STAR Seminar Series, Spring 2010
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). Mondays 4-6
January 18
Transatlantic Reading Group, IASH 4-6
Join us for our first gathering of the year, in which we will discuss the following texts.
Anna Brickhouse, "Hemispheric Jamestown" /media/7795/brickhouse a_hemispheric jamestown.pdf
Timothy Marr, "Out of this World" /media/7798/marr t_out of this world.pdf
1 February
Dr. Eric Graham (Maritime Historian and Author): "Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pirates"
8 February
Dr. Roxana Preda (Edinburgh): "Away from the Self: Performing Literary Innovations in Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
15 February
Professor Andrew Ginger (Hispanic Studies, University of Stirling): "1826 and the Atlantic: the Astorga Collection at the NLS"
1 March
Dr. Chris Gair (English Literature, University of Glasgow): "From the Editor's Chair: Transatlantic Literary Study, 1997-2010"
15 March
Dr. Adrian Hunter (Department of English Studies, University of Stirling): "Kipling and America"
STAR Seminar Series, Autumn 2009
October 29
Transatlantic Reading Group Session
IASH, 4-6pm
Weisbuch, Robert. “The Burden of Britain and the American Writer.” Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson. Chicago; London: U of Chicago P, 1986: 3-35; 298-301: (photocopies available at IASH)
Claybaugh, Amanda. “New Fields, Conventional Habits, and the Legacy of Atlantic Double-Cross.” American Literary History 20.3 (Fall 2008): 439-48.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v020/20.3.claybaugh.html
(Available on Project MUSE)
November 13
Darwin and Lincoln on Race and Society
A joint RSE/IASH One-day conference (tickets required – details below)
13 November 2009
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day in the same year:
12 February 1809. The 200th anniversary celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic remind us that the American President and the British zoologist jointly helped to shape the modern world. Questioning established hierachies of nature, race and class, their legacy of civil and scientific liberalism still holds radical potential today. The day conference will explore connections and conflicts between Darwin's and Lincoln's work including the origins of their thinking in Enlightenment discussions of human nature and society, the nature of their original contribution and its reverberations in contemporary culture and politics.
Speakers: Professor Catherine Clinton (Queen's University Belfast)
Dr Jon Hodge (University of Leeds)
Professor James A. Moore (The Open University)
Conference fee: £27 (with lunch); £15 (without lunch)
For full programme and registration details see the RSE website http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/events/index.htm#darwin_lincoln
The Conference will be followed at 5.30 pm by a public lecture by Marek Kohn (author and columnist): "Believing in Change: Darwin, Lincoln, Obama".
Marek Kohn writes books and articles about a range of interconnected themes, including ideas about human nature and human difference, evolutionary thinking and its impact on society, national identity, and trust. His books include: A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination; As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind; and The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science. He writes for the Independent, the Guardian and the New Statesman. He is also a fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton.
The lecture, at the RSE, is FREE but ticketed.
To book a ticket contact the RSE Events Department: Tel: 0131 240 2780,
Fax: 0131 240 5024, Email: events@ royalsoced.org.uk or register online at: www.royalsoced.org.uk/events
November 19
IASH, 4-6pm
Professor Andrew Ginger, University of Stirling
1826 and the Atlantic
November 24-25
Sense of Place
Geography Conference: Scotland/Uruguay Meetings
Programme: TBA
December 3
IASH, 4-6pm
Joint Seminar: STAR and the Institute for Geography
Details: TBA
December 11
STAR Transatlantic Literatures Series (EUP) Book Launch
St. Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate
5:30-7:30pm
Professor David Simpson, University of California, Davis
Translating America in the Early Nineteenth Century
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