Day One: Thursday 26 July 2018
11:30-12:00 Welcome
12:00-1:30 Session I
Lea Jørgensen (Aarhus University), “Exchanging and Transforming Old Norse Skalds and Celtic Bards: Adam Oehlenschläger and the Reception of Ossian in Denmark”
Kathleen O’Donnell (British School at Athens), “Ossian in the 19th Century Greek-Speaking World”
Julie Holder (University of Glasgow), “Representing Scottish Identities through Material Culture”
1:30-2:30 Lunch (Macdonald Aviemore Resort)
2:30-4:00 Session II
Caroline Gonda (Cambridge), “Identity and the Classics in the Notebooks of Anne Damer (1748-1828)”
Anna Fancett (Xi’an Jiaotong University), “The Identity of the Self and Other in the Works of Walter Scott”
Julie Watt (Retired, formerly Stevenson College, Edinburgh), “Susan Ferrier’s Novel Marriage”
4:00-4:45 Afternoon Break
4:45 Keynote Address -- Professor Murdo Macdonald (University of Dundee)
“Ossian, Culloden and European Art”
6:30 Bus Departs Macdonald Aviemore Resort for Newtonmore
7:00 Private Visit to Clan MacPherson Museum
8:00 Dinner, Letterbox Restaurant, Newtonmore
Day Two: Friday 27 July 2018
11:30-1:00 Session III
Gillian Beattie-Smith (Open University / University of the Highlands and Islands), “Identity in Women’s Travel Writing: Negotiating Spatial and Relational Binaries”
Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College), “The Romantic Encounter: The Dutt Family Album”
Sharmaine Browne (Marymount Manhattan College / Hunter College), “Broken Bodies and Severed Nature in Wordsworth and Shelley” [to be read by Tamara Browne, University of Edinburgh]
1:00-2:30 Lunch (Macdonald Aviemore Resort)
2:30-4:00 IV
Christopher Flynn (St. Edward’s University, Austin), “Unstable Identities in Macready’s The Irishman in London; Or; The Happy African”
Jena Al-Fuhaid (Kuwait University), “Shelley as Islamite”
4:00-4:30 Afternoon Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address—Professor James Engell (Harvard)
“Coleridge and the Question of National Culture”
7:30 Dinner: Macdonald Aviemore Resort, Aspects Restaurant
Day Three: Saturday 28 July 2018
8:15 Bus Departs Macdonald Aviemore Resort for Culloden
9:00 Guided Tour of Culloden
10:00 Coffee Shop / Gift Shop / Museum at Culloden / Wandering the Field of Culloden
11:30-1:00 Session V
Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd Mercy University), “The Empire of Ice: Monarchies and the Mountain in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Jane Kim (Biola University), “Loving the Monster: Theological and Technological Mastery in Frankenstein”
Claire Kaczmarek (University of New Caledonia), “The Popular Romanticism of Samuel Macfarlane: Religious and National Identities in the Informal Empire”
1:00-2:30 Lunch, Macdonald Aviemore Resort
2:30-4:00 Session VI
Jeanne Moskal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Romanticism’s Mission’d Spirits”
Margaret Russett (University of Southern California), “Princess Caraboo, Romantic Celebrity”
4:00-4:30 Afternoon Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address—Professor Frederick Burwick (UCLA)
“The Literary Portrait, Character Sketch, and Romantic Identity”
7:30 Dinner, Macdonald Aviemore Resort, Peregrine Room Suite 2
(Haggis and Piper)
11:30-12:00 Welcome
12:00-1:30 Session I
Lea Jørgensen (Aarhus University), “Exchanging and Transforming Old Norse Skalds and Celtic Bards: Adam Oehlenschläger and the Reception of Ossian in Denmark”
Kathleen O’Donnell (British School at Athens), “Ossian in the 19th Century Greek-Speaking World”
Julie Holder (University of Glasgow), “Representing Scottish Identities through Material Culture”
1:30-2:30 Lunch (Macdonald Aviemore Resort)
2:30-4:00 Session II
Caroline Gonda (Cambridge), “Identity and the Classics in the Notebooks of Anne Damer (1748-1828)”
Anna Fancett (Xi’an Jiaotong University), “The Identity of the Self and Other in the Works of Walter Scott”
Julie Watt (Retired, formerly Stevenson College, Edinburgh), “Susan Ferrier’s Novel Marriage”
4:00-4:45 Afternoon Break
4:45 Keynote Address -- Professor Murdo Macdonald (University of Dundee)
“Ossian, Culloden and European Art”
6:30 Bus Departs Macdonald Aviemore Resort for Newtonmore
7:00 Private Visit to Clan MacPherson Museum
8:00 Dinner, Letterbox Restaurant, Newtonmore
Day Two: Friday 27 July 2018
11:30-1:00 Session III
Gillian Beattie-Smith (Open University / University of the Highlands and Islands), “Identity in Women’s Travel Writing: Negotiating Spatial and Relational Binaries”
Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College), “The Romantic Encounter: The Dutt Family Album”
Sharmaine Browne (Marymount Manhattan College / Hunter College), “Broken Bodies and Severed Nature in Wordsworth and Shelley” [to be read by Tamara Browne, University of Edinburgh]
1:00-2:30 Lunch (Macdonald Aviemore Resort)
2:30-4:00 IV
Christopher Flynn (St. Edward’s University, Austin), “Unstable Identities in Macready’s The Irishman in London; Or; The Happy African”
Jena Al-Fuhaid (Kuwait University), “Shelley as Islamite”
4:00-4:30 Afternoon Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address—Professor James Engell (Harvard)
“Coleridge and the Question of National Culture”
7:30 Dinner: Macdonald Aviemore Resort, Aspects Restaurant
Day Three: Saturday 28 July 2018
8:15 Bus Departs Macdonald Aviemore Resort for Culloden
9:00 Guided Tour of Culloden
10:00 Coffee Shop / Gift Shop / Museum at Culloden / Wandering the Field of Culloden
11:30-1:00 Session V
Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd Mercy University), “The Empire of Ice: Monarchies and the Mountain in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Jane Kim (Biola University), “Loving the Monster: Theological and Technological Mastery in Frankenstein”
Claire Kaczmarek (University of New Caledonia), “The Popular Romanticism of Samuel Macfarlane: Religious and National Identities in the Informal Empire”
1:00-2:30 Lunch, Macdonald Aviemore Resort
2:30-4:00 Session VI
Jeanne Moskal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Romanticism’s Mission’d Spirits”
Margaret Russett (University of Southern California), “Princess Caraboo, Romantic Celebrity”
4:00-4:30 Afternoon Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address—Professor Frederick Burwick (UCLA)
“The Literary Portrait, Character Sketch, and Romantic Identity”
7:30 Dinner, Macdonald Aviemore Resort, Peregrine Room Suite 2
(Haggis and Piper)