Encountering Malta III
Literature and the Sea, 1750-1850
Programme
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 March 2016
University of Malta
Valletta Campus
Old University Building
Friday 11 March
20.00hrs Informal dinner on pay-as-you-go basis at Palazzo
Preca, Strait Street, Valletta
Saturday 12 March
09:00
Registration. Old University Building, Valletta
09:30hrs
Welcome and Introduction.
09:45hrs
Peter Vassallo (University of Malta): „Seascapes
and the truth of the Imagination in Byron and Keats‟.
10:30hrs
Coffee Break
11:15hrs
Panel 1: Theatres of the Sea
Jacqueline Mulhallen (Independent Scholar):
„Sailors, Sea and Theatrical Literature‟.
Michael Raiger (Ave Maria University):
„“Coleridge‟s wild Rhyme”: The Ancient Mariner in Moby Dick‟.
12. 30hrs
LUNCH
14:00hrs
Panel 2: Poetic Seas
Rayna Rossenova (University of Sofia):
„Representations of the Sea in Charlotte Smith‟s Poetry‟.
Shannon McBriar (Amsterdam University College):
„An encounter with wanting itself‟: Desire, Sublimity and the Sea
in Percy Bysshe Shelley‟s “A Vision of the Sea” and Maria
Jewsbury‟s Oceanides‟.
15:15hrs
Coffee Break
16:00hrs
Panel 3: Keatsian Seas
Jane Darcy (UCL London):
„Keats and the Sea‟.
Nicholas Roe (St Andrews):
„The Sea and Keats‟
Angus Graham-Campbell (Eton College):
„John Keats‟s Islands‟
20:00hrs
Conference dinner at Ta’ Nenu, St. Dominic Street,
Valletta.
Sunday 13 March
09:45hrs Michael O’Neill (Durham University): „“Impenetrable
Mysteries of our Being”: Shelley‟s The Cenci, Rome,
and the Fate of Analysis‟.
10:30hrs
Coffee Break
11:20hrs
Panel 4: Imagined Seas
Matthew Scott (Reading University):
„Tiepolo‟s Blue and the English Literary Imagination‟.
Andrea Timár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
„”View the ocean as poets do”: The (Im)possibilities of Posthuman
Reading‟.
12:30hrs
Lunch
14:00hrs
Panel 5
Evy Varsamopoulou (University of Cyprus):
“The sea is the real situation and the voyage is the true condition of
man”: Reversing into history in search of a new humanity in The
Last Man‟.
Sophie Gilmartin (Royal Holloway, University of London):
„Bermuda, Malta and the Isle of Wight: Literary and Romantic
Connections in Jane Austen‟s Family and Writings‟.
15:15hrs
Coffee Break
16:00hrs
Panel 6: Voyagers
Peter J. Kitson (University of East Anglia):
„Voyaging to China 1816-17: the Amherst Embassy‟.
Ivan Callus (University of Malta):
„”Rough and Tempestuous”: Boswell, Corsica and the Nature of
Prefiguration‟.
Post-Conference Drinks at a venue to be decided on the day.