The Making of Landscapes in Modernity A workshop at the University of St Andrews, 10th-11th May 2012 New Seminar Room, South Street Thursday, 10th May: 1430-1500: Arrival 1500-1515: Welcome (James Koranyi) 1515-1645: Panel 1: Discovering the sublime (Chair: Bernhard Struck) Simon Halink (Groningen): In the Absence of Europe: Romantic Nationalism, Eddic Mythology, and the Repaganization of the Icelandic Mind, 1830-1944 Martina Kopf (Mainz): The Alpine Landscape: The Power of a Literary Construct Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė (Leipzig): Terra Incognita Landscape Images of the Curonian Spit – 1645-1700: Tea/coffee 1700: Keynote Lecture Tricia Cusack: Naturalising the Nation: Myth and Modernity in Painted – Riverscapes 1930: Dinner (Pizza Express) Friday, 11th May: 0930-1100: Panel 2: Travel (Chair: Aileen Fyfe) Sarah Benneh-Oberschewen (Duisburg/Essen): Heap of Huts’: City and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial ‘A Africa and Their Reflection in European Travelogues Robert MacKinnon (Aberystwyth): may well be explored by car, or better, by aeroplane, but ‘France Great Britain demands a slower means of locomotion’: Towards a moral politics of landscape encounter through the 1930s travel literature of SP Mais Martin Walter (Bochum): the Beginning There Was a Coal Pit’: Discovering Industrial Landscapes ‘In in Interwar Britain and Weimar Germany in the Travel Reports of H. V. Morton, J. B. Priestly and Heinrich Hauser
The Making of Landscapes in Modernity A workshop at the University of St Andrews, 10th-11th May 2012 New Seminar Room, South Street Thursday, 10th May: 1430-1500: Arrival 1500-1515: Welcome (James Koranyi) 1515-1645: Panel 1: Discovering the sublime (Chair: Bernhard Struck) Simon Halink (Groningen): In the Absence of Europe: Romantic Nationalism, Eddic Mythology, and the Repaganization of the Icelandic Mind, 1830-1944 Martina Kopf (Mainz): The Alpine Landscape: The Power of a Literary Construct Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė (Leipzig): Terra Incognita – Landscape Images of the Curonian Spit 1645-1700: Tea/coffee 1700: Keynote Lecture – Tricia Cusack: Naturalising the Nation: Myth and Modernity in Painted Riverscapes 1930: Dinner (Pizza Express) Friday, 11th May: 0930-1100: Panel 2: Travel (Chair: Aileen Fyfe) Sarah Benneh-Oberschewen (Duisburg/Essen): ‘A Heap of Huts’: City and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial Africa and Their Reflection in European Travelogues Robert MacKinnon (Aberystwyth): ‘France may well be explored by car, or better, by aeroplane, but Great Britain demands a slower means of locomotion’: Towards a moral politics of landscape encounter through the 1930s travel literature of SP Mais Martin Walter (Bochum): ‘In the Beginning There Was a Coal Pit’: Discovering Industrial Landscapes in Interwar Britain and Weimar Germany in the Travel Reports of H. V. Morton, J. B. Priestly and Heinrich Hauser
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