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.
Event schedule
| 10.00 | Opening Remarks |
|---|---|
| 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!
