Places are still available for
'THE RECEPTION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT IN EUROPE: THE EUROPEAN NATIONALITIES
QUESTION'
COLLOQUIUM at CLARE HALL College, Cambridge: 28 and 29 May 2005
organized by THE RESEARCH PROJECT: THE RECEPTION OF BRITISH AND IRISH AUTHORS IN
EUROPE
www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae
Programme:
Saturday 28 May
8.45-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.00: Welcome: Elinor Shaffer (Project Director) and Murray Pittock
(Manchester)
10.00-11.15: Scott in Austria-Hungary
Emilia Szaffner (Veszprem), 'The Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the 19th
Century'
Gertrud Szamosi (Pecs), 'Walter Scott's Historicism: influence and reception in
Hungary 1850-1950'
11.15 Coffee
12.00-1.00 Network lecture:
Annick Duperray (Aix-en-Provence),
'Realism or counter-realism: the critical reception of realist aesthetics from
Henry James to contemporary criticism''
1.00-2.00: Sandwich lunch
2.00-3.15: Scott in Central and Eastern Europe
Martin Prochazka (Charles University, Prague), 'From Romantic Folklorism to
Children's Adventure Fiction: Walter Scott in Czech Culture'
Ludmilla Kostova (Veliko Turnovo), 'Walter Scott in Bulgaria'
3.20-5.00: 'Scott and the Nationalities Question in Europe'
Chair: Murray Pittock
Round table with 20-minute presentations:
David Hewitt (Aberdeen),
Simon Edwards (Roehampton), 'Gaskell, Scott and Manzoni'
Silvia Mergenthal (Konstanz), '"An imaginary line drawn through waste and
wilderness": Scott's The Talisman and European Nationalities'
Ann Rigney (Utrecht) 'Scott and the Transfer of National Identities'
5.00-5.30: Tea
Sunday 29 May
8.45-9.00: Registration
9.00-10.15: The Cultural Reception of Walter Scott
Beth Wright (University of Texas at Arlington),
'"Seeing with the Painter's Eye": Sir Walter Scott's Challenge to
Nineteenth-Century Art'
Gilles Soubigou (Paris I-Sorbonne), 'French Portraits of Sir Walter Scott:
Images of the Great Unknown'
10.15-10.45: Coffee
10.45-12.00: Scott in Germany
Frauke Reitemeier (Göttingen),
'The Reception of Scott in German Literary Histories c.1820-1945'
Annika Bautz (Newcastle), 'The Reception of Scott's Novels in East and West
Germany, 1949-90'
12.00- 1.00: Sandwich lunch
1.00-2.00: Scott in France
Richard Maxwell (Yale), 'Scott's Reception in France'
Paul Barnaby (Edinburgh), 'Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret as Mediator and
Rewriter of Scott'
2.00-3.30: Scott in Spain and the Low Countries
Fernando Toda (Salamanca), 'The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Spain'
Andrew Monnickendam (Barcelona), 'Scott in Catalonia'
Joke van der Wiel (Utrecht), 'Scott's Reception in the Low Countries'
3.30-4.00: Tea
END OF CONFERENCE
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Registration:
Full delegate fee for two days: £30
Discounted rate for students: £20
Attendance is possible for one day and will be charged at half-price.
To register please fill in the following form and send it to:
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The RBAE Research Project
12B Ridgmount Gardens
London WC1E 7AR
Tel. 020 7323 6861
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