Registration is still possible for the
'Cultural Institutions and Literary Reception in Europe' Conference
organized by Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish
Authors in Europe (RBAE) and supported by the British Academy,
building upon the work of the British Academy Network on Reception
Studies (2004-09)
14th-15th June 2010
at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), School of
Advanced Study, University of London, 32 Russell Square, London WC1.
For a registration detail and further information visit the Conference
web page: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=444
<http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=444>
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Programme
Monday, 14 June
9.15-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.15 Introduction to the Conference by Prof. Naomi Segal,
Director of the IGRS
and Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, RBAE Director and
Senior Research Fellow, IGRS
10.15-11.15 Dr Elinor Shaffer (RBAE Series Editor and Network
Director) with volume editors in the RBAE Series: Prof. Annick
Duperray (Network Co-director; Aix) The Reception of Henry James in
Europe
Dr Susanne Schmid (Bochum) The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe
Prof. Stephen Bann FBA (Bristol) The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
Dr Stefano Evangelista (Oxford) The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe
'The RBAE Project and the British Academy Network on Reception Studies'
11.20-12.40 Panel on Translation in Cultural Context
11.20-11.40 Introduction by the Chair: Dr Francesca Billiani
(Italian, Manchester) 'Aesthetic and Cultural Transgressions: Elite
Literary Journals in 1920s and 1930s Italy'
11.40-12.00 Prof. Michael Caesar (Italian, Birmingham)
'The Zibaldone Project: Leopardi's Notebooks in English'
12.00-12.20 Dr Samuel Baudry (English, Université Lumičre Lyon 2)
'Modes of European Translation in late Eighteenth-century French periodicals'
12.20-12.40 Dr Cosima Bruno (Chinese, SOAS)
'The Public Life of Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English Translation'
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.30 Plenary lecture II
Prof. Naomi Segal (IGRS) 'Cultural Literacy in Europe: a project of ESF-COST'
14.30-15.30 Panel on Correspondence Projects
Chair: Prof. Timothy Fulford (English, Nottingham Trent)
14.30-14.50 Prof. Lynda Pratt (English, Nottingham) 'Editing Robert
Southey's Letters'
14.50-15.10 Prof. Sharon Ruston (Nineteenth-Century Literature &
Culture, Salford)
'The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy and his Circle'
15.10-15.30 Dr Paul White (HPS, Cambridge) The Darwin Correspondence Project
15.30-15.45 break
15.45-16.30 Plenary lecture III
Prof. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Comparative Literature, Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest) 'Comparative Literature and/or Reception History?'
16.30-17.40 Panel on Translation as Cultural Control and Cultural Expression
16.30-16.40 Introduction by the Chair: Prof. Ágnes Péter (English,
Eötvös Loránd, Budapest) 'British Literature in the Hungarian
Cultural Memory'
16.40-17.00 Zsófia Gombár (English, Aveiro, Portugal) 'Censorship and
the Reception of English-Language Authors in Hungary between 1945 and
1989'
17.00-17.20 Géza Maráczi (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest) '"Shelter for the
Translator in Dickens's City": Victorian Fiction in the Hungary of the
1950s'
17.20-17.40 Réka Tóth (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest) '"The secret poetry
of nostalgia": G. K. Chesterton in Hungary'
18.00-19.00 Drinks reception with the Dean of the School of Advanced
Study, Prof. Roger Kain CBE FBA
Tuesday, 15 June
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.15 Plenary lecture IV
Prof. Bernhard Fabian FBA (English and Bibliography, Münster)
'Reception and "institutions": The paradigmatic case of
eighteenth-century Germany'
10.15-11.30 Panel on the History of the Book
10.15-10.30 Introduction by the Chair: Mr William St Clair FBA
(Institute of English Studies, London) 'The State of History of the
Book Studies'
10.30-11.00 Prof. Jane Everson and Dr Simone Testa (Royal Holloway
University of London and the British Library) 'The Italian Academies
in the Early Modern Period'
11.00-11.20 Dr Susanne Schmid (English, Bochum)
'Travelling Salons: Lady Blessington's Italian "keepsakes" and performances'
11.20-11.40 Prof. Annick Duperray (American Literature,
Aix-Marseille) 'The Making of a Pléiade Classic: Henry James'
11.45-12.00 break
12.00-12.45 Plenary lecture V
Prof. Joep Leerssen (Modern European Literature, Amsterdam) 'Literary
reception, national appropriation, and what philologists made of it'
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.00 Panel on the Institution of the Intellectual in Europe
13.45-14.00 Introduction by the Chair Dr Gisčle Sapiro (CNRS, Paris)
14.00-14.20 Dr Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway) 'The 17th-century
Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti's Covert Agenda: Republicanism and
Irreligion'
14.20-14.40 Dr James Vigus (Munich) '"The true, the good and the
fair, are eternal":
Mme de Staël, Henry Crabb Robinson, and the Romantic Reception of
Kantian Aesthetics'
14.40-15.00 Delphine Soulard (Provence / Toulouse)
'Anglo-French Cultural Translation: The case of John Locke and the Huguenots'
15.00-15.45: Plenary lecture VI
Prof. Rosa Rabadán (Modern Languages, León)
'Censorship and Translation under Franco: the opening of the Archives'
15.45-16.50 Panel on Literary Censorship & Translation
Chair: Prof. Rosa Rabadán
15.45-16.10 Prof. Eugenia Perojo (English, Valladolid) 'Romanticism
in Spain: The effects of early censorship of British authors'
16.10-16.30 Dr Ibon Uribarri Zenekorta (English, University of the
Basque Country) 'The political ontology of translation: Translations
into Basque in its cultural context'
16.30-16.50 Dr Patricia da Silva McNeill (King's, London) 'Fernando
Pessoa and the English modernist magazines: A case study of
transnational literary reception'
17.00-17.30 Concluding discussion
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CONFERENCE FEES
Standard rate: Ł35 per day/ Ł65 for both days
Concessionary rate: Ł15 per day/ Ł25 for both days (students, retired;
staff in IGRS member departments)
Extra concessionary rate: Ł10 per day/ Ł15 for both days (students
from IGRS member-departments)
Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Conference organizer
Research Director, The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe,
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,
University of London
Postal address: IGRS, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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