Provisional Programme
NB – Panel titles are provisional and panel chairs will be announced at a later date. The order of speakers within each panel is also subject to change.
Tuesday 17th July 2007
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9-11.00 |
Registration |
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11-11.30 |
Opening Keynote address: Mary Beard (Cambridge) |
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11.30 |
Documenting the Ruins (Plenary) Stefano de Caro (Direttore Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Campania): Modelling villa remains at Boscoreale Jeremy Hartnett (WabashCollege): Excavation Photographs and the Imagined World of Pompeii’s Streets Rosaria Ciardiello (Naples): Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte and their Modern Contribution to the Reconstruction of the Pompeian Iconographies |
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1.30-2.30 |
Lunch |
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2.30-3.10
3.10-3.50
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Romantic Travellers Constanze Baum (Berlin): Ruined Waking Thoughts – William Beckford as a visitor of Pompeii (1782) Thorsten Fitzon (Freiburg): A tamed desire for images: Goethe’s repeated approaches to Pompeii Timothy Webb (Bristol): City of Resurrections: Percy Bysshe Shelley at Pompeii
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Nineteenth Century Painting Luna Figurelli (Bristol): The southern question as illustrated by Italian classical revival painters after the Unification of Italy Elina Knorpp (Cologne): Karl Briullov and the Last Day of Pompeii Victoria Coates (Pennsylvania) - Visualizing Pliny in the 18th century: Angelica Kauffman's 'Pliny and his Mother at Misenum’ |
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4.30-5.00 |
Tea break |
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5.00-5.40 5.40-6.20
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Twentieth Century Arts (Plenary) Victor Burgin (UC Santa Cruz and Goldsmith’s): 'The shadow and the ruin' He Jin Jang (Michigan): Sealed In Stone(2003): The Dance Work Inspired by the Volcanic eruption of Pompeii Matthew Fox (Birmingham): Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy
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7.00 |
Drinks Reception |
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Wednesday 18th July 2007
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Domestic Interiors and Architecture 1 Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke): Reconstruction and Retrospection: Ludwig II's Pompejanum and the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum): The Pleasure of Reconstructions: Rebuilding the Villa dei Papiri in Malibu Jane Bradney (Bristol): Pompeii: An Inspiration for Gardens in the first hald of the Nineteenth Century
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Receptions of Gradiva Chair: Vanda Zajko (Bristol) Richard Armstrong (Texas): Freud's Analytical Motet:Gradiva's Place in the Psychoanalytic Project Daniel Orrells (Warwick): Gradiva and Derrida’s Archive Fever Jane Cheshire (Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy): Look, but not with bodily eyes Elizabeth O’Loughlin (Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy): Norbert Hanold Journeys to Pompeii to Recover his Presence of Mind
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea break |
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12.50-1.30 |
Domestic Interiors and Architecture 2 Margareta Nisser-Dalman (Stockholm): The absence of Pompeian models in “Pompeian style” interiors in 18th century Swedish interior decoration Anne-Marie Leander Touati (Stockholm): Recycling Pompeii - a Swedish model
Ezequiel M. Pinto-Guillaume (Stockholm): An example of the impact of Pompeii on Modern Architecture: the Estadio Nacional, Mexico City, by José Villagrán García, 1924
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Sex and Erotica
Debbie Challis (National Portrait Gallery): Ancient Sex Tourism: Classical ‘Pornography’ and contemporary cultures of display at Pompeii Sarah Levin-Richardson (Stanford): Sex in the Tourist’s Eye.
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1.30-2.30 |
Lunch |
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2.30-3.10 |
Aesthetics and Morality (Plenary) Eric Moormann (Nijmegen): Christians and Jews at Pompeii: Fiction or reality? Sarah Betzer (Vermont): Queer Pompeii: Archaeology meets fantasy in Chasseriau’s Tepidarium (1853) Francesca Spiegel (Yale): Proust’s Pompeii
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4.30-5.00 |
Tea Break |
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5.00-5.40
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Writing Pompeii (Plenary) Stephen Harrison (Oxford): Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii : Recreating the City Ray Laurence (Birmingham) and Alex Butterworth (Author): Recreating Pompeii for Popular History Lindsey Davis (Author): Pompeii’s place in the Falco novels |
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7.00 |
Conference Dinner |
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Thursday 19th July 2007
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9.00-9.40 9.40-10.20
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Necromancy and Spiritualism (Plenary) Shelley Hales (Bristol): Title tbc Genevieve Liveley (Bristol): Why Pompeii is a Woman: Delusion and Dream in Théophile Gautier’s Arria Marcella Meilee Bridges (Trinity University): Objects of Affection: Necromantic Pathos in Bulwer’s City of the Dead
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea break |
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11.30-12.10
12.10-12.50
12.50-1.30 |
Pompeii in the USA Margaret Malamud (New Mexico): Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century America Jon Seydl (Getty Museum): Pompeii and Herculaneum in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Rosemary Barrow (Roehampton): ‘Who lives in a house like this?’: Rothko’s Seagram Paintings and Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries
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Pompeii’s Reception in Italy Barbara Witucki (Utica): Margot Hleunig (Bern): Pompeii versus Cultural Import: Interpreting the Influence of Pompeii in its Land of Origins Isabella Campagnol Fabretti: “As flowing as the thought and as beautiful as if made by the Graces themselves”: Pompeian fashions in the late Eighteenth century |
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1.30-2.30 |
Lunch |
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2.30-3.10 3.10-3.50 3.50-4.30 |
Confronting Disaster (Plenary) Susann Lusnia (Tulane): Title tbc Joanna Paul (Liverpool): Pompeii and Disaster in the Modern World. Closing Keynote address: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (British School at Rome): Ruins and forgetfulness: the case of Herculaneum |
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5.00 |
Departure |
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