·
Reading
and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2012-2013
· 6th British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)
Graduate Reception, Senate House, 21 March 2013
·
Conference
on ‘The Cultural Milieu of Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: Science and
Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe’, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1-2 July
2013
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2011-2012
· 5th British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)
Graduate Reception, Senate House, 20 March 2012
· 4th British Comparative Literature Association
(BCLA) Graduate Reception, Senate House, 18 October 2011
· Colloquium on the Reception of Alfred Lord Tennyson in Europe, 15 October 2011, King’s College London
· Colloquium on the Reception of George Eliot in Europe, 26 September 2011, New College, Oxford
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2010-2011
· Launch of The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, 2 December 2010, Trinity College, Oxford
· 3rd British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) Graduate Seminar and Reception, Senate House, 26 October 2010
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2009-2010
· British Academy Network Conference on Cultural Institutions and Literary Reception in Europe, IGRS, London, 14-15 June 2010, with keynote speakers: Prof. Stephen Bann FBA (Bristol), Prof. Bernhard Fabian FBA (Münster), Prof. Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam), Prof. Rosa Rabadán (León), Prof. Naomi Segal (IGRS) and Prof. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
· ‘The Cultural Impact of Darwin and Darwinism in Europe’, one-day Colloquium at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 12 March 2010
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2008-2009
· Conference on the European Republic of Letters (18th to 21st Centuries), 15-16 May 2009, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, co-organized with Institut du monde anglophone, and incorporating the Tenth British Academy Network Lecture by Prof. Marc Fumaroli, FBA, Academie française & Collège de France, on ‘La République des Lettres: un problème historiographique et une question d’actualité’
· Colloquium on Charles Darwin in Europe, Christ’s College, Cambridge, 26 February 2009
· Ninth British Academy Network Lecture, 15 November 2008, Bologna, Italy, given by Prof. Lilla Crisafulli, Director of the Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici, Università di Bologna, and entitled ‘Mazzini as Byron’s Reader’ for the Network Meeting and Conference entitled ‘Defining Movements: Romanticism across Europe’
· Colloquium on the Reception of Dickens in Europe, St Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, 17-19 October 2008
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2007-2008
· Eighth British Academy Network Lecture, 17 May 2008, León, Spain, given by Rev. Prof. Rafael A. Martínez, Università di Sante Croce, Rome, for second Network Meeting on Censorship focusing on religious and political censorship; part of the International Conference on Censorship and Translation: ‘Text Reception in Southern Europe / Congreso Internacional de Censura y Traducción: ‘Recepción Textual en la Europa del Sur’ at the Universidad de León, 15-16 May
· Launch of the Romantic Period sub-series at the International Romanticism Conference on ‘(Trans)national Identities / Reimagining Communities’, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 13 March 2008
· Colloquium on the Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, Trinity College, Oxford, 8-9 March 2008
· Seventh British Academy Network Lecture, 16 November 2007, Brussels, given by Prof. Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, for the Network Meeting on ‘Nations’ Images of Others’ and accompanying the Conference on Cultural Crossings: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Distribution of English Literatures in the Low Countries
· Remapping Austen: Jane Austen in Europe and Beyond: One-day colloquium to mark the publication of The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe, 8 November 2007, Chawton House Library, Alton, Hants.
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2006-2007
· Sixth British Academy Network Lecture, 19 May 2007, University of London Institute in Paris, given by Prof. Maurice Couturier, Université de Nice, and entitled ‘Censorship and the Trials of Literature: Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Joyce’s Ulysses, and Lawrence's Lady Chatterley’s Lover’; for the first Network Meeting on Censorship focusing on moral censorship
· Fifth British Academy Network Lecture, 7 October 2006, Charles University, Prague, given by Prof. Randolph Starn, University of California Berkeley, entitled ‘History without Periods: Dilemma or Deliverance’; for the Network Meeting on ‘Uses of Periodization: Beyond Positivist History, “Structure of Development” and “Horizon of Expectation”’
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2005-2006
· Fourth British Academy Network Lecture, 1 July 2006, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, given by Prof. Jacques Aubert, Université Lyon 2, on ‘Translating the Unreadable’: for the Network Meeting on ‘The Institution of Translation in the Twentieth Century: The Modernists’
· Colloquium on The Reception of Shelley in Europe, University College, Oxford, 8 July 2006
· Colloquium on the reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2-3 December 2005
· Third British Academy Network Lecture, 28 October 2005, School of Advanced Study, University of London, given by William St Clair, FBA, Trinity College, Cambridge, on The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, for the Network Meeting on ‘The Reading Nation: The Role of Book History in Reception Studies’
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2004-2005
· Two-day colloquium on The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe: The Nationalities Question, incorporating the Second British Academy Network Lecture, given by Prof. Annick Duperray, Université de Provence, on ‘Realism or counter-realism: the critical reception of realist aesthetics from Henry James to contemporary criticism’, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 28-29 May 2005; this accompanied the Network Meeting on ‘The Use of Genre Categories in Reception Studies: Realism and the Novel’.
