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Recent Scott-Related Events
This page lists recent conferences, papers, lectures, talks, and
other events relating to all aspects of Scott's life and work. The
page editor would be
glad to be informed of any omissions or errors, or to receive notification
of other relevant events.
Click here for a list of forthcoming
Scott-related events:
2015
1) BSECS 44th Annual Conference, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6-8 January 2015
The 44th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Scott’s Rebellion Novels' by Céline Sabiron (Oxford/Nancy).
2) 'Negotiating Sites of Memory', 130th
MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC, 8-11 January 2015
The 129th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association (MLA) featured two papers of Scott interest: ‘Walter Scott and the Antiromance of Romantic Life Writing’ by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) and ‘Locating Sir Walter Scott in American Authors' Homes’ by Paul A. Westover (Brigham Young).
3) 'Where Scott Met the Mahatma: Reflections on Transnational Literature', Lecture by Prof. Ann Rigney, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, 12 January 2015
This lecture in the Print Culture Speakers Series at Simon Fraser University was delivered by Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. Besides many articles on Scott, Prof. Rigney is the author of Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (2001) and The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (2012).
4) 'Women and Nineteenth-Century Literature', One-Day Conference, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 January 2015
This one-day conference, sponsored by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), and hosted by the Victoria University of Wellington and the Alexander Turnbull Library, featured on paper of Scott interest: 'Rebecca’s Jewishness and Montagu’s Turquerie: A possible source for the Jewess of Ivanhoe' by Melinda Graefe (Flinders).
5) International Conference on Narrative, Chicago, Illinois, 5-8 March 2015
Co-hosted by Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and Purdue University Calumet, the 2015 Narrative Conference was an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The Border Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century: Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, and Imperial Yeomanry' by Kyle McAuley (Rutgers).
6) '"Repairing the Emblems of Death”: Commemorating the Covenanters in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction', Annual SWINC Public Lecture by Prof. Alison Lumsden, Edinburgh University, 10 March 2015
Alison Lumsden, Co-Director of the University of Aberdeen's Walter Scott Research Centre, delivered the Annual SWINC (Scottish Writing
in the Nineteenth Century) Public Lecture. Professor Lumsden is a General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and the lead editor for the forthcoming Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's poetry. She is author of Walter Scott and the Limits of Language (2010), has edited Peveril of the Peak (2007) for the Edinburgh Edition, and co-edited The Pirate (2000), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (2004), and Woodstock (2009).
7) 'Littérature et géographie: l'écriture de l'espace à travers les âges = Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History', International Conference, Université Lyon III Jean Moulin, 12-13 March 2015
Organized by the Institut d'Etudes Textuelles et Transculturelles of the Université Lyon III Jean Moulin, this confernce featured on paper of particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott and the Geographical Novel' by Céline Sabiron (Oxford/Nancy).
8) ‘The Ghostly Afterlives of Walter Scott: Pseudotranslation in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, Edinburgh History of the Book Seminar by Dr Tom Toremans, University of Edinburgh, 13 March 2015
Hosted by Edinburgh University's Centre for the History of the Book, this seminar referred to Ann Rigney’s compelling study on The Afterlives of Walter Scott (2012), focusing on a particular phenomenon that has partially shaped and determined this afterlife but has been largely neglected by Scott scholarship (and Romantic scholarship in general, for that matter). Scott himself ironically commented on the phenomenon of pseudotranslation when in the preface to The Betrothed (1825) he assembled the fictional editors/characters from earlier Waverley novels (Templeton, Oldbuck, Dryasdust and Clutterbuck) under the chairmanship of the 'Eidolon, or image of the author' to discuss the mechanization of the production of Waverley novels. In his vehement rejection of the proposal Mr Templeton refers to the German Walladmor, a pseudotranslation he conjectures was probably produced by Herman Dousterswivel (the German swindler from The Antiquary) by means of a steam-engine. Such paratextual play with authorship and originality is not at all uncommon in Scottish Romantic fiction and least of all in Scott’s historical novels. Yet what makes this instance particularly interesting is its ironic reference to the production of pseudotranslations of Scott novels across Europe from the early 1820s onwards. Willibald Alexis's Walladmor (1823-24), which was in its turn translated into French and Dutch and re-translated 'back' into English by Thomas De Quincey, is only one example among many. Also posthumously, translations of 'newly discovered' works by Scott appeared on the European literary markets. This seminar approached pseudotranslation as a phenomenon that, although primarily commercially motivated, substantially complicates Romantic notions of originality and organic literary production, both in its experimentation with established literary conventions and in its extensive paratextual enactment of authenticity.
Dr Toremans is Assistant Professor at Leuven University, Belgium, where he teaches English literature and literary theory.
9) 'Romantic Doubles: Walter Scott, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Literary Reputation', Oxford Centre for Life Writing Lecture by Prof. Barry Murnane, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 13 March 2015
The second of a seminar series on The Author in the Popular Imagination, sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Life Writing and organized by Joanna Neilly (Queen’s, Oxford), was delivered by Barry Murnane, Associate Professor in German and a Fellow of St. John’s College. Prof. Murnane's first book was a monograph on Franz Kafka (2008) and he has co-edited two volumes on the German Schauerroman, or Gothic novel (2011 and 2012) with Andrew Cusack. He is currently working on a monograph exploring the relationship between literature and pharmacy in the long eighteenth century and is editing a special issue of ANGERMION on Anglo-German cultural relations during the Hanoverian period.
10) 'Walter Scott and Jane Austen', Lecture by Prof. Claire Lamont, Abbotsford House, Melrose, 24 March 2015
2015 marks the bicentenary of the publication of Austen’s Emma, a work that prompted one of Scott’s most famous literary reviews. In this lecture, Claire Lamont, Emeritus Professor of English Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, explored how these two contemporary Regency authors responded to and were influenced by one another’s writings, despite never meeting. Among many other publications, Prof. Lamont has edited Waverley for the Clarendon Press and Longman York Press (both 1981), The Heart of Mid-Lothian for Oxford University Press (1982), and Chronicles of the Canongate for both Edinburgh University Press (2000) and Penguin Books (2003).
11) 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Enlightenment Anthropology and the Romantic Historical Novel', 2015 Giorgio Melchiori Lecture by Prof. Ian Duncan, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, e Culture Straniere, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy, 26 March 2015
The third annual Giorgio Melchiori Lecture, organized by the Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per gli Studi Irlandesi e Scozzesi (CRISIS) of Università degli Studi Roma Tre, was delivered by Ian Duncan (Berkeley). He examined Scott's Waverley, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe in relation to debates about the constitution of human nature (and its relation to history) in late-Enlightenment philosophical anthropology: Rousseau, Adam Ferguson, Kant and Herder. Prof. Duncan is holder of the Florence Green
Bixby Chair in English, University of California, Berkeley,
and author of numerous works on Scott including Scott's
Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007).
12) ‘Material Cultures/Material Worlds’, 36th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Boston, MA, 26-28 March 2015
The 36th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Bigger on the Inside: Books as Antiquities at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford’ by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming).
13) 'James Hogg and his World', James Hogg Society Conference, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 9-12 April 2015
The 2015 Conference of the James Hogg Society was co-sponsored by Victoria College and the Department of English in the University of Toronto. It featured panels on the life and work of Hogg and/or his contemporaries as well as on James Hogg’s world.
14) 'Heroes and Horses in Virgil and Walter Scott: The Darker Side of Knightly Humor', J. P. Sullivan Memorial Lecture in Classics by Prof. Frederick M. Ahl, University of California Santa Barbara, 10 April 2015
The 2015 J. P. Sullivan Memorial Lecture in Classics at the University of California Santa Barbara was delivered by Prof. Frederick M. Ahl (Cornell).
15) 'Burns and Scott: Builders of the Scottish Nation', talk by Prof. Gerard Carruthers, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 16 April 2015
Gerard Carruthers holds the Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Among many other publications, he is author of Robert Burns (2005) and Scottish Literature (2009), editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Scott’s Reliquiae Trotcosienses (2004) and The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns (2009), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature and Scotland and the Nineteenth-Century World (both 2012). Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
16) ‘The Making of the Abbotsford Estate’, Lecture by Pippa Coles, Abbotsford Library, Abbotsford House, Melrose, 22 April 2015
Using new research which interrogates Scotts's journals, letters, and his account of the planting and management of the estate, Pippa Coles, Gardens Heritage and Development Manager at Abbotsford House, described the ambition behind the landscape of Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott's central involvement in its creation.
17) 'Carved in Stone', Adult Learning Workshop, Abbotsford House, Melrose, 9 May 2015
From classical figures to ghoulish gargoyles and elegant floral carvings, Abbotsford boasts a wealth of beautiful stone sculptures. This one day workshop with artist Susheila Jamieson introduced newcomers to simple stone carving techniques and allowed more experienced sculptors to produce something inspired by a unique historical setting. The workshop included a tour of the historic house and gardens, all materials, equipment and lunch.
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2014
1) 'Vulnerable Times', 129th
MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 9-12 January 2014
The 129th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association (MLA) featured four papers of Scott interest: ‘Specters of Scott: Sacrilege and Reparation in Several Late Works’ by Samuel E. Baker (Texas, Austin), ‘Cutting Out the Castle Quicksand: Scott's Bride, Donizetti's Lucia, and the 'Personally Furious' Ayn Rand’ by Shoshana Milgram Knapp (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ), ‘”Drifting through the Intellectual Atmosphere' from Scott's Old Morality to Liszt's Hexameron”’ by Catherine Ludlow (Western Illinois), and ‘Walter Scott, British Identity, and International Grand Opera: Isidore de Lara's Amy Robsart (1893)’ by Tommaso Sabbatini (Chicago).
2) 'The Textual Condition of the Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels', Talk by Dr Brian McMullin, Centre for the Book, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1 February 2014
With the completion of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, which is based on the first editions, attention may now be turned to other editions with authorial warrant, notably the magnum opus edition of 1829–1833, which contains Scott’s final revisions. Dr Brian McMullin (Monash), long-time editor of the Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and NZ, discussed The Pirate, The Betrothed, and The Talisman.
3) ‘Energy!’, South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2014 Conference, Galveston, Texas, 13-15 February 2014
The 2104 Conference of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Convicta et Combusta: Walter Scott’s Condemned Woman, the Chivalric Tradition, and Common Law Legitimacy’ by Erin L. Sheley (George Washington).
4) 'Being "German-mad": Sir Walter Scott’s Fascination with German Literature', Lecture by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, German Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 14 February 2014
This lecture for the German Research Seminar was delivered by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
5) 'Cataloguing the Abbotsford Library', Talk by Lindsay Levy, Carlyle Society, University of Edinburgh, 16 February 2014
Lindsay Levy gave a talk to the Carlyle Society on the work of the Abbotsford Library Research Project, which has completed a catalogue of Scott's personal library at Abbotsford House.
6) ‘The Grammar of the Imagination: A Symposium in Memory of Professor Susan Manning’, University of Edinburgh, 21-22 February 2014
The English Department of Edinburgh University hosted a symposium in memory of their late colleague Susan Manning, Grierson Professor of English and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, who died in January 2013. The weekend consisted of a round-table discussion of Professor Manning's last book, The Poetics of Character, a public lecture, ‘Toward a Compositionist Poetics: Through Ballads to the Mesh’ by Professor Maureen McLane (New York), and a day conference on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary connections with distinguished international speakers including James Chandler (Chicago), Claire Connolly (Cork), Ian Duncan (Berkeley), Heather Glen (Cambridge), Catherine Jones (Aberdeen), and Nigel Leask (Glasgow). Prof. McLane is the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP, 2000, 2006).
7) 'Abbotsford',
Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture by Matthew Withey, Saltire Society Edinburgh Branch, Royal OverSeas League, Edinburgh, 19 March 2014
In the 2014 Edinburgh Philosophical Institution Lecture, Matthew Withey, Curator at Abbotsford, talked about the history, and future, of Sir Walter Scott's home in the Scottish Borders.
8) 45th Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg,
Virginia, 20-23 March 2014
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) featured two
papers of particular Scott interest: 'A Little too Ironic: Austen, Scott, and the Problem of Detachment' by Christopher Scalia (Virginia) and 'Wild Celtic Girls: Owenson, Scott, and Female National Character' by Ashley E. Shannon (Grand Valley State).
9) 'Waverley at 200', One-Day Symposium,
University of Dundee, 22 March 2014
The Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee presented a symposium in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s debut novel, Waverley. Speakers includde: David Finkelstein (Dundee), Jodi-Anne George (Dundee), Eleanor Harris (Stirling), Alison Lumsden (Aberdeen), Murdo Macdonald (Dundee), Tom Mole (Edinburgh), Graeme Morton (Dundee), Murray Pittock (Glasgow), David Robb (Dundee), Jim Stewart (Dundee), and Chris Whatley (University of Dundee). The day conclued with a performance of Scott's drama Macduff's Cross by the JOOT Theatre Company.
10) 'The Supernatural
in Literature and Film: Ghosts, Fairies, Aliens, Vampires, Monsters,
and Demons', Three-Day Conference, Lerwick, Shetland, 29-31
March 2014
Organized by Island
Dynamics, this conference brought together researchers
and practitioners to discuss the role of the supernatural in
literature and film, past and present, worldwide. It included one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'The Wizard of the North: The Supernatural
in Walter Scott's Novels' by Anna Fancett (Aberdeen).
11) 45th Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Harrisburg, PA, 3-6 April 2014
The Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA) featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: ‘Discovering Manliness: National Identity and Masculinity in Scott’s Waverley’ by Jo Sullivan (Duquesne)
12) 'Walter Scott and Border Ballads', Songs and Tales by Dr Kaye McAlpine and Dr Lucy Macrae, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 7 April 2014
This event was jointly organized by the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Lucy MacRae (Edinburgh) was recently awarded a PhD for her thesis entitled 'Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory'. Dr McAlpine (Edinburgh)
is Research Fellow on the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
13) 'Emblems
and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination'. Interdisciplinary Symposium,
Society of Antiquaries of London, 26 April 2014
Hosted by the Society
of Antiquaries of London, ths symposium invited paperson
any aspect of the employment and perception of the heraldic
in literature, history, art, architecture, design, fashion,
and contemporary and historical practice. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Symbolising Succession: Walter Scott’s and Charlotte Yonge’s Use of Heraldry’ by Diana Powell (University of Liverpool).
14) 'Celebrating the Writing of Orkney and Shetland', Shetland Museum, Lerwick, 29 April 2014
This one-day event marked the completion of Writing the North, a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, the Shetland Museum and Archives, and the Orkney Library and Archive to explore the writing of Orkney and Shetland and to make connections between the history of literature in the islands from the early nineteenth century and creative writers working today. It included a talk on 'Walter Scott’s Tour to Orkney and Shetland' by Penny Fielding, Grierson Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, and Professor Alison Lumsden, Co-Director of Aberdeen University's Walter Scott Research Centre.
15) TradFest: Traditional Scottish Culture Live, Edinburgh, 29 April-11 May 2014
As part of the 2014 TradFest, Anna Fancett and Lisa McKenna, doctoral students at Aberdeen University's Walter Scott Research Centre led a lecture and discussion on the topic of 'Walter Scott and the Storytellers'.
16) Traversées/Crossings: 54th Conference of the Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (SAES), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France, 16-18 May 2014
The 54th Conference of the Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (SAES) at Caen University, featured two papers of particular Scott interest, both by Céline Sabiron (Paris Sorbonne): 'Questioning the Translatability of Walter Scott’s Scottish Novels' and 'Rob Roy à l'écran: un héritage scottien problématique'.
17) 'Transcending
Oppositions in Scottish Culture', Two-Day Symposium, University
of Porto, Portugal, 2-3 June 2014
This symposium, organised by the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies
(CETAPS) of the University
of Porto, addressed the problem of oppositions in all aspects
of Scottish culture across the centuries. At the same time, it commemorated the 200th
anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s début
novel, Waverley, a landmark in the history of the representations
of Scotland and of the symbolic negotiations which involve past
and present, realism and romance, politics and personal identity,
Englishness and Scottishness. It featured the following papers of particular Scott interest: Maeve Adams (Manhattan College), '"The Force of my Narrative": Persuasion, Nation and Paratext in Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels', Miguel Alarcão (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), 'There was a Writer, a Scottish Writer: Transcending Oppositions in Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819)', Eugenio-Enrique Cortés-Ramírez (Castilla-La Mancha), 'Waverley’s Successful Concordia: The Overcome of Jacobin Disputes in the Early 19th Century', Luísa Leal de Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), 'The Oak Whose Acorns Have Sown a Forest: Thomas Carlyle on John Knox, Robert Burns, Walter Scott and How the Past May Inspire the Future', Carmen Gonçalves (Colégio da Rainha Santa Isabel), 'Identity Games: A Hidden Agenda in Selected Paratexts of Walter Scott', Aniela Korzeniowska (Warsaw), 'Sir Walter Scott and Hugh MacDiarmid: Two Exceptional Literary Figures and their Views in Reference to the Union with England', and Jorge Bastos da Silva (Porto), 'The Veiled Subject in Walter Scott'.
18) 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu: The Past in Literature from Scott to Proust', Sir Walter Scott Prize Lecture by Prof. David Hewitt, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 9 June 2014
Prof. David Hewitt, Co-Director of Aberdeen University's Walter Scott Research Centre, delivered the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 2014 Walter Scott Prize Lecture, paying homage to Scott on the bicentenary of the publication of Waverley. He also considered the different approaches to finding and reliving the past in Scott and other writers such as William Wordsworth, John Ruskin and Marcel Proust. Professor Hewitt is editor-in-chief of the recently completed Edinburgh
Edition of the Waverley Novels. In addition to publishing many important
articles on Scott, he has edited Scott on Himself: A Selection
of the Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press, 1981) and Scott and His Influence:
The Papers of the Aberdeen Scott Conference, 1982 (Aberdeen:
Association for Scottish Literary Studies, c1983) (with J. H. Alexander).
For the EEWN, he has edited The Antiquary (1995), Redgauntlet (with G. A. M. Wood, 1996), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden, 2004), and,
most recently, Rob
Roy (2008).
19) ‘Sir Walter Scott’s Legacy and the New Science of Reading’, Discussion Forum, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 16 June 2014
This discussion forum, hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, featured three speakers: Elspeth Jajdelska (Strathclyde) on Scott’s 19th-century readers, Viccy Coltman (Edinburgh) on portraits of Scott, and Sandra McNeil (Abbotsford House) on engaging with school children and the local community over Scott and Abbotsford.
20) 'The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314', 700th Anniversary Conference, University of Stirling, 25-26 June 2014
This Conference, hosted by the University of Stirling and the Strathmartine Trust, featured a paper by John Morrison (Aberdeen) on 'Sir William Allan, Bannockburn and Scottish History'. Examining Scott's impact on Scottish history painting, it focused primarily on Sir William Allan, and considered the paradoxical development of a Unionist history painting when most of the subjects depicted earlier conflict between the partners in the Union. Prof.
Morrison is the author of Painting the Nation: Identity and
Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920, which features
two chapters on the influence of Scott (see Morrison
2003a and Morrison
2003b). He also curated the exhibition 'Sir William Allan:
Artist, Adventurer' at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 30 June-6
October 2001.
21) 'Radcliffe at 250: Gothic and Romantic Imaginations', International Conference, University of Sheffield, 27-29 June 2014
Sponsored by BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies) and the University of Stirling,
this conference at Sheffield
University celebrated
the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ann Radcliffe and the launch of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic, ed. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2014). It featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'The "Great Enchantress" and the " Enchanter of the North": Radcliffe, Scott, and Writing Beyond the Grave' by Lucy Linforth (Edinburgh).
22) First
World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Glasgow,
2-5 July 2014
The University of
Glasgow hosted the first World Congress of Scottish Literatures
in the College of
Arts, with the involvement of the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies and other bodies. There were many significant contributions on Scott. Ann Rigney (Utrecht) delivered a plenary lecture 'How Scott Met the Mahatma: Reflections on World Literature'. Ian Duncan (Berkeley) chaired 'Rethinking the Historical Novel: A Roundtable on Scott and ‘the classical form of the historical novel’ 200 Years After Waverley', which featured panellists Ina Ferris (Ottawa), Margaret Kolb (Berkeley), and Matthew Ocheltree (Harvard). Ainsley MacIntosh (Aberdeen) discussed the forthcoming Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry during a roundtable on 'Editing Scottish Texts in the Twenty-First Century'. The congress also featured the following individual papers of particular Scott interest: Kang-yen Chiu (Sun Yat-sen), 'The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in China', Susanne Hagemann (Mainz/Germersheim), 'Scott’s First German Translators', Lindsay Levy (Glasgow), 'The Patriotism of Bibliography: Walter Scott and the Book Clubs', K. P. Müller (Mainz), 'History in Scottish Novels from John Galt to James Robertson and their Theoretical Backgrounds', Susan Oliver (Essex), 'The Matter of Landscape: Walter Scott and the Ecology of a Changing Nation', Josef Olson (Otago), 'Reading and Writing Scott in the South Pacific', Juliet Shields (Washington), 'At Sea in The Pirate', and Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young), 'Redgauntlet: Speculation in History, Speculation in Nature'.
23) ‘Celebrity Encounters: Transatlantic Fame in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America’, International Conference, University of Portsmouth, 4-5 July 2014
This conference, hosted by the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, explored the transatlantic dimensions of nineteenth-century constructions of fame and fandom. Of particular interest was the Keynote Address ‘Walter Scott’s Transatlantic Celebrity: A Tale of Two Monuments’ by Tom Mole (Edinburgh).
24) 'Activating the Archive',
Tenth International Scott Conference, University of Aberdeen, 8-12
July 2014
The University of Aberdeen is home to the Bernard
C. Lloyd Collection of Walter Scott Materials, one of the largest
collections of material relating to Scott anywhere in the world.
Recently moved to a new home in the Special Collections Centre in
the award winning Sir
Duncan Rice Library, the Lloyd Collection is particularly rich
in materials that demonstrate the international and cultural legacies
of Scott’s work. With the broad theme of Activating the Archive,
the Tenth International Scott Conference explored the ways in
which archives related to Scott may be exploited for scholarship
and how they can enhance our understanding of his work. It also
celebrated the bi-centenary of the publication of Waverley in a library which holds fine Jacobite collections.
25) 'Romantic Organizations', 22nd Annual
Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Washington DC, 10-13 July 2014
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) featured nine papers of particular Scott interest: ‘The Staging of Scott’s The Pirate’ by Frederick Burwick (California, Los Angeles), ‘Arts of Dress: Historical Aesthetics in Walter Scott and Jacques Rancière’ by Timothy P. Campbell (Chicago), ‘Portable Pieces: Scott’s Reorganization of The Chronicles of the Canongate’ by Katie Lanning (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Revolutions and Apparent Choice in Scott and Austen’ by Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College), ‘Remembering Scott and Austen at 100’ by Devoney Looser (Arizona State), ‘”The astonishment and conjectures of my audience”: Walter Scott’s Cliffhanger and the Reorganization of Narrative Discourse’ by Luke Terlaak Poot (Californa, Berkeley), ‘Squirearchy and Union: The Nation and the Country Gentleman in Scott, Edgeworth, and Owenson’ by Tristan Schweiger (Chicago), and ‘Walter Scott’s Waverley as a Blueprint for the Romantic Reader’ by Megan Taylor (McGill).
26) 24th Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society, University of Bucharest, Romania, 20-26 July 2014
The 24th Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society, host by the University of Bucharest, featured on paper of particular Scott interest: 'Sebastián Trullot’s Libretto for Amadeo Vives' Opera Artús (1897), or, The Way from Walter Scott’s Romanticism to Catalan and Hispanic Modernisme' by Juan Miguel Zarandona (Valladolid).
27) 'Celebrating Walter Scott's Waverley: A Defining Moment for Scotland?', Edinburgh International Book Festival, 25 August 2014
As part of the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Prof. Alison Lumsden, Co-Director of the University of Aberdeen's Walter Scott Research Centre, chaired a conversation between novelist James Robertson and author Stuart Kelly on why Scott’s influential novels continue to divide opinion. Robertson completed a PhD on Scott's novels (Edinburgh University) while is author of Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation (2010). Marking the bicentenary of Waverley, the event was sponsored by the Folio Society.
28) 'Kingdoms, Empire and Legacies: Assessing the Stuart dynasty and its Histories, 1603-2014', British Academy Early Career Research Networking Event, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 29 August 2014
August 2014 marked the 300th anniversary of the end of Stuart rule in the British Isles. This one-day symposium, organized by the British Academy at Corpus Christi College, explored the histories and legacies of the Stuart dynasty from the union of the crowns in 1603 until the present day. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott and the Stuart Legacy in his 'Jacobite' Novels' by Céline Sabiron (Wolfson, Oxford).
29) ESSE 2014, 12th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Košice, Slovakia, 29 August-2 September 2014
The 12th Conference of the European
Society for the Study of English, hosted by Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, featured a number of events of particular Scott interest. Prof. Fiona Robertson (St Mary's) delivered a plenary lecture on 'Walter Scott and the Restoration of Europe', while a panel on 'Walter Scott and the Shaping of the Nineteenth Century Novel' featured the following papers: 'Emulating Scott: Or How a French Imitator Published a Novel, Aymé Verd (1842) in imitation of Quentin Durward (1823)' by Jean Berton (Toulouse), 'The Impact of Adaptation of Scott’s Novels for the Stage' by Ian Brown (Kingston), and ‘Medievalism in the Victorian Novel: Sir Walter Scott’s Interest in Medieval Ideals’ by Alev Karaduman (Hacettepe University, Ankara).
30) 'Walter Scott's Waverley', Exhibition, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 10 September-16 November 2014
The original manuscript of Scott's ground-breaking novel Waverley, published in 1814, was the centrepiece of this exhibition at the National Library of Scotland. It also featured key documents that shed light on the birth of the novel; books, letters and newspapers that helped reveal its journey into print; books that were sources and inspirations for Scott; and letters and reviews which speculated about the identity of the anonymous author.
31) 'Minding Borders', Conference, St Anne's College, Oxford, 10-11 September 2014
'Minding Borders', a yearly conference of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research programme, hosted by St Anne's College, Oxford, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Cross-Channel Literary Crossings and the Borders of Translatability' by Céline Sabiron (Oxford/Nancy).
32) 'Embodying Literary Celebrity and “Making it” as an Author', Workshop, Lancaster University, 18-19 September 2014
Organized by the Authors and the World project at Lancaster University, this workshop featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze' by Tom Mole (Edinburgh).
33) 'On or About 1814: A Symposium on Literature in History', University of California Berkeley, 20-21 September 2014
Convened by Representations editorial board member Ian Duncan, this symposium brought together a group of scholars to mark the bicentenary of Scott’s Waverley, published in July 1814, and other literary events associated with 'that fated year' (Robert Louis Stevenson). Along with works published in Britain in 1814, participants explorde a range of ways of thinking about historical dates and periods and what such data might mean for the study of literature.
Speakers included James Chandler (Chicago), Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), Claire Connolly(Cork), Simon During (Queensland), Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), Rae Greiner (Indiana), Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State), Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College), Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley), Deidre Shauna Lynch (Harvard), Ann Rigney (Utrecht), and Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young).
34) 'Commemoration, Memory, Posterity', 2014 Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Syracuse University, New York, 25-27 September 2014
The 2014 Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, hosted by Syracuse University, featured three papers of Scott interest: 'Aesthetics of Detachment in Waverley: Scott's Divergence from Burke' by William Bond (Syracuse), 'Reconstructing Walter Scott: Jefferson Davis on Tour' by Mike Goode (Syracuse), and 'Reading Walter Scott, Illustrating Shakespeare, and Constructing Female Types: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Gender Performance and the Authority of an Historical Imaginary' by Adam Kozaczka (Syracuse).
35) 'Romantic Reflections: Twins, Echoes, and Appropriations', International Conference on Romanticism, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN, 25-28 September 2014
The 2014 meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism, hosted by the University of St. Thomas, featured three papers of particular Scott
interest: ‘Walter Scott, Franco Moretti, and the Information Engineering of Romantic Fiction’ by Dallas Liddle (Augsburg College), ‘Scott’s Rebecca and the Virtue of Resistance’ by Caitlin Rose Myers (Arizona), and ‘Nomadic Reflections: From American ‘Indian’ to Scottish ‘Gypsy’ in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly and Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering’ by Maria Stracke (CUNY)
36) The Lermontov 200 Conference, Moffat House Hotel, Moffat, Scotland, 3-5 October 2014
The Lermontov 200 Conference was a celebration of the bicentenary of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov and discussion on how to make his work more accessible to wider audiences, jointly promoted by the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, the Moscow Institute of Translation, and Moffat Book Events with publicity support from the Scotland-Russia Forum. It included a panel 'Landscape, Myth and Romanticism' exploring Lermontov's links with Scott, Hogg, and Scottish Romanticism, which featured contributors from writer Evgeny Vodolazkin, Claire Lamont, Professor of English Romantic Literature at Newcastle, and Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
37) 'Walter Scott as a Global Writer?', Comparative Literature Seminar by Prof. Ann Rigney, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands, 8 October 2014
In the first session of Utrecht University's Comparative Literature Seminar, Prof. Ann Rigney, offered a critical exploration of Scott as a ‘global’ writer by examining the productive reception of his work in British-controlled India. With reference to writers working in Bengali, Urdu and Gujarati, Rigney aimed to show how Scott’s work was translated, adapted, and appropriated as an imaginative resource in formulating an anti-colonial counter-memory that Scott himself could not have anticipated but might perhaps have welcomed. Prof. Rigney holds the Chair of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University; besides many articles on Scott, she is the author of Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (2001) and The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (2012).
38) ‘Revolutions in Eighteenth-Century Sociability’, Joint Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Montreal, Quebec, 15-18 October 2014
The annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, hosted by the Université du Québec à Montréal, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Revising the Reader in Walter Scott’ by Megan Taylor (McGill).
39) 'Conflict and Conquest', 2014 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 16-18 October 2014
Sponsored by University of West Georgia and Clayton State University, the 2014 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Sir Walter Scott and Maid Marian' by Sherron Lux (San Jacinto College).
