Conference Announcement: Wildering Phantasies

Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice, D G Rossetti
Courtesy of Dundee Art Galleries & Museums

an Interdisciplinary Conference devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites

7-10 July 2011
D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee

This interdisciplinary conference, held in association with the Scottish Word and Image Group, will bring together researchers from a range of backgrounds to explore the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and assess their legacy across several media. It includes an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, with sketches taken from Dundee University's own holdings and the surrounding area. In addition, there will be an opportunity to see D.G. Rossetti's Dante's Dream, the finest Pre-Raphaelite painting in Scotland, works by Millais and Joseph Paton at the newly renovated McManus Gallery as well as other Pre-Raphaelite gems, including the recently restored St. Salvador's church, designed by George Fredrick Bodley.

To book places at the conference, please visit the University's online store or email Jodi-Anne George for details.

Programme

Thursday 7 July
2.00-4.00	Registration
4.00-4.50	Tea/Coffee
4.50	Welcome (Jo. George & Brian Hoyle)
Session One: Plenary Lecture (Chair: Prof. Ken Newton)
5.00	Peter Faulkner (University of Exeter), 'William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism'
7.00	Wine Reception and Buffet at the McManus Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum (Welcome address by members of the Conference Committee)
Friday 8 July
9.00-9.30	Registration
Session Two: Facets of Rossetti (Chair: Karen Brown)
9.30	Jo. George (University of Dundee), 'Rossetti's Menagerie'
9.50	Dinah Roe (University of Hertfordshire), '''Fanciful Scribblings on the Frames'': Painting, Poetry and Frame Inscription in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt'
10.10	Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3), 'Remembering Things Past: Rossetti's 'Burden of Nineveh''
10.30	Jose Maria Mesa-Villar (University of Jaen), ''Where Ouer Moche Synne Duelleth There May Be But Lytel Swetnesse': Female Iconicity and Male Unworthiness in D.G. Rossetti's Sir Launcelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael (1857)'
10.50	Questions
11.00-11.30	Morning Coffee Break
Session Three (post-graduate): 'Receptions and Influences' (Chair: Brian Hoyle)
11.30	Jeffrey Smith (University of Dundee), 'Pre-Raphaelite Imagery in the Writings of George MacDonald'
11.50	Nancy Langham (Oxford Brookes University), 'The Pre-Pre-Raphaelite: John Rogers Herbert, R.A. (1810-1890)'
12.10	Anne van Buul (University of Groningen), 'Intermedialities in the Dutch Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism'
12.30	Magdalena Kilian (Pedagogical University of Cracow), 'The Pre-Raphaelite Inspiration of Protesilas and Laodamia, a Drama by Stanislaw Wyspiański'
12.50	Questions
1.00-2.30	Buffet Lunch
Session Four: 'Pre-Raphaelite Media' (Chair: Chris Murray)
2.30	Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City University), 'Truth to Nature: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Wanderers'
2.50	Fiona Boath (University of Dundee), 'The Pre-Raphaelites in Dundee'
3.10	Fanny Gillet (Collège Jean Rostand, Balma), '''I Want the Name and the Picture to be One Soul Together'': Burne-Jones's Symbolic Dream in The Flower Book'
3.30	Questions
3.45	Tea/Coffee
Session Five: Special Lecture (Chair: Laurence Roussillon-Constanty)
4.15	Prof. Stephen Wildman (Ruskin Library & Research Centre), 'Orders of Release: The Enduring Visual Appeal of John Ruskin'
5.00	Lamb Gallery - Special Exhibition Talk and Wine Reception (Matthew Jarron)
6.00	Launch of Karen E. Brown's book The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939 (Ashgate: April, 2011)

Free Evening
Saturday 9 July
Session Six: 'Pre-Raphaelite 'Geographies'' (Chair: Matthew Jarron)
9.30	Karen E. Brown (University of Dundee), '''Sister Arts'' Aesthetics in the Early Career of W.B. Yeats: The Case Study of The Secret Rose'
9.50	Lisa Dallape Matson (Pennsylvania Highlands Community College), 'Re-Presentations of the Rossettis in Twenty-First Century Spanish Literature: Los Amantes de la Niebla and Rossetti's Obsession'
10.10	Jennifer Melville (Aberdeen Art Gallery), 'John Everett Millais and his Scottish Friends'
10.30	Joanna Soden (Royal Scottish Academy), '''[...]this Kind of Art [...] they Call Pre-Raphaelite'': The Response of Some Scottish Artists to the Paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood'
10.50	Questions
11.00-11.30	Morning Coffee Break
Session Seven (post-graduate): 'Pre-Raphaelite Disseminations' (Chair: Jo. George)
11.30	Gillian Macdonald (University of Dundee), 'Eco-Socialism in The Defence of Guenevere and the Early Prose of William Morris'
11.50	Robyne Erica Calvert (University of Glasgow), 'A Walk in the Willows: Discovering the Willowwoods of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Dante Gabriel Rossetti'
12.10	Martina John (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Keil), 'Painting the Poet: Relations of Text and Image in D.G. Rossetti's Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)'
12.30	Questions
1.00-2.30	Buffet Lunch
Session Eight: The Pre-Raphaelites on Film
2.30	Brian Hoyle (University of Dundee) will introduce Ken Russell's Dante's Inferno (1967) followed by a screening of the film itself. [Please Note: This event will be held in the Screening Room of the Frankland Building]
4.30-5.00	Tea/Coffee
Session Nine: Plenary Lecture (Chair: TBC)
5.00	Prof. Leonee Ormond (King's College, London), '"Raph's a stick": the Pre-Raphaelite response to the Old Masters'
7.00	Conference Supper (Chambers Restaurant, 34 South Tay Street)
Sunday 10 July
Session Ten: 'Late Flowerings' (Chair: Stephen Wildman)
10.00	Sarah Beattie (University of Glasgow), '''The Heart of the Rose'': The Influence of Edward Burne-Jones on the Art of Frances Macdonald McNair'
10.20	Margaretta Frederick (Delaware Art Museum), '''A Keats Among Painters'': The Poetic Landscapes of George Wilson'
10.40	Victoria Osborne (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), '''One of the Very Last Votaries of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood'': E.R. Hughes and the Death of Pre-Raphaelitism'
11.10	Questions
11.30	Closing Remarks (Members of the Conference Committee)

Optional Outing: For any delegates remaining in Dundee on the final afternoon of the conference, there will be a walking tour of Pre-Raphaelite Dundee. Details will be provided in your conference pack.