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Postgraduate Forum Conference

Thursday 23 May, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Armstrong Building, room G.70

The Postgraduate Forum warmly invites you to attend our 20th annual Postgraduate Forum Conference.

For those unable to attend in person, the conference will also be available on zoom: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/89804511183 Meeting ID: 898 0451 1183

 

Conference Programme

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disobedience, Rebellion and Mischief.

Panel 1: Early Modern Mischief

9:00 - 10:00

  • Harriet Palin, Newcastle University, “Parents groans over their wicked children” or How to drive your Parents Mad and Suffer the Consequences in Early Modern England.
  • Chantal Berry, University of York, Soundscapes of Disorder in Earls Colne, Essex 1570-1680.
  • Scarlet Stevens, University of York, Reading "Bookes Of Love": Romances And Seventeenth Century Women's Reading Pleasure.

 

Panel 2: Reconstructing Remarkable Women

10:15 - 11:15

  • Meghmala Bhattacharya, Northumbria University, Betrayal, Hoodwink and Deception: The Friendships of Bengali Women Revolutionaries (1928-1934).
  • Abby Hammond, Northumbria University, A Lady of the Most Exemplary Life’: The Life, Death, and Memorialisation of Dame Jane Clavering.
  • Holly Boyd-Gill, University of Edinburgh, Celebrity Biopics as Adaptations: The Memorialised Cultural Gesture of Marilyn Monroe.

 

Panel 3: Voices Against the Authority

11:30-12:30

  • Ally Keane, Newcastle University, ‘It became a symbol of my incapacity and I hated it’: User Resistance of High-Technology Augmentative and Alternative Communication, c.1970-present.
  • Bernardo Carvalho de Mello, Newcastle University, Voices of Defiance: Global South Narratives of Rebellion in International Human Rights Law.
  • Ceren Senturk, Newcastle University, Collage as a Catalyst for Dialogue in Contested Spaces.

 

Lunch Break 12:30-14:30 + Poster Competition

 

Panel 4: Deciphering Diverging Legacies

14:30-15:30

  • Lewis Kimberley, Northumbria University, White Supremacist, Klansman, Martyr?: Jim Hadnot in Fact and Fabrication.
  • Steve Kendall, Newcastle University, The Franks Casket: talking to a whalebone box about poetry.
  • Roberto Di Tuccio, Durham University, “We Want Sex”: Rebel Hetairai in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans.

 

Post-conference discussion 15:30-17:00 + Light refreshments