Schedule
DAY ONE – 24 JULY: Romanticism and Aesthetics – Critical Reflections on Art, Culture, and Nature
8:45-9:00 OPENING REMARKS: Shelley King and Michael DiSanto (WAT 517)
9:00-10:00 PLENARY I: JOHN BAXTER, Dalhousie University, The Aristotle-Coleridge Axis Revisited (WAT 517)
10:00-10:15 DEDICATION OF THE GEORGE WHALLEY LOUNGE and REFRESHMENTS (WAT 440)
10:15-11:25 CONCURRENT PANELS
I THE ART OF SUFFERING - Moderator: Drew MacDonald (WAT 406)
EMMA McCLURE, University of Toronto, Under the Influence: Lyrical Ballads and Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater
KATIE HUNT, Queen’s University, Sense and the Revisions of Coleridge’s “The Pains of Sleep”
II REPRESENTING THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY - Moderator: Irene Mangoutas (WAT 517)
GLENN WILLMOTT, Queen’s University, Blood in the Blue Lagoon: Byron and the Politics of Wonder
SAMANTHA BERNSTEIN, York University, The View from Here: Picturesque Aesthetics in the 21st Century
NATASHA DUQUETTE, Tyndale University College,“Beauteous Dyes”: Variegation in Phillis Wheatley’s Aesthetics
II THE ARTIST AS AESTHETICIAN - Moderator: Jeffrey Dzogola (WAT 401)
SHELLEY KING, Queen’s University,“Seeing Pictures”: Amelia Opie’s “Recollections of a Visit to Paris in 1802”
JON DeTOMBE, Queen’s University, Robert Lowth, Christopher Smart, and the Hebrew Sublime
KALIN SMITH, McMaster University, The Poet as Detective: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery Narrative
11:30-12:15 CONVERSATIONS - Moderator: Jaspreet Tambar (WAT 517)
DAVID PUGH, Queen’s University, With Hans Eichner in search of Friedrich Schlegel's Aesthetics
PAUL MARQUIS, St. Francis Xavier University, Poetry, Aesthetics, and Value in the Works of George Whalley
12:15-1:45 LUNCH - The University Club
1:45-2:45 PLENARY II: WERNER NELL, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Illumination and Enlightenment: Convergences and Differentiation at 1800 (WAT 517)
2:45-3:00 REFRESHMENTS (WAT 440)
3:00-4:30 CONCURRENT PANELS
IV THE ROMANTIC LYRIC AND POETRY - Moderator: Shelley King (WAT 517)
PAUL FRANZ, Yale University, Keats on Not Reading: Aesthetics, Historicism, and the Dilemma of Exploration
JOSHUA STANLEY, Yale University, Technique, “Lyricization,” and Authority in John Keats’s Poetry
LAURA KINDERMAN, Queen’s University, Romantic Elocution and the Music of Lyric
V THE TRUTHS OF BEAUTY - Moderator: Jon DeTombe (WAT 406)
HOPE CUNNINGHAM, Tyndale University College, The Vital Role of Beauty in Human Progress
PATRICIA OPREA, Queen’s University, The Importance of Being Beautiful: Ugliness and the Destruction of the Soul in Frankenstein
KSENIA CHOLY, Tyndale University College, Beauty as a Form of Objective Truth: An Exploration of Platonic and Aristotelian Conceptions of Objective Beauty
4:30-5:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS/DISCUSSION
5:15-6:30 PRINCIPAL’S RECEPTION - The University Club
DAY 2 – 25 JULY: George Whalley, the Man and the Legend
8:45-9:00 OPENING REMARKS: Shelley King and Michael DiSanto (WAT 517)
9:00-9:15 FILM VIEWING: George Whalley Biography (WAT 517)
9:15-10:15 POETRY – Moderator: Steve Lukits (WAT 517)
