Millburn House Symposium - 27th May, 2015
Millburn House is hosting an inaugural interdisciplinary symposium as part of the Faculty of Arts
Postgraduate Research Festival, to provide a platform for postgraduates across the faculty to share
and discuss research. The broad theme for the day is “Representation in the Arts”, and our
programme of papers, performance pieces, and roundtable discussions will approach this theme
from a diverse range of perspectives. The symposium aims to be the springboard for a more
permanent interdisciplinary network of researchers, and we look forward to welcoming the PGR
community.
9:30 – 10:00
Registration and Tea/Coffee – Foyer/A0.26
10:00-10:15
Introduction – A0.28
10:20-11:20
Session One
11:30-12:30
Panel A
Representing the past
Anne Musset
(History of Art)
Ancient costume and the
representation of the past: the first
performances of Payne’s tragedy Brutus
at Drury Lane, 1818.
Madeleine Scherer
(English and Comparative Literary
Studies)
“All these presences”: Haunting
Memory in postmodern Irish Poetry
Giulia Brecciaroli
(Modern Languages and Cultures)
Mapping Italy's Economic 'Boom':
Rome, Milan, and Turin in 1950s-1970s
Italian Literature
Performance Sessions
Ronan Hatfull, Mia Hewitt and
Sophie Monk
(English and Comparative Literary
Studies)
Representation of Dystopia in the Arts
Jack McGowan, Martin Schauss and
George Ttoouli
(English and Comparative Literary
Studies)
Poet/Scholars
12:30-13:30
Lunch – A0.26
13:30-14:30
Session Two
Panel C
Re-presentation
Ronan Hatfull
(English and Comparative Literary
Studies)
“I’ll Teach You How to Flow”:
Custodians of Knowledge in Hip-Hop
Shakespeare
Charlotte Stevens
(Film and Television Studies)
The Vid Form and Representing Star
Trek (2009)
Panel B
Representing the national
Leila Zammar
(Theatre and Performance Studies
with Renaissance Centre)
Barberini’s Entertainments for Queen
Christina of Sweden (Carnival 1656)
Panel D
Representation of the arts
Claire Jesson
(Film and Television Studies)
Cinematic representation, textual
analysis and Raymond Bellour’s
‘unobtainable text’ and ‘analysis in
flames’
Gioia Panzarella and Kate Willman
(School of Modern Languages and
Cultures)
The Literary Talent Show Masterpiece
and the Representation of the Arts on
Italian Television
14:30-15:00
Tea/Coffee – A0.26
15:00-16:30
Session Three – A0.28
Panel E
Approaching representation
Lynn Khanova
(Philosophy)
Objects beyond representation: Object-oriented reading of Gertrude Stein's
Tender Buttons
Catherine Lester
(Film and Television Studies)
Frozen Hearts and Fixer Uppers: subverting representations of villainy and gender
in Disney’s Frozen
Carolyn Deby
(Theatre and Performance Studies)
Representing Experience: approximate strategies
16:30-17:15
Closing Discussion - A0.28