40) ‘Medievalisms on the Move’, 29th International Conference on Medievalism, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 23-25 October 2014
The 29th International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, and hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, featured on paper of particular Scott interest: 'Flaubert's Middle Ages' by Chris Ippolito (Georgia Tech), which discussed the influence of Scott and other Romantic writers on Gustave Flaubert's treatment of the Middle Ages.
41) 'Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze: Statues, Photographs and Poets in the British Pantheon’, IAS Fellow's Public Lecture by Dr Tom Mole, Hatfield College, University of Durham, 24 October 2013
In the middle of the 19th century, Britain was in the grip of a protracted and contentious debate about who constituted the nation and what they shared. As successive Reform Acts more than doubled the electorate, many were concerned about how to build a new sense of cultural consensus. One way to do this was to create a pantheon of great men (and some women) from the past, in an effort to model and promote forms of cultural consensus for the present. A shared set of heroes would provide examples of civic virtue and artistic achievement for emulation. The new pantheon took shape in prominent buildings such as Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, but it soon spread across the rapidly redeveloped cities of London and Edinburgh, and then across the nation as a whole. As IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies) Fellow at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University, Dr Tom Mole how new statues of two writers, Byron and Scott, were positioned in the emerging pantheon and remediated through the new technology of photography. He showed how their inclusion in the new pantheon gave material existence, in the present, to the past shared by the newly-enfranchised subjects of the Reformed nation.
Dr Mole is Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (2007) and has co-edited Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850 (2009) and The Broadview Reader in Book History (2015).
42) 'Once Upon a Place', Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2014, Edinburgh, 24 October-2 November 2014
The 2014 Scottish International Storytelling Festival was themed Once Upon a Place and celebrated Edinburgh’s global reputation as a cultural centre as well as the tenth anniversary of it being designated the world's first UNESCO City of Literature. One strand, Re-imagining Scotland, was inspired by Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, and reimagined Scotland's history as the people's story rather than tales of kings, queens, empires and battles. It consisted of three events: Tales of a Granny (aimed at under-5's), Unrolling Walter Scott's Magic Carpetcelebrates Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather through events 'Tales of a Granny' and 'Tales of a Grandfather: Unrolling Walter Scott’s Magic Carpet' by Donald Smith, and the three-part 'Tales of a Grandson' with Andy Cannon.
43) 'Familiar Spirits’, 112th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, 31 October-2 November 2014
The 112th Annual Conference of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association, sponsored by the University of California, Riverside, featured one paper of particular Scottish interest: ‘Pilgrimage of Love: Circulation, Sensibility, and Empire in Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian’ by Ray Crosby (Moreno Valley College).
44) 'Celebrity and Anonymity in Romantic Britain', Oxford Centre for Life Writing Lecture by Dr Tom Mole, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 14 November 2014
The first of a seminar series on The Author in the Popular Imagination, sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Life Writing and organized by Joanna Neilly (Queen’s, Oxford), was delivered by Dr Tom Mole, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (2007) and has co-edited Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850 (2009) and The Broadview Reader in Book History (2015).
45) '"We’re all half English here": Anglo-German Cultural Transfer during the Reign of the House of Hanover, 1714-1837', Conference, St John’s College, Oxford University, 20-22 November 2014
2014 saw two major jubilees which show the interconnectedness of British and German culture in very different manners, firstly the 300th anniversary of the Hanoverian personal union in 1714 and secondly the 100th anniversary of World War I. As the professor for history in Göttingen, Ludwig T. Spittler, remarked: ‘we’re all half-English here, and not just in terms of clothes, manners and fashion – but in character too’. This autumn, will host a series of events surrounding the personal union and its cultural legacy.
Hosted by St John’s College in cooperation with the University of Hannover, this conference focused on Anglo-German cultural transfer during the reign of the the House of Hanover, tracing the interactions between Germany and Britain in the long 18th century. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Sir Walter Scott and Germany: Cultural Transfer, the Literary Fantastic and the Historical Novel' by Barry Murnane (Oxford).
46) 'Great Novels of 1814: Austen, Burney, Edgeworth and Scott', Exhibition, Rare Books and Special Collections, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia, 24 November 2014-1 March 2015
The University of Sydney's Fisher Library presented an exhibition to celebrate the bicentenary of four great novels published in the same year: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer, Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage, and Scott’s Waverley.
47) Gothic Study Day, British Library, 6 December 2014
The British Library presented a 'day of presentations by specialists for those who wish to take their interest in the gothic to a deeper level'. It featured two presentations of particular Scott interest: 'Gothic Thresholds; or, The Passages that Lead to Nothing' by Fiona Robertson (St Mary’s) and '"Sir Walter Scott Disease": From "Girly-girly Romance" to the "Southern School of Degeneracy"' by Fred Botting (Kingston).
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1) 'Credit, Money and the Market': 42nd
Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, St Hugh's College, Oxford, 3-5 January 2013
The Annual Conference of the British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held at St
Hugh's College, University of Oxford, addressed eighteenth-century
understandings of Credit, Money and the Market, and their workings
and effects, broadly conceived, throughout the long eighteenth
century, at all levels of society, and in any part of the world.
It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: '"Turning
Lead to Gold": Walter Scott's Works of Swift'
by Daniel Cook (Cambridge, now Dundee).
2) 'Avenues of Access', 128th
MLA Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusettes, 3-6 January 2013
The 128th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association (MLA) featured four papers of Scott interest:
'Poetry in the Unnecessarily Restricted Sense in Scott’s
Waverley' by Nicholas Bujak (Johns
Hopkins), 'Robin Hood Onstage in Dramatic Versions of Scott's
Ivanhoe' by Jeff Dailey (Five
Towns College), 'Importing Trees and Exporting People: Walter
Scott's Transatlantic Ecology' by Susan Oliver
(Essex), and 'Euromance of Reunion: Sir Walter Scott, Italy,
and Tourism in Postbellum America' by Kaye Wierzbicki
(Harvard).
3) 'Rokeby:
Poetry and Landscape; Walter Scott and Turner in Teesdale',
The Bowes Museum, Castle Barnard, County Durham, 26 January-28
April 2013
This exhibition marked the bicentenary of the publication of
Rokeby, which
Scott wrote following several visits to John
Morritt’s country estate, Rokeby Park,
having taken inspiration from the surrounding scenery. The
Bowes Museum is situated a mile from the estate, at the
centre of the landscape brought to life in the poem. Rokeby
placed Teesdale firmly on the tourist map as well as drawing
a succession of artists to the region, including Turner,
who produced twenty views for Whitaker’s An History
of Richmondshire, four of which relate to locations in
the poem. Scott’s publisher Cadell later commissioned
Turner to illustrate a complete edition of the poet’s
works, stating that he could sell 8,000 copies with Turner’s
illustrations as opposed to 3,000 without. Exploring the relationship
between literature and art, the exhibition (curated by the Museum’s
Keeper of Fine Art, Emma House) examined the
poem’s role in attracting artists such as Turner, Atkinson
Grimshaw, and the Pre-Raphaelite Alfred William
Hunt to the region, highlighting the importance of
Teesdale in the development of landscape painting in Britain.
It included loans from the British Museum, Tate, and regional
galleries as well as paintings from the Museum’s own collection.
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue and a full programme
of events, featuring walking tours, workshops, and talks including
a guest lecture on Scott's poem
by Prof. Fiona Robertson.
4) 'Reiving and Bereaving: Walter Scott
and the Rich Ballad Tradition of the Scottish Borders', Songs
and Tales by Lucy MacRae and Kaye McAlpine, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 7 February 2013
Lucy Macrae and Kaye McAlpine of the School
of Celtic and Scottish Studies presented an introduction to
Scott's Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border and the historical background
of the Borders, featuring ballads sungs by traditional singers
Naomi Harvey, Kathy Hobkirk, Elsa LeMaitre and Henry Douglas.
Lucy MacRae is working on a Ph.D. that looks at collective memory
in the Scottish Borders around 1800, with particular focus on
the cultural context of the Minstrelsy texts. Dr McAlpine
is Research Fellow on the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
5) ‘Transporting the Romantic: Sir
Walter Scott, Washington Irving and the Romantic Writer’s
House’, Talk by Prof. Nicola Watson, Centre for Editorial
& Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, 26 February 2013
In this talk, hosted by Cardiff University's Centre
for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR), visiting speaker
Prof. Nicola Watson investigated the making of Washington
Irving’s house in New York State, Sunnyside,
as a reworking of Sir Walter Scott’s exercise in self-presentation
at Abbotsford.
Prof. Watson is Professor of English Literature at the Open University.
She edited The Antiquary
(1999) for Oxford World Classics and is author of Revolution
and the Form of the English Novel, 1790-1825 (Oxford University
Press, 1994) and The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places
in Romantic and Victorian Britain (Palgrave, 2006).
6) 'Bringing Walter Scott into the 21st
Century', Debate with Prof. David Purdie and Prof. Alan Riach,
Edinburgh Central Library, 28 February 2013
In 2012, Prof. David Purdie (Chairman of the Edinburgh
Walter Scott Club) published a controversial abridgment of
Sir Scott's Ivanhoe
and is currently working on an abridgment of The
Heart of Mid-Lothian. Prof. Purdie joined Prof. Alan
Riach (Glasgow) for a lively debate on the merits and ethics of
bringing Scott into the 21st century, as well as a general discussion
on Scott's heroes, heroines, tales and tropes. The event was hosted
by Edinburgh
Central Library and chaired by Stuart Kelly, author of Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation, and Literary Editor
of Scotland on Sunday.
7) 'Marmion:
A Tale of Flodden Field', Rehearsed Reading, Parliament
Hall, St. Andrews, 10 March 2013
In the 500th anniversary year of the Battle of Flodden, as
part of the Stanza
Poetry Festival, a distinguished cast, including Crawford
Logan, John Nichol, Judy Steel, and Gerda Stevenson, performed
a special rehearsed reading of Scott's Marmion
in Parliament
Hall, St. Andrews University.
8) 44th Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston, Massachusetts, 21-24
March 2013
The Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA) featured one panel of particular
Scott interest: Under Scott’s Shadow: Historical Fiction
in the Nineteenth Century. This featured the following
papers: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the "Accurate"
Historical Novel' by Kristen Fisher (Pennsylvania
State), 'The Novelist and the Historian: The Case of Bulwer-Lytton'
by Lesley Goodman (Harvard), and 'Affect-ations
of History in Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii'
by Louetta Hurst (Rutgers).
9) 'Rokeby's
Lines: Walter Scott, Poetry, and Possession', Guest Lecture by
Prof. Fiona Robertson, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County
Durham, 3 April 2013
To mark the exhibition 'Rokeby: Poetry and Landscape;
Walter Scott and Turner in Teesdale' (The
Bowes Museum, 26 January-28 April 2013), Prof. Fiona Robertson
gave a lecture on Scott's Rokeby
and the literary and artistic traditions surrounding it. Prof.
Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at
St Mary's University College. She is author of Legitimate
Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction
(Oxford, 1994) and editor of The Bride of Lammermoor
(Oxford World Classics, 1991) and The
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 2012).
10) 44th Annual Meeting
of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland,
Ohio, 4-7 April 2013
The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) featured
two papers of particular Scott interest: 'Convicta et Combusta:
Walter Scott’s Condemned Woman, the Chivalric Tradition,
and Common Law Legitimacy' by Erin Sheley (George Washington) and
'Walter Scott’s Works of Swift: "Turning
Lead to Gold"' by Daniel Cook (Dundee).
11) 'The Man Who Made Scotland', Radio
Talk by James Naughtie, BBC Radio 4, 10 April 2013, and BBC
Radio Scotland, 6 May 2013
To celebrate the return of Rossini's La Donna del Lago
(adapted from Scott's The
Bride of Lammermoor) to the Royal Opera House for the
first time in almost 30 years, James Naughtie argued that Scott
is more relevant now than ever to how Scotland tells the story
of itself and to how it addresses the increasingly pressing
question of what it means to be Scottish. The common view is
that Scott rewrote the story of a small nation and left a trail
of sentimentality and naval-gazing in his wake, but, argued
Naughtie, Scott's branding of Scotland is the mark of a thoroughly
modern thinker and it's been a lot more useful to Scotland than
we might think. While the nation has occasionally struggled
to escape his 'Balmorality', Naughtie believes that Scott reminds
everyone, in countries a long way from Scotland, how important
the idea of a national story can become.
12) 'Scott and Malta: A Mediterranean
Adventure', Talk by Lt Cdr Dairmid Gunn OBE, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 11 April 2013
Lt Commander Dairmid Gunn is well-known to members of the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club as one of its most established Council
members. He has previously given talks on many Scott-related
topics, including Scott's impact on Cardinal Newman and John
Buchan. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
13) 'Crosscurrents 2013', Postgraduate
Conference in Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen,
12-14 April 2013
The 2013 Crosscurrents conference, hosted
by the Research Institute
of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, featured
three papers of particular Scott interest: '"The
Peculiar Charm of Locality": Locating Cultural Memory in
Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'
by Lucy MacRae (Edinburgh), 'Cultural
Memory and Closure in the Ending of Walter Scott’s Waverley'
by Lisa McKenna (Aberdeen), and 'The
Anxiety of Textual Creation: An Exploration of the Link between
Maternity and Writing in Walter Scott’s The Monastery'
by Anna Fancett (Aberdeen).
14) Summerhall Historical
Fiction Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh, 12-15 April 2013
Summerhall, Edinburgh’s
award-winning Arts Centre, launched Britain’s largest
Historical Fiction Festival with a line up of acclaimed authors
and sessions dealing with both contemporary and classic texts.
The Festival featured two events of particular Scott interest.
It opens with the launch of the complete Edinburgh Edition
of the Waverley Novels, which will be presented by
chief editors David Hewitt and Alison
Lumsden (both Aberdeen). There followed a talk by Christopher
Harvie on 'Walter Scott and Napoleon'.
15) Spring Meeting of the Traditional
Song Forum, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 20 April
2013
The Spring Meeting of the Traditional
Song Forum, co-organized by the School
of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh,
featured one event of particular Scott interest. In 'Reiving
and Bereaving', Lucy MacRae and Kaye McAlpine
presented a journey deep into the 'Debatable Lands' of the
Scottish Borders, a region laden with history and myth from
which Scott drew both material and inspiration for the ballad
collection Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802.
They will be joined by acclaimed traditional singers Kathy
Hobkirk and Henry Douglas to bring the ballads and their history
to life. Lucy MacRae is working on a Ph.D. that looks at collective
memory in the Scottish Borders around 1800, with particular
focus on the cultural context of the Minstrelsy texts.
Dr McAlpine is Research Fellow on the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
16) 'Pentland Crossings', Talks and
Readings about Orkney Literature, University of Edinburgh,
4 May 2013
Hosted by Scottish
Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC), this conference
launched the Writing
the North project, a partnership between Shetland
Museum and Archives and the University
of Edinburgh. It featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: '"A little world by itself': Walter
Scott's Orkney and Shetland', an analysis of Scott's
The Pirate
by Alison Lumsden (Aberdeen). Prof. Lumsden
is a General Editor of the recently completed Edinburgh Edition
of the Waverley Novels and Co-Director of the University of
Aberdeen's Walter
Scott Research Centre. For the Edinburgh Edition, she
has edited Peveril
of the Peak (2007) and co-edited The
Pirate (2001), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (2004), and Reliquiae
Trotcosienses (2004). Her monograph Walter
Scott and the Limits of Language was published by
Edinburgh University Press in 2010. She has recently begun
work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.
17) 'Reiving and bereaving: Celebrating
Sir Walter Scott and the Rich Ballad Traditions of the Scottish
Borders', Workshop by Lucy MacRae and Kaye McAlpine, Fife
Traditional Singing Festival, Fife Animal Park, 12 May 2013
Fresh from their success at last year's Innerleithen
Music Festival, folklore scholars Lucy MacRae
and Kaye McAlpine from the School
of Celtic and Scottish Studies, Edinburgh presented a
workshop journeying deep into the Debatable Lands of the Scottish
Borders, a region steeped in myth and history from which Scott
drew both material and inspiration for his ballad collection
Minstrelsy of the
Scottish Border. The event explored the historical
and cultural background of both the area itself and Scott's
creation of the Minstrelsy, while the ballads themselves
were brought to life by traditional singers Henry
Douglas, Naomi Harvey, Kathy
Hobkirk, and Elsa Lemaitre. Lucy
MacRae is working on a Ph.D. that looks at collective memory
in the Scottish Borders around 1800, with particular focus
on the cultural context of the Minstrelsy texts.
Dr McAlpine is Research Fellow on the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
18) 'Scott in 2013: New Scholarship
and Old Connections', Talk by Prof. Fiona Robertson, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 16 May 2013
Prof. Robertson is Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature
at St Mary's University College. She is author of Legitimate
Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction
(Oxford, 1994) and editor of The Bride of Lammermoor
(Oxford World Classics, 1991) and The
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh,
2012). Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
19) ‘The Local and the Global’, Joint Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, British Association for Victorian Studies, and Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Venice, Italy, 3-6 June 2013
The Joint Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, British Association for Victorian Studies, and Australasian Victorian Studies Association, hosted by Ca’ Foscari University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Walter Scott’s Global Victorian Monument’ by Tom Mole (McGill).
20) 'Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle', International College, Trinity College Oxford, 14-15 June 2013
Co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the English Faculty of Oxford University, this conference placed Romanticism at the core of the British Fin de Siècle. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Romanticism without Borders: Cross Currents between English Romanticism, French Romanticism, and the British Fin de Siècle’ by Céline Sabiron (Oxford Wolfson).
21) 'On
the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions, and Transformations
in Irish and Scottish Studies', International Interdisciplinary
Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 19-23
June 2013
Co-presented by the Canadian
Association for Irish Studies/L'Association canadienne
d'études irlandaises and the Research
Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of
Aberdeen, and hosted by Simon
Fraser University, this event featured two papers
of particular Scott interest: 'Romancing the Past
in Nineteenth-Century Scottish and Irish Literature: Walter
Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' by
Lucy MacRae (Edinburgh) and 'Gothic
Histories: Banim, Scott, and Romancing the Past in the
1820s' by Jim Kelly (Exeter).
22) International Conference
on Narrative 2013, Manchester Metropolitan University,
27-29 June 2013
The 2013 International Conference on Narrative, sponsored
by the International
Society for the Study of Narrative, and hosted
by Manchester Metropolitan
University, featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: 'Walter Scott and Desultory Quotation'
by Matthew Fellion (St. Francis Xavier).
23) 'Global Romanticism',
2nd Biennial Conference of the Romantic Studies Association
of Australasia, University of Sydney, Australia, 3-5 July
2013
Hosted by the University
of Sydney, the 2nd Biennial Conference of the Romantic
Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) featured four
papers of particular Scott interest: Penny Fielding
(Edinburgh), 'Scott’s The Pirate and
Romantic Geography: The Island, the Archipelago, and the World',
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming), 'Site
or Sight?: The Romantic Circulation of Walter Scott',
Graham Tulloch (Flinders), 'Scott,
India and Australia: Personal and Literary Connections',
and Brian Wall (Edinburgh), 'Legality and Justice
in Scott and Hawthorne'.
24) 'The Locations of
Austen', International Interdisciplinary Conference, University
of Hertfordshire, UK, 11-13 July 2013
Held at the University
of Hertfordshire, this conference celebrated the
bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice (which is set in Hertfordshire).
It featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'In the Name of the Mother: A Comparative
Discussion of the Relationship between Maternity and
the Creation of Narrative in the Novels of Jane Austen
and Walter Scott' by Anna Fancett
(Aberdeen).
25) 'Sir Walter Scott
Home Again': Reading by Alasdair Hutton, Peebles
Library, Peebles, Scottish Borders, 18 July
2013
To mark the reopening of Abbotsford
House, Alasdair Hutton, Chairman of the
Edinburgh Sir
Walter Scott Club, read a selection of Scott's
best-loved poems. Contact Peebles
Library for further details.
26) 'Romantic Imports and Exports', 13th International Biennial Conference of the British
Association for Romantic Studies, University of Southampton, 25-28 July 2013
The University
of Southampton hosted the 13th International Biennial
Conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies (BARS), on the theme of 'Romantic Imports and Exports''. The conference sought to look beyond British Romanticism and towards cross-cultural exchange, at new media in the Romantic period, and at economics and related discourses. The following papers were of particular
Scott interest: ‘Scott’s The Pirate and Romantic Geography: The Island, the Archipelago, and the World’ by Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), ‘Scott’s and Galt’s Sympathetic Nabobs in St Ronan’s Well and The Last of the Lairds’ by James Morris (Glasgow), ‘Waverley: Exports, Expats, and Ecologies of Scale’ by Susan Oliver (Essex), ‘Translating Scottish Romanticism: Walter Scott in France’ by Céline Sabiron (Wolfson College, Oxford), ‘Beyond “Christabel Metre”: How Walter Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel Mediates Archaic Verse and Revises the Nation’ by Jeff Strabone (Connecticut College), ‘Exporting the Romantic: Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and the Making of the Romantic Writer’s House’ by Nicola Watson (Open University), and ‘Letitia Landon and the Legacy of Walter Scott’ by Julie Watt (Independent).
27) 'Romantic Movements', 21st Annual
Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston MA, 7-11 August 2013
The 21st Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), co-hosted by Boston University and the College of the Holy Cross, featured five papers of Scott interest: ‘The Form of Media History: Narrator-Space in the Poetry of Walter Scott’ by Nick Bujak (Johns Hopkins), ‘Circuits of Fame: Scott, Byron, and Authorial Renown’ by Ina Ferris (Ottawa), ‘Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Romantic Spontaneity’ by Beth Lau (California State, Long Beach), ‘Moving Readers through Un-Lyrical Poetry” by Kyoko Takanishi (Indiana, South Bend), and ‘”Transporting the Romantic”: Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and the Making of the Romantic Writer’s House’ by Nicola Watson (Open University).
28) 'The Environment and the (Post)Human in Scotland: Representing Nature and the Living', Annual Conference of the Société
Française d’Études Écossaises, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, 17-19 October 2013
The Annual Conference of the Société
Française d’Études Écossaises (French Society of Scottish Studies), hosted by the Université de Franche-Comté, featured two papers of particular Scott interest: ‘Fantaisie pastorale ou Golgotha de la création?: L'Aberration de l'Utopie Quaker en terre d'Écosse dans Redgauntlet de Walter Scott’ by Cyril Besson (Grenoble III) and ‘How Sir Walter Scott Wrote the Scottish National landscape: A Study of the Picturesque and the Sublime in Three “Jacobite” Novels’ by Sarah Bisson (Paris IV).
29) ‘Scotland 2014: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?’, 2013 Conference on Scotland, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, 17-20 October 2013
Hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, this conference took place one year before the Scottish referendum on independence, investigating the possibilities and prospects facing Scotland but also trying to give an account of how Scotland and the ideas of devolution and independence have been dealt with in various media since the Middle Ages. Of particular Scott interest were the Keynote Address, ‘Scottish Literature as World Literature in the Age of Union’ by Ian Duncan (Berkeley) and 'Region, Nation, Space: The Historical Geographies of Romantic Scotland', a paper by Penny Fielding (Edinburgh).
30) 'Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border – Made in Germany', Lecture by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, German Consulate General, Edinburgh, 31 October 2013.
This lecture, co-hosted by the German Consulate General for the Scottish Storytelling Centre, was delivered by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts (Mainz), Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
31) 'Writing the Border: Walter Scott and the Travel Narrative', 'Romantic Realignments' Seminar by Céline Sabiron, Lincoln College, Oxford, 13 November 2013
As part of the Romantic Realignments research seminar programme at Oxford University, Céline Sabiron (Oxford Wolfson) presented research from her forthcoming book Écrire la frontière: Walter Scott, ou les chemins de l’errance (to be published by Provence University Press) which focuses on Walter Scott's border narratives.
32) ‘Editing Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, Talk by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh, 21 November 2013
Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts is Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
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2012
1) 'Landscapes & Environments', 41st
Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, St Hugh's Colleges, Oxford, 4-6 January 2012
The 41st Annual Conference of the British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), hosted by
St Hugh's College,
University of Oxford, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Border Crossings and Initiation Rituals in Walter Scott’s
Waverley and Guy Mannering' by
Céline Sabiron (Sorbonne-Paris IV).
2) 'Language, Literature, Learning', 127th
MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, 5-8 January 2012
The 127th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association (MLA) featured two papers of Scott interest:
'Lyric Mindedness and the "Automaton Poet" in
Coleridge and Scott' by John Savarese
(Rutgers University) and 'Revolting Gaelic: Rebellious Scottish
Codes in Scott and Stevenson' by Anna Faktorovich
(Edinboro University of Pennsylvania).
3) 'Borders in the Long 19th Century', Joint Meeting of MIVSS (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar) and MRS (Midlands Romantic Seminar), Loughborough University, 13 January 2012
This Joint Meeting of MIVSS (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar) and MRS (Midlands Romantic Seminar), hosted by Loughborough University,
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'From Ivanhoe to Rebecca and Rowena: Walter Scott’s Shaping of Victorian Writing’ by Céline Sabiron (Oxford Wolfson).
4) 'Scott and the Pharos: The Lighthouse
Tour of 1814 Revisited', Talk by Prof. David Purdie, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 2 February 2012
Professor David Purdie, Chairman
of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club gave a talk on Scott's participation
in a voyage of inspection by the Commissioners for the Northern
Lighthouse Service in Summer 1814, on returning from which he found
his anonymous novel Waverley
a runaway success and his future in an alternative genre assured.
Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
5) 'Shared Visions: Art, Theatre
and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century', One-Day Conference,
University of Warwick, 11 February 2012
This conference, co-hosted by the School
of Theatre, Performance, and Cultural Policy Studies, University
of Warwick, and the journal Nineteenth
Century Theatre and Film, explored the connections between
art, theatre, and visual culture in the nineteenth century. It included
one paper of particular Scott interest: '" ...taken
from the original": Word, Image and the Drive for Authenticity
in Early Stagings of the Works of Sir Walter Scott' by
Barbara Bell (Edinburgh Napier University).
6) 'Justified Sinners and Religious Minorities: Scott, Hogg, Benjamin', Talk by Prof. Colin Jager, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 9 March 2012
Through readings of novels by Hogg and Scott, Prof. Jager argued that religious ‘fanaticism’ is a by-product of asymmetrical warfare. Hogg's ‘solution’ to religiously-motivated violence, he proposed, replaces Scott-style uneven development with a tentative and shadowy practice of living together. Dr Jager is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University. Among other writings on Scott, he is author of the monograph Unquiet Things:
Secularism in the Romantic Age (2015) (see Jager 2009, Jager 2011, and Jager 2015).
7) 'Walter Scott and the Bad
Boys: Scott, Burns and Byron', Lecture by Lindsay Levy, Broughton
History Society, Drummond Community High School, Edinburgh, 12 March
2012
Lindsay Levy (Advocates' Library) is cataloguing Scott's
library at Abbotsford
House as part of the Abbotsford
Library Research Project. More information from Broughton
History Society.
8) 2012 International Conference
on Narrative, Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-17 March 2012
The 2012 International Conference on Narrative, sponsored
by the International
Society for the Study of Narrative, featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'The Poetry of Walter Scott and the Development
of the Novel' by Nick Bujak (Johns Hopkins).
9)
NeMLA 2012 Convention, Rochester, NY, 15-18 March 2012
The 43rd Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Language Association, hosted by St.
John Fisher College, featured two papers of particular Scott
interest: 'An Occluded Other: The Vanishing Dispossessed
in Sir Walter Scott’s Three Jacobite Novels' by Bob
Thomson (Deakin University) and 'Saladin and Tipu:
The Depiction of Muslim Orientals in Sir Walter Scott’s Novels'
by Suha Kudsieh (College of Staten Island-CUNY).
10)
'Scotland and the Indian Subcontinent', Economic & Social
History Society of Scotland Spring Conference, Glasgow, 21 March
2012
The 2012 Spring Conference of the Economic
& Social History Society of Scotland featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Hospitality, Orientalism
and Empire in Walter Scott’s "The Surgeon’s Daughter"',
by Kang-yen Chiu (Glasgow).
11) 43rd Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio,
Texas, 22-24 March 2012
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) featured one
paper of particular Scott interest: 'Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Literature: From the Act of Union to Scott’s Waverley'
by Elizabeth Kraft (Georgia).
12) 'CEA 2012: Borders',
43rd Annual Conference of the College English Association, Richmond,
VA, 29-31 March 2012
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the College
English Association featured two papers of particular Scott
interest: 'Blurring Borders of Genre and Identity: (Generic)
Otherness in Scott's Guy Mannering' by Jamie
Gibbs (South Carolina) and 'Scott Borders'
by Karen Lentz Madison (Arkansas).
13) 'Abbotsford: An Exciting
Future', Talk by Sandra McNeil, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
5 April 2012
Sandra McNeil, Learning and Engagement Officer at
Abbotsford House, will discuss future developments at Scott's
home in the Scottish Borders, which include the scheduled opening
of a Visitor Centre in Summer 2012 and the re-opening of the House,
following an extensive programme of repair and refurbishment in
2013. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
14) 'Voices, Manuscripts
and "Guid Black Prent"', 2012 Meeting of the Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Studies Society, University of South Carolina, Columbia,
SC, 12-15 April 2012
The 25th Annual Conference of the
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, co-hosted by
University of South Carolina Libraries and the Department
of English, featured two papers of particular Scott interest:
'Operatic Remediations of The Bride of Lammermoor: Donizetti’s
Lucia in Comparative National Context' by Catherine
Jones (Aberdeen) and 'The Presbyterian Interpretation
of History and the Debate over Old Mortality in Scotland
and Nova Scotia' by Valerie Wallace
(Harvard).
15) 'Novel Worlds', 1st Biennial
Conference of the Society for Novel Studies, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, 27-28 April 2012
The inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society
for Novel Studies, sponsored by the journal NOVEL:
A Forum on Fiction, and hosted by Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina, featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Living American History after Waverley'
by Mike Goode (Syracuse).
