Conference Programme

Literary Archives Draft Schedule, 2 – 3rd October 2010
Day 1, Saturday Oct. 2nd
9 .00 ‐ 9.30 REGISTRATION
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9.30 ‐ 9.45 Introductory remarks
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9.45 ‐ 10.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Professor Helen Taylor (University of Exeter)
‘Dangerous Diplomacy: Writers, Scholars, Family Archives and Secrets’
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10.45 ‐ 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
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11.00 ‐12.15 PANEL 1: Archiving South West Writers

• Alison Harvey (Cardiff University) ‘Fragmentary acquisition and the changing face of Edward Thomas (1878 ‐ 1917)

• Simon Barker (University of Gloucestershire) ‘Lost Property: John Galsworthy , Dartmoor, and the search for ‘that stuffed shirt’

• Philip Lancaster (University of Exeter) ‘Reconstructing Ivor Gurney in the Archive’

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12.15 ‐1.15 LUNCH
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1.15 ‐3.00 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS EVENT (Research Commons)
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3.00 ‐ 3.15 COFFEE BREAK
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3.15 ‐ 4.55 PANEL 2: Constructed Silences

• Isabelle Cosgrave (University of Exeter) ‘Untrustworthy Reproductions and Doctored Archives: undoing the sins of a Victorian Biographer’

Robert Ritter (Oxford University) ‘Stopping Wessex: the battle for Hardy’s punctuation’

• Sophie Bush (University of Sheffield) ‘Several Timberlake Wertenbakers: the attractions and dangers of biographical ‘insights’

• Sarah Hutton (National Archives) ‘Constance Emily Kent ‐ Lost in Literary Legacy?’


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4.55 ‐ 5.10 COFFEE BREAK
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5.10 ‐ 6.25 PANEL 3: Archiving Intersections: non-textual archival encounters
• Bob Lawson Peebles (University of Exeter) ‘Influence and Authenticity: some suggestions for the use of the Exeter American music collection’

• Amanda Wrigley (Northwestern University) ‘Preparing the scripts of Louis MacNeice’s radio features for publication’

• Jennifer Barnes (University of Exeter) ‘The Body as Archive and Artefact: Laurence Olivier's Memorial Service, 1989’

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6.30 CLOSE OF DAY 1
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Day 2 , Sunday Oct. 3rd
9.15 ‐ 9.30 Welcome remarks and coffee
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9.30 ‐ 10.30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Dr Wim Van Mierlo (University of London)
‘The Archaeology of the Poem’
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10.30 ‐ 10.45 COFFEE BREAK
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10.45 ‐ 12.00 PANEL 1: Theorizing the Archive

• Jane Dowson (De Montfort University) ‘From Fragmentation to Fixity: written to electronic archives, Elizabeth Jennings: a case study

• Jennifer Douglas (University of Toronto) ‘Original order, added value?: the Douglas Coupland fonds

• Gail Low (University of Dundee) ‘Close Reading in the archive’

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12.00 ‐1.00 LUNCH
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1.00 ‐ 2.15 PANEL 2: Rethinking the Archive

• Iain Bailey (University of Manchester) ‘But what does this prove?’ Intertextuality, Exogensis and Authority’

• Jem Bloomfield (University of Exeter) ‘With divers things printed’: the Playbook as Archive’

• David Roberts (Birmingham City University) ‘The Library of a Seventeenth‐Century Actor: Thomas Betterton and Pinachotheca Bettertonaeana’

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2.15 – 2.30 COFFEE BREAK
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2.30 - 4.10 PANEL 3: Editing the Archive / Archiving Editing

• Jason Harding (University of Durham) ‘The Use of Archival Material in the
Preparation of T S Eliot's Complete Prose'

• Fran Baker (University of Manchester) ‘The Double Life of the Ghost in the Garden Room: Charles Dickens edits Elizabeth Gaskell’

• Christine Faunch (University of Exeter) ‘The Treasure of the Text.’ How do we seek to construct the entity of the author in the archive?
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4.10 -4.25 COFFEE BREAK
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4.25 ‐ 5.40 PANEL 4: Reclamation and Representation

• Jo Powell (Edge Hill University) ‘The Other du Maurier Girl’

• Liz Adams (University of Nottingham) ‘High’ versus ‘low’ art: the manuscripts of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’

• Mariya Ustymenko (University of Essex) ‘Zooming into Page: the document as a whole picture’
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5.40 – 6.00 Roundtable

6.00 CLOSE