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