16) Victorian Graduate Seminar, English Faculty, Oxford University, 30 April 2012
Graduate research seminar featuring one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Thackeray, Trollope, or the Scott Legacy: From Misconstructions to Literary Creations in Rebecca and Rowena and La Vendée' by Céline Sabiron (Oxford Wolfson).
17) 'Romanticism and Secrets', One-Day
Conference, Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol,
2 May 2012
This one-day conference, organized by the Centre
for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol, featured one
paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Walter Scott’s
Secret Authorship, Or a Reversed Masquerade Played Across the
Channel’ by Céline Sabiron
(Oxford).
18) 'Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg:
A City and Country Friendship', Talk by Dr Gillian Hughes, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 3 May 2012
Dr Gillian Hughes, author of James Hogg: A Life
(2007), main editor of The Collected Letters of James Hogg
(2004-08), and one of the general editors of the Stirling/South
Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James
Hogg, examinde parallels between the dual metropolitan and
country lifestyles of Scott and Hogg. Further details from the
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
19) 47th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 10-13, 2012
The 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
sponsored by the Medieval
Institute of Western Michigan
University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'From Ivanhoe to Ironclad: Changing Representations of Templars
in Fiction and Film' by Teresa Rupp (Mount St. Mary’s University).
20) ‘Hail to the Chief: The Americanization of Walter Scott during the War of 1812’, Martin Ridge Lecture in Literature by Prof. Charles Rezek, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 23 May 2012
The 2012 Martin Ridge Lecture in Literature at Huntingdon Library was delivered by Prof. Charles Rezek (Boston), author of the forthcoming monograph London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), besides many conference publications and articles on Scott including Rezek 2011 and Rezek 2013.
21)
'Crime Scotland: Then and Now', 2nd Conference of the Society
for Scottish Studies in Europe, 31 May-3 June 2012, Georg-August
University, Goettingen, Germany
The 2nd Conference of the Society
for Scottish Studies in Europe, hosted by the English
Department of Georg-August University, featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott's Walking
Stick: The Case of Major Weir' by Silvia Mergenthal
(Konstanz).
22) 'Romantic Connections: Networks of
Influence, c.1760-1835', BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference,
Newcastle University, 1 June 2012
Organized by the British Association
for Romantic Studies (BARS), and hosted by Newcastle
University, this conference featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Paratext and Intertext in the 'Introductory
Epistle' to Walter Scott's The Fortunes of Nigel'
by Alys Mostyn (Leeds).
23)
'Crossing the Highland Line in the 19th Century: Cross-Currents
in Scottish Writing', ASLS Annual Conference 2012, Sabhal Mòr
Ostaig, Isle of Skye, 8-10 June 2012
The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of
the Highlander, the rise of tartanry, and the emergence of the
modern Scottish tourist industry. It also witnessed the worst
excesses of the Clearances and the beginnings of an exodus from
the Highlands to the industrial cities and to the colonies. The
Annual Conference of the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies, hosted by Sabhal
Mòr Ostaig, examined the literary culture of Scotland
– Highland and Lowland – during this transformational
period, and will explore its interactions and intersections. It
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'What
Can Walter Scott Offer Us Today?' by poet and novelist
Christopher Whyte.
24) 'Besoms,
Keelies, and Merry Men: Scott’s Contributions to Jamieson’s
Dictionary', Talk by Dr Susan Rennie, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 14 June 2012
Dr Susan Rennie is author of Jamieson's Dictionary
of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the
Scots Language (Oxford University Press, 2012). A former
Senior Editor with Scottish
Language Dictionaries, she edited the online Dictionary
of the Scots Language (2001-04). She has also written
several Scots-language books for children, including the award-winning
Animal ABC: A Scots Alphabet (2002). Her talk focused
on fresh discoveries concerning Scott’s participation in
John Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish
Language (1808). Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club. (See Rennie
2012 for Scott's contributions to the 1825 Supplement
to Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary.)
25) 'Taking Liberties: Sex,
Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)', Two-Day Conference, Newcastle
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 15-16 June 2012
Organised at Newcastle
University by the Long
Nineteenth Century Research Group (School of English), with
the support of the Gender
Research Group and the Newcastle
Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, this
international multidisciplinary conference featured two papers
of Scott interest: 'Playthings and Puritans: Sex, Pleasure
and Coercion in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
and Walter Scott’s Kenilworth' by Harriet
Briggs (Newcastle) and '"Pray, Sir, is not
the Ravishing going to begin?": Representations of Sexual
Coercion in the Novels of Walter Scott’ by Melinda
Graefe (Flinders).
26) 'Moving Forward 2012:
The Use, Misuse and Abuse of Identity', Annual Postgraduate Conference,
University of Aberdeen, 22-25 June 2012
'Moving Forward 2012', the ninth in a series of annual interdisciplinary
postgraduate conferences, hosted by the
Trinity College Dublin,
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Napoleon Comes to America: The Publishing of Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827)' by Michael Winship (Texas Austin).
27) 'The Battle for Books', SHARP 2012,
Trinity College Dublin, 26-29 June 2012
The 20th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, held
at the University
of Helsinki, featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Scott‘s Minstrelsy and Victorian Ballad Collections:
Authorship, Editing, and Authority' by Yuri Cowan (Ghent).
28) 'James Hogg and the Romantics',
2012 James Hogg Conference, University of Glasgow, 29-30 June
2012
The Biennial James Hogg Conference was jointly hosted
by the James
Hogg Society and the School
of Critical Studies at the University
of Glasgow. Papers explored the nature of Hogg’s relationship
with other Romantic writers and, in particular,all aspects of
Hogg’s relationship with Scottish Romanticism. Of particular
Scott interest was 'Border Bards Together: Hogg, Scott
and Leyden' by Gillian Hughes.
29) 'The Corporeal and the
Spiritual in the Works of Walter Scott', Two-Day Conference, Sorbonne
University, Paris, France, 5-6 July 2012
This international conference at Paris-Sorbonne
University co-organized by D2I
(VALE) and the Société
Française d’Etudes Ecossaises called for papers
on the following theme:
"Walter Scott often seems determined to erase
the body from his texts, following the traditional Cartesian opposition
between body and soul, the body being merely, to use Plato’s
image, the tomb of the soul. Thus the novelist often chooses to
focus only on his characters’ intellectual development,
giving the reader so few details about their physical appearance
that it is often quite difficult to picture them. Scott demonstrates
his lack of interest in the material body even further –
although, in this case he does transcend the dichotomy between
body and soul – when he depicts the spectral body through
images of disembodied beings.
In fact, it appears that what Scott cares little
for is not the body itself but ordinary representations of it.
He only finds it fascinating when it is either incomplete or immaterial
– as in the case of ghosts for instance – or, on the
contrary, when it is excessively present and materialized, in
a Rabelais-like manner, when it is grotesque, misshapen, mutilated,
dismembered or transgressive (a cross between male and female
or between the human and the animal) or when it has turned into
a corpse, embodying the ultimate victory of the matter over the
spirit. This paradoxical attitude towards the body probably stems
from the mixed feelings of attraction and repulsion which Scott
himself experienced through his own infirmity and the repressive
spirit of the XIXth century society as a whole. As the body sparks
off sexual impulses and carnal desires, it is the inexpressible
which must yet be expressed and written but in another form. Apparently
absent from Scott’s texts, sexuality is nonetheless conveyed
through transpositions, transfers from the animate to the inanimate
as illustrated by the rape of the prison in The
Heart of Mid-Lothian or the erotic treatment of the Scottish
landscape.
In a figurative sense the body is also what holds
several elements together, what brings together materially distinctive
components to form a united and homogenous whole so the notions
of domestic or political body and of the body of the nation can
also be analyzed, as well as Scott’s textual body, discussing
the ways in which uniqueness and homogeneity are achieved in spite
of the various foreign bodies it borrows from."
30) 'Excavating Time: Uncovering and Recovering
the Past in Word and Image', University Museums in Scotland and
Scottish Word and Image Group Joint Conference 2012, University
of Dundee, 6-8 July 2012
The joint conference of University
Museums in Scotland and the Scottish
Word and Image Group (SWIG) considered the processes by which
the past might be accessed, preserved, represented, interpreted
or 'fabricated' through distinctive interactions between visual
and verbal media. It featured one paper of Scott interest:
'A "Good though Old-fashioned Library": Scenes of Nostalgic
Reading in Walter Scott's Waverley, Guy Mannering,
and The Antiquary' by Melinda Graefe (Flinders).
31) 'Locating Revolution: Place, Voice,
Community, 1780-1820', Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales,
9-12 July 2012
This multi-disciplinary conference, jointly hosted by the Wales
and the French Revolution project at the University
of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, the Centre
for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth University, and the Department
of English, Swansea University, featured one paper of Scott
interest: '"lka Land Has Its Ain Laugh": Land,
Laughter and Law in Walter Scott’s The Heart of Mid-Lothian'
by Andrew McInnes (Exeter).
32) 'City of Words: Writers, Readers and
Critics in Edinburgh', Exhibition, Edinburgh University Library,
3 August-27 October 2012
To mark the 250th anniversary of Edinburgh University's English
Department, this exhibition told the fascinating story of
how the writing, reading and criticism of literature have been
entwined in Edinburgh over the past quarter millennium. It showcased
books, letters and other artefacts illustrating the life and work
of writers (including Scott), critics and students involved in
the study of literature at the University. It also showed how
this study has been intimately interconnected with the literary
life of the city, through diverse contacts between the University
and Edinburgh writers, theatres, and publishing houses.
33) 'A Colloquium on The Antiquary',
presented by William Payne and Lee A. Simpson, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 5 August 2012
This year’s Edinburgh Sir Walter Scot Club Colloquium,
on The Antiquary,
was held at Hospitalfield
House in Arbroath, East Angus. Regarded as one of the finest
historic houses in Scotland, this is now also an arts centre, and
is reputed to have provided a model for Scott’s depiction
of Monkbarns in his novel. The discussion was led by Lee A. Simpson,
the Club's Honorary Treasurer and Events Convener, and William Payne,
Director at Hospitalfield, and there was also a tour of the house
and buffet lunch. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
34) 'Emblems of Nationhood:
Britishness 1707–1901', Multidisciplinary Conference, University
of St Andrews, 10-12 August 2012
This conference, organized by the Schools of Art
History, English,
and Modern Languages
at the University of St Andrews,
featured two papers of particular Scott interest: 'The "Other"
Nation: Scotland, Gypsies and Guy Mannering' by
Alexandra Drayton (St Andrews) and 'Walter
Scott's Waverley and Susan Ferrier's Marriage: Gendered
Visions of the British Union' by Benjamine Toussaint
(Sorbonne).
35) 'But an' ben wi' Burke
and Hare', Reading by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Edinburgh International
Book Festival, 14 August 2012, 11.00-12.00
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) gave a reading
from her monograph The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy
of the Burke and Hare Murders (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Her study asks why the Burke and Hare case has continued to resonate
with writers from Walter Scott (who refused publicly to comment
on the scandal) and Robert Louis Stevenson, to Alasdair Gray and
Ian Rankin today. Besides many articles on Scott, Prof. McCracken-Flesher
is the author of Possible
Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005) and editor of Culture, Nation,
and the New Scottish Parliament (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press, 2007).
36) 'Romantic Prospects', 20th Annual
Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-19 August 2012
The 20th Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), co-hosted by the Université
de Neuchâtel and the Universität
Zürich, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Charmed Prospects: Wordsworth’s and Scott’s Viewpoints
of Ruin' by Susan Oliver (Essex).
37) 'Reiving and
Bereaving: Walter Scott and the Rich Ballad Tradition of the
Scottish Borders', Talk by Lucy MacRae and Kaye McAlpine with
Musical Accompaniment, Innerleithen Music Festival, St Ronan's
Wells Visitor Centre, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, 19 August
2012
As part of the Innerleithen
Music Festival, folklore scholars Lucy Macrae
and Kaye McAlpine from the School
of Celtic and Scottish Studies, Edinburgh presented a journey
deep into the ‘Debateable Lands’ of the Scottish
Borders through the ballads collected in Scott's Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border. The ballads were brought to
life by Borders singers Kathy Hobkirk, Elsa
Lemaitre, and Henry Douglas, and acclaimed
young traditional singer Naomi Harvey. Set
against a visual backdrop, the event wove together history,
myth, landscape, and song.
38) 'Forest Pitch', Selkirk, 25 August
2012
Forest Pitch
was an arts and soccer project which commemorated Sir Walter Scott’s
role in organizing the Carterhaugh Ba’ football match of
1815 which saw a team drawn from the estates of the Duke of Buccleuch
take on the men of Selkirk, Hawick, and Gala in a contest involving
hundreds of players and very few rules. A contribution to the
Cultural
Olympiad, the event saw some 60 players, many of them people
new to Scotland, take part in football matches on a woodland pitch
on the Buccleuch Estates. The work of Edinburgh artist Craig Coulthard,
its aim was to raise questions about Scottish culture and identity
at a crucial moment in the nation’s history.
39) ESSE 2012, 11th Conference of the
European Society for the Study of English, Bogaziçi University,
Istanbul, Turkey, 4-8 September 2012
The 11th Conference of the European
Society for the Study of English, hosted by Bogaziçi
University, will feature one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Saladin as the Other in Walter Scott’s The
Talisman' by Jacqueline Jondot
(Toulouse le Mirail).
40) 'Out and in: The Decant
and Recant of Sir Walter Scott's Collection at Abbotsford', Talk
by Joanna Cook and Matthew Withey, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club, 6 September 2012
Joanna Cook and Matthew Withey are respectively
Project Conservator and Curator at Scott's home of Abbotsford
House. Their talk took place shortly after the planned opening
of the new Visitors
Centre at Abbotsford. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
41) 'Reconfigurations: from Papyrus to Post-structuralism', Graduate Conference, University of Bristol, 19-20 September 2012
The University of Bristol and the University of Exeter, in partnership with the Bristol Institute for the Research of Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA), the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) and the Society for French Studies (SFS), organized a graduate conference explorings ideas and themes around figure, change and transformation across a wide range of modern language disciplines. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Translation as Transplantation: From Scott to Balzac through the Distorting Prism of Defauconpret' by Céline Sabiron (Oxford).
42) ‘Victorian Networks’, 10th Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 27-30 September 2012
The Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of Mid-Lothian and the Culture of Distance’ by Marie Pantojan (Northwestern).
43) 'Scott, the Brothers
Grimm, and the Lost Union', Lecture by Christopher Harvie, Advocates'
Library, Edinburgh, 11 October 2012
In a lecture jointly hosted by the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club and the English
Department of Edinburgh
University, Prof. Christopher Harvie addressed Scott's German
literary connections on the 200th anniversary of the publication
of the Brothers Grimm's Children's and Household Tales.
Prof. Harvie has recently retired as Professor of British and
Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen. Amongst many
other works, he is author of Scotland and Nationalism
(1977), The Centre of Things (1991), The Rise of
Regional Europe (1993), and Floating Commonwealth
(2008). Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
44) 'Popular Antiquities:
Folklore and Archaeology', Two-day Conference, Institute of Archaeology,
University College of London, 13-14 October 2012
This two-day conference, jointly organised by the Institute
of Archaeology, University College London and the Folklore
Society, presented papers exploring the relationship and interaction
between archaeology and folklore around the world. It featured
one paper of Scott interest: 'Placing the Past in Walter
Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' by Lucy MacRae (Edinburgh).
45) ‘Furious Booksellers: the Transatlantic Publication of the Waverley Novels and the Language of the Book Trade’, History of Material Texts Seminar by Prof. Charles Rezek, University of Pennsylvania, 15 October 2012
The History of Material Texts Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania was delivered by Prof. Charles Rezek (Boston), author of the forthcoming monograph London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). A print version of this paper has subsequently appeared in Early American Studies, 11 (2013).
46) PAMLA 2012, 110th Annual
Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association,
Seattle University, 19-21 October 2012
The 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association, hosted by Seattle
University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Scott the "Versifier" in the Age of Wordsworth'
by Natasha Tessone (Oberlin College).
47) ‘Anglo-American Aesthetics’, Symposium, University of Boston, 2 November 2012
This symposium at Boston University featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Furious Booksellers: the Transatlantic Publication of the Waverley Novels and the Language of the Book Trade’ by Prof. Charles Rezek (Boston), author of the forthcoming monograph London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). A print version of this paper has subsequently appeared in Early American Studies, 11 (2013).
48) 'Scott – Poet and Antiquarian', Talk by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Scottish Romanticism Research Group, University of Glasgow, 2 November 2012
This talk to the Scottish Romanticism Research Group was delivered by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
49) 'Warriors and Minstrels', Symposium, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 6 November 2012
This symposium, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: '"Contributing to the History of my Native Country": Walter Scott’s (Re)Discovery of the Minstrelsy Tradition in the Scottish Borders' by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
50) 'The Discovery
of Scotland: Walter Scott and the Invention of World Literature',
Scottish Literature International Lecture by Prof. Ian Duncan,
The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 7 November 2012
Prof. Ian Duncan gave the inaugural Scottish Literature
International Lecture (organized by the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies),
showing how Scott placed Scotland at the centre of
the world's literary stage, influenced writers around the
globe, and laid the foundations for modern concepts of fiction
and the novel. Prof. Duncan is holder of the Florence Green
Bixby Chair in English, University of California, Berkeley,
and author of numerous works on Scott including Scott's
Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007).
51) 'Editing Scott's Last Edition',
Talk by J. H. Alexander, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
15 November 2012
Dr J. H. (Ian) Alexander's talk coincided with
the publication of the final two volumes of the Edinburgh Edition
of the Waverley Novels (EEWN), which are comprised of newly
edited versions of the Introduction and Notes that Scott wrote
for the 'Magnum Opus' edition of 1829-33. Dr Alexander, who
has already been directly involved in editing no fewer than
seven of the existing volumes in the EEWN, is a leading textual
scholar and authority on Scott, and his talk threw new light
on Scott's activities in his last years and the final organisation
of the Waverley Novels in a form that influenced generations
of readers. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
52) 'Reiving and Bereaving: Walter
Scott and the Rich Ballad Tradition of the Scottish Borders',
Talk by Lucy MacRae and Kaye McAlpine with Musical Accompaniment,
Heritage Hub, Hawick, Scottish Borders, 1 December 2012
Fresh from their success at the Innerleithen
Music Festival, folklore scholars Lucy Macrae
and Kaye McAlpine from the School
of Celtic and Scottish Studies, Edinburgh presented
an afternoon of ballad singing, Borders lore and images
focusing on the Border Ballads of Scott’s Minstrelsy
of The Scottish Border accompanied by traditional
singers Henry Douglas, Elsa Le
Maitre, Kathy Hobkirk, and Naomi
Harvey.
53) Scott’s Selkirk
2012, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, 1 December 2012
Scott’s Selkirk is an annual
event marking the town’s association with Scott. Visitors
are invited to experience and enjoy Selkirk as it was during
Scott’s sherrifdom in the early nineteenth century. Some
of his cases are re-enacted in the Courtroom, including, on
this occasion, ‘The Graveyard Grievance’ and (new
for this year) ‘The Seamy Work o' the Weaver’. Dr
Sandra McNeil, Learning Officer with the Abbotsford
Trust, gave an informal talk Scott, his links with Selkirk,
and the redevelopment project currently taking place at Abbotsford.There
was also street entertainment, live traditional music, a torchlight
procession, children’s activities, craft stalls, and independent
shops.
54) 'The Discovery of Scotland:
Walter Scott and the Invention of World Literature',
Lecture by Prof. Ian Duncan, Universität Vechta,
Germany, 11 December 2012
Prof. Ian Duncan gave a talk (previously delivered
as the inaugural Scottish Literature
International Lecture) in the English
Department of the Universität
Vechta, showing
how Scott placed Scotland at the centre of the world's
literary stage, influenced writers around the globe,
and laid the foundations for modern concepts of
fiction and the novel. Prof. Duncan is holder of
the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English, University
of California, Berkeley, and author of numerous
works on Scott including Scott's
Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh
(2007).
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2011
1) 'Narrating Lives', 126th
MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011
The 126th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association featured the following papers of Scott
interest: Miranda Burgess (British Columbia), 'Walter
Scott’s Vehicle', Ian Duncan (Berkeley),
'Late Scott and the End of Man', Anthony
S. Jarrells (South Carolina), 'The Romantic East:
Porter’s Tales and Scott’s Chronicles',
Celeste G. Langan (Berkeley), 'Scott's
Two Lives of Napoléon', Caroline McCracken-Flesher,
'Walter Scott's Romanticism—In Performance',
Susan Oliver (Essex), 'Singing the North:
Myth, Epic, and Tragedy in Operatic Scotland', Gina
Terry (Texas A&M), 'True Views of Scotland:
Illustrated Supplements to Sir Walter Scott's Work', and
Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young), 'Scott
in Space'.
2) 'Scott, India, and the Muslim
Gentleman', Talk by Dr Robert Irvine, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club, 3 February 2011
Dr Irvine is a Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish
Literature at the University of Edinburgh
and author of Enlightenment
and Romance: Gender and Agency in Smollett and Scott (2000).
His talk focussed on Chronicles
of the Canongate and The
Talisman, the latter of which Dr Irvine sees as reflecting
the British ruling-class encounter with its Islamic opposite-number
in India. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
3)
'Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance', First Biennial Conference
of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia, University of
Sydney, Australia, 10-12 February 2011
The first biennial conference of the newly founded
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia
(RSAA), hosted by the University
of Sydney, included two papers of particular interest to Scott
scholars: 'Scott’s "Airy Condescension":
The Talisman and Orientalism' by Silvia
Mergenthal (Konstanz) and 'Reading Scottish Romanticism
from Australia: Beginnings to 1837' by Graham Tulloch
(Flinders).
4) 7th Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, Philadelphia, PA, 3-5 March 2011
The 7th Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Hail to the Chief: Walter Scott and the Americanization of Scottish Nationalism’ by Charles Rezek (Boston).
5) 'Money/Myths', 32nd Annual
Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, University
of New Mexico, 3-6 March 2011
The 32nd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association,
hosted by the University of New Mexico featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Walter Scott and the Myth of British Virtue:
Romance and the Linen Trade' by Kathryn Pratt Russell
(Clayton State).
6) 'History in Court and in Costume: The Waverley Novels and the Afterlives of the Past', Invited lecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 7 March 2011
This invited lecture at the University of Oregon was delivered by Prof. Mike Goode (Syracuse), author of Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (see Goode 2009a, Goode 2009b, and Goode 2009c).
7)
'Border Trouble: "World Literature" and the Case of Scottish
Balladry', Lecture with Music, by Prof. Maureen N. McLane, University
of Edinburgh, 16 March 2011
Maureen N. McLane, Associate Professor of English
at New York University, delivered the Annual SWINC (Scottish Writing
in the Nineteenth Century) Public Lecture. Prof. McLane is the author
of Balladeering,
Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge
UP, 2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP,
2000, 2006). She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British
Romantic Poetry (2008). Offering poetic and musical examples,
her lecture explore the use and abuse of Scottish balladry and song
from the eighteenth century until now.
8) ASECS 2011 Annual Meeting,
Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver BC, 17-20 March 2011
The 2011 Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) featured four
papers of particular Scott interest: '"To one thing
constant never": Problematizing Historical Experience in Edgeworth
and Scott' by George Drake (Central Washington
State), '"The time …is so elastic": Scott,
Gibbon, and the Romance of the Lower Empire' by Kristian
Kerr (Chicago), 'The Material Culture of Commemoration:
The Scott Monument and the Reformed Nation' by Tom
Mole (McGill University), and 'The Eighteenth-Century
Walter Scott (1815–1935)' by Jason Solinger
(Mississippi).
9) 'Off Centre, North and South: A Symposium
on Scotland and Sicily', Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia,
18-19 March 2011
Hosted by the School
of Humanities at Flinders University, this symposium on connections,
parallels, contrasts and comparisons between Scotland and Sicily
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Turning
Points: Scotland and Sicily, Scott and Lampedusa' by Graham
Tulloch (Flinders). Besides publishing several articles
on Scott, Prof. Tulloch has edited the following volumes for the
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels: Ivanhoe
(1997), The Siege
of Malta, and, Bizarro (2008; with J. H. Alexander and
Judy King) and The
Shorter Fiction (2009; with Judy King).
10) ‘Warring for America, 1803–1818’, Multidisciplinary Conference, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 31 March-1 April 2011
Co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Huntington Library, the New York University Department of History, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, this conference featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Hail to the Chief: Walter Scott and the Americanization of Scottish Nationalism during the War of 1812’ by Charles Rezek (Boston).
11) 'Speaking Nature', Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pitzer College, Claremont,
California, 31 March-3 April 2011
The 2011 conference of the INCS
focussed on how the nineteenth century conceived of and constructed
nature and the relation of human beings to nature. Hosted by Pitzer
College, it featured two papers of particular Scott interest:
'Scott and Edinburgh: Memorializing Edinburgh's Old Town
in The Heart of Midlothian' by Richard
Hill (Chaminade) and 'Moral Necessities: The Natural
Figures of Scott's Narrative Transgressions' by Margaret
Kolb (California, Berkeley).
12) 'World Literature/Comparative
Literature', ACLA 2011, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada,
31 March-3 April 2011
The 2011 Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), hosted by Simon
Fraser University, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Pushkin and Scott, Genre and Commerce' by Luba
Golburt (California, Berkeley). Also of interest was 'Ballad
Crossings: World Literature and the English and Scottish Popular
Ballads' by Caroline Gelmi (Tufs).
13) International Conference
on Narrative, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 7-10
April 2011
The 2011 Narrative Conference was an interdisciplinary
forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice.
Sponsored by Washington University
in St. Louis and the International
Society for the Study of Narrative, it featured one paper of
particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott, Charles Dickens
and – Harrison Ainsworth?: Telling the Story of the British
Novel in Nineteenth-Century Germany?' by Antje
Anderson (Hastings College).
14) 'Scott, Newman and Abbotsford',
a talk by Lt Cdr Dairmid Gunn OBE, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
14 April 2011
Lt Commander Dairmid Gunn is well-known to members
of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club as one of its most established
Council members. His talk dealt with affinities between Scott and
Cardinal Henry Newman, whose influence on Abbotsford
is tangibly evident in the Chapel there, built by Charlotte and
James Robert Hope-Scott in the wake of their conversion to Roman
Catholicism in 1851. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
15) 6th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 12-15 May 2011
The 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
sponsored by the Medieval
Institute of Western Michigan
University, featured two papers of particular Scott interest:
'Recovering a Not so Imaginary Past: Medievalism in Scott’s
Harold the Dauntless' by Renée
Ward (Wilfred Laurier University) and '"Thou
art no Christian": Medievalism and the Suppression of the Jewishness
in Children’s Versions of Ivanhoe' by Wendy
Love Anderson (Washington University in St. Louis).
16) 'Romantic Identities: Selves in Society,
1770-1835', British Association for Romantic Studies Early Career
and Postgraduate Conference 2011, Institute of English Studies,
Senate House, London, 13 May 2011
The 2011 Early Career and Postgraduate Conference of the British
Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) was hosted by the Institute
of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: '(Re)covering
the Self: The Subaltern and the Adoption of Disguise in Scott's
Rob Roy and Redgauntlet' by Kang-yen
Chiu (Glasgow). Kang-yen Chiu is preparing a doctoral thesis
on ‘Self as Other: Hospitality, Nation and Empire in Walter
Scott’s Waverley Novels’.
17) 'Walter Scott and the
Painting of Scottish History', Talk by Dr John Morrison, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 19 May 2011
Dr John Morrison, Senior Lecturer at Aberdeen University,
gave an illustrated talk on Scott and historical painting. Dr
Morrison is the author of Painting the Nation: Identity and
Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920, which features
two chapters on the influence of Scott (see Morrison
2003a and Morrison
2003b). He also curated the exhibition 'Sir William Allan:
Artist, Adventurer' at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 30 June-6
October 2001. Details, including venue and ticketing, from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
18)
'SCOTLAND-ScottLAND', International Interdisciplinary Conference,
Castle Schönburg, near Bingen on the Rhine, Germany, 26-29
May 2011
This interdisciplinary conference focussed on the
people and cultural phenomena that influenced Scott's Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border. It was also concerned with the
impact Scott’s ballad collection had on Scot(t)land, Europe
and Romanticism in general. The keynote speech was delivered by
Stuart Kelly, author of Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation, which argued that
Scott 'changed the entire world’s perception of Scotland,
and Scotland’s perception of itself'. Further plenary lectures
were delivered by David Hewitt (Aberdeen) on
'Scott in the 1790s: Some Revisionist Views',
Penny Fielding (Edinburgh) on 'Black
Dwarves: Scott, the Borders and Radicalism', and Paul
Barnaby (Edinburgh) on 'The Scott Digital Archive
and other Online Resources'. The conference also marked
the foundation of the Society
for Scottish Studies in Europe.
19) 'Scott, William Stark,
and the Cottage That Never Was: Early Planning at Abbotsford,
1811-1812', Talk by Dr Michael Buck and Prof. Peter Garside, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 16 June 2011
Dr Michael Buck (Indiana Wesleyan University) and
Prof. Peter Garside (Edinburgh) presented new findings on the
‘picturesque’ cottage originally planned at Abbotsford
by Scott, after a design by the Glasgow architect William Stark,
which in the event never came to fruition. Dr Buck is the author
of several conference presentations and scholarly articles on
Scott. Peter Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual
Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was the founding Chair
of the Centre
for Editorial & Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Among many Scott-related publications, he has edited The
Black Dwarf (1993), Guy
Mannering (1999), and Waverley
(2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and The
Visionary for University College Cardiff Press (1984). Dr
Buck and Prof. Garside have recently collaborated on the article
'New Materials Discovered at Abbotsford' in Journal of the
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 5 (2010). Further details
from Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club.
