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The Humanities Research Centre invites paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on actor, image, and global screen icon, James Dean. The two-day conference will be held at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV's Institute of Advanced Study on September 30th and October 1st, 2015, 60 years after Dean’s death.

Wednesday 19 November, 16:00 in H202

Professor Carol Tully (Bangor)

Paper: European Travellers to Wales: Making the Minority Count.

Carol Tully is currently leading the AHRC-funded project, 'European Travellers to Wales 1750-2010, in collaboration with colleagues at Swansea University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Abersystwyth. She will talk about the project, which aims to uncover responses to Wales by European travellers, exploring in so doing issues relating to the role of minority cultures and their place in the field of travel writing. Her talk will also focus on a case study, that of Julius Rodenberg, who travelled to Wales in 1856. His reception of Wales and treatment of Welsh culture will be explored and contextualised within the parameters of the project as a whole.

(94 mins). Refreshments provided.

Contact academic, Stephen Bates s.m.j.bates@warwick.ac.uk , or John Morgan John.Morgan@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Carol Tully (Bangor)

Paper: "European Travellers to Wales: Making the Minority Count."

Memory Group meeting

Giacomo Comiati (Dept of Italian) – Love, Childbirth, and Tenderness in Fifteenth-Century Florence: the case of Cristoforo Landino's poem In praise of Diana
Desiree Arbo - Prefaces, epilogues and captatio beneuolentiae in Nicolas del Techo'sHistoria Paraquariae (1673) and Jose Manuel Peramas' Laudationes Quinque (1766)

The room will be available from 4pm for anyone wishing to meet first for a chat (bring your own tea/coffee).

All Welcome.

Reading Group

Melodee Beals

Mennon and McGillivray:

Scotland and the North American Frontier, 1790-1810

An Eighteenth Century Centre seminar in association with Teaching Digital Humanities at IATL

Refreshments served. All are welcome.

Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, New College Oxford will speak on ‘Silence, Sound and the City in 1920s Cinema’.

This talk will discuss the debates around the transition to sound in the late 1920s, and will use film examples (including F. W. Murnau's Sunrise [1927], Paul Fejos's Lonesome [1928] and René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris) to explore the idea that these late silent/early sound films staged the ambivalence towards the coming of sound. Sound can appear as communicative immediacy and connectivity but also as irritant and contagion. In city films of the period, in particular, sound can also be noise.