Programme
Thursday 24th May in H5.45
08:30 - 9:00 Registration and refreshments in H5.43
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:25 Panel 1: Mood and Emotion
Chair: Lara Choksey
- Gemma Holgate: Uses of Emotion in Socialist Literature: A Reading of Clementina Black's An Agitator
- Roxanne Douglas: Fear Writing - the Gothic in Contemporary Arab Women's Fiction
- Isobel Doster: Mood, Water, and First-Person Narrative in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk
10:25 - 11:40 Panel 2: Creativity
Chair: Michael Hulse
- Charlotte Symons: 'The Anchorite's Tale': A Creative Reimagining of the Life of a Medieval Recluse
- James Loveard: we are not interested in the past
- Annie Garthwaite and Katie Margaret Hall: From Practice to Professional - Manifesting a Career
11:40 - 11:55 Break (tea and coffee provided)
11:55 - 13:10 Panel 3: Performance and Body
Chair: Paul Prescott
- Katja Laug: Reading the Body - An Aesthetics of Class and Resistance in Cormac McCarthy
- Dee Wu: Wilde out of Place: Fascination with Wilde's Plural Personas in Contemporary China
- Angus Love: Staging Badiou: Philosophy, Theatre, and Immanence
13:10 - 13:50 Lunch
13:50 - 15:05 Panel 4: Legitimacy/Complicity
Chair: Michael Gardiner
- James Wills: 'Justice as he saw it': Re-examining the Role of William Faulkner's Gavin Stevens in the Post-War U.S. South
- Christine Emmett: 'Under what stone?': Nadine Gordimer's Crime and Punishment
- Thirayut Sangangamsakun: Lost in Gay Paradise: Rethinking Gay Tourism, Global Capitalism, and Queer Autonomy in Thailand
15:05 - 16:00 Panel 5: Translation
Chair: Chantal Wright
- Tina Janssen: Sacontalá's Travels: The Journey and Influence of Sir William Jones's Translation Throughout Europe
- Di Zhao: 19 Ways of Looking at a Chinese Poem
16:00 - 16:15 Break (tea and coffee provided)
16:15 - 17:30 Panel 6: Biopolitics
Chair: Stephen Shapiro
- Aiman Aslam Khattak: Battling War; Af-Pak Narratives
- Natasha Bondre: Black Gold and Black Power in Trinidad, 1962 - 1982
- Ada Cheong: Crawling into Utopia: Petrohorror and Pedestrianism in Train to Busan
17:30 - 17:40 Closing Remarks