Day 1 (29th July)
09.00-09.30 – Registration
09.30-09.50 – Welcome
09.50-11.00 – SESSION 1 [Chair: Laura Kilbride]
Keynote 1:
Herbert Tucker (University of Virginia):
Terminal Swinburne
(Paper 09.50 – 10.40, Q&A 20 mins)
11.00-11.30 – Tea and Biscuits
11.30-13.00 – SESSION 2 [Chair: Jane Desmarais]
Panel: Poetry, the Body and the Senses
11.30-11.50 – Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary):
Swinburne, Baudelaire, and the Scent of Poetry
11.50-12.10 – Kate Snelson (University of Oxford):
Poems and Ballads, Sexual Sympathy and the Limits of Identification
12.10-12.30 – David Womble (University of Chicago):
Swinburne and the Plasticity of Organic Matter
Q&A to 13.00
13.00-14.00 – Buffet Lunch
14.00-15.30 – SESSION 3 [Chair: Alex Wong]
Panel: Affinity and Influence (I)
14.00-14.20 – Jan Marsh (National Portrait Gallery, etc.):
‘The Jael who Led our Host to Victory’: Swinburne’s Debt to Christina Rossetti
14.20-14.40 – Oliver Goldstein (University of Cambridge):
‘Dead Shalt Thou Lie’: Hardy Reads Swinburne
14.40-15.00 – Alison Rosenblitt (University of Oxford):
Songs of Death: e.e. cummings and the Submerged Legacy of Swinburne
Q&A to 15.30
15.30-16.00 – Tea and Biscuits
16.00-17.30 – SESSION 4 [Chair: Orla Polten]
Panel: Affinity and Influence (II)
16.00-16.20 – Andria Pancrazi (Paris-Diderot University):
Fold over Simple Fold: Understanding the ‘Interminable Beauty’ (Mallarmé) of Swinburne’s Poetics of Multiplication
16.20-16.40 – Robin Kirkpatrick (University of Cambridge):
Swinburne and Italian Literature
16.40-17.00 – Michael John Craske
The Musical Legacy of Poems and Ballads
Q&A to 17.30
Evening: Conference Dinner (details tbc)
Day 2 (30th July)
09.00-09.15 – Arrival and Registration
09.15-10.45 – SESSION 1 [Chair: Marion Thain]
Panel: Modes of Address
09.15-9.35 – Justin Sider (United States Military Academy, West Point):
Style and Circulation in Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads
09.35-9.55 – Jason Boulet (Independent Scholar):
‘Who Doth Thee Wrong?’: Performance, Performativity, and ‘Doing Ourselves Wrong’ in Swinburne’s Dramatic Monologues
09.55-10.15 – Andrea Selleri (University of Warwick):
Swinburne and the Dramatic Monologue
Q&A to 10.45
10.45-11.15 – Tea and Biscuits
11.15-13.00 – SESSION 2 [Chair: Laura Kilbride]
(i) Panel: Morality and Forms of Power
11.15-11.35 – Stéphane Sitayeb (Université d’Évry Val-d’Essonne):
From Dystheism to Antitheism, Monotheism to Polytheism: Swinburne and God(s)
11.35-11.55 – Nathan Hensley (Georgetown University):
‘The Mystery of the Cruelty of Things’
Q&A to 12.05
(ii) Panel: Poems and Ballads from a Distance
12.05-12.25 – John Walsh (Indiana University):
Swinburne by the Numbers: The Facts and Figures of the 1866 Poems and Ballads
12.25-12.45 – Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds):
Running away from Poems and Ballads (1866)
Q&A to 13.00
13.00-14.00 – Buffet Lunch
14.00-15.10 – SESSION 3 [Chair: Orla Polten]
Keynote 2
Peter Nicholls (NYU):
Swinburne and the Modern Poem
(Paper 14.00-14.50, Q&A 20 mins)
15.10-15.40 – Tea and Biscuits
15.40-17.00 – SESSION 4 [Chair: Marion Thain]
Responses and Open Discussion
Respondents:
- Michael Hurley (University of Cambridge)
- Marion Thain (NYU)
Evening: Pub visit (details tbc)
POEMS AND BALLADS 150th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 