Transformations in English Studies
Manchester, September 3-5, 2001
Keynote Speakers: Terry EAGLETON, David LODGE, Benita PARRY, Bruce ROBBINS, Elaine SHOWALTER and Alan SINFIELD.
Evening events: speakers include Frank COTTRELL-BOYCE (TV& film screenwriter) and Livi MICHAEL (author).
In September 2001, the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester will host a conference, Transformations in English Studies: A Conference Made in Manchester as part of the University's celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Owens College.
The themes of the conference develop out of three inter-related areas:
a. Firstly, in recognition of the role played by civic universities such as Manchester in the development of English studies as a discipline, the conference seeks to address various 'histories' of English and the institutional, theoretical and critical conflicts which have marked its emergence as one of the most popular subject areas in the humanities.
b. Secondly, in acknowledgement of the social and historical transformations that underpinned the foundation of civic universities such as Manchester, the conference seeks to consider the significance of cities and metropolitan experience(s) in shaping relationships between literature, culture, politics and metropolitan identities.
c. Finally, emerging as a political, aesthetic and critical problem in both the above contexts, the conference seeks to explore the meanings and problems of transgression in cultural, social, theoretical and 'disciplinary' terms.
In keeping with the spirit of the 2001 celebrations, the conference aims to attract the widest range of research across - and beyond - the discipline of English studies in order to explore the possibilities and problems arising from the diversity of approaches now available.
Enquiries and proposals for 30 minute papers to:
Transformations in English Studies Conference
Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Or by e-mail to: ties@man.ac.uk
SCHEDULE
Please note that this is a provisional schedule and subject to revision.
MONDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER
9.00 - 9.30: Registration
9.30 - 10.30: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
Elaine Showalter, Nice Work: English Departments in the Academic Novel
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 12.30: Session One
Panel 1: Arts Building Room A213.A
Sherry Booth (Santa Clara University) A Moment for reform: Rhetoric and Literature at the University of Glasgow 1861-1877
John Nash (Trinity College, Dublin) "English English and Irish English"
Panel 2: Arts Building Room A202
Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia) Vurtual Manchester
Ben Highmore (University of the West of England) "Urban Bodies and The Matrix"
Panel 3: Arts Building Room A201
Pirjp Koivuvaara (University of Tampere) "Consumption and Identity in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters and Cranford"
Alan Shelston (University of Manchester) "Passages to America: the Manchester-Liverpool connection"
Panel 4: Arts Building Room to be arranged
Sean P. Holmes (Brunel University), "All the City's a Stage: The American Actors' Strike of 1919"
Speaker to be confirmed
12.30 - 2.00: Lunch
2.00 - 3.30: Session Two
Panel 5: Arts Building Room 213.A
Danielle Clarke (University College, Dublin) "Editing, Ideology and the Rise of English"
Janet Clare (University College, Dublin) "The Case of Elizabeth Cary"
Panel 6 Arts Building Room A202
William Stephenson (Chester College) "Drug Use, Capitalism and Identity in Recent Urban Narrative"
Stan Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia) "Whose club is it anyway? Ethnicity, Club Culture and the Novels of Nicholas Blincoe."
Panel 7 Arts Building Room A201
Andrew Thacker (University of Ulster) "The Metropolis and the Spatial History of Modernism"
Alan Girvin (University of Manchester) "Language, modernism and Irish literary history"
Panel 8 Arts Building - Room to be arranged
Hisup Shin (University of Essex) "The condition of Dicken's Street writing"
Susan S Frisbie and Kara Thompson (Santa Clara University) "Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Transgressions"
3.30 - 4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00 - 5.00: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
David Lodge: "On adaptations of Henry James"
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TUESDAY 4th SEPTEMBER
9.00 - 9.30: Registration
9.30 - 10.30: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
Professor Bruce Robbins:
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 12.30: Session One
Panel 9: Arts Building Room A213.A
Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores University) "Interdiciplinarity and Academic Capital"
Lisa Fluet (Princeton University) "Wells, Eliot and the World-welfare State: Anxious Intellects on The Outline of History"
Panel 10: Arts Building Room A202
Eluned Summers-Bremner (University of Auckland) "The Sounds of the City: Proximity and Distance in Will Self and A.L.Kennedy"
