Seminar Series Spring 2018
Travel and Exploration
January 25 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
Issues in Theology
February 22 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
Colonialism and Literature
March 29 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
Philosophy and Literature
April 26 16:00-18:00
G.04, 50 George Square
Speakers:
Nation-Building and Identity
May 31 16:00-18:00
2.13 Old Infirmary (Geography)
Speakers:
January 25 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
- Dr Ilda Erkoçi, Edinburgh: The image of Albania in 19th century travel writing
- Gesa Jessen, Oxford: Germans up on the Mountain and down by the Sea - Heinrich Heine’s Travel Pictures and the Emergence of Nature Tourism
- Edwina Watson, Oxford: “Headlong perpendicular”: The Elevation of Poetry in Byron’s Manfred and Alpine Journal
Issues in Theology
February 22 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
- Kyle Lincoln, Edinburgh: Exploring Pulpit Shaming within a Nineteenth Century Scottish Literary Context
- David Rathel, St Andrews: Ecclesiology and Empire: Surveying Nineteenth Century Evangelical Attitudes to British Expansion in India
- Lisa Nais, Aberdeen: Gender as Institutionalised Religion
Colonialism and Literature
March 29 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:
- Bowen Wang, Edinburgh: Mark Twain’s “China Complex”:His Literary Portrayal of the Chinese of the Nineteenth Century - Bowen Wang
- Nicola John, St Andrews: Cleopatra and the Colonial Context: Looking Closer at Juan Luna
- Elizabeth Chant, UCL: Cartography and the Argentine Nation: mapping the mítico sur
Philosophy and Literature
April 26 16:00-18:00
G.04, 50 George Square
Speakers:
- Amadeus Kang-Po Chen, Edinburgh: Erotic Love, Poetic Imagination, and Self-annihilation: the Pathological Poetics in John Keats’s Isabella
- Carla Wiggs, Southampton: An exploration of 19th Century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s use of pseudonyms as a literary device for portraying the three ‘existence spheres’ in his authorship
- Roxanne Gentry, UConn: “All is not exactly as I had pictured it”: The Illustrated Editions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
Nation-Building and Identity
May 31 16:00-18:00
2.13 Old Infirmary (Geography)
Speakers:
- Elly Grayson, Edinburgh: J. M. Barrie’s Margaret Ogilvy: Appropriating the Biography and Conceptions of Storytelling, “Scottishness”, Mothers and Children - Elly Grayson
- Guy Hinton, Newcastle: Representing the wars of the 1850s and 1880s
- Dan Haverty, Cork: ‘These Were My Means?’: Nationalist Appropriation of Irish Republicanism