Programme
| Time | Description |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45 - 10:40 |
Panel One: Women and the House Chair: David Taylor Discussants: Lisa Robertson Louise Campion – 鈥淭he Crucifixion in the Kitchen: Disturbing Domesticity in The Doctrine of the Hert and The Book of Gostly Grace鈥� Rita Dashwood – 鈥溾�楢n office in which she had always depended鈥�: Surrogate managers in Jane Austen鈥檚 Mansfield Park and Persuasion鈥� |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 - 11:45 |
Panel Two: Memory, Trauma, and Psychoanalysis Chair: John Fletcher Discussants: Dan Katz and Christian Smith Fiona Farnsworth – 鈥淢emory and the Essential Truth鈥�: Contested Territory and the Politics of Testimony in Joe Sacco鈥檚 Palestine Narratives" James Wills – 鈥溾�業nterpreting (with) Freud鈥�: Laplanche, Hoffmann and the Birth of Unconscious Drives鈥� |
| 11:45 - 11:50 | Break |
| 11:50 - 12:45 |
Panel Three: Critical Theory: Engaging with Heidegger and Adorno Chair: Paulo de Medeiros Discussants: Emma Mason Lillian Hingley – 鈥淗enrik Ibsen鈥檚 Endings in Theodor Adorno鈥檚 Critical Theory Birgit Breidenbach – 鈥淭he Case for Pathetic Fallacy, or What Is It Like to Be Thomas Bernhard鈥檚 Wingchair?鈥� |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch in H 5.43 |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Panel Four: Post/Colonial Questions Chair: Pablo Mukherjee Discussants: Mike Niblett and Sourit Bhattacharya Lara Choksey – 鈥淐hanging Places: Political Transition and Evolutionary Time in Doris Lessing鈥檚 Space Fiction鈥� Manasvini Rajan – 鈥淥ppression and Silencing in Delhi Calm鈥� |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Break |
| 14:45 - 16:05 |
Panel Five: Text Circulation and Adaptation Chair: Emma Mason Discussants: Emanuelle Santos Emil Rybczak – 鈥淧ublishing at the Margins: Whose Brand is it Anyway?鈥� Ronan Hatfull – 鈥溾�楢fter All This Fooling鈥�: The Other RSC鈥� Madeleine Scherer – 鈥溾�楤eautiful Lofty Things鈥�: Marina Carr鈥檚 Hecuba and Ancient Greek Morality |
| 16:05 - 16:20 | Break and refreshments |
| 16:20 - 17:15 |
Panel 6: The Planet in Crisis Chair: David Taylor Discussants: Paulo de Medeiros Julie Hudson – 鈥淩e-Performing Reception: The Skriker as Ecotheatre in 1994 and 2015 Karen Borg Cardona – 鈥淭he Female Temptress in Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 The Road鈥� |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Break |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Roundtable: Postgraduate CV Building and Publications Speakers: Emma Mason, David Taylor, and Paulo de Medeiros |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Q&A Postgraduate CV Building and Publications |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Closing Remarks by Emma Mason |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Wine Reception |