Library Day at the Lit and Phil
Wednesday February 18 2015
This
symposium may be of interest to those of you working on eighteenth- and nineteenth-
century topics,
with an interest in the history of reading/sociable societies more
generally, or anyone who would like to get a closer look at the holdings
of the L&P. The programme is attached. The symposium is free to
attend but if attendees wish to attend lunch they need
to pre-register with the L&P by the evening of Monday February 16th
(so the caterer has final numbers). If they wish only to attend
papers/coffee they have until Tuesday evening. The email address to use
to register is: library@litandphil.org.uk
Programme:
12-1pm
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Lunch (in the Loftus Room)
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Session 1
(Lecture Room)
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1pm
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Opening remarks and welcome: Paul Gailunas (L&P)
and Jon Mee (York)
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1.05-1.45pm
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David Stewart (Northumbria)
‘ “Conflicting and yet commingling
temperaments”: Byronic Adventures in the Lit & Phil'
Chair: Paul Gailiunas (L&P)
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Session 2
(Lecture Room)
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1.45-2.30pm
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Paul
Gailiunas (L&P) ‘The Rotheram Family’
Chris
Calver (L&P) ‘The Thomlinson Library’
Richard
Sharp (L&P) ‘Robert Spence Watson’
Chair: Jon Mee (York)
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2.30-3pm
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Coffee/Tea break
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Session 3
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3pm-3.45pm
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Hannah Humes (Northumbria)
‘A Protestant Pioneer: The Reverend
Robert Morrison, China and the Lit and Phil’
Patrick Low (Sunderland)
‘Capital Punishment, Phrenology and the Lit and
Phil: The Curious Case of the “Bumpologist” Mayor, John Fife’
Chair: David Stewart
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3.45-4.30pm
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Archival Handling Session
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Session 4:
Keynote (Lecture Room)
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4.30-5pm
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Professor Jon Mee (York)
‘John Clennell, Missionary of
Improvement: Newcastle, Perth, and Hackney’
Chair: Paul Gailiunas
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5pm
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Closing
remarks and wine reception
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