Friday, 28 June
9:15-10:45am
Group 1:
Dr. Jane Ennis (London): Patterns and Framing; Morris
as poet/craftsman"
Dr. David Latham (York University, Ontario): "'A Sort
of Gardening in Design': Morris's Re-rooting of
Art"
Dr. Christine Poulson (Homerton College, Cambridge):
"Sacred and Profane Love; the Oxford Union Murals"
Group 2:
Dr. Paul Graves-Brown (University of Southampton):
"More News from Nowhere; the Future of Informal Social
Organisation"
Jan Hollm (Technische Universitaet, Berlin): "William
Morris: Founder of the Ecotopian Genre"
Professor Krishan Kumar (University of Kent): "The
Englishness of Morris's Utopianism"
Group 3:
Chiaki Ajioka (The Art Gallery of New South Wales):
"Towards a Discussion of the Influences of Morris in
Japan"
Professor John S. Bolin (Berea College, Kentucky):
"William Morris and the Appalachian Craft Revival"
Dr. Lindsay Leard-Coolidge (Cambridge, Mass.):
"William Morris and 19th Century Boston"
Group 4:
Prof. Marcia Allentuck (Graduate Center CUNY/Wolfson
College Oxford): "The William Morris Collection at
Camarillo California: The History of the Doheny
Commitment and its Unfortunate Dissolution"
H. Godwin Arnold (Architect, Reading):"First Master of
the Art Workers' Guild: George Simonds, Sculptor,
Brewer and Flaconer "
Janet M. Christie (Takanin, Auckland, New Zealand):
"The Emery Walker Library at the Cheltenham Art
Gallery and Museums"
Friday, 28 June
11:00am-12:30pm
Group 5:
Professor William Blissett (Univ. of Toronto): "Shadow
of Turning in The Earthly Paradise"
Simon Denith (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of
Higher Education): "Heroic Poetry in an Unheroic Age:
Morris's Sigurd the Volsung"
Dr. Amanda Hodgson (University of Nottingham): "The
Troy Connection; Myth and History in Sigurd the
Volsung"
Group 6
Prof. Gary Aho (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst):
"Morris on Travellers, Tourists, Pilgrims"
Prof. Adrian Corrado (Univ. of Naples): "Beatrice and
Ellen: Idea Guides from Hell to Heaven"
Prof. Elizabeth Barbier Huston (Univ. Mary
Hardin-Baylor, Austin, Texas): "The Persuasive Art of
a Reluctant Rhetorician"
Group 7
Prof. Pedro Beade (Bryant College, Rhode Island):
"William Morris is New England: Architecture and
Design in Late 19th Century Rhode Island"
Dr. David Decker (Tunghai University, Taiwan):
"William Morris"s Fiction of Sanity in Recklessly
Industrialising Taiwan"
Yuko Kikuchi (Chelsea College of Art and Design): "A
Japanese William Morris; Yanagi Soetsi and the Mingei
Movement"
Group 8
Kenneth Langford (Ingatestone, Essex): "Eric Gill and
William Morris"
Dr. M.P.A. Sheaffer (Millersville University,
Pennsylvania): "Of Light and Space: William Morris and
Otto Wagner"
Geoffrey Syer (Matlock, Derbyshire): "From Aquinas to
Morris: Tom Barclay, Bottle-Washer"
Friday, 28 June
4:15-5:45pm
Group 9
Richard and Hilary Myers (Frome, Somerset): "William
Morris Tiles; Tile Designs by Morris and his
Fellow-Workers"
John Stirling (University of Northumbria): "Total
Quality Wallpaper; Morris Goes to Work"
Dr. Nancy Weston (St. Cloud State University,
Minnesota): "True to the Spirit; William Morris and
the Art of Wallpaper Design"
Group 10
Keith Gibeling (Manilus, New York State): "The Role of
Oxford in Morris's Conversion to Socialism"
Dr. Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University): "William
Morris and Peter Kropotkin on Communism"
Prof. Christine Sypnowich (Queen's University,
Ontario): "William Morris's 'Perfectionist
Egalitarianism'"
Group 11
Anne Anderson (Southampton Institute of Higher
Education): "Sunflowers and Lilies; Morris and the
Aesthetic Movement"
E.M. Panayotidis (Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, Univ.of Toronto): "'Every Artist would be a
Workman and Every Workman an Artist': Morrisian and
Arts and Crafts ideals at the Ontario Educational
Association, 1900-1920"
Prof. Andrew M. Tomick (York University, Ontario):
"The See Travelled so Far and Fell so Closely to the
Ground: the influence of William Morris on the Arts
and Crafts Movement in Buffalo and Toronto at the Turn
of the Century"
Saturday, 29 June
9.15-10.45am
Group 12
Dr. Robert Brownwell (Univ. of Essex): "Morris's
defence of Guenevere: amoral or autobiographical?"
