Textual Embodiment - Programme
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Textual Embodiment: Literature, the Body and Psychoanalysis
Venue: Small Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building
Tuesday August 5, 2014
| 9.30 | - | 10.00 | Registration, tea and coffee |
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Welcome Address |
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| 10.00 | - | 11.15 | KEYNOTE: Professor Naomi Segal (Birkbeck) 'The Body in the Library: Adventures in Realism' Chair: Monika Loewy (Goldsmiths) |
| 11.15 | - | 11.30 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
Panel 1: Haunting the Text: Uncanny Bodies (Chair: Dr. Christopher Lloyd)
| 11.30 | - | 11.50 |
Yanbing Er (University of Edinburgh) |
| 11.50 | - | 12.10 | Christopher Clark (University of East Anglia) 'Visiting the Body Artist: Bodily Borders in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist' |
| 12.10 | - | 12.30 | Faye Keegan (Newcastle University) 'Text, telepathy and the uncanny in Mary Stewart’s novel Touch Not the Cat' |
| 12.45 | - | 1.30 | Lunch |
Panel 2: Erasing the Self, Literally (Chair: Christopher Clark)
| 1.30 | - | 1.50 |
Dr. Tiago Gandra (Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust) |
| 1.50 | - | 2.10 | James Randall (Goldsmiths) 'Texts Without Bodies: X-rays and the dematerialisation of the textual body' |
| 2.10 | - | 2.30 | Dr. Christopher Lloyd (London South Bank University) 'Bodies That (Don’t) Matter: Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help' |
| 2.45 | - | 3.00 | Tea / Coffee Break |
Panel 3: Language and its Affects (Chair: Yanbing Er)
| 3.00 | - | 3.20 |
Jacob McGuinn (Queen Mary) |
| 3.20 | - | 3.40 | Helen Tyson (Queen Mary) 'Reading The Waves, Reading You: Virginia Woolf, Melanie Klein, and the Psychic Temporality of Reading' |
| 3.40 | - | 4.00 | Niall Gildea (Queen Mary) 'Heidegger In the Grip' |
| 4.15 | - | 4.30 | Tea / Coffee Break |
| 4.30 | - | 5.45 | KEYNOTE: Professor Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths) 'Psychoanalytic Bodies: Psychic and "Actual" Bodies in Literature' Chair: Beth Guilding (Goldsmiths) |
| 5.45 | - | 7.00 |
Wine Reception |