20) 'Walter Scott: Sheriff
and Outlaw', 9th Quadrennial International Scott Conference, Laramie,
Wyoming, USA, 5-9 July 2011
Scott was a lawyer, friend to the great, and literary
authority, yet he became so by breaking all the rules. 'Walter
Scott: Sheriff and Outlaw', the 9th Quadrennial International
Scott Conference, encouraged new understanding of Scott’s
innovations, and his contribution to literary and other fields
up to the present day. The conference offered almost 100 papers,
plenaries, workshops, roundtables, advice from journal editors,
and a trip to see the west Walter Scott made. Plenary lectures
were delivered by Jenni Calder (National Museums
of Scotland) on 'Sir Walter Goes West: Scott’s Frontier
Legacy' and Judith Wilt (Boston College)
on 'Piratical Paradigms: Scott’s Pirates and Successors'.
(See below for details of the 7th
and 8th Quadrennial Scott Conferences.)
21) 'Freedom, Religion, and Gender', 28th
International Social Philosophy Conference, Marquette University,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 21-23 July 2011
The 28th International Social Philosophy Conference, organized
by the North
American Society for Social Philosophy, and hosted by Marquette
University, featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Religion,
Freedom, and Gender in Three Novels by Walter Scott'
by Norman A. Fischer (Kent State).
22) 'Enlightenment, Romanticism
& Nation', 12th International Biennial Conference of the British
Association for Romantic Studies, 28-31 July 2011
The University
of Glasgow and the School
of Critical Studies hosted the 12th International Biennial
Conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies (BARS), on the theme of 'Enlightenment,
Romanticism & Nation'. The conference sought to address two
specific areas: first, the relationship between the Scottish Enlightenment
and Romanticism (British, American, European, etc.); and second,
the study of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh literature in relation
to their distinct national cultures, and to the overarching claims
of ‘Britishness’. The following papers were of particular
Scott interest: Kang-Yen Chiu (Glasgow), 'A
Postcolonial Reading of Hospitality in Scott’s Rob Roy
and Redgauntlet', Daniel Cook
(Bristol), 'Walter Scott Edits Jonathan Swift',
John Havard (Chicago), '"Progressive
and Digressive, at the Same Time": Sterne’s Waverley
Novel', Kristian Kerr (Chicago), 'Scott:
Vernacular Classicism', Simon Kövesi (Oxford
Brookes), 'Cockney Comedy after Keats, Scott and Hunt:
The Politics of J. H. Reynolds in the 1820s', Claire
Lamont (Newcastle), 'Enlightenment History in
Scott’s Introduction to the Magnum Edition of the Waverley
Novels', Lindsay Levy (Advocates’
Library, Edinburgh), 'Walter Scott, Byron and William
Thomas Fitzgerald', Matthew Ocheltree
(Harvard), 'Romancing the Imperial Self: Genre, Identity
and Late Style in Walter Scott’s Crusader Fiction',
and Joseph Rezek (Boston), ‘Hail
to the Chief: Walter Scott and the Americanization of Scottish
Nationalism during the War of 1812’.
23) 'Romanticism and Independence', 19th
Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism, Park City, Utah, 11-14 August 2011
The 19th Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), co-hosted
by Brigham Young University
and the University of Utah, included
the following papers of particular Scott interest: Hannah
J. Doherty (Stanford), 'The Minerva Press and Walter
Scott’s Readers: Innovation and Identity', Jeff
Jackson (Rice), 'Goodbye to All That: The Journey
Away from Edinburgh as Enlightenment Metropolis in Sir Walter Scott’s
Guy Mannering (1815) and The Antiquary (1816)',
Matthew Ocheltree (Harvard), 'Romancing
the Imperial Self: Genre, Identity and Late Style in Walter Scott’s
Crusader Fiction', Padma Rangarajan (Colorado,
Boulder), 'Colonial Interdependence: Soldering Scott’s
Chronicles of the Canongate', John Savarese
(Rutgers), 'Lyrical Impairment in Waverley',
Olga Volkova (Indiana), 'Derivative and
Uniquely Russian: Historicity in Scott’s The Bride of
Lammermoor and Gogol’s Dead Souls'.
24) A Colloquium on Redgauntlet,
introduced by Professor Kathryn Sutherland and Professor David Hewitt,
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 13 August 2011
Professor Hewitt is editor-in-chief of the recently completed Edinburgh
Edition of the Waverley Novels (EEWN) and Co-Director of the Walter
Scott Research Centre. In addition to publishing many important
articles on Scott, he has edited Scott on Himself: A Selection
of the Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press, 1981) and Scott and His Influence:
The Papers of the Aberdeen Scott Conference, 1982 (Aberdeen:
Association for Scottish Literary Studies, c1983) (with J. H. Alexander).
For the EEWN, he has edited The Antiquary (1995), Redgauntlet
(with G. A. M. Wood, 1996), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden, 2004), and,
most recently, Rob
Roy (2008). Professor Sutherland is Professorial Fellow
in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She edited Redgauntlet
for Oxford University Press in 1985. More information from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club
25) 'Retuning the Harp of the North: Editing
Scott's Poetry', Talk by Dr Alison Lumsden, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 15 September 2011
Dr Lumsden is a General Editor of the recently completed
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Co-Director of the
University of Aberdeen's Walter
Scott Research Centre. For the Edinburgh Edition, she has edited
Peveril of the
Peak (2007) and co-edited The
Pirate (2001), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (2004), and Reliquiae
Trotcosienses (2004). Her monograph Walter
Scott and the Limits of Language was published by Edinburgh
University Press in 2010. She has recently been awarded a grant
from the Carnegie Trust
for the Universities of Scotland to begin work on a scholarly
edition of Scott's poetry. Details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club
26) 'Illustrating
the Waverley Novels', Lecture by Professor Peter Garside, Advocates'
Library, Edinburgh, 13 October 2011
Peter Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual
Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was the founding Chair
of the Centre
for Editorial & Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Among many Scott-related publications, he has edited The
Black Dwarf (1993), Guy
Mannering (1999), and Waverley
(2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and The
Visionary for University College Cardiff Press (1984). Prof.
Garside recently directed the project Illustrating
Scott: A Database of Printed Illustrations to the Waverley Novels,
1814-1901. Further details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
27) ‘Historia de la traducción en Hispanoamérica: mediación lingüística y contactos culturales’, International Colloquium, Barcelona, 13-14 October 2011
Co-hosted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Universitat de Barcelona, this colloquium on the history of literary translation in Latin America featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Santiago de Chile años 50 y las traducciones adaptadas de clásicos medievales ingleses de la “Biblioteca Juvenil” de la editorial Zig-Zag: Thomas Malory (Rey Arturo) y Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)’ by Juan Miguel Zarandona (Valladolid).
28) ‘How Walter Scott Caused the Civil War (or at Least, its Reenactments)’, Phi Beta Kappa Lecture by Prof. Mike Goode, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 28 October 2011
The Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Eastern Illinois University was delivered by Prof. Mike Goode (Syracuse), author of Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (see Goode 2009a, Goode 2009b, and Goode 2009c).
29) 'Textual Manipulation',
Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and
New Zealand, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, 3-4 November
2011
The Annual Conference of the Bibliographical
Society of Australia and New Zealand, held at Barr
Smith Library, University of Adelaide, included one paper of
Scott interest: 'Readers of Novels: Reading Sir Walter Scott's
The Antiquary' by Brian McMullin
(Monash)
30) 'Reinventing Romanticism',
2011 International Conference on Romanticism, Montreal, 3-5 November
2011
The 2011 meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: 'Impossible Things: Scott’s Ivanhoe
and the Limits of Exchange' by Daniela Garofalo
(Oklahoma). Dr Garofalo is the author of Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century
British Literature (State University of New York Press, 2009).
A print
version of this paper has subsequently appeared in the monograph
Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism
(Farnham: Ashgate, 2012)
31) 'The Power of Poetry in
the Modern World', 2011 SAMLA Conference, Loews Hotel Atlanta, Atlanta,
Georgia, 4-6 November 2011
The 2011 Annual Conference of the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'The Marginalization of Adaptation:
Sir Walter Scott’s "Death of the Laird’s Jock"
and the Birth of Modern Adaptation Theory' by Glenn
Jellenik (South Carolina).
32) Scott's Selkirk 2011,
3-4 December 2011, Selkirk, Scottish Borders
Scott’s Selkirk is an annual event marking
the town’s association with Scott. Visitors are invited
to experience and enjoy Selkirk as it was during Scott’s
sherrifdom in the early nineteenth century. Some of his cases
are re-enacted in the Courtroom, including, on this occasion,
two never previously presented: ‘The Tall Tale of the Tushielaw
Trout’ and ‘The Graveyard Grievance’. There
was also street entertainment, live traditional music, performances
from Selkirk’s highly regarded Flute, Silver and Pipe Bands,
craft stalls, and independent shops.
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2010
1) 'Time and Space', 39th Annual
Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 5-7 January 2010
The Annual Conference of the British
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held at St
Hugh's College, University of Oxford, addressed the understandings
and uses of concepts of time, space, and periodization throughout
the long eighteenth century. It featured two papers on Sir Walter
Scott: Suchitra Choudhury (Open University), 'Scottish Storytelling
and the India Shawl: Metafiction, Authenticity and Colonialism in
Walter Scott' (on 'The Surgeon's
Daughter') and Katrin Berndt (Bremen), 'Sir Walter Scott’s
Vision of Britishness in Redgauntlet (1824)'. Two further
papers were of particular Scott interest. In 'William Godwin's Waverley:
Radical Politics and the Historical Novel', Andrew McInnes (Exeter)
imagined that Godwin wrote the anonymously published Waverley,
as Keats and other commentators initially speculated. In 'Alternative
Histories: Jane West’s The Loyalists (1812)', Fiona
Price (Chichester) explored Jane West's unacknowledged role in the
development of the historical novel, contrasting her post-revolutionary
feminism with Scott's 'bow-wow strain'. Click here for the conference
site and here
for abstracts of the conference papers.
2) Treasure of the Month, Mitchell
Library, Glasgow, February 2010
The Mitchell
Library, Europe's largest public reference library, displayed
some rare and interesting items from its collection of Sir Walter
Scott material as its 'Treasure of the Month' for February 2010.
Contact the Library for
further information.
3) 'Sir Walter Scott and Thomas
Moore', Address by Kath Hardie, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
11 February 2010
Kath Hardie is author of Sir
Walter Scott: An Illustrated Historical Guide (Norwich:
Jarrold, 2001). Her talk was accompanied with music and songs by
Ian Scott and the Scottish folk trio Chapter 4. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
4) 'Contemporary Canon: Cultural
and Intellectual Dialogues', Coordinates of Comparison 2010, 4th
Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, University of
Alberta, 12-13 March 2010
The 4th Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
('Coordinates of Comparison') hosted by the University
of Alberta Comparative Literature Program featured one paper
of Scott interest: 'Popular Reception by Dramatic Adaptation: Walter
Scott’s The Heart of Mid-Lothian' by David Buchanan
(Alberta).
5) 41st Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Hotel Albuquerque,
Albuquerque, NM, 18-21 March 2010
The 41st Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), held in the
Hotel Albuquerque,
included two papers of particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott’s
Unrepresentative Anecdotes' by Sean Barry (Rutgers) and '"Struck
partly with horror, partly with Compassion": Impressions of
Culpability and the Transition to the Epistolary Mode in Walter
Scott’s Novels' by Nicole Wright (Yale). For further information
see the conference site
and programme.
6) 'Journeys', 18th Annual
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 8-11 April 2010
The 18th Annual Conference of the BWWA
(18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association),
held at Texas A&M University,
considered journeys -- the spatial, personal, fantastic, artistic,
and social movements --
that occur in British women's writing. It featured one paper of
particular Scott interest: 'Back to the Present: Margaret Oliphant,
Walter Scott, and Temporal Loops' by Elsie Michie (Louisiana State).
Prof. Michie is the author of Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion,
Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer (Cornell
University Press, 1993) and Charlotte Brontë’s 'Jane
Eyre': A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2006).Click here
for the conference site and here
for a schedule of papers.
7) 25th Anniversary Conference,
International Society for the Study of Narrative, Cleveland, Ohio,
8-11 April 2010
The 25th Anniversary Conference of the International
Society for the Study of Narrative, held at various locations
in Cleveland, Ohio, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Narrative Surrogacy in Scott’s and Edgeworth’s Nationalist
Novels' by Susan Howard (Duquesne). Prof. Howard is working on A
Critical Edition of Sir Walter Scott’s 'Waverley' for
Broadview Press. Click here
for the conference site and here for the programme.
8) 'La Traduction des textes
multilingues', One-Day Conference, Université Jean Monnet,
St. Étienne, France, 16 April 2010
Organized by the Centre
Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Expression Contemporaine
(CIEREC) of the Université
Jean Monnet, St. Étienne, this conference on the translation
of multilingual texts featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Le
Plurilinguisme national d'Écosse: de Walter Scott à
Andrew Greig' by Jean Berton (Toulouse).
9)
'Border Trouble: "World Literature" and the Case of Scottish
Balladry', Public Lecture by Prof. Maureen N. McLane, Edinburgh
University, 22 April 2010
What is a ballad? What is a song? What is romanticism?
What is world literature? And what does the case of Scottish balladry
have to say to any of these questions? Ever since the eighteenth-century
ballad revival, scholars and songsters have argued about what makes
a ballad a ballad, and what makes a Scottish ballad Scottish. Such
questions have taken new directions with the emergence of ‘world
literature.’ Yet all too often discussions of world literature
neglect to explore just how such literatures get produced by mobilizing
oral traditions. Offering poetic and musical examples, Prof. Maureen
McLane (New York) explored the use and abuse of Scottish balladry
and song from the eighteenth century until now. Prof. McLane is
the author of Balladeering,
Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge
University Press, 2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences
(CUP, 2000). She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British
Romantic Poetry (2008). For further information contact the
event organizer.
10) 'Half Dust, Half Deity;
or, Science, Nature & the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth
Century', Annual Eighteenth Century & Romantic Studies Graduate
Conference, University of Cambridge, 24-25 April 2010
The University of
Cambridge's Annual Eighteenth Century & Romantic Studies
Graduate Conference featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'"During his fiery ride": The Importance of Walter Scott's
Horses and Dogs' by Simon Webb (Jesus College, Cambridge). For more
information see the conference
site and programme.
11) The Ragged Lion,
Two Performances by the Rowan Tree Theatre Company, Abbotsford House,
24-25 April 2010
The Rowan
Tree Theatre Company presented two performances of The Ragged
Lion at Abbotsford
House on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th April 2010, accompanied
by live music. The play, based on Allan Massie's 1994 novel of the
same name, presents Scott in the immediate aftermath of the financial
crisis of 1825-26. In the solitude of his study, facing a lifetime
of toil to repay his debts, he wrestles with the ghosts and demons
of his and his country’s past. Click here for a poster
and contact Abbotsford
House for further information.
12) '"A Mighty Treasure":
An Illustrated Guide to James C. Corson's Collection of Scottiana',
Address by Dr Paul Barnaby, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 13
May 2010
Dr Barnaby (Edinburgh University Library) is editor
of this website and has published articles on the reception and
translation of Scottish literature. His talk provided an introduction
to Edinburgh University Library's
major Corson Collection of Walter Scott
material. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
13) 50th Annual Conference
of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement
Supérieur, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, France,
21-23 May 2010
The 50th annual conference of the Société
des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES),
hosted by the Université
Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, included a Scottish Studies workshop
organized by the Société Française d'Etudes
Ecossaises. This featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'L’Horizon de Napoléon Bonaparte à travers l’oeuvre
de Walter Scott: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Florence
Grimaldi (Corte). Click here
for the programme.
14) Lady of the Lake
Colloquium, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 23 May 2010
The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club held a colloquium
at the Harbour Cafe,
Loch Vennachar, to celebrate the bicentenary of the publication
of Scott's The Lady of the
Lake. Guest speakers were Dr Alison Lumsden (Aberdeen University)
and Dr Nicola Watson (Open University). Dr Lumsden is Co-Director
of Aberdeen University's Walter
Scott Research Centre; she edited Peveril
of the Peak (2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley
Novels and co-edited The
Pirate (2001), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (2004), and Reliquiae
Trotcosienses (2004). She is currently completing a monograph
entitled Walter Scott and the Limits of Language. Dr Watson
edited The Antiquary
(1999) for Oxford World Classics and is author of Revolution
and the Form of the English Novel, 1790-1825 (Oxford University
Press, 1994) and The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in
Romantic and Victorian Britain (Palgrave, 2006). Details from
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
15) Multimedia Concert on the
Life and Times of Sir Walter Scott, Abbotsford House, 27 May 2010
Prof. David Purdie,
Chairman of the Edinburgh Sir
Walter Scott Club, presented a multi-media concert on the
life and times of Scott at the writer's Abbotsford
home on Thursday 27th May 2010. The talk was illustrated by images
now released from the Scottish Cultural Archive by permission
of RCAHMS (Royal Commission
on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The presentation
was interspersed with readings from Scott’s prose and poetry
by Alisdair Hutton and Rose McBain, and with songs from his Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border by Hilary Bell and Henry Douglas.
Contact Abbotsford
House for further information.
16) 'ScottsLand: Celebrate the Language
of the Landscape', Trossachs, Scotland, June-September 2010
'ScottsLand: Celebrate the Language of the Landscape'
marked the 200th anniversary of the publication of Scott's The
Lady of the Lake, which transformed popular perspectives
on landscape and generated the first major surge of tourists to
the Trossachs and Scotland. From June to October 2010, a diverse
programme of cultural and literary events, promoted by Loch
Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, took place throughout
the Trossachs to celebrate the poem, the heritage and the landscapes.
They included: an art
and literary trail, the Chase
sports event, a film festival, a literary
conference, and a host of exhibitions, guided walks and cruises.
See the event site
for a full programme.
17) 'Taranaki and Sir Walter Scott', Talk by Prof. Jane Stafford, Taranaki and Sir Walter Scott, English Programme Seminar, Victoria University of Wellington, June 2010.
Prof. Jane Stafford (Victoria University of Wellington) is author of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 (2006) among many other publications.
18) 'Genres and Historicity: Text, Cotext,
Context', 12th Annual Conference of the English Department of
the University of Bucharest, 3-5 June 2010
The 12th Annual Conference of the English
Department of Bucharest University featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Metamorphoses of the Covenanters in Scottish
Historical Fiction' by Cristian Stefan Vîjea (Bucharest).
Click here
for a full programme.
19) 'La donna del lago de Rossini
au coeur du romantisme européen', Study Day, École
normale supérieure, Paris, 4 June 2010
Co-organized by the École
normale supérieure and the Centre
de Littérature et poétique comparées
of the Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense,
this study day studied Rossini's operatic adaptation of Scott's
The Lady of the Lake within the context of European Romanticism.
Two papers were of particular interest to Scott scholars: 'Walter
Scott et l’Opéra' by Francis Claudon (Paris XII-Val
de Marne) and 'De la geste héroïque de Walter Scott
au melodramma de Rossini: le livret d’Andrea Leone Tottola'
by Liliane Lascoux (C.R.L.C, Paris IV). Click here
for a full programme.
20) 'Scott, the
Trossachs, and the Tourists', ASLS Annual Conference, Balloch,
Scotland, 5-6 June 2010
The 2010 Annual Conference of the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) was held in the Loch
Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, with the support of
the Park Authority, to mark the bicentenary of the publication of
Scott's The Lady of the Lake.
It focussed on Scott's work in general, The Lady of the Lake
in particular, the influence of the landscape on literature, and
the impact of literature on the development of literary tourism
in Scotland. The following papers dealt specifically with Scott's
work: Alistair Durie (Stirling), ‘Scott is Scottland: Did
Scott Create Scottish Tourism?’, David Hewitt (Aberdeen),
‘Walter Scott’s Rob Roy’, Alison Lumsden
(Aberdeen),‘The Lady of the Lake: A Poem for the
Twenty-First Century’, Murdo Macdonald (Dundee), ‘Rethinking
Scott, Art and the Highlands’, and Nicola Watson (Open University),
‘Scott and the Appeal of Literary Tourism’. For full
programme and further information see the conference
site. The conference proceedings have subsequently been published
as Literary
Tourism, the Trossachs, and Walter Scott, ed. Ian Brown
(Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2012).
21) 'Scott-Land: The Author
Who Invented a Nation', Address by Stuart Kelly, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 24 June 2010
Stuart Kelly is Literary Editor of Scotland
on Sunday and author of Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation (Edinburgh: Polygon,
2010) which he describes as a 'mixture of biography, reportage,
criticism, and cultural history'. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
22) 'Locating Stevenson', 6th
Biennial Stevenson Conference, University of Stirling, 8-10 July
2010
The 6th biennial Stevenson conference, hosted by the
Department of English Studies,
University of Stirling, featured two papers which dealt, in
particular, with Stevenson's debt to Sir Walter Scott: ‘The
Questionable Failure of Catriona’ by Donald Mackenzie
(Glasgow) and ‘The
Strange Case of Weir and St. Ives: Stevenson’s
Last Adventures in Narration’ by Saverio Tomaiuolo (Cassino).
See the conference site
for further details. (See D.
Mackenzie 2011 for an expanded print version of Donald Mackenzie's
paper.)
23) 'Recycling Myths, Inventing
Nations', Three-Day International Conference, Aberystwyth University,
Wales, 14-16 July 2010
This conference, hosted by Aberystwyth
University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Black Dwarf and Radical Satire: Interrogating Britishness
from the Margin' by Jing-Huey Hwang (National Taiwan University).
It explored how Thomas Jonathan Wooler’s radical
weekly The Black Dwarf (1817-24) appropriated its marginalized
but supernatural narrator from Scott’s novel
of the same title. For further information, see abstracts
and conference
programme.
24) 'James
Hogg’s Borders', Bi-Annual James Hogg Society Conference,
University of Konstanz, Germany, 14-17 July 2010
Co-hosted by the James
Hogg Society and the Department
of English, University of Konstanz, this conference sought both
to embed James Hogg in his actual historical and cultural context,
the Scottish Borders, and to employ the 'borders' motif metaphorically
to explore Hogg's creative transgression of, for instance, the boundaries
of language or genre. However, papers were invited on all topics
related to the life and works of James Hogg, as well as Hogg's literary
connections and influence. The conference organisers also especially
welcomed papers that addressed Hogg's reception in Continental Europe,
as well as papers that made connections between Hogg's works and
European writers. Following the recent death of Douglas Mack, founder
of the James Hogg Society, the conference also hosted the first
of a series of 'Mack Lectures' to celebrate his life and work. For
further information, contact Prof.
Silvia Mergenthal.
25) 'Scott-land', Stuart Kelly
in Conversation with Andrew Crumey, Abbotsford House, 15 July 2010
Author, critic and Literary Editor of Scotland
on Sunday, Stuart Kelly, discussed his new book Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2010)
at Sir Walter Scott's home of Abbotsford.
In conversation with novelist Andrew Crumey, the author considered
the extent of Scott's influence on the image of Scotland and his
impact on the life of the nation. For further information, email
events@scottsabbotsford.co.uk.
26) 'Abbotsford Revisited:
A Dramatised Reading', The Mercators, Diverse Attractions, Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, 9-14 August 2010
As part of the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, the Mercators
theatre group in association with Diverse
Attractions presented Abbotsford Revisited, a dramatised
reading devised by Alan Richardson. The performance was in the form
of a drama-documentary relating Scott's life and times, interspersed
with readings of his poetry and dramatised extracts from his novels.
Click here
for venue and ticket details.
27) 'The Influence of Walter
Scott Examined', Debate Led by Stuart Kelly, Edinburgh Book Festival,
15 August 2010
Stuart Kelly's Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2010)
argues that Scott was nothing less than the architect of everything
we now associate with Scottish national identity. In this debate,
a panel, led by Kelly, discussed the extent of Scott’s influence.
Part of the Edinburgh Book
Festival, this event was supported by Loch
Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. For further details
see the festival
programme.
28) 'Book Culture from Below', SHARP 2010,
University of Helsinki, 17-20 August 2010
The 18th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, held
at the University
of Helsinki, featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Scott‘s
Minstrelsy and Victorian Ballad Collections:
Authorship, Editing, and Authority' by Yuri Cowan (Ghent).
29) 'Romantic Mediations', 18th Annual
Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism,
Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, BC, 18-22 August 2010
The 18th Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), held
at the Coast
Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, B.C., included a panel on Scott's The
Antiquary, featuring the following papers: Hala Herbly
(Texas), 'Walter Scott and the Impossible Figure of the Female Antiquary',
Alina A. Romo (New York), 'Antiquarians Mediating Histories: Walter
Scott’s The Antiquary and the Historical Novel',
and Natasha Tessone (Oberlin), 'Tending to the (National) Household:
Good vs. Bad Economy in Walter Scott’s The Antiquary'.
The conference also featured six further papers on Scott: Laila
Ferreira (British Columbia), 'Sensory Stimulation and Literary Spectacle:
Sir Walter Scott’s Mediations in the Keepsake', Ina
Ferris (Ottawa), 'Mediating Letters and Learning: Walter Scott’s
Bookish Authorship', Nancy Goslee (Tennessee Knoxville), 'Three
Nations, Two Eras, One Union?: History as Revenant in Scott's Rokeby',
Peter Manning and Susan Scheckel (Stonybrook), 'Troubling Boundaries:
Scott, Whitman, and National Poetry', Lauren Schachter (British
Columbia), '"Replanted figures, transmuted things": Scott’s
"living antiques"', and Paul Westover (Brigham Young),
'Walter Scott, Illustration Books, and the Literary Tourist Industry'.
For further information see the conference site
and programme.
30) ESSE 10: 10th International Conference
of the European Society for the Study of English, University of
Turin, Italy, 24-28 August 2010
The 10th biennial International Conference of the
European Society for the Study
of English, hosted by the University
of Turin, included one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Kailyard
Money: The Local and the Global in Scott’s Malachi Malagrowther
Letters' by Liam Connell (Winchester). For further information,
see the conference
site and list
of papers.
31) 'Scott and Byron', Lecture
by Allan Massie, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 16 September 2010
Allan Massie is the author of over twenty novels,
including The Ragged Lion (1994), a fictionalized biography
of Scott, which he has also adapted for the stage as
The Minstrel and the Shirra. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
32)
'The Essential Eighteenth Century', Annual Meeting of the Midwestern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Wichita, Kansas,
30 September-3 October 2010
The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS) featured
one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Folk Infatuations: Ballads
in Scott's Waverley' by Ruth Knezevich, a graduate student
at the University of Missouri. For
further information, see conference
site and programme.
33) 'Charting the 18th Century:
Encircling Land & Sea', 36th Annual Conference of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies', Memorial University of
Newfoundland, 14-16 October 2010
The 36th Annual Conference of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, hosted by Memorial
University of Newfoundland, included a panel on 'Scott and Historical
Fiction', featuring the following papers: Martha F. Bowden (Kennesaw
State), 'The Progress of Romance: Historical Fiction’s Rewriting
of the History of the Novel', Kathleen James-Cavan (Saskatchewan),
'Beyond David Ritchie: Authority and the Dwarf in Walter Scott’s
The Black Dwarf', and David E. A. Ritter (Toronto), 'Genre
and Historical Representation in The Bride of Lammermoor'.
Further information from the conference site
and programme.
34) NEASECS 2010, Annual Meeting
of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, 21-23 October 2010
The Annual Meeting of the Northeast
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, co-hosted by
Buffalo State College
and the University at Buffalo
(both institutions of the State University
of New York), featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Throwing History out of Court: Walter Scott, Historiography, and
the Law of Conspiracy' by Mike Goode (Syracuse). Prof. Goode is
the author of Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History,
1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which includes
three chapters on Scott (see Goode
2009a, Goode
2009b, and Goode
2009c). Further information from the conference site
and programme.
35) Abbotsford, Strawberry
Hill or Conundrum Castle?', Annual John Murray Archive Lecture by
Sir Eric Anderson, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 26 October
2010
The Annual John
Murray Archive Lecture is jointly hosted by the Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society and the National
Library of Scotland. This year it was delivered by Sir Eric
Anderson, editor of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1972) and former Provost of Eton College.
36) 'Scott's
Lighthouse Tour', Lecture by Dr Penny Fielding, Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club, 4 November 2010
Dr Fielding (Edinburgh University) has edited The
Monastery (2000) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley
Novels and is the author of Writing and Orality: Nationality,
Culture and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (Oxford University
Press, 1996) and Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North
Britain 1760-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Details
from Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club.
37) 2010 PAMLA Conference,
Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii, 13-14 November 2010
The 108th annual conference of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), was held at
Chaminade University, Honolulu,
and co-sponsored by University
of Hawaii, West Oahu, and Scripps
College. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'"No Man of Flesh and Blood": Ivanhoe’s
Locksley and the Ballad Tradition' by Ruth Baldwin (California,
Berkeley), which explored Scott’s use of the ballad tradition
in his characterization of Locksley, the Robin Hood figure of Ivanhoe.
For further information, see the conference
site and programme.
38) 'Abbotsford Revisited:
A Dramatised Reading', The Mercators, Abbotsford House, 3 December
2010
Following its successful run at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, the Mercators
theatre group presented Abbotsford Revisited, a dramatised
reading based on Scott's life, times, and works, devised by Alan
Richardson.
39) 'What Does Walter Scott Mean to Scotland?',
Panel Discussion, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 8 December
2010
As part of a series of events around the exhibition Rebels
with a Cause: The Jacobites and the Global Imagination (The
Scottish Parliament, 27 October 2010-8 January 2011), Magnus Linklater
chaired a panel of experts, including Stuart Kelly,
author of Scott-Land:
The Man Who Invented a Nation, who discussed Scott’s
legacy. More information here.
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2009
1) 'Repaying Historical Interest: the Economy of Boredom in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey', invited lecture by Prof. Mike Goode, Rice University, Houston, Texas 12 January 2009
Prof. Goode (Syracuse) is
the author of Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History,
1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which includes
three chapters on Scott (see Goode
2009a, Goode
2009b, and Goode
2009c)
2) 'Stendhal et les Romantismes:
l'Europe romantique de Stendhal', International Conference, Centre
d’études stendhaliennes et romantiques (CESR), Université
Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France, 28-30 January 2009
This international conference on Stendhal and European
Romanticism, organized by the Centre
d’études stendhaliennes et romantiques (CESR),
included one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Notre père
Walter Scott: Stendhal, Walter Scott et la stratégie romanticiste'
by Xavier Bourdenet (IUFM Paris). Click here
for the conference programme.