George Norton (Norwich/Anglia Polytechnic University) "Chance, the City and Postmodern Identity in Patrick Marber's Closer"
Panel 11: Arts Building Room A201
Mark Turner (King's College, London) "City of Orgies, walks and joys": Cruising Manhattan in the Late-Nineteenth Century
David Alderson (University of Manchester)
Panel 12: Arts Building - Room to be arranged
Gail Ashton (University of Manchester) "Taking it like a man: the 'Other Miller's Tale' "
Speaker to be confirmed
12.30 - 2.00: Lunch
2.00 - 3.30: Session Two
Panel 13: Arts Building Room A213.A
Beth Sweens, (University of Leiden) "from Metropolis to Necropolis: A Comparison of W.E.Henley's and T.S.Eliot's Early Representations of Human Existence in the City"
Rached Khalifa (University of Essex) "Debilitating Dublin in W.B.Yeats' poetry and Joyce's Dubliners"
Panel 14: Arts Building Room A202
Heike Bauer (University of Aberystwyth)"Transgressing cultural practice: Krafft-Ebing's Lesbian Heroines in The Well of Loneliness and The Scorpian"
Lucy Burke (University of Manchester), "Sexuality, culture and class: crossing the city in Storm Jameson's A Day Off"
Panel 15: Arts Building Room A201
Lloyd Edward Kermode (California State University) "Writing, Wrighting and Righting the Early Modern City"
Adrian Streete (University of Stirling) "Counterfaite Egipcians: Racial Boundaries, mimesis and revelation in Anthony and Cleopatra"
Panel 16: Arts Building - Room to be arranged
Jose Francisco Fernandez, "Grotesque Realism in Contemporary British Fiction"
Speaker to be confirmed
3.30 - 4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00 - 5.00: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
Professor Alan Sinfield
WEDNESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER
9.00 - 9.30: Registration
9.30 - 10.30: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
Professor Benita Parry
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 12.30: Session One
Panel 17: Arts Building Room A213.A
Helen Pussard (University of Manchester) "Playground of the North - Belle Vue and Manchester in the first half of the twentieth century"
Stella Moss (University of Manchester) "the Shortest Way Out? Drink and Popular Culture in Interwar Manchester"
Panel 18: Arts Building Room A202
Leya Landau (University College, London) "Scandal Invented: Women and the 18th Century London Coffee House"
Alison O'Byrne (University of York) "Metropolitan Cultures: Women Walking in Eighteenth Century London"
Panel 19: Arts Building Room A201
Magdalena Romanska (Cornell University) "Social Criticism: the Self-Transgressed"
Petra Kuppers (Manchester Metropolitan University) "Installations: Trangressive Environments"
Panel 20 Arts Building Room to be confirmed
Ingrid Therwath (Cambridge University) "Unreal City, Bombay as a literary trope: the city through the eyes of children"
Speaker to be confirmed
12.30 - 2.00: Lunch
2.00 - 3.30: Session Two
Panel 21: Arts Building Room A213.A
Christopher Lindner (University of Aberystwyth) "Anarchy in the UK: Conrad and the Sex Pistols"
Mary Harris (University of York) "A Metropolitan Dialectic: the two cities in Conrad's Under Western Eyes"
Panel 22: Arts Building Room A202
Kishori Nayak (University of Warwick) "Transgression and Transformations: polyvocality, flux and Problems of Identity in Multicultural Women's Writing"
Zaidee Small (University of South Africa) "Reconfiguring Identity Paradigms: transgression as 'Normative Otherness' "
Panel 23: Arts Building Room A201
Ingrid Gunby (University of Leeds) "Something Left Over from the War: representations of London in Graham Swift's Fiction"
John McLeod (University of Leeds) title t.b.a
3.30 - 4.00: Tea/Coffee
4.00 - 5.00: Keynote Address: Arts Building Lecture Theatre LG12
Professor Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester)
HOW TO REGISTER
Conference Fee
3 day: £60
3 day student/unwaged: £30
1 day: £22
1 day student/unwaged: £11
Includes refreshments and conference pack. Evening events will be charged for separately.
Accommodation
Accommodation has been booked at a University hall of residence, Ashburne Hall. This costs £26.25 per night. It is subject to availability and we recommend early booking. If you wish to stay elsewhere please let us know, and we will send you a list of hotels and bed and breakfasts in the Manchester area. (Please note, we cannot guarantee the quality of non-university accommodation.)
Childcare facilities:
Please indicate on the booking form if you require childcare facilities. We are keen to accommodate people with children, but will only be able to offer creche facilities if there is sufficient demand.
HOW TO BOOK
Unfortunately online booking facilities are not available to us. To register, please copy and print the booking form:
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/projects/mim/reg_form.htm
and return it to:
Transformations in English Studies Conference
Department of English and American Studies
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
England.