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The Authors and the World research hub, based at Lancaster University, would like to announce the final programme for our forthcoming event on 12 & 13 March 2015: Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres. There are still a few places available, so if you would like to join us for what promises to be an excellent event, write to [log in to unmask] to secure your place.

See below for more details and the full programme or follow this link to our website: http://www.authorsandtheworld.com/?p=381

Confirmed speakers: Mary Talbot (Author), Carol O’Sullivan (Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, Bristol), Adrian Wilson (Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine), Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Romanticism, Birmingham), Ian Gregory (Professor of Digital Humanities)

How does literary celebrity manifest in different genres? To what extent do authors, and ideas of authorship, translate from one medium to another, and how do the different genres themselves contribute to a growing discourse around individual literary celebrities? In this event we look at a graphic novel, film subtitling techniques and practices in projecting a scientific academic persona to probe issues of authorship surrounding individuality, gender, generation, and originality within a multi-genre context. A practical workshop on using blogs and wikis as source material for literary research will sustain further reflection on how academic research can engage with open-ended, non-authoritative genres as part of its own canonizing activities.

Programme

Venue: Lancaster House Hotel conference centre, Green Lane, Lancaster, LA1 4GJ

Thursday 12 March 2015

12.00-13.00 Registration and buffet lunch

13.00-13.15 Rebecca Braun: Welcome and Introduction

13.15-14.15 Mary Talbot. ‘Dotters, Babbos and a Costa: Reflections on Literary Celebrity and Genre Bending’

14.15-15.00 Carol O’Sullivan. ‘Not In My Name?: Attribution of Authorship in Audiovisual Translation’

15.00-15.45 Refreshments and small group discussions

15.45-16.45 Christopher Donaldson & Ian Gregory. ‘The Lady of the Lakes: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Lake District Tourism’

16.45-17.30 Adrian Wilson. ‘A literary celebrity on celebrity and amnesia: Clive James’

17.30-18.30 Discussion

19.30 Conference dinner in the Private Dining Room

Friday 13 March 2015

9.00-12.30 Workshop

Authors, Celebrity, Distance, and Twitter

With Greg Myers (Department of Linguistics and English Language)

This workshop will discuss come of the techniques used by well-known authors (e.g., @MargaretAtwoodon and @tejucole) to construct and engage with a specific audience on Twitter. It is in three parts:

9:00 – 9:50 Keywords and Retweets: an overview of some stylistic features of authors on Twitter

10:00 – 10:50 Participant use their own laptops, phones, and tablets to complete a structured exercise exploring other authors on Twitter.

11:00 – 11:50 Discussion and feedback on the exercise (with our own list of favourite feeds)

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Emily Spiers

Research Associate

Authors and the World

Department of Languages and Cultures

Lancaster University

Lancaster
LA1 4YN

Tel: 01524593564