This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art, Dec 12th - 13th 2019 - Confirmed speaker schedule + delegate registration link now open
With apologies for cross-posting:
The confirmed speaker programme for This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, to be held at Edinburgh College of Art on Thursday December 12th and Friday December 13th, is as follows.
The symposium organisers actively welcome attendance from non-presenting symposium delegates. Delegates can register to attend the symposium @ https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-humanities-and-social-science/edinburgh-college-of-art/edinburgh-college-of-art-events/this-womans-work-a-kate-bush-symposium
Delegate registration fees are £100 (waged) or £50 (unwaged or student)
Thursday December 12th
9.45 – 10.45: Keynote 1: D-M Withers (University of Sussex): Figures, Communities and Concepts: Kate Bush as a Multi-Faceted Pop-Cultural Phenomena
11.00 – 12.00: Panel 1 – National identities
• Samuel Love (University of Edinburgh): ‘How Beautiful it is, Amongst all the Rubbish’: Kate Bush’s ‘Oh England My
Lionheart’ and the Iconography of Englishness
• Daniel Pietersen (Independent scholar): Two Steps on the Water: Folk Horror in the work of Kate Bush
12.15 – 1.15: Panel 2 – Gender (I)
• Kirsty Fairclough (University of Salford): The Fine Purple, The Purest Gold: Authorial Connection in the Collaborations
between Kate Bush and Prince
• Alison Mayne (University of Edinburgh): Plucked from Mrs Bartolozzi’s Washing Line: Kate Bush, clothing and exchanging
experiences
2.00 – 3.00: Panel 3 – Sensual worlds
• Jenny Ann Cubin (Lancaster University): What a lovely afternoon: A Sky of Honey and Pastoral Convention
• Thomas Houlton (Independent scholar): Bushcraft: Exploring Kate Bush’s Sensual World
3.15 – 4.15: Panel 4 – Art historical perspectives
• Molly Gilroy (Independent scholar): ‘Strange Phenomena’: Tracing Surreal Metamorphosis, Ballet and Keys in the works
of Kate Bush, Maya Deren and Leonor Fini
• Sandra Lockwood (Simon Fraser University): Kate Bush and the Romantic Sublime
4.30 – 5.45: Keynote 2: Graeme Thomson (author of Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush) in conversation
Friday December 13th
9.30 – 10.30: Keynote 3: Ian Cawood (University of Stirling): Lionhearts and Fishpeople: Kate Bush on Stage
10.30 – 11.30: Panel 5 – Gender (II)
• Levent Donat Berköz (Independent scholar): Swapping Places: Kate Bush’s Masquerade in ‘Running Up That Hill’
• Usha Wilbers and Lara Severens (Radboud University): Into the Sensual World: Gender Subversion in the Work of Kate
Bush
11.45 – 1.15: Panel 6 – Studio technologies
• Amanda Feery (Independent musician): This Woman's Work: A Composer's Perspective on Vocality and Narrative in the
work of Kate Bush
• Paul Harkins (Edinburgh Napier University): Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI
• Laura M. Zucconi (Stockton University): Deeper Understanding: Kate Bush in the Historical Context of Producers
2.00 – 3.15: Keynote 4: Rob Young (The Wire magazine): title TBC
3.30 – 5.15: Panel 7 – Performance
• Hannah Buckley and Catriona McAra (Leeds Arts University): Running with Wolves, Somaticizing the Text: Revisionary
Feminism and Contemporary Dance
• Harry Maberly (Independent artist): Kate Bush: Fiction, Fantasy and Fandom
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