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

9-11.00

Registration
tea/coffee

11-11.30

Opening Keynote address:

Mary Beard (Cambridge)
The Pantheon at Pompeii? Reinventing the ancient city in the early  nineteenth century

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

1.30-2.30

Lunch

 

2.30-3.10

 

3.10-3.50



3.50-4.30

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

 

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’

4.30-5.00

Tea break

 

5.00-5.40

5.40-6.20


6.20-7.00

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

 

7.00

Drinks Reception

 

Wednesday 18th July 2007

 


9.00-9.40





9.40-10.20




10.20-11.00

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

 

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

 

11.00-11.30

Tea break

 


11.30-12.10

 

 


12.10-12.50

 

 

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

 

Sex and Erotica


Rebecca Langlands
(Exeter) and Kate Fisher (Exeter): ‘This way to the red light district’: sexually explicit paintings in Pompeii and the interplay of academic and popular imaginations

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.

 

1.30-2.30

Lunch

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

 

4.30-5.00

Tea Break

 

5.00-5.40


5.40-6.20


6.20-7.00

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

7.00

Conference Dinner

 

Thursday 19th July 2007

 

9.00-9.40

9.40-10.20


10.20-11.00

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

 

11.00-11.30

Tea break

 

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

 

 

Pompeii’s Reception in Italy

Barbara Witucki (Utica):
Site, Sight, and Symbol:  Pompeiiand Vesuvius in Corinne, ou l'Italie

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

1.30-2.30

Lunch

 

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

5.00

Departure