Past Events
A free talk by author Frank Delaney: "Writing About Ireland"
September 29, 2010
5th Annual CBIS “Gathering of Scholars”: “Britain and India”
January 22, 2010
Shankar Raman (Department of Literature, MIT): “Engraving the Heathen: de Bry and Linschoten”
Betty Joseph (Department of English Language and Literature, Rice University): “Pluralizing 18th-Century British India: Agency, Change and Crisis in Histories of Domination”
Daniel White (Department of English, University of Toronto): “‘I would not have the day return’: Derozio, Memory, Modernity, 1827-31”
Jed Esty (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania): “The Great Game Has No End: Kipling, Adolescence, Empire”
Deepti Misri (Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder): “Cartographies of Violence: Mapping Honour Killing in Britain”
Yasunari Takada (Chair of the Department of Cultural Representations and visiting scholar at Yale as a guest of their Alumni Association, University of Tokyo)
November 16, 2009
“Circular Referral and Alterity: The Three Ladies in Coriolanus and What They Can Tell Us”
(Faculty Sponsors, CBIS and Davide Stimilli)
Elaine Freedgood (Department of English, New York University)
November 13, 2009
“Fictional Settlements: Footnotes, Metalepsis, Imperial Design”
David Clark (Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)
September 4, 2009
“On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy”
Internationally Renowned Visiting Scholars (Fall 2008)
Dr. Professor Christoph Bode (Department of English, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
“The Discursive Subject in British Romanticism”
Dr. Nicholas Roe (School of English, University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
“John Keats, Benjamin Haydon and the Elgin Marbles”
“Fashion Thoughts”: The 4th Annual CBIS “Gathering Of Scholars”
(Fall 2008)
Julie Park (Department of English, Vassar)
“The Rise of Fashion and Novel Selves in 18th-Century England”
Tita Chico (Department of English, University of Maryland)
“Dissecting the Coquette: Fashion & Experimental Philosophy”
Caroline Evans (Department of Fashion History and Theory, University of the Arts, London)
“Mannequins on Parade”
Rhonda Garelick (Department of English, University of Nebraska)
“Mythic Disruption: Coco Chanel on the Modernist Stage”
Jacqueline Labbe (Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK) (Fall 2008)
"Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the Lyrical Ballads of 1797-1798"
The Third Annual CBIS “Gathering of Scholars” (Fall 2007)
“Questions of Affect: Emotion and Sensation”
Jill Campbell (Yale), “The Affect of Instruction: Maria Edgeworth’s Didactic Appeal”
Steven Goldsmith (Department of English, University of California, Berkeley): “Impasse and Magic: Criticism and the Work of Emotion”
Jeff Nunokawa (Department of English, Princeton University): “Old Wine, New Bottle: Victorian Feelings, Contemporary Forms”
Alan Richardson (Boston College): “The Romantic Image, the Reader’s Eye, and the History of the Senses”
Ben Singer (Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison): “A Taxonomy of Pathos”
Kristina Straub (Carnegie Mellon University): “‘More Friendship than Honesty’: Amy and Roxana Revisited”
Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
February 23 and 24, 2007
www.colorado.edu/comparativeliterature/literaryodysseys/
The Second Annual CBIS “Gathering of Scholars” (Summer 2006)
“The Future of Romanticism”
Symposium titles: “Bodies and Things,” “Engaged Romanticism,” “Communal Romanticism,” “Empire and Slavery: Is Romanticism Transatlantic, Global, Cosmopolitan?”
Julie Carlson (Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lynn Festa (Department of English, Harvard University)
Michael Gamer (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Sonia Hofkosh (Department of English, Tufts University)
J. Jennifer Jones (Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Greg Kucich (Department of English, Notre Dame Universtiy)
Debbie Lee (Department of English, Washington State University)
Harriet Kramer-Linkin (Department of English, New Mexico State University)
Mark Lussier (Department of English, Arizona State University)
Anne Mellor (Departments of English and Women Studies (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chuck Rzepka (Department of English, Boston University)
Daniel White (Department of English, University of Toronto)
First Annual CBIS “Gathering of Scholars” (Fall 2005)
“Two Centuries of Things”
Lynn Festa (Department of English, Harvard University): “Property, Theft, Dog Taxes, and the Deviant Thing”
Sonia Hofkosh (Department of English, Tufts University): “‘And on her Dulcimer she Played’: Things that Matter”
John Plotz (Department of English, Brandeis University): “India”s First Strawberries: Portable Property at Work in Victoria’s Empire”