2007 BARS/NASSR Conference Programme

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Conference Programme Outline

Thursday 26th July

10.00 -13.15   

Registration

12.00 -13.00   

Welcome buffet lunch

13.00 -13:30

Opening Remarks from Nick Groom and John Halliwell

13.30 -15.00 

Panels 1

15.00 -15.30   

Tea

15.30 -17.00   

Panels 2

17.05 -18.35

Stephen Copley Memorial Lecture
Chair: Professor Jacqueline Labbe (University of Warwick)

Professor Deirdre Coleman (University of Melbourne), ‘ “Is not she a sister’s child?”: Mansfield Park and the metaphor of slavery in women's writing’

18.45 -19-30   

 Reception at the City Museum and Art Gallery

Friday 27th July

08.30 - 09.30

Registration

09.30 - 11.00

Panels 3

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Panels 4

13.00 -14.00

Lunch - BARS BGM (Great Hall)
             ERR Editorial Board Meeting (Room 1.5)

14.00 - 15.30

Trent Editions Plenary Lecture
Chair: Professor John Goodridge (Editorial Director of Trent Editions)

Dr Margot Finn (University of  Warwick), ‘Slaves out of context: domestic slavery and the Anglo-Indian family in the Romantic age’

15.30 - 16.00

 Tea

16.00 - 17.00

Pickering and Chatto Special Lecture

Chair: Professor David Punter (University of Bristol)
Professor Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University) and Dr Lynda Pratt (University of Nottingham) ‘The lives, loves and letters of Robert Southey’

17.00 - 18.30

NASSR Advisory board meeting (Old Council Chamber)

17:15 - 18.45

Thomas Chatterton Society Open Meeting, St Mary Redcliffe Church

18.30 for 19.00

Trip to visit the Bristol Empire and Commonwealth Museum

Saturday 28th July

08.30 - 09.30

Registration

09.30 - 11.00

Panels 5

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Panels 6

13.00 - 17.00

Trip to Tintern Abbey

17.00 - 18.30

Panels 7

18.30 - 19.30

Pre-dinner drinks at the Victoria Rooms sponsored by Taylor and Francis

19.30 for 20.00

Conference Banquet in the Victoria Rooms
Featuring an after-dinner keynote address
Chair: Professor Nick Groom (University of Exeter, Cornwall)

Professor Timothy Webb (University of Bristol), ‘Executing Jemmy O'Brien: The Life, Trial, Public Death and Adventurous Afterlife of an Irish Informer’

Sunday 29th July

08.30 - 09.30

Registration

09.30 - 11.00

Panels 8

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Plenary Lecture
Chair: Professor Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)

Professor Thomas Pfau (Duke University), ‘Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom as the Problem of Modernity’

13.00 -14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.30

Panels 9

15.30

Conference Ends