3) 'Walter Scott und seine
Deutschliebe', Talk by Prof. Kenneth S. Whitton, Leeds Anglo German
Club, 3 February 2009
Prof. Whitton's talk to Leeds
Anglo German Club discussed links between Scott and German writers
and musicians, including Goethe and Schubert. Kenneth S. Whitton
is Professor Emeritus in the Department
of Languages & European Studies at the University of Bradford.
He is author of Goethe and Schubert: The Unseen Bond (Portland,
Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1999).
4) Dickens Project Winter Conference,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 21 February 2009
This graduate conference, sponsored by the Dickens
Project and hosted by Vanderbilt
University featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Education, Quotation, and Waverley’s Roynish
Clown' by Matthew Fellion (St. Francis
Xavier).
5) 'From Sir Walter Scott to
Osama Bin Laden: Ideas of Crusading over Recent Centuries', Lecture
by Prof. Jonathan Phillips, Guildford Museum, Guildford, Surrey,
26 February 2009
Part of an annual series of talks hosted by Guildford
Museum, this lecture examined how and why westerners have continued
to employ the word and concept of crusading into modern times. It
covered the French invasion of Algeria, the Spanish Civil War and
the aftermath of 9/11, and revealed how Saladin (featured in Scott's
The Talisman)
has been used in a modern context by some Islamic leaders. Jonathan
Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal
Holloway, University of London. Click here
for further details.
6) 'The Corson Collection:
Edinburgh University Library's Scott Monument', Seminar by Dr Paul
Barnaby, Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 13 March 2009
The Edinburgh
Book History Seminars are organized by Edinburgh University's
Centre for the History
of Book and take place on Fridays (1300-1400) in the newly opened
Centre
for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Main Library.
Dr Barnaby (Edinburgh University Library) is editor of this website
and has published articles on the reception and translation of Scottish
literature. His talk provided an introduction to Edinburgh
University Library's major Corson Collection
of Walter Scott material.
7) 'Cultures across Borders:
Negotiating the Global and the Local', Coordinates of Comparison
2009, 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, University
of Alberta, 13-14 March 2009
The 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
('Coordinates of Comparison') hosted by the University
of Alberta Comparative Literature Program featured one paper
of Scott interest: 'Narrative Verse and Romantic Revolutions: Walter
Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel' by David Buchanan
(Alberta).
8)
'From Walter Scott’s Marmion to William Gell’s
Morea: Some Lessons in Topography and Topology for Contemporary
Reconstructions of Antiquity', Lecture by Michael Shanks, Joukowsky
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University,
March 17, 2009
This lecture on Scott's Marmion
was one of the 2008/2009 Series of Lectures and Workshops held by
the Institute
for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University (Providence
RI). Michael
Shanks is the Omar and Althea Dwyer Hoskins Professor of Classical
Archaeology at Stanford University.
He is currently working on Borderlands: Tyne to Tweed,
a volume charting the regional archaeology of the Roman north as
chorography.
9) 40th Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond
Marriott, Richmond, VA, 26-29 March 2009
The 40th Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), held in the
Richmond
Marriott, included two papers of particular Scott interest:
'Empty Space and British Paranoia in Scott’s The Antiquary'
by Anna Dodson (Rice University) and 'Re-enacting Waverley at Colonial Williamsburg' by Mike Goode (Syracuse). Click here for the conference site and programme.
10) British Society for Literature
and Science 2009 Conference, University of Reading, 27-29 March
2009
The 2009 Conference of The
British Society for Literature and Science included a paper
by Adelene Buckland (Cambridge): '"High Jinks": Walter
Scott and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Geology'. Dr Buckland
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Cambridge
Victorian Studies Group. Click here
for the conference programme.
11) 'Cross-Currents', 9th
Irish and Scottish Studies Postgraduate Conference, University
of Aberdeen, 3-5 April 2009
Hosted by the Research
Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen,
this three-day conference included a session on Scott, featuring
three papers: Ainsley McIntosh (Aberdeen): '"Alive within
the Tomb": Narrative Closure, Enclosure and Disclosure in
Marmion', Anna Fancett (Aberdeen): 'Narrative Outcasts:
The Discourse of the Powerless', and Kang-yen Chiu (Glasgow),
'Orientalism, Hospitality and Empire in The Talisman'.
Click here
for the conference programme.
12) The Classical Association
Annual Conference 2009, University of Glasgow, 3-6 April 2009
The 2009 annual meeting of the Classical
Association was held jointly with the Classical
Association of Scotland and hosted by the Department
of Classics, University of Glasgow. It included a paper by Dr
Chris Ann Matteo (Virginia): 'Spolia from Troy: Classical Epic Allusion
in Walter Scott’s Waverley'. Click here
for the conference programme.
13) 'Romantic Visual Cultures',
One-Day International Conference, University of Cardiff, 17 April
2009
Hosted by the Centre
for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR), University of
Cardiff, this conference focussed on various aspects of the visual
imagination, fine arts and aesthetics, and the complex relationships
between them during the Romantic period. The plenary speakers included
Peter Garside (Edinburgh) who spoke on ‘Hogg, Scott, and Visual
Representations of Literary Friendship’. Peter Garside is
Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University
of Edinburgh and was the founding Chair of the Centre
for Editorial & Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Among many Scott-related publications, he has edited The
Black Dwarf (1993), Guy
Mannering (1999), and Waverley
(2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and The
Visionary for University College Cardiff Press (1984). Prof.
Garside recently directed the project Illustrating
Scott: A Database of Printed Illustrations to the Waverley Novels,
1814-1901. Click here
for the conference site.
14) Meeting of the Johnson
Society of the Central Region, Chicago, Illinois, 17-18 April
2009
At a meeting to mark the tercentenary of Samuel
Johnson's birth, Martha F. Bowden (Kennesaw State) presented a
paper entitled 'Writing a Chapter in Literary History: Scott's
Continuing Influence on Historical Fiction' (information from
The
Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, September 2009).
15) 'E os gaiteiros de saiote?:
reflexões sobre a identidade nacional na literatura escocesa',
Lecture by Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques, Universidade do Vale
do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil, 23 April 2009
Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques, lecturer in Comparative
Literature at the Universidade
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, discussed the linguistic, social,
and aspects of Scottish national identity as expressed in Scottish
literature with particular reference to Sir Walter Scott. Click
here
for more information (in Portuguese) and here
for a list of Dr Henrique's recent Scott-related publications.
16) 'Rejecting England: Sir
Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe’s Rebecca and George
Eliot’s Daniel Deronda', Seminar by Dr John Docker,
Department of History, University of Sydney, 27 April 2009
This talk by Dr Docker (Australian National University)
was part of a seminar series for postgraduates and faculty held
by the Department
of History, University of Sydney. Dr Docker is author of 1492:
The Poetics of Diaspora (London; New York, 2001) and (with
Ann Curthoys) Is History Fiction? (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 2005). Click here
for further details.
17) 'Romantic Translation,
1780-1830', One-Day Conference, Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 12 May 2009
This conference, organised by Edinburgh University's
Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, included a paper by Dr Paul Barnaby
(Edinburgh University Library), 'Translation and the Romantic
Right: A.J.B. Defauconpret and the Waverley Novels', focussing
on political manipulation in translations of Old
Mortality and Rob
Roy. Dr Barnaby is editor of this website and has published
articles on the translation and reception of Scottish writing
in Europe. Click here
for further details of the programme.
18) 'Abbotsford: Past, Present,
and Future', Address by Jacquie Wright, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club, 14 May 2009
Jacquie Wright is Executive Manager of Abbotsford
House, Scott's 'plaything in stone' (see Homes).
Details from the Edinburgh Sir
Walter Scott Club.
19) 'Migrating Minds: Imagined
Journeys - Imagined Homecomings', Two-Day Conference, University
of Aberdeen, 14-15 May 2009
Hosted by the AHRC
Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen,
this conference sought to investigate the idea of migration as a
series of narratives and rhetorical tropes that develop over time.
It featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Imagining
India in the Waverley Novels’ by Sally Newsome (Aberdeen).
Click here
for the conference site.
20) 'From Waverley
to Waverley Station: Wordsworth's Influential Friend Scott', Talk
by Sir Eric Anderson, KT, Wordsworth Museum & Art Gallery,
Grasmere, Cumbria, 16 May 2009
'From Waverley to Waverley Station' was one of the 2009
series of Bindman
Talks providing a general introduction to some of the authors
and works in the Wordsworth
Trust's collection. It explored Scott's legacy - how he made
novels popular and affordable, encouraged a love of romantic highland
scenery in his readers, invented Scottish baronial architecture,
established tartan as Scotland's national dress, and even had a
railway station named after his most famous novel. Sir Eric Anderson,
KT, recently retired Provost of Eton College, is editor of The
Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
Click here
for further details.
21) 'Romanticism and Modernity',
17th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism, Duke University, 21-24 May 2009
The 17th Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), held
at Duke University (Durham,
NC), explored continuities and/or points of contact between the
relatively compact period of Romanticism and the social, political,
economic, and aesthetic formations of European modernity that
either precede it or that follow in Romanticism’s wake.
Focussing on Romanticism’s complex and often ambivalent
place within the material processes and intellectual genealogies
of European modernity, it aimed to encourage work that linked
British Romantic Studies to a wider European context. It featured
four papers of particular Scott interest: Alexander Dick (British
Columbia), 'Scott’s Late Style', Christopher Scalia ( University
of Virginia's College at Wise), '"Long Live the Swinish Multitudes!":
Edmund Burke & the Rhetoric of Scott’s The Letters
of Malachi Malagrowther', Jeffrey Scraba (Memphis), 'Remembrance
and Reconstruction: Walter Scott’s Antiquaries', and Keya
Kraft (Washington), '"Romance of a House": Scott, Abbotsford,
and the Invention of the Medieval'. See the conference
site and programme.
22) 'Interrogation Techniques:
Law, Texts, Culture', English Graduate Conference, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 29-30 May 2009
This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the graduate students
of Simon Fraser University's
English Department, sought to question the role of law in
literary and cultural production and its manifestations in texts
and as texts, featuring scholarly, creative and round-table
presentations. It included one paper of particular Scott interest.
In '"The Good Old Rule": Law and Lawlessness in Sir
Walter Scott’s Rob Roy', Dr David Chant (Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario) explored how law is perceived,
constructed and enforced in the various regional settings (London,
Northumberland, Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands) in which
Rob Roy is set.
More information from the conference
site.
23) 'Long Live the Swinish
Multitude!', Lecture by Christopher Scalia, University of Virginia's
College at Wise, 30 May, 2009
Christopher Scalia, assistant professor of English
at The University
of Virginia’s College at Wise, analysed the rhetoric
of Scott’s Letters
of Malachi Malagrowther, showing how Scott modified the
language of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution
in France (1790) to defend a distinctively Scottish way of
life. Click here
for more information.
24) Sir Walter Scott and the Ballad, Invited Lecture by Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany 3 June 2009
Dr Sigrid Rieuwerts is Reader at the University of Mainz and editor/manager of the AHRC/DFG
Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Project.
25) 'Scott
as Poet, Critic, and Historian', Address by Dr Ronald A. Silvester,
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 4 June 2009
Dr Ronald A. Silvester is a member of the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club who has previously delivered the lecture 'The
Wizard of the North: Confounding the Detractors' (4 June 2004).
Details from the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club.
26) 'Durability and Transience:
Cultural Borders of Temporality', 11th Annual Conference of the
English Department of Bucharest University, Romania, 3-5 June 2010
The 11th Annual Conference of the English
Department of Bucharest University featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Minstrels and Old Singing Women: The Durability
and Transience of Ballads for Walter Scott and his Contemporaries'
by James Brown (Bucharest). Click here
for a full programme.
27) ‘La Construction des images: persuasion et rhétorique, création des mythes’, Colloquium, École Doctorale IV, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France, 12 June 2009
This colloqium, organized by the École Doctorale IV 'Civilisations, Cultures, Littératures, et Sociétés' of Sorbonne University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The Role of the Intertext and the Palimpsest in the Creation of a Mythical Scotland in Walter Scott’s Waverley and Rob Roy' by Céline Sabiron (Sorbonne).
28) 'Du livre à l'auteur:
autorité, sociabilités, matérialité
et circulation de l’écrit du XVIe au XIXe siècle',
One-Day Workshop, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France,
15 June 2009
This workshop, organized by the research group 'Livre:
Création, Culture et Société' (Centre
d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines,
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
in collaboration with Mediadix
(Pôle Métiers
du Livre, Université
Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Péritexte éditorial
et préfaciel: le jeu avec la figure de l’auteur au
seuil des romans de Walter Scott publiés en Grande-Bretagne
et en France (1814-1824)' by Caroline Raulet-Marcel
(Université Paris 7).
29) International Conference
on Minds and Narrative, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium,
16-18 June 2009
Organized by the FWO
Research Community OLITH,
this conference at the Katholieke
Universiteit, Leuven, aimed to broach theoretical and methodological
issues concerning recent developments in the study of minds and
narrative fiction and to offer a forum for discussion between the
empirical, narratological and hermeneutic traditions in the field.
Of particular Scott interest was an address by keynote speaker Alan
Palmer: 'Social Minds in some Nineteenth-Century Novels' which focussed
on Scott’s Waverley
and Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’.
Palmer, an independent scholar living in London, is author of Fictional
Minds (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
More information from the conference
site.
30) 'Scènes de savoir
dans la littérature du dix-neuvième siècle/Scenes
of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Image', International
Conference, Université Paris-Diderot, France, 18-19 June
2009
This conference, organized by the research group LARCA
(Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones EA 4214)
at the Université
Paris-Diderot, featured on paper of particular Scott interest:
'Scenes of 'Other' Knowledge: The Encounter with Gypsies in Scott's
Guy Mannering' by Josephine McDonagh (King's College, London).
31) 'Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity
and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850', Three-Day Conference,
Birkbeck, University of London, 18-20 June 2009
Hosted by the Institute
of English Studies, University of London, and the Centre
for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck, University of London,
with the support of the Centre
for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Birkbeck, this
conference explored the fluid and unfamiliar contours of predisciplinarity/adisciplinarity
in an expansive Romantic Century, 1750-1850. It presented an opportunity
to defamiliarize foundational moments, master narratives, and key
figures of the Romantic century, by opening them up to predisciplinary
and eccentric objects, encounters, and texts. Together with many
other papers of Scott interest, it included one paper specifically
devoted to Scott: ‘Scott and the Geologists’ by Dr Adelene
Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group). More information from
the conference
site.
32) 'A Colloquium on Rob
Roy' with Prof. David Hewitt and Alasdair Hutton, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 20 June 2009
Professor Hewitt is editor-in-chief of the recently
completed Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (EEWN) and Co-Director
of the Walter
Scott Research Centre. In addition to publishing many important
articles on Scott, he has edited Scott on Himself: A Selection
of the Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press, 1981) and Scott and His Influence:
The Papers of the Aberdeen Scott Conference, 1982 (Aberdeen:
Association for Scottish Literary Studies, c1983) (with J. H. Alexander).
For the EEWN, he has edited The Antiquary (1995), Redgauntlet
(with G. A. M. Wood, 1996), The
Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden, 2004), and,
most recently, Rob
Roy (2008). Alasdair H. Hutton O.B.E., T.D., is Convener
of the Scottish Borders
Council and a former Conservative MEP for the South of Scotland
constituency. He is a writer and presenter of public events including
the Edinburgh Military Tattoo,
and has provided the narrative voice-over for a wide variety of
video and audio presentations including for Edinburgh
Castle.
33) 'Tradition and Innovation:
The State of Book History = Le Point sur l'Histoire du livre', SHARP
2009, University of Toronto, 23-27 June 2009
The 17th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, held
at the University of Toronto,
featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Transnational Approaches
to Book History: Scott’s The Heart of Mid-Lothian'
by David Buchanan (Alberta).
34) 'Past versus Present',
BAVS/NAVSA Joint Conference, Churchill College, Cambridge University,
13-15 July 2009
The first ever joint meeting of the British
Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and the North
American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) was hosted by
the Cambridge Victorian
Studies Group. It featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'The Tractarian Interpretation of Sir Walter Scott' by Diana Powell
(Liverpool). Further details from the conference
site.
35) ‘Scott and Cooper in the Anglophone Atlantic’, Seminar on Early American Material Texts by Prof. Charles Rezek, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 20 July 2009
This seminar, organized by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania was delivered by Prof. Charles Rezek (Boston), author of the forthcoming monograph London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). An expanded print version of this paper has subsequently appeared in ELH, 78 (2011).
36) 'Narrative Dominions: On
Writing the History of the Novel in English', Three-Day Conference,
Institute of English Studies, University of London, 20-22 July 2009
Hosted by the Institute
of English Studies, University in London in association with
the Centre
for the History of Authorship, Writing and Publishing, University
of Reading, this conference addressed the shifting terrains and
overlapping dominions of English-language prose fiction from its
origins to the present day, bringing together aesthetic, generic,
geographical, material, socio-political, and theoretical aspects
of literary history. It was linked to the forthcoming multi-volume
Oxford History of the Novel in English, to be published
by Oxford University Press
from 2010 onwards. Of particular Scott interest was 'Illustrating
Scott: Printed Illustrations to the Waverley novels, 1814-1901',
a paper by Peter Garside (Edinburgh). Click here
for the conference site.
37) 'Romantic Circulations',
11th Biennial International Conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies, Roehampton University, London, 23-26 July
2009
The biennial conference of the British
Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), hosted by the Centre
for Research in Romanticism, Roehampton University, aimed to
investigate the transmission of Romantic ideas, knowledge, cultural
forms and literary discourses in the context of changing relations
between artist and audience, writer and reader, producer and consumer,
elite and popular, national and trans-national. A panel 'Fictions
of Walter Scott' included three papers of particular Scott interest:
Daniel Cook (Cambridge), 'The circulation of life: Walter Scott
on Jonathan Swift', Caroline M. Jackson-Houlston (Oxford Brookes),
'"A Dingy or Damaged Commodity": Circulation, Honour and
Commodification in Scott’s Saint Ronan’s Well',
and Sally Elizabeth Newsome (Aberdeen), '"Handkerchiefs into
Turbans" and "Petticoats into Pantaloons": Walter
Scott, Saint Ronan’s Well, and the Transmission of
the Oriental’. Further details from the conference
site.
38) ‘Collectors, Librarians
and the Book Trade’, 27th Print Networks Conference, Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, 28-30 July 2009
The 27th conference in the series of British
Book Trade Seminars, supported by the Bibliographical
Society, and held at Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, featured one paper of Scott interest: ‘Was
Sir Walter Scott a Bibliomaniac?’ by Lindsay
Levy. Lindsay Levy, Rare Books Cataloguer for the Advocates'
Library, Edinburgh, is preparing a searchable catalogue of Sir
Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford
as part of the Abbotsford
Library Research Project.
39) 'Sir Walter Scott and the
Covenanters', One-Day Course, Office of Lifelong Learning, University
of Edinburgh, 14 August 2009
This course, organized by Edinburgh University's Office
of Lifelong Learning, tested the claim that Scott's works display
an extensive knowledge of historical sources, a strong sense of
place, a wide social vision, and an ability to present both sides
of a contentious issue. Tutor Dr John Milne focussed on Old
Mortality with briefer reference to The
Heart of Mid-Lothian. Click here
for further details.
40) 'Exil et retour: contextes
et comparaisons/Exile and Return: Context and Comparisons', Annual
Conference of the Société Française d’Études
Écossaises, University of St Andrews, 10-12 September 2009
The annual conference of the Société
Française d’Études Écossaises (French
Society for Scottish Studies), held in conjunction with the Universities
of St Andrews and Strathclyde,
explored the theme of exile and return, building on a growing corpus
of scholarship concerning migration, emigration and the formation
of Scottish expatriate communities abroad. It featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Homecoming and Liminality in Walter
Scott's Guy Mannering' by Céline Sabiron (Sorbonne-Paris
IV). A print
version of this paper has subsequently appeared in the conference
proceedings which were published in Études écossaises,
13 (2010). Click here
for the conference site.
41) The Ragged
Lion, Rowan Tree Theatre Company, Scottish Tour, 19 September-25
October 2009
For their 2009 tour, the Rowan
Tree Theatre Company performed The Ragged Lion, a
dramatic adaptation of Allan Massie's 1994 novel. The play presents
Scott in the immediate aftermath of the financial
crisis of 1825-26. In the solitude of his study, facing a
lifetime of toil to repay his debts, he wrestles with the ghosts
and demons of his and his country’s past. Click here
for further information and here
for the tour schedule. The Rowan Tree Theatre Company previously
toured with a production of The Journey
of Jeannie Deans (2007), an adaptation of Scott's The
Heart of Mid-Lothian by Judy Steel.
42) 4th International Association
of Adaptation Studies Conference, British Film Institute, London,
24-25 September 2009
The 4th annual International Conference of the Association
of Adaptation Studies, hosted by the British
Film Institute, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Ivanhoe and Kidnapped: The Aesthetics of the
Classic Adventure Serial' by Richard Butt (Queen Margaret University,
Edinburgh). Click here
for the conference programme.
43) Clan Scott Gathering 2009,
Bowhill, Scottish Borders, 24-27 September 2009
As part of the Homecoming
Scotland 2009 celebrations, the Chief of Clan Scott, the Duke
of Buccleuch, hosted the first gathering of Clan
Scott Societies at his ancestral home of Bowhill
in the Scottish Borders. Events included a historical re-enactment
of the Carterhaugh Ba' Game, displays of archery and horsemanship,
and a performance by the Rowan
Tree Theatre Company of The Minstrel and the Shirra,
a play about Sir Walter Scott by Allan Massie (adapted from his
novel The Ragged Lion). Click
here
for a programme of events and here
for further information.
44)
'Romanistik: Beruf und Berufung', XXXI. Romanistentag, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, 27 September-1
October 2009
The 31st annual meeting of the Deutscher
Romanistenverband, held at Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, included one paper of
particular Scott interest: 'Die Promessi sposi von Alessandro
Manzoni: Parallelen und Differenzen zu anderen europäischen Romanen
zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts' by Johanna Hellermann (Bonn/Florenz),
which investigated parallels and differences between Manzoni's masterpiece
and other early nineteenth-century novels, notably the work of Scott.
Click here
for the conference programme.
45)
‘Ivanhoe and Kidnapped: The Aesthetics of
the Classic Adventure Serial’, Seminar by Dr Richard Butt,
Centre for Screen Studies, University of Glasgow, 7 October 2009
In this research seminar, organized by Glasgow University's
Centre
for Screen Studies, Dr Richard Butt (Queen Margaret University,
Edinburgh) looked at television adaptations of Scott's Ivanhoe
and Stevenson's Kidnapped.
46) 'Walter Scott: Bibliophile
or Bibliomaniac?', Address by Lindsay Levy, Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh, 8 October 2009
Lindsay Levy, Rare Books Cataloguer for the Advocates'
Library, Edinburgh, is preparing a searchable catalogue of Sir
Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford
as part of the Abbotsford
Library Research Project. This event was co-hosted by the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club and the Department
of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, and was open
to the public. Details from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
47) 'Reworking the Regency',
Three-Day Conference, University of Melbourne, 8-10 October 2009
Co-hosted by the University
of Melbourne and the Research
School of Humanities of the Australian National University,
this interdisciplinary conference explored new perspectives on the
political, literary and public culture of Britain during the Regency
(1811-20) and subsequent reign (1821-30) of George IV. It included
one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Celebrity and Debt in the
Journal of Sir Walter Scott 1825-1832' by Melinda Graefe, a postgraduate
student at Flinders University. For further information see the
conference site
and programme.
48) 'Victorian Markets and Marketing', Joint
Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
and Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western
United States, Emily Carr University of Art and Design/University
of the Fraser Valley, Vancouver, BC, 15-17 October 2009
This joint conference of the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada and Victorian
Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States,
hosted by Emily Carr University of
Art and Design and the University
of the Fraser Valley, included one paper of particular Scott
interest: 'Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter
Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel' by Richard
Hill (Hawaii). While working for his Ph.D. thesis on Scott's illustrators,
Dr Hill worked on this website and on the Image
Collection. For further information see the conference site
and programme.
49) 'Sir Walter Scott, Money, and the
Credit Crunch of 1825', Lecture by Prof. Sam McKinstry, University
of the West of Scotland, 21 October 2009
Part of the Inspiring
People Lecture Series held by the University
of the West of Scotland, this lecture by Sam McKinstry (UWS
Business School) set Scott’s literary works in the context
of the Industrial Revolution and related their production to Scott’s
cash flow requirements for building Abbotsford
as well as to his business involvements. It drew parallels between
the financial crisis
of 1825-26 and today's 'credit crunch' and re-examined the allegation
that Scott was financially careless and wrote mainly for money
rather than for artistic reasons. Click here
for further details. See McKinstry
2011 for an article on Scott and the Crash of 1825-26.
50) 'Scottish
Gothic, 1764–Present', One-Day Symposium, University of
Stirling, 24 October 2009
Scottish culture and the Gothic have interacted fruitfully with
one another ever since the rise of this literary mode during the
late eighteenth century. Writers and thinkers of the Scottish
Enlightenment such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Mackenzie,
James Thomson and James Macpherson were crucial to the discursive
foundations of the Gothic aesthetic, while, during the 1790s and
early 1800s, Scottish histories and landscapes, however highly
mythologised, served as the setting for numerous Gothic romances
written and published throughout the British isles. In the first
few decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish writers such as
James Hogg and Walter Scott interacted with, and modified, Gothic
conventions in intriguing and innovative ways, and in the latter
part of the century, Robert Louis Stevenson would write and publish
what has subsequently become an iconic Gothic text of the fin
de siècle. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
manifestations of Gothic convention in Scottish literature are
no less profound, and contemporary Scottish writers such as Alasdair
Gray, Irvine Welsh, Iain Banks and Louise Welsh continue to employ
aspects of the Gothic in their work. But these are only some of
the best-known names in a rich tradition of Scottish Gothic that
stretches back to the latter half of the eighteenth century. Aiming
to move beyond a mere consideration of the Gothic in fictions
by writers of Scottish nationality, this conference, hosted by
the Department of English
Studies at Stirling
University, featured papers that explored the use of Gothic
conventions in texts about Scotland, its histories and its landscapes,
irrespective of their particular cultural provenance. Of particular
Scott interest was a plenary lecture by Peter Garside (Edinburgh):
'Uncovering Scottish (Gothic) Fiction 1771-1836'. For further
information, see the conference
programme.
51) 'The Idea of Europe: Memories and Postcolonial
Europe', Two-Day Conference, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 29-30
October 2009
This conference, organized by the ENACT
Symposium at Utrecht
University featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Beyond the Textual Line: Walter Scott’s Postponing and Post-Scripting
of Authentic Scottishness' by Margret Fetzer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich). For further information, see the conference
programme. An expanded
version of Prof. Fetzer's paper has subsequently been published
in Moving Worlds, 11.2 (2011).
52) 'Romanticism and the City', 16th Annual
Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism, City College
and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, 5-8
November 2009
The 16th Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism (ICR) was jointly hosted by City
College and the Graduate Center
of City University of New York. From Wordsworth’s description
of Lyrical Ballads as a response to 'the increasing accumulation
of men in cities' to Baudelaire’s location of the impetus
for his prose poetry in 'la fréquentation des villes énormes'.
the history of Romanticism is bound up with a continuous and evolving
response to the emergence of the modern city. As work in a range
of areas in our own day leads us to reconsider how we think about
such oppositions as nature and culture, the organic and the mechanical,
wholeness and multiplicity, the urban text or sub-text of Romanticism
presents itself not only as a comparatively neglected area of investigation
but as a place to pursue this rethinking. Of particular Scott interest
was the President's Address by Nancy Goslee (Tennessee-Knoxville):
'Scott's Rhyming Reconsidered: Nationalisms, Romanticisms, and (Maybe)
Aesthetics'. Prof. Goslee is author of Scott the Rhymer
(University Press of Kentucky, 1988) and numerous articles on Scott.
For more information, see the conference site
and programme.
53) '1759: Making and Unmaking
Empires', Joint Conference of the Canadian and Northeastern American
Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Ottawa,
5-8 November 2009
This joint conference of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Northeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, hosted by the
University of Ottawa, featured
two papers of particular Scott interest: 'Portraying the Alterity
of the Past: Scott’s Use of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Art Criticism in Waverley' by Emma Peacocke (Carleton)
and 'Representing History in a Post-Revolutionary Age: Jane Porter
and Historical Fiction before Walter Scott' by Morgan Rooney (Ottawa).
For further information, see the conference site
and programme. Emma Peacocke's paper has subsequently been expanded into a journal article and book-chapter; see Peacocke 2011 and Peacocke 2015.
54) 'Illustrating the Waverley
Novels: Scott, Scotland, and the London Print Trade, 1819-36', Seminar
by Prof. Peter Garside, Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 20 November
2009
The Edinburgh
Book History Seminars are organized by Edinburgh University's
Centre for the History
of Book and take place on Fridays (1300-1400) in the newly opened
Centre
for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Main Library.
Peter Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at
the University of Edinburgh and
was the founding Chair of the Centre
for Editorial & Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Among many Scott-related publications, he has edited The
Black Dwarf (1993), Guy
Mannering (1999), and Waverley
(2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and The
Visionary for University College Cardiff Press (1984). He was
Project Director of the recently completed Illustrating
Scott: A Database of Printed Illustrations to the Waverley Novels,
1814-1901. Click here
for the Autumn 2009 schedule of Edinburgh Book History Seminars.
55) Scott's Selkirk, Selkirk,
Scottish Borders, 5-6 December 2009
Scott’s
Selkirk was a Millennium project that proved so popular that
it has become an established part of the Selkirk calendar. For the
first weekend in December, the town centre reverts to Scott's day,
with most shopkeepers dressing themselves and their windows appropriately.
