Programme
Bicentenary Conference 2018
Shadows, Magnitudes, Tests and Trials:
John Keats in 1818
18 – 20 May at Keats House, Hampstead
Friday 18 May 2018
2.00pm REGISTRATION Keats House, The Nightingale Room, and WELCOME from the organisors and Rob Shakespeare, Curator of Keats House
2.45pm – 4.00pm: LECTURE 1: Carol Kyros Walker (Professor Emerita, City Colleges of Chicago, Daley College): ‘Walking North with Keats Much Later; following his tour to Scotland with his friend Charles Brown, undertaken Wednesday, June 24 to Saturday, August 8, 1818’
4.00pm: Coffee / Tea
4.30pm – 6.00pm: PANEL 1: Keats on the Move
John Barnard (University of Leeds): Keats’s ‘Pleasant Twinge’: ‘The first waterfall I ever saw’
Jake Phipps (Durham University): Shadow and Shade: An Examination of Robert Burns’ Influence on the Poetry of Keats
Rosie Whitcombe (Birmingham City University): ‘I will clamber through the Clouds and exist’: Keats Crossing the Threshold in 1818
6.15pm WINE RECEPTION
Saturday 19 May 2018. The Nightingale Room
9.30am – 10.30am: PANEL 2: Circumstantial Keats
Rico Brown (Independent scholar): The Challenges Keats Faced in 1818 – Poesy, Women, & Health
Peter Phillips (Independent Scholar): Led on by circumstance: comparing the dramatic structure of Endymion and Isabella
10.30am: Coffee / Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm: PANEL 3: Aspects of Endymion
Jonathan Mulrooney (College of the Holy Cross): Opening Endymion
Rayna Rossenova (University of Sofia): Keats’s ‘Powers of Imagination’: Endymion and the Four Types of Love
Richard Marggraf Turley (Aberystwyth University): Hissing Fancy into Belief: Vauxhall Gardens and Endymion
12.30pm: LUNCH
2.00pm – 3.00pm: Lecture 2: Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle University): Reaching for the Epic: Keats in the North
3.00pm – 4:30pm: PANEL 4: Existential Keats
Li Ou (Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong): Keats’s Historical Scepticism and Voltaire
Eva Jenke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Shadows of Futurity. Proto-Existentialist Notions in Hyperion
William Stroup (Keene State College): Keats and Ecology: The Epistle to Reynolds and the Cycles of Climatic Vision
4.30pm: Coffee / Tea
5.00pm – 6.30pm: PANEL 5: Trials and Experiments
Emily Rohrbach (Manchester University): ‘I’ll cavern you, and grotto you’: Keats, Radcliffe. Austen, and the Conventions of Gothic Writing in 1818
Tina M. Iemma (St. John’s University): Trials of Poetic Identity: Examining Keats’s Ethics of Knowing
Jeffrey C. Robinson (University of Colorado, Boulder, and Glasgow University): Keats and Poetic Experiment in 1818
6.40pm: A poetry reading by Michael O’Neill
7.45 pm. CONFERENCE DINNER at Freemasons Arms
Sunday 20 May 2018. The Nightingale Room
9.30am – 10.30am: PANEL 6: A Poet’s Work
Anna Anselmo (Université de la Valle d’Aosta): Walking in a poet’s shoes: Keats and the poetics of space
Michael Allen (Harvard University): The Work of Sadness in Keats
10.30am – 11.00am: Coffee / Tea
11.00am – 12.00: Lecture 3: Richard Cronin (Glasgow University): John Keats in 1818
12.00 – 1.00pm: PANEL 7: Encountering Isabella
Heidi Thomson (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand): ‘Thence proceeds mawkishness’: From Isabella (1818) to Lamia (1819), via Madeline (1819)
Marco Canani (Università degli Studi di Milano): A trial of invention, a change in the intellect: John Keats’s remediation of Boccaccio in Isabella; Or, The Pot of Basil
1.00pm: LUNCH
2.30pm – 3.30pm: PANEL 8: Medical Keats
Sean P. F. Hughes (Imperial College London): ‘My last operation was the opening of man’s temporal artery’
Hrileena Ghosh (Jadavpur University): An Account of Keats’s Medical Notebook
3.30pm: Coffee / Tea
4.00.pm – 4.45pm: Giuseppe Albano – On the Keats-Shelley House in Rome
4.45pm – 5pm: CLOSING REMARKS
The Keats Foundation is a UK registered charity, No. 1147589