The 1st International Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference
Northumbria University and the Lit & Phil, 5-7 November 2015
Conference Programme
Thursday 5th November: Lit & Phil
12-1pm Registration with coffee
1pm Welcome
1:15pm Panel 1: Global Reception
Peter Budrin (University of Toronto, Canada): ‘“Fates of People Reflect the Sense or Nonsense of History”: Laurence Sterne and Soviet Literary Scholars of the 1930s’
Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pécs, Hungary): ‘“Let them have their hundred times more precious Shandy”: Hungarian Sterne Scholarship in the 1950s’
Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland): ‘Poland’s Finest Sternean: Izabela Czartoryska (1746-1835) as Translator and Promoter of Sterne’
2:45pm Coffee
3:15pm Panel 2: (Absent) Bodies
Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Sterne and Consumptive Self-Fashioning’
Ashleigh Blackwood (Northumbria University, UK): ‘The “poison of novels” and“True Shandeism”: Imprints ofBooks on the Body in Eighteenth-CenturyReading Cultures’
Helen Williams (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Fictional Characters and Grave Tourism: Sterne’s Maria and Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple’
4:45pm Keynote address
Dr Tim Parnell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
‘Sterne and mid-century fiction: the “vast empire of biographical freebooters” and the “crying volume”’
Friday 6th November: Lit & Phil
9am Roundtable: Social Networks
Peter de Voogd (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
W.B. Gerard (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA) [by proxy]
Paul Goring (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
M-C. Newbould (University of Cambridge, UK)
Helen Williams (Northumbria University, UK)
10:45am Coffee
11:15am Panel 3: Philosophies
Christopher Ewers (King’s College London, UK): ‘“Motion most rapid”: Sterne, speed and Tristram Shandy’
Kazuki Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Japan): ‘Attrition and Property in Tristram Shandy’
Geoff Newton (independent scholar, UK): ‘David Hartley and Laurence Sterne’
12:45pm Lunch
1:40pm Address from the President
Peter de Voogd (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands): ‘The Shandean and the Foundation: a short history’
2pm Panel 4: Sterne’s Publics: Authors, Advertising and Public Judgment
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): ‘This year was published: novel advertisements in the British newspapers of 1768’
Alexander Hardie-Forsyth (University of York, UK): ‘Sterne’s Drama of Commerce’
Allan Ingram (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Lost at Sea: Silence, Omission, Space in the Age of Sterne’
3:30pm Coffee
4pm Panel 5: Shandean Humour
Richard Terry (Northumbria University, UK): ‘Epistolary Shandyism’
Flavio Gregori (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy): ‘Tristram Shandy’s gentle dégrisement and the comedy of the self’
Paul Goring (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) ‘Musical catches and the singing nuns of Andoüillets’
5:30pm Keynote address
Prof James Raven (Magdalene College, Cambridge and University of Essex, UK)
‘“It was only a joke”: jests in the age of Sterne’
7pm Conference dinner: Blackfriars
Saturday 7th November: Boardroom One, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University
9am Panel 5: Self and Performance in Tristram Shandy
Joanna Maciulewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): ‘Tristram Shandy as a literary biography’
Maria Laudando (University of Naples, Italy): ‘The ‘“Theatre” of Social and Sexual Acculturation in Tristram Shandy’
10am Coffee
10:30am Panel 6: Philanthropy, Abolition and Sentiment
Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University, Ireland): ‘“So large a share of philanthropy”: The Nonsense Club and a Sternean William Cowper’
Brycchan Carey (Kingston University, UK): ‘Ignatius Sancho, Shirna Cambo, and a friendless poor negro-girl: Sterne and Slavery’
M-C. Newbould (University of Cambridge, UK): ‘Remarkable “Papillotes”: Some scrap-papers for exploring Sterne’s reception’
12pm Lunch
1pm Keynote address
Prof Judith Hawley (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
‘The Book as Object in Tristram Shandy’
2pm Closing remarks