PROGRAMME
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TIMETABLE OF PANELS *
9:30am-10am – Registration & Welcome (Jason Hilton) **
10am-11:15am – Framing Nationalities (Chair: Jason Hilton)
Joanna Kremer – “I don’t find the criteria particularly objective”: Perspectives on Language Testing and Citizenship Legislation Tom Murray – Subverting Resistance: Challenging National Myth in Tierno Monénembo's ‘Le Terroriste noir’ Alex Buck – Title TBC 11:15am-11:30am BREAK **
11:30am-12:30pm – Symptoms of Totalitarianism (Chair: Tom Murray)
CJ Leffler – Conformity in the Camps: Prisoners and Guards in Claudel's 'Le Rapport de Brodeck' Alun Thomas – Nomadic Dissent in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925-1933 Jason Hilton – "...terribly and terrifyingly normal": Hannah Arendt's Portrayal of Adolf Eichmann, His Nature and His Guilt 12:30pm-13:15pm – Self and Other (Chair: Mathy Selvakumaran)
Leanne Dickinson – Representations of the Marginalised and the Identity of the Writer: Blaise Cendrars' On Political Unrest in Paris and the Aesthetics of Dissent Kirsty Hemsworth – Translators, Traitors, Terrorists: Dissent in the translation of 9/11 fiction 13:15pm-14:00pm LUNCH
The Humanities Research Institute, the colloquium venue, is adjacent to the Jessop West café (which will be open on the day), as well as several local cafés and restaurants. 14:00pm-15:15pm – Negotiating Space (Chair: CJ Leffler)
Jelena Zugic – The Duality of Arcades: Spaces of Resistance and Their Ambivalences in Julio Cortázar’s ‘The Other Sky’ Valentina Caruso – The Controversial Case of Palomino Molero: Confirming and Challenging Hybridity Luana Loria – The Emerging of the Lisbon's Periphery from a Cultural Point of View: New Trends in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema 15:15pm-15:20pm BREAK **
15:20pm-16:15pm – Perspectives on Corporeality (Chair: Valentina Caruso)
Mathy Selvakumaran – “We mustn’t accept things as they are”: Blindness and Disability as Dissent in Antonio Buero Vallejo’s ‘En la ardiente oscuridad’ Ángela Lavilla Cañedo – “I don’t want to be a woman”: Negotiating Womanhood and the Limits of Agency in Andrea Maturana’s ‘Yo a las mujeres me las imaginaba bonitas’ 16:15pm-16:20 BREAK **
16:20pm-17:15pm – Exploring Identities (Chair: Leanne Dickinson)
Fleur Vidament – Heroines and Rivals: Conformity and Dissent in the Novels of Anita Brookner Ruth Littlewood – Notes on Identity Construction in Tomasa Cuevas’ ‘Cárcel de mujeres’ 17:15pm-17:30 Closing Words
* Please note, titles of individual papers are not final and may be subject to alterations ** Coffee/other refreshments available throughout the day |