Conference Programme



9.30 -10.00

Registration and coffee
(Arts 1, Ground Floor Foyer)

10.00 – 11.30
Panel 1 ‘Feminisms: 1950-1980’ (Rehearsal Room 1)

Chair: Clara Jones

Lydia Fellgett (UEA) ‘Betty Miller’s Feminist Essay’

Sue Kennedy (Hull) ‘Between Anger and Liberation’ Abortion: The Mid-Twentieth Century Woman’s Dilemma’

Amanda Roberts (Swansea Metropolitan) ‘Naked Women/ The Female Nude. Feminist Inheritance and Figurative Representations of Women Unclothed’

Panel 2 ‘Anti-Feminisms?’ (Rehearsal Room 2)

Chair: Emily Hogg

Niall Gildea (Queen Mary) ‘Roger Scruton’s Daughters’

Dr Joanna Freer (Sussex) ‘Identifying Misogyny in the Postmodern Fiction of Thomas Pynchon’

Dr Huw Marsh (Queen Mary) ‘all that rubbish’: Beryl Bainbridge, Feminism and Feminist Rewriting'


11.30 - 11.45

Tea and Coffee
11.45 – 12.45
Panel 3 ‘Negotiating Feminisms’
(Rehearsal Room 1)

Chair: Dr Nadia Atia


Prudence Chamberlain (Royal Holloway) ‘The Inheritance of Irony and Development of Flippancy’

Myriam Mubikayi Rojo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ‘Black Feminism’s Influence on Octavia Butler’s Fledgling



Panel 4 ‘Re-reading and Reclamation’
(Rehearsal Room 1)

Chair: Anna Kretschmer

Timothy E G Bartell (St Andrews) ‘The Re-illumination of Evangeline: Longfellow’s Heroine and Orthodox Feminism in Overdue Conversation'

Dr Jane Mattisson Ekstam (Kristianstad University) ‘Reclaiming the Female Experience of the Great War’

12.45  -1.45

Lunch
(Arts 1, Ground Floor Foyer)

1.45 –2.45
Keynote: Prof. Marion Shaw (Loughborough) ‘Old Feminism, New Feminism’

2.45-3.00
Tea and Coffee

3.00-4.30
Panel 5 ‘Language and Voice’ (Rehearsal Room 2)

Chair: Dr Katie Fleming

Urvashi Vashist (UCL) ‘the outsider and the independent, mobile republic: Dissent in Arundhati Roy and Virginia Woolf’

Alexander Fyfe (Warwick) ‘Feminism in Poetic Language: A Comparison of Two Texts by Helene Cixous and Gayatri Spivak'


Panel 6 ‘Locating Feminism’
(Rehearsal Room 2)

Chair: Rob Waters

Dr Melanie Waters (Northumbria) ‘Postfeminism or “Ghost Feminism”?: Feminism, Postfeminism, and the Politics of Spectrality’

Anna Kuslits (Independent Scholar) ‘Femi-normativism, the Maidservant of Modernity’

Dr Magda Hasabelnaby (Ain Shams University, Women’s College) ‘Western Feminisms from Egyptian Perspectives’

4.30 – 5.30
Closing Discussion - introduced by:

Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary)

Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary)

Professor Marion Shaw (Loughborough)

5.30 – 6.30
Drinks Reception



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