· Symposium on The Cultural Appropriation of D. H. Lawrence in Europe, Universität Bamberg, Germany, 10-11 December 2004
· Conference on The European Reception of Edmund Burke, launching the Project sub-series Historians of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and including the First British Academy Network Lecture, by Prof. em. Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh, entitled ‘Was there an Edinburgh view on judgements of taste?’, Senate House, University of London, 5-6 November 2004
· Reading and Reception Studies Seminar: Series 2003-2004
· ‘Mutual Reception: A Special Case in Anglo-German Relations?’, IGS, 30 April 2004: one-day workshop held as part of the programme of the Institute of Germanic Studies Working Group on the Reception of German/ Austrian/ Swiss Literature in Britain
· Two-day Colloquium on The Reception of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Europe, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 14-15 May 2004
· ‘Anglo-German Affinities and Antipathies’, 7 November 2003: all-day Workshop held at the Institute of Germanic Studies (IGS) as part of its Autumn Term programme. Dr Shaffer gave a paper entitled ‘Coleridge and Kant's Giant Hand’.
· ‘Eighteenth-century English Responses to Sir Isaac Newton’, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 20 November 2003: presentation by Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse) to mark the commissioning of The Reception of Newton in Europe and the Project's affiliation with Clare Hall
· Dr Michael John Kooy (Warwick) on ‘Coleridge and Schiller: after Wallenstein’, 9 October 2003: lecture held at the Institute of Germanic Studies (IGS) to inaugurate the programme of the Institute’s Working Group on the Reception of German/ Austrian/ Swiss Literature in Britain
· Lecture by Dr Elinor Shaffer on ‘Samuel Butler, Writer, Painter, Photographer: from the Victorian Age to Modernism’, 14 February 2003, Tate Britain; to accompany the Samuel Butler Collection Display
· Publication of the first volume in the Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe (London and New York, November 2002)
· ‘The Reception of Coleridge in Europe’: session at the Coleridge Summer Conference, Cannington College, Somerset, 24 July 2002
· Colloquium on The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 12-14 July 2002
· Session on Henry James’ European Reception at International Henry James Conference, American University in Paris, 6 July 2002
· Colloquium on European Responses to David Hume, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 14-15 June 2002
· Colloquium for contributors to The Reception of Swift in Europe, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, 18-19 March 2002)
· Conference on The Reception of Lawrence Sterne on the Continent, New College Oxford, 12-14 March 2002
· Symposium on William Beckford and his Reception in Europe, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 8 March 2002
· Theory of Literary Reception: The Act of Reading and After: colloquium in honour of Prof. Wolfgang Iser at the Institute of Germanic Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 8-9 November 2001
· Conference: Leaders of the Debate between Science and Religion 1800-1918: Individuals and Institutions, University of Exeter, 8-12 September 2001
· Seminar series on Reading: Histories and Theories: programme for the years 2000-2002
· Seminar series on Reception Studies: programme for the years 2000-2002
· Colloquium on The Reception of Henry James in Europe, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 16-17 May 2001
· Colloquium on The Writer and New Technologies in the Twentieth Century: H.G. Wells and Science Fiction, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 27 March 2001
· Contributors’ colloquium on the Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe, Universiteit Utrecht, 15-17 December 2000
· Colloquium on Irish and British fin-de-siècle in Europe: Wilde and Yeats, School of Advanced Study, 19-20 October 200
· Related conference: Censorship Phenomenology, Representation, Contexts, Newcastle upon Tyne, 7-9 September 2000
· The Reception of Walter Pater: panel session at the ‘Reading Walter Pater at the Millennium’ Conference, Christ Church College, Oxford, 30 July 2000
· The European Reception of Joyce and ‘Comparative Joyce’: two double sessions within the International Joyce Symposium, Goldsmiths College, London, 28-29 June 2000
· Colloquium on The Anglo-French fin de siècle, British Academy, 20 January 2000
· Reception Study Group: programme for the Spring and Summer Terms 2000
· Colloquium on Lord Byron: His Reception in Europe, School of Advanced Study, London, 12 March 1999
· Related conference on Jan Potocki’s ‘Manuscript found at Saragossa’: novel and film , Institute of English Studies and Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, London, 21-22 May 1999
· Colloquium on Virginia Woolf: her Reception in Europe, School of Advanced Study, London, 9 October 1998
· Colloquium on Francis Bacon: Fonti, Edizioni e Prospettive/Francis Bacon in the Late 20th Century: Sources, Editions and Outlook, Università ‘La Sapienza’ and Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Italy, 13-14 November 1998
· Symposium on The Reception of British Authors in Europe, British Academy, 25 April 1998