Organisers: The Institute of English Studies and The Open University
About the Series: For this seminar series, the regular Romanticism and Postcolonialism seminars organised by the English Department of the Open University will be combined, as the three invited speakers explore the connections between these two areas of research. Recommended reading for each of the seminars follows the title.
Time and Venue: The seminars will be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1. Room details are given after each title.
Time: 17.30-19.00
All are welcome; booking is not required.
For any queries regarding the Autumn 2010 seminar series, contact organiser David Johnson, Department of English, The Open University (D.W.Johnson@open.ac.uk).
Wednesday 22 September 2010:
Tim Fulford, ‘Transatlantic Indians: 18th Century Empire and the Representation of Native Americans’.
Time & Venue: 5.30-7.00 pm in Room G35, Senate House, University of London
Recommended Reading: Robert Southey, Madoc (1805), Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings (eds.) Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture (2009), and Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 (2006).
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. His major publications include Romantic Indians: Native Americans and Transatlantic Literary Culture 1755-1830 (2006), the edited collections Romanticism and Millenarianism (2001) and Science and Romanticism (2002), and (edited with Peter Kitson) the multi-volume Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion 1770-1835 (2001).
Wednesday 17 November 2010: Charles Forsdick, ‘Representing the Revolutionary: The Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture’
Time & Venue: 5.30-7.00 pm in Room G37, Senate House, University of London
Recommended Reading: William Wordsworth, ‘To Toussaint Louverture’ (1803), C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past (1995), and Edouard Glissant, Monsieur Toussaint (trans. J. Michael Dash and Edouard Glissant, 2005).
Charles Forsdick holds the James Barrow Chair of French at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity (2005), co-author of New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literatures in French: Genre, History, Theory (2006), and co-editor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (2003).
CANCELLED
Wednesday 8 December 2010:
Cora Kaplan, ‘Imagination and “Hybridity”: racial politics and poetics of anti-slavery discourse from More to Barrett Browning’
Time & Venue: 5.30-7.00 pm in Room tbc, Senate House, University of London.
Recommended Reading: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point’ (1848), William Wordsworth, ‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture (1803), and ‘The History of Mary Prince (including appendices) (1831).
Cora Kaplan is Honorary Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, and is Professor Emerita of English at Southampton University. Her major publications include Sea Changes (1986), Genders (with David Glover, 2000), Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism (2007), and the collections co-edited with Jennie Batchelor, British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century (2005), and Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (2007).