Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Programme

transitions2009 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:33:02 +0000

The provisional programme of the conference is now ready.

9.15 – 9.45: Registration – Tea and Coffee (Foyer)

9.45 – 10.15: Opening Address: Tatiana Kontou (Chamber Room)

10.15: First Panels (A – Terrace Room; B – Chamber Room)

A: Language, Meaning and Change

Chair: Norman Vance

B: Art, Life and the Avant-Garde:

Chair: Lucy Robinson

Hana F Khasawneh: James Joyce’s Modernist Nonsense Narratives.

Karen Veitch “Mathematics Is a language”: Willard Gibbs as Theoretical Treatise.

Anthony Leaker: ‘The prospect of wonders’: Don DeLillo and Wittgenstein on Language, Meaning and the Ordinary.

Alexandra Loske: Mary Gartside: A Rare Example of a Female Colour Theorist in the Early Nineteenth Century.

Andrew Blair: Global English, Ideology and the Discourses of Critical Pedagogy: Double-Edged Implications for ELT Practitioners.

Sam Cooper: ‘Why the English have no taste’: The Dialectics of English Surrealism.

11.45: Tea and Coffee (Foyer)

12.00: Second Panels (C – Terrace Room; D – Chamber Room)

C: Identity, the East and the West

Chair: Chris Kempshall

D: Contesting Power

Chair: Vicky Lebeau

Kirsty Bennett: Isabelle Eberhardt: The Greatest Woman in Islam?

Pollyanna Ruiz: Masked Protest and the Public Sphere.

Nikolas Funke: Of ‘”Lutheran Dogs” and “Priests’ Bastards”: Confessional Identity, Religious Violence and the Military in 16^th and 17^thC. Germany.

Chris Allsobrook: Ideology Criticism and Crisis in the Knowledge Economy.

Csilla Hajnal-Smith: Cold War Exiles.

Liz Sage: The Gender of Terrorism.

13.30: Lunch (venue tba)

14.30: Third Panels (E – Terrace Room; F – Chamber Room)

E: Reassessing the Visual

Chair: Graeme Pedlingham

F: Fantasy, Philosophy and the Body

Chair: Olu Jenzen

Trevor Ware: The Meaning of Ice: Depictions and Interpretations of Polar and Alpine Landscapes by Navigators, Scientists and the British Public 1770-1870.

Ruth Charnock: ‘I cannot even kiss you as I would like to’: Frustrated Communions in Anaїs Nin’s ‘Linotte’.

Kevin Reynolds: The Fog of Retribution: Film as Evidence at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.

Carolyn Lambert: Cross Dressing in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction.

Sarah Williams: Caught in the Frame: Photographic Stillness in the Work of Michael Ondaatje.

Phoebe Tait: Breath: Ancient and Contemporary Meanings.

16.00: Tea and Coffee (Foyer)

16.15: Fourth Panels (G – Terrace Room; H – Chamber Room)

G: Media and the Public Sphere

Chair: Laurence Clennett-Sirois

H: Memory, Experience and Everyday Life

Chair: Martin Trigg-Knight

Hsing-Hung Lin: Feminist Practice and Film Festival: Investigating Three Paradigms of Worldwide Women’s Film Festivals.

Yugin Teo: ‘Those aren’t your memories, they’re someone else’s’: Never Let Me Go, Blade Runner, and the Legitimacy of our Memories.

Sohyung Kim: Paradox of Teen Fandom: The Politicising of Teen Fans of a Boy Pop Band Dong Bang Shin Gi.

Rosemary Shirley: Bottle Kicking and Hare Pie Scrambling: Calendar Customs and the Non-Metropolitan Everyday.

Hai Tang: Journalistic Blogging in China: Political Dissent and the Formation of a Public Sphere Online.

Stella Sims: Representation and Experience: Popular Memory and Perceptions of the 1950s.

17.45: Tea and Coffee (Foyer)

18.00: Roundtable Closing Session, ‘Sources’ – chaired by Professor Jim Collins (Chamber Room)

19.00: Dinner (Terrace Room)

Registration Open

transitions2009 — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:14:23 +0000

The registration for the event is now open. Please return your completed forms by June the 1st to sussexhumsconference@yahoo.co.uk.

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TRANSITIONS

HUMANITIES GRADUATE CENTRE CONFERENCE

Thursday, 11 June 2009

PELHAM HOUSE

ST. ANDREWS LANE, LEWES

BN7 1UW

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What’s Next

transitions2009 — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:24:50 +0000

We have now notified the people who will be presenting and we are working on organising the Panels. We have provisionally placed papers in Panels, but these have not as yet been finalised. Soon, we will send out the Registration form (also here), both for delegates and attendees. So watch this space.

Deadline

transitions2009 — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:47:56 +0000

The deadline for the papers was on Friday. The organising team of the conference was busy with reading the abstracts during the last few days. We received a large number of submissions and so we had to carefully put them through a selection process. Those who have submitted an abstract for consideration will soon hear from us.

Call for Papers

transitions2009 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:24:48 +0000


UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
HUMANITIES GRADUATE CENTRE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009
 
“Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Conference”
Pelham House, Lewes, 11 June 2009
 
The School of Humanities Graduate Centre at the University of Sussex is hosting the last
one-day annual postgraduate Conference on 11 June 2009. 
 
This interdisciplinary conference is organized by postgraduate students 
and aims to bring together researchers/students/recently graduated from 
widely divergent fields to share perspectives of their work. In 
addition to providing an opportunity to receive feedback on works-in-
progress, this conference aims at enriching the way we think and speak 
about research today. It will enable participants to investigate, 
evaluate and connect with current trends and new developments in 
scholarship and research.
 
The conference will feature panel presentations (of approx. 20 min. in 
length) with three speakers on each panel and time for discussion at 
the end of each session.
 
Sessions will be built around themes, with presentations grouped as far 
as possible in ways that bring together a variety of historical and 
generic areas of study. The following list of themes and topics is 
indicative only.
 
Papers might consider (but are not limited to) the following themes and 
issues: 
 
• Gender and Sexuality
• Narrative
• Space, Place and Location 
• Intertextuality 
• Religion 
• Interpretation and Critique 
• Media, Film and fusion 
• Performance and the Body 
• Language, meaning and discourse 
• Representations of Culture 
• Political Theory 
Submissions are strongly encouraged from individuals and groups working 
in all fields in the School of Humanities:
• American Studies
• Art History 
• English 
• Drama 
• History 
• Sussex Language Institute 
• Linguistics and English Language 
• Media and Film Studies 
• Music 
• Philosophy
 
We particularly welcome proposals from early career’s researchers.
 
Please send your proposal (300 words) for a 20 minute presentation and 
a biography (including name, degree, year and research interests). 
Abstracts must be received by 01 May 2009 to be considered. 
Please direct all submissions and inquiries to the Sussex Hums 
Conference Team at: 
 
sussexhumsconference@yahoo.co.uk