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Paradox Conference Programme

Venue: Richard Hoggart Building, Room 309

Saturday 26th June, Goldsmiths

 9.00
-  9.30
Registration, tea and coffee
 9.30 - 10.15 Plenary speaker, Professor Christopher Norris: 'Ambiguity, Paradox and Complex Words:  Empson on Philosophy of Language'
10.15 - 10.35 Q+A
10.35 - 10.50 Coffee break

Panel 1: Paradox, language and concepts (chair: Catherine Humble)
10.50
 -
 11.10
 Alfie Bown, University of Manchester: 'The Paradox of Translation'
11.10 - 11.30 Helen Palmer, Goldsmiths: 'The Paradoxical Structure of Metaphor'
11.30 - 11.50
Steven Lydon, University of Cambridge: 'Body, Language and Rhetoric in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil'
11.50 - 12.10 Q+A
12.10 - 12.30 Coffee break
 
Panel 2: Paradoxical literary realms (chair: Adi Drori-Avraham)
12.30
-
 12.50
Simon de Bourcier, University of East Anglia:  '"Turning a Paradox into a Concept": Impossible Objects and the Logic of Fictional Worlds'
12.50 -  1.10 Jennifer Jane Nutter, University of Central Lancashire: 'Philip K. Dick and the Spectre of the Subject'
 1.10 -  1.30
Eva Aldea, Goldsmiths: 'The Indiscernibility of Difference: The Paradox of Magical Realism'
 1.30 -  1.50
Q+A
 1.50 -  2.40 Lunch break

Panel 3: Writing paradox (chair: Emma Haigh)
 2.40 -
  3.00 Catherine Humble, Goldsmiths: 'The Safety of Paradox: Speaking the Unspeakable in the Unedited Raymond Carver'
 3.00 -
  3.20 Merja Sagulin, University of Eastern Finland: 'Robinson Crusoe and the Paradoxical Essence of Literary Adaptation'
 3.20 -
  3.40 Danielle Tran, Royal Holloway: 'Paradox in Time: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land'
 3.40 -
  4.00 Steph Yorke, Wolfson College, Oxford: 'Focalization and Contradiction in my Burger King Crown Long Poem'
 4.00 -
  4.30
Q+A and Closing Remarks