Conference Programme Announced
The conference programme has now been announced. With delegates from across Europe and papers ranging from Don DeLillo to Derek Jarman to Dante, as well as keynotes from Stefan Collini and Julia Jordan, Dissidence looks set to be a day of scorching intellectual drama. Events will be rounded off with a poetry reading from Penny Newell and Jess Jiwon.
D-Day is Friday 5th June — less than two weeks away. If you haven’t already registered your attendance, do so now at dissidence2015.eventbrite.co.uk.
A fuller version of this programme (including location details) will be provided on the day, but it can also be downloaded in advance as a pdf: UCL Dissidence 2015 — Conference Programme
9.30 – 10.00 Registration (English Department Common Room)
10.00 – 11.30 Keynote
Prof. Stefan Collini (Cambridge) — Dissidence and persuasion: Arguing About Universities
Responding: Prof. John Mullan, Dr Scarlett Baron
12.00 – 13.30 Panel 1: HUMANITIES IN CRISIS
Zoe Bulaitis (Exeter): Representations of the academic study of English
Harriet Cooper (Birkbeck): Dissident Subjects: Lived Experience as Cultural Text, Academic Writing as ‘Reparative’ Work?
Sam Gilchrist-Hall (Royal Holloway): Feeble Academics: The Radical Legacy of Renaissance Humanism
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Keynote:
Dr Julia Jordan (UCL) — Anxiety & the Avant Garde: Dissident Modernists of the 1960s
15.30 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.00 Panel 2a: SPACE
Megha Agarwal (Goldsmiths): Dissent and Descent: Transgression and Progression into the Underworld in Dante’s Inferno and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Adonis Leboho (Sheffield): In Hetero/In Harlem: ‘Architextual’ Practice in the 1965 collaboration between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller
Alexandra Parsons (UCL): Derek Jarman’s dissident urban cultural memory in The Last of England
Panel 2b: GENDER
Catherine McDermott (Manchester Met): Feminine impasse: cruel optimism in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
Emma Scanlan (Sussex): Poetic dissidence: Lineages of female/ sexual dissent in Noʻu Revilla’s Say Throne
Laura Tscherry (UCL): Intertextuality as dissidence in the novels of Jean Rhys
17.00 – 17.15 Break
17.15 – 18.30 Panel 3a: RESISTANCE
Sourit Bhattacharya (Warwick): State, Violence, and Strategies of Dissent in Mahasweta Devi and Nabarun
Shade Hartline (Newcastle): Everyone Hates an Underdog: Cinema’s role in America’s failure to revolt
Chris Hartley (Oxford): ‘A Specter is Haunting the World – The Specter of Capitalism’: Nihilism as Resistance in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
Panel 3b: COMMITMENT
Bárbara Gallego Larrarte (Oxford): Three Guineas: Virginia Woolf in conversation with Julian Bell
Lynn Mutti (UCL): Inside the Outsider: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Culture and Anarchy
Marina Pranić (Free University Berlin/Charles University, Prague): Comic Conspiracies, Conspiratorial Comedies: The (Failed) Dissidence of Marin Držić
18.45 – 19:30 Wine reception and Poetry reading
Penny Newell (KCL) and Jess Jiwon (UCL – Slade): ‘Cool young poets talking about their art basically Xxx, with Requiem to Heygate Estate’
19.30 — Late Conference dinner (optional)
