Travels, Tales and Tempests: The Contexts of Robert Louis Stevenson
18-20 May 1995, University of Guelph
Hosted by Scottish Studies
Provisional Programme
Thursday 18 May
5:30 - 7:00 Registration MacKinnon 120
7:00 Opening and reception University Club
Speaker: Elizabeth Waterston (Guelph)
Title: "Stevenson's Legacy"
Friday 19 May
9:30-10:00 Registration MacKinnon 120
10:00-11:00 Speaker: Gordon Hirsch (Minnesota)
Title: "Travels with Stevenson"
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:30 Speakers: Lilian Falk and Wendy R.Katz (St. Mary's, halifax)
Title: "The Unhung Ruffian": A Canadian Ilustrator of
Treasure Island
12:30-2:00 Lunch (own arrangements)
2:00-3:00 Speaker: Ian Duncan (Yale)
Title: "RLS's Transparency: Fiction beyond the Novel"
3:30-5:00 University of Guelph Library:
RLS Exhibition Main Hall
Scottish Archives Wellington Room
Evening Dinner: own arrangements
Saturday 20 May
9:30-10:00 Registration MacKinnon 120
10:00-11:00 Speaker: Robert Crawford (St Andrews)
Title: "My bed is a like a little boat": Stevenson's Voyage
into Masculinity
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:15 Speaker: Aileen Christianson (Edinburgh)
Title: "RLS's Early Essays: Virginibus Puerisque: 'Wise
words for the young or the young man at play?'
12:30-2:00 Lunch University Club
Poetry reading by Robert Crawford
2:00-4:00 Speaker: Barry Menikoff (Hawaii)
Title: "Stevenson, History and the Documentary Imagination"
Speaker: Paul Maharg (Glasgow Caledonia)
Title: "Scott, Stevenson and Images of the Law"
7:30 - late Barbecue and jazz ceilidh at the Bullring
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Conference Fees
Full Conference $85.00 ________
Canadian Assoc for Scottish Studies members,
Students and Seniors $75.00 ________
Daily $35.00 ________
Saturday Activities
Lunch $12.00 ________
Barbeque $25.00 ________
Accommodation
Student residence
Single $37.91 x _______ nights ________
Double $32.98 (per person) x _____nights _________
TOTAL ________
Cheques or money orders in Canadian funds should be made payable to RLS
Conference and mailed together with this registration form to:
RLS Conference
English Department
University of Guelph
Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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716 Gordon Street
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Carden Place Hotel (downtown Guelph - 25 minute walk)
108 Carden Street
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(provides a shuttle service to the university)
Holiday Inn (10 minute drive, 30 minute walk)
601 Scottsdale Drive
(519) 836-0231
Please make your reservations directly with the hotel
Transport from Toronto is available by bus and rail. The journey takes
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Posted by E. Ewan
Scottish Studies
University of Guelph
eewan@uoguelph.ca