Conference: Sat. 15th April 2000
THE VICTORIANS AND THE ANCIENT WORLD: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE University College Worcester
The Victorians and the Ancient World: Provisional Programme
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.20 Key-note Lecture Dr. Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London) Sappho, Tennyson and the Victorians
10.20 - 10.40 Coffee
10.40 - 11.50 Seminar Session 1 Panel A - Retelling Myths Laurence Roussillon (University of Cambridge) Aspecta Medusa: the many faces of Medusa in D.G. Rossetti’s painting and poetry Jane Thomas (University of Hull) ‘The Earthly Realisation of his Formless Desire’: Victorian Revisions of the Myth of Pygmalion
Panel B - Classical Canings Elizabeth Hale (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Classical Classroom Violence in Victorian Public School Stories Amanda Kolson (University of Bristol) ‘Imprinted on the Mind and Body’: Swinburne’s Catullan Ictus
Panel C - Cults and Mystics Jo Pearson (Open University) Sorceress and Priestess: Victorian Women and the Legacy of the Ancient World Nick Freeman (University of the West of England) Pandemonium!: The Appearances of Pan in fin de siècle Culture
11.50 - 1.00 Seminar Session 2 Panel A - Female Sexuality Anira Rowenchild (Open University) ‘Peeping behind the curtain’: the significance of Classical texts in the sexual self-construction of Anne Lister Jeni Williams (University of Glamorgan) Voice and Silence: the significance of the myth of Philomela in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry
Panel B - Archaeologies Julien Parsons (Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum) The Barrow Diggers: a study of the excavation of Gloucestershire’s prehistorical burial mounds in the Victorian Period Dave Bonnick (University College Worcester) Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury and bringing Archaeology down to earth
1.00 - 1.45 Lunch
1.45 - 2.30 Key-note Lecture Professor J.B. Bullen (University of Reading) Unburying Byzantium: Style, politics, and gender
2.30 - 3.40 Seminar Session 3 Panel A - Romanticisms/Historicisms Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford) ‘A Mind full of Modern Lights’: Pater’s Myths, between Language and Romanticism Michael Helfand (University of Pittsburg) The Origins of Dialectic: Jowett and Wilde interpret the Classics
Panel B - High Church Fictions Clemence Schultze (University of Durham) Mythical Reworkings: the Eros and Psyche story in Charlotte Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner Remedios Martín (University of Málaga) Cor ad Cor Loquitur: A Reading of Newman’s Callista, A Tale of the Third Century as a religious analogy of Victorian Britain
Panel C - Rewriting Homer Simon Avery (University of Hertfordshire) ‘The Undoing of Homer’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s The Battle of Marathon (1820) Simon Dentith (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of HE) ‘An elegant and simple melody from an African on the Gold Coast’: Arnold versus Newman on epic primitivism
3.40 - 4.00 Coffee
4.00 - 5.10 Seminar Session 4 Panel A - Ancient Architectures Emma L. E. Rees (Chester College) Victorian Veracity? The strange case of Sheela-na-gig Alex Warwick (University of Westminster) Life in Ruins: Archaeology, Architecture, and Victorian Gothic
Panel B - Imperial Museums Denise Parkinson (University College Worcester) Material Artefacts: the impact on the writing of Sir Henry Rider Haggard Lois J. Gilmore (Bucks County Community College) Joseph Conrad: Art and Ethnography
5.15 - 6.00 Keynote Lecture Professor Tony Davies (University of Birmingham) Dreaming Cities: London, Paris and the 19th-century imagination
6.00 Close
Conference fee: £20 stl., to include registration, lunch, and tea/coffee.
Cheques should be made payable to 'University College Worcester', and forwarded to Carolyn Ralphs,Faculty Administrator, Faculty of Humanities, University College Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK.
All enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Richard Pearson, Department of English & Drama, University College Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK. email: R.Pearson@worc.ac.uk tel UK 01905 855291