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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "kiera vaclavik" <[log in to unmask]> British Comparative Literature Association First Annual Graduate Conference Undergrounds 9 January 2003 University of Manchester PROGRAMME 10.30 - 11.05 Registration and Welcome 11.05 - 12.00 Introductory Plenary. Dr Rachel Falconer (Sheffield): 'Hell & Back: the Katabatic Imagination in Theory & Practice'. 12.00 - 1.15 Session 1: Literary Undergrounds (Chair: Matthew Philpotts, Manchester) David Ashford: ''By Train to Diss': Literature on the Infernal Underground: 1890-2002.' Baryon Tensor Posadas (Singapore): 'Fragmented Narratives & Underground Spaces in the Fictions of Murakami Haruki.' Ursula Schmidt (Mainz): 'Peril & Protection: Subterranean Settings in British & German Children's Literature.' 1.15 - 2.15 Lunch 2.15 - 3.30 Session 2: Conceptual Undergrounds (Chair: Mary Green, Manchester) Jonathan Merrison (Exeter): 'Literary Underground, Fictional Underground: Nouveau roman and the Itinerary of Mise en abyme.' Sarah Dillon (Sussex): 'Palimpsestuous Forgetting: Freud's "Project for a Scientific Psychology" (1895) & the Structure of the Psychical Apparatus.' Timothy Guymer (Essex): '"Underground, Overground, Wombling Free': Laplanche, Fantasy and the Unconscious.' 3.30 - 4.00 Coffee 4.00 - 5. 45 Session 3: Cultural Undergrounds (Chair: Jo Carruthers, Manchester) Barbara Lebrun (Manchester): 'The Visibility of the Underground: Contradictions in French Music Culture.' Rosie Corbin: 'Descent into the Underground.' Nancy Aris: 'The Bright Underground: The Moscow Subway as a Place of Heaven'. Richard Byrne: 'Technology Going Underground: Perception and Imagination from Within the Trenches, 1914-1918.' __________________________________________ Registration fee: £10 (waived if BCLA membership taken up @ £14 Postgraduate/£28 non-Postgraduate). To register, please send a cheque, payable to "BCLA" (for £10, £14 or £28) to: Kiera Vaclavik, Department of French, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. For directions and maps of Manchester and the campus, see www.man.ac.uk/about/maps.html. The conference will be held in the Arts building on Oxford Road (no. 24 on campus map). For more about this conference (including abstracts), the BCLA and its other activities visit www.bcla.org