October 5-7, 2005
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
This conference will examine the fixed stars of Ted Hughes scholarship—those major issues and themes which, from our current vantage point, have taken more definite shape and which promise to guide future study of Hughes’ life and work. The conference will include invited papers from leading Ted Hughes scholars as well as papers from newer voices in Hughes studies. Sessions will be devoted to Ted Hughes and tradition, Hughes and translation, Hughes in America, Hughes’ mythic landscape, the primitivism of Hughes, and his ecological vision.
This conference is made possible with the support of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, the English Department, the Office of International Affairs, the Hightower Fund, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
An exhibition drawn from the Ted Hughes archive and library and from other recently acquired collections will be on view in MARBL. More details..
Full conference details, including the latest conference updates and information on accommodations, will be available on this web page. For general information about visiting the Emory Campus and local accommodations please see The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book website: http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Visiting/visiting.html
Conference organizing committee:
Professor Ronald Schuchard, Department of English, Emory
Professor Joanny Moulin, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille, France
Dr. Steve Enniss, Director, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 5th
6:00-7:30 Keynote address by Craig Raine , poet, and founder and editor of the literary magazine Arete, Jones Room, Robert W. Woodruff Library
7:30-9:30 Exhibition Opening, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, 10th Floor, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Thursday, October 6th
Sessions 1-8 will be held in the Jones Room on the 3 rd floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library
8:30-9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 Session One, Moderator: Joanny Moulin (Université de Provence)
Ronald Schuchard (Emory University), “Hughes and Eliot: Possession”
Brendan Corcoran (Indiana State University), “ Gathering and Casting: Heaney's Hughes”
BREAK
10:30-12:00 Session Two, Moderator: Ann Skea,
Daniel Weissbort (Warwick University), “Ted Hughes and Translation”
Anne-Marie Tatham (University of Grenoble), “A Peculiar Frisson: A Study of Metamorphosis in Hughes’s Tales from Ovid”
Vincent Broqua (University of Paris 12), “Capturing Shakespeare’s Spirit”
LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:00 Session Three, Moderator: Terry Gifford (University of Leeds)
Gavin Drummond (The Westminster Schools), “Ted Hughes’s Memory”
Marlene Briggs (University of British Columbia), “‘The Shock of Massacre’: Ted Hughes, the First World War, and (Post) Memorial Poetics”
Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College), “The War Remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes ”
BREAK
3:30-5:00 Session Four, Moderator: Karen V. Kukil (Smith College)
Diane Middlebrook (Stanford University), "Hughes, Plath, and Three Caryatids"
Melissa Maday (Emory University), “Ted Hughes in America ”
Andy Armitage (Victoria University), “The Birthday Letters Myth”
7:00 Theater Emory & Out of Hand Theater co-produce Ted Hughes’s version of Euripides’ Alcestis, Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center
Friday, October 7th
8:30-10:00 Session Five, Moderator: Neil Roberts (University of Sheffield)
Joanny Moulin (Université de Provence), “Ted Hughes and the Romantic Ideology”
Roger Rees (University of Edinburgh), “Between Monarchy and Democracy: Ted Hughes’s Rain Charm for the Duchy”
Terry Gifford (University of Leeds), “The Ecology of Ted Hughes: Wolfwatching—the Final Poetic Statement”
BREAK
10:30-12:00 Session Six, Moderator: Rand Brandes (Lenoir-Rhyne College)
Anthony Cuda (Emory University), “The Tramp”
Carol Bere (Professional Writer and Independent Scholar), “Artistic Inspiration, Mysterious Power: Ted Hughes and the Notion of Duende”
Ann Skea (Independent Scholar), “Creatures of Light”
LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:00 Session Seven, Moderator: Ron Schuchard (Emory University)
Rand Brandes (Lenoir-Rhyne College), “Mercury in Taurus: W.B. Yeats and Ted Hughes”
Astrid Appels (Vrije Universiteit), “Intermediality in the Poetry of Ted Hughes”
Neil Roberts (University of Sheffield), “For 'From the Life and Songs of the Crow' ”
BREAK
3:30-5:00 Session Eight, Moderator: Caroline Hall (Pennsylvania State University)
Lissa Paul (Brock University), “Flexible Immunity: Contemporary Culture and the Better Kind of Folk Tale”
Claas Kazzer (Independent Scholar), “Family Relations—Traces of a Cosmology in Ted Hughes’s Creation Tales”
Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev (Authors), “His Life in Inscriptions: Ted Hughes’s Library as a Biographical Tool”
Registration Form:
Download the Ted Hughes conference registration form (requires the free download of the Adobe Reader program)
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