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20 June 2012: PhD conference: Mapping the Journey
Mapping the Journey: Excursions in postgraduate research in Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
The Annual LiFTS PhD Conference
9.30am-4.00pm, Friday 22 June 2012, The Teaching Centre: TC1.7
The Annual LiFTS PhD Conference 'Mapping the Journey' takes place on Friday 22 June from 9.30-4.00pm in the Teaching Centre. There will be ten postgraduate speakers from the department presenting in four panels: "Postcolonial Perspectives", "Lack and Language", "Sound and Fury" and "A Sense of Place". The conference will be followed by a wine reception in the PhD common room from 4.00pm.
Registration is free. All are welcome
Programme (PDF document)
Programme
9.30-10.15: Opening
| 9.30-10.00 |
Refreshments |
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| 10.00-10.15 |
Opening Address |
Dr Jeff Geiger |
10.15-11.30: Panel One: Postcolonial Perspectives
| 10.15-10.35 |
Catherine Luther |
'I belong to the farm: that is the furthest he is prepared to go, even in his most secret heart.' Relocating the Future: Coetzee's Contemporary Perspective on the South African Pastoral |
| 10.35-10.55 |
Ola Abdalkafor |
Responsibility towards the native Subaltern Female: A Spivakian perspective |
| 10.55-11.15 |
Richard McGuire |
'Two Tunes': positioned histories and confluent settler-colonial worlds, in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September (1929) and Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark (1934) |
| 11.15-11.30 |
Questions |
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| 11.30-11.45 |
Break |
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11.45-12.35: Panel Two: Lack and Language
| 11.45-12.05 |
Ben Pestell |
Inexpressible tragedy: Silence in the Oresteia |
| 12.05-12.25 |
Tony Wood |
'Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising': Memory, anticipation and the creative impulse in the skaldic verse of The Lord of the Rings |
| 12.25-12.35 |
Questions |
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| 12.35-1.40 |
Lunch in the PhD Common Room (5A.131) |
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1.40-2.55: Panel Three: Sound and Fury
| 1.40-2.00 |
Heidi Wilkins |
All That Jazz: The diegetic soundtrack in melodrama |
| 2.00-2.20 |
Wen Kuan |
Transnational by Texture: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Historical Representation in A City of Sadness |
| 2.20-2.40 |
Fahmida Akhter |
Women in war: Memory making and memory meaning in Bangladeshi war-based films |
| 2.40-2.55 |
Questions |
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| 2.55-3.10 |
Break |
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3.10-4.00: Panel Four: A Sense of Place
| 3.10-3.30 |
Abdul Atteh |
Yoknapatawpha: A Community of Voices |
| 3.30-3.50 |
Penny Woollard |
Derek Walcott: The American Dilemma |
| 3.50-4.00 |
Questions |
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| 4.00 |
Wine reception in the PhD common room (5A.131) |
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