Preliminary Programme: Friday 6 July 2007
Select a date to view the programme:
| Venue | Time | Main Programme - Friday 6 July | The Fringe |
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| Athlone Hub | 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast | |
| 09:15 - 10:45 |
Themes 2 | ||
| Theme | |||
| ALT1 |  E-literacies |
Bringing the Global Home: the Use of Digital Technologies in an International Women Writers Course
Moira Baker (Radford College) Developing an Electronic Journal in Post-Colonial Studies Balasubramanyam Chandramohan (Kingston University) Creative Online Activities in English Studies Rosie Miles (University of Wolverhampton) Chaired by Brett Lucas (English Subject Centre) |
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| ABF3 |  Creative / Critical |
Criticism and Creativity (Part 1 of 2) Presentations and discussion led by Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire) with contributions from Graeme Harper (University of Wales, Bangor) |
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| MC336 |  Drama / English |
Textual Studies in a Practical Environment: teaching English at the Globe Theatre (Part 2 of 3 on Theatre and Higher Education) Presentations and discussion chaired by Christie Carson (English Subject Centre/Royal Holloway University of London) with contributions from Farah Karim-Cooper (Globe Education/King’s College, University of London), Tom Cornford (Shakespeare’s Globe), Gordon McMullan (King’s College, University of London) |
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| AS21 |  Life Writing |
Intimate Engagements? Reading and Gendered Identities Elaine Hawkins (Birkbeck, University of London) Teaching the Postcolonial Gothic: Engaging Students with Difference in Action, Reflection and Response Gina Wisker (University of Brighton) Chaired by Nicole King (English Subject Centre) |
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| ABF1 |  Language & Style |
The Art of English: an interdisciplinary approach to creativity in everyday and literary language Joan Swann, Sarah North and Kieran O’Halloran (The Open University) |
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| Arts foyer | 10:45 - 11:15 |
Refreshments | Exhibitions Posters |
| ALT1 | 11:15 - 12:15 |
Plenary 2 Professor Jonathan Bate The New Pragmatism Chaired by Professor Lis Jay (Oxford Brookes University) |
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| FDR | 12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch | Exhibitions Posters |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Themes 3 | ||
| Theme | |||
| ALT1 | E-literacies |
Virtual Reality Literary Magazine Jennifer Young (University of Hertfordshire) Reading Literature Online Duncan Campbell (ProQuest Information and Learning) The Poetry Archive Jean Sprackland (The Poetry Archive) Chaired by Jonathan Gibson (English Subject Centre) |
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| ABF1 |  Pedagogies |
The Advanced Extension Award in English Lionel Warner (Reading University) DARTs and Expectations of Year 1 Pedagogy Andrew Green (Brunel University) Chaired by Gary Snapper (National Association for the Teaching of English) |
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| AG3A | Creative / Critical |
Criticism and Creativity (Part 2 of 2 Who Kills Duncan?) Simon Palfrey (Brasenose College, Oxford University) and Ewan Fernie (Royal Holloway University of London) |
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| MC336 | Drama / English |
Higher Education and the Professional Theatre :Complementary or Conflicting Working Methods and Ethos? (Part 3 of 3 on Theatre and Higher Education) Presentations and discussion chaired by Christie Carson (English Subject Centre/Royal Holloway, University of London) with contributions from Farah Karim-Cooper (Globe Education/King’s College, University of London), Tom Cornford (Shakespeare’s Globe), Gordon McMullan (King’s College, University of London), Carol Rutter (CAPITAL Centre, Warwick University), Susan Brock (CAPITAL Centre, Warwick University), Jonathan Bate (CAPITAL Centre, Warwick University) | |
| ABF3 | Life Writing |
Part 1 of 2 on Literary Texts and Conceptual Thinking led by Celia Hunt (University of Sussex) Writing the Body: ways in which creative writing can help us to access and express a ‘felt, bodily sense of self’ Sophie Nicholls (University of Sussex) In Touch: Renewing the Narrative Skin Sarah Jackson (University of Sussex) Re-reading Ourselves in our Autobiographical Fictions: the example of Emily Fox Gordon’s ‘The Mockingbird Years’ Celia Hunt (University of Sussex) |
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| AS21 | Language & Style |
Learning on the Language-Literature Border Helen Day (Centre for Employability through the Humanities (CETH) at the University of Central Lancashire) Using Stylistics to Reveal a Text’s Sociohistorical Background David West (University of Northumbria) Chaired by Gina Wisker (University of Brighton) (TBC) |
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| Arts Foyer | 15:00 - 15:30 |
Refreshments | Exhibitions |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Themes 4 | ||
| Theme | |||
| MC336 | E-literacies |
Is Technology Changing our Idea of English? A debate between English Subject Centre E-Learning Advocates and the audience chaired by Brett Lucas (English Subject Centre) |
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| AG3A | Pedagogies |
The Construction of Teaching and Learning: a roundtable discussion Jennifer Holberg (Calvin College), Marcy Taylor (Central Michigan University), Nicole King and Ben Knights (both English Subject Centre) |
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| ALT1 | Pedagogies |
The Production of University English David Amigoni, Susan Bruce, Ken Jones (all Keele University) and Monica McLean (Nottingham University) |
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| ABF1 | Creative / Critical |
Emperor’s Clothes? Michelene Wandor (Royal Literary Fund Fellow at University College London) Creative Journals for Active Readers Chris Thurgar-Dawson (University of Teesside) Chaired by Jan Jedrzejewski (University of Ulster) |
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| AS21 | Drama / English |
The Body of Text meets the Body as Text: monodrama and (i)dentity Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmiths, University of London) Winging it: English pedagogy and stand-up comedy Kevin McCarron (Roehampton University) Chaired by Graeme Harper (University of Wales, Bangor) |
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| ABF3 | Life Writing |
(Part 2 of 2 on Literary Texts and Conceptual Thinking led by Celia Hunt (University of Sussex) Writing Workshop: Writingandreading Sophie Nicholls and Celia Hunt (University of Sussex) |
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| North Quad | 18:00 - 19:00 |
Drinks Reception - Sponsored by ProQuest Information and Learning |
Jazz Music performed by Allegro Arts |
| Picture Gallery | 19:00 - 22:00 |
Conference Dinner | Stand-Up comedy from Kevin McCarron (around 9pm) |