‘WHAT IS THE CONTEMPORARY?’: CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
St Andrews University School of Modern Languages
Institute for Contemporary and Comparative Literature
All sessions will take place in the Arts Building in either the lecture theatre, seminar
room 1 or seminar room 4. See the University map:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/university/maps/wwwmap.pdf
Seminar room 2 (Room 117) will be available all day for conference delegates.
The reception (Monday) will take place in the Buchanan Building, room 216.
MONDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
12.30-1.30:
Registration (Arts Building foyer)
1.30-1.45:
Opening remarks (lecture theatre)
1.45-3.15:
Parallel sessions
Seminar Room 1
Katie Muth:
Chair: Fabio Caiani
‘The Periodic Imagination’
Leigh Wilson:
‘The Contemporary and the function of fiction: Frank Kermode’s
The Sense of an Ending’
Elodie Laügt:
‘Contemporary with whom? Being-with and missed encounters
(Nancy, Macher and Saint-Amant)’
Seminar Room 4
Harry Weeks:
Chair: Colette Lawson
‘Atemporality, Community and Experience in Participatory Art
Practices’
Alistair Rider:
‘Painting up to the present’
Kirsten Lloyd:
‘Care Machines: Documenting the Durational Art Encounter’
3.15-3.45:
Tea (Foyer)
3.45-4.45:
Practising, Transmitting and Curating the Contemporary
Round Table. Chair: Emma Bond (Lecture Theatre)
Annouchka Bayley; Joe Brooker; Diana Sykes
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5.15-6.15:
Lecture Theatre. Chair: Margaret-Anne Hutton
Lionel Ruffel
6.15-7.15:
Drinks Reception (Buchanan Building Rm 216)
TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
9.00-10.30
Duncan Kennedy:
Lecture Theatre. Chair: Emma Bond
‘Coming to terms with the contemporary’
Bran Nicol:
‘Living in the Afterlife: Contemporary Fiction Post
Postmodernism’
Ronnie Ferguson:
‘Parallel convergences. The historical semantics of ‘modern’ and
‘contemporary’
10.30-11.00:
Coffee
11.00-12.30pm
Parallel sessions
Seminar Room 1
Alice Crawford:
Chair: Colette Lawson
‘All in Good Time: Practising the Contemporary in the Library
World’
Helen Slaney:
‘Ancient Dance in Modern Dancers’ (paper read by Colette
Lawson)
Rebecca Dolgoy:
‘Voids, Ruptures, and Ruins: Turn of the Century Museums and
Memory In Berlin’
Seminar Room 4
Robert Wilson:
Chair: Fabio Caiani
‘Canons and Classics: Posterity and the Post-contemporary’
Saeed Talajooy:
‘Contemporary Literature and Contemporary Canon Formation in
Post-Revolution Iran’
12.30-1.30:
Lunch
1.45- 3.15
Peter Childs:
Lecture Theatre. Chair: Derek Duncan
‘The Contemporary Past: 21st-Century Literature and Recent
Heritage’
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Charles Wilson:
‘Immer neu? Negotiating the Contemporary in Contemporary
Music’
Julika Griem:
‘How to make sense of contemporary oeuvre: the case of the
author’s monograph’
3.15-3.45:
Tea
3.45-5.15 Parallel sessions
Seminar Room 1
Chair: Michael White
Léa Vuong:
‘Keeping out: Presence through absence in contemporary French
literature’
Erika Fülöp:
‘Circumscribing the Contemporary: Reflections on Method’
Fabio Caiani &
Catherine Cobham:
‘The Arab Contemporary: the Imagery of Muhammad Khudayyir’
Seminar Room 4
Chair: Emma Bond
Panel ‘Contemporary Art: object, hybridity and experience’
Dominique
Sirois-Rouleau:
‘Object’
Maryse Larivière:
‘Hybridity’
Catherine Nadon:
‘Experience’
5.30-6.30:
Lecture Theatre. Chair: Margaret-Anne Hutton
Jim English
7.30:
Conference dinner
WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
9.30-10.30:
Lecture Theatre. Chair: Margaret-Anne Hutton
Armand d’Angour
10.30-11.00:
Coffee
11.00-12.30
Parallel sessions
Seminar Room 1
Tom Rollings:
Chair: Colette Lawson
‘The concept of “the contemporary” as a category of censorship in
Russia’
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Kaisa Kaakinen:
‘Peter Weiss, W G Sebald and the Pressure of the Present’
Zoe Roth:
‘The alternative archive: constructing cultural memory of the
Holocaust, colonialism and slavery in the present’
Seminar Room 4
Derek Duncan:
Chair: Fabio Caiani
‘Queer connections and chrononormativity of the contemporary’
Michael White:
‘“Der Bannerspruch der neuen Kunst […] ist Wahrheit”. On the
Relationship between Literary Innovation and Truth in
Modernity’
Marion Dalvai:
‘Translating Contemporary Literature: Opportunities and
Challenges’
12.30-1.30
Lunch
2.00-3.30
Parallel sessions
Seminar Room 1
Áine Larkin:
Chair: Michael White
‘Murdering Proust’s Characters in Anne F. Garréta’s La
Décomposition’
Xiaoxi Zhang:
‘Novel, Journey and Stranger: A “Novelized Reading” of Journey
to the West’
Colette Lawson:
‘Cultural Memory in the Youtube age: the Case of Hitler in
Germany’
Seminar Room 4
Chair: Emma Bond
Giulio Giadrossi:
‘Snapshots of the present: photography’s ontology as
contemporaneity symbolic form from Renaissance to present’
Nina Gerlach:
‘Intericonicity and Online Video Art or How Contemporary Art is
Inventing Itself?’
Chu-Chiun Wei:
‘Adjusting Temporality in Art History: Contemporaneity,
Globalism and Identity in Contemporary Taiwanese Art’
End of conference
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