9am            Registration

 

9:45am        Welcome Address

                  Ian Bell (Director of the Research Institute for Humanities, Keele University)

 

10am             Keynote

                      Chair: David Amigoni (Keele University)

 

                      Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London)

                  'Always reminding us of the body': J.A. Symonds on the Fine Arts

                  

11am           Coffee

 

11:15am        Panel 1: Symonds and philosophy

                  Chair: Howard J. Booth (University of Manchester)

 

                       Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley)

                       Hegel, Symonds and Homoerotic Spirit in Renaissance Art

 

                       Colin Tyler (University of Hull)

                       J.A. Symonds, T.H. Green, Walt Whitman, 'brotherhood' and 'manly love'

     

                       Ranald Macdonald (University of Aberdeen)

                       As he deified Nature, so he emancipated man':

                       the importance of Giordano Bruno for John Addington Symonds

 

12:45pm       Lunch

 

1:30pm          Panel 2: Criticism, contemporaries and influence

                  Chair: Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London)

 

                  Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London)

                       Vernon Lee's 'A Wedding Chest' and John Addington Symonds

 

                  Alex Murray (University of Exeter)

                  John Addington Symonds and Decadent Vitalism

 

                       Kathy Rees (Anglia Ruskin University)

                      John Addington Symonds: A Ghostly Presence in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son?

 

                      Odin Dekkers (Radboud University Nijmegen)

                      Symonds as Scientific Literary Critic

 

3pm            Tea

 

3:15pm         Panel 3: Masculinities and sexualities

                 Chair: David Amigoni (Keele University)

 

                 Sean Brady (Birkbeck, University of London)

                     John Addington Symonds and British Masculinity before the First World War

                   

                 Avril Buchanan (University College Cork)

                    If the 'Greeks were but children' then the Renaissance was man:

                     John Addington Symonds’ depiction of the Renaissance

 

                 Andrew Dakyns (Independent Scholar)

                     'That Apprehensive yet Courageous Look':

                     J.A. Symonds's Soldier Love and Related Matter 

 

4:45pm       Wine Reception

                     Musical Accompaniment (on CD): Love Voice Op.22 - A Song Cycle and At Malvern Op.24

                     Music by Ian Venables. Words by John Addington Symonds.

                     Recorded by Andrew Kennedy (tenor) and Iain Burnside (piano) on the Naxos label.

                     The English Song Series No 21 (8.572514)

 

                 Introduction by Ian Venables.

 

5:30pm         Keynote

                     Chair: Amber K. Regis (Keele University)

 

                     Howard J. Booth (University of Manchester)

                     Symonds, form and the gaze

 

6:30pm       Close