Moorings

A Bulletin of All Things George Moore

No 3 : Summer 2007 Sponsored by the British Academy and the Irish Embassy
For conference website (including booking form) see: http://www.hull.ac.uk/english/events/conferences/George_moore.html

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

	Friday 5 September
9.30 - 10	Registration
10 – 10.15	Welcome
10.15 – 11.15	Keynote 1: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway): ‘George Moore: 75 Years On’
11.15 – 11.30	Refreshments
11.30 – 12.45	Panel 1: The Legacy of The Untilled Field
	Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University): ‘Claypits and Untilled Fields: The Short Fiction of George Moore and Arnold Bennett’ Kirsti Bohata (Swansea University): ‘“Tethered Women in Cow Halters: George Moore's The Untilled Field and Caradoc Evans's My People’ David Wheatley (University of Hull): ‘An Untilled Field: Moore’s Influence on Joyce and Beckett’
12.45 – 1.45	Lunch
1.45 – 3	Panel 2: Sketches and Scores: Visual and Aural Pleasures
	Anna Gruetzner Robins (University of Reading): ‘Impressionism and Confessions of a Young Man’ Mary Pierse (UCC Cork): ‘Reading the Notes, Knowing the Score’ Stoddard Martin (Institute of English Studies, University of London): ‘The Later Moore, Wagner, and Lord Howard de Walden’
3 – 4.15	Panel 3: Influence and Inheritance
	Mark Llewellyn (University of Liverpool): ‘Fathers and Sons: Moore, Gosse, and Joyce’ Irina Ruppo (NUI Galway): The Irish Revival and the End of Days: Ibsen and Moore’ Christine Leeds (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘An Anxiety of Influence?: James Joyce (Not) Reading George Moore’
4.15 – 4.30	Refreshments
4.30 – 5.45	Panel 4: GM and the New Woman: Faith, Fiction, Feminism
	Galia Ofek (Visiting Fellow, University of Hull): ‘Religious Encounters: Moore and the New Woman’ Nathalie Saudo (University of Amiens): ‘“Not fitted for marriage”: “Mildred Lawson” as a New Woman Novel’ Brendan Fleming: ‘George Moore and Frances Mabel Robinson: The New Woman in Fiction and in Practice’
6 – 6.30	Video or free time
	‘A Photographic History of Moore and Moore Hall’ (narrated by Kenelm Gow of Halifax, Nova Scotia, grandson of GM’s sister Nina, 1990), introduced by Cece Miles
6.30 – 7	Wine reception
7	Dinner
8.30-9	After dinner talk by Michele Reardon, Cece Miles, Patricia and Phillip Deane: ‘In Memory of the Moores of Mayo’

	Saturday 6 September
8.45 – 9.15	Day registration (for delegates attending Saturday only)
9.15 – 10.15	Keynote 2: Elizabeth Grubgeld (Oklahoma State University): ‘Gossip, Art, and the Public Secret: Moore on his Contemporaries’
10.15 – 11.30	Panel 5: Censorship, Prefaces and a Pamphlet
	Christine Huguet (Université de Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3): ‘Making History ? Mr George Moore and the British Matron’ Jane Jordan (Kingston University): ‘“Literature at Nurse”: George Moore, Ouida, and Fin-de-Siècle Literary Censorship’ Fabienne Garcier (Université de Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3): ‘Captation benevolentiae: Method and Purpose in George Moore’s Allographic Prefaces and “Dedicatory Epistles”’
11.30 – 11.45	Refreshments
11.45 – 1	Panel 6: Rivals and Revivals
	Michel Brunet (Université de Valenciennes): ‘George Moore and John Eglinton: “We are not reader and writer but something better, we are friends”’ Rania M.R. Khalil (Misr International University): ‘For Fear of the Connoisseur: George Moore and the Irish Plays’ Fiona Brennan (UCC Cork): ‘A Drama of Spiritual Tragegy: Edward Martyn’s Enthusiasm for George Fitzmaurice’s The Pie Dish’
1 - 2	Lunch
2 – 3.15	Panel 7: Bodies and Booze
	Fabienne Gaspari (Université de Pau): ‘“A rough page torn out of life”: Body and Text in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Moore’s Esther Waters’ Katherine Mullin (University of Leeds): ‘“The sort of girl I’d like to see behind the bar of the King’s Head”: Barmaids, vice and censorship in Esther Waters’ Akemi Yoshida (Kitasato University): ‘Female Drinking in George Moore’s A Mummer’s Wife (1884) and George Gissing’s Workers in the Dawn (1880)’
3.15 – 4.30	Panel 8: Moore and Women (Writers)
	Robert Becker: ‘The Voyeur’ María Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universidad de Almería): ‘Alice Barton: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl’ Ann Heilmann (University of Hull): 'George Moore and Kate Chopin’
4.30– 4.45	Refreshments and Vale!

For further details contact:
Professor Ann Heilmann, a.heilmann@hull.ac.uk
or
Dr Mark Llewellyn, m.e.llewellyn@liverpool.ac.uk