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Venue: Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Friday 16th November 2007
14.00 Registration and Coffee
14.30 Welcome: Holger Hoock, Director, Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre
Commerce and Culture: Wright in Liverpool
Roye Sweet, Leicester : Liverpool in the Eighteenth Century: A Town of Commerce and Taste
Alex Kidson, NML: The Liverpool Art Scene in the Late Eighteenth Century
Paul Laxton, Edinburgh: Taking Notes on the Left’: The Shadowy Career and Thwarted Ambitions of Peter Burdett
16.00 Coffee
16.30 Exhibition
Elizabeth E. Barker, New York: An Introduction to the Exhibition: Making and Meaning
17.30 Reception and Private View for Delegates [Walker Art Gallery]
Saturday 17th November 2007
9.00 Coffee and Registration
9.30 Keynote Addresses: Wright Revisited (Chair: Elizabeth E. Barker)
Ludmilla Jordanova, London: Using Wright - A Historiographical Perspective
Matthew Craske, Oxford: Joseph Wright Scholarship: A Revisionist View
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Academies, Patrons, and Collectors
Matthew Hargraves, Yale: ‘Unknowing or Unknown’: Joseph Wright of Derby and the Society of Artists
Vicky Whitfield, Manchester: Building Networks - Joseph Wright and his Circle of Patrons
Suzanne May, Liverpool: Wright and Late-Renaissance Humanism: ‘Attempts towards fame and fortune’
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Rural Retirement and the Culture of Sensibility (Chair: Marcus Walsh, UoL)
John Bonehill, Leicester: Wright’s Retirement
Stephen Daniels, Nottingham: Cottages on Fire
15.00 A Continental View
Micael Ahlund, Stockholm: Swedish Comparisons and Connections: Pehr Hilleström & Elias Martin
15.45 Coffee
16.15 Concluding Session
Commentary: Lawrence E. Klein, Cambridge
Concluding Discussion
17.00 Symposium Ends
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