Programme
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Thursday, October 4th |
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9:00-9:30 |
Registration / Welcome |
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9:30-11 Session 1 (3 papers)
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Reading/narrating secrecy (Convenor: Pilar Villar) -Yoshiki Tajiri (Tokyo): “The Question of Secrecy in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country” -Hannu Poutiainen (Tampere): “Novel Mediums: Communing with Spirits in and through Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black” -Doug Battersby (Bristol): “Secretive Forms: Kazuo Ishiguro and Suspicious Reading”
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11-11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30-12:30 Session 2 (2 papers) |
Home and the city (Convenor: Paula Martín) -Cristina Alsina Rísquez (Barcelona): “Inscrutable Objects in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House” -José Liste Noya (La Coruña): “City Secret: Delany’s Dahlgren”
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12:30-12:45 |
Break |
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12:45-14 |
Plenary Session: Prof. Nicholas Royle (Sussex) |
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14-16 |
Lunch break |
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16-17:30 Session 3 (3 papers) |
Postcolonial secrets (Convenor: María J. López) -María Jesús Llarena-Ascanio (La Laguna): “Familiar Secrecies and Ghosts: Hemispheric Stories by Some Canadian and Argentinian Authors” -Liani Lochner (Laval): “Zoë Wicomb and the Secrets of the Canon” -María Valero Redondo (Córdoba): “Secret Communities in The God of Small Things”
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17:30-18 |
Coffee break |
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18-20 Parallel sessions
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Session 4 (4 papers) Urban and postmodern communities (Convenor: María Luisa Pascual) -Laura Álvarez Trigo (Instituto Franklin-UAH): “Cold Communities: A Secret Experience in Zero K” -Carmen Fuentes Fuentes (Granada): “‘The Most Boring Thing in the World is Nudity, and Honesty’. The Role of Secrecy in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction” -Fatma Akçay (Córdoba): “The Confrontation between the Operative Community and the Community of Friends in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth” -Ángela Rivera Izquierdo (Granada): “‘Not a Secret Society, a Society of Secrets’: Community and Secrecy in Irvine Welsh’s Narrative”
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Session 5 (3 papers) Childhood, trauma and shame (Convenor: Mercedes Díaz) -Ricarda Menn (KWI Essen): “Secrecy and Withdrawal? J.M. Coetzee’s Elusive Autrebiography” -Mario Jurado Bonilla (Córdoba): “Nostalgia that Exposes Secrets: L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between” -Jesús Escobar Sevilla (Almería): “A Communitarian Reading on Dubus’ Fiction. Unworked sacramental love, unworked families”
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Friday, October 5th |
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9:00-10:30 Session 6 (3 papers) |
Family secrets (Convenor: Gerardo Rodríguez) -Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz (Deusto): “Family Secrets and Narrative Structure in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You” -Esin Korkut Savul (Middle East Technical University): “From ‘Demonic Mystery’ into Secrecy as Communal Contract: Configuration of Différance in Jazz by Toni Morrison” -Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Valladolid): “Family Secrets and Hidden Powers in Contemporary Novels about the Salem Witch Trials”
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10:30-11 |
Coffee break |
11-12:30 Session 7 (3 papers) |
Narrating the self (Convenor: Pilar Villar) -Aleksejs Taube (Latvia): “Secrecy, an Individual and Community in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture” -Jesús Blanco Hidalga (Córdoba): “Whilst Our Souls Negotiate: Secrets and Secrecy in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity” -Anna Fyta (Ioannina University): “In the Crucible of Community: H.D. and the Secrets of The Gift”
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12:30-12:45 |
Break |
12:45-14 |
Plenary Session: Prof. Derek Attridge (York)
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14-16 |
Lunch break |
16-17:30 Session 8 (3 papers) |
Phantoms and sexuality (Convenor: Juan Luis Pérez) - Maria Mulvany (University College Dublin): "Family Phantoms and Faulty Burials in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture" -Remedios Martín Lorenzo (Málaga): “Uncanny Secrets in Burnt Island” - Elisa Serna-Martínez (Autónoma, Madrid): "Sexual Intimacy and other Women's Secrets in the Writings of Opal Palmer Adisa" |
17:30-18 |
Coffee break |
18-20 |
Roundtable and closing remarks “Secrecy and community in contemporary narrative in English”
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