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Dear all, Below is the programme for the above event to be held at De Montfort University on 22 April this year. The day costs £30 waged, £20 unwaged including lunch and coffees etc and payment can be made online following this link https://store.dmu.ac.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=2&deptid=9&catID=31&hasClicked=1 DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ADAPTATIONS Feminism and Adaptations Study Day Wednesday 22 April 2009 Registration 9.30-10.00 (Room 2.33 Clephan Building) http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/index.jsp 10-11.30 Feminism, heritage, history (Room 3.01, Clephan Building) Rachel Carroll, University of Teesside 'Adapting Miss Wade: "rehistoricising" sexuality in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit Suzanne Speidel, Sheffield Hallam University 'The Passion, the Prose, and the Image: gender and heritage in Ivory's and Forster's Howard's End Rebecca White, Durham University '"Shall I be stared at like a wild beast in a zoo?" Images of Austen in Becoming Jane and Miss Austen Regrets 11.30-11.45 Tea and Coffee (Cl.2.33) 11.45-13.15 Feminist Readings/Feminist rewritings (Cl 3.01) Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton 'The Virgin/whore Text: A Feminist Critique of the 'Faithful' Adaptation Alexia Bowler, Swansea University Adapting Genre/Appropriating Icons: Urban Fairytales in a Postmodern Setting in Jane Campion's In the Cut Lindsey Scott, University of Chester '"Will it consume me? Awakening Shakespeare's Ghosts in Julie Taymor's Titus' 13.15-14.00 Lunch (Cl 2.33) 14.00 - 15.00 Genre, appropriation and feminism (Cl 3.01) Alice Ridout, Leeds Metropolitan University 'Lost in Austen: the Feminist Politics of Nostalgia Scott Freer, University of Leicester 'Brief Encounter and the Female Malady' 15.00-15.30 Tea and Coffee Cl2.33) 15.30-16.30 Feminism and Popular Culture (Cl 3.01) Esther Sonnet, University of Portsmouth 'Women's Pulp Crime Fiction Lisa Stead, University of Exeter 'Adapting Screen Images in Fan Writing: Fan Cultures in British Silent Cinema Imelda Whelehan, De Montfort University Why is Post-feminism so boring? 16.30 - 17.00 Closing Remarks (Cl3.01)