Academic Conferences

The Faculty hosts or is involved in a number of academic conferences each year.

Upcoming conferences include:

You Turn: Figuring Conversion in Narrative

A day conference at Corpus Christi College on Saturday 3 November 2012
Conference organiser: Dr Roger Kojecky
Email: secretary@clsg.org
Details: http://www.clsg.org/html/conference.html

'A Stray Savage in Oxford': A Henry James Centenary Symposium

On 26 June 1912, Henry James received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford. Before this, James had often visited Oxford, as recorded in his 1877 travel pieces for The Galaxy. Much later, in 1894, he lived in Beaumont Street, where he composed his sketch for ‘The Altar of the Dead’.
‘A Stray Savage in Oxford’: A Henry James Centenary Symposium is a day-long conference to be held on the exact centenary of James’s Oxford Encaenia, and is designed to commemorate both this event and James’s broader Oxford connections, encounters, and legacies. Topics of discussion include:

• James’s relations with, or to, literary, artistic, and academic figures, including Arnold, Auden, JL Austin, Beerbohm, Isaiah Berlin, AC Bradley, Browning, Clough, TS Eliot, Morris, Pater, Ruskin, John Searle, Symonds, Turgenev, Wilde, and Constance Fenimore Woolson;
• James’s rendition of the Oxford “picturesque”, a subject of his travel pieces & letters;
• James’s encounter with Oxford University;
• James’s late, commemorative style;
• The validity of biographical approaches to James’s texts;
• Jamesian pedagogies, including the posthumous critical regard in which James has been held at Oxford, Cambridge and elsewhere.

Guest lecturers: Christopher Ricks and Lyndall Gordon; panellists: Catherine Brown, Ron Bush, Stefano Evangelista, Tamara Follini, Oliver Herford, Philip Horne, Hazel Hutchison, Anthony Lane, Tim Lustig, Michèle Mendelssohn, J Hillis Miller, Seamus Perry, Matthew Peters, Adrian Poole, Bernard Richards, Rebekah Scott, Alice Stainer, and Angus Wrenn

Registration is now open. Please follow the link below:

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