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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Keele University
School of English
Keele Management Centre
14th May 2005 (Saturday)
One Day Colloquium on Darwin, Sexuality and Literary Representation
9:30 - 10:00 Registration and Welcome
10:05 - 11:15 - Keynote Speaker:
Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter)
Mating in Fiction after Darwin
Chair: David Amigoni (Keele University)
11:15 - 11:40 - Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:00 1st Slot : Sexual Selection and Poetry
Chair: Sara Silva (Keele University)
Speakers
- Nathan Uglow (Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds)
Mutual Adaptation: Darwin and Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Dynamics
of Sexual Selection
- Gowan Dawson (Leicester University)
Obscene Potential of Sexual Selection
- John Holmes (Reading University)
Lady Doctors and Modern Apostles, Sexual Selection and Science in the
Poetry of Constance Naden
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:10 - Keynote Speaker
Carolyn Burdett (London Metropolitan University)
Epiphenomenal Love
Chair: Roger Ebbatson (Loughborough University &
University College Worcester)
15:15 - 16:10 2nd Slot: Responses to the Descent of Man
Chair: tba
Speakers
- Marie Banfield (Birkbeck College, University of London)
A Very Old Manifestation of a Very Old Thing: Sexual Struggle and
Selection in George Meredith's The Egoist and Darwin's The Descent of
Man
- Mark Frost (Southampton University)
De-Sexing the Cherry: John Ruskin and the Queendoms of Nature
16:10 - 16:30 Afternoon tea
16:30 - 17:30 3rd Slot: Sexual Selection, Anthropology and
Colonialism
Chair: tba
Speakers
- Heike Bauer (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Social Darwinism and Sexual Practice in Joan Rosita Forbes's
Concerning Women
- Aimillia Ramli (Manchester University)
Algerian Beauty: Beauty and Race in Grant Allen's The Tents of Shem
17:30 - Evaluation and close
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