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Anthony Burgess: Life, Work, Reputation Programme

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  • 2nd May 2017
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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

 

  1. Simon Johnson, ‘The Beautiful Belle Burgess: A Biographical Study of Elizabeth Burgess’
  2. Will Carr, ‘Anthony Burgess’s Blackpool’

 

10:00-10:10: Break

10:10-11:10: Panel 2

  1. Nicholas Rankin, ‘Burgess in Gibraltar’
  2. Paul Phillips, ‘Enduring Visions, from Battlements to Byrne’

11:10-11:20: Break

11:20-12:20 Panel 3

  1. Siti Saridah Adenan, ‘Lethargic Empire: Boredom in Burgess’s Malayan Novels’
  2. Matthew Whittle, ‘Culture, Corruption and the “Colour Problem”: The Right to an Answer’

12:20-12:30: Break

12:30-13:30: Panel 4

  1. Martin Kratz, ‘Anthony Burgess and Creative Writing’
  2. 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

  1. Jim Clarke, ‘Unwriting Anthony Burgess: From Avatars to Metafiction’
  2. Benet Vincent, ‘Burgess and Belmont: Recreating Nadsat in French’

10:00-10:10: Break

10:10-11:10: Panel 2

  1. Andrew Biswell, ‘New Discoveries in the Burgess Archive’
  2. Amaury Garcia, ‘Autobiographical Abjection: F.X. Enderby as Anthony Burgess’s Residue’

11:10-11:20: Break

11:20-12:20 Panel 3

  1. Paul Howard, ‘If You Want to Know Rome You Have to Read Him’: Belli, Burgess and Garioch
  2. 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

  1. Ewa Rychter, ‘The Great Game: Rome, Christianity and Britain in Kingdom of the Wicked’
  2. 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

  1. Regina Seiwald, ‘Metafiction in Anthony Burgess’s The End of the World News’
  2. 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

  1. Jess Roberts, ‘The Meaning of Medicine in The Doctor is Sick’
  2. 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

  1. Matthew Gear, ‘Anthony Burgess and Orson Welles: Hackwork and Bricolage’
  2. Christopher Thurley, ‘Grits, Pornography, Epiphanies, and PhDs: Anthony Burgess in Chapel Hill’

10:00-10:10: Break

10:10-11:10: Panel 2

  1. Joe Darlington, ‘The Reviewer as Advocate’
  2. 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

  1. Ben Masters, ‘”Glamour and Grammar”: The Influence of Vladimir Nabokov on Anthony Burgess’
  2. 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

  1. Raymond Yiu, ‘Composing The World Was Once All Miracle’
  2. Christine Gengaro, ‘Making Explicit What Nature Leaves Implicit: Anthony Burgess as Musical Pedagogue’

15:00-15:10: Break

15:10-16:10: Panel 5

  1. Rob Spence, ‘Tracing Anthony Burgess’s Reputation at Home and Abroad’
  2. 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.

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