The 1stInternational Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference
Northumbria University and the Lit & Phil, 5-7 November 2015
Conference Programme
Thursday 5th November: Lit & Phil
12-1pmRegistration with coffee
1pmWelcome
1:15pmPanel 1: Global Reception
Peter Budrin (University of Toronto, Canada): ‘“Fates of People Reflect the Sense or Nonsense of History”: Laurence Sterne and Soviet Literary Scholars of the 1930s’
M-C. Newbould (University of Cambridge, UK): ‘Remarkable “Papillotes”: Some scrap-papers for exploring Sterne’s reception’
Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland): ‘Poland’s Finest Sternean: Izabela Czartoryska (1746-1835) as Translator and Promoter of Sterne’
2:45pmCoffee
3:15pmPanel 2: (Absent) Bodies
Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Sterne and Consumptive Self-Fashioning’
Ashleigh Blackwood (Northumbria University, UK): ‘The “poison of novels” and“True Shandeism”:Imprints ofBooks on the Body in Eighteenth-CenturyReading Cultures’
Helen Williams (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Fictional Characters and Grave Tourism: Sterne’s Maria and Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple’
4:45pm Keynote address
Dr Tim Parnell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
‘Sterne and mid-century fiction: the “vast empire of biographical freebooters” and the “crying volume”’
Friday6th November: Lit & Phil
9:30am Roundtable: Social Networks
Peter de Voogd (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
W.B. Gerard (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA) [via Skype]
Paul Goring (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
M-C. Newbould (University of Cambridge, UK)
Helen Williams (Northumbria University, UK)
10:45am Coffee
11:15amPanel 3: Philosophies
Christopher Ewers (King’s College London, UK): ‘“Motion most rapid”: Sterne, speed and Tristram Shandy’
Kazuki Ochiai(University of Tokyo, Japan): ‘Attrition and Property in Tristram Shandy’
Geoff Newton (independent scholar, UK): ‘David Hartley and Laurence Sterne’
12:45pmLunch
1:45pmPanel 4: Novel Spaces
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): ‘This year was published: novel advertisements in the British newspapers of 1768’
Allan Ingram (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Lost at Sea: Silence, Omission, Space in the Age of Sterne’
Richard Terry (Northumbria University, UK): Title TBC.
Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pécs, Hungary): Title TBC.
3:30pm Coffee
4pmAddress from the President
Peter de Voogd (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands): ‘The Shandean and the Foundation: a short history’
4:20pmKeynote address
Prof James Raven (Magdalene College, Cambridge and University of Essex, UK)
‘“It was only a joke”: jests in the age of Sterne’
7pmConference dinner: Blackfriars
Saturday 7th November: Boardroom One, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University
9am Panel 5: Self and Performance in Tristram Shandy
Joanna Maciulewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): ‘Tristram Shandy as a literary biography’
Flavio Gregori (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy): ‘Tristram Shandy’s gentle dégrisement and the comedy of the self’
Maria Laudando (University of Naples, Italy): ‘The ‘“Theatre” of Social and Sexual Acculturation in Tristram Shandy’
10:30am Coffee
10:45amPanel 6: Philanthropy, Abolition and Judgment
Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University, Ireland): ‘“So large a share of philanthropy”: The Nonsense Club and a Sternean William Cowper’
Brycchan Carey (Kingston University, UK):‘Ignatius Sancho, Shirna Cambo, and a friendless poor negro-girl: Sterne and Slavery’
Alexander Hardie-Forsyth (University of York, UK): ‘Sterne’s Drama of Commerce’
12:15pmLunch
1pmKeynoteaddress
Prof Judith Hawley (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
‘The Book as Object in Tristram Shandy’
2pm Closing remarks