Fin de Siecle

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY

Thursday 19 and Friday 20 October 2000

Irish and British Fin-de-siècle Figures in Europe: Wilde and Yeats

A Colloquium of
the Research Project on the Reception
of British Authors in Europe
and
the Institute of English Studies

Sponsored by the British Academy

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER

10.30	REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11.00	Professor Warwick Gould (University of London)The early reception of Yeats in Ireland to 1908
11.45	Professor Richard Cave (University of London Staging Yeats’s Plays: European interchange
12.15	Professor Klaus Peter Jochum (University of Bamberg The reception of Yeats in Germany
13.00	LUNCH (own arrangements)
14.00	Professor Theo D’Haen (University of Leiden) The reception of Yeats in Holland (tbc)
14.30	Dr. Jolanta Dudek (University of Cracow) The reception of Yeats’s poetry in Poland
15.00	Panel on translations of Yeats
16.00	Dr. Enrico Reggiani (Università cattolica di Milano) ‘"Learned Italian Things": Notes Towards a Study of Yeats’s Reception in Italy’
16.30	TEA
17.00	Professor Yves Bonnefoy (Collège de France, Paris) A reading of Bonnefoy’s French translations of Yeats
18.00	RECEPTION in the Durning Lawrence Library (University of London) EXHIBITION of Irish and British fin-de-siècle books
20.00	DAY ONE ENDS (approximate)

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER

10.30	REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11.00	Dr Patrick Pollard(Birkbeck College, University of London) Wilde in France: André Gide and other persons
11.30	Professor Manfred Pfister (Free University of Berlin) Fin-de-siècle, fin-de-millennium: Wilde redivivus
12.15	Dr. Rainer Kohlmayer (University of Mainz) ‘Bunbury’ in Germany: adapting and performing the comedies
13.00	LUNCH (own arrangements)
14.15	Professor Richard Cardwell (Nottingham University) The early reception of Oscar Wilde in Spain
14.45	Dr Marta Mateo Martínez-Bartolomé (University of Oviedo) Wilde’s comedies in Spain: the transplantation of wit and humour
15.30	TEA
16.00	Dr. Roselinde Supheert (Utrecht University) Early Dutch translations and performances of Wilde’s plays
16.30	Professor Giovanna Franci and Dr. Gino Scatasta (University of Bologna)** With/without Wilde: The Italian reception of the English fin-de-siècle, 1980-2000**
17.00	Professor Franco Buffoni (University of Cassino) Readings from Ballata dal carcere e altre poesie, Professor Buffoni’s translation of The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other poetry
18.00	Conference closure with Merlin Holland

Organiser: Dr. Elinor Shaffer (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Fees Per Day:
£22.00 Standard
£12.00 Concessions and members of IES
Please note: For this conference speakers will only be charged the relevant fee for the day they are not speaking

Venue: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd Floor), Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU (No smoking building)

Enquiries to the Institute of English Studies (Conference Bookings)
Tel: 020 7862 8675
Fax:020 7862 8672
email: ies@sas.ac.uk

We are interested in hearing from anyone working on Wilde or Yeats in Europe who might be interested in contributing to our forthcoming volume. Offers of further papers should be sent to the organiser at the following address:

The Reception of British Authors in Europe Room 351, Senate House
University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK
Email: eshaffer@sas.ac.uk Tel: +44-207-862-8667