| Programme |
| FRIDAY 25 APRIL |
| From 9.30am |
Registration |
| 10.00 |
Welcome |
| 10.10 |
Panel 1: MEMORY |
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Chair: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck) |
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Richard Crownshaw (Goldsmith's) 'Postmemory in Fiction after 1989' |
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Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway), 'Why World War II? Why Now?' |
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Paul Crosthwaite (Cardiff University), 'Making and Re-Making War: World War II after 9/11' |
| 11.30 |
Coffee |
| 11.45 |
Panel 2: MEMOIR |
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Chair: Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck) |
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Joe Brooker (Birkbeck), 'Perhaps The Youngest I'll Ever Be: Paul Morley In And Out Of Narrative' |
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Kaye Mitchell (Manchester University), 'Raunch vs. Prude: Women's Erotic Memoirs & the Double-Bind of Female Sexuality' |
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Lynne Segal (Birkbeck), 'Who do you think you are? Feminist Memoir Writing' |
| 1.15-2.15 |
Lunch (own arrangements) |
| 2.15 |
Panel 3: TERROR |
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Chair: Joe Brooker (Birkbeck |
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Bart Moore-Gilbert (Goldsmith's),' "Globalism, Terror and the Politics of (mis)recognition": Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist' |
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Peter Boxall (University of Sussex), 'Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Beckett in the Ruins of the Future' |
| 3.15 |
Panel 4: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION |
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Chair: Richard Crownshaw (Goldsmith's) |
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Claire Feehily (Birkbeck), 'Foreknowledge of History in Contemporary War Fiction' |
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David James (University of Nottingham), 'Ventriloquizing the Master: Jamesian Afterlives, from Impersonation to Inventio' |
| 4.15 |
Coffee |
| 4.30 |
Panel 5: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
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Chair: Kaye Mitchell (Manchester University) |
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Gill Partington (Birkbeck), 'Facts, fictions, hoaxes and what the Internet does to narrative' |
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Anouk Lang (Birmingham University), 'Paratexts, hypertexts, subtexts: stories of a story on the Web' |
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Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck), 'Mother Tongues: Neurology, Language and Authenticity in Ian McEwan's Atonement and Saturday ' |
6.00 |
Wine reception: launch of Centre for Postwar Cultural Research |
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| SATURDAY 26 APRIL |
| 10.30 |
Panel 6: CINEMA |
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Chair: Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck) |
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Mark Bould (University of West of England), 'Proliferation, Peristalsis and Ejaculation: Reflections on Narrative and Spectacle in Digital SF Cinema' |
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Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), 'Flashbacks, Mosaics and Loops: Trauma and Narrative Cinema in the 1990s' |
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Colin MacCabe (Birkbeck), 'Response/Comment on cinema trajectories since 1989' |
| 12.00 |
Coffee |
| 12.20 |
Panel 7: POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY DRAMA |
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Chair: Aoife Monks (Birkbeck) |
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with leading political playwright David Edgar and Professor Mary Luckhurst (York University) |
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'Back to Babel: British political theatre after the cold war' |
| 1.20-2.30 |
Lunch (own arrangements) |
| 2.30 |
Panel 8: AMERICAN TRAJECTORIES |
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Chair: Joe Brooker (Birkbeck |
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Sharon Holm (Birkbeck), 'Lost Rights? Native Spectrality, "Bone Courts" and the Law in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Narratives' |
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James Annesley (University of Newcastle), 'Live Unlimited: Contemporary American Fiction and the Discourses of Lifestyle' |
| 3.30 |
Coffee |
| 4.00 |
Panel 9: CONTEMPORARY WRITING |
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Chair: Russell Celyn-Jones (Birkbeck) |
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with Toby Litt and Adam Roberts |
| 5.00 |
Close |
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