Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community,1780-1820
9 - 12 July 2012
Keynote Speakers
Professor John Barrell (University of York)
Professor Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)
Professor Pierre Serna (Institut de l'histoire de la révolution française, Paris)
Locating Revolution draft programme
A conference jointly hosted by the Wales and the French Revolution Project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies; the Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth University; and the Department of English, Swansea University.
This multi-disciplinary conference invited papers which engage with local, regional, national, European and transatlantic responses to the Age of Revolutions. In what local forms did the upheavals of the age manifest themselves? What was the relationship between social, religious and political loyalties and people’s landscapes and environments? What forms did loyalism and opposition take in particular rural, regional, urban and metropolitan communities? Papers focused on any aspect of history, science, literature, song, visual arts and material culture.
- local/regional/national/European identities
- readings of ‘place’ and ‘space’
- cartographies of loyalism and opposition
- Romanticism
- connections between different experiences of revolution
- transmission of ideas
- four Nations criticism: refining the ‘British’ response
- neglected /silenced voices
- oral traditions