A Scholar Brontë Saturday

A conference in London and a talk in Sydney. A scholar Brontë Saturday:

1. Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick &
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Re-Imagining the Brontës: A Conference
Saturday 5 November 2011, 9am - 6pm
followed by a wine reception
Venue: Senate House, London (The Court Room, First Floor)
The aim of the conference will be to reassess the Brontës' perspectives on and uses of imagination (scientific; medical; childhood; romantic; poetic; visual; private; collective; auto/biographical; religious; political; theatrical; historical) together with the ways the Brontës' works have been critically and creatively re-imagined from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Speakers: Professors Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London), Janis Caldwell (University of California, Santa Barbara), Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck), Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary, University of London), Blake Morrison (Goldsmiths, University of London), Sally Shuttleworth (St Anne's College, Oxford), Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford) and Marianne Thormählen (Lund University). Welcome address from Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick) and Dr Alexandra Lewis (University of Aberdeen) and summation from Dr Emma Francis (Warwick).
Organiser: Dr Alexandra Lewis (University of Aberdeen), alexandra.lewis@abdn.ac.uk
Programme
9:00 – 9:15 Registration:
Court Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Alexandra Lewis (University of Aberdeen) & Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick)
9:30 – 11:00 Violence, Childhood and the Science of Imagination
Chaired by Professor Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London)
Professor Sally Shuttleworth (St Anne's College, University of Oxford), 'Animals and Violence in Brontë Fiction'
Associate Professor Janis McLarren Caldwell (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'Charlotte Brontë and the Science of the Imagination'
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 1:00 The Politics of Representation: Rethinking Race and Dispossession
Chaired by Professor Andrew Miller (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Imagining Slavery after Abolition: Rethinking Jane Eyre and the 1840s'
Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Re-imagining Destitution: Charlotte Brontë's Intertextual Legacy'
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch (own arrangements)
2:00 – 3:30 Ethics and Degradation: Of Corruption and Love in the Works of Emily Brontë
Chaired by Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge)
Professor Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford), 'Emily Brontë and Degradation'
Professor Marianne Thormählen (Lund University, Sweden), 'The Ethical Core of Wuthering Heights '
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 5:30 Page to Stage: Creative Re-Imaginings
Chaired by Dr Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
Professor Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Story as Critique: Jane Eyre and Villette '
Professor Blake Morrison (Goldsmiths, University of London), ' "We Are Three Sisters": The Lives of the Brontës as a Chekhovian Play'
5:30 – 6:00 Summation and closing discussion
Dr Emma Francis (University of Warwick)
6:00 – 7:00 Wine reception, Senate House

2. A talk organized by the Australian Brontë Association:

5 Nov 10:30am at Sydney Mechanics School of Arts
Cindy Broadbent
Eye Up - Sit Ye Dahn And Open Yer Lugs!: Emily's Use of Dialect in Wuthering Heights
In this talk Cindy examines the linguistic links between the Yorkshire dialect and Old Norse and older forms of English. Cindy is a freelance writer and has written for the Good Weekend and various airline magazines. She is currently the international correspondent for the magazine of the Australian Museum in Canberra.