Konferenzen, Tagungen
Unforeseen Consequences: Literatures of Protest and Political Struggle
Beginn
11.11.2017
Deadline Anmeldung
08.11.2017
The British Comparative Literature Association is pleased to open registration for its postgraduate conference ‚Unforeseen Consequences: Literatures of Protest and Political Struggle‘, to be held at the University of Warwick on 11th November with a keynote by Dr Oliver Davis (Warwick).
All are welcome and attendance is free, but we ask that those planning to attend register here. Registration closes at 9am on 8th November. Anyone who wishes to register after this time should email bclapgrepresentative@gmail.com.
The programme for the day is as follows:
9.30 – 10.00: Registration
10.00 – 10.15: Welcome
10.15 – 11.45: Panel One: Legacies of Power
Giulia Champion (Warwick): The Emergence of Britain as a Nation-State and the Uncanny Colony in Literature
Amanda Stewart (Oxford): Narrative Ambiguity as a Response to Governmental Censorship: a close analysis of narrative voice in Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T.
Michael James (Royal Holloway): Losing a Sense of Space: dysfunctional spaces and Grimethorpe in the poetry of Helen Mort and Steve Ely
11.45 – 12.00: Coffee
12.00 – 13.30: Panel Two: Territory and Displacement
Sophie Kelly (Edgehill): Right-to-Remain (Silent): making space for ‘unofficial’ voices within a hostile landscape
Sam La Védrine (Nottingham): The Ecology of the In-Between and Writing ‘the entangled letters/of a new genetic code’: Pierre Joris’ stochasticism of nomadic poetics
Andrew Stones (Warwick): From ‘World-Ecological’ Literature to Exo-Planetary Fictions
13.30 – 14.15: Lunch
14.15 – 15.30: Keynote
Dr Oliver Davis (Warwick): For a Theory of Unforeseen Consequences: side-effects, unwieldy knowledge and literature
15.30 – 15.45: Coffee
15.45 – 17.15: Panel Three: Contemporary Struggles
Farah Aridi (Goldsmiths): Negotiating the Right to the City in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa
Asma Jahamah (Essex): Post 9/11 Terror in Nadeem Aslam’sThe Blind Man’s Garden
Caterina Scarabicchi (Royal Holloway): ‘Borrowing’ the Migrant’s Story: De Luca’s Solo Andata between social commitment and literary appropriation
17.15 – 18.15: Wine Reception
The conference will be held in the Wolfson Research Exchange on Floor 3 (Extension) of University of Warwick Library. A university card is required to enter the library; please speak to the staff member at the Welcome Point who will direct you to the Wolfson Research Exchange. An interactive campus map and a floorplan of the library are available here.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided, with a wine reception following the conference. If you have any dietary requirements, please let us know by emailing bclapgrepresentative@gmail.com. See our Facebook and Twitter pages for more about BCLA Postgraduates.
All are welcome and attendance is free, but we ask that those planning to attend register here. Registration closes at 9am on 8th November. Anyone who wishes to register after this time should email bclapgrepresentative@gmail.com.
The programme for the day is as follows:
9.30 – 10.00: Registration
10.00 – 10.15: Welcome
10.15 – 11.45: Panel One: Legacies of Power
Giulia Champion (Warwick): The Emergence of Britain as a Nation-State and the Uncanny Colony in Literature
Amanda Stewart (Oxford): Narrative Ambiguity as a Response to Governmental Censorship: a close analysis of narrative voice in Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T.
Michael James (Royal Holloway): Losing a Sense of Space: dysfunctional spaces and Grimethorpe in the poetry of Helen Mort and Steve Ely
11.45 – 12.00: Coffee
12.00 – 13.30: Panel Two: Territory and Displacement
Sophie Kelly (Edgehill): Right-to-Remain (Silent): making space for ‘unofficial’ voices within a hostile landscape
Sam La Védrine (Nottingham): The Ecology of the In-Between and Writing ‘the entangled letters/of a new genetic code’: Pierre Joris’ stochasticism of nomadic poetics
Andrew Stones (Warwick): From ‘World-Ecological’ Literature to Exo-Planetary Fictions
13.30 – 14.15: Lunch
14.15 – 15.30: Keynote
Dr Oliver Davis (Warwick): For a Theory of Unforeseen Consequences: side-effects, unwieldy knowledge and literature
15.30 – 15.45: Coffee
15.45 – 17.15: Panel Three: Contemporary Struggles
Farah Aridi (Goldsmiths): Negotiating the Right to the City in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa
Asma Jahamah (Essex): Post 9/11 Terror in Nadeem Aslam’sThe Blind Man’s Garden
Caterina Scarabicchi (Royal Holloway): ‘Borrowing’ the Migrant’s Story: De Luca’s Solo Andata between social commitment and literary appropriation
17.15 – 18.15: Wine Reception
The conference will be held in the Wolfson Research Exchange on Floor 3 (Extension) of University of Warwick Library. A university card is required to enter the library; please speak to the staff member at the Welcome Point who will direct you to the Wolfson Research Exchange. An interactive campus map and a floorplan of the library are available here.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided, with a wine reception following the conference. If you have any dietary requirements, please let us know by emailing bclapgrepresentative@gmail.com. See our Facebook and Twitter pages for more about BCLA Postgraduates.
Quelle der Beschreibung: Information des Anbieters
Forschungsgebiete
Stoffe, Motive, ThematologieProtestliteratur
Links
Einrichtungen
University of Warwick
Beitrag von:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Datum der Veröffentlichung:
12.12.2018
Letzte Änderung:
12.12.2018