Mary Lou McKenna (York University, Ontario): "On the
'discourse of sirens': strategies of representation in
Morris's 'Defence of Guenevere' and Swineburne's
'Chastelard'"
Dr. Adela Spindler Roatcap (Univ. of San Francisco):
"Concerning William Morris, Jane Burden, and the true
identity of Guenevere/Isolde"
Group 13
Ruth Levitas (University of Bristol): "Who holds the
hose? domestic labour in Bellamy, Morris, and
Gilman"
Jan Marsh (London): "Masculinities: William Morris and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti"
Professor Ady Mineo (Istituto Universitario Orientale,
Naples): "Beyond the lae of the father; the 'New
Woman' in 'News from Nowhere"
Group 14
Dr. Venetia Abdalla (Queen Mary and Westfield College,
Univ. of London): "William Morris and Ford Madox Ford;
wanderers in search of an earthly paradise"
Jacquelyn Smith (Drew University, Michigan): 'William
Morris; the Tory tradition and British
environmentalism"
Joe Wright (St. Leonard's on Sea, East Sussex):
"William Morris and the Commune of Paris 1871"
Group 15
Dr. Inga Bryden (King Alfred's College of Higher Ed,
Winchester): "Morris's 'Guenevere' reread: Morris,
Owen Meredith, and the Arthurian past"
Professor Peter Stansky (Stanford University): "Morris
and Gere: 'The House of the Wolfings'"
Professor Norman Talbot (Australia): "William Morris
and the bear; theme, magic and totem in the
romances"
Sunday, 30 June
9.15-11.00a.m
Group 16
Dr. Michaela Braesel (Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte,
Ludwig-Maximilian- Universitaet, Muenchen): "William
Morris's illuminated manuscripts"
Ann Dean (Brighton, Sussex): '"'Poor Topsy;' Morris's
figure designs and paintings"
Michael Hancock (Lawrence, Kansas): "The Kelmscott
Press reviewed; the Middle Ages in the age of
mechanical reproduction"
Group 17
John Astley (Univ. of Reading and Oxford Brookes
University); '"'The soul of man under socialism':
Morris in relation to Wilde and Orwell"
Lawrence Goldman (St. Peter's College, Oxford); "The
dissemination of the ideas of Ruskin and Morris among
the English working class, 1880-1914"
David Goodway (University of Leeds): "E.P. Thompson
and William Morris"
Group 18
Peter Burman (University of York): "Philip Webb and
the repair of 'ancient buildings'"
Andrea E Harger Donovan (Western Michigan University,
Portage): "William Morris as a guardian of the past;
Morris and the SPAB's preservation efforts in 19th.
century England, France and Italy"
Professor H de Groot (University of Toronto); "William
Morris and the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study
of Gothic Architecture"
Dr. Chris Miele: "William Morris and the
anti-monument; the SPAB and the struggle to save
Westminster Hall"
Group 19
Professor Michael Hollington (Universite de Toulon et
du Var); "William Morris and the "Boheme'"
Janis Londraville (The Associated Colleges Independent
Scholars' Centre and State Univ. of New York at
Potsdam): "'Lady Griselda's Dream": May Morris's 'Man
and Superman'"
