Monday 14th July
Registration 9-11.45
11.45am – keynote 1: Professor Derek Attridge, ‘Recent Afrikaans Fiction and
the Question of Translation’
1.00 – lunch (Shed)
1.45 – panel 1 3 x 3-paper panels
1) Utopian and Dystopian stages [Cath Badham, ‘“In-yer-Ears”: The Language
of Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur’, James Hudson, ‘Edward Bond’s 2077 Chair
Plays and the Crisis of the Present’, and Michael Pinchbeck, ‘Or in the future:
Utopian and dystopian dramaturgy in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s
Parties’]
2) Nabokov Returns [Gen’ichiro Itakura, ‘The Ghastly Afterlife of an
Enchanted Hunter: Nabokovian Themes in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas,
Motonori Sato, “A Ghostly butterfly net in its ghostly hand”: The function of
Nabokovian photographs in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz’, Kyoko Yoshida,
‘Consider the Fancy Prose: Nabokovian Legacy in David Foster Wallace’s
Infinite Jest’]
3) New Theory [Madonna Kalousian, ‘“Kalashnikovs, Precarious Kitchens, and
“More Female Hormones”: Rituals of Exception in the Middle East’s Political
Revolution”, David Winters, ‘Against the 'Theory Generation': Form and
Philosophical Force after Gordon Lish’, and Eileen Pollard, ‘“It goes on in the
reader’s mind” (Mantel 2012): The epiphany of ellipsis in the writing of
Hilary Mantel’]
3.15 – tea/coffee
3.30– panel 2 3 x 4-paper panels
1) America 1[Pippa Eldridge, ‘The Poetics of Sprawl: The Literary Reappropriation of Suburban Space’, Rachel Sykes, ‘The quiet contemporary
American novel’, and Mark West, ‘Third Way Realism: 21st Century
American Fiction and the “Long Sixties”’ and Simon de Bourcier, “I
Wanted Only to Exert My Power”: American Gothic Fiction in the
Twenty-First Century’ ]
2) New Narrations [Jonathan Evans, ‘Acting out: repetition and adaptation
in Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal’, Irmtraud Huber, ‘Timely Tenses:
Considering Present Tense Narration’, Kyra Fastenau, ‘Traumatic Events
Seen Through Innocent Eyes: Juvenile Focalisors and Narrators in Adult
Literature’ and Bárbara Arizti, ‘Poking at the Limits of (Auto)biography:
Trauma and Self-writing in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter (2002)’]
3) Text, author, language, body [Zornitsa Dimitrova, ‘Deleuzian Phantasms
and Crimp’s Politics of Terror’, Seda Ilter, ‘“Now the machines have come
back at the very heart of the lines”: What Happens to Play Texts in the age
of Mediatisation?’, Kelly Jones, ‘Ghost Writers: Representations of
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Authorship on the C21st English Stage’, and Jacob Murphy, ‘Redirection
and Misdirection: An Attempt to Reconcile Martial Arts with the Literary
Arts’]
5.15pm – break
5.30pm – keynote 2: Professor Paul Farley (RH) poetry reading – EMMTEC
auditorium
6.15 – drinks Shed
7.00 – walk to Pyewipe
7.30 – dinner at Pyewipe
Tuesday 15th July
9.15– panel 3 3 x 3-paper panels
1) Neo-Modernism [Ruth Charnock, ‘Shaking all over: modernist trembling in
Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves and Will
Self’s Umbrella’, Cheryl Cliffe, ‘Back to the Beginning: a re-evaluation of
time, history, and the individual in twenty-first century, and historiographic
metafiction’, and Dennis Kersten and Usha Wilbers, ‘Re-Making it New: The
Reception of Contemporary British Fiction as “Modernist”’]
2) Capital [Francesco di Bernado, ‘Deregulated finance, money, gentrification
and the 2008 financial crisis in the London of John Lanchester’s Capital and
Zadie Smith’s NW’, Rhona Gordon, ‘THE STATE OF THE NATION?
