ASSEMBLING
IDENTITIES
Programme
University of Glasgow
23rd-24th May 2013
Sponsored by the Graduate School, College of Arts
THURSDAY 23RD MAY
Registration: open from 8.30am, Senate Room, Main Building
Welcome: 9.30am-9.40am, Senate Room
First Plenary: 9.40am-11am, Senate Room
Chair:
Professor Regenia Gagnier: ‘Global Identities in the Niche of Nature, Culture and Technology’
SESSION A: 11.15am-12.45pm
Panel 1 – Female Experience: Hearth and Home (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Sadia Zulfiqar
1. Grady Hancock, ‘(Dis)assembling maternal identities in Ana Kokkinos’ Blessed’
Keywords: film, social realism, motherhood
2. Guari Bharat, ‘Bound to Hearth and Home’, or ‘What it is Like to be a Santal Woman’
Keywords: women, movement, India
3. Nisha Ramayya (practice-as-research paper), video-poem ‘Home’ and presentation
Keywords: women, home, family, British-Indian identity
Panel 2 – Multicultural Britain? Migration and Identity Politics (Williams Room)
Chair: Agnes Marszalek
1. Nikolay Mintchev, ‘The British Immigration Debate and East-European Nationalism:
Identity, Misunderstanding, Desire’
Keywords: emigration/immigration, nationalist rhetoric, UK, Bulgaria, Romania
2. Jed Fazakarley, ‘The War in East Bengal and the Discovery of Bangladeshis in Britain’
Keywords: political protest, immigration, national identity (Pakistani, Bangladeshi,
British)
3. Claudio Beghelli, ‘Gastronomy as intercultural performance: the clash of identities’
Keywords: gastronomy, modernism, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, Tikka Masala
Panel 3 – Space, Place and Architecture (Edwin Morgan Room)
Chair: Madeleine Campbell
1. Alan MacPherson, ‘“Architecture as Autobiography”: Lived Space in Heinz Emigholz’s
Loos Ornamental (2009)’
Keywords: auto/biography, Heinz Emigholz, cinema, urban space
2. Ruxandra Berinde, ‘Tarkovsky’s Houses: Identity Beyond the Moving Images of
Moving Homes’
Keywords: cinema, autobiography, home
3. Bethan Parkes, ‘Shifting Sounds: atmospheric identities in “Hagar and the Angel” (a
soundscape/visual installation)’
Keywords: space, acoustics, ecology, poetry, desert
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Lunch and Poster Presentations
12.45pm-1.45pm, Williams Room
Poster Presenters:
Aranee Manoharan, Toolika Gupta, Agata Maslowska,
Christopher Burden-Strevens, Coco d’Hont
SESSION B: 1.45pm-3.10pm
Panel 4 – Racial and National Identities (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Hannah Tweed
1. Fernanda Barros, ‘Brazilian race relations from the perspectives of Thales de
Azevedo (1904-1995) and Florestan Fernandes (1920-1995)’
Keywords: UNESCO, Brazil, race
2. Sergio Luis Rolemberg Farias, ‘Post-Slavery Democracy and the Descendants of the
Quilombos in Contemporary Brazil’
Keywords: Brazil, slavery, ethnic identity, citizenship, politics
3. BJ Harpe, ‘Identity Crisis: Culture and Imperialism in Ancient Syria’
Keywords: Syria, linguistics, Imperialism, classical history
Panel 5 – Communicating Religious Identity (Williams Room)
Chair:
1. Marilena Frisone, ‘Connecting identities and connecting people: strategies of identity
formation among Nepalese members of a Japanese New Religious Movement in
Kathmandu’
Keywords: combining religious identities, Hinduism, Buddhism, Japan, Nepal
2. Aron Engberg, ‘Construction of Apolitical Identities Among Pro-Israeli Evangelicals in
Contemporary Israel’
Keywords: Israel, Judaism, Christianity, religious identity, politics
3. Andrew Grey, ‘Christian and LGBT: Reconciling Identities Through Comparison’
Keywords: LGBT, persecution, early church history, contemporary Christianity
4. Iida Saarinen, ‘Before Priestly Identity? Scottish Catholic Seminarians and FreshlyOrdained Priests in Late Nineteenth-Century Photographs’
Keywords: Catholicism, C19th seminary training, photography
Panel 6 – Representational Politics: Disability, Class, Race (Edwin Morgan Room)
Chair: Sophie Conaghan-Sexon
1. Aretha Phiri and Maja Milatovic, ‘Dis(re)membering Bodies: Disability and SelfConstitution in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Octavia Butler’s Kindred’
Keywords: disability, race, class, gender, American literature
2. Shannon Reed, ‘“You Can Write Us”’ (practice-led research paper)
Keywords: writing, representation, ethics, race, disability, class, identity formation
