Plenary Speakers
The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities will feature plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field, as well as numerous parallel presentations by researchers and practitioners.
Garden Conversations
Plenary speakers will make formal 30-minute presentations. They will also participate in 60-minute Garden Conversations - unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet the speakers and talk with them informally about the issues arising from their presentation.
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The Speakers
- Greg Clingham
Greg Clingham is Professor of English and Director of the University Press at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on literature 1660-1860, and on literature in its relations with law, history, memory, translation, and landscape. He is the author of Johnson, Writing, and Memory (Cambridge UP, 2002) and also of many other books and essays on Johnson, Boswell, Dryden, and a wide range of issues in historiography and translation. He is presently completing essays on Johnson and childhood, and on Johnson and Tolstoy, and books on "Borges and Johnson" and "Law and Narrative, 1660-1960." Dr Clingham is the general editor of "The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture" and of "Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures." He has held the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Chair in the Humanities at Bucknell (1996-99), and he has taught at Cambridge, Fordham, New York and Bucknell universities. Dr Clingham has been the Donald & Mary Hyde Fellow at the Houghton Library (Harvard), the Frederick A. & Marion S. Pottle Fellow at the Beinecke Library (Yale), and he has held other fellowships at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the NEH, St. Edmund's Hall, Cambridge, and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy.