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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2012:
INTERSECTIONS
Friday 9 March 2012
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“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique … point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.” - Herman Hesse
“I give away myself to you, and dote upon the exchange.” - William Shakespeare
“For me, a poem is the crossroads of my thoughts, my feelings, my imaginings, my wishes, & my verbal sense: normally these run parallel.” - Philip Larkin |
| from Philip Larkin, letter 10 July 1951; in Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, ed. Anthony Thwaite (Faber and Faber, 1992) |
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Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London.
Jointly sponsored by the
English Department and the School of European Languages and Cultures at University College London. |
The Intersections conference aims to solicit a range of papers united by a common view of literature as built upon collaboration, influence, and interchange. Unique literary experiences occur at 'point[s] at which the world's phenomena intersect': these points might be located in the confrontation between literature and science, at a crossroads in a literary landscape, or on a page annotated by its readers. We hope that delegates will relish this opportunity to interrogate such diverse types of intersection both with and within English literature.
The conference will take place at the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, and will occur in conjunction with a Royal Holloway sponsored lecture by Jacques Rancière, whose work on intercultural exchange has changed scholarly understanding of the intersection between politics and art.
REGISTRATION FEES
£20 standard
£15 students/IES members
£10 speakers and chairs
CLICK HERE FOR A REGISTRATION FORM IN WORD.DOC
CLICK HERE FOR A REGISTRATION FORM IN PDF
PROGRAMME
| 9.30am |
Registration: Room G22/26: Senate House Ground Floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU |
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| 10.00am |
Panel 1a: Early Modern Period Intersections |
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Rachel Stenner (Bristol University): 'Edmund Spenser's Complaints and Paratextual Collaboration' |
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Peter Auger (University of Oxford): 'Poetry by Rote: Ritual in Edward Browne's Sacred Poems (1641)' |
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Roberta Klimt (University College London); ' "He that Attis' image hangs between": the symbol as intersection in Yeats and Marvell' |
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Panel 1b: Visual Intersections: Art, Literature, Culture |
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Thomas Overton (King's College London): ' "Art and Property Now": The British Library's John Berger Archive' |
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Sarah Lee (Goldsmith's College): 'Imagist and Vorticist Poetic Reactions towards Italian Futurism, 1912-15'. |
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Seungyeon Syeon Gabrielle Jung (Ewha Women's University, Seoul); ' "Visual Translation: pushing the boundaries of literature and cultural understanding' |
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| 11.15-11.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.30am |
Panel 2a: Science and Cognition: Intersecting the Psyche |
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William Kherbek (Birkbeck College): 'Romantism Mirrors: John Ashbery and the Romantic Roots of Cognitive Literary Perspectives' |
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Michael Flexer (University of Leeds): ' "Why do you not then sh.....?": Schreber's system of not-finishing-a-sentence, and the constraints of co-authorship in schizophrenic memoirs' |
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Matthew Franks (Harvard University): 'Spontaneous human combustion: the intersection of scientific truth and the unknown in the realist novel' |
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Panel 2b: Modern and Contemporary Intersections |
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Will Bowers (University College London): ' "When you're standing at the crossroads/That you cannot comprehend": How we read Bob Dylan' |
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Eva Van Loenen (University of Southampton): 'Examining Religion through Literature, Case Study: "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok' |
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Amy Cutler (Royal Holloway): ' "Treed to a wild junction": forest intersections in modern British poetry' |
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| 12.45-1.30pm |
Lunch provided |
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| 1.30pm |
Panel 3a: Constructing Dialogues, Reading Narratives |
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Valeria Tsygankova (School of Advanced Studies): 'A History of Enthusiasm: Susan Howe reads Herman Melville's reading' |
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Whitney Trump (Stanford University): 'Writing Together Against Each Other: the Stories of Charles Chesnutt and Joel Chandler Harris' |
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Raphael Koenig (Harvard University): 'Unruly Genius? Sir Walter Scott vs. E.T.A. Hoffmann' |
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Panel 3b: Literary Intersections in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries |
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Andrea Selleri (University of Warwick): 'Oscar Wilde's Poetic Voices: The Case of Poems' |
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Ping-Ta Ku (University College London): 'Mrs. Cohen's Whorehouse at the Rooftop Theatre' |
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Eric Rundquist (University of Nottingham): 'Ambiguous voice in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse' |
