When: Saturday, 4 February 2012 from 9:00am to 7:00pm (including registration and wine reception).
Where: Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
2012 Conference Schedule:
9:00 Arrivals and coffee
9:20 Welcome
9.30 Panel 1: Bodies (Chair: Harriet Cooper)
Sophie Jones: The prenatal grid: Modular form, reproductive politics and the visible foetus
Beatrice Bazell: The Neck: 'Consuming' fictions and sexual narratives in 'Goblin Market'
Hanna Proctor: Lenin's brain
10:30 Panel 2: Performance and Representation (Chair: Simon Smith)
Rebecca Tomlin: 'Money Flows and My Gain's Great': Narrow eyes and an honest woman in The Fair Maid of the West, Part One
Emma Curry: Hat's entertainment comedy, performance and headwear in early Dickens
James Lesslie: Sarah Murray's self-representation in A Companion, and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Panel 3: Heroes (Chair: Jay Thompson)
Steven Breezer: Storytelling and Time in the World of Beowulf
Betsie A. M. Cleworth: Portrayal of character through absence - lack of agency in Landnamabok's Haraldr harfagri
Jennifer Harmer: Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
12:45 Workshop with Professor Sue Wiseman
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch break (provided)
14:15 Panel 4: Creating mass experience (Chair: Lisa Mullen)
Melissa Score: "A Social Inquisition": The Evolution of the Investigative Journalist in Britain in the 1840s
Johnathan Tee: Microphones, Observers, Books and Broadcasts: 'Mass-eavesdropping' and Mass Representations at the 1937 Coronation
Susie Paskins: Making the alien familiar: The Light of Asia and its portrayal of Buddhism
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Panel 5: The avant-garde (Chair: Professor Steven Connor)
Mark Jackson: Towards abstraction in the visual during early Modernism
Steven Fowler: Dada and the avant-garde
16:30-19:00 Closing remarks by Dr. Anthony Bale followed by wine reception
The objectives of the conference are to:
- Give you the opportunity to present your thesis research in a casual academic environment.
- Provide a forum for you to rehearse your presentation skills for conferences.
- Offer you the chance to prepare your upgrading reports and vivas.
- Allow everyone in the school to learn more about their peers’ work.
- Expand the social network of all PhD students in the school.
Other benefits:
With the generous support of the Department of English and Humanities, we are able to offer free admission to all delegates, including lunch and a wine reception.