Conference Hosted by the James Hogg Society And

James Hogg and the Romantics

Conference hosted by the James Hogg Society and

Scottish Literature, School of Critical Studies

University of Glasgow

Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st July 2012

Programme

Friday 29 June 2012

No. 4 University Gardens

9.00-9.45 Registration & Teas and Coffees: No. 7 University Gardens 9.45-10.00 Conference Opening: Robin MacLachlan and Kirsteen McCue 10.00-11.00 Valentina Bold: “Intruders and Stray Cattle”: James Hogg and Allan Cunningham Gillian Hughes: Border Bards Together: Hogg, Scott and Leyden Chair: Penny Fielding 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-13.00 Alex Deans: Sin and Sensibility: James Hogg, Charles Campbell and the Romantic Afterlife of Robert Burns Thomas Richardson: ‘Sure sign the times are out o’ tune’: Hogg’s Blackwood’s Writings for 1830 Robert Calder: A Gun called Keppoch and the Tales of the Wars of Montrose. Chair: Holly Faith Nelson 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break { Hogg Edition Advisory Board Meeting for some} 14.30-16.00 Megan Coyer: Medical Culture in the Public Sphere: A Context for James Hogg Sarah Sharp: Hogg’s Murder of Ravens: Storytelling, Community and Posthumous Mutilation in the Short Fiction of James Hogg Fiona Wilson: “To go where maid hath never gone”: Astronomy and Inspiration in Hogg’s Pilgrims of the Sun Chair: Ian Duncan 16.00-16.15 Coffee Break 16.30 Mack Lecture Douglas Gifford: Hogg and the Brontës Chair: Robin MacLachlan 17.45 Drinks Reception & Book launch: No. 7 University Gardens Saturday 30th June 2012

Wolfson Medical Building – Yudowitz Room

10.00-11.00 Silvia Mergenthal: “Every man has proper seasons for reflection”: Growing Old with James Hogg’s Lay Sermons Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker: Hogg’s Sermons in the Age of Romanticism Chair: Suzanne Gilbert 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-13.00 Gerard McKeever: ‘National Aesthetic Chaos in The Three Perils of Women Heather Stewart: "Hogg, Wordsworth, and the English Spectre in Romantic Scotland" Meiko O’Halloran: Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the 1790s Revolution Controversy Chair: Rhona Brown 13.00-14.00 Lunch Break 14.00-15.30 Ian Duncan: Extreme Pastoral: Hogg and Other Animals Amal El-Mohtar: Fairy Schools: Hogg, Coleridge, and the Education of a Nation Penny Fielding: Hogg and the Ghost story Chair: Megan Coyer 15.30-15.45 Coffee Break 15.45- 16.45 Robin MacLachlan: James Hogg and the ‘Decay’ of Romantic Drama Barbara Leonardi: James Hogg, The Profligate Princes and the Economic Value of Women’s Chastity Chair: Sharon Alker 17.00- Hogg Society General Meeting & Panel Discussion of new Hogg developments 19.30 Conference dinner at Òran Mór on Byres Road

Sunday 1st July 2012

10.00- Departure for trip to Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (Special session with Museum Curator Amy Miller & Lunch) Return to Glasgow University around 17.00