Literary Yorkshires

Provisional programme:-

• 10.00: Matthew Townend, 'Yorkshire Medievalism'
• 10.30: Helen Smith, 'Letters from Yorkshire'
• 11.00: Break
• 11.15: Emma Major, 'Dissent and God's Own Country'
• 11.45: Harriet Guest, 'A Trip to Scarborough'
• 12.15: John Bowen, ''The Great North Road'
• 12.45: Lunch
• 13.45: 'Lights on Literature', a short film by Helen Hobin
• 14.00: Nicola Watson (Open University), 'Bronte's Desk'
• 15.00: Break
• 15.15: Jonathan Brockbank, 'Mesh and Nesh: Representing Yorkshire'
• 15.45: Claire Chambers, '"Burminggaon? Nottinggaon? Biradforrd?": British-Pakistani Novelists's Depictions of Bradford'
• 16.15: General discussion/ summarizing remarks