Conference Programme
Sixth Bicentennial John Keats Conference
Keats in 1819: Cloudy Trophies, Quiet Power
17-19 May 2019 at Keats House, Hampstead
Friday 17 May 2019
2.00pm REGISTRATION Keats House, The Nightingale Room, and WELCOME from the organisers and Rob Shakespeare, Curator of Keats House
3.00pm – 4.00pm: LECTURE 1: Seamus Perry (University of Oxford): Keats’s Noises Off
4.00pm: Coffee / Tea
4.30pm – 5.50pm: PANEL 1: Keats and Quietude
Anthony Howe (Birmingham City University): Quiet Powers: Some Types of Silence in Keats’s Poetry
Yasir Al-Jumaili (Koya University, Iraq): Was Silence Quiet: A Study of Metaphors of Silence in Keats’s Poetry
Heidi Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): The Quiet Power of The Fall of Hyperion
6pm WINE RECEPTION
Saturday 18 May: The Nightingale Room
9.40am – 11.00am: PANEL 2: Revisiting ‘To Autumn’
Li Ou (Chinese University of Hong Kong): On Sitting Down to Read ‘To Autumn’ Once Again
Yoshikazu Suzuki (Japan Women’s University, Tokyo): Keats’s Antiphonal Music: Peterloo and ‘To Autumn’
Peter Phillips (Independent Scholar): Keats’s Nectarine: Feasting and Famishing in 1819
11.00am: Coffee / Tea
11.30am – 12.30pm: PANEL 3: Poetry and Play
Charlotte Evans (University of Birmingham): Keats and Fanny Brawne: Productivity and ‘Play of Mind’ in 1819
Flora Lisica (University of Cambridge): The Tragedy of Otho the Great
12.30pm: LUNCH
2.00pm – 3.00pm: Lecture 2: Emily Rohrbach (Manchester University): Vanishing Books, Cockney Poetics: Reading Keats with Leigh Hunt and Letitia Landon
3.15pm – 4.35pm: PANEL 4: Narrative Poems
Carly Stevenson (University of Sheffield): Looking in Keats’s Lamia
Marco Canani (Università degli Studi di Milano): Sorceresses, nymphs, and monsters: Keats and Apuleius in 1819
Amina Brik (University of Manouba, Tunisia): Keats and Swoon: From the Myth of St Agnes to the Mythology of Individual Consciousness
4.35pm: Coffee / Tea
5.00pm – 6.20pm: PANEL 5: The Odes
Mark Sandy (Durham University): A Sense of an Ending: Poetic Closing and Closure in Keats’s 1819 Odes
John Williams (University of Greenwich): Eden, Arcadia and the Death of Poetry in John Keats’s ‘Ode on Indolence’
Inês Rosa (University of Lisbon): ‘Quiz[zing] it myself’: Keats’s Speculative Rhetoric
7.00 pm. CONFERENCE DINNER at Freemasons Arms
Sunday 19 May: The Nightingale Room
10.00am – 11.20am: PANEL 6: Letters, Manuscripts and Effigies
Rosie Whitcombe (Birmingham City University): Connection, Consolation and the Long-Distance Letter
Richard Marggraf Turley and Jennifer Squire (Aberystwyth University): ‘Haggard and woe-begone’: The Arundels’ Tomb and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’
Mark Wiltshire (Christie’s): Collecting John Keats: The market for first editions and manuscripts
11.20am: Coffee / Tea
11.45am – 12.45pm: Lecture 3: Lucasta Miller (Biographer): The Eve of St Agnes, Isabella Jones and Cockney ambiguity: What the Keatsian poetess L.E.L. can add to our cultural understanding
12.45pm: LUNCH
1:45pm – 3.10pm: PANEL 7: Keats Among the Poets
Kelvin Everest (Liverpool University): Keats Meets Coleridge
Anna Mercer (Keats House/ Cardiff University): Keats and the Shelleys
Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle University): ‘Patient travail’: Keats and Samson Agonistes
3.10pm: Coffee / Tea
3.40pm – 4.40pm: PANEL 8: Keats and Science
Sean Hughes (Imperial College London) and Hrileena Ghosh (Independent Scholar): Keats and the Temporal Artery Revisited
Meegan Hasted (University of Queensland, Australia): The Science of Eternity in the Hyperion Poems
4.40pm – 5pm: CLOSING REMARKS
The Keats Foundation is a UK registered charity, No. 114758
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