Belonging & Transgression
UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry (SCCI)
Postgraduate Conference – 23rd-24th June 2016
Timetable:
Day 1
Registration – 09.30-10.00
Keynote Opening Presentation – 10.00-11.00
Break (tea/coffee provided) – 11.00-11.20
Panel 1. Literary Communities: Style, Cosmopolitanism, Identity – 11.20-13.00
Lunch (provided) – 13.00-14.00
Panel 2. Colonialism or Migration?: Origins, Theory, Modernity
– 14.00-15.20
Break (tea/coffee provided) – 15.20-15.40
Panel 3. Psychological Encounters: History, Tradition, and Transition – 15.40-17.00
Drinks/Pub – 17.00-19.00
Conference Dinner – 19.00 Onwards
Day 2
Panel 4. Eastern Europe: Art, Politics, Belonging – 09.30-10.50
Break (tea/coffee provided) – 10.50-11.10
Panel 5. Transgressive’ Sexualities: Oppression, Expression, Emancipation – 11.10-12.30
Lunch (provided) – 12.30-13.30
Digital Humanities in the 21st Century (Open forum session) – 13.30-14.20
Panel 6. Film and Media: Distribution, Globalization, Self – 14.20-15.40
Break (tea/coffee provided) – 15.40-16.00
Closing Keynote Speech – 16.00-17.00
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mairéad Hanrahan (Chair of French, UCL)
Professor John Sutherland (Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, UCL)
Panel Information:
Panel 1. Literary Communities: Style, Cosmopolitanism, Identity
Jakob von Baeyer – “Challenging normative definitions of Cosmopolitanism”
Ayesha Ahmed – “The Transgressions of Belonging in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Josh Torabi – “The Dionysian Antihero in the works of James Joyce and Thomas Mann via Nietszche”
Panel 2. Colonialism or Migration?: Origins, Theory, Modernity
Beatriz Salamanca – “1545: Dominican Domingo de Soto’s Deliberation in the Cause of the Poor.”
Peter Rees – ““Acts of citizenship” within a broader theoretical and philosophical understanding of law”
Ashjan Ajour – “The Transgressive Practices of Revolutionary Subjectivity: Hunger strike in Occupied Palestine”
Panel 3. Psychological Encounters: History, Tradition, and Transition
Matei Iagher – “The Psychology of Religion: A Doomed Discipline?”
Tommaso Priviero – “Footsteps in the Underworld: Dante, Jung, and The Red Book
Rodrigo Vivas Pinto – “Compare to Belong: the Comparative Method(s) and the Psychic Unity of Humanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Panel 4. Eastern Europe: Art, Politics, Belonging
Anna Kalmár – “Jewish theatre in Budapest: The question of belonging 1939-44”
Simon Coll – “National Belonging Amid Shifting Boundaries: Redefining (East) German and Polish Identities in a Cold War Context, 1945-1970”
Yuliya Suleyeva – “Artistic Phenomena and Power: The Interaction between a Re-Emerging Dominant Discourse and Cultural Expressions in Post-Soviet Russia.”
Panel 5. Transgressive’ Sexualities: Oppression, Expression, Emancipation
Katelyn Smith – “Feminist Activism and the British Controversy over the Injectable Contraceptive Depo-Provera: 1970-1985.”
Ann Bartholomew – “Maitresses of Power, Performativity and Belonging”
Jack Kiely – “The Rectum Is For Gravediggers: Homicide, HIV, Homophobia and Identity in Late Twentieth Century France”
Panel 6. Film and Media: Distribution, Globalization, Self
Melissa Powell – “The Gender of Things: Commodities, Feminism, and Cinema”
Amanda Alfaro Córdoba – “From Film Distribution to Film Circulation. The Digital Turn in the Grey Areas.”
Sarah Spencer – “The Life and Times of Kanye West: Transgressive Artistic Output in the Face of the Screen”
Digital Humanities in the 21st Century (Open forum session)
Tiia Sahrakorpi, Simon Coll, Cherish Watton, Holly Firmin (session hosts) –
“The Impact of Collaborative Blogging: Belonging to Wider Research Communities”
https://culturalinquiryucl.wordpress.com/belonging-transgression-2016/
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/belonging-and-transgression-conference-2016-tickets-25738418302
Comparative Cultural Inquiry - UCL 