Other Events - Romantic Colonialism (29.1.04)
Midlands Romantic Seminar
Next Seminar Meeting Romantic Colonialism Thursday, January 29th 2004 , 2-5.30pm
Contact: Dr Gavin Budge, <gavin_budge@blueyonder.co.uk>
Venue: Shakespeare Memorial Room, Chamberlain Square , Birmingham B3 (next to Central Reference Library)
Speakers:
Professor Timothy Webb ( Bristol )
Melancholy pleasures and Moral Paradoxes: Unriddling the Irish enigma
Professor Tim Fulford (NTU)
From Ireland to Tahiti : Robert Southey's Colonial Politics
Postgraduate Panel:
William Easton (NTU) 'William Blake and the culture of Slavery in the late eighties and 1790s'
Felicity James ( Christchurch College , Oxford )
'Characters of Excessive Sensibility': the strange relationship of Nehemiah Higginbottom, Edmund Oliver, and Rosamund Gray.