2012 EVENTS
2 March 2012
Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds, will present a paper, “Imagining The Place of Home: Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration.”
Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower, George Square
Friday, 2 March 2012, 4.30pm to 6pm
Dr Bennett is from Leeds and her research focuses on American literature, including her most recently published work Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2007). This monograph examines the construction of history upon aspects of cultural memory that refuse to be forgotten. Currently, Dr Bennett is conducting research into the relationship between the concept of home and the theme of danger within American culture.
All are welcome.
Please download the paper synopsis for more information:
“Imagining The Place of Home: Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration” Paper Synopsis
6 March 2012
IASH Seminar Series, Spring 2012: "English Literature 1762-2012"
Deidre Lynch, Chancellor Jackman Professor of English, University of Toronto, will present a paper entitled, “Daniel Wilson, Scotland and Canada: the export of English.”
Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square
Tuesday, 6 March at 5.30 pm
A seminar associated with the celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of the appointment of Hugh Blair as the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, and 250 years of the study of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh
19 March 2012
Atlantic World Rhetorics
A STAR (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations)/Atlantic World Research Network Joint Colloquium
IASH, Hope Park Square
Monday, 19 March from 9am to 6pm
An interdisciplinary symposium in collaboration with colleagues from University of North Carolina Greensboro, this event will develop issues raised in the successful IASH / STAR meeting on ‘Voices of Moderation in the Atlantic World,’ held in 2011. Historians, rhetoricians and English scholars will discuss public and private idioms of engagement in the Anglophone Atlantic World between 1750 and the present. Together, we shall consider a range of rhetorics – and disciplinary practices for their assessment – across domains from Literature to Philosophy, Politics and Religion. We shall address historical and contemporary languages of moderation, to ask what kinds of vocabulary, verbal structure and stance are deployed to promote the virtues of moderate thought? The symposium is part of our larger inquiry into how analysis of the rhetorics of moderatism help us better understand literary, cultural and political developments historically and in our own time.
Papers from:
Walter Beale (Professor of Rhetoric, UNCG)
Robert Calhoon (Professor of History, Emeritus, UNCG)
Joseph Moore (Assistant Professor of History, Gardner-Webb University)
Alex Murdoch (Scottish History, University of Edinburgh)
Frank Cogliano (Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh)
Andrew Taylor (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Allyson Stack (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Will Dodson (UNCG Doctoral Student in Rhetoric)
Mark Robson (English, University of Nottingham)
Please download the programme for more information:
Atlantic World Rhetorics Programme