1. The Politics and the Arts Group: The state, censorship and art

John Reardon

Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

The black sheep

Jean-Philippe Uzel

University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada

Art and censorship, the avant-garde double-bind

Girma Negash

University of South Carolina, USA

Guises of censorship: old and new fetters on artistic freedom in Africa

Justyne Balasinski

University of Paris, France

The censor as co-author: allusive and clandestine theatre in Poland in the 1980s

2. Children, childhoods and cultures

Charles Jason Lee

University of Central Lancashire, UK

Screening abuse: representations of child sexual abuse in film

Marija Zidar

University of Ljubjana, Slovenia

The Slovene artificial insemination debate of 2000-2001 and the deconstruction of ‘protective’ childhood

Tim Parke

University of Hertfordshire, UK

The role of the mother tongue

Tonya Hoffman

Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

Understanding the sexual mosaic. The role of media literacy in child development

Kysa Koerner Hubbard

University of Minnesota, USA

Ritualised concern: Are there no children here?

3. Private vices, public virtues: gendered sexualities and citizenship (parallel with session 4)

Donette A. Francis

Binghampton University, New York, USA

‘Silences to horrific to disturb’: Writing sexual histories in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

Grace Chin

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Un-censoring the senses: The ambivalent bodies of duty and desire in Fiona Cheong’s The Scent of the Gods

Loretta Wing Wah

The paradoxical relation between chastity and perversity: a study of Georges Bataille in English litereature

Katherine Mullin

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK

‘The cosmopolitan standard of virtue’: discourses of prostitution reform in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900)

Maryann Shenoda

University of Arizona, USA

The enduring semipherical border body: a genealogy Malintzin Tenépal

4. Private vices, public virtues: gendered sexuality and citizenship (parallel with session 3)

Joyce Senders Pedersen

University of Southern Denmark at Odense, Denmark

De-constructing sexual difference: the language of feminism in mid-Victorian England

Krisztina Domjan

Rutger’s University, USA

Escape from history: the erasure of colonial and sexual violence in Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown

Micheala Schwarz G. Henriques

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Before gender became a problem: women’s attempts at (en)gendering peace and transcending Cold War frontiers in the 1950s

Patricia Sant and James Brown

Race, gender, sexuality: (the impossibility of) performing the colonised subject

Teresa Heffernan

Saint Mary’s University, Canada

Militarised citizens: (un)veiled bodies and the nation

5. English as an International Language: Theoretical perspectives

John Field

Kings College, University of London, UK

EIL is a two-way process, intelligibility and the listener

Vanda Papp

College for Modern Business Studies,Tatabanya,Hungary

English is business: why English is the most popular foreign language in Hungary

Erik Neveu

Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Rennes, France

English and the world of international academic communication

6. Ideas and Values in British History: Early Modern Age to World War II

Júlio Carlos Viana Ferreira

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Locke and Toleration Today

Olga Trabulo

University of Oporto, Portugal

1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family - Imperialist Xenophobia.

Maria João Guerreiro de Sousa

Thomas Hardy’s Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom’s Jude

Asunción Lopez-Varela

Communication, Information Theory and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake