Please circulate, and, if possible, print out the poster (attached in Word
format) and display.
Thanks,
Gavin
BYRON, THE ORIENT, AND ORIENTALISM
A ONE DAY CONFERENCE
of the NEWSTEAD BYRON SOCIETY,
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY and
the MIDLAND ROMANTIC SEMINAR
Friday April 15th 2005, 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Campus
George Eliot Building, Room 101
Keynote Speakers: Dr Peter Cochran, University of Liverpool
Professor Richard Cardwell, University of Nottingham
Registration: £10, including tea & coffee, payable in advance to the
Newstead Abbey Byron Society, c/o Maureen Crisp, The Cottage, Epperstone,
Notts, NG14 6AE, 0115 9664367, [log in to unmask]
(credit card payments via secure link on www.internationalbyronsociety.org)
There will be a cafeteria lunch, not included in the conference cost.
Directions. By train, ask your taxi for Nottingham Clifton Campus. By car:
the campus is off the A453, three miles south of the city centre, seven
miles north of M1 Junction 24. Enter by the North or South Gate and follow
the signs to the George Eliot Building (Clifton Main Building as it was
formerly known). The receptionist will advise where to park, how to find
Ada Byron King (immediately in front of George Eliot). For further
information, contact 0115 848 3020 (office) 07731510 625 (mobile).
PROGRAMME
10.00 Arrival, Coffee and Introduction
10.30-11.30: Keynote Address: Dr Peter Cochran, University of Liverpool: Edward
Said's Failure with (inter alia) Byron
COFFEE
12.00-12.30: Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, Iran:
The Bride of the East
12.30-1.00: Svetlana Klimova, University of Nizhni Novgorod:
Byron's Oriental Tales and Russian Byronism: the reception of
Byron's poetry in Russian literature at the beginning of the
nineteenth century
LUNCH
2.00-2.30: Professor Richard Cardwell, University of Nottingham:
2.30-3.00: Allan Gregory, Dublin:
Thomas Moore's Orientalism
3.30-4.00: Jeremy Davies, Jesus College Cambridge:
Jewish Tunes, or Hebrew Melodies: Byron and the Biblical Orient
COFFEE
4.00-4.30: Robert McColl, University of Liverpool:
'Best success were sacrilege': investigating antitheses in
Byron.
4.30-5.00: Dr Gerald Silverman, Cambridge:
Byron and the other "Other": a theme with variations from
Handel through Beethoven to Schoenberg
5.00-6.00: Plenary Discussion
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