Day Conference at the King's Manor
Saturday 11 March 2006
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.45 Phil Connell (Cambridge), 'British Identities and the Politics of Ancient Poetry in Later Eighteenth-Century England'
10.45-11.30 Jim Watt (York), 'Thomas Percy and China'
11.30-11.45 Tea/coffee
11.45-12.30 Tom Jones (St. Andrews), 'Encounter History and the Origins of Poetic Language'
12.30-1.15 Clare O'Halloran (Cork), 'Division and Faction: Irish Antiquaries in Comparative Perspective, c.1770-1810'
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.30-3.15 Rosemary Sweet (Leicester), '"Our National Antiquities": Eighteenth-Century Antiquaries and the Medieval Past'
3.15-4.00 Corinna Russell (Cambridge), 'Romance and the Ethics of Historiography in Radcliffe and Scott'
4.00-5.00 Round-table discussion