Programme
26th May 2014, 19 George Square
9.00 Registration and Welcome
9.20 Majestic Methodology
Sandra Paziewicz
Social function of electronically based literary artworks in postmodern capitalism: An interdisciplinary approach to Digital
Humanities
Pablo San Martín
Exploring the Enlightenment from Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Jing Jing
Discourse analysis in exploring China-EU relations: A methodological approach
Eystein Thanisch
‘That which is to come has already been’: Time, knowledge and genealogy and how these diffract the study of medieval
authorship
Panel Chair: Nicole Cote
11.00 Elevenses
11.20 The Screen under Scrutiny
Michelle Devereaux
The middle-aged man and the sea: Nature and nostalgia in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic
James Mooney
Bertolucci's cave: A Platonic reading of The Conformist (1970)
Mei-Ling McNamara
Liminal states, invisible acts: Forced labour, trauma and the politics of modern-day slavery in the UK
Panel Chair: Barbara Tesio
12.50 Lunch
1.30 People and Politics on Paper
Saverio Leopardi
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and its struggle against marginalisation
Deirdre Stack-Marques
Voices of the people?: The representation of rural society in the works of Ivan Turgenev and Halldór Laxness
Fiona Hobbs Milne
Rethinking state censorship?: Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and his sedition trial of 1792
Emily Anderson
The 1916 Shakespeare tercentenary celebrations in England and Scotland: How British was Shakespeare during the Great
War?
Panel Chair: George Barker
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Reflections on Reception
Susanna Grazzini
Acquainted with Carlo Emilio Gadda: The atypical reception and translation of an Italian modernist in the English-speaking
world
Lana Orešić
What's love got to do with it?: Questioning traditional interpretation of the Gāhākosa, an anthology of classical Indian love poetry
Panel Chair: Giulia Toto’
4.30 PechaKucha Sketches on a Powerpoint Precipice…
On special loan to us from LLC Blethers, reprising their acclaimed orations from that renowned occasion, for 13 minutes and 20 seconds only:
Victoria Anker, performing a PechaKucha by Laura Chapot
FORUM: Edinburgh University's Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts
Lisa Möckli
20/20 Hindsight
Panel Chair: Muireann Crowley
…plus Pause for Pronouncement, Presentation of Prizes, Congratulatory Credits, and Concluding Comments
5.00 Drinks Reception
7.00 Conference Dinner
9.20 Majestic Methodology
Sandra Paziewicz
Social function of electronically based literary artworks in postmodern capitalism: An interdisciplinary approach to Digital
Humanities
Pablo San Martín
Exploring the Enlightenment from Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Jing Jing
Discourse analysis in exploring China-EU relations: A methodological approach
Eystein Thanisch
‘That which is to come has already been’: Time, knowledge and genealogy and how these diffract the study of medieval
authorship
Panel Chair: Nicole Cote
11.00 Elevenses
11.20 The Screen under Scrutiny
Michelle Devereaux
The middle-aged man and the sea: Nature and nostalgia in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic
James Mooney
Bertolucci's cave: A Platonic reading of The Conformist (1970)
Mei-Ling McNamara
Liminal states, invisible acts: Forced labour, trauma and the politics of modern-day slavery in the UK
Panel Chair: Barbara Tesio
12.50 Lunch
1.30 People and Politics on Paper
Saverio Leopardi
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and its struggle against marginalisation
Deirdre Stack-Marques
Voices of the people?: The representation of rural society in the works of Ivan Turgenev and Halldór Laxness
Fiona Hobbs Milne
Rethinking state censorship?: Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and his sedition trial of 1792
Emily Anderson
The 1916 Shakespeare tercentenary celebrations in England and Scotland: How British was Shakespeare during the Great
War?
Panel Chair: George Barker
3.10 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Reflections on Reception
Susanna Grazzini
Acquainted with Carlo Emilio Gadda: The atypical reception and translation of an Italian modernist in the English-speaking
world
Lana Orešić
What's love got to do with it?: Questioning traditional interpretation of the Gāhākosa, an anthology of classical Indian love poetry
Panel Chair: Giulia Toto’
4.30 PechaKucha Sketches on a Powerpoint Precipice…
On special loan to us from LLC Blethers, reprising their acclaimed orations from that renowned occasion, for 13 minutes and 20 seconds only:
Victoria Anker, performing a PechaKucha by Laura Chapot
FORUM: Edinburgh University's Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts
Lisa Möckli
20/20 Hindsight
Panel Chair: Muireann Crowley
…plus Pause for Pronouncement, Presentation of Prizes, Congratulatory Credits, and Concluding Comments
5.00 Drinks Reception
7.00 Conference Dinner
