9.30: Welcome and Introduction
9.45: Nigel Smith (Princeton), ‘Cross-Channel Cavaliers’
10.30: Coffee
10.45: Panel: Poetics
Nicholas McDowell (Exeter University), ‘Towards a Redefinition of Cavalier Poetics’
Christopher Burlinson (University of Cambridge): ‘Finest Gossamore’
11.45: Break
12.00: Panel: Feeling
Hero Chalmers (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), ‘“But not laughing”: Horsemanship and the Idea of the Cavalier’
Ruth Connolly (Newcastle University), ‘[Men] unclothed of themselves’: exposure, dispossession and ugly feelings in Lucasta(1659)
13.00: Lunch
14.00: James Loxley (Edinburgh University), ‘Poetry, Portraiture and Praise: the Rhetoric of Cavalier Ekphrasis’
14.45: Panel: Afterlives
Kate Gath (Sheffield University), ‘Hellish Cavaliering Devils’: Cavalier Stereotypes in Restoration Farce’
Catriona Murray (Edinburgh University), ‘Re-constructing the Cavalier Family: Parental Politics and Nineteenth-Century Images of Charles I and his Children’
15.45: Tea
16.00: Jerome de Groot (Manchester University), ‘How to write the History of a Cultural Trope’
16.45: Round table: ‘The Cavalier’ as interdisciplinary field
Speakers include: Hero Chalmers (Cambridge), Jerome de Groot (Manchester), James Loxley (Edinburgh), Nigel Smith (Princeton)
The symposium is free, but please email ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk to register your attendance.
Further information available here:
http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/reimaginingthecavalier/
