Programme

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 16th and 17thC. 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)