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Text and Monument

Text and Monument

Publié le par Baptiste Roux (Source : Jean Duffy)

The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, the University of Edinburgh

6th Saintsbury Colloquium

Text and Monument


The 6th Saintsbury colloquium, sponsored by the Saintsbury Winery, Napa, California, will take place on 29th January 2005 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm.

The speakers, specialists from several disciplines, will address a range of related issues including the following: thematic and formal interaction between text and monument; text as inscription; text as monument; monument as document; text, monument and commemoration; textual and monumental tributes; the various functions of the fictional, poetic or painted monument.

Speakers

Philip Bennett, Once and Future Monuments: knights' and lovers' tombs in medieval French romance'
David Caldwell, Symbolism versus Reality: the identities of medieval West Highland patrons on the basis of their grave-slabs and commemorative crosses'
Debra Higgs Strickland, The Medieval Bestiary as Anti-Jewish Monument: text, image, and notions of the unclean'
Margaret-Ann Hutton, Memory Set in Stone? French Female Deportees' Testimonial Accounts, 1945-2002'
Maylis Curie, Cathedrals and Patriotism'
Nigel Thorp, Whistler and The Vocabulary of Poetic Symbolism'
Susan Harrow, Moving Monuments: Jacques Réda'
Michael Sheringham, Archiving the Ordinary: text as monument in Francis Ponge'


Conference fee: £20; £10 (postgraduate students)
The conference fee covers admission to the colloquium, coffees, lunch and reception. The dinner will be charged separately (approximate cost £30 per head), and must be paid for at the time of registration.

For registration forms please contact Joanne Naysmith, Division of European Languages and Cultures, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 60 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, Scotland.

email: joanne.naysmith@ed.ac.uk