Symposium Programme
| Thursday 23 May 2019 Oculus OC1.04 |
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| 8:30 鈥� 9:00 |
Registration in OC1.04 Refreshments |
| 9:00 鈥� 9:15 |
Health and Safety Intro |
| 9.15 鈥� 9.30 |
Opening Remarks by Emma Mason HOD |
| 9:30 |
Panel 1: Bodily and Capitalist Vessels in the Anthropocene Chair: Michael Paye - Rob Horsfield: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Borders in the Anthropocene - Harry Pitt Scott: Offshore: Oil Tankers and World Petroculture - Natasha Bondre: Fountains of Oil in Venezuela: Commodity Frontiers, Petro-Capitalism and the Coloniality of Oil in Gabriel Bracho Montiel鈥檚 Guachimanes |
| 10: 30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 鈥� 12:00 |
Creative Writing Roundtable Chair: Chantal Wright - Cheryl Powell - Vanwy Arif - Susannah Heffernan Key Words: synaesthesia, metaphor, connotation, language, multisensory, perception |
| 12:00 |
Panel 2: Geographical Literary Imaginaries Chair: Michael Meeuwis - Marianne Hillion: 鈥淪natching away the green rug of the Maidan鈥�: Writing and Excavating the City in Contemporary Indian Writing in English - Amul Gyawali: Colonialism and the Sublime: Notes from South Asia |
| 13:00 鈥� 13: 45 |
Lunch |
| 13: 45 鈥� 14:00 |
Remarks by Emma Francis DGS |
| 14: 00 鈥� 15:00 |
Panel 3: Feminist Texts and Theory Chair: Emma Francis - Roxanne Douglas: Caught red-handed: bloodied hands in Arab women鈥檚 writing - Elif G眉lez: Ashes of the Phoenix (AOP) - Esthie Hugo: 鈥淚t is us who groom and weed him鈥�: The Gendered Ecology of Sugarcane in the Poetry of Grace Nichols |
| 15:00 鈥� 16:00 |
Panel 3: Writing and Performing Justice Chair: Jami Rogers - James Wills: The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch - David Fletcher: 鈥楬ypocritical Religionaries鈥� remembered in Restoration drama - Maki Nakamatsu: The impact of dramas on Warwick students鈥� perceptions of disabled people |
| 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 鈥� 17:30 |
Panel 5: Translation, Adaptation, and Abjection Chair: John Gilmore - Layth Awwadd: The Objectification of the Other: Frankenstein in Baghdad as an Adaptation of Frankenstein - Tarini Bhamburkar: The Abject Woman: Spatial Ambivalence and Gothic Transformation in Wuthering Heights and Wide Sargasso Sea - Tina Janssen: A Translation by any other name鈥� Sir William Jones鈥檚 Poems (1772) as an introduction to oriental poetry |
| 17.30 |
Closing Remarks |
Please join us for a wine reception beginning at 17:45 in front of OC1.03. accompanied by a poetry reading by Ruby Turok-Squire.
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