Placing, Spacing, Displacing International Postgraduate Symposium

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1 Placing, Spacing, Displacing International Postgraduate Symposium Intercontinental Hotel, St Julian s MALTA: 7 8 April 2017 organised by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts University of Malta supported by the Erasmus+ Programme englishpgsymposium@um.edu.mt Website: Facebook: Friday 7 April :00 Welcome Coffee & Registration 09:15 Welcome Address by Dr James Corby (Head, Department of English) 09:30 10:30 Keynote Address: Professor John Schad (University of Lancaster) Our Lives, Mrs Dalloway Chair: Aaron Aquilina 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 12:30 Panels 1 & 2 11:00 12:30 Panel 1 Locating the Female Chair: Lydia Hope Ricards Maria Theuma (University of Malta) Would I rather be a Girl than a Cyborg?: the Female, Feeling, and Feminist Praxis in Cyberspace(s) Bailey Betik (University of Edinburgh) Behind the Backs of Borders: Imtiaz Dharker s Shifting Poetic Life in Microspaces of the Inter Theresa Heath- Ellul (King s College, London) Film Ladies are Spoiling for a Fight! How Women s Film Festivals of the 1970s Reclaimed Space for Women 1

2 11:00 12:30 Panel 2 Space, Place and Identity Chair: Warren James Borg Ebejer 12:30 13:30 Lunch Agata Maslowska (University of Glasgow) Homeland Variations: Anxieties of Self- Identification and Identity Construction Farah Aridi (Goldsmiths University) Heterotopic (dis)placement in Elias Khoury s Awlad el ghetto: Ismi Adam (The Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam): Writing as Reclamation of Place Ricarda Menn (Goethe University) A Space of His Own John Burnside s Spatialized Autofictions 13:30 14:30 Keynote Address: Dr Rita Sakr (Goldsmiths, University of London) Heterotopic Displacements in Rawi Hage and Hassan Blasim Chair: Maria Theuma 14:30 16:00 - Panels 3 & 4 14:30 16:00 Panel 3 Space and the Negative Chair: Kayleigh Sacco Aaron Aquilina (University of Lancaster) All the World s a Graveyard: Edward Young s Chronotope of Death Lydia Hope Ricards (University of Malta) Not I: Beckett s Displaced Self James Farrugia (University of Malta) All things are nothing to me : Mordant Withdrawal in Pessoa s Baron and Jünger s Anarch 14:30 16:00 Panel 4 Geo- politico- poetics Chair: Johnathan Harrington 16:00 16:30 Coffee Break Ananya Mishra (University of Cambridge) Re- Imagination of Contested Spaces in the Indigenous Literatures of India, Australia and North America Amira Jammezi (University of Carthage) The Fanonian Mapping of the Textual Space: Mutabaruka s Poetry as a Case Study 2

3 16:30 18:30 Panels 5 & 6 16:30 18:30 Panel 5 Placing the Other Chair: Mariella Scerri Alan Goodson (University of Edinburgh) The Gypsies as Displaced Others in Doyle s Sherlock Holmes Stories Paul Arant (University of Aberdeen) The Mixture of Some Foreign Race : The Remarkable Character of Ezra Jennings in The Moonstone Fırat M. Hacıahmetoglu (KU Leuven) Germany, Heidegger, and Decolonisation: A Critique of Cosmopolitanism Warren James Borg Ebejer (University of Malta) Possessing the Literary and Cinematic Demonic Possession s Place in Literature 16:30 18:30 Panel 6 Inhabited Space Chair: Mariliana Debrincat 18:30 End Giorgia Casara (Coimbra University) We Are Not Anywhere: Ernesto de Sousa Creating Ethical Spaces through Almada Negreiros Jakhan Pirhulyieva (University of Bern) The Function of Urban Space in In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Adam E. Walls (University College London) Spectacular Order in Manhattan s Electric Lightscape: Reading as Critical Architectural Practice Amira Aloui (University of Carthage) The space of Dissent in As You Like It 19:00 Optional Conference Dinner 3

4 Saturday 8 April :00 Welcome Coffee & Registration 09:30 11:00 Panels 7 & 8 09:30 11:00 Panel 7 The Space of Memory and Myth Chair: Ben Mifsud Joslin Karel Fraaije (University College London) Gigantic Chairs and Monstrous Mounds: Correlating Folklore, Cosmology and Place Names in Medieval Germany Paul Armstrong Leworthy (University of Edinburgh) Displaced onto Space: Remembering as Spatial Negotiation in The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 09:30 11:00 Panel 8 Life Displaced Chair: Geraldine Sammut 11:00 11:30 Coffee Break Aran Ward Sell (University of Edinburgh) The War on Terror: Biology as (unstable) space in Jeff VanderMeer s Southern Reach trilogy Clara Chetcuti (University of Malta) West of Contagion: The Valence of the Virus in The Matrix and Westworld Reuben Zammit (Independent Researcher) Displacement and the Rationalisation of Violence in 21 st century War Anime 11:30 13:00 Academic Panel on Placing, Spacing, Displacing Chair: Dr Giuliana Fenech 13:00 14:00 Lunch Participants: Ms Katrin Dautel (Department of German, University of Malta) Dr Jean Paul De Lucca (Department of Philosophy, University of Malta) Dr Marija Grech (Department of English, University of Malta) Ms Lucia Piquero (Department of Dance, University of Malta) 14:00 15:00 Keynote Address: Dr Norbert Bugeja (University of Malta) I live, as we all live, in the aftermath : Meta- dimensional space and the location of ambiguous affect in Hisham Matar s The Return Chair: Clara Chetcuti 4

5 15:00 17:00 Panels 9 & 10 15:00 17:00 Panel 9 The Space of the (Post- ) Human Chair: Mariliana DeBrincat Francesca Borg Taylor- East and Jonathan Harrington (University of Malta) An Other Design(ed): Exploring Othering in Tinder Mariella Scerri (University of Malta) Writing Place: The Role of the Nurse in Literature Elizabeth Micallef (University of Malta) Cyborgs Have Arrived 15:00 17:00 Panel 10 Affect and Extravagance Chair: Kathleen Vella 17:00 17:30 Coffee Break Christine Caruana (University of Malta) The Comedy Double Act: An Exercise in Movement and Containment Elsa Fiott (Independent Researcher) The Position of Suffering Joseph St John (University of Malta) Exile and Chosenness in the Old English Exodus Raghed Harmassi (University of Carthage) The Spacing and Displacing of the Unreal in Stoker s Dracula 17:30 18:30 Panels 11 & 12 17:30 18:30 Panel 11 Contesting Space Chair: Joseph St John Amy Webb (University of Malta) The Occupation of Space and Place in Black Lives Matter Ben Mifsud Joslin (University of Malta) The Evolution of the American Narrative as a Device of Political Rhetoric 17:30 18:30 Panel 12 Temporal Displacements Chair: Lydia Hope Ricards Kayleigh Sacco (University of Malta) (Dis)placing the Contemporary Geraldine Sammut (University of Malta) The Story of Dmitri Shostakovich: Placing the Displaced in Julian Barnes s The Noise of Time 5

6 18:30 Closing Address & Thanks 19:00 End of Symposium 6 April

Corresponding with Beckett The Epistolary in Literary Research A London Beckett Seminar Conference 1-2 June 2018

Corresponding with Beckett The Epistolary in Literary Research A London Beckett Seminar Conference 1-2 June 2018 In association with Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England Hosted