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| 3.00pm |
Panel 4a: Critical Theory and Intellectual History |
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Imogen Forbes-Macphail (University of Western Australia): 'Post-Modern Medievalisms: Reviving Medieval Literary Theory in the Information Age' |
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James Everest (Queen Mary): 'Critical detachment: working in the intersections of English studies and social and intellectual history' |
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Aakash Suchak (University of Sussex): ' "The Re-mark of belonging does not belong": Image, Genre and Derrida's Theory of Supplement in Woolf's Orlando: A Biography' |
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Panel 4b: Culture and Oppression: International Intersections |
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Chisomo Kalinga (King's College London): 'When Cultures Collide: Comparing Gay Literature and African Literature of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic' |
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Alice Meyer (Royal Holloway): ' "Come, my friends/'Tis not too late to seek a newer world": Imperial discourse in the poetry of 19th century South Africa' |
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Lia Deromedia (Royal Holloway): 'The Intersection of Adult Narrator and Child Character in the Holocaust Novel' |
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| 4.15-4.30pm |
Coffee break |
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| 4.30pm |
Panel 5a: Collaboration and Allusion |
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Erin Johnson (University of Oxford): 'Male Homosocial Bonds and Sibling Rivalry in the Collaborative Early Writing of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë' |
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Dominic McLoughlin (Royal Holloway): ' "Dear Friend": a creative and critical meeting point between Elizabeth Bishop and Gerard Manley Hopkins' |
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William Weber (Yale University): 'Authorship and Allusion: Attributing Titus Andronicus IV.i' |
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Panel 5b: Intersecting Identities: Life Writing, Childhood, and Society |
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Becky Varley-Winter (University of Cambridge): 'College and childhood visions in the work of Max Ernst, Walter Benjamin, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.' |
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Julia Tejblum (Harvard University): 'Wordsworth and Satanic Autobiography' |
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Margaret Deli (Yale University): 'Seeing as Survival: Edith Wharton and the Custom of Connoisseurship' |
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| 6.00pm |
All participants and delegates are invited to attend: |
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Jacques Rancière (Université de Paris, St Denis): ' "Modernity" Revisited' (details below) |
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| 7.00pm |
Wine reception |
JACQUES RANCIÈRE IN LONDON
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March 2012
A lecture by Jacques Rancière (9 March) and two seminars (10 March) in response to his work, organised by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, in conjunction with the Institute of English Studies, and the UCL Graduate Conference.
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LECTURE: Friday 9 March 2012:
' "Modernity" Revisited',
by Jacques Rancière, Professor Emeritus,
Université de Paris (St. Denis)
6.00pm, the Beveridge Hall.
Free to attend and followed by a wine reception.
All welcome. |
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| SEMINARS: Saturday 10 March 2012: |
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| 'Aesthetics': 10am-12.00 |
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| 'Contemporary Culture': 2pm-4pm |
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Places are limited and applications are invited: CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION FORM.
Please complete and return the form to Sue Geddes, HARC Administrator at harc@rhul.ac.uk. |
Abstract
Working against simplistic visions of the historical break and the conquest of autonomy which underpin the modernist doxa, the aim is to bring out once again the multiplicity of interweavings that have made up what is called artistic modernity: articulations of heterogeneous temporalities, the diagonals traced between artistic practices separated by their own particular primary material, the constant borrowings by the noble arts from the popular arts, the crossings and tensions between the forms of art and those of everyday experience, and between its paradigms and the modes of interpretation of the common world and of the causality of collective action.
Jacques Rancière is emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII, where he taught in the Philosophy Department from 1969 to 2000, and visiting professor in several American universities. Most of his work has been devoted to the articulation of politics and aesthetics. Among the books recently translated into English are The Future of the Image (Verso), The Emancipated Spectator (Verso), Politics of Literature (Polity Press), Mute Speech (Columbia University Press) and Chronicles of Consensual Times (Continuum). His last book Aisthesis. Scènes du régime esthétique de l'art has recently come out in France (Galilée).
The School of Advanced Study is part of the central University of London. The School takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to its facilities in order to accommodate the needs of such visitors. If you have a particular requirement, please feel free to discuss it confidentially with the organiser in advance of the event taking place.
Enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
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