Event overview
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference organised by GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar), part of the English and Comparative Literature Department.
TRACES
Programme
Goldsmiths, Friday 14 June 2013
Richard Hoggart Building (RHB), Rooms 342, 342a, 343
09.00 – 10.00 Registration and coffee (RHB 342)
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Speaker, Professor Mark Currie (Queen Mary, University of London): 'A Trace of the Future'
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 – 13.00 Panels 1a & 1b
Panel 1a: Material Make-Up (RHB 342a) Chair: Marina Kassianidou (Chelsea College of Art and Design)
Diana J. Brooke (Goldsmiths): The footprint in Robinson Crusoe
Lora V. Koycheva (University College London): ‘Fading Ink and the Elusive State: Technologies of (Dis)Trust, the Permeability of Paperwork, and Postsocialist Bureaucracy in Bulgaria’
Ery Shin (Oxford): ‘Gertrude Stein’s Queer America’
Christien Garcia (McMaster University): ‘Home, Sinthome, and the Filth of Queer Domesticity’
Panel 1b: Stitches in Time (RHB 343) Chair: Marta Wasik (University of Warwick)
Helena Tomlin (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Lace, Fear and Longing’
Lyndsey Smith (University of York): ‘All That Glitters is Not Gold: Tracing Surviving Anglo-Saxon Ivory and the (In)Visible Vestiges of Secondary Materials’
Naomi Braithwaite (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Hidden Heels: Material traces of a Shoe Designer’s Creative and Cultural Biography’
Scott Jennings Melbourne (University of Hong Kong): ‘Mainland Quality: Meaning and Endurance in China’s Contemporary Landscape’
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.40 Panels 2a & 2b
Panel 2a: The Ghost of the Academy (RHB 342a) Chair: Jocelyn Page (Goldsmiths)
Beth Guilding (Goldsmiths): ‘What is the Disaster? The Gaze to the Sky’
John Woolf (Goldsmiths): ‘Traces’
Gabriel Renggli (University of York): ‘“The author, in fact, was mardred”: Trace and Spectre in Finnegan’s Wake’
Mauro Di Lullo (Stirling): ‘Maurice Blanchot: from Surrealist experience to the trace of communism’
Panel 2b: Ghosts of the Past (RHB 343) Chair: Lyndsey Smith (University of York)
Carlie Sorosiak (Oxford): ‘Vicarious Historicism: “Rememory” and Appropriation in Neo-Slave Narratives – Beloved and Native Guard’
Season Butler (Goldsmiths): ‘Ghosts of Futures Past: Writing Anxiety and Desire’
Marta Wasik (University of Warwick): ‘It’s like she’s still here: absent mothers as celluloid spectres and electromagnetic ghosts in Super 8 and Family Viewing’
Chris Lloyd (Goldsmiths): ‘Traces of the South: Sally Mann’s Landscape Photographs’
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.40 Panels 3a & 3b
Panel 3a: (Inter)textual Traces (RHB 342a) Chair: Mauro Di Lullo (Stirling)
Jocelyn Page (Goldsmiths): ‘‘The word, the image, and the space between...’ – A close reading of Philip Gross’ ‘Trialogue ... by way of a Preface’’
Claire Ashworth (Loughborough University): ‘The Problematic Retrospect in David Copperfield’
Sophie Corser (Goldsmiths): ‘Tea, Texts, and Traces: Breakfast with the Blooms, in James Joyce’s Ulysses’
Diletta De Cristofaro (University of Nottingham): ‘The Apocalypse as Absent Referent in Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse’
Panel 3b: Tracing and Erasing (RHB 343) Chair: Lora Koycheva (University College London)
Marina Kassianidou (Chelsea College of Art and Design): ‘The Artist’s Trace or The Trace of the Trace of the Other’
Clare Samuel (Ryerson Image Centre, Canada): ‘All the World’
Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex): ‘Negative theology: the possibility for fiction’
Rob Lederer (University of Edinburgh): ‘Seeing the Unseen: Blindness and the Collection in Recent American Fiction’
17.40 – 18.00 ‘The End...’
18.00 – ... Wine and dinner at a local restaurant
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jun 2013 | 9:00am - 6:00pm |
Accessibility
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