Scott's era is recalled with costume drama (in Sir
Walter Scott's Courtroom), street entertainment, craft stalls,
historical re-enactments, music and more. The weekend's events are
sponsored by local shops and businesses. Contact 01750 22217 for
more information.
56) 'The Shadow of the Precursor',
A Conference on Influence and Intertextuality, Penneshaw, Kangaroo
Island, South Australia, 7-9 December 2009
Supported by the Flinders
Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange,
this conference featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'"For Fiction - Read Scott Alone": The Legacy of Sir Walter
Scott on Youthful writers' by Christine Alexander (New South Wales).
An expanded
version of Prof. Alexander's paper has subsequently been published
in the conference proceedings (Cambridge Scholars, 2012).
57) ‘Spain and the British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century’, International Conference, Universitat de Barcelona, 10-11 December 2009
The first joint conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, hosted by the Universitat de Barcelona, focused on the full range of contacts and exchanges between Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, and British and Spanish colonies in the long eighteenth century (1689–1832). It featured two papers of particular Scott interest: ‘Los bandos de Castilla (1830) by Ramón López Soler: From the Reception of Walter Scott’s Romanticism to National Historical and Literary Sources’ by Juan Miguel Zarandona (Valladolid) and ‘Blanco White y Walter Scott’ by Fernando Durán López (Cádiz).
58) 'MLA 2009', 125th Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 27-30
December 2009
The 125th Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association featured four papers of particular Scott
interest: Richard Hill (Maui Community College, Hawaii), 'Scott
and the Scottish Race: William Allan and the Ethnographical Construction
of Scotland through the Waverley Illustrations', Suha Kudsieh (Trent),
'Orientals and Indians in Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman
and "The Surgeon’s Daughter"', Susan Oliver (Salford),
'"A Feather in Our Cap": Scott, Murray, and the Founding
of the Quarterly Review', and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
(Osaka), 'The Creation of a Lady (Kajin) as a Modern Gendered Subjectivity:
Sexual Politics in the Japanese Translations of Walter Scott and
Charlotte Brontë'. For further information, see the conference
site.
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2008
1) 'Reinventing the Self' :
South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2008 Conference,
21-23 February 2008, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA
Amongst other items of Scott interest, the 2008 Conference of the
South-Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies included a paper by Colin Marlaire
(National University) entitled 'Encoding Dissent: Sensationalizing
the Commonplace in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott'. Click here
for the conference programme.
2) 3rd Symposium of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland, Pearse St Library, Dublin, 1 March 2008
The 3rd Symposium of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland (ECLRNI), hosted by Pearse St Library, featured two papers of particular Scott interest: 'Visualizing Distance: The Reader as Spectator in Walter Scott's Waverley' by Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin) and '"The Style of my Friend Walter Scott": The Albigenses as Historical Novel' by Christina Morin (University College Cork).
3) 'Reading the Past in the
Nineteenth Century', Symposium, King's College, Cambridge, 4 March
2008
Jointly hosted by the Cambridge
Victorian Studies Group and the ‘The
Reading Experience Database 1450-1945' (RED), this symposium
included a paper by Annika Bautz (Zurich) on 'Scott’s Victorian
Readers', showing how sales figures and other data demonstrated
the persistent popularity of Scott’s novels over the course
of the nineteenth century. Dr Bautz has recently published The
Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott: A Comparative Longitudinal
Study (London; New York: Continuum, 2007) and contributed
a chapter
to The
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (Continuum, 2006).
A second paper by Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds) entitled 'Charlotte
M. Yonge: Reading, Writing, and Recycling Historical Fiction in
the Nineteenth Century' charted the presence of Scott's The
Talisman as a subtly pervasive intertext in Yonge’s
own Chantry House (1886). Click here
for further details and here
for a review of the symposium.(Expanded versions of the papers by
Bautz and
Mitchell
have subsequently appeared in a special issue of Nineteenth-Century
Contexts, 31.1 (2009).)
4) '(Trans)national Identities/Reimagining
Communities', Joint Conference of the Centro Interdisciplinare di
Studi Romantici and the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism, University of Bologna, Italy, 12-15 March 2008
Jointly hosted by the University of Bologna's Centro
Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici and the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), this conference
invited papers that took up the construction and dissolution of national
identities both positively, in terms of new forms of internationalism
and cultural exchange; and more problematically, for example through
war, or through forms of (non)identity or (non)community that elude
utopian collectivizations. Although many papers touched upon Scott,
only one was entirely devoted to his work: 'Waverley, or, ’Tis
Sixty Years Since' by Franca Ruggieri (Rome III), author of Walter
Scott in Italia, 1821-1971 (Bari: Adriatica, 1975). A session
on the Continuum series The
Reception of British and Irish Romantic Authors in Europe included
a presentation of The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe, ed. Murray G. H. Pittock
(2006). Click here
for the conference site.
5) 'Editing Across the Disciplines',
Society for Textual Scholarship 2008 Conference, Boston Editorial
Institute, Boston, MA, 13-15 March 2008
Amongst other items of Scott interest, the 2008 Conference of the
Society
for Textual Scholarship, held at Boston
Editorial Institute, included a paper by Richard Hill (University
of Hawaii) entitled 'The Illustrated Contributions of Sir Walter
Scott and James Hogg to Gift-Books and Annuals of the 1820s and
1830s’. While working for his Ph.D. thesis on Scott's illustrators,
Dr Hill worked on this website and on the Image
Collection. Click here
for the conference programme.
6) 'Publishing Abbotsford:
Walter Scott's Literary Legacy and the Abbotsford Edition of the
Waverley Novels (1842-7)', Talk by Ruth M. McAdams, Edinburgh Book
History Seminar, 14 March 2008
The Edinburgh
Book History Seminars are organized by Edinburgh University's
Centre for the History
of Book. Ruth McAdams (University of Edinburgh) works as a research
associate on Illustrating
Scott, a project to locate and catalogue all illustrations to
the Waverley Novels that appeared in print form in Britain between
the publication of Waverley (1814) and the end of the nineteenth century.
A print version
of this talk has subsequently appeared in Journal of the Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008).
7) 'Scottish Imprints from
Sir Walter Scott's Library', Exhibition, Abbotsford House, Melrose,
17 March-31 October 2008
The Faculty
of Advocates, owners of Sir Walter Scott’s library at
Abbotsford, mounted
a series of small exhibitions at Abbotsford during 2008 featuring
rare and early Scottish imprints from Scott's own collection. Click
here for further
information.
8)
'Revaluing Walter Scott', Lecture by Professor Douglas Gifford,
The National Trust for Scotland, Bearsden & Milngavie Members'
Centre, Milngavie Town Hall, Glasgow, 20 March 2008
Professor Douglas Gifford is Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature
at the University
of Glasgow and is the Honorary Librarian of Scott’s Library
at Abbotsford. He is Director of
the Abbotsford
Library Research Project Trust, a joint venture of The
Advocate's Library in Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow,
which is stock-checking Scott's Library, publishing unpublished material,
and undertaking further research into Scott's book collection.
9) 39th Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Hilton Portland
and Executive Tower, Portland, OR, 27-30 March 2008
The 39th Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), held in the
Hilton Portland and
Executive Tower, featured three papers of particular Scott interest:
Raymond Grant (University of Alberta, Edmonton), 'Robert Burns and
Walter Scott: The Republicans and the Democrats in Embryo', Anne
Simonin (CNRS-Maison Française d’Oxford), 'The Case
of Infanticide: Scott’s Heart of Midlothian', and
Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young University), 'Alba Newton; or, After
Euclid, before Scott'. For further information, see the conference
site
and programme.
10) ‘To London and Back: The Reprinting of Washington Irving in the Age of Scott’, History of Material Texts Seminar by Prof. Charles Rezek, University of Pennsylvania, 7 April 2008
The History of Material Texts Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania was delivered by Prof. Charles Rezek (Boston), author of the forthcoming monograph London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) and of many papers and articles on Scott including Rezek 2011 and Rezek 2013.
11) 'Perceptions of Crusading
History from Sir Walter Scott to Osama bin Laden', Lecture by Professor
Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Leicester, 21 April 2008
In a 50th Anniversary lecture at the University
of Leicester, Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith (Emeritus Professor
of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University), the UK's most
distinguished historian of the Crusades, explored how views of Crusading
have developed from the early 19th century to the present day. Click
here
for further details.
12) 'Scott, Scotland, and Romantic
Studies', Roundtable, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
University of Edinburgh, 23 April 2008
The focus of this roundtable, organised by Edinburgh
University's Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, was Ian Duncan's book
Scott's
Shadow: the Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton UP,
2007). Short talks were given by Penny Fielding, Alex Thomson, Susan
Manning (all Edinburgh), and Tony Jarrells (South Carolina). These
talks were followed by general discussion on Duncan's study and
the issues it brings to the fore regarding the relationship of Scottish
literature and history to Romantic studies more generally.
13) 2008 International Conference
on Narrative, University of Texas at Austin, 1-4 May 2008
The 2008 International Conference on Narrative, sponsored
by the International
Society for the Study of Narrative and the University
of Texas at Austin, featured four papers of particular Scott
interest: Samuel Baker (Texas-Austin), 'The Talisman in The Professor’s
House: Walter Scott, Willa Cather, and the Romance of Literary History',
Bill Hardwig (Tennessee), 'The Influence of Walter Scott Was Strong
Upon the Old South', Mari Hatavara (Tampere), 'The Problem of Narrating
History in Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet', and Fiona
Robertson (Birmingham City, UK), 'Emblems, Devices, and the Figure
of the Substitute in Walter Scott and Stephen Crane'. Click here
for the conference site and here
for the programme.
14) 'A Reformed Scott', The
Linklater Lecture by Professor David Hewitt, King's College Centre,
King's College, University of Aberdeen, 9 May 2008
David Hewitt (Aberdeen) delivered the annual Linklater Lecture as
part of the WORD 08
Writers Festival hosted by the University
of Aberdeen. Professor Hewitt is editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh
Edition of the Waverley Novels (EEWN) and Co-Director of the Walter
Scott Research Centre. In addition to publishing many important
articles on Scott, he has edited Scott on Himself: A Selection
of the Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh
: Scottish Academic Press, 1981), Scott and His Influence: The
Papers of the Aberdeen Scott Conference, 1982 (Aberdeen : Association
for Scottish Literary Studies, c1983) (with J. H. Alexander), and
the Edinburgh Editions of The Antiquary (1995) and (with
G. A. M. Wood) Redgauntlet (1996).
15) Livrets d'opéra
et réécritures du patrimoine anglophone', Two-Day
Conference, Université de Caen Basse Normandie, France, 9-10
May 2008
This conference, organized by the ERIBIA
research team (Université
de Caen Basse Normandie), featured two papers of Scott interest:
'The Lady of the Lake, La donna del lago: première
entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’Opéra
italien' by Liliane Lascoux (C.R.L.C, Paris IV) and 'La Jolie
Fille de Perth de Bizet, ou, comment trahir et honorer Walter
Scott' by Gilles Couderc (Caen). Click here
for the conference programme. See Lascoux
2011 and Couderc
2011 for published versions of these papers.
16) 'War, Empire and Slavery,
c.1790-1820', Three-Day Conference, University of York, 16-18 May
2008
The 8th Cultural History Conference organized by the
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, highlighted
'Nations,
Borders and Identities', a research project devoted to the comparative
study of the experiences of European men and women in the Revolutionary
and Napoleonic wars, from 1790-1820. Of particular Scott interest
was ‘Inappropriate for Soldiers?: Images of Warfare in the
Early Waverley Novels’, a paper by Sharon Murphy (Trinity
College Dublin). Click here
for the conference site.
17) 'The Sederunt Book and
the Sequestration of Archibald Constable & Co.', Paper by Dr
Ross Alloway, SHARP 2008, Oxford Brookes University, 27 June 2008
Dr Alloway, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre
for the History of the Book, Edinburgh University, delivered
this paper as part of SHARP
2008, the 16th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, held
at Oxford Brookes University.
His talk focuses on the sequestration of Archibald Constable and
Co., the principal publisher of Scott's Waverley Novels, an event
which left Scott with crippling debts (see Financial
Hardship). Click here
for further details.
18) 'The Novel and its Borders',
Three-Day International Conference, University of Aberdeen, 8-10
July 2008
This conference, organised by Aberdeen University's Centre
for The Novel in association with the AHRC
Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, featured five papers
of particular Scott interest: Hsin-Ying (Alice) Lin, (National Chung
Cheng University), 'Victorian Historical Distance and Scottish Modernity
in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe
(1819)', Alison Lumsden (Aberdeen), 'Narrative Experimentation and
the Borders of the Novel: Scott's Late Fiction', Ainsley McIntosh
(Aberdeen), '"Alive within the tomb": Narrative Closure,
Enclosure and Disclosure in Marmion', Sally Newsome (Aberdeen),
'"… And what are we now, in this foreign land?": Liminal
Space and Count Robert of Paris', and Céline Sabiron
(Paris IV), 'Mapping Borders: From the Corporeal to the Incorporeal
in The Heart of Midlothian'. Click here
for the conference site. 19)
'An Electric Shock of Delight: Walter Scott and the Waverley Novels',
Exhibition, Writers' Museum, Edinburgh, 19 July 2008-3 January 2009
This free exhibition at the Writers'
Museum, Edinburgh, contributed to the celebration of ‘500
Years of Printing in Scotland (1508-2008)’ and marked
the completion of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels,
the culmination of a project to produce a complete, critically edited
edition of the Waverley Novels as Scott originally wrote them. The
exhibition charted Scott's profound influence on great European
writers and showed how his innovations permeated every form of art
and entertainment in the nineteenth century. For further details,
contact the Writers'
Museum.
20) 'Evidence of Reading, Reading
the Evidence', Three-Day Conference, Institute of English Studies,
University of London, 21-23 July 2008
Organized by the Institute
of English Studies, University of London in conjunction with
the Open University, this conference
highlighted ‘The
Reading Experience Database 1450-1945' (RED). It sought to create
a forum in which diverse approaches to charting the history of reading
were brought into energetic debate, moving beyond the boundaries
of specific institutions, disciplines, methodologies, geographical
locations and time periods. Two papers were of particular Scott
interest: ‘Rocks and their Readers: Adam Sedgwick, Walter
Scott, and the Problem of Narrative’ by Adelene Buckland (Cambridge
Victorian Studies Group) and ‘Reading History: Evidence of
the Transatlantic Audience for the Historical Fiction of Sir Walter
Scott, James Fenimore Cooper and Charles Dickens’ by Robert
McParland (Felician College, New Jersey). Click here
for the conference site.
21) 'Persistances gothiques dans la littérature
et les arts de l'image', Conference, Centre Culturel International
de Cerisy, Cerisy-la-Salle, France, 21-31 July 2008
This conference on the Neo-Gothic, hosted by the Centre Culturel
International de Cerisy in collaboration with the Laboratoire
3L.AM of the Université
du Maine, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Scott
contre Hoffmann: le combat du gothique européen pour la modernité'
by Victor Sage (East Anglia). An expanded
version has subsequently been published in the Conference Proceedings
(Paris: Editions Bragelonne, 2012).
22) 'Romantic Diversity': 16th Annual NASSR
Conference, University of Toronto, 21-24 August 2008
The 16th Annual Conference of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism was held at Victoria
College in the University
of Toronto and took as its theme 'Romantic Diversity'. The Romantic
period is marked by its striking engagement with the global diversity
of nature and humanity. Abiding interests in universality, unity,
continuity, and totality increasingly confront the consciousness
of variety, otherness, difference, and divergence. Exploring the
discovery as well as the production of diversity, this conference
sought to examine its role in reshaping Romantic culture, thought,
society, and knowledge. In addition to many papers of Scott interest,
three were specifically devoted to Scott: Miranda Burgess (British
Columbia), 'Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Information Culture',
Ann Rigney (Utrecht), 'How Remembering Scott Helped (Re)Populate
Scotland', and Suha Kudsieh (Trent), 'British Nationalism and Romantic
Othering: Jews, Muslims, and Scotsmen in Sir Walter Scott’s
Ivanhoe and The Talisman'. Click here
for the conference site.
23) 'Continuities and Innovations: Popular
Print Cultures—Past and Present, Local and Global', International
Conference, University of Alberta, 27-30 August 2008
This conference, hosted by the University
of Alberta featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Walter Scott,
Popular Literature and Power' by David Buchanan (Alberta).
24) 'Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary
and Cultural Perspectives', Postgraduate Conference, University
of Glasgow, 13 September 2008
Hosted by the postgraduates of the Department
of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, this one-day
conference considered the metaphor of the fabric of the Scottish
nation. It included two papers of particular Scott interest: '"Alive
within the tomb": Narrative Closure, Enclosure and Disclosure
in Marmion' by Ainsley McIntosh (Aberdeen) and 'Faeries
& the Quest for National Identity in Sir Walter Scott’s
The Monastery' by Yuko Yoshino (Edinburgh). Click here
for the conference site.
25) ‘Cadell and the Crash
(1825-26)’, Talk by Dr Ross Alloway, Edinburgh Bibliographical
Society, National Library of Scotland, 18 September 2008
Dr Alloway is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre
for the History of the Book working on the diaries of Robert
Cadell, initially a partner in Archibald Constable and Co., and
subsequently Scott's principal publisher. His talk focuses on the
sequestration (the Scottish term for bankruptcy proceedings) of
Archibald Constable and Co., , an event which left Scott with crippling
debts (see Financial Hardship).
Click here
for the 2008-2009 programme of meetings of the Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society.
26) ‘In memoriam Claudio Guillén (1924-2007)’, 17th International Symposium of the Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 18-20 September 2008
The 17th International Symposium of the Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada, hosted by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘El libreto de la ópera Artús (1897) de Amadeu Vives (1871-1932): un ejemplo comparado de reescritura y traducción de los versos artúricos de Walter Scott’ by Juan Miguel Zarandona (Valladolid).
27) 'Romanticism and Place', Day Conference
and Workshop, Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol,
24 September 2008
This event, hosted by the Centre
for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol, featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Limits and Borders in Walter Scott's
Novels' by Céline Sabiron (Paris IV). Click here
for the conference site.
28) 'Disrupting Victorian Studies', 39th
Victorians Institute Conference, University of South Carolina, 3-4
October 2008
The 39th Conference of the Victorians
Institute, hosted by the University of South
Carolina, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Sir
Walter Scott's The Monastery: Gothic Disruptions of History'
by Chad May (Kansas Wesleyan). The keynote address, 'The Great Book
of Nature: The Novel and the Science of Man' was delivered by Ian
Duncan (Berkeley), author of numerous works on Scott including Scott's
Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007). Click here
for the conference programme.
29) 'Empire, Revolution, and
New Identities: Geoculture and Geopolitics in Brown and his Contemporaries':
6th Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, Technische
Universität Dresden, Germany, 9-11 October 2008
The 6th Biennial Conference of the Charles
Brockden Brown Society, held at the Technische
Universität Dresden, emphasized current efforts to explore
Brown and his era in terms of historical systems and forces that
exceed traditional perspectives based on the nation-state. It included
one paper of particular Scott interest: Susan Oliver's 'Landscaping
Disaffection: The Ecology of Wastelands in Brown’s Edgar
Huntly and Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor'.
Dr Oliver (Salford University) is author of Scott,
Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Click here
for the conference programme.
30) 'Secret Scotlands: Scott
and Stevenson Dissect the Doctors’, Public Lecture by Prof.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher, University of Edinburgh, 16 October
2008
In a lecture hosted by the Centre
for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century in association
with the Royal Society of
Edinburgh and the City
of Literature, Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) examined
the relationship between nineteenth-century medical practices and
fiction, exploring the literary responses of Sir Walter Scott and
Robert Louis Stevenson to the Burke and Hare scandal of 1828. Professor
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) is the author of Possible
Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005) and editor of Culture, Nation,
and the New Scottish Parliament (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press, 2007).
31) 'The Work of Romanticism',
15th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism,
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 16-19 October 2008
The 15th Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism (ICR), hosted by Oakland
University, featured two papers of particular Scott interest:
'Getting Paid in Count Robert of Paris' by Brian Goldberg
(Minnesota) and 'Painting and the Work of History in Scott’s
Bride of Lammermoor' by John M Peck (Emory). Click here
for the conference site.
32) 'Benjamin Robert Haydon,
Romanticism, and the Visual Arts: Romantic Painting, Romantic Writing',
Two-Day Conference, University of Cincinnati and the Athenaeum of
Ohio, 7-8 November 2008
This conference, hosted by the University
of Cincinnati and the Athenaeum
of Ohio, featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Painting the
Historical Novel: Walter Scott and the Visual Arts' by Christopher
Scalia (The University of Virginia’s College at Wise).
33) 'From Ballads to Bed-Warmers:
The Corson Collection of Walter Scott Material', Writers' Museum,
Edinburgh, 11 November 2008
As part of Edinburgh's
Festival of Libraries 2008, Dr Paul Barnaby gave a talk on Edinburgh
University Library's major Corson Collection
of Walter Scott material at the Writers'
Museum, Edinburgh, venue for the exhibition 'An
Electric Shock of Delight: Walter Scott and the Waverley Novels'.
For more information contact the Writers'
Museum or Paul Barnaby.
34) 'The Collapse of a Northern
Rock: The Sequestration of Archibald Constable & Co.', Seminar
by Dr Ross Alloway, Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 14 November
2008
The Edinburgh
Book History Seminars are organized by Edinburgh University's
Centre for the History
of Book. Dr Alloway is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for
the History of the Book working on the diaries of the publisher
Robert Cadell. His talk focused on the sequestration (the Scottish
term for bankruptcy proceedings) of Archibald Constable and Co.,
the principal publisher of Scott's Waverley Novels, an event which
left Scott with crippling debts (see Financial
Hardship).
35) 'Walter Scott e a literatura
brasileira', Lecture by Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques, Universidade
Estácio de Sá, Campus Petrópolis-Rio de Janeiro,
21 November 2008
Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques, lecturer in Comparative Literature at
the Universide
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, discussed Scott's impact on Brazilian
literature. Click here
for more information (in Portuguese) and here
for a list of Dr Henrique's recent Scott-related publications.
36) 'Ruskin and Scott', Seminar
by Brian Ingram, Ruskin Research Seminar Series, Ruskin Research
Centre, University of Lancaster, 4 December 2008
The Ruskin
Research Centre at the University
of Lancaster holds weekly research seminars during term time.
The theme for 2008-2009 was 'Ruskin's Writers and Artists'. Brian
Ingram (Lancaster) was until recently editor of the Ruskin Review
and Bulletin. Click here
for further information.
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2007
1) HUSSE 8: 8th Biennial Conference
of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English, Szeged University,
25-27 January 2007
The 8th Biennial Conference of HUSSE
(Hungarian Society for the Study of English), hosted by Szeged
University, included one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The
Canonization of Walter Scott as the Inventor of the Historical Novel
in Twentieth-Century Hungarian Reception' by Gertrud Szamosi (Pécs).
Click here for an abstract
and here
for the conference programme.
2) ‘Repaying Historical Interest: The Economy of Boredom in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey’, Invited Lecture by Prof. Mike Goode, Brown University, Providence, RI, 31 January 2007
Prof. Goode is
the author of Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History,
1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which includes
three chapters on Scott (see Goode
2009a, Goode
2009b, and Goode
2009c). Further information from the conference site and programme.
3) 'The 19th Century Reception
of Walter Scott in Germany and Austria', Talk by Prof. Norbert Bachleitner,
Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 2 February 2007
The Edinburgh
Book History Seminars are organized by Edinburgh University's
Centre for the History
of Book. Prof. Bachleitner (Vienna) has published Quellen
zur Rezeption des englischen und französischen Romans in Deutschland
und Österreich im 19. Jahrhundert (Tübingen: Niemeyer,
1990) and edited Beiträge zur Rezeption der britischen
und irischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen
Raum (Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000). He has contributed
a chapter
on the Austrian reception of Scott to The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe, ed. Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).
4) 6th Conference of the Australian
and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(ANZAMEMS), University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7-10 February
2007
The 6th Biennial International Conference of the Australian
and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(ANZAMEMS), held at the University
of Adelaide, contained one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and the Middle Ages' by
Graham Tulloch (Flinders). Prof. Tulloch is author of The Language
of Walter Scott: A Study of his Scottish and Period Language
(1980) and has edited Ivanhoe (1998), The
Siege of Malta, and, Bizarro (2008, with J. H. Alexander
and Judy King), and The
Shorter Fiction (2009, with Judy King) for the Edinburgh
Edition of the Waverley Novels. For further information, see the
conference site
and programme.
5) 'Walter Scott and Accountancy', Lecture
by Professor Sam McKinstry, Old Edinburgh Club, 14 February 2007
This lecture by guest speaker Prof. Sam McKinstry
(Paisley) was part of the 2006-2007 Winter Programme of the Old
Edinburgh Club. Prof. McKinstry has, in collaboration with Marie
Fletcher, published a study of ‘The
Personal Account Books of Sir Walter Scott’ (2002). For
further information, click here.
6) 'Imagined Histories: The Novels of Walter
Scott', Lecture by Manfred Malzahn, Zayed Centre for Heritage and
History, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 5 March 2007
Manfred Malzahn is Professor of English at United Arab Emirates
University. He is author of Scots: die Sprache der Schotten
(5th edition, 2009) along with many scholarly articles on Scottish
literature.
7) 2007 International Conference on Narrative,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 15-18 March 2007
The 2007 International Conference on Narrative, sponsored
by the International
Society for the Study of Narrative, and co-sponsored by Georgetown
University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Death’s Heir, Die’s Husband: Frank Osbaldistone’s
Entrance into a Deadly Family History in Sir Walter Scott’s
Rob Roy' by Catherine England (South Carolina). Click here
for the conference site and here
for the programme.
8) 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Sheraton Colony Square, Atlanta,
GA, 22-25 March 2007
The 38th Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) included two papers
of particular Scott interest: '"Wonderful Wonder of Wonders’:
Matthew Lewis’s Gothic Influence on Sir Walter Scott' by Bridget
McFarland (Indiana) and 'The Problem with Nabobs: Walter Scott, Edmund
Burke and the Anti-Commercial Rhetoric of Empire' by Jason Solinger
(The Citadel). Further information from the conference site
and programme.
9) 'The Reception of Scott in Europe', Address
by Prof. Murray Pittock, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 5 April
2007
Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English
Literature at Glasgow University, is editor of The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe (London: Continuum,
2006). Amongst his other publications are The Invention of Scotland:
The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity (London: Routledge,
1991), The Myth of the Jacobite Clans (1995), Jacobitism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), Celtic Identity and the British
Image (Manchester University Press, 1999), and Scottish
and Irish Romanticism (Oxford University Press, 2008). Further
details from the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club.
10)
'International Symposium on English and American Literature',
Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China 6-8 April 2007
This annual conference, hosted by Shanghai International Studies University, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The Theory and Practice of Supernatural Literature in Sir Walter Scott’s Ghost Stories' by Germán Gil-Curiel (Sino-British College, Shanghai). An expanded version of Dr Gil-Curiel's paper has subsequently appeared in his monograph A Comparative Approach: The Early European Supernatural Tale: Five Variations on a Theme (2011).
11)
'Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact', ACLA 2007 Annual Meeting,
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, 19-22 April 2007
The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), hosted by the Universidad
Autónoma de Puebla, included one paper of particular
Scott interest: '"The Purple Land that England Lost"':
Scott, Hudson, and Informal Empire' by Richard
Maxwell (Yale). Professor Maxwell (1948-2010) was author of
The
Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 and numerous articles
on Scott. Further details from the conference site
and programme.
12) 'The Real Age of Scott',
Address by Dr Bill Bell, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 3 May
2007
Dr Bell is Director of the Centre
for the History of the Book at Edinburgh University. He is general
editor of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland
(Edinburgh University Press, 2007- ), and volume editor for vol.
3, Ambition and industry, 1800-80 (2007). Further details
from the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club.
13) 'Debateable Lands: The
Literature and Languages of South-West Scotland', Annual Conference
of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Crichton Campus,
Dumfries, 25-27 May 2007
The Annual Conference of the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies was held at Crichton
Campus, a remote campus for Glasgow
University, the University of
the West of Scotland, and Dumfries
and Galloway College. It included two papers of particular Scott
interest: '"Elfin Minstrelsy": Ballads, the Borders and
the Romantic Imagination' by Sarah M. Dunnigan and 'Four Great Novels
of the Covenanters: Scott, Hogg, Galt and Crockett' by Douglas Gifford
(Glasgow). Click here
for the conference site.
14) 'James Robertson and Walter
Scott', Address by Martin Philip, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
7 June 2007
Martin Philip is a recent Edinburgh University graduate
and now teaches for Open University and Edinburgh University. Further
details from the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club.
15) 'Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century
Culture', International One-Day Conference, Institute of English
Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 8 June
2007
Organised by the English
Department of the Open University and the Institute
of English Studies, University of London, this conference aimed
to consider in a panoramic and synthetic fashion the emergence of
nineteenth-century interest in literary sites, and the development
of literary genres associated with this interest. Three papers were
of particular Scott interest: Erin Hazard (Chicago), 'Building and
Displaying the Nineteenth-Century Author's House: Literary Architecture
& Architectural Literature' (which dealt extensively with Scott
and Abbotsford), Paul
Westover (Indiana), '"Our very life-blood is English life-blood";
The Problem of Literary Inheritance and the American Importation of
Literary Tourism' (which considered the relationship between Scott
and Washington Irving), and Shirley Foster (Sheffield), 'American
Visitors and Anti-Tourism'. Drafts of the papers are accessible as
PDF files on the conference
site. The conference site features an image of Sir William Allan's
painting of Scott Visiting Shakespeare's Tomb. (Expanded
versions of some of the papers featured in the conference have subsequently
appeared in Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture,
ed. Nicola J. Watson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).)
16) 'Vulnerability and Tolerance',
Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
4-8 July 2007
The 2007 Conference of the Colloquium
on Violence and Religion (COV&R), hosted by the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, featured one paper of Scott interest:
'Violent Victimhood and "Carnal Reason" in Scott's The
Tale of Old Mortality' by Ian Dennis. Ian Dennis is Associate
Professor in English at the University of Ottawa and author of Nationalism
and Desire in Early Historical Fiction (1997).