Modern Britain in Sebastian Faulks’ A Week in December and John
Lanchester’s Capital’, and Wendy McMahon, ‘What’s the Big Idea? Crisis,
Narrative, and Imagining Hope in Steve Tomasula’s In & Oz: A Novel (2012)’
3) Sex & Violence [Chris Boge, ‘Literary and Media Censorship in the 21st
Century’ – 15/16, E. Dawson Varughese, ‘HUSH a graphic novel by Manta
Ray: storying sexual violence in New India’, and Elisabeth Massana, ‘Mark
Ravenhill in Performance: Breakfast, Video-games and War on Terror’
10.45 – tea/coffee
11.00 – panel 4 4 x 2-paper panel
1) The Composite Anthology [Tom Mack ‘A New Hybrid Form’ and Andrew
Geyer, ‘Comparison to Existing Genres’]
2) Postmodernity [Deirdre Flynn, ‘Re-thinking the postmodern city through
Murakami’s Urban Landscape’ and Olga Dzhumaylo, ‘The Pregnant Widow
(2010) by Martin Amis as a Postmodern Confessional Novel’]
3) Class [Nick Bentley, ‘The Subcultern: Class and youth in twenty-first century
fiction’ and Katie Beswick, ‘21st Century Conceptions of the Council Estate in
Performance: Dominant, Residual, Emergent’]
4) Digital Revolutions [Hend Khalil, ‘Twit Plays: Towards a New Paradigm
Shift’ and Jaroslav Kušnír, ‘Postmodernism and After? From
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Powermodernism to New Sensibility: Mark Danielewski’s Only Revolutions
(2006) and Steve Tomasula’s IN & OZ (2012)]
12.00 - keynote 2: Dr Colette Conroy, ‘Reified disability: Paralympic cultures
and exceptional bodies in 21st Century performance’
1.15– lunch (Shed)
2.15 - panel 5 2 x 3-paper panels – more time now (was 4-paper panel)
1) Post-Apocalypse [Laura-Jane Devanny, ‘Are Crakers really the answer?
Margaret Atwood’s vision of the future for humanity in her trilogy Oryx and
Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), Emily
Johansen, ‘Environmental Risk and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Margaret
Atwood’s Oryx and Crake’, and Adam Welstead, ‘Apocalypse, End Times
and the Possibility of Utopia in Maggie Gee’s The Flood’]
2) Memory [Beatriz Domínguez-García, ‘Atkinson’s Life After Life: Re-Living
the Past, Re-Ordering the Future’, Caroline Magennis, ‘Mourning myself and
all my other selves’: Embodying grief in Lucy Caldwell’s All the Beggars
Riding’, and María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro, ‘“No man is an island”: Synergic
Exchanges and the Empathic Imagination in Alex Miller’s Landscape of
Farewell’]
3.45 – tea/coffee
4.15 – panel 6 3 x 2-paper panels
1) Neo-Victorian [Alexandra Lewis, ‘What Happens Now to Jane? Jane Eyre in
the Twenty-First Century’ and Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, ‘Detective Fiction
and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee
Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)’]
2) Cloud Atlas [Diletta de Cristofaro, ‘Anti-apocalypticism in David Mitchell’s
Cloud Atlas’ and Kristian Shaw, “A Multitude of Drops”: Cosmopolitanism,
Utopianism and Technology Imposition in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas]
3) Young Adults [Sara Buggy, ‘Young Adult Science Fiction in the 21st
Centrury: Trends, Tropes and Triangles’ and Meghann Hillier-Broadley,
‘“Eve” in the new Millennia: May the ods be (n)ever in your favour’]
5.15 – free time
7pm – walk up hill
7.30 – conference dinner, Assembly Rooms welcome drinks
8pm – conference dinner
Wednesday 16th July
10.00 – tea/coffee
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10.30 - panel 7 3 x 3-paper panel
1) Poetry and the Contemporary [Antony Rowland, ‘Twenty-first-Century
Poetry’, Irralie Doel, ‘“Who does know what’s going on in contemporary
poetry?’: Positioning poetry in the 21st century’, and Rory Waterman, ‘“Crawl
back under your rock and die”: The Reviewing of Contemporary Poetry’]
2) Posthumanism [Timothy Baker ‘“Language Poison’: Narratives of Decay in
Contemporary American Apocalypses’, Rebecca Downes, ‘Post-millennial /
Post-humanist / Post-mortem: Late Coetzee’, and Sara Upstone, ‘Never Let
ME Go’?: Self, Identity and the Planetary Post-human’]
3) Britain in the 21st century [Martyna Bryla,’Weed-ing the Roots: Constructing
Immigrant Identity in A. M. Bakalar’s Madame Mephisto’, Lisa Sheppard, ‘A
“Very Black and Very Welsh” and Very Female Space: Reimagining
Industrial Wales in Charlotte Williams’s Sugar and Slate (2002)’, and Jane
Stedman, ‘“Was that a sort of Scottish way of saying things?: situating Ali
Smith’s The Accidental (2005) in the contemporary Scottish canon’]
12.00 – lunch and poetry reading (Antony Rowland and Rory Waterman) – The Shed
1.30
Panel 8 3 x 4-paper panel
1) America 2 [Daniel O’Gorman, ‘Reframing “the day itself”: Post 9/11
deterioration of context in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City and Teju Cole’s
Open City’ and Tim Lanzendörfer, ‘Ken Kalfus’s Equilateral and the Critique
of Transnationalism’, Dorothy Butchard, “War on omniscient narration”:
Surveillance and resistance in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper and
Mark Danielewski’s House of Leave’, and Lihua Zhao, ‘Patriarchal Narrative
and Patriarchy Criticism Narrative: Analysis of the Two Omniscient Narrators
in Morrison’s Love’]
2) Short Story (Cycles) [Iain Robinson, ‘Eschatology in the Short Stories of
Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Emily Kathryn Utter, ‘Lonely Voices:
Approaching representations of repressed memory in marginalised multiperspective narratives’, Valerie O’Riordan, ‘The Problem of Genre: The Short
Story Cycle in the 21st Century’, and Emma Young, ‘A Feminist Form?
