BCLA Third Graduate Student Conference
'Confrontation'
Goldsmith College, London
March 30, 2007
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Schedule
9:15am-10am: Registration
10:00am-10:15am: Opening Remarks
10:15am-12:15am Session 1
Panel 1A Confrontation Between Genres and Mediums (poetry)
Maja Starcevic (Oxford) 'Tell me whence the light was created'- Marina
Tsvetaeva and D.H. Lawrence as modernist rabbis
Cécile Guédon (UCL)
Dance as a paradigm for modern poetics
Zhang Li (SOAS) Politics of Genres: Discourses of New Poetry and New Poets
in Modern Chinese Fiction
Jennifer Sykes (Oxford) Meeting the British: Aesthetics and ethics explored
through Paul Muldoon's Sonnets
Panel 1B Colonial/Postcolonial Confrontations
Mike Belbin (Goldsmiths/London College of Communication) Reconciliation
with History: Postcolonial Readings of Post-Apartheid Disgrace
Dobrota Pucherova (Oxford)
Bessie Head's Post-racial humanism
Glen S. Leonard (Cambridge)
E.M. Forster Speaks Out: Confronting Colonialism on the BBC
Eli Sorensen (UCL)
Confronting the Literary in Postcolonial Studies
1:30pm-2:30pm Keynote Address Dr Muireann O'Cinneide (University of Oxford)
Confrontation and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War
2:45pm-4:15pm Session 2
Panel 2A Confrontation Between Genres and Mediums (the novel)
Karl Chircop (University of Malta) Disintegrating the unified consciousness
of earlier artists: Joyce's and Pirandello's Modernist confrontations of
genre
Natalie Diebschlag (Leeds) Sublimity, the parergon and the truth of fiction
in Michael Ondaatje's Coming through Slaughter
James Riley (Cambridge)
Getting Out of the City: Jack Kerouac's Big Sur
Panel 2B Constructions of Gender
Catherine Burke (University College Cork) The Battle of the Sexes: A study
of the reaction of female writers to the patriarchal epic in Margaret
Atwood's The Penelopiad and Monique Wittig's Virgile, Non
Mary Mazzilli (SOAS)
The feminine-masculine dichotomy in a global perspective
Soo Nee Ng (Goldsmiths College) The Persistence of Metanarratives: Reading
Technology, Gender and Race in late 20th-century and Early 21st-century
Fiction
4:30pm-6:00pm Session 3
Panel 3A Visual Confrontations
A.Tania Espinoza (Cambridge) Real confrontation in cinematic illusion:
realism vs. expressionism in Lars von Trier E Trilogy
Kyle Meikle (University of Edinburgh)
Franchising Fight Club: Pop Postmodernism
Olga Smith (Cambridge)
Photography and Theory in the Age of Simulacra
Panel 3B Avoiding Confrontations
Maria Kaladeen (Royal Holloway) Challenging Binary Logic through Third
Space Intervention: The Madrasis of Guyana
Ben Etherington (Cambridge)
Revolting Symptoms: The Teleology of Homi Bhabha's Temporal Politics
Lynne Crook (Lancaster University)
Comedy in the Community: Confrontation in Mary Costello's Titanic Town
6:00pm-6:10pm Closing Comments
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