17) 'Open the Book, Open the
Mind', SHARP 2007, University of Minnesota, 11-14 July 2007
SHARP
2007, the 15th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was held
at the University
of Minnesota from Wednesday July 11 to Saturday 14 July. It
included a session on 'Robert Cadell: Constable, the Crash, and
the Legacy,' dealing with the collapse of Scott's principal publisher
Archibald Constable & Co., an event which left Scott with crippling
debts (see Financial Hardship).
The session feature three papers: Peter Garside (Edinburgh), 'The
Partnership of Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, 1811–1826',
Ross Alloway (Edinburgh), 'Cadell and the Crash', and Ruth M. McAdams
(Edinburgh), 'Cadell, the Fisher Edition of the Waverley Novels,
and Sir Walter Scott’s Literary Legacy'. Click here
for a conference programme. (An expanded
version of Dr Alloway's paper has subsequently appeared in Book
History, 11 (2008).)
18) 'Emancipation, Liberation,
Freedom', 2007 BARS/NASSR Conference, University of Bristol, 26-29
July 2007
In an event hosted by the Centre
for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol, the respective
annual conferences of the British
Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) and the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) were combined
for only the second time in the history of the organisations. It
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Freedom
Deferred?: Scotland and Slavery from Walter Scott to James Robertson’
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming). Click here
for the conference site.
19) 18th Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, Universidade Federal do Rio
de Janeiro, 29 July-5 August 2007
The 18th triennial congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, hosted by the Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, included a paper by Elisa Lima Abrantes
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), 'A Escócia celta:
nacionalismo e resistencia cultural', which dealt extensively with
Scott's Waverley.
20) 'Scott, Romance and
"Real History"', 8th Quadrennial International Scott Conference,
Oxford Brookes University, 30 July-3 August, 2007
The eighth meeting of the International Scott Conference
was held at Oxford Brookes University
from Monday 30 July to Friday 3 August. As well as affirming the
centrality of Walter Scott’s achievement to the Romantic period,
the conference stressed links with, and cognate studies of, other
writers and art forms, both within the period (especially Hogg and
Austen) and beyond, through criticism and literary influence. Plenary
speakers were Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley), ‘Scott’s Shadow:
Scott in Relation to the Writers of Early Nineteenth-century Edinburgh’;
Ina Ferris (Ottowa), ‘Remnants and Remains: Traces of the
Past in the Present’; Peter Garside (Edinburgh), ‘The
Baron’s Books: Scott, Book-collecting, Multitextuality, Waverley
and Bibliomania’; Nancy Goslee (Tennessee), ‘Fictions
of Liberty: Women Writers, Women Characters, and the Figure of Wallace’.
Details of the rest of the programme are available at the conference
site.
21) 'Sir Walter Scott and John
Henry Newman', Remarks by Patrick Killough, 2007 Convention of the
Venerable John Henry Newman Association, Pittsburgh Holiday Inn,
10 August 2007
The annual convention of the Venerable
John Henry Newman Association included a talk by retired diplomat
Patrick Killough on
Scott's influence on Newman, the text of which is available here.
Along with his wife Dr Mary Klein Killough, Mr Killough also taught
an introductory adult education survey of Scott ('Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832): Crusaders, Ministrels, and Stuart Kings') for Montreat
College, North Carolina, in October-November 2007. Click here
for further details.
22)
Festival of Politics 2007, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 24-26
August 2007
As part of the Scottish
Parliament's third annual Festival
of Politics, the Rowan
Tree Theatre Company performed The Journey of Jeannie Deans,
a dramatic adaptation of Scott's The
Heart of Mid-Lothian by Judy Steel, in the Parliament's
Debating Chamber on Friday 24 August. The company had premiered
the play at Bowhill
Theatre, near Selkirk, on 29 March 2007, transferring to the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
from 3-14 August 2007. The production subsequently toured the Scottish
Borders throughout August and September 2007.
23) Premiere of a New Recital
by Ronald Stevenson, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 7 September
2007
A premiere of settings of Scott texts by Sir Walter's
daughter Sophia. Ronald Stevenson is a Fellow of the Royal
Northern College of Music and a distinguished composer, virtuoso
and pianist. His first song-setting was of Sir Walter Scott's 'The
Violet'. He was accompanied by his grand-daughter, Anna-Wendy, a
renowned folk and classical violinist. Further details from the
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
24) 'The Enclave of my Nation', Sixth Annual
Crosscurrents Conference, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish
Studies, University of Aberdeen, 7-9 September 2007
The Sixth Annual Crosscurrents Conference,
hosted by Aberdeen University's Research
Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, included one paper
of particular Scott interest: '"Grand Napoleons of the Realm
of Print": Lockhart, Scott, and "Filthy Lucre"' by
Dan Wall (Aberdeen). A print
version of this paper has subsequently appeared in the Conference
Proceedings (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies,
2008). Click here
for the conference programme.
25) 'The Voice of the People: The European
Folk Revival, 1760-1914', International Interdisciplinary Conference,
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield,
7-9 September 2007
Organized by the Centre
for Nineteenth-Century Studies in association with the School
of English, Department
of Germanic Studies, Department
of History, and National
Centre for English Cultural Tradition, this conference aimed
to encompass the span of the European folk revival from its beginnings
in the middle of the eighteenth century to its cataclysm, the war
of the peoples, World War One. Papers examined the revival’s
British emergence from 1760 in works such as Macpherson’s
Ossian or Percy’s Reliques, its reception
and philosophical development in Germany by J.G. Herder, and its
further elaboration by British, German and French Romanticism. They
also considered the folkloristic or popular-cultural dimensions
both of nineteenth-century socialist utopias and of the diverse
national movements of nineteenth century Europe . Together with
numerous papers of Scott interest, the programme included a paper
by Michael MacDonald (Alberta) on 'Folksinger and Folksong in Walter
Scott’s Novels'. For further details, visit the conference
site.
26) 'Understanding the Audience',
Bi-Annual Conference of the Reception Studies Society, University
of Missouri-Kansas City, 27-29 September 2007
The second Bi-Annual Conference of the Reception Studies Society,
hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, included one paper of particular Scott interest: 'New
England Readers of Walter Scott in the 1820s' by Emily B. Todd (Westfield
State College). Click here
for the conference programme.
27) 'Neomedievalisms', 22nd
International Conference on Medievalism, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, 4-6 October 2007
The 22nd International Conference on Medievalism,
organized by the International
Society for the Study of Medievalism, explored 'neomedievalism',
a term first proposed by Umberto Eco referring to a modern desire
to dream the Middle Ages and to make them anew. It included two
papers of particular Scott interest: 'A Thing to Dream of Not to
Build: John Ruskin, Walter Scott, and the Ethics of Neomedievalism'
by Christine Bolus-Reichert (Toronto) and 'Neo-Medieval Adaptations
of the Myth of Saladin: The Case of Sir Walter Scott's Talisman
(1825) and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005)' by
Suha Kudsieh (Trent). Click here
for the conference programme.
28) 'Scott, Wilderness, and
North America', Address by Jenni Calder, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott
Club, 10 October 2007
Jenni Calder, formerly of the National
Museums of Scotland, has written many books on Scottish history
and culture and co-authored the volume Scott (London: Evans
Brothers, 1969) with Angus Calder. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
29) 'Romantic Objects', 14th
Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism, Towson
University and Loyola College, Maryland, 18-21 October 2007
The 14th Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism (ICR), hosted jointly by Towson
University and Loyola College,
included a panel on 'Scott, History, and the State', featuring the
following papers: Anne Frey (Loyola University of New Orleans), 'Governing
Objects: State Power in The Heart of Midlothian', Angela
E. Runciman (SUNY-Binghamton), 'Scott’s "Eddies":
Waverley, Historical Production, and German Romanticism', Jeffrey
Scraba (Memphis), 'Reproducing Histories: Walter Scott’s Gabions',
and Ryan D. Shirey (Washington University in St. Louis), 'National
Objects and "Nonsensical Trash": Scott’s Reliquiae
Trotcosienses and the Material of Scottish Literary History'.
For further information see the conference site
and programme.
30) XV Semana Interdisciplinar
de Estudos Anglo-germânicos, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, 22-26 October 2007
The 15th Semana Interdisciplinar de Estudos Anglo-germânicos,
hosted by the Faculdade de
Letras of the Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, included two papers by Elisa Lima
Abrantes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), 'Escocia: a construção
de uma identidade nacional pela literatura' and 'A invenção
romântica de uma identidade celta para a Irlanda e a Escócia'
, touching respectively on Scott's contribution to Scotland's national
literary identity and on his role in creating a Celtic identity
for Scotland.
31) VEAB Conference, Veszprém, Hungary,
7 November 2007
This conference, organized by the Veszprém
Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'History and Fiction in Hungarian Critiques
of Walter Scott' by Emília Szaffner (University of West Hungary).
In addition to journal
articles on Scott, Dr Szaffner is the author of 'The
Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century'
in The
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, ed Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).
32) 'Scott and the Covenanters', Address
by Prof. Douglas Gifford, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 22 November
2007
Prof. Gifford (University of Glasgow) is Honorary
Librarian of Scott’s Library at Abbotsford
and Director of the Abbotsford Library Research Project Trust, a
joint venture of The
Advocates Library in Edinburgh and the
University of Glasgow, which is stock-checking Scott's Library,
publishing unpublished material, and undertaking further research
into Scott's book collection. Further details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
33) 'Walter Scott's Mistress
of Pain', Seminar by Simon Edwards, Centre for Research in Romanticism,
Roehampton University, London, 28 November 2007
As part of a series of Research
Seminars run by the Centre
for Research in Romanticism, Roehampton University, Simon Edwards
(Roehampton) discussed Scott's The
Talisman and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Dr Edwards has
published essays on Dryden, Scott, Dickens, Cooper and a number
of other European novelists of the nineteenth century (see Edwards
2001 and Edwards
2003).
34) 'Annotating Waverley',
Address by Prof. Peter Garside, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club,
6 December 2007
Peter Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual
Studies at the University of Edinburgh
and was the founding Chair of the Centre
for Editorial & Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Among many Scott-related publications, he has edited The
Black Dwarf (1993), Guy
Mannering (1999), and Waverley
(2007) for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and The
Visionary for University College Cardiff Press (1984). Further
details from the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club.
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2006
1) 'You Can't Go Home Again: From
Scott to the Scottish Parliament', Talk by Caroline McCracken-Flesher,
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 9 February 2006
Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) is the author of
Possible
Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005) and editor of Culture, Nation,
and the New Scottish Parliament (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press, 2007). Her talk considered Scott’s ideas, especially
as propounded in The
Bride of Lammermoor, The
Pirate, and St. Ronan’s
Well, as crucial to the foundation of a new Scotland. Full
details from the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club. (A print
version of Prof. McCracken-Flesher's talk subsequently appeared
in the 2006 Annual Bulletin of the Edinburgh Sir Walter
Scott Club.)
2) 'Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict',
International Symposium, Saint Louis University, 15-18 February
2006
This symposium, organized by the Crusades
Studies Forum at Saint-Louis University, included a lecture of
particular Scott interest: 'Perceptions of the Crusades from Sir Walter
Scott to Osama bin Laden' by Jonathan Riley-Smith, Emeritus Professor
of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University. Click here
for the conference site.
3) 'Crossing Borders: James Hogg and the
Global Context of British Romanticism', 12th James Hogg Society
Conference, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi,
6-8 April 2006
The 12th Biennial Conference of the James
Hogg Society, hosted by the Mississippi
University for Women, included one paper of particular Scott
interest: ‘Who Is the King Now?’ Hogg’s Three
Perils of Man and Scott’s Castle Dangerous’
by Graham Tulloch (Flinders). An online
article, developing some of the ideas explored in this paper,
was subsequently published in antiTHESIS Forum, 3 (2006).
Click here
for more information, including a brief précis. Prof. Tulloch
is author of The Language of Walter Scott: A Study of his Scottish
and Period Language (1980) and has edited Ivanhoe
(1998), The Siege
of Malta, and, Bizarro (2008, with J. H. Alexander and
Judy King), and The
Shorter Fiction (2009, with Judy King) for the Edinburgh
Edition of the Waverley Novels.
4) 'Frontières: Rencontres interdisciplinaires', Two-Day Conference, Université Stendhal-Grenoble III, France, 1-2 June 2006
Hosted by the Université Stendhal-Grenoble III, this conference featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Seuils et confins: la notion de frontière dans les récits de voyage fictifs de W. Scott et R.L. Stevenson' by Cyril Besson (CEMRA).
5) 'Across the Water: Ireland and Scotland
in the Nineteenth Century', Annual Conference of the Society for
the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Institute of Ulster Scots
Studies, University of Ulster, Magee, 16-17 June 2006
The Annual Conference of the Society
for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, hosted by the Institute
of Ulster Scots Studies, University of Ulster, Magee, included
one paper of particular Scott interest: '"Between ancient Egyptians
and vagrants of European descent": The Collation of "Oriental
Gypsies" and Irish-Scottish "Tinkers" in the Writings
of Sir Walter Scott’ by Mary M. Burke (Notre Dame). Dr Burke,
who now teaches at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, is author
of the forthcoming 'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of
the Irish Traveller (Oxford University Press, 2009).
6) 'Dream, Imagination, and Reality in Literature',
International Literary Conference, University of South Bohemia,
Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic, 30 June-2 July 2006
This three-day international conference, organized by the English
Department of the University of South Bohemia, included one
paper of particular Scott interest: 'Signifying on Scots: Chesnutt's
Parodies of Sir Walter Scott' by Christopher E. Koy (University
of West Bohemia). A print version has subsequently appeared in South
Bohemian Anglo-American Studies, 1 (2007). Click here
for the conference programme.
7) ‘Trading
Books - Trading Ideas’, SHARP 2006, The Hague/Leiden (Netherlands),
11-14 July 2006
The 14th annual conference of the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was organized
by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
(National Library of the Netherlands) in co-operation with the Universities
of Leiden,
Utrecht, Nijmegen,
and Amsterdam. It
featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Post-War Scott:
East and West German Receptions of Walter Scott’s Novels (1949-1990)'
by Annika Bautz (Keele). Dr Bautz, who now works at Zurich University,
is author of The
Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott: A Comparative Longitudinal
Study (London; New York: Continuum, 2007). A print
version of her paper appeared in The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe, ed. Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006). Click here
for the conference site.
8) 'Transatlanticism in American Literature:
Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe', International Conference, Rothermere
American Institute, Oxford University, 13-16 July 2006
This conference, sponsored by the Ralph
Waldo Emerson Society, the Nathaniel
Hawthorne Society, and the Poe
Studies Association, and hosted by the Rothermere
American Institute, Oxford University, featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: '"Could it indeed be Rowena at all?": Poe’s
Rewriting of Scott' by Jennifer Camden (Ohio State). Dr Camden has
subsequently published Secondary
Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels (Farnham:
Ashgate, 2010), which includes a chapter on the heroines of Ivanhoe
and Waverley (see Camden
2010).
9) 'RLS2006: Transatlantic Stevenson’,
4th Biennial Stevenson Conference, Hotel Saranac, Saranac Lake,
New York, 18-20 July 2006
The 4th Biennial Stevenson Conference, hosted by the Hotel
Saranac, included one paper which dealt, in particular, with Stevenson's
debt to Scott: ‘Cross-Channel Stevenson: David Balfour and the
Problem of Scottish Return’ by Prof. Caroline McCracken-Flesher
(Wyoming). Prof. McCracken-Flesher is the author of Possible
Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005) and editor of Culture, Nation,
and the New Scottish Parliament (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press, 2007). Click here
for an abstract of her paper.
10) 'The Lie
of the Land: Scottish Landscape and Culture', Four-Day Conference,
University of Stirling, 27–30 July 2006
The Centre
for Scottish Studies at the University of Stirling hosted this
conference on the representation and interpretation of landscape
in Scottish cultural production, including literature, drama, music,
film, TV, print media, Scottish history, Scottish studies and the
visual arts. The central aim was to explore and compare the creative
tensions between representation and reality and how the Scottish
landscape has been perceived in creative, historical, canonical,
critical, and theoretical terms. Plenary lectures were delivered
by Neal Ascherson, Prof. Lawrence Buell (Harvard), Prof. Stephen
Duguid (Simon Fraser ), and Prof. Murdo Macdonald (Dundee). The
novelist James Robertson gave a reading from his work. While none
of the papers was exclusively devoted to Scott, a number touched
upon his treatment of landscape, urban or rural, Lowland or Highland.
11) 'O local,
o regional, o nacional, o inter-nacional, o planetário: lugares
dos discursos literários e culturais', X Congresso Internacional
ABRALIC, Rio de Janeiro, 31 July-4 August 2006
The 10th International Conference of the Associação
Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (Brazilian Comparative Literature
Association) included a paper by Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques (Universidade
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), 'Scott e Alencar: escritores escrevendo
a sua história', comparing the novels of Scott and the Brazilian
novelist José de Alencar (1829-77). A print
version of the paper has subsequently appeared in the conference
proceedings Lugares dos discursos: literários e culturais:
o local, o regional, o nacional, o inter-nacional, o planetário,
ed. José Luis Jobim (Rio de Janeiro: EdUFF, 2006). Click here
for the conference site. 12)
ESSE-8: 8th Conference of the European Society for the Study of
English, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 29
August- 2 September 2006
The Eighth Conference of ESSE
(European Society for the Study of English) at the Institute
of English Studies, University of London, included one paper
of particular Scott interest. 'The Role of Reception in George Cruikshank’s
Early Career (1811-1825)' by Françoise Baillet (IUFM Academy,
Versailles) charted Cruikshank's change of direction in the 1820s
from broadsheet caricature to book illustration (including the Waverley
Novels). Click here
for the conference site.
13) NASSR/NAVSA 2006 Conference, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 31 August-3 September 2006
The combined conference of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) and the
North American
Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) featured two Scott-related
papers. Daniel Schierenbeck (Central Missouri ) spoke on '"Discipline
is a capital thing": The Science of War in Scott's Old
Mortality' and Emily Haddad (South Dakota) on 'Techniques of
Economic Stewardship: Scott's The Talisman'. Click here
for the conference site.
14) 'Victorian Cultures in Conflict', BAVS
Seventh Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, 7-9 September
2006
The Seventh Annual Conference of the British
Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) investigated the origins,
nature, and influence of the intellectual, political, ideological,
and spiritual debates which shaped Victorian cultures of every kind.
It included one paper of particular Scott interest: ‘Walter
Scott: Beneficent Enchanter in a Land of Conflict’ by Brian
Ingram (Lancaster). Click here
for the conference programme.
15) Musical Event: The Lay of The Last
Minstrel, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 8 September 2006
Details from the Edinburgh Sir
Walter Scott Club.
16) 'Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures',
Three-Day Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 8–10
September 2006
Hosted by the Center for
British Studies and English
Department at Berkeley and jointly organized by Murray Pittock
(Manchester) and Ian Duncan (Berkeley), this conference explored
the following areas: the impact of Scottish Romanticism on European
literatures, the Anglophone British Empire and the United States;
continuities between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism; relations
between Scotland and Ireland, and between Scottish and English Romanticisms;
“literature” and the disciplines of the natural and
human sciences; the social environments of periodical culture, book
production and the literary market; tradition and genre; and sessions
on major authors. Plenary lectures were delivered by Robert Crawford
(St Andrews), Cairns Craig (Aberdeen), Luke Gibbons (Notre Dame),
Susan Manning (Edinburgh), Murray Pittock (Manchester), and David
Simpson (California, Davis) who discussed 'Walter Scott's Foreigners'
with particular reference to the Tales of the Crusades (The
Talisman and The
Betrothed). Besides a number of contributions touching
on Scott's work, over twenty papers specifically focussed on Scott,
dealing with his reception in Ireland, France, Russia, the United
States, Canada, and Latin America by writers and artists in a variety
of media. David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden, Co-Directors of the Walter
Scott Research Centre (Aberdeen University) led a workshop on
the goals of, problems faced by, and image(s) of Scott generated
by the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (published by Edinburgh
University Press). Click here
for the conference site. (Expanded versions of two of the papers
given at this conference have subsequently appeared in Bruzelius
2007 and Van
Kooy 2007.)
17) 1st International Conference
on Nation and Identity in 19th and 20th Century Literature in English,
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain, 14-16
September 2006
The inaugural International Conference on Nation and
Identity in 19th and 20th Century Literature in English, hosted
by the Language
Department of the Universidad
Católica San Antonio de Murcia, included one paper of
particular Scott interest: 'Walter Scott y la deconstrucción
del patrón identitario' by Montserrat Martínez García
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Dr Martínez García
has recently completed a Ph.D. thesis on 'La subversión de
la nación en la novela histórica de Walter Scott:
relectura de Waverley, Old Mortality y The
Heart of Midlothian en clave postmoderna'. Click here
for a (provisional) conference programme.
18) 'Il personaggio: figure
della dissolvenza e della permanenza = Character in Literature:
Patterns of Evanescence and Permanence', 4th Annual Conference of
the Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della
Letteratura, University of Turin, Italy, 14-16 September 2006
The 4th Annual Conference of the Associazione
per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura,
hosted by the University of Turin,
included one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Rebecca, la bella
ebrea: l’eroina del romanzo Ivanhoe tra scrittura
e illustrazioni' by Michela Mancini (Siena). An expanded version
has subsequently appeared in Il personaggio: figure della dissolvenza
e della permanenza, ed. Chiara Lombardi (Alessandria: Edizioni
dell’Orso, 2008). Dr Mancini is the author of Immaginando
'Ivanhoe': romanzi illustrati, balli e opere teatrali dell'Ottocento
italiano (Milan: B. Mondadori, 2007). Click here
for the conference programme.
19) 'Reclaiming Adam Smith',
International Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Columbia
University, New York, 22-23 September 2006
The 2006 annual meeting of the International
Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT), hosted
by Columbia University, featured
one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The Fate of Sympathy: Hume,
Smith, Scott, Hogg' by Ian Duncan (Berkeley). Along with many articles
on Scott, Prof. Duncan is author of Modern Romance and Transformations
of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992) and Scott's
Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton, 2007).
He has recently co-edited (with Evan Gottlieb) Approaches
to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels (2009). Click
here
to read Prof. Duncan's paper.
20) XIV Semana Interdisciplinar
de Estudos Anglo-germânicos, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, 2-6 October 2006
The 14th Semana Interdisciplinar de Estudos Anglo-germânicos,
hosted by the Faculdade de
Letras of the Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, included a paper on Scott's verse
by Elisa Lima Abrantes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro):
'O poeta Sir Walter Scott'.
21) 'Scott and the Edinburgh Reviewers',
Talk by Stephen E. Woolman QC, Keeper of the Library, Faculty of
Advocates, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 5 October 2006
Stephen E. Woolman QC was Keeper of the Advocates
Library until his appointment to the Bench (March 2008) with
the judicial title of Lord Woolman. Details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
22) Lecture by Prof. Graham Tulloch, Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, 25 October 2006
Prof. Tulloch (Flinders University, Adelaide) is the author
of The Language of Walter Scott: A Study of his Scottish and Period
Language (André Deutsch, 1980). He has edited the Oxford
World Classics edition of The Two Drovers and Other Stories
(1987) and three volumes for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley
Novels: Ivanhoe (1998), Shorter Fiction (with Judy
King, 1998) and The Siege of Malta and Bizarro (with J. H.
Alexander and Judy King). Details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
23) 'Waverley and the Object of
(Literary) History', Seminar by Prof. Michael Gamer, Centre for
Research in Romanticism, Roehampton University, London, 25 October
2006
As part of a series of Research
Seminars run by the Centre
for Research in Romanticism, Roehampton University, Michael
Gamer (Pennsylvania) discussed Scott's Waverley.
Prof. Gamer is author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre,
Reception, and Canon Formation (Cambridge University Press,
2000). See Gamer
2000, Gamer
2002a, Gamer
2002b, Gamer
2004, and Gamer
2008 for recent Scott-related articles and chapters.
24) Burney Society 2006 Meeting, Loews Ventana
Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona, 26-27 October 2006
The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Burney
Society, held at Loews
Ventana Canyon Resort, included one paper of particular Scott
interest: 'Borders, Invasions, Contested Spaces and Margins in 1814:
Waverley, Patronage, Mansfield Park, and
The Wanderer' by Margaret Doody (Notre Dame).
Click here
for the conference programme.
25) 'Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as
Praxis', 13th Annual Meeting of the International Conference
on Romanticism, Arizona State University, 9-12 November 2006
The 13th Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism (ICR) at Arizona
State University focussed on the activist dimension of Romanticism
as it sought to transform the public sphere through its engagements
with, and commitments to, matters artistic, musical, philosophical,
poetic, political, and/or theological. The conference sought equally
to explore the ways that Romantic Studies itself pursues analogous
forms of engagement with the world. It included one paper of particular
Scott interest: '"A Felt Relation": Genre as Cultural Dialogue
in Walter Scott’s Waverley' by Daniel Block (Brown).
Click here
for the conference site.
26) 'Rediscovering Scott for a New Generation',
Address by Lady Steel, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 22 November
2006
Lady Judy Steel is the author of The Journey of Jeannie
Deans, a dramatic adaptation of The
Heart of Mid-Lothian premiered at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe in 2007. Details from the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club.
27) 'An Evening with Sir Walter Scott',
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, New South Wales, 24 November 2006
This event was part of a public programme created by the
Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales looking at the life and works of Sir Walter Scott, principally
in terms of his relevance to colonial society in Sydney. Most of
the significant historic sites in Sydney were designed in the Gothic
Revival style, and a riverside suburb is called Abbotsford. On Friday
24 November, the Trust hosted a talk in the Library of Elizabeth
Bay House on the life and works of Scott, with visual material
to stimulate discussion about his influence on design, a display
of his books, and performances of poetry and prose.
28) Scott's Selkirk
2006, 2-3 December 2006
Scott’s
Selkirk was a Millennium project that proved so popular that
it has become an established part of the Selkirk calendar. For the
first weekend in December, the town centre reverts to Scott's day,
with most shopkeepers dressing themselves and their windows appropriately.
The Court House is used to re-enact court cases heard by Sir Walter
as Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire (see Professional
Life). There are re-enactments of the False Alarm of 1804 (when
the town's men rallied to beacons warning of a French invasion,
an event recalled in The
Antiquary) and of the 1815 Carterhaugh Ba’ Game which
was attended by both Sir Walter and James Hogg. This year, besides
a variety of street entertainments, there were performances and
exhibitions involving Borders Youth Theatre, the Traditional Music
School (based at Selkirk High School), Selkirk Film Club, and Selkirk
Camera Club. Other attractions included a ceilidh, carol-singing,
a Poetry Corner, an Age of Chivalry experience, a Food Court, horse-drawn
carriage and Sedan Chair rides, tours of the town, a children’s
Carousel, and a dedicated area for traditional games for children.
Of particular interest to students of Scott was a presentation on
'Scott and the Borders' by Prof. David Purdie, accompanied by the
renowned folksinger Norman Stewart, who interspersed the narrative
with ballads from Scott's Minstrelsy
of the Scottish Border.
29) 30th International AEDEAN Conference, University of Huelva,
Spain, 14-16 December 2006
The 30th annual, international conference of the Asociación
Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), hosted
by the University of Huelva, featured
one paper of particular Scott interest: 'Bridging Cultures and Languages:
Towards the Creation of a Hybrid Identity in Walter Scott’s
Waverley' by Montserrat Martínez García (Universidad
Complutense de Madrid). A print
version of Dr Martínez García's paper has subsequently
appeared (in CD-ROM form) as part of the published proceedings of
the conference (Universidad de Huelva, 2007). Click here
for the conference programme.
30) Annual Convention of the Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27-30 December 2006
At the 122nd Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, the Scottish Literature Discussion Group
organized a number of symposia and other events on Scottish literary
and linguistic topics, including the following sessions: 'Orality,
Literacy, Print: Technologies of the Spoken and Written Word in
Scotland', 'A Celebration of the Life and Work of David Daiches
(1912-2005)', 'Press Ganged? Revisiting Robert Louis Stevenson',
and 'Periodicals in Romantic Edinburgh, 1802-32'. Three papers were
of particular Scott interest: Andrew Hook (Glasgow), 'David Daiches,
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature, and Sir Walter Scott', Juliet
Shields (Binghampton), 'From Legendary Lore to Two-Volume Novel:
The Transmission of Scottish Identity in Scott’s Bride
of Lammermoor’, and Morton D. Paley, 'Coleridge, Scott,
and the Metrics of Christabel'. Click here
for the Convention site.
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2005
1) HUSSE 7: 7th Biennial Conference of the
Hungarian Society for the Study of English, Veszprém University,
27-29 January 2005
The 7th Biennial Conference of HUSSE
(Hungarian Society for the Study of English), hosted by Veszprém
University (now the University
of Pannonia), included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Customs and Costumes: Ethnicity in the Novels of Walter Scott and
Mór Jókai' by Emília Szaffner (Veszprém).
In addition to journal
articles on Scott, Dr Szaffner is the author of 'The
Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century'
in The
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, ed Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).
2) 'Lectures du Moyen Âge', Three-Day
Conference, Université de Bretagne-Sud (Lorient), France,
31 March-2 April 2005
The 2005 meeting of the research network Modernités
médiévales, held at the Université
de Bretagne-Sud, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Les châteaux dans Ivanhoé: archéologie
et histoire, nationalisme et morale' by Marie Casset (Bretagne-Sud).
A print version
has subsequently appeared in the conference proceedings (Presses
universitaires de Rennes, 2006).
3) 'Crossing the Highland Line: Cross-Currents
in 18th-Century Scottish Writing', Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat,
Isle of Skye, 20-22 May 2005
The 18th century contains some of Scotland’s most
important and accomplished literature in both the Gaelic and the
Lowland traditions. The 2005 Annual Conference of the Association
of Scottish Literary Studies held at Sabhal
Mòr Ostaig was the first conference to explore the connections
between them. Of particular Scott interest was 'Scott and the Highlands',
a paper by Professor David Hewitt (Aberdeen). Click here
for the conference site.
