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
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
