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Fragile Realities: Intersecting Interpretations of the Real

04 July 2012–07 July 2012, 12:00 am–12:00 am

Event Information

Open to

All

6 July 2012

When
6 July 2012, 9.30m-5.45pm

Where
Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N

Registration
Please register below, limited seats available!

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Programme

Time Atrium G10  118
9.00 Registration    
9.30  

Welcome Address:

Dr Stephanie Bird UCL

 
9.45   

Keynote

Address 1:

Chair: Dr Stephanie Bird

Dr. Matthew Beaumont
(UCL)'Aleatory Realism: The Parable of the Pier-Glass'

  
10.30  

PANEL

1a: Temporeality

Chair: Nichola Smalley

Alia Soliman (UCL),
'The Self in Time in Latin American Literature'

Gabriella Addivinola
(Warwick)'The Realities of Dante's Vision'

Alexandra Hills (UCL) 'Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand [The Wall]: The Last Woman on Earth Living the Unthinkable.'

PANEL

1b: Real & Imagined Spaces

Chair: Pei-Sze Chow

Lisa L. Socrates (UCL), "Parallel Spaces and Undesirable Bodies", Adonis Florides's
Kalabush, 2002

Kelvin Knight, 'Simultaneously
Mythic & Real Spaces: Heterotopia in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz'

Megan Bradshaw (UCL/SELCS), 'Literary Geography & Cities in Literature'
11.30  Tea & Coffee    
11.45  

PANEL

2a: Constructing Realities Chair: Alicia Spencer-Hall

David Hermann (UCL/SELCS), 'The
Spectre of Universal Constructionism and the Academic Study of Literature'


Pauline Souleau, (Oxford) 'Writing History or Writing a Story? The Medieval Reality of truth and
Fiction in the Work of Jean Froissart'

Agnes Broome (UCL), 'Constructing the Fields of Translated Fiction: Is Foreign Literature Special?

Nicky Smalley (UCL), 'Rap,
Literature and Authenticity'

PANEL

4b: Visual Interpretation & the Real Chair: Asmaa Soliman

Jonathan Stafford (Kingston), 'The
Intersection of European and Colonial Realities: Identity & Representation
in Victorian Maritime Design'


Ken Cheng (UCL), 'Against "zoological nationalism:" how Jakobson wrote the
politics of Dada'


André Hammelmann (King's College London), 'Surfaces of Reality: Multi-layered Perspectives in Thomas Arslan's A Fine Day'

Pei-Sze Chow (UCL), 'The Landmark on Film: Representations of Place and Identity'
1.05  Lunch Fragile Unrealities: lunchtime films and image slideshow  
2.00   

Keynote address 2:

Chair: Dr Claire Thomson (UCL)

Assoc. Prof. Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen (Aarhus University/Dept of Aesthetics & Communication)
'New kinds of reality, created
within the development of the real-time 'now', feedback and interfaces.'

 
2.45   

PANEL

3a: Technology/Reality

Chair: Nicky Smalley

Essi Viitanen (UCL), 'Reality Through the Lens:
Reimagining a Cinematic Tapiola'

Sophie Hoyle (Central St
Martins), 'More Real than Reality: Film & Video Technology in Representing
the "Real"'

Joe Sheehan (Arts University College), 'Animating Stillness the Stop-Frame, Temportality and the Process of Observation'

PANEL

3b: Socio-political Realities

Chair: Megan Bradshaw

Asmaa Soliman (UCL/SELCS), 'Young Muslims in Europe and their public expressions of a European Muslim Identity'

Emily Hogg (QMUL), 'Reading the "Girl-Child".'
Rully Damayanti (Sheffield), 'Dialectic Reality of Youth in "Urban Kampung" Surabaya, Indonesia'
3.45 Tea & coffee    
4.00  

PANEL

4a: Augmented Realism

Chair: Pei-sze Chow

Camilla Sutherland (UCL), 'Shifting Realities: Migration and Surreality in the Work of Remedios Varo'


Octavia Bright (UCL), 'Spanish Realism? Looking Awry with Luis Bunuel, Pedro Almodovar & Julio Medem'


Alicia Spencer-Hall (UCL), 'Post-mortem Projections: Blurring the Boundaries between Life and Death'

PANEL

4b: Realities of Conflict

Chair: Asmaa Soliman

Colin Leventhal
(UCL), 'The Realities of War: Death of An Iraqi Soldier'

Georgina Williams (Winchester School
of Art), 'Constructing the Real: Art & Philosophy in Propagandist Aesthetics'

Stephen Krewson (Yale), "Shall we ever get histories of the real things?": Towards a Whitmanian Historiography of the US Civil War.'

Kinga Bloch (UCL), 'Realistic Television Series:A threat to the Self-Image of Wester German Audiences in the 1980s'
5.20  

Closing Address: Prof. Tim Mathews, UCL

General discussion

  
5.45   Conference close  
6.00   Drinks  

Registration

To register for this event, please visit the SELCS Conference website