08.30 – 09.00

Registration – Jenny Lind Reception

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09.00 – 09.10

Welcome by Katie Harris

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09.10 – 09.15

Introduction from Dr Simon Hardy

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09.15 – 10.00

Keynote Speaker – Dr Jimmy Packham

'Gothic voices and spectral ecocriticism: Caryl Churchill, Daisy Johnson, and Michelle Paver go to the fens'

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10.00 – 10.15

Keynote Q&A Session Hosted by Katie Harris

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10.15 - 10.30

Coffee break

 

Panel One – Chaired by Amber Horne

 

10.30 – 10.45

Rebecca Hollyoak

‘The Wasteful Humanity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go’

 

10.45 – 11.00

Ollie Case

‘"I do not cling to life, I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower": Extinction Aesthetics and The Long Now in The Waves’

 

11.00 – 11.15

Sinem Sabunca

Psychoanalytic Criticism on Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus: Death and Resurrection

 

11.15 – 11.30

Panel Q&A

 

11.30 – 13.00

Lunch break

 

Panel Two – Chaired by Neil Laurenson

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13.00 – 13.15

Eleanor Alder

‘Mermaids and Slippery Beings: Repositioning Body and Transgressing Boundaries in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Sea Maid’

 

13.15 – 13.30

Najeebullah Noor

'Special Treatment Ward; A Dramatic Monologue, The Voice of an Anguished Mother.'

 

13.30 – 13.45

Panel Q&A

 

13.45 – 14.00

Coffee break

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Panel Three – Chaired by Eleanor Alder

 

14.00 – 14.15

Amber Horne

 ‘‘I guess some animals aren’t fit to be trained’: Performing as Human in Jordan Peele’s Nope and Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’

 

14.15 – 14.30

Lily Johnson

'Critical Plant Studies: an exploration into D. H Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield’s poetry'

 

14.30 – 14.45

Sidonie Sutton

 'Cripping` Visual Media: Looking Towards a Better Future for Disability Representation

 

14.45 – 15.00

Panel Q&A

 

15.00 – 15.15

Comfort break

 

Panel Four – Chaired by Rebecca Hollyoak

 

15.15 – 15.30

James O’Toole

‘Transplanting Textual Tissue: a Surgical Approach to Creative Writing’

 

15.30 – 15.45

Niamh Dolly Fitzpatrick

‘Tis a villain sir, I do not love to look upon’: Monstrosity, Fluidity and Villainy in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest'

 

15.45 – 16.05

Ula Skalmowska and Kasia Jaworska

‘On Politics in Romeo i Julia, Warsaw 1968’

 

16.05 – 16.25

Panel Q&A

 

16.25 – 16.30

Comfort break

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16.30 – 16.50

Plenary Panel – Chaired by Dr Sharon Young

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16.50 – 17.00

Closing Speech by Katy Wareham Morris