This is a past event
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 17-19 April 2015
Hosted by Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
PROGRAMME
Friday 17 April
2.00-3.00: tea/coffee
3.00-4.00: Welcome and introductory remarks
Michael Brown (Aberdeen), Radical Britons and the London Problem
4.00- 5.30: Session two
Conrad Brunström (NUI Maynooth), Beer or Uisce Beatha: The London Irish and Convivial Debating Clubs
Cathryn Charnell-White (Aberystwyth), London’s Welsh bards: Performing Liberty and Fraternity in the Early 1790s
6.00 Wine reception at RIISS
7.00: Meal at Howie’s Restaurant (transport provided)
Saturday 18 April
9.00-10.30: Session two
David Higgins (Leeds), 'Fire, Famine, and Slaughter'? Coleridge, the Examiner, and the Regency Distresses
John Bugg (Fordham), British Poetry and the First Peace of Paris
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.30: Session four
Martyn Powell (Aberystwyth), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the London Press and Anglo-Irish Politics
Emma Macleod (Stirling), ‘Visions of Columbus’ in London: The Reception of American Radical Poetry in the London Periodical Press, 1775-1820
12.30-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Session five
Andrew Noble, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir James Mackintosh: Fellow Citizens and Apostates
Andrew Mackillop (Aberdeen), Metropolitan Scots or New Britons: London-Scots Merchants in the Age of Union
3.30-4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00- 5.30: Session six
John Mee (York), ‘Vigour’ versus ‘Calm prudential principles’?: Robert Thomson, Political Song, and the London Corresponding Society
Elizabeth Edwards (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth), London’s gravity: politics, song, and the expatriate Welsh
6.00: Meal at Ardoe House (Transport provided)
Sunday 19 April
9.30-11.00: Session seven
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie), From Sedition to Seduction: The Radical Songs of John Thelwall
James Grande (KCL), "I heard in Lambeths shades": Sound and Vision in Blake's London
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
11.30-1.00: Session eight
Roundtable
1.00-2.00 Lunch
- Venue
- RIISS, Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds, HMG1