Anthony Burgess: Life, Work, Reputation Programme
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Burgess Foundation
- 2nd May 2017
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- Blog Posts
SUNDAY 2 JULY 2017
19:00: Welcome Event and Drinks Reception
Join us at the Burgess Foundation for the launch of The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess.
MONDAY 3 JULY 2017
8:30-9:00: Registration (Coffee/Tea)
9:00-10:00: Panel 1
- Simon Johnson, ‘The Beautiful Belle Burgess: A Biographical Study of Elizabeth Burgess’
- Will Carr, ‘Anthony Burgess’s Blackpool’
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:10: Panel 2
- Nicholas Rankin, ‘Burgess in Gibraltar’
- Paul Phillips, ‘Enduring Visions, from Battlements to Byrne’
11:10-11:20: Break
11:20-12:20 Panel 3
- Siti Saridah Adenan, ‘Lethargic Empire: Boredom in Burgess’s Malayan Novels’
- Matthew Whittle, ‘Culture, Corruption and the “Colour Problem”: The Right to an Answer’
12:20-12:30: Break
12:30-13:30: Panel 4
- Martin Kratz, ‘Anthony Burgess and Creative Writing’
- Alexandra Spencer-Jones, ‘Directing Action to the Word’s A Clockwork Orange’
13:30-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00: Coach to Whitworth Gallery
14:15-15:15: Curator Tour of Burgess Exhibition at Whitworth Gallery
15:30-16:30: Tour of Xaverian College
17:00: Reception at Manchester University and talk from the President of the University.
TUESDAY 4 JULY 2017
8:30-9:00: Registration (Coffee/Tea)
9:00-10:00: Panel 1
- Jim Clarke, ‘Unwriting Anthony Burgess: From Avatars to Metafiction’
- Benet Vincent, ‘Burgess and Belmont: Recreating Nadsat in French’
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:10: Panel 2
- Andrew Biswell, ‘New Discoveries in the Burgess Archive’
- Amaury Garcia, ‘Autobiographical Abjection: F.X. Enderby as Anthony Burgess’s Residue’
11:10-11:20: Break
11:20-12:20 Panel 3
- Paul Howard, ‘If You Want to Know Rome You Have to Read Him’: Belli, Burgess and Garioch
- Graham Foster, ‘Orpheus in Rome: Classical Literature in Anthony Burgess’s Beard’s Roman Women’
12:20-12:30: Break
12:30-13:30: Panel 4
- Ewa Rychter, ‘The Great Game: Rome, Christianity and Britain in Kingdom of the Wicked’
- Paul Wake, ‘Beauty being preferable to scholarship’: Fact as Fiction in Burgess’s Shakespearean Writings
13:30-14:30: Lunch Break
14:30-15:30: Panel 5
- Regina Seiwald, ‘Metafiction in Anthony Burgess’s The End of the World News’
- Jonathan Mann, ‘Take then or leave this lump of minor art’: A Critical History of The Collected Poems of Anthony Burgess
15:30-15:40: Break
15:40-16:40: Panel 6
- Jess Roberts, ‘The Meaning of Medicine in The Doctor is Sick’
- Simon Rennie, ‘Sick Doctors: The Spin and Drift of Linguistic Picaresque’
16:40-16:50: Break
16:50-17:50: Jonathon Green, ‘AB & Z: Anthony Burgess’s Slang Dictionary’
19:30 – Concert: The World Was Once All Miracle at Bridgewater Hall
WEDNESDAY 5 JULY 2017
8:30-9:00: Registration (Coffee/Tea)
9:00-10:00: Panel 1
- Matthew Gear, ‘Anthony Burgess and Orson Welles: Hackwork and Bricolage’
- Christopher Thurley, ‘Grits, Pornography, Epiphanies, and PhDs: Anthony Burgess in Chapel Hill’
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:10: Panel 2
- Joe Darlington, ‘The Reviewer as Advocate’
- Sean Gregory, ‘No End to Anthony: Burgess’s Discourse with Other Writers and Their Work’
11:10-11:20: Break
11:20-12:20 Panel 3
- Ben Masters, ‘”Glamour and Grammar”: The Influence of Vladimir Nabokov on Anthony Burgess’
- William Hutchings, ‘Looking Back AT Anger: Burgess versus the Angry Young Men’
12:20-13:00: Film Screening: An Interview with Liana Burgess.
13:00-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-15:00: Panel 4
- Raymond Yiu, ‘Composing The World Was Once All Miracle’
- Christine Gengaro, ‘Making Explicit What Nature Leaves Implicit: Anthony Burgess as Musical Pedagogue’
15:00-15:10: Break
15:10-16:10: Panel 5
- Rob Spence, ‘Tracing Anthony Burgess’s Reputation at Home and Abroad’
- Alan Shockley, ‘Literary Music and Musical Literature: Anthony Burgess’s Work and Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy’
16:10-16:20: Break
16:20-17:20: Akos Farkas, ‘Piercing the Iron Curtain: Burgess and East-Central Europe’
19:00: Concert and Reception.
World Premiere of Anthony Burgess, Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor (1951). By musicians from No Dice Collective.
Please note: this programme is subject to change before the event.