William and Mary/ St Andrews Biennial Symposium
(Re) Imagine
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March 5th-7th
William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Re(Imagine) is a 3-day symposium hosted by the St Andrews-William & Mary Joint Degree Programme. It is designed to bring together faculty members from both institutions to share current and future research projects and to explore ways in which their various interests might lead to fruitful collaborations.​
Symposium Schedule
All sessions will be held in W&M’s Entrepreneurship Hub
Wednesday
2:00 – 2:30 Welcome
2:30 – 3:30 Session 1
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Asha Hornsby, “Makeshift Maypoles: The Celebration of May 1st aboard Whaling Ships”
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Katie Garner, “Mermaids and Dolphins in Romantic Poetry”
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 5:00 Session 2
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Francesca Sawaya, “Shadows of Empire: Mermaid Ballets in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century”
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Deborah Denenholz Morse, “Haunted Atlantic Waters: Enslavement, Impressment, and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers”
5:30 – 6:30 Reception
6:30 Symposium Dinner (speakers only)
Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Session 3
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Clare Fisher, “Teaching American Civil War Monuments In and Ex Situ”
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Elizabeth Losh, “Public Memory, American Studies, and AI Literacy”
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James J. Fortuna, “(Re)Imagined Communities: Urban Design and Social Planning at the International Expositions of 1939”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 4
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Andrew Edwards “Money and the Making of the American Revolution”
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Brett D. Wilson, “Spectres of Burke”
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Anthony F. Lang, “Today was a Fairy Tale: The Structure of the Fairy Tale, War, and History”
12:30 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 3:30 Session 5
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R. Benedito Ferrão, “Imag(in)ing the Travels of Vamona Navelcar’s Lost Suitcase: The Impossibility of Nation in The Destination is the Journey”
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Suzanne Hagedorn, “Wonder Women: Re-Imagining Amazon Warriors in Medieval Literature”
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee
3:45 – 4:45 Session 6
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Kim Wheatley, “Re-envisioning Romanticism: A Twentieth-Century Version of Percy Bysshe Shelley”
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Alison Beach, “Reimaging Disability in Premodern Europe”
5:00 Informal Dinner Reservation (Precarious Beer Hall, all are welcome)
Friday
9:00 – 10:30 Session 7
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Arthur Knight, “The W&M Anthologies-Canons Lab: A Two-Year Progress Report”
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Ian Smith, “Through Student Eyes: Creativity in the Curriculum
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David A. Jaeger, “Re-Imagining the Relationship between Research Excellence and Teaching Outcomes”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Concluding Roundtable Discussion: Reimaging Our Collaboration
About the Symposium
The theme of the symposium is ‘(re)imagine.’ Our Programme has celebrated a significant milestone of the tenth graduating class. This symposium theme invites us to reflect and (re)imagine our collaboration and inspires thoughts of renovation, of rejuvenation, of collaborative vision and creativity. Our Joint Degree Programme, which consists in a meeting of different pedagogies and a bringing together of diverse disciplines and research subjects, is a vehicle for imaginative and creative thinking. We invite proposals on this theme from across the participating and supporting disciplines of the joint degree programme: Classics, Economics, English, History, International Relations, Film Studies, and Modern Languages.
Colleagues are invited to interpret the theme as best suits their research interests and are encouraged to think across interdisciplinary boundaries about the ways in which the themes of imagination, vision, inspiration, growth, and change, either individual or collective, might take their own research in new directions and inspire further collaborations across our institutions. We would also be very pleased to receive proposals dealing with approaches to teaching, particularly issues related to the Programme itself.
We are not planning to hold any concurrent sessions. We welcome presentations of work at various stages of development, from in-progress to more developed, for 20 minute presentations. We would also be delighted to receive complete panel proposals for sessions from 60 to 90 minutes, especially panels featuring colleagues from both institutions.
There is no conference fee. The Programme will cover travel and accommodation for as many St Andrews faculty as possible within the conference budget.
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