Engaging with (Post)feminism in Michèle Roberts’ Short Stories’]
3) Genre [Julia Hoydis, ‘A New Feminist Fantastic? Ethics and Aesthetics in
Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death’, E. Dawson Varughese, “Weird New
India”: the numinous and the popular in Sanghi’s The Krishna Key’, Huw
Marsh, ‘“A snigger here, a snigger there”: Jonathan Coe and the politics of
comedy’, and Jamie Jarvie, ‘Parts Taken From The City & The City of China
Miéville’s Critical Reception: The Unelectability of Low-Level
Translationese’
3.15 – tea/coffee
3.30 – keynote 3: Imogen Tyler, ‘Social Abjection: The Political Aesthetics of
Disgust’
4.45 – panel 10 3 x 2-paper panel
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1) Nature in the Anthropocene [Astrid Bracke, ‘The Making of a Genre: A
Network Approach to the New Nature Writing’ and Chung-jen Chen,
‘Remembering and Re-membering Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Solar]
2) Queer [Katharine Harris, ‘“The scope of temporal aberration”: Anachronism
and ‘neo-historical’ fiction in the twenty-first century’ and Sarah Newport,
‘Postcolonialism, Perversity and Prizes: The Construction of Transgender
Subjectivities in Habibi and Narcopolis]
3) Drama and Science (Fiction) [Susan Gray, ‘Making a Case for Science
Fiction Theatre’ and Louise LePage, ‘The Robot “Performer”: Revealing the
Workings of Dramatic Character (and human being) in the Twenty-First
Century’]
5.45 – Walk to LPAC
6.00 – drinks Café Zing
7.00 – Tim Crouch and Andy Smith, what happens to the hope at the end of the
evening, LPAC (Lincoln Performing Arts Centre)
Thursday 17th July
9.30 – panel 11 2 x 3-paper panel
1) Meta-theatricality [Poppy Corbett, ‘Allegorizing Presence in Contemporary
Postdramatic Theatre: Tim Crouch and Andy Smith’s, what happens to the
hope at the end of the evening…’ Cristina Delgado-García, “For something
worthwhile to happen it’s simply not enough to wish the situation otherwise”:
pessimism, meta-theatricality and spectatorship in Chris Thorpe’s There Has
Possibly Been an Incident and Tim Crouch and Andy Smith’s what happens to
the hope at the end of the evening’, and Andy Smith, ‘What can we do with
what we have got: dematerialised theatre: a light and fluid practice for a liquid
modern age’]
2) Poetry: New Forms [Patricia Connell, ‘“There’s a signature to every war”: A
moment of redefinition in Owen Sheer’s Pink Mist’, Calum Gardner, ‘Girly
Men and Thousands of Eyes: Some New Ends of Language Writing’ and
Andrew Taylor, ‘That’s not writing’ – Collage and Conceptual Writing:
plagiarism or pushing innovation, the performance processes of poetic
practice’]
11.00 – tea/coffee
11.15 – keynote 4: Robert Eaglestone, ‘The Past in Fiction: history, histories,
memory, trauma, possession’
12.30 – lunch (barge)
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