Dear colleagues, 
We are glad to present the programme for our interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times', hosted by the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, and supported by the MHRA and BCLA. Please see the programme below for details and registration.
(Apologies for cross-posting) 

Interdisciplinary Conference 
'Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times'
8-9 Dec 2017

venue: Kentish Barn seminar room, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge (enter via the main Cathedral gate and follow the signage)
registration: £25, by 23 Nov 2017 (*spaces limited, early registration strongly encouraged)
registration link on conference blogpage: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/playandexperimentation/registration-details/ 

Conference schedule:

8 Dec 2017
1-1:30pm: coffee and registration
1:30pm start of conference

1:30-2:20pm keynote 1: Peter Dayan (Edinburgh): 'What were they playing at?' Chance in art, and how Dada put it in its place 
Chair: Xiaofan Amy Li (Kent)

2:30 – 4pm Panel 1. Poetry
Chair: Xiaofan Amy Li (Kent)
Richard David Williams (SOAS): Rajput Play: practicing aesthetics in courtly culture
Kate Costello (Oxford): Machine Translation, Cyberbabble, That Ringing in My Ears: On Multimedia Practices in Hsia Yu’s Experimental Poetry        
Alexander Alonso (York): Playing the Fool: Paul Muldoon's Nonsense 

4 -4:30pm coffee/tea break

4:30-6pm: Panel 2. Space and Aesthetics 
Chair: Samuel McAuliffe (Goldsmiths)
Lucie Glasheen (Queen Mary): Play, transformation and the re-newing of urban space in the children’s cartoon ‘Casey Court’
Jennifer Gustar (University of British Colombia): Ludic Feminism and Literary Liminality
Yaniv Hagbi (Amsterdam): The Horror of the Errorless Play: Georges Perec, Dennis Potter, and William Golding


9 Dec 2017
9:30-10:20 Keynote 2: Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter): Capital Games: The Politics and Culture of Recreation in Interwar Berlin
Chair: Reinhard M. Moeller (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

10:30-12:00 Panel 3. Playful Qualities
Chair: Barbara Bollig (University of Hagen)
Reinhard M. Moeller (Goethe University, Frankfurt): Playing, Experimenting and Coping with Chance: Serendipity as a Creative Paradigm in Literature and Theory 
Samuel McAuliffe (Goldsmiths): Decorum and Insolence in Robert Walser’s Dialectic of Manners 
Cornelia Rémi (LMU Munich and University of Tübingen): Radical Playfulness: World Hacks and Survival in Contemporary German Writing

12:00-1:00pm lunch with coffee/tea

1-1:50pm Keynote 3: Thomas Karshan (UEA): Nabokov Playing on the Flowered Brink of Parody: Teaching through Play
chair: Alexander Alonso (York)

2-3:30pm Panel 4. Philosophy and literature in play 
Chair: Helena Taylor (Exeter)
Jordi Larios (St Andrews): Benjamín Jarnés’s playful fictionalization of Ortega’s ‘raciovitalismo’: Viviana y Merlín (1929)
Elodie Laugt (St Andrews): Senses of ‘play’ at work in Jacques Rancière’s reading of Mallarmé
Barbara Bollig (University of Hagen): Toying with Text(ure)s: Un-Mythicising Margwelaschwili’s “Medea” and the Ontotext 

3:30-4:00pm coffee/tea break

4-5:30pm: Panel 5. Ludic Strategies  
Chair: Lucie Glasheen (Queen Mary)
Hugh Haughton (York): ‘A queer-looking party’: The Games of Nonsense
Tiago Hirth (University of Lisbon): Luca Pacioli's Jokes
Anna Reynolds (York): ‘To Play with False Dice in a Corner o[f] the Cover’: Wastepaper Play in the Works of Thomas Nashe  

closing remarks and end of conference 

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If you have any questions, please address them to Dr Xiaofan Amy Li at <[log in to unmask]>