TEXTUAL REVOLUTIONS - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, SCOTLAND
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Venue: Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling.
FRIDAY 8 MAY 2009
9.30 – 10.20 Registration and coffee
10.20 – 10.30 Welcome address Mr Steven Craig (Conference Organiser)
10.30 – 11.30 Plenary 1 Chair: Dr Adrian Hunter (Deputy HoD English Studies)
The Revolution in English Studies and the Meaning of Culture. Professor Catherine Belsey, Swansea University
11.30 – 11.50 Tea and coffee
11.50 – 12.50 Session 1
Panel 1: Forms of Protest(2)
Chair: TBC
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s case: 33 legal trials to silence his voice, before his ‘death sentence’.
Erminia Passannanti,
A Celebration of Struggle: Literary Insurgency and Forms of Political Protest in Contemporary Art.
Kimberley Marwood, University of Essex
Panel 2:Philosophy and Revolution (2)
Chair: TBC
Humour, the Hegelian Dialectic, Post-constructionalists and Revolution.
Shelley Campbell,
Philosophy of zaum: the ‘para’ of paradox, the ‘trans’ or trans-reason and the ‘neo’ of neologism.
Helen Palmer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
12.50 -13.50 Lunch
13.50 – 15.20 Session 2
Panel 3:The Revolutionary 1930s (3)
Chair: TBC
Andrei Platonov’s Messianic Aesthetics: Interrupting the Revolution.
Adi Drori-Avraham, Goldsmiths College, London
Ethics of silence: is becomes nought in the 1930s.
Simon Cooper, Newcastle University
Between Griffith and Brecht: Cinema and the Transnational in Fritz Lang’s Fury.
Ben Dooley, University of Essex
Panel 4:Novel Revolutions (3)
Chair: TBC
Representation of Factory Children in Early Victorian Industrial Novels and the Development of Social Exchange and Intertextuality.
Pei-Hsuan Lo, Royal Holloway, University of London
James Joyce’s Textual Revolutions as ‘Portals of Discovery’.
Hana Khasawneh,
15.20 – 15.45 Tea and coffee
15.45 – 17.15 Session 3
Panel 5:Modernist Revolutions (3)
Chair: TBC
Revolutionary Sentence: Development of the Stream-of-Consciousness Narrative.
Urvashi Vashist, University of Aberdeen
Consciousness Explained?
Vanessa Dodd, University of Wales, Newport
Elizabeth Bowen and Modernism.
Anna Fenge, University of Stirling
Panel 6:Revolutionary Theologies (3)
Chair: TBC
Forbidden Theology: the mis-understanding and downfall of pseudo-Dionysius’ concept of hierarchy.
Dylan Potter, University of St Andrews
Revolution against Revolution; India against India; present against the past: ‘drives’ behind the twentieth-century political revolutions of a country.
Bibin Yesudas, independent researcher
The School of Danielson: Neo-Christian Music and the Secular Ear.
Neil Burkey, University College London
17.15 – 19.00 Reception TBC
SATURDAY 9 MAY 2009
9.30 – 10.00 Tea and coffee
10.00 – 11.00 Plenary 2 Chair: Professor Ruth Evans
The Paradoxes of the Digital Revolution. Dr John Lavagnino, Kings College, London.
11.00 – 11.15 Tea and coffee
11.15 – 12.45 Session 4
Panel 7: Methodological Approaches to the Digital Revolution: Part One (3)
Chair: TBC
Liminal (r)evolutions: narrative, technology and the late age of print.
Emma Lister, University of Glasgow
Building blocks of text, or, where is text located? An approach to digital narrative.
Hanna Sommerseth,
Regime Change? Avant-gardist Rhetoric and the ‘Digital Revolution’.
Lisa Otty, University of Dundee
Panel 8: Revolutionaries (3)
Chair: TBC
Husayn – the Human Conscience.
Imranali Panjwani, Kings College, London
Evolution vs. Social Pollution: The Problem of Revolution in Paradise Lost.
Shanyn Altman, University of Bristol
Magic Realism, the Fantastic and the Representation of the Female Revolution.
Emma Millar, University of Durham
Panel 9: Revolutions in Translation (3)
Chair: TBC
Comparative Studies on the Protestant Reformation sixteenth-century Europe and nineteenth-century Korea by the Vernacular Bible Translation as the Textual Revolution.
Daniel Sung-Ho Ahn, University of Edinburgh
Translating Chinese Culture into English discourse: a proposal for China English within the framework of English as a lingua franca.
Ying Wang, University of Southampton
Translation and Textual Revolution in Ciaran Carson’s The Alexandrine Plan.
Jessica B. Peart, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 Session 5
Panel 10: Methodological Approaches to the Digital Revolution: Part Two (3)
Chair: TBC
The revolution in reading: are paper-based books a thing of the past?
Ian Chapman, Lancaster University
The Other Digital Revolution: What Happens when the Technology of Reading Changes?
Matthew Hayler, University of Exeter
Virtual Pilgrimage: How Technology has Revolutionized the Medieval Practice of Pilgrimage.
Christian George, University of St Andrews
Panel 11: Revolutionary Paradigms: Utopia, Mathematics, Globalisation (3)
Chair: TBC
Possibility of Literature.
Gabriel Martin,
Textual Revolution in Mathematics: Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.
Nina Engelhardt, University of Edinburgh
From Posthumanism to Globalisation: Two Revolutionary Paradigms in Literary Studies.
Anne Schroder, University of Essex
Panel 12: Archiving the Scottish Canon (2)
Chair: TBC
The Renaissance Boethius? The Scottish Reception of The Consolation of Philosophy.
Kylie Murray, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Making the Scottish Canon: Revolution by Stealth.
Elizabeth Elliott, University of Edinburgh
15.15 – 15.45 Tea and coffee
15.45 – 17.15 Session 6 TBC
Panel 13: Revolution and Postcolonialism (3)
Chair: TBC
Identical Outcomes: Planning Language in the Global Environment.
Paula Price, Liverpool Hope University
A Language of Revolution: Mimetic Hybridity in Postcolonial Anglophone Nigerian Writing.
Susanne Klinger, University of East Anglia
Transcending Textual Boundaries: Musical Ekphrasis in Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag.
Christin Hoene, University of Edinburgh
Panel 14: Textualities and the Technologies of Production (3)
Chair: TBC
‘Unleashing the Underdog’: Reading ‘Place’ as Text and Revolutionary Tool in Virginia Woolf’s Flush.
Verita Sriratana, University of St Andrews
Going Down on History: The Bard on the Road in My Own Private Idaho.
Jonathan Maxwell, University of Stirling
The End of Narrative and the Birth of the Anti-narrative: Kenji Siratori, Antony Hitchin and the Cut-up Revolution of the Twenty-first Century.
Ed Robinson, University of Sheffield
17.15 – 17.30 Tea and coffee
17.30 – 18.30 Plenary 3 Chair: Dr Dale Townshend
‘Bliss Was It In That Dawn’: the textual revolution revisited. Professor Christopher Norris, Cardiff University