Thursday 28th November

 

0930 – 1130

 

The following sessions will be taking place:

1. Private vices, public virtues: gendered sexualities and citizenship (parallel with session 2)

Kathleen Clark

University of Georgia, USA

Celebrating citizens: race, gender, and commemoration in the American South

Maria Antonia Alvarez

Distance Teaching University, Madrid, Spain

Treatment of sexuality in recent film adaptations: The wings of the dove by Henry James

Mona Holmlund

University of Cambridge, UK

Marriage on display: the visual culture of matrimony in 19th Century England

Wang Ping

Macalaster College, St. Paul, USA

The fabric of masquerade

Wei H. Kao

University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Re-exploring a strident humanist: Kate O’Brien under the Irish National Censorship

 

2. Private vices, public virtues: gendered sexualities and citizenship (parallel with session 1)

Annedith M. Schneider

Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey

The gender of belonging: Hermaphroditism and citizenship in Algeria

Candida Yates

University of East London, UK

Formations of masculine jealousy in popular film

Diane Negra

University of North Texas, USA

Postfeminism and contemporary romantic film fiction

Sofia Sampaio

Escola Superior de Educação da Guarda, Portugal

From page to screen: the meaningful arithmetic of choices in David Lean’s A Passage to India

Elena Martos Hueso

University of Jaén, Spain

The double burden of history in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

 

3. English as an International Language: Theoretical perspectives

Vicki Hartnack

University of Lisbon, Portugal

The African Renaissance: new registers in English

Allan James

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

English as a lingua franca in Europe: typology and beyond

U-Maporn Kardkarnklai

University of Reading, UK

Rapport-creating through interruptions in Thai-Japanese office meetings

 

4. Trajectories of the self

Susan Friedman

University of South Florida, USA

Trajectories of the self: the 21st century memoir and the privileged voice of the marginalised

Karen Weekes

Pennsylvania State University, USA

The schisms of the female poet-scholar self

Linda Gordon

Nova Southeastern University, USA

Linear perspective and the self in modernist literature

Michael Heyns

Potchefsroom University for CHE, South Africa

Substantialisation in the postmodern view of the self

 

5. Children, childhoods and cultures

Carmen Pérez Diez

University of Léon, Spain

‘The Princess and the Goblin’, George MacDonald and 19th Century constructions of childhood

Maria José Simas

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Beans on black velvet

Marnina Gonick

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Between ‘girl power’ and reviving Orphelia: discourses of girls and girlhood in the new century

Daniel Marshall

University of Melbourne, Australia

Scouting for Boys: Baden-Powell’s cultural production of boyhood

 

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