March 2012
IASH Seminar Series, Spring 2012: "English Literature 1762-2012"
Tuesday, 6 March at 5.30 pm
Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square
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
Deidre Lynch, Chancellor Jackman Professor of English, University of Toronto: "Daniel Wilson, Scotland and Canada: the export of English"
Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America
Hosted by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow,
Saturday, 17 March 2012
The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage and facilitate the study of America in Scotland. The annual conference will take place at the University of Glasgow, on 17th March 2012. The conference is designed to provide a forum for Americanist postgraduate students and academic staff to share and discuss their research.
Organized with support from SASA, the Hook Centre for American Studies, the British Association for American Studies, and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of the United States
Atlantic World Rhetorics
A STAR (Scotland's Transatlantic Relations)/Atlantic World Research Network Joint Colloquium
19 March 2012
IASH, Hope Park Square
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.
Please download the programme for more information:
Atlantic World Rhetorics Programme
New Title from Ashgate Publishing:
Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870
Gender, Race, and Nation
Edited by Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada and Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University, Canada
Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race and national and cultural differences, this collection takes up a rich range of authors and topics, from Charlotte Smith and Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville, and from representations of indigenous religion in British Romantic literary discourse to gender and transatlantic travel, the abolitionist movement and the transatlantic adventure novel.
978-1-4094-0953-3 August 2011 List price: £55.00
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409409533