3 Anna-Leena Lähde, ‘A Chinaman’s Chance: A Postcolonial Analysis of the
development of Chinese Characters and Stereotypes in North-American Popular
Literature’
Keywords: postcolonialism, China, representation, race, American literature
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Refreshments Break:
3.10pm-3.30pm, Williams Room
SESSION C: 3.30pm-5pm
Panel 7 – Body Politics (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Calum Roger
1. Tiffany Page, ‘The Provocation of the Vulnerable Self’
Keywords: feminism, vulnerability, ethics
2. Maria Portugal, 'What besides my body can resist? - Body Identity of Dissent Actions'
Keywords: bodies, illegitimacy, protest, performance
3. Megan Ratliff, ‘Bodily and Celestial Cosmologies: Tattooing and Asterisms Amongst
the Japanese and Maori’
Keywords: tattooing, bodies, asterisms, performance
4. Scott Dahlie, ‘Moveable Islands and Disappearing People: (Re)Locations and
(Mis)Representations in Pacific Legends’
Keywords: literature, music, Rogers and Hammerstein (South Pacific), James
Michener (Tales of the South Pacific), misrepresentation
Panel 8 – Music, Performance and the Development of Identity (Williams Room)
Chair: Elizabeth Ford
1. Brianna Robertson, ‘Opera identity, the singer, the character or the immortal
performer’
Keywords: opera, castrato singers, late C18th, performance
2. James Felix, ‘Paupers, Poets and Prostitutes: The Evolving Identity of the Fadista’
Keywords: Portuguese/Brazilian folk music, class, national identity
3. David Linton, ‘Identity Construction in London West End Revue Performance of the
Early Twentieth Century’
Keywords: theatre, music, C20th, social reform
4. Defne Cizakca, ‘The Games We Play in Istanbul: Armenians and Turks on the
Ottoman Stage’
Keywords: Armenian and Turkish identity politics, theatre, religious boundaries
Panel 9 – The City and Rural Nostalgia (Edwin Morgan Room)
Chair: Michael Shaw
1. Lakshmi Raajendran, ‘Identity Constructions and Negotiations in Multicultural
Environments’
Keywords: urban environment, globalism, space
2. Sara Mahdizadeh, ‘(Re)constructing of Iranian identity by means of the historical
gardens’
Keywords: gardens, outside space, Iran, national identity
3. Anneliese Hatton, ‘Portugalidade como dualidade – The “Janus-faced” nature of
Portuguese National Identity’
Keywords: Portuguese national identity, Empire, rural nostalgia, postcolonialism
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Wine Reception and Poetry Launch
5.15pm-6.15pm, Hunterian Museum
Launch of Ha‫ج‬ar and the An‫ج‬el (a soundscape/visual installation)
Featuring Habib Tengour
Conference Dinner
6.30pm, Balbir’s, 7 Church Street, G11 5JP
Verse Hearse: Poetry Evening
9pm, Gilchrist Postgraduate Club
Featuring Alec Finlay, Peter Manson, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
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FRIDAY 24th MAY
Registration: open from 9.00am, Senate Room
Second Plenary: 9.30am-10.30am, Senate Room
Chair: Madeleine Campbell
Dr. Pierre Joris, ‘Ferryman’s Labor’
SESSION D: 10.40am-12.00pm
Panel 10 – Gender, Sex and Performance (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Calum Roger
1. Jennifer Cowe, ‘Love in a Changing Climate: Two Film Adaptations of Henry Miller’s
“Quiet Days in Clichy”’
Keywords: film adaptations, Henry Miller, sexual norms, pornography
2. Liz Renes, ‘“Surface even as the Reverse of the Soul”: John Singer Sargent and the
Aesthetic Performance of Female Identity’
Keywords: John Singer Sargent, art history, female beauty, aestheticism
3. Ery Shin, ‘Gertrude Stein’s Queer America’
Keywords: queer theory, class, Gertrude Stein, America, literature
Panel 11 – Creative Practices in Cinema (Williams Room)
Chair: Graeme Spurr / Julia Bohlmann (TBC)
1. Linda Hutcheson, ‘Identity Formation and the Distribution of Independent Cinema:
The Case of Morag McKinnon’s Donkeys (2010)’
Keywords: independent cinema, marketing, narrative image
2. Timothy Peacock, ‘Beyond Alps, Elephants and Vinegar: Hannibal Barca and the
Evolution of the History Documentary’
Keywords: historical documentaries, Hannibal Barca
Panel 12 – Modern Perspectives (Edwin Morgan Room)
Chair: Sam Wiseman
1. Rinni Amran, ‘Displacing and Re-placing the Human: the Aeroplane in TwentiethCentury Fiction’
Keywords: aeroplane, modernism, human, machine, literature
