Please find below the programme for a one-day conference on Fin-de-Siècle Cosmopolitanism, to take place on Monday 4 July at the University of Leeds. (With apologies for cross-posting.)
Fin-de-Siècle Cosmopolitanism: A workshop conference
The Leeds Humanities Research Institute
University of Leeds
Monday 4 July 2011
09.30 Registration and Coffee
10.00 Welcome and Opening Address:
‘“World Literature” in the Discursive History of Cosmopolitanism’
Galin Tihanov (University of Manchester)
11.00 Panel 1
‘Carlo Placci and Vernon Lee: a Cosmopolitan Anglo-Italian Friendship’
Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) and Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
‘Bourget’s Oxford Aesthetes – towards Decadent Cosmopolitanism’
Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire New University)
‘An English Aesthete in Paris: A. Mary F. Robinson in the 1890s’
Ana Parejo Vadillo (Birkbeck, University of London)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Panel 2
‘Jarry, Stevenson and Cosmopolitan Ambivalence’
Michael G. Kelly (University of Limerick)
‘Beyond Paris and London: Symbolism as a Transnational Literary Movement’
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University) and Christophe Verbruggen (Ghent University)
‘The Machine Stops? Fin-de-siècle Cosmopolitanism in The City and the Mountains, by Eça de Queirós’
David Frier (University of Leeds)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Panel 3
‘Constructs of fin-de-siècle Cosmopolitanism in Norway’
Cathrine Theodorsen (University of Tromsø)
‘False Friends? The Islamic World and the Cosmopolitan Dynamics of fin-de-siècle German Culture and Politics’
James Hodkinson (University of Warwick)
‘Two Responses to Paul Bourget: Henry James and Thomas Mann’
Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds)
17.00 Roundtable and Closing Remarks
17.30 Vin d’honneur
19.00 Dinner (in a restaurant between the university and the railway station)
The conference fee is £20 (full) and £10 (reduced), to cover registration, lunch and refreshments. The registration form can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/
Please register by 31 May if you would like to attend.
Further information is available from Stefano Evangelista ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Richard Hibbitt ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Comparative Literature Association and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.
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