Dear colleagues,
A reminder of the one-day conference on Fin-de-Siècle Cosmopolitanism
on Monday 4 July at the University of Leeds. There are still some
places left: the fee to cover registration, lunch and refreshments is
£20 (full) and £10 (reduced). Registration forms can be found at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/ and bookings can be made up to Thursday
30 June.
Further information from Stefano Evangelista
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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
?Forms or 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 Germanophone 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 (at Sous le nez, Quebec St)
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Comparative
Literature Association and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.
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