ALANA FLETCHER, Queen’s University, George Whalley in Context: No Man an Island and Poems 1939-1944
MICHAEL DISANTO, Algoma University, George Whalley: Poems 1933-1982
ROBIN ISARD, Algoma University, MICHAEL DISANTO, and ALANA FLETCHER, Selected Poems of George Whalley: A Digital Edition
10:15-10:30 REFRESHMENTS (WAT 440)
10:30-11:45 BRAVERY AND TRAGEDY – Moderator: Ken Hernden (WAT 517)
TRYGVE BRATTETEIG, Direction-Finding, Leadership, and Vision: Common Elements Among Some Most Uncommon Men
JOHN FERNS, McMaster University, Edgar Christian, John Hornby, and George Whalley: From Unflinching to Death in the Barren Ground
STEVE LUKITS, Royal Military College, Technology Made Flesh in the ‘Crystals of Words’: The Sinking of the Bismarck in Whalley’s Prose and Poetry
11:45-1:00 REFLECTIONS from MICHAEL ONDAATJE, ELIZABETH HAY, and FRED COLWELL
1:00-2:15 LUNCH (University Club)
2:15: Shuttle to HMCS Cataraqui
2:30-3:20 JOHN REEVES, Concerning George Whalley and Radio, and interviewed by MICHAEL ONDAATJE
3:20-3:35 AFTERNOON BREAK (bar opens)
3:35-4:50 A GUIDING HAND - Moderator: Robin Isard
ELIZABETH WHALLEY, The Classicized Imagination: Influences of George Whalley on the Sculpture of Peter Whalley
HENRIK BRAND (CROC E. MOSES), Rhythm without Metaphor – Poetry as a Way of Life
RICHARD JOHNSON, Growing a 'capacity for sustained reflection': George Whalley's classroom
4:50 Shuttle to Confederation Place Hotel
5:00-6:45 SUPPER BREAK
6:45 Shuttle from Confederation Place Hotel to Isabel Bader Centre
7:30 DUO TURGEON PERFORMANCE, ISABEL BADER CENTRE
DAY THREE – 26 JULY: The 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Writers’ Conference
8:45-9:00 OPENING REMARKS: Shelley King and Michael DiSanto (WAT 517)
9:00-9:55 PANEL 1 - Moderator: Michael DiSanto (WAT 517)
ROBERT G. MAY, Queen’s University, The Canadian Authors’ Meet: F.R. Scott at the Kingston Conference
KATHERINE MCLEOD, Concordia University, Whalley, Weaver and Webb: Re-Listening to CBC Radio Literary Programming through the Canadian Writers’ Conference, 1955
9:55-11:10 PANEL 2 - Moderator: Robin Isard (WAT 517)
CHRISTOPHER DOODY, Carleton University, Judging the Judges: An Examination of the Governor General’s Literary Awards 1936-1959
J.A. WEINGARTEN, Concordia University, Paying the Costs of Production: Notes on the Ryerson Chapbook Series
JAMES HAHN, University of Toronto, “It should never have occurred”: A Resistant Reading of Stephen Scobie’s McAlmon’s Chinese Opera
11:10-11:25 REFRESHMENTS
11:25-12:35 DISCUSSION - Writing in Canada Today: Sixty Years after Kingston, 1955 – Moderator: Alana Fletcher (WAT 517)
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, University of Toronto
CAROLYN SMART, Queen’s University
KEN HERNDEN, Algoma University
DEAN IRVINE, Dalhousie University
12:25-1:40 LUNCH (University Club)
1:40-2:30 PANEL 3 - Moderator: J.A. Weingarten (WAT 517)
ROBERT LECKER, McGill University, Authors and Literary Agents in Canada
JANET B. FRISKNEY, English Canada's Publishers Embrace the "Quality Pocket Book": NCL and Its Emulators of the 1960s
2:40-4:00 DISCUSSION: Remembrances of and Reflections on George Whalley (Unievrsity Club - Open to Everyone)