Reframing Ekphrasis: King's College London Comparative Literature Conference, 8-9 November 2012
We are delighted to invite you to the first King’s College London Comparative Literature Graduate conference. Please email reframingekphrasis@gmail.com to register stating your name and the days you will be attending. Attendance is free and all are welcome!
“Reframing Ekphrasis”
King’s College London Comparative Literature Conference
8-9 November 2012
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Cheeke (Bristol)
‘Transfiguration: Nineteenth-Century Ekphrasis’
Thurs. 8 November: 12.30 – 4.30, Room S8.08, King’s College London, Strand Campus
12.30 – 1.00: Registration and coffee
1.00 – 2.30: Panel 1: Classical to Early Modern Ekphrasis
- Daisy Dunn (UCL/Warburg Institute) – ‘Integrating Ekphrasis from Classical Text to Renaissance Image: Achilles Tatius Re-mastered’
- Stanislaus Kuttner-Homs (University of Caen) – ‘Beyond the Veil: Ekphrasis as Literary Empowerment in the De signis of Niketas Choniates’
- Beatrice Wilford (KCL) – ‘Adaptation as Ekphrasis: Derek Jarman’s Edward II’
2.30 – 2.45: Break
2.45 – 4.15: Panel 2: Ekphrasis in Practice
- Angelina Ayers (Sheffield Hallam) – ‘Experiments in Ekphrasis’
- Rebecca Roach (Oxford) – ‘Through the Keyhole: Writers, Rooms and Representation’
- Joanne Brueton (UCL) – ‘“Toi et Sartre vous m’avez statufié”: Space, Art and Resistance in Jean Genet and Louise Bourgeois’
Friday 9 November: 9.00 – 6.00, River Room, King’s College London, Strand Campus
9.00 – 9.30: Registration, opening remarks, coffee
9.30 – 11.00: Panel 1: Ekphrasis at Play: Dialogues, Dialectics and Abstractions
- Pauline Eaton (Birkbeck) – ‘Marie NDiaye and Turner: A Silent Yet Complex dialogue Between Visual Image and Textual Narrative in La Naufragée’
- Natalia Font (Exeter) – ‘Interrogating the Ekphrastic Ambivalence: Angela Carter and Marosa di Giorgio’
- Kate Symondson (KCL) – ‘Abstract Literature: Conrad’s Innovations in Representation’
11.00 – 11.15: Break
11.15 – 12.00: Keynote Speech – Dr. Stephen Cheeke (Bristol) – ‘Transfiguration: Nineteenth-Century Ekphrasis’
12.00 – 1.00: Lunch (own arrangements)
1.15 – 2.45: Panel 2: Ekphrastic Stasis and Movement
- Claudia Tobin (Bristol) – ‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: DH Lawrence, Cézanne and the Still Life’
- Amanda Cornwall (University of Oregon) – ‘Ut pictura poesis in George Elliot’s Middlemarch’
- Dr. Lynsey McCulloch (Coventry) – ‘The Images Move in a Dance: Animated Statuary and Ekphrastic Motion in the Early Modern Masque’
2.45 – 3.00: Break
3.00 – 4.30: Panel 3: Postcolonial Ekphrases
- Isil Cihan – ‘In the Light of New Ekphrastic Poetics: A Reading of My Name is Red’
- Dr. Sheetal Majithia (NYU Abu Dhabi) – ‘Postcolonial Ekphrasis and the Politics of the Rushdie Affair’
- Dr. Andrew Miller (University of Copenhagen) – ‘Dabydeen’s Turner: Reframing the Aura’
4.30 – 6.00: Panel 4: Subjectivity, the Senses, and Ekphrasis
- Dr. Alison Fisch Katz (Jerusalem College of Engineering) – ‘In Pursuit of a Full Aesthetic: Ekphrasis in Tess of D’Urbervilles'
- Nina Shiel (Dublin City University) – ‘The Senses and Sensuality of Ekphrasis from the Painting to the Pixel’
- Christine Fouirnaies (Oxford) – ‘Soul Mirrors and Dead Ends: Ekphrastic Portraits in The Idiot, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’
6.00: Wine reception
7.30: Dinner at Bedford and Strand Restaurant, Bedford St