London WC1

Room G34 (ground floor)

Stephen D’Evelyn (Bristol) ‘The Gift of Beauty and the Subjectivity of Reception in Plato’s Phaedrus and Beyond’

& Ika Willis (Bristol) ‘Plato’s Symposium and the Erotics of Reception’

 

 

 

 

Autumn Term 2010

 

Tuesday, 12 October, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35

Dr Martin Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth)

 ‘Edmund Burke, Samuel Kenrick and the Rational Dissenters’

 

Tuesday, 26 October, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35

BCLA Graduate Students Seminar & Reception

sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association

 

Thursday, 4 November, 5.30 for 6 pm

IGRS Working Group Lecture

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

2nd floor, Room 273

Dr Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Sheridan Institute, Ontario)

‘Coleridge’s German Quest: His projected Life of Lessing’

 

Tuesday, 9 November, 5.30-7.30 pm

Jointly hosted by the Institute of English Studies

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35

Dr Ruth Padel (UCL)

‘Writing the Forest’

Ruth Padel will be reading from her latest novel Where the Serpent Lives,

from recent poems and her collection Darwin: A Life in Poems.

 

Tuesday, 16 November, 5.30-7.30 pm

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

Room G35

Dr Catherine Brown (New College, Oxford)

‘D. H. Lawrence’s Reception of Lev Tolstoi: the Ideal of Unconscious Living’