Senate House, University of London, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU
Postgraduate research students will present their academic and practice-based work in a series of panels covering a range of dynamic themes, including: Cultural (Dis)connections, Inspired by Shakespeare, Composites and Irritants, Masculine (de)formation, and Growth Spurts. Please see below for the full conference schedule. Please note we will meet in Room 103.
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Event schedule
10.00 | Opening Remarks |
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10.10 - 10.30 | Yen Ooi: Chinese Science Fiction and Post-colonialism |
10.30 - 10.50 | Nigel Singh: Breaking free of the need to mimic: V.S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men |
10.50 - 11.10 | Carole Enahoro: The Gift of the Gag: unlaughter, globalisation, and the boundary shift in cross-cultural satire |
11.10 - 11.25 | Discussion |
11.25 - 11.40 | Break |
11.40 - 12.00 | Fatima Al-Abdulla: Secularism and the Ghost in Al-Bassam's The Al Hamlet Summit |
12.00 - 12.20 | Emily Smith: Dickens and Mrs Nickleby go to Stratford: Charles Dickens's encounters with Shakespeare's literary heritage |
12.20 - 12.35 | Discussion |
12.35 - 13.15 | Lunch |
13.15 - 13.35 | Karen Sandhu: John Latham: The Artwork as Irritant |
13.35 - 13.55 | Natalie Reeve: 'This special coffin was of course my sole property': the competitive mythologising of Elizabeth Siddal's exhumation |
13.55 - 14.15 | Michaela Atienza: Composites: A Sample of Fictocritical Writing on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land |
14.15 - 14.30 | Discussion |
14.30 - 14.50 | Tiffany Olgun: Dickens' dandies |
14.50 - 15.10 | Sophie Bullen: "A deformed person is a lord"; Deformity and the Male Aristocratic Body in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction |
15.10 - 15.30 | Kate O'Donovan: 'God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain': Transforming into an Animal in 'Telemachus' |
15.30 - 15.45 | Discussion |
15.45 - 16.00 | Break |
16.00 - 16.20 | Tim Moore: An Anti-Sentimental Theory of Adolescence |
16.20 - 16.40 | Nadira Wallace: Making Consciousness Macro in Hart Crane's The Bridge |
16.40 - 17.00 | Sheri Chriqui: Heraldry |
17.00 - 17.15 | Discussion and Closing Remarks |
Tickets
No tickets required. Current and prospective students welcome!