CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
MAKING WAVES
Literary Studies in an Interdisciplinary Frame
4-5 July 2003
Robinson College Cambridge
A conference under the auspices of the Faculty of English, University
of Cambridge, designed to foreground aspects of contemporary literary
studies in relation to some of the interdisciplinary exchanges
exemplified or made possible by the work of Professor Dame Gillian
Beer. For more information and a booking form please email:
[log in to unmask], telephone: (01223) 765778, or visit the conference
webpage at http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/MakingWaves/index.htm
Conference Fees: residential fee £100 per day, non-residential fee £50
per day, student daily fee £25 per day.
Programme of Speakers
Friday 4 July
Professor Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) What is a Post-Colonial
Classic?
Professor Terry Castle (Stanford University) A Jazz Age Belinda
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Oxford) Making Magic
Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University) Peter Walsh's Penknife
Professor Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT) Imitation, Identity, and Difference
Professor Martin Jay (UC, Berkeley) No State of Grace: Violence in the
Garden
Professor Suzanne Raitt (William and Mary) Waste and Repair in Dorian
Gray
Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, London) Coetzee's Women
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge) Commons and
Borderlands
Works in Progress, Poetry and Fiction Readings by Writers: Ruth Padel,
Jo Shapcott, Ali Smith, Marina Warner
Saturday 5 July
Professor Malcolm Bowie (University of Cambridge) Freud on Music
Professor Rachel Bowlby (University of York) Recapitulations
Professor Catherine Gallagher (UC, Berkeley) Political Economy,
Culture, and George Eliot
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (UEA) Art in Fiction
Professor Angela Leighton (University of Hull) Just a Word: On Woolf
Professor George Levine (Rutgers University) Reductionism, Positivism,
Darwin, and Us
Dr Christopher Page (University of Cambridge) A Woman's
Shirt, a Museum, and the Rise of European Music
Dr Ato Quayson (University of Cambridge) Africando: On the Multiple
Temporalities of Contemporary Africa
Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT) Discovering the Victorian Environment
Professor David Trotter (University of Cambridge) Virginia Woolf and
Cinema
Dr Alison Winter (University of Chicago) Sciences of Identity and
Psychiatric Film
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