POSTGRADUATE AND EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP, 28/10/22: “Textual Urns-Form and Materiality of Commemorative Writing”, Birkbeck College, Londres

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Textual Urns-Form and Materiality of Commemorative Writing in Early Modern England

POSTGRADUATE AND EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP & SEMINAR

Friday 28 October

13:30-17:00

Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

This day explores the form and fabric of commemorative writing. It provides a forum to discuss texts of remembrance in the broader context of Early Modern England and recent interest in the materiality of the text. We aim to investigate the social, political and religious work performed by a poetics of memory and grief across material forms. It consists of a postgraduate and early career workshop followed by talks by two leading scholars working in the field to formulate new approaches. Both are open to all.

 To book  https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=33731 

 Programme

 13:30-14:00 Welcome and Introductions  

14:00-15:30 Postgraduate and Early Career Work in Progress Presentations and Discussion  

15:30-16:00 Tea, Coffee and Biscuit Break  

16:00-16:30 Patricia Phillippy (Coventry University), ‘“Soe darke in in the morning”: Remembrance and Climate in Alice Thornton’s Autobiographical Manuscripts’ 

16:30-17:00 Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Université de Rouen Normandie), ‘Commemorating the Christian martyr and the Civil War hero in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson’  

17:00 Discussion, Drinks and Nibbles  

 This event is hosted by the LRS and VALE (Voix Anglophones Littérature et Esthétique Research Group, at Sorbonne Université). It is organised by Emma Bartel (Sorbonne Université) and Eva Lauenstein (Birkbeck). We are kindly supported by a Society for Renaissance Studies Small Conference Grant. For any questions, please contact e.lauenstein@bbk.ac.uk

13-14/10/2022: “Sports and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century”, COLL Modernités 16-18 / Grenoble, Salle des Actes (Sorbonne)

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme du colloque sur “Sports and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century” qui se tiendra à la Sorbonne le 13 et le 14 octobre (Salle des Actes).

Au plaisir de vous y retrouver.

Bien cordialement, 

Caroline Bertonèche et Alexis Tadié



Sports and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

Conference program

13-14 October 2022

Sorbonne Université, Salle des Actes

13 October

9:45: Welcome and opening remarks

10:00: PLENARY LECTURE

Simon BAINBRIDGE (Lancaster University)

‘A group… of apparently aerial beings’: Sociability on the British Summit in the Long Eighteenth Century

Coffee break

11:30: First session: Outdoors, Sociability and Individuality

CHAIR: Kimberley PAGE-JONES (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)

11:30-12:00

Meiko O’HALLORAN (Newcastle University)

Scaling Ben Nevis: Keats Among the Clouds

12:00-12:30

Claire WROBEL (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)

Between Solitude and Sociability : Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest(1791)

12.30-13.00: Discussion

13.00: Lunch 

14:00: Second session: Building Sociability through Sports

CHAIR: Marc PORÉE (École normale supérieure-PSL)

14:00-14:30

Benjamin JACKSON (University of Birmingham)

‘The Gentleman Sportsman’: Blood Sports, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century England

14:30-15:00

Valérie CAPDEVILLE (Université Sorbonne-Paris-Nord)

Sports and Outdoor Recreation in Early American Clubs: Horse-Racing, Angling and Fox-Hunting Practices in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania

15:00-15:30

Alexis TADIÉ (Sorbonne Université)

Of Rivers and Swimming in the Long Eighteenth Century

15:30-16:30: Discussion

19.30: Conference Dinner 

14 October

9:30: Third session: Animality, Violence, and the Social Worlds of Sports

CHAIR: Marion AMBLARD (Université Grenoble Alpes)

9:30-10:00

Pierre CARBONI (Université de Nantes)

‘This falsely cheerful, barbarous game of death’: Thomson and Hunting

10:00-10:30

Mike HUGGINS (University of Cumbria)

Changing Attitudes to the Non-Human Animal World : the Case of Cock-Fighting

Coffee break

11:00-11:30

Kimberley PAGE-JONES (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) & Pierre LABRUNE (VALE)

Boxing and the Fancy: Violence Tamed and Aestheticized (1780-1815)

11:30-12:00

John C. WHALE (University of Leeds)

Pugilism in the Regency: Popularity and Cultural Appropriation

12:00-12:30: Discussion

12:30: Lunch 

14:00: Fourth session: Sports and Romanticism

CHAIR: Meiko O’HALLORAN (Newcastle University)

14:00-14:30

Andreas KRAMER (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Luminous Streams, Precipitous Rocks: Perspectives on Sport in German Romanticism

14:30-15:00

Marc PORÉE (École normale supérieure-PSL)

Wordsworth, Keats, Byron: Sport or No Sport?

15:00-15:30: Discussion

Coffee break

16:00: Caroline BERTONÈCHE (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Introducing the Virtual Museum RÊVE. Special collection: On Romantic Sports. Fencing Familiarized

16:30: Alexis TADIÉ (Sorbonne Université)

Introducing the Database AGON: On Quarrels and Controversies

17:00 Kimberley PAGE-JONES (UBO) & Valérie CAPDEVILLE (Sorbonne-Paris-Nord)

Introducing the Digital Encyclopedia DIGITENS: On British Sociability in the Long 18th Century

18:00: Closing drinks

19:00: End of the conference