Theory Now - Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March, University of Glasgow

Published: 22 January 2019

A Symposium on Theory and its Futures - Edwin Morgan Room, 5 University Gardens

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Theory Now Symposium

Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March 2019

Edwin Morgan Room, 5 University Gardens, University of Glasgow

Friday 22nd March

9am – 10 am Registration and coffee in foyer

10 am Welcome

10.10 am – 11.00 am Dr Lorna Burns (St Andrews)

‘The Nietzschean Roots of Post-Criticism: Process Philosophies and the Aesthetics of Dissent’

Chair: Dr Dominic Smith (Dundee)

11.00 am - 11.10 am Break

11.10 am – 12.10 pm Professor Tina Chanter (Kingston)

‘Revisiting Barad, Butler and Structuralism: Performativity, Objectivity and Matter’

Chair: Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni (Glasgow)

12.15 pm – 1.00 pm Postgraduate papers

Mantra Mukim (Warwick): ‘Dickinson’s Infinite: Notes towards a Speculative Lyric’

Nicola Bozzi (Salford): ‘A Cultural Critique of Tagging: Politics and Aesthetics of Categorisation in the Age of Social Media’

Chair: Dr Sophie Vlacos (Glasgow)

1.00 pm – 2.15 pm Lunch break

(1.15pm – 2.00 pm Working lunch for network planning group, Room 205, 5 University Gardens)

2.15 pm – 3.15 pm Theory, Policy and Praxis: Roundtable on Ecology and Ecocriticism

Dr Richard Benwell (Special Advisor DEFRA, off-record); Ms Tessa Ferry (Policy Advisor Scottish Government, off-record); Dr Graeme MacDonald (Warwick), Dr Rhian Williams (Glasgow); Dr Anna Fisk (Extinction Rebellion); Mr David Carruth (Greenpeace)

3.15 pm – 3.30 pm Coffee served in foyer

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Professor Mark Currie (Queen Mary)

Modes of Maybe and Forms of Contingency in the Theory of Narrative

Chair: Dr Ben Davies (Portsmouth)

4.30 pm – 5:30 pm Wine reception

7pm Dinner at The Left Bank, Gibson Street

(A reservation has been made for speakers. Please let us know by Friday 15th March if you would like to be added to the booking)

 

Saturday 23rd March

9:30 am – 10:00 am Coffee in foyer

10:00 am – 11:00 am Dr Helen Palmer (Kingston)

‘Sensorium: Between Synaesthesia and Topology’

Chair: Dr Sophie Vlacos (Glasgow)

11.00 am – 11.10 am Break

11.10 am – 12.10 pm Dr Niall Kennedy (Trinity)

What is a Heteronym? The Persona in the Work of Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa’

Chair: Professor Ross Birrell (Glasgow School of Art)

12.10 pm – 12. 20 pm Break

12.20 pm – 1. 20 pm Dr Pelagia Goulimari (Oxford)

Where do you (really) come from? Concentric forms, cognitive improvement and ethics of unknowing in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Toni Morrison’s Jazz’

Chair: Dr Amy Bromley (Glasgow)

1.20 pm – 1.30 pm Closing remarks

First published: 22 January 2019