Stachniewski lecture and postgraduate conference on WAR

STUDENT CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER  18 FEBRUARY 2014

LITERATURE AND/AS WAR

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

1 – 2 pm                                

Seminar Room 1, Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Bldg

Panel 1: War on women's bodies

Harriet Hill-Payne

Doubling, Duplicity and Doubt in Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Isabelle Dann

Lady Macbeth: Escape to the Real

Katie Miller

"Why Don't Her Eyes Close?": Unstable Borders in Pat Barker's Working-Class Trilogy

2- 2.20 pm

COFFEE BREAK

2.20- 3.20 pm

Seminar Room 2, Graduate School

Panel 2: War, class and the other

Sophie Handler

The East in Frankish Eyes: The Crusades of Huon de Bordeaux

Ruari Patton

Class Conflict and Social Mobility in Tamburlaine

Joseph Armstrong

Brutal Nature: Constructions of the Human in Gulliver's Travels

3.25-4.25

Seminar Room 2, Graduate School

Panel 3: Modernist war: death and the self

Zoe Gosling

The Psychology of War in D.H. Lawrence 'England, My England'

Thomas Short

Calculating the Death Penalty in Billy Budd

Elizabeth Harper

Wastelands

5-6.30 pm

Samuel Alexander Building

A101

The John Stachniewski Memorial Lecture

(jointly organized by UoM and UCU)

 James Loxley

Ben Jonson's Great North Road

6.30 pm

Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building

DRINKS RECEPTION