2. Amy Bromley, ‘“Make a map, not a tracing”: W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz as Rhizomatic
Assemblage’
Keywords: Deleuze and Guattari, W.G. Sebald, literary theory, post/modernism
3. Xiong Bingxue, ‘Merging Identities in the Works of Whistler’
Keywords: Whistler, impressionism, Ando Hiroshige, cultural cross-over, art history
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Lunch and Archives Demonstration:
12.00pm-1pm, Williams Room
Film Screening and Discussion: 1pm-2pm, Williams Room
Chair: Graeme Spurr
Ruth Washbrook, Scottish Screen Archives
Nick Higgins, Northern Lights Project
SESSION E: 2.00pm-3.20pm
Panel 13 – Devolution and British Political Identity (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Calum Roger / Julia Bohlmann (TBC)
1. Daryl Perrins, ‘“Islands in the Stream”: Class, Regionalism and Hiraeth in the
Representation of Contemporary Wales in Comedy’
Keywords: television, comedy, Welsh national identity, devolution, postcolonialism
2. Chris McMillan, ‘Broken Bond: Skyfall and the British Identity Crisis’
Keywords: James Bond, Britishness, Scottish independence, patriotism
3. Ana Moraes, ‘Institutional Identity and the Development of Funding Schemes at
Scottish Screen’
Keywords: Scottish cinema, devolution, funding, national identity
Panel 14 – Identity Construction in the Nineteenth Century (Williams Room)
Chair: Elizabeth Oglesby-Wellings
1. Laura Eastlake, ‘New Neronians: Ancient Rome and the Forging of Decadent
Masculine Identities in the Late Nineteenth Century’
Keywords: Rome, Nero, Victorian literature and culture, masculinity
2. Ruth MacPhail, ‘Feminine Identity at the Fin de Siecle: Women Writers and the Short
Form’
3. Fiona Duncan, ‘The reconstruction of Tory identity under George III’
Keywords: political history, establishment of the Tory party, C19th
Refreshments Break:
3.20pm-3.40pm, Williams Room
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SESSION F: 3.45pm-5pm
Panel 15 – Alternative Identities: Gamers, Clones and Avatars (Gilchrist Seminar Room)
Chair: Graeme Spurr
1. Garfield Benjamin, ‘Hyper-Bodies of the objet a-vater: the assemblage of the digital
self’
Keywords: avatars, internet, Second Life, Deleuze, Žižek
2. Anthony Reynolds, ‘Game Characters: 'Gamers', Cultural Memory, Identity and Social
Practice’
Keywords: gaming, cultural memory, Scotland, qualitative and quantitative methods
3. Liza Futerman, ‘Cloning and the Visual Formation of Identity in Doctor Who and Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein’
Keywords: cloning, popular culture, science fiction, television
Panel 16 – Scotland: Burns and Bagpipes? (Williams Room)
Chair: Calum Roger
1. Jonathan Henderson, ‘“To see ourselves as others see us”: Robert Burns and Persona
Construction’
Keywords: Robert Burns, Scots language, linguistic identity
2. Vivien Williams, ‘“All the bagpipes in the world are here, and they fill heaven and
earth”: the bagpipe and the Romantic construction of Scottish identity’
Keywords: bagpipes, Scottish national identity, Romanticism
3. Meghan McAvoy, ‘“The Question of what the Past Amounted to Can Lie About The
Grass”: Nation-Building and Demolition in Andrew O’Hagan’s Our Fathers’
Keywords: literature, Scottish nationalism, industrialism
Panel 17 – Identity Formation After 9/11 (Edwin Morgan Room)
Chair: Sadia Zulfiqar
1. Katarzyna Mika, ‘A Shattered State? Patriotism and National Identity in Poetic
Responses to 9/11’
Keywords: poetry, 9/11, patriotism, national identity
2. Rebecca V. L. Hounsom, ‘Shifting Religious Identity in a post 9/11 World’
Keywords: Islam, Christianity, Judaism, 9/11
3. Daniel O’Gorman, ‘Disassembling “fundamentalism” in three contemporary Pakistani
novels’
Keywords: literature, religion, fundamentalism, Pakistani identity, empathy, media
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Careers Panel: 5pm-6.15pm, Gilchrist Seminar Room
Chair: Calum Rodger
Annie Rose, Oxford University Press
Gordon Barr, Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust
Katie Bruce, Gallery of Modern Art / Glasgow Life
Karl Magee, Archives and Records Association Scotland
Nick Higgins, Northern Lights Project
Closing remarks, followed by an informal wine reception
6.30pm, Gilchrist Postgraduate Club.
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