Event overview
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Goldsmiths Graduate Festival 2013
10.00am - 11.30am
Prokofiev 2013
Chair: Chris O’Shaughnessy
Ondrej Gima, Department of Music
On recovering the original version of Fiery Angel (preparing the Vocal Score of the 1920 version)
Daniel Jaffe, Department of Music
"An autumn evening wind blowing across a neglected graveyard": On the hidden background to Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1
Viktoria Zorma, Department of Music
Examining the collaboration behind Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2
11.30am - 1.30pm
Zotero Workshop
Paolo Cardullo
Free and open source resource management software
4.00pm - 6.00pm
Representations of sex in fiction, poetry and life writing
- a creative and critical discussion
Chair: Francis Gilbert
Ardashir Vakil taught English in London schools for twenty years. Since 2006 he has been teaching creative writing on the BA English with Creative Writing and on the MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Alongside the Education Department he has devised a (new), flagship program, MA Writer/Teacher which started in Sept 2012. He is a novelist, poet and short story writer who has published two award-winning novels – Beach Boy (Penguin, 1998) and ) One Day (Penguin, 2003) and his latest story, ‘Hormuz and Darius’ commissioned and read at a conference on ‘Evil’ in Sept 2012 will be published by the American journal, Raritan, in the spring of 2013. He will talk about the representation of sex in his writing.
Johanna Franklin is a second year MPhil/PhD candidate in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Goldsmiths. Her thesis is on the representation of feminist strategies of resistance in Jean Rhys's fiction, with a focus on how affective forces operate within and without the texts, and how these forces have informed critical responses to her work. Of her talk for the panel, she says: “I will discuss Jean Rhys's three 1930s novels, in which the protagonists embrace an unconventional female sexuality. I offer a reading in which the common critical charge that these protagonists are negatively passive, nihilistic, and/or promiscuous is seen to be indicative of an unusual and mis-identified affective force in Rhys’s work, a force at once feminist, subversive and affirmative.”
Season Butler (PhD in Creative Writing/performance artist) will discuss the techniques she employs in her novel-in-progress, Hanging from the Hammer of the Bell. She is aiming to write a sex scene which successfully communicates the eroticism, discomfort and ambivalence of sex in (close to) real time by looking a sex as a form of altered consciousness.
Mark Roberts (PhD in English Literature/critic) will discuss “Role and representation of sex in Philip Larkin's writing”.
Seraphima Kennedy (Goldsmiths Visiting Tutor in Creative Writing/writer) will discuss the representation of sex in life writing and poetry.
Francis Gilbert (PhD in Creative writing) will chair the panel. He is a teacher and writer. He has published six books, including I'm A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here, Yob Nation and The Last Day of Term. http://www.francisgilbert.co.uk
www.gold.ac.uk/.../goldsmithsgraduatefestival/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 14 May 2013 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
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