SWINC Autumn Workshop
Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/10/2018
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
3.11
Categories
Autumn Workshop
Wednesday 24 October
David Hume Room, 3.11, Dugald Stewart Building
University of Edinburgh
Timetable
2.10 Welcome: Professor Penny Fielding (Edinburgh, Co-director SWINC)
Panel 1
2.15 Jim Kelly (Exeter): ‘Irish Orators and Scotch Reviewers: Persuasion in post-Napoleonic Britain’
2.35 Valentina Aparicio (Edinburgh): ‘“Not with the burial of the sword this strife / Must end, but of the warrior”: historicity and the nation in Southey’s Madoc’
2.55 Michael Wood (Edinburgh): ‘Trials of a “Germanized brat”: The House of Aspen, German Models, and British Cultural Renewal’
3.35 tea and coffee
Panel 2
3.55 Lesley Graham (Bordeaux): ‘Annotating Robert Louis Stevenson’
4.15 Alex Thomson (Edinburgh, co-director SWINC): ‘Wee Moderns: Edwin Muir and Nietzsche in Scotland’
4.35 Lucy Linforth (Edinburgh): ‘A tale that has been told’: Walter Scott and the Honours of Scotland’
5.15 close – wine reception to follow outside room 2.43, 50 George Square