Dear list members,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please, find below the programme for our annual Skepsi conference on 'Time to Remember: Anniversaries, Celebration and Commemoration' taking place on 26th May at the University of Kent (Grimond Building). There is a 10GBP registration fee (payable on the day), which covers coffee, tea, lunch and wine reception (but excludes the conference dinner). For catering purposes, we would kindly request everyone wanting to attend to send us a brief email to [log in to unmask] also indicating any dietary requirements
Best wishes,
Ann
09.30 10.00 Registration and coffee (Foyer)
10.00 - 10.15 Opening Remarks from the Skepsi Committee (GS-8)
10.15 11.45 Keynote address (GS-8)
Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth): 'The thos of Dwelling: The Memory of Castorp'
11.45 12.00 Coffee break (Foyer)
12.00 - 13.30 Panel 1: War Trauma in Literature (GS-8)
Nihad Laourar (Canterbury Christchurch University): 'Voicing the Terrors of War Memories and the Return of the Repressed in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway'
Natasha Silver (UCL): 'Making Parody of Commemoration: Trauma in the Poetic Fugues of Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath'
Hugh Hiscock (University of Liverpool): 'Mediating Memories of the Conflict: Representation of French veterans of the Algerian War in Contemporary Literary Narratives'
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch (Foyer)
14.30-15.30 Panel 2a: Transforming Objects into Relics (GS-8)
Carson Teuscher (University of Oxford): 'The Pigeon, the Hand, and the Holy Lance: How Wartime Transformed Ordinary Objects into Relics'
Sarah Klein (University of Kent): 'Immortalizing Picasso's Guernica, 1937-2017'
14.30-15.30 Panel 2b: Memory and Religious Practices (GS-7)
Jemima Short (Newcastle University): 'Jeane Jugan and the Petite Surs des Pauvres: The Amalgamation of Institutional History and Biography in the Historicisation of Religious Orders'
Sophie Chavarria (University of Kent): 'Female Agency during the Establishment of the Cult of Cybele and the Ludi Megalenses'
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break (Foyer)
15.45-16.45 Panel 3: National Memory and Politics (GS-8)
Jacob Smith (University of Kent): 'Brexit, Memory, and Modernity: Championing the Past, Transcending the Modern?'
Rebecca Wismeg (King's College): 'National Brand Austria — Marketing Memory'
16.45 17.15 Poetry Reading (GS-8)
Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth)
17.15 Wine reception (Foyer)
18.30 Conference dinner (city centre)
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