Images of London: Workshop at York

Posted in conferences (to attend) by Editor on November 23, 2010

London Scenes: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, 4 December 2010

Organizers: Alison O’Byrne, John Barrell, and Mark Hallett

London Scenes will bring together academics from a range of disciplines – including English, History of Art, Cultural Geography, and Urban Studies – in order to examine sequences of images of the metropolis in the long eighteenth century. The workshop format will allow for maximum discussion, with speakers giving brief, 10-minute papers on a particular sequence, followed by 20 minutes for general discussion. Over the course of the day, we will be considering the representation of London in works by artists including Francis Place, William Hogarth, Samuel Scott, Paul and Thomas Sandby, Edward Pugh, JMW Turner, Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, George Scharf, George Cruikshank, and John Tallis. In bringing together speakers and participants with a diverse range of interests from different disciplines, we hope to shed new light on how the city was represented in this period, and what broader implications this might have for our understanding of eighteenth-century culture. We are especially interested in considering whether or not we can begin to describe the development of a tradition of representing the city in visual sequences in this period.

Programme
9:45 Registration
10:00 Amy Todman ( Glasgow): “Vivarium Grenovicanum: Francis Place’s Views in and around the Royal Observatory”
10:30 Mark Hallett ( York): “Hogarth’s Vision of London”
11:00 Markman Ellis (Queen Mary): “Samuel Scott’s Thameside River Views, 1746-1764”
11:30 John Bonehill ( Glasgow): “‘The centre of pleasure and magnificence’: Paul and Thomas Sandby’s London”
12:00 coffee
12:15 John Barrell ( York): “Edward Pugh in Modern London”
12:45 Stephen Daniels (Nottingham): “The New Meridian: Turner and Greenwich”
1:15 Lunch
2:15 Jon Mee ( Warwick): “‘Mutual intercourse’ and ‘licentious discussion’ in The Microcosm of London, 1808-1811”
2:45 Alison O’Byrne ( York): “George Scharf’s London”
3:15 John Bowen ( York): “Cruickshank and Boz”
3:45 Elizabeth Grant (RIBA): “John Tallis’s London Street Views”
4:15 Closing comments and discussion
4:30 End of conference.