Schedule for the Humanities Postgraduate Research Symposium 2015
9:00-9:30: TEA & WELCOME (Claus Moser Foyer)
Welcome and opening remarks from Professor David Shepherd, Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences at Keele University.
9:30-10:30 PANELS 1 & 2
PANEL 1: TRADITION AND
REAPPRAISALS (CM0.12)
PANEL 2: AGNOSTICS AND
MATERIALITY (CM2.03)
Chair: James Williamson (Keele University)
Jason Balzarano: Fusion: A Critical ReThinking of a Compositional Aesthetic.
Hannah Smith: “Though I Sang in my Chains
like the Sea” – Cross-Harmony, the ‘War of
the Trees’ and reading the hallmarks of the
Welsh Bardic Tradition in the poetry of Dylan
Thomas.
Chair: TBC
Paul Jordan: The Afterlife of an Agnostic:
Arnold Bennett’s The Glimpse (1909)
Ali Flint: Paper Trails: Understanding the
Materiality of Gentry Women’s Letters in the
Nineteenth Century.
10:30 – 11:00 TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS (Claus Moser Foyer)
11:00-12:30 – PANELS 3 & 4
PANEL 3: MISCONCEPTIONS,
ADAPTATIONS AND MYTH (CM0.12)
PANEL 4: THE ECHOES OF WAR
(CM2.03)
Chair: Kim Braxton (Keele University)
Holly Eckersley: Adapting to the Ages:
Popular appeal, Audiences, and Adaptations
of A Christmas Carol.
Samiran Culbert: “I Remember When…”:
Rock Music, Myth Construction and the
Nostalgic Formation of Identity.
Val Derbyshire: “You’ve been reading too
many idiotic trashy books!”: Why Read
Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances?
Chair: TBC
Jenny Stewart: The Child in the Ruins: Filmic
depictions of Children in Postwar London,
1946-53.
Harry Richards: First World War Signals
Intelligence and the Problem of Memoir
Histories.
Carrie de Silva: An interim report on a parttime PhD on the development of the
agricultural education provision for women
in England to 1939 and its lasting impact.
12:30-13:15 – LUNCH (Claus Moser Foyer)
13:15-14:45 – PANEL 5
PANEL 5: THE POWER OF PLACE (CM0.12)
Chair: TBC
David Curley: Crystalline Nature: Naturphilosophie and the fragility of nature in Tiutchev,
Turgenev and Aksakov.
Jennie Bailey: Putting literature in place and place in literature: the literary geographies of
Rochdale.
Hannah Reeves: The Railway Family at War: Depictions of the family in the Great Western
Railway Company Magazine during World War One.
14:45 – 16:15 – PANEL 6
PANEL 6: THE SILENT PRISONER (CM0.12)
Chair: Hannah Wilkinson (Keele University)
Lauren Norgrove: Cameron Todd Willingham and the Innocence Revolution.
J.G.M. Evans: Contesting the Metropolitan Bias of ‘Gay’ History
Gemma Scott: India’s Emergency 1975-1977: Narratives of Female Political Prisoners
16:15 – 16.45 – TEA, COFFEE & BISCUITS (Claus Moser Foyer)
16:46 -18:15 - PANEL 7
PANEL 7: MUSICAL INFLUENCE IN OTHER MEDIUMS (CM0.12)
Chair: Wallis Seaton (Keele University)
Elizabeth R. J. Pritchett: The Stormy ‘Sonata: Pathétique’ Intertextuality in Dorothy
Richardson’s Pilgrimage.
Hannah Bayley: A Frightful Era: Early Developments of the Japanese Horror Film Score.
Konstantinos Vasilakos: Greap: Conjuring with Sonic Material.
18:15 – RECEPTION (Claus Moser Foyer)