PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 15TH MAY 2003

09:00 - 9:30 Registration

09:30 - 12:15 Panel 1: Modernism and Early Fiction

Evelyn Waugh’s Stance Regarding Modernism
Dámaso López García
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Lewisian Elements in Waugh’s Early Fiction
Noelia Domínguez Carballo
Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)

The Sacramental Aesthetic from Hopkins to Waugh
Patrick Query
Loyola University, Chicago (USA)

A Handful of Dust: The Development of Tony Last from Outcast to Explorer
Francisco González
Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

Waugh Among the Pre-Raphaelites
Steven D. Scott
Brock University (Canada)

The Affective Fallacy: Emma Bovary’s and Brenda Last’s Unbalanced Reception
Maria Luisa Lázaro Larraz
Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)

12.15 Coffee break

12:30 - 13:45 Plenary lecture:
Helena in Room 101: The Sum of Truth in Waugh and Orwell
George McCartney
St. John’s University (USA)

13:45 Lunch

15:00 - 17:20 Panel 2: Travel and biography.

Evelyn Waugh, Biographer
Alain Blayac
Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3 (France)

Fictionalising Memory: A Little Learning
Gabriel Insausti
Universidad de Navarra (Spain)

Mexico Imagined: Evelyn Waugh's Robbery Under Law and the Lessons of Mexican Travel
Dan S. Kostopulos
Arkansas School for Mathematics & Sciences (USA)

“Not a Man for Whom I Ever Had Esteem”: Evelyn Waugh on Winston Churchill
John Howard Wilson
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Waugh, Powell, and Hollywood
Lisa Colletta
Boston University (USA)

17:30 – 19:00 Plenary lecture:
Sword of Honour, the Invention of Disillusion
Alan Munton
University of Plymouth (UK)

19:00 - 20:30 Presentation and screening of the film
Sword of Honour (I)

20:30 Dinner

21:15 - 22:30 Sword of Honour (II)

       

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