Programme
Thursday 25 May 2017 in H5.45
09:15 - 09:45 Registration in H5.43
09:45 - 09:55 Welcome
09:55 - 11:10 Panel 1
Form and Aesthetics
Chair: Elizabeth Barry
1. Ronan Hatfull: "Bounded in a Nutshell": Reducing Shakespeare
2. Angus Love: Art as Subject: Alain Badiou's Inaesthetics and the Problem of Theatre
3. Leonello Bazzurro: The Experimental Game in La Nueva Novela and El Poeta Anónimo by Juan Luis Martinez: Reflections on the Use of Dissoluted Language, Fragmented Images, and Muted Sounds
11:10 - 11:25 Break (tea and coffee provided)
11:25 - 12:40 Panel 2
The Human and the Material
Chair: Ross Forman
1. Nadeen Dakkak: Migrant Labor, Immobility and Invisibility in Literature on the Arab Gulf
2. Fiona Farnsworth: "For me, fried chicken has no batter": Food and Female Identity in Americanah
3. Charlotte Symons: "Part of the Nastiness": Physical and Psychological Separation in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
12:40 - 13:25 Lunch (H5.43)
13:25 - 14:20 Panel 3
Contesting the Critical Eye
Chair: Emma Francis
1. Emily Dunford: The Democratic Spaces on Online Theatre Reviewing in the UK
2. Dominic Nah: Decentering Empathetic Encounters: Recentering the Problem of Alterity in World Literature
14:20 - 14:30 Break (tea and coffee provided)
14:30 - 15:25 Panel 4
Scientific Crossovers
Chair: Pablo Mukherjee
1. Lucio de Capitani: "To destroy the enemy, become one": Anthropological Imagination and Counterinsurgency in Rudyard Kipling and Mahasweta Devi
2. Sihwa Mun: Forms of Life in Shelley's 'The Sensitive Plant'
15:25 - 15:35 Comfort break
15:35 - 16:45 Panel 5
Art and/against Oppression
Chair: Michael Meeuwis
1. Natasha Bondre: "Diablio, haitiano, que te pasó?": Ecological Capitalism and the Post-Oil Zombie Apocalypse in Junot Diaz's 'Monstro'
2. Lirong Yao: Mu Dan, a Glimpse of his Anger, Pain, and Passion
3. Julie Hudson: In My End is My Beginning: an Ecotheatrical Perspective on Forum Theatre
16:45 Closing Remarks