Monday 17th June 2019, Arts-F001
You're warmly invited to the 2019 Postgraduate Colloquium in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. This year we are delighted to welcome Sophia Psarra, Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, as our keynote speaker.
PROGRAMME
10 – 10.15am Welcome – Prof Sarah Wright
10.15am – 11.00am Reclaiming Narrative Bodies – chair: Dr Matt Phillips
‘We Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run We’: Rewriting Caribbean Bodies and the Environment in
Anglophone Caribbean Literature – Renée Landell
‘Salon-chair feminism’: rediscovering the ‘lost’ work of Paula Delsol through feminist reclamation – Katie Docwra
11.00am – 11.15am coffee
11.15am – 12pm Liminal Expositions – chair: Prof Colin Davis
The Limit in Lacan and Badiou – Ash Finn
I Look into your eyes and I see only kindness, Human Kindness – Lucy Benjamin
12.00pm - 1pm Glossa Reading Group
‘Blueprints for St. Louis’ – Ben Marcus
1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm – 2.30pm Staff-Student Committee Meeting
2.30pm – 3.30pm Resurfacing trends in European Art – chair: Dr Fabrizio De Donno
Kirsten Justesen’s Sculpture II and the Feminist Avant-Garde in Denmark – Hanne Saeveras
Torquato Tasso’s postils on Dante’s Commedia:
A virtual journey into the composition of the Gerusalemme Liberata – Chiara Bechis
The Italian Programmed Art and the Role of Playfulness: The Manufacture of ‘Handy’ Artistic Objects in Gruppo T’s Early Production – Martina Borghi
3.30pm - 3.45pm coffee
3.45pm – 4.30pm Earthly Bodies, Body of Earth – chair: Prof Hannah Thompson
The Anthropocene’s Retrospective Redundancy – Alexandre Leskanich
Crude Feminisms: The Gender Politics of Petroleum – Josie Taylor
4.30pm – 5.30pm Keynote: Professor Sophia Psarra (UCL)
Generative Architecture + Urbanism through the Prism of Literature:
Indeterminism, translation and improvisational practice across media
5.30pm – 6.00pm Celebration of Recent Staff Publications
Dr Fabrizio De Donno, Dr Stefano Jossa, Dr James Kent, Prof James Williams
6.00pm onwards
Drinks and Nibbles
Detail from the cover of Professor Sophia Psarra's recent book: The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination (2018)
