Enfilade

The Visual and the Verbal in the Eighteenth Century
University of Kent, 5 November 2010

Sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre

The conference is being organised in conjunction with the exhibition In Elysium: Prints by James Barry, co-curated by Ben Thomas and Jon Kear. The conference will conclude with a drinks reception and exhibition viewing. Attendance at the conference, reception and exhibition is free but spaces are limited to 50. Please contact Jennie Batchelor (J.E.Batchelor@kent.ac.uk) to reserve a place. Places will be allocated in order of date of application.

Programme
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Jenny Uglow (Kent), ‘Hogarth and Fielding: an Irregular Alliance’
10:00-11:00 Peter de Bolla (King’s College, Cambridge), ‘The Necessity of Judgement’
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea break
11:30-12:30 John Barrell (York), ‘War and the Moral Economy in North East Wales, 1794’
12:30-13:30 Lunch (provided for speakers only)
13:30-14:30 Harriet Guest (York), ‘The Death of James Cook and the American Crisis’
14:30-15:30 Michael Rosenthal (Warwick), ‘Describing the Colony: The British in New Holland, c. 1788-1823’
15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break
16:00-17:00 Michael Phillips (York), ‘No. 36 Castle Street East: A Reconstruction of James Barry’s House, Painting and Printmaking Studio’
17:30 Drinks reception and viewing of the exhibition In Elysium: Prints by James Barry