Fluid Physicalities draft programme
Fluid Physicalities, day conference 10th March 2017.
Places are strictly limited to those who have signed up via the Eventbrite booking page.
9:45 – coffee and arrival
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10-11:15 – Session 1 | a. Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford), ‘Wet communities, liquid people’
b. Jose M. Yebra (Zaragoza), ‘Abject fluidities’ |
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11:15-12.45 – Session 2 | a. Sophie Sexon and Rachel Sharpe (Glasgow), ‘Mother’s Milk and Bitches’ Blood; The Abject Horror of the Icon of the Female Body’
b. Edwin Coomasaru (Courtauld), ‘The Politics of Semen and the Northern Irish Peace Process: Dudi Appleton’s The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999) and Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008)’ c. Freddie Mason (RCA), ‘Colloidal Thinking/Colloidal Feeling’ |
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12:45-1 – Artist session 1
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Benjamin Akira Lasker (Sydney), ‘Loo d’aisance’ | |
1 – 1:30 – lunch [provided]
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1:30-3 –Session 3 | a. Naomi Segal (Birkbeck), ‘Spending and starving: the hydraulics of André Gide’
b. Sophie Jones (Leeds), ‘Depression sweat’ c. Lisa Mullen (Oxford) ‘Milk as liquid labour in George Orwell’s Animal Farm’ |
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3-4:30 – Session 4 | a. Hetta Howes (QMUL), ‘And forthwith came there out blood and water: fluid devotion in late medieval literature’
b. Jonah Coman (St Andrews University), ‘The gore of the crucifixion in the late medieval imagination’ c. Stephen Curtis, ‘”This Bleeding Piece of Earth”: Bloody Topography in Early Modern Culture’ |
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4:30- 4:45 – Coffee break
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4:45-5 – Artist session 2 | Isabel Davis (Birkbeck) & Anna Burel ‘Conceiving histories’ | |
5-6.15 –Session 5 | a. Eleanor Careless (Sussex), ‘Red flags: blood as protest
b. Claire Horn (Birkbeck), ‘Blood after death’ |
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6.15-7.30 – Wine reception and plenary
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Laura Salisbury (Exeter), plenary lecture, ‘Diarrhoea: Thinking Through the Body’ | |
7.30pm: close |