4) 16th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 26-29 May 2005
The 16th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA) featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The Trans-Atlantic Nationalism of Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe' by Charles Rezek (California Los Angeles).
5) 'International Colloquium on the Reception
of Scott in Europe: The Nationalities Question', Clare Hall College,
Cambridge, 28-29 May 2005
This first conference exclusively dedicated to Scott's
European reception brought together the international group of scholars
working on Scott in the Reception
of British and Irish Authors in Europe Research Project, providing
a forum for the presentation of work in progress and the exchange
of ideas. It also provided an opportunity to investigate more deeply
the relationship between Scott and national identities in nineteenth-century
Europe. Expanded versions of several of the papers subsequently
appeared in The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe, ed. Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).Click here
for the conference site.
6) Annual Conference of the Association
for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, 28 May-5 June 2005
The Annual Conference for the Association
for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) featured one paper
of Scott interest: 'Le Manoir mystérieux and Kenilworth:
Colonial Authorship and Plagiarism in Houde and Walter Scott' by
Andrea Cabajsky (Moncton). Click here
for the conference site.
7) 'Victorian Life Writing: Sources and
Resources', Three-Day Conference, Ruskin Research Centre, University
of Lancaster, 21-23 July 2005
Hosted by the Ruskin
Research Centre, this conference explored the records of Victorian
writers' lives, written both by themselves and others, covering not
only biographies but also more marginal forms of textuality, including
journals, diaries and letters. It included one paper of particular
Scott interest: ‘Walter Scott: Beneficent Enchanter in a Land
of Conflict’ by Brian Ingram (Lancaster). Click here
for further details.
8) 'Material Cultures and the Creation of
Knowledge', Three-Day Conference, University of Edinburgh, 22-24
July 2005
Hosted by Edinburgh University's Centre
for the History of the Book, this conference featured one paper
of particular Scott interest: 'Illustrating the Waverley Novels:
Scott's Publishers and the Popularisation of the Illustrated Novel'
by Richard Hill (Edinburgh), who formerly worked on this site. Click
here for
the conference site.
9) 'Romanticism’s Debatable Lands',
The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennial Conference,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 28-31 July 2005
Besides a plenary lecture by James Chandler (University of
Chicago) on ‘Edgeworth and Scott: The Literature of “‘Reterritorialization”’,
the biennial conference of the British
Association for Romantic Studies devoted three sessions to Scott
and included several other papers on aspects of his work. The following
is a full list of Scott-related papers: Annika Bautz (Newcastle),
'Temporal Borders: Introducing Walter Scott to Twentieth-Century Readers',
Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), 'Scott's The Antiquary and the
Inscription of the Nation', Michael Gamer (Pennsylvania), 'Scott,
Barbauld, and the Rise of the (Reprinted) Novel', Mike Goode (Syracuse),
'Reading for the Plots: Walter Scott and Romantic Conspiracy-Mongering',
Caroline Jackson-Houlston (Oxford Brookes), '"She herself must
venture … beyond the prescribed boundary": The Construction
of Gender and Cultural Difference through the Orientalist Fiction
of Scott and Bage', Donald MacKenzie (Glasgow), 'Romance versus History:
The Monastery and The Abbot as Borderland Texts',
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming), 'Remembering the Future: Making
Memory in Scott's Redgauntlet', Silvia Mergenthal (Konstanz),'"Straight
from the Heart": Mapping Scott's The Heart of Midlothian',
Meiko O'Halloran (Oxford), 'Hogg, Scott and Mary, Queen of Scots in
the Borders', Susan Oliver (Cambridge), '"Looking back on a Highland
Prospect": Scott, The Lady of the Lake and the Lowland/Celtic
Fringe', Christopher Scalia (Wisconsin-Madison), 'The Economics of
Antiquarianism in Sir Walter Scott's Prefatory Material', Ken Simpson
(Strathclyde), 'Of Gabions and Hobby-Horses: Scott's Reliquiae
Trotcosienses and "Sterne's Celebrated Metaphor', Nicola
Watson (Open University) '"Storied Vicinities": Scott and
the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Literary Tourist', and Fiona
Wilson (Bard College), 'Contested Borders: Gender, Territory, and
Hysteria in Rob Roy'. Click here
for the conference site. (Expanded versions of the papers by Susan
Oliver and Fiona
Wilson have recently appeared in Romanticism's Debatable Lands,
ed. Claire Lamont and Michael Rossington (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2007).)
10) 'Deviance & Defiance', 7th Biannual
Conference of the International Gothic Association/13th Annual Meeting
of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University
of Montreal, 11-14 August 2005
The Seventh Biannual Conference of the International
Gothic Association dovetailed with the 13th Annual Meeting of
the North American Society
for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) to foster intellectual
exchanges between the two groups. It featured six papers of particular
Scott interest: Andrea Cabus (Temple), 'Walter Scott and Emma:
Reader Reformation', Carol Margaret Davison (Windsor), 'Gothic Scotland/Scottish
Gothic: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley as Cultural Battlefield',
Mike Goode (Syracuse), 'Reading for the Plots: Walter Scott and
Romantic Conspiracy-Mongering', Andrew Lincoln (Queen Mary, London),
'Scott, Patriotism and the Politics of Transgression', Lisa Nevarez
(Siena College), 'Deviant Witchery: Scapegoating Madge Wildfire
in Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian', and
Kathryn Pratt (Auburn), 'Walter Scott, French and American Theater,
and the European South in 1820s New Orleans'. Click here
for the programme.
11) IX Congresso Nacional de Lingüística
e Filologia, Rio de Janeiro, 22-26 August 2005
The 7th Congresso Nacional de Lingüística e Filologia,
organized by the Círculo
Fluminense de Estudos Filológicos e Lingüísticos,
included a paper by Elisa Lima Abrantes (Universidade do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro), 'Walter Scott e a celtificação da Escócia
em Waverley', exploring how an idealized, Celtic image of
Scotland is created through Scott's characters' language in Waverley.
Click here for the
conference site and here
for résumés of the conference papers.
12) 'Sullivanhoe: The Disinherited Opera',
Sir Arthur Sullivan Society Conference, Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, 1-2 October 2005
This conference was devoted to Sir Arthur Sullivan's 1890
opera Ivanhoe, based on Scott's novel.
As well as a range of speakers who dealt with various aspects of
the opera (technical aspects of the score, critical reception, performance
history, recordings) there were live performances of music from
Ivanhoe, other settings of Scott and other music by Sullivan.
Click here
for the Society's website.
13) ‘Approaching Evidence in Early America: The Perils and Promises of Interdisciplinarity’, Graduate Student Conference. McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 6-8 October 2005
This conference, organized by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania featured one paper of particular Scott interest: 'The
Waverley Novels and the Interdisciplinarity of America in the 1820s' by Charles Rezek (California Los Angeles).
14) 'La huella cervantina en la cultura anglosajona', Conference,
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, 16-19 November 2005
This conference at the Universidad
de Valladolid on Cervantes's influence in the English-speaking
world featured one paper of Scott interest: 'Quixotic Historicism:
Don Quixote and Walter Scott' by Jeffrey Scraba (Rutgers). Click
here
for the conference programme.
15) 'Scottish Romanticism and the Enlightenment',
Symposium and Exhibition, Margaret I. King Library, University of
Kentucky, 18 November 2005
The University of Kentucky
College of Arts & Sciences presented a one-day symposium
and an exhibition of Scottish books and manuscripts from the 16th
to the 19th centuries held by the University
of Kentucky Special Collections. These included first and early
editions and manuscript materials by Burns, Hogg, Scott, Stevenson,
Doyle and others. Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley)
led a seminar on 'Scottish Fiction and the National Imaginary' and
gave a lecture 'What was Scottish Romanticism? Or, Whatever happened
to the Scottish Enlightenment?' There were further talks by Patrick
Scott (Director of Rare Books and Special Collections, University
of South Carolina) on 'Robert Burns and America' and Charlotte Fairlie
(Wilmington College) on 'Teaching Scottish Literature'. In his opening
remarks, Gurney Norman (University of Kentucky) explored links between
Kentucky and Scotland. For further information, contact the organizer.
16) 'MLA 2005', 121st Annual Convention
of the Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 27-30 December
2005
The 121st Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: 'Crossing "Dark Barriers": Intertextuality and
Dialogue between Byron and Sir Walter Scott' by Susan Oliver (Cambridge).
An expanded
version of the paper has subsequently appeared in Studies
in Romanticism, 47.1 (2008), 15-35. Dr Oliver (now of
Essex University) is author of Scott,
Byron, and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (2005). Click
here for further
information.
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2004
1) 'Global
Ethnic Networks: Old and New', ACLA 2004 Annual Meeting, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 15-18 April 2004
The 2004 Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), hosted by the University
of Michigan, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Dandies in Plaid: Highland Style in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley'
by Sarah Rose Cole (Columbia). Further details from the conference
site and programme.
2) Faculty of Advocates Words and Music
Evening, including launch of Scott's Reliquiae Trotcosienses,
Signet Library, Edinburgh, 23 April 2004
At this Faculty
of Advocates event, Professor David Hewitt launched the Edinburgh
University Press edition of Scott's Reliquiae
Trotcosienses. Edited by Alison Lumsden and Gerard Carruthers,
the Reliquiae have never previously been published as a complete
work.
3) 3rd Annual International 'Crosscurrents'
Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 23-25 April 2004
The Third Annual 'Crosscurrents' Conference, organized by the
AHRC Centre
for Irish and Scottish Studies, featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Walter Scott's Jews and How They Shaped the Nation',
by Ashley Hales (Edinburgh). A print
version of this paper has subsequently appeared in the conference
proceedings Beyond the Anchoring Grounds: More Cross-Currents
in Irish and Scottish Studies (Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na
Banríona, 2005). Click here
for the conference site.
4) 'Mutual Reception: A Special Case in
Anglo-German Relations?', Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss
Literature Workshop, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of
London, 30 April 2004
This one-day workshop at the Institute of Germanic Studies
(now part of the Institute of Germanic
& Romance Studies) included a paper by Dr Tom Hubbard (National
Library of Scotland) on 'Scott and Volkspoesie on the Borders'.
Dr Hubbard, who currently works at National University of Ireland
Maynooth, has published widely on the reception and translation
of Scottish writing, including a chapter
on the pan-European reception of Scott's verse in The
Reception of Walter Scott in Europe, ed. Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).
5) 'Geographies of the Eighteenth Century: The Question of the
Global', Third Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop,
Indian University, 19-22 May 2004
The Third Annual Bloomington
Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, hosted by the Center
for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, featured
one paper of Scott interest: 'The Birth of the Post-Enlightenment
Global' by Siraj Dean Ahmed (Mount Holyoke) which read Scott's Guy
Mannering alongside James Mill's The History of British
India (1817). Click here
for the workshop programme.
6) 'Reason and Romance', One-Day Conference
Held in Association with BARS, University of Sheffield, 22 May 2004
This conference, co-organized by BARS
(British Association of Romantic Studies) and the Centre
for Nineteenth-Century Studies (University of Sheffield), set
out to explore the interface between Reason and Romance during the
period 1780 to 1820. Together with papers on Burns, Carlyle, Crabbe,
Keats, Shelley, Mozart, Anna Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, William
Godwin, Mary Hays, Clara Reeves, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft,
there was a paper on 'Sentimental and Accountable Reading: Scott,
Romance and History’ by Andrew Lincoln (Queen Mary, University
of London). Dr Lincoln is the author of Walter
Scott and Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
7) 'La Storia nel romanzo (1800-2000)':
XVI Colloquio Malatestiano di Letteratura, Rocca Malatestiana, Sant'Arcangelo
di Romagna, Italy, 28-29 May 2004
This conference on historical fiction, hosted by the Associazione
Sigismondo Malatesta, featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: '"La storia mi salvò dalla completa dissipazione":
Scott, Hardy e la terapia della storia' by Prof. Enrica Villari
(Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia). An expanded version
of this paper has subsequently appeared in La Storia nel romanzo
(1800-2000), ed. Marinella Colummi Camerino (Rome: Bulzoni, 2008).
Prof. Villari is responsible for an Italian translation of Scott's
'Essay on Chivalry' (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1991).
8) 'The Wizard
of the North: Confounding the Detractors', Lecture by Dr Ronald
A. Silvester, Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 4 June, 2004
Dr Ronald A. Silvester is a member of the Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club. Contact the club
for further information.
9) 'Ireland and Scotland: Conjoined Histories', Joint Annual Conference
of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Studies Society, Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity
College Dublin, 17-20 June 2004
The Joint Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag
and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Society, hosted by the Centre
for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College Dublin, included two
papers of particular Scott interest: 'Dwellers in Archaic Cultural
Time: "Gypsies", "Irish Tinkers", and "Gaels"
in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing'
by Mary Burke (Notre Dame) and 'Blackmailing Sir Walter Scott: Where
Have All His Letters Gone?' by Mary Anne Alburger (Aberdeen). Dr Burke
subsequently further developed some of the themes of her paper in
a chapter
in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies,
ed. Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy and Anne Oakman (Belfast: Queen’s
University Press, 2004). Click here
for the conference programme.
10) 'James Hogg and the British Literary
Canon', 11th James Hogg Society Conference, Ettrick Riverside Conference
Centre, Selkirk, 12-14 July 2004.
Along with many papers which touched upon James Hogg's
relations with his contemporary, Scott, this conference featured
one paper, 'Authors and Minstrels: Hogg’s The Queen’s
Wake, Walter Scott, and the Romantic Canon’ by Erik Simpson
(Grinnell College) entirely devoted to the subject. Prof. Simpson
has subsequently published Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels
and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which further explores
some of the themes discussed in his paper. Click here
for the James Hogg Society site, which includes details of Society
publications and a full index to the journal Studies in Hogg
and his World.
11) 'Travessias', IX Congresso Internacional
da ABRALIC, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 18-21 July 2004
The 9th International Conference of the Associação
Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (Brazilian Comparative Literature
Association) included a paper by Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques (Universidade
do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), 'A (re)escritura da história
na ficção scottiana', on the rewriting of history
in Scott's fiction. A print
version subsequently appeared in Literatura e Comparativismo,
1 (2005). Click here
for the conference site.
12) 'Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth', Conference,
Harrogate, UK, 22-26 July 2004
This conference, organized by the Centre
for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds
Metropolitan University, featured one paper of particular Scott
interest: Negotiating History: Tourists and Guides in Washington Irving’s
Abbotsford' by Jeffrey Scraba (Rutgers). An audio
version of Dr Scraba's paper is available in the conference proceedings
which were issued by Leeds Metropolitan University as a CD-ROM.
13) 'A Summer Evening's Concert', Abbotsford
House, 23 July 2004
Save
Scott's Countryside, a voluntary organisation campaigning to
protect the heart of the Scottish Borders from damaging over-development,
held a fundraising musical evening in the grounds of Abbotsford
House. In addition to a concert consisting of a String Quartet
and Clarsach Duo, there was an auction of Quentin Blake's specially
commissioned drawing, depicting something of the nature of the Save
Scott's Countryside Campaign.
14) VIII Congresso Nacional de Lingüística
e Filologia/I Congresso Internacional de Estudos Filológicos
e Lingüísticos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
23-27 August 2004
The 8th Congresso Nacional de Lingüística
e Filologia and inaugural Congresso Internacional de Estudos Filológicos
e Lingüísticos, organized by the Círculo
Fluminense de Estudos Filológicos e Lingüísticos,
included two papers of particular Scott interest: 'O herói
masculino em Waverley, de Walter Scott' by Elisa Lima Abrantes
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and 'Recortes da história:
romances scottianos e a preferência pelo pitoresco' by Ana Lucia
de Souza Henriques (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro). Click
here for the conference
site and here
for résumés of the conference papers.
15) ESSE-7: 7th Conference of the European
Society for the Study of English, Zaragoza, Spain, 8-12 September
2004
The Seventh Conference of ESSE
(European Society for the Study of English) included two papers
of particular Scott interest. 'National Myths and Literary Icons:
Scottish Literature after 1707' by Lyndsay Lunan (Glasgow) considered
how 'the culturally constructed iconic figures of Walter Scott and
Robert Burns (as representative of the dialectic of establishment,
enlightened Scotland versus radical native Scotland) have been co-opted
into the monolith of Romantic Scotland'. 'Melancholy Characters
in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction' by Santiago Rodríguez
Guerrero-Strachan (Valladolid) discussed Scott's 'The Tapestried
Chamber' in conjunction with tales by Poe and Le Fanu. An expanded
version of Dr Lunan's paper has subsequently appeared in Re-Visioning
Scotland: New Readings of the Cultural Canon, ed. Lyndsay Lunan,
Kirsty A. Macdonald, and Carla Sassi (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
2008).
16) 'Romantic Cosmopolitanism', 12th Annual
Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism,
University of Colorado, 9-12 September 2004
The 12th Annual Meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), held
at the University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs, featured six papers of particular Scott interest:
Mary M. Burke (Notre Dame), 'The Writings of Walter Scott and the
German "Gypsy" Construct', Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State),
'The "Clash of Civilizations" and Its Discontents in Scott’s
The Talisman', Julie Kipp (Hope College), 'Walter Scott
and the Politics of Radical Reform in Ireland and Scotland', Erik
Simpson (Grinnell College), '"A Good One though Rather for
the Foreign Market": Mercenary Writing and Fighting in Scott's
Quentin Durward', Charles Snodgrass (Xavier), 'Geographical
Ambiguity and National Anxiety in Scott's Redgauntlet',
and Ted Underwood (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), 'The Cosmopolitanism
of the Living Dead in Banim, Scott, and Sand'. Click here
for the conference programme. (An expanded
version of Dr Kipp's article subsequently appeared in European
Romantic Review, 16 (2005). Dr Burke further developed some
of the themes of her paper in a chapter
in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies,
ed. Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy and Anne Oakman (Belfast: Queen’s
University Press, 2004).)
17) 'O passado no presente: releituras da
modernidade', One-Day Conference, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Niterói, Brazil, 27 September 2004
This one-day conference, organized by the Instituto
de Letras of the Universidade Federal
Fluminense, included a paper by Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), 'Marcas scottianas na
Escócia do século XXI', on Scott's influence on 21st-century
Scotland. Click here
for the conference site.
18) 'Romantic Border Crossings', 11th Annual
Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism, Texas A&M
International University, Laredo, Texas, 14-17 October 2004
The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism explored 'a broad range of issues
raised by the concept of "borders", the often fuzzy boundary
conditions that permeate all areas of Romantic studies'. A panel
on Scott consisted of three papers: 'Disseminating Dislocation in
James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, or, There
Is No Place Like Home' by Charles Snodgrass (Xavier), 'The Scottish
Border: Generic and Ethnic Demarcations in Sir Walter Scott' by
Anne Frey (Loyola University of New Orleans), and 'Imagining the
Book: Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel and the
National Past as Possession' by Matthew Russell (Texas-Austin).
Click here for the conference
site.
19) 46th Annual Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention, St Louis, Missouri, 4-7 November 2004
The forty-sixth Annual Convention of the Midwest
Modern Language Association (MMLA) featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'The Fair Jewess and the Less Interesting Rowena:
Race, Femininity, and History in Ivanhoe' by Jennifer Camden
(Ohio State). Click here
for the conference site.
20) 107th Annual Conference of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association, Reed College, Portland,
Oregon, 5-7 November 2004
The 107th Annual Conference of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), hosted by Reed
College, featured one paper of particular Scott interest: '"The
Horrors of My Tale": Trauma, the Historical Imagination, and
Sir Walter Scott' by Chad T. May (Oregon). A print
version appeared in Pacific Coast Philology,
40 (2005).
21) 'Myths, Foundation Texts, Imagined Communities',
Three-Day Conference, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic,
5-7 November 2004
This conference, co-organized by the ACUME
European Thematic Network and Charles
University, Prague, featured one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Hungarian Romantic Nationalism: The Transformation of Walter Scott’s
Highlands into Historical Transylvania' by Emilia Szaffner (Veszprém).
In addition to journal
articles on Scott, Dr Szaffner is the author of 'The
Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century'
in The
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, ed Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006). Click here for the conference
programme.
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2003
1) HUSSE 6: 6th Biennial Conference of the
Hungarian Society for the Study of English, Debrecen University,
29-31 January 2003
The 6th biennial Conference of HUSSE
(Hungarian Society for the Study of English), hosted by Debrecen
University, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Walter Scott and the Picturesque' by Emília Szaffner (Veszprém).
In addition to journal
articles on Scott, Dr Szaffner is the author of 'The
Hungarian Reception of Walter Scott in the Nineteenth Century'
in The
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, ed Murray Pittock
(London: Continuum, 2006).
2) 'Walter Scott et le jeune Balzac', Lecture by Marie-Bénédicte
Diethelm, Maison de Balzac, Paris, 15 March 2003
In this talk, hosted by the Société des
Amis d'Honoré de Balzac et de la Maison de Balzac, Marie-Bénédicte
Diethelm (Paris IV) discussed Scott's influence on the young Balzac.
A print version
appeared in Le Courrier balzacien, 90 (2003).
3) 'Crossing Over', ACLA 2003 Annual Meeting,
California State University, San Marcos, 4-6 April 2003
The 2003 Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), hosted by California
State University, San Marcos, included two papers of particular
Scott interest: 'Sir Walter Scott and the Politics of Southern National
Identity' by Lauren de Beer (Virginia) and 'Translation and the
Colonial Sublime in Cooper and Scott' by Andrew Newman (California,
Irvine). A print
version of Prof. Newman's paper has appeared in
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 59 (2004). Further details
from the conference site
and programme.
4) Spring Meeting, Charlotte Mary Yonge
Fellowship, St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh, 5 April 2003
The Spring Meeting of the Charlotte
Mary Yonge Fellowship, held in the Church Hall of St
Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh, featured one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'Charlotte M Yonge and Sir Walter Scott' by Julia
Courtney (Open University). Dr Courtney is co-editor (with Clemence
Schultze) of Characters and Scenes: Studies in Charlotte M.
Yonge (Abingdon: Beechcroft Books, 2007). Click here
for more information.
5) 'Crosscurrents', 2nd Postgraduate Conference
in Irish and Scottish Studies, Queens University Belfast, 25-27
April 2003
The Second Annual 'Crosscurrents' conference, organized
by the AHRC
Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, featured one paper of
particular Scott interest: 'The Imbrication of Scott’s Gypsy
and Highlander Constructs' by Mary M. Burke (Notre Dame). Dr Burke,
who now teaches at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, is author
of the forthcoming 'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History
of the Irish Traveller (Oxford University Press, 2009). She
further developed some of the themes of her paper in
a chapter
in To the Other Shore: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies,
ed. Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy and Anne Oakman (Belfast: Queen’s
University Press, 2004).
6)‘Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’,
One-Day Conference, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 26
April 2003
This one-day conference, hosted by the Smithsonian
Institution, was organized by Prof. Stephen Arata (Virginia),
who also gave the keynote address. Contact the organizer
for more information.
7) 'War and Terrorism', 20th International Social Philosophy Conference,
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 17-19July 2003
The 20th International Social Philosophy Conference,
organized by the North
American Society for Social Philosophy, and hosted by Northeastern
University, featured one paper of Scott interest: 'How to Counter
Terrorism Today: The Lessons of Sir Walter Scott’s Novels
of Scottish Religious Wars' by Norman A. Fischer (Kent State).
8) Fourth Symbiosis Conference, 'Across
the Great Divide', Edinburgh, 18-21 July 2003
The fourth annual conference of Symbiosis,
a journal of Anglo-American literary relations, addressed all aspects
of literary, theoretical, and material transatlantic cultural exchange
between the British Isles and the Americas. Two papers were of particular
Scott interest: Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), 'Special Relationships:
Espionage in Scott and Cooper' and Colleen Glenney Boggs (Dartmouth
College), 'The "American Scott"? James Fenimore Cooper
and the Translation of "Language and Manners"'. The conference
also marked the launch of the STAR
project, an interdisciplinary collaborative venture which aims to
further the study of Scotland's links with North America and the
Caribbean. Click here
for the conference website.
9) 'Scott and Europe',
7th Quadrennial International Scott Conference, University of Konstanz,
Germany, 22–26 July 2003
While the thematic focus of this conference, in
keeping with the location,
was on Scott and Europe, papers considered all aspects of and approaches
to Scott's life, works, sources, reputation, and influence. In addition
to formal papers, a number of sessions were devoted to roundtable
discussions of current teaching, research, and general-interest
issues in Scott criticism and Scottish Studies. The keynote speakers
were Peter Garside (Cardiff), Christopher Harvie (Tübingen),
David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Jane Millgate (Toronto), and Scottish novelist
James Robertson. The conference included a memorial session ("Hogg
and Scott Scholarship and Criticism: Where Are We Now and Where
Are We Going?") to celebrate the life and work of the eminent
Hogg and Scott scholar Professor Jill Rubenstein, who died unexpectedly
on August 21, 2002.
10) 'Romantic Conflict', International BARS
Conference, Warwick University, 24-27 July 2003
Among other papers of Scott interest, the biennial conference
of the British Association for Romantic
Studies (BARS) featured a lecture by keynote speaker Simon Bainbridge
(Keele), 'The "Sir Walter Disease": Scott and the Romantic
Reimagining of War'. Click here
for the conference site.
11) 'Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders,
Forms', 2003 BARS/NASSR Conference, Fordham University, New York
City, 1-5 August 2003
The 11th annual conference of the North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), held
in association with the British
Association of Romantic Studies (BARS), featured ten papers
of particular Scott interest: Scott Campbell (State University of
New York, Stony Brook), 'Scars, Not Healing: Godwin's Response to
Scott', Maureen McLane (Harvard), 'Tuning the Multi-Media Nation,
or, Minstrelsy of the Afro-Scottish Border', Susan Oliver (Cambridge),
'Antiquarianism and Borders in Scott’s Minstrelsy',
Andrew Piper (Columbia), '"My tongue is mine ain": Books
and Borders in Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border',
Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster), 'Reflections on Playing McGann and
Drucker's IVANHOE Game',
Ann Marie Ross (California State), 'Scott's "History of Europe":
Revolution and History in Old Mortality', Meg Russett (Southern
California), 'Scott, Hogg, and the Border', Charlotte Sussman (Colorado),
‘The Novel in an Age of Mass Migration: Scott's Guy Mannering’,
Natasha Tessone (Princeton), 'Homage to the Empty Armour: The Politics
of National Heritage in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington and
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe', and Michael Wells (British Columbia),
'Romantic Home Theater: Orality and Nationhood in Walter Scott's
The Antiquary'. For print versions of some of the papers,
see McLane
2004, Oliver
2005, Piper
2009, and Rockwell
2003. Click here
for the conference site.
12) 11th International Congress on the Enlightenment and 34th
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles, 3-10 August 2003
The 11th International Congress on the Enlightenment,
organized by the International Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), was held jointly with
the 34th Annual meeting of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) at the University
of California, Los Angeles. It contained one paper of particular
Scott interest: 'The Mercenary, the Savage, and the Civilized War:
The Case of Walter Scott' by Andrew Lincoln (London). Dr Lincoln
is the author of Walter
Scott and Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2007). A print
version of his paper appeared in Scottish Studies
Review, 4.2 (2003). See the conference
programme for further information.
13) 'Queer Romanticisms', A Two-Day International
Conference, Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University
College Dublin, 15-16 August 2003
This event at the Women's
Education, Research, and Resource Centre, University College
Dublin, included a paper on 'History, Submission, and Homosexuality
in Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet' by Rick Incorvati
(Wittenberg). An expanded version of this paper appeared as 'Darsie
Latimer's "Little Solidity"; or, The Case for Homosexuality
in Scott's Redgauntlet', in Romanticism on the
Net, 36/37 (2004-05). Click here
for a brief précis.
14) Anglistentag 2003, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Germany, 15-17 September 2003
The annual meeting of the Deutscher
Anglistenverband, held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, included one paper of particular Scott interest:
'Translating the Historical Novel: The Scott Formula in Nineteenth
Century German Literature' by Silvia Mergenthal (Konstanz). A print
version of Prof. Mergenthal's paper has appeared
in the conference proceedings (Trier: WVT, 2004). Click here
for the conference programme.
15) 'Transcultural Identities and Masks',
International Conference on Postcolonial and Multicultural Studies,
University of Bergen, Norway, 10-12 October 2003
This conference, hosted by the English
Department of the University of
Bergen, featured a paper which included a discussion of Scott's
Waverley: 'Allegories
of Ambivalence: Scottish Fiction, Britain and Empire' by Alan Freeman
(Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey). A print
version of Dr Freeman's paper has appeared in the
conference proceedings (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007). For further information,
see the conference site
and programme.
16) 'Freemasonry in Music and Literature',
5th International Conference Organised by Canonbury Masonic Research
Centre, Canonbury Academy, London, 1-2 November 2003
This event, organized by Canonbury
Masonic Research Centre, included a paper on 'Freemasonry in
the Work of Sir Walter Scott' by Robert Cooper, Curator of the Museum
and Library of The Grand Lodge of Scotland. For the conference
website click here.
17) 'Romanticism and Its Other Discourses',
10th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 13-15
November 2003
The 10th Annual Meeting of the International
Conference on Romanticism (ICR) at Marquette
University devoted a panel to Scott, featuring the following
papers: Rick Incorvati (Wittenberg), 'Sympathy and the Social Order
in Scott's Waverley', Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser (Roosevelt),
'Readerly Agency and the Discourse of History in Scott's The
Antiquary', Colin Marlaire (Marquette), 'A Voice Within a Voice:
Dialogic Discourse in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor',
and Paul Westover (Indiana), 'The Lockean Inheritance in Scott's
Redgauntlet: Equivocation "in the Way of Business".
Click here for the
conference programme. (An expanded
version of Prof. Gunzenhauser's paper has been
published in Romanticism: Comparative Discourses, ed. Diane
Long Hoeveler and Larry Peer (Ashgate, 2006).)
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