Imagined Spaces: Literature and Environments
University of Bristol, Wednesday April 29th 2015
MA Conference Programme 2015
11.00-11.30: Registration
G5, 3-5 Woodland Road
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11.30-12.00:
Plenary
Professor
Ralph Pite (University of Bristol), LT1, 3-5 Woodland Road
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12.00-13.30:
Session 1
Panel 1: On the Stage
LR1, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Emily Derbyshire (University of Bristol)
The Communal Magic
If - Creating Physical, Imaginative and Performative Spaces in the Rehearsal Room - Danielle Arden (Actor, Writer,
Filmmaker)
Reshaping Memory through Space: The Case of the Coppola Theatre- Stefania Placenti (University of
Bristol)
Beyond Dionysian Liminality: Rethinking Space in Euripides’s The
Bacchae- David Bullen (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Dark Back of Literature: Shakespearean Allusions in Contemporary
European Fiction- Ian Ellison (University of Bristol)
Panel 2: Vistas
G11, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Andrew Giles (University of Bristol)
Like Shakespeare’s Day: Green Pleasure and Avant-garde Nostalgia in
Audience Responses to Shakespeare Outdoors - Evelyn O’Malley (Exeter
University)
Place Destruction and the Crisis of Meaning in Environmental Fiction-
Sophia David (University of Exeter)
Antholomorphism: The Landscaping of Poetry Anthologies - Lucy
Summers (Bath Spa University)
Landscape in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop- Erin Fox
(University of Bristol)
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13.30-14.15: Lunch
G5, 3-5 Woodland Road
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14.15- 15.45: Session
2
Panel 3: There and
Back
LR1, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Rowan Evans (University of Bristol)
As I Walked Out in the
Mystic Garden’: Bob Dylan’s American Adam- Craig Savage
(University of Bristol)
Freedom and
Fatherland: The Childhood Idyll and the Voyage in the Literary Criticism of
Theodor Adorno and Gilles Deleuze- Frederick Myles (Goethe-Universität)
Pastorealism: Poetry
of the Contemporary Landscape- Mark Haworth Booth (University of
Exeter)
Panel 4: Branching Out
G11, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Josie-Jade Johnson (University of Bristol)
Kalevala: The Trees and Forests of the Finnish National Epic- Kayleigh Toyra (Bristol University)
Thinking in Place: The influence of Heidegger’s Hut- Jeremy
Walton (University of the West of England)
The Fairy Tale World: Spatial Representation in the Stories of the
Brothers Grimm- Catherine Stiles (Bristol University)
A Logic of Sense of Place: a ramble around meaning - Nina Lyon (Cardiff University)
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A Logic of Sense of Place: a ramble around meaning - Nina Lyon (Cardiff University)
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15.45-16.00: Tea break
G5, 3-5 Woodland Road
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16.00-17.30: Session 3
Panel 5: In the
School-Room
LR1, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Mike Foster (University of Bristol)
Joseph Cottle and the Displaced Influence
of John Henderson on Bristol’s Romantic Circle- Richard Kerr
(University of Bristol)
The Metaphorical Campus:
Imagination and Resistance in the Academic Novel - Jonathan Brierley
(University of Bristol)
‘
“Please,
sir, I want some more”’: Dickens, Place, and Popularity- James Cutler
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Human Associations’: The Past in
Hardy’s Schoolrooms- Jonathan Memel (University of Exeter)
Panel 6: Cityscapes
G11, 3-5 Woodland Road
Panel Chair: Rowena Finlayson (Manchester School of Art)
Queering the Blitz: Sexual Counterpublics in Elizabeth Bowen's ‘The Heat
of the Day’ and Sarah
Waters' ‘Night Watch’- Leonie Thomas (University
of Bristol)
Scents in the city: Exploring the urban in Patrick Süskind's Perfume-
Hannah Scott (University of Bristol)
Psychogeography and ‘Topolgangers’: The Psychological
Environment and Identity Construction in China Miéville’s ‘The City & the
City’ - Tiffany Soga (University of
Bristol)
“above the Springs of Wandel…”: Remembering London’s Forgotten Rivers
through Literature Trevor Turpin (Bath Spa University)
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17.30-18.00: Tea and
Cake
School of Modern Languages Common Room, 11 Woodland Road
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18.00-19.00: Keynote:
Professor David Morley (Warwick University)
LT3, 11 Woodland Road
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19.45-21.00: Conference
Dinner- Venue TBC