Department of English Studies, University of Stirling 
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling
From Ettrick to Empire :
New Perspectives in James Hogg Studies
A Conference, 7-9 August 2007
Plenary Address: Ian Duncan (UC, Berkeley)
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Highlights include:
• Teaching Confessions - A pedagogical workshop on Hogg's seminal novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – led by Adrian Hunter (Stirling), editor of Confessions for Broadview Press (2001), and Scott Hames, lecturer (Stirling) – assisted by international delegates offering their experience of teaching Confessions (sponsored by the English Subject Centre)
• National Hoggs – a theoretical exploration led by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming), author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Reception of Hogg – led by Suzanne Gilbert (Stirling), co-editor of Queen Hynde (Edinburgh UP, 1998) and editor of The Mountain Bard (Edinburgh UP, forthcoming) for the Stirling/South Carolina Edition, with Valentina Bold (Glasgow, Crichton Campus), author of James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2007)
A special session of the Carnegie-funded STAR reading group exploring ‘Hogg's Fiction and the Transatlantic World'.
‘Hogg and Scottish Song', led by Kirsteen McCue (Glasgow), including a performance of some of Hogg's songs from The Forest Minstrel performed by members of the Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
Stirling University Library holds an important collection of Hogg manuscripts and books and a special event is planned where Douglas Mack, along with Ms Helen Beardsley, Acting Senior Subject Librarian will highlight this ‘hidden' treasure.
Official launch of the James Hogg Research Website.
All enquiries to: ‘James Hogg Conference', Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK. FK9 4LA Tel: +44 (0) 1786 467495
Email: jameshogg.conference@stir.ac.uk
From Ettrick to Empire : New Perspectives in James Hogg Studies
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Full Conference Registration is £150 – concessionary rate available at £99 (unwaged & non-funded delegates).Registration includes conference fee, lunch, all refreshments, buffet reception on Tuesday 7 August and closing wine reception.
Please note: Evening meal on Wednesday 8 August is not included. A listing of local eateries will be included in the conference pack.
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‘James Hogg Conference’
Department of English Studies
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Plenary Speaker
Ian Duncan, Chair of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, will address new perspectives of Hogg's seminal novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Professor Duncan is a leading scholar in Scottish Studies and, more broadly, in nineteenth-century British literature. His first book, Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (recently reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press, 2005) demonstrated the significance of the persistence of romance narrative forms in the development of the nineteenth-century realist novel. His second book, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (forthcoming by Princeton University Press, 2007) is a study of Scott, his contemporaries, and cultural production in early nineteenth-century Scotland. His co-edited books include Scott, Scotland and Romantic Nationalism (a special issue of Studies in Romanticism, 2001); Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2004). He has published extensively on the historical novel, Romanticism, the Scottish Enlightenment, modern Scottish literature, Darwin, and the 18th-century ‘romance revival', and of course, on Hogg.
Critical praise for his Stirling/South Carolina edition of Winter Evening Tales (2001; paperback 2006):
For students of Hogg, of Scottish literature, of romanticism, and of the tale collection as a form, it counts as 'essential reading' — Richard Maxwell, Valparaiso University
With an erudite introduction and exceptional editing by Ian Duncan, this instalment boasts some of Hogg's best work – macabre story “The Long Pack” and weirdly brilliant “Connel of Dee”. — The Scotsman
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For details of how to get to Stirling University and Campus maps, click here http://www.external.stir.ac.uk/students/campus_info/getting_here/index.php
There are many B&Bs, Guest Houses and Hotels close to the Conference venue. Check out the websites of Stirling Tourist Board and VisitScotland for a full range of accommodation. For example, Holiday Inn Express (15 minutes drive) offer room rates (with breakfast) from £70.
Visit Scotland Website at http://www.visitscottishheartlands.com/areas/stirling
Stirling Tourist Board at http://www.stirling-tourism.co.uk
Holiday Inn Express, Stirling http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/siruk
Website of Abbotsford http://www.scottsabbotsford.co.uk
