<p> James Hogg and the Romantics</p><p>Conference hosted by the James Hogg Society and</p><p>Scottish Literature, School of Critical Studies</p><p>University of Glasgow</p><p>Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st July 2012</p><p>Programme</p><p>Friday 29 June 2012</p><p>No. 4 University Gardens</p><p>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</p><p>Wolfson Medical Building – Yudowitz Room</p><p>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</p><p>Sunday 1st July 2012</p><p>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</p>