Events
Please note: events are organised by institution, rather than date.
University of Chichester SCERRG seminars series and related events
Research event: South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group
Date: Tuesday 1st Nov
Venue: Bishop Otter Campus, Cloisters, 5.30pm
Dr Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent
'Connections which are of service in a more advanced age': The Ladies Magazine, Community and Women's Literary Histories
For more information, contact Fiona Price on f.price@chi.ac.uk
Methods in the Madness: Problems and Methodological Approach in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Periodicals
Thursday 3 May 2012 (10:00-17:00)
A one-day symposium organised by the University of Kent’s Centres for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Speakers:
Jennie Batchelor (Kent)
Laurel Brake (Birkbeck)
Jon Cranfield (Kent)
John Drew (Buckingham)
Fiona Masterson (Kent)
James Mussell (Birmingham)
Susan Oliver (Essex)
Tara Puri (Kent)
This one-day symposium aims to provide a forum for exchange between scholars working on eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical print culture, particularly regarding the approaches we take to this notoriously heterogeneous genre. Although it is true that periodical print culture changes in many ways between the late-eighteenth and late-nineteenth centuries (with the rise of the professional journalist, new print technologies and the increasing reliance upon advertising) a number of important titles, such as The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) straddle traditional period divides. Moreover, scholars working on periodicals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries face a number of similar methodological challenges. These challenges, and how we might meet them, are the subject of our speakers’ talks. They include, but are not limited to: How to deal with the genre’s multi-vocal and cross-generic format? How to approach questions of pseudonymity and attribution? How best to present our research on the genre and how to introduce it into the classroom? What can digitization do for (and how might it actually distort) periodical studies?
Please note:
Attendance at the symposium is free and coffee and tea is provided. Lunch can be purchased from various venues on campus (details provided on registration).
Numbers are strictly limited and will be allocated on request. To attend the symposium, please email Jennie Batchelor: J.E.Batchelor@kent.ac.uk.
Fellows' Lectures
Chawton House Library hosts a series of thought-provoking and inspiring lectures organised by our Research Fellow, Dr Gillian Dow. Each one is related to the library collection and includes a small exhibition of related material, giving guests the chance to view some of our rare works. Lectures follow the same format (unless stated otherwise) with drinks at 6.30pm and the lecture starting at 7pm. See the Diary of Events www.chawton.org/news/for further information. Please book your tickets by calling:01420 541010 or email: info@chawton.net
Fellows' Lecture
Thursday |
Word Fest Talk Frances Burney for Smarties: Her life and work. |
Evening Lecture “Observe her Heedfully”: Family, Friendship and a Lady’s Life of Reading Dr Mark Towsey,University of Liverpool, introduces the fascinating life of Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock, the self-styled Queen of eighteenth-century Nairnshire, whose letters and notebooks provide a rare insight |
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Evening Talk The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen No one has ever provided a satisfactory For booking information click here. |
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Evening Lecture The strange adventures of Mrs Penelope Aubin and her family. |
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Evening Lecture Writing Eighteenth-Century Welsh Women’s Literary History. |
Chawton House Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS Anna Letitia Barbauld in Twenty Hundred and Twelve: New Perspectives A conference at Chawton House Library 11-12 May 2012
Keynote speaker: William McCarthy, Barbauld's biographer and editor
The 200th anniversary of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, Barbauld's most powerful and controversial poem seems an ideal moment for a reappraisal of her life and works. Over the past two decades, the publication by William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft of a compete edition of her Poems (1994) and a paperback of Selected Poetry and Prose (2002), followed by Professor McCarthy's internationally acclaimed biography (2008) has stimulated a wealth of new research on her activities as poet, essayist, educationalist, editor, devotional writer and advocate of religious freedom, the abolition of the slave trade, and social reform, in a career that began with éclat in 1773 and endured until shortly before her death in 1825. We invite scholars to Chawton House Library, a rare books collection dedicated to early women's writing, to celebrate Barbauld's achievements and to debate her historical significance and the continuing relevance of many of her themes, not least the economic crisis and dysfunctional war policy which were the occasion of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven and led to its warning, apocalyptic vision of a nation in terminal decline.
Speakers include Isobel Armstrong, Emma Clery, David Fallon, Isobel Grundy, Felicity James and Orianne Smith.
Proposals for papers are invited on these or other Barbauld-related topics:
Dissenters and dissent
Feminisms, bluestocking and otherwise
Education
War
Slavery and the abolition movement
Women and politics
Barbauld's male allies and associates, including John Aikin, Joseph Johnson, William Enfield, Joseph Priestley, William Roscoe.
Science and Art
The Monthly Magazine and the liberal press
Barbauld's genres: poetry, biography, reviews, children's literature
Reactionary reviews and Romantic responses to women's writing
Memoirs and biographies of Barbauld
The conference is co-hosted by Chawton House Library, the University of Leicester, and the University of Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCECS). Please send abstracts of 200-500 words for the attention of the conference organisers Gillian Dow, Felicity James and Olivia Murphy to Sandy White: sw17@soton.ac.uk The deadline for abstracts is the 30th of January 2012.