International Colloquium on the Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe

 

Saturday 8 July 2006

 

University College, Oxford*

 

Provisional Programme

 

*The colloquium will take place in the Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street.

 

0900:               Registration

 

0915-0930:      Welcome:

                       

                        Dr Jon Mee

                        (Margaret Candfield Fellow in English, University College, Oxford)

                        &        

                        Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA

                        (IGRS, University of London)

Series Editor of 'The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe'

 

0930-1100:       Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria (chaired by Dr Shaffer)

 

                        "Shelley in Germany"

                        (Dr Susanne Schmid, University of Frankfurt)

 

                        "Romanticism in the West and in the East: Shelley in Hungary"

                        (Prof. Istvan Racz, University of Debrecen)

 

                        "Shelley's Heart of Hearts and Bulgarian Culture"

                        (Vitana Kostadinova, University of Plovdiv)

 

1100-1115:        Coffee

 

1115-1245:        Italy and France (chaired by Dr Michael Rossington)

 

                        "1892: the first centenary of P. B. Shelley's birth in Italy"

                        (Prof. Lilla Maria Crisafulli, University of Bologna)

 

                        "1922: the first centenary of P. B. Shelley's death in Italy"

                        (Prof. Laura Bandiera, University of Parma)

 

                        "Shelley fabriqué en France"

                        (Prof. Ann Gardiner, University of Philadelphia)

 

1245-1330:       Lunch in Hall

 

[1330-1430:     Editorial Meeting for contributors to The Reception of Shelley in Europe]

 

 

 

1445-1615:       Russia, Czech culture, Poland (chaired by Dr Susanne Schmid)

 

                        "Shelley in Russia: Revolutionary Études"

                        (Dr Rachel Polonsky, Independent Scholar)

 

                        "A 'Moral Artist' into a Revolutionary: the Invention of Shelley in Twentieth-Century Czech Culture"

                        (Prof. Martin Procházka, Charles University Prague)

 

                        "Shelley in Poland"

                        (Dr Monika Coghen, Jagellonian University Kraków)

 

1615-1630:       Tea

 

1630-1800:       Catalonia, Spain, Greece (chaired by Dr Jon Mee)

 

                        "Shelley, Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War"

                        (Dr Bill Phillips, University of Barcelona)

 

                        "'Wake the Serpent not': Shelley and the Spanish public"

                        (Beatriz González, University of Castilla-La Mancha

&

Santiago Guerrero, University of Valladolid)

 

                        "'The Prophet of Noble Struggles': The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Greece"

                        (Dr Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

 

1800:                Close:

 

                        Dr Susanne Schmid (University of Frankfurt)

                        &

                        Dr Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle)