The first collaborative day conference between Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project and the Chawton House Project at the University of Southampton took place at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Senate House London, on November 1st, 2003.

The conference was on de Stael's Corinne

Participants: Cora Kaplan, Emma Francis, Orianne Smith, Kate Davies, Angela Wright, Claire Brock, Sylvia Bordoni and Nadine Barreiro

Themes: Reception & influence of text in Britain; parodies and translations; myths of nationhood; female authorship, publicity, performance & celebrity