Programme
Time | Description |
9:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome |
9:45 - 10:40 |
Panel One: Women and the House Chair: David Taylor Discussants: Lisa Robertson Louise Campion – “The Crucifixion in the Kitchen: Disturbing Domesticity in The Doctrine of the Hert and The Book of Gostly Grace” Rita Dashwood – “‘An office in which she had always depended’: Surrogate managers in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Persuasion” |
10:40 - 10:50 | Break |
10:50 - 11:45 |
Panel Two: Memory, Trauma, and Psychoanalysis Chair: John Fletcher Discussants: Dan Katz and Christian Smith Fiona Farnsworth – “Memory and the Essential Truth”: Contested Territory and the Politics of Testimony in Joe Sacco’s Palestine Narratives" James Wills – “‘Interpreting (with) Freud’: Laplanche, Hoffmann and the Birth of Unconscious Drives” |
11:45 - 11:50 | Break |
11:50 - 12:45 |
Panel Three: Critical Theory: Engaging with Heidegger and Adorno Chair: Paulo de Medeiros Discussants: Emma Mason Lillian Hingley – “Henrik Ibsen’s Endings in Theodor Adorno’s Critical Theory Birgit Breidenbach – “The Case for Pathetic Fallacy, or What Is It Like to Be Thomas Bernhard’s Wingchair?” |
12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch in H 5.43 |
13:30 - 14:30 |
Panel Four: Post/Colonial Questions Chair: Pablo Mukherjee Discussants: Mike Niblett and Sourit Bhattacharya Lara Choksey – “Changing Places: Political Transition and Evolutionary Time in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction” Manasvini Rajan – “Oppression and Silencing in Delhi Calm” |
14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
14:45 - 16:05 |
Panel Five: Text Circulation and Adaptation Chair: Emma Mason Discussants: Emanuelle Santos Emil Rybczak – “Publishing at the Margins: Whose Brand is it Anyway?” Ronan Hatfull – “‘After All This Fooling’: The Other RSC” Madeleine Scherer – “‘Beautiful Lofty Things”: Marina Carr’s Hecuba and Ancient Greek Morality |
16:05 - 16:20 | Break and refreshments |
16:20 - 17:15 |
Panel 6: The Planet in Crisis Chair: David Taylor Discussants: Paulo de Medeiros Julie Hudson – “Re-Performing Reception: The Skriker as Ecotheatre in 1994 and 2015 Karen Borg Cardona – “The Female Temptress in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road” |
17:15 - 17:30 | Break |
17:30 - 18:00 |
Roundtable: Postgraduate CV Building and Publications Speakers: Emma Mason, David Taylor, and Paulo de Medeiros |
18:00 - 18:15 | Q&A Postgraduate CV Building and Publications |
18:15 - 18:30 | Closing Remarks by Emma Mason |
18:15 - 19:00 | Wine Reception |