FIRST ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

SCHOOL OF CULTURES, LANGUAGES, AND AREA STUDIES

27-28 APRIL 2015

PROGRAMME

DAY ONE at Senate Chamber, Trent Building

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and tea/coffee

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome

09:15 – 11:15 Panel one: Pirates, Peace, and Revolucíon (chair: Timo Schrader)

Tom Padden (German Studies)“Einigkeit der Einzelgänger?” Organisational Engagement with the Peace Movement and the Crisis of Obligation in the VerbandDeutscherSchriftsteller

Onur Alptekin (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)Discourse on Piracy with Specific Emphasis on the 17th Century Atlantic

Isabel Story (Russian and Slavonic Studies/Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)Culture Is Not a Luxury: Cultural Organisation in Revolutionary Russia and Cuba

11:15 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 13:15 Panel two: Language and Identity (chair: TBC)

Armandina Deller (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)Power, Positionality, and Reflexivity: Cuban Research for UK Students

Ronald Salmond (Digital Technologies for Language Teaching)Guidelines for Enhancing Instructor Issued Corrective Feedback and Methods for Training Students to Deliver Beneficial Corrective Feedback during Collaborative Language Tasks

Jennifer Prescott (Digital Technologies for Language Teaching)Shifting Identities of the 21st Century Language Learner: The Application and Integration of Digital Technologies Has Changed How Students Self-Identify and Why They Learn

Katie Harrison (Russian and Slavonic Studies)Language, Nation, and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russo-Ukrainian Bilingualism in a Time of Political Conflict

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 – 15:45 Panel three: Critical Theory as Process (Centre for Critical Theory)

Thomas Harding (Centre for Critical Theory)Psychoanalysis as a Critical Praxis: Engaging with the Clinic of Autism

David Eckersley (Centre for Critical Theory) Masking as Subjective Change: Clairefontaine and Maya Epistemology

15:45 – 16:15 Tea/coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Panel four: Cultural Translations (chair: Nicola Thomas)

Sarah Tang (French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature)Cultural Translation in Larissa Lai’s “When Fox Is a Thousand”

Olivia Hellewell (Russian and Slavonic Studies)Title TBC

Kate Martin (Russian and Slavonic Studies)Revolution, Reformation and Ideology - Why is Early Soviet Prose So Challenging for Translators and Translation Theory?

17:45 – 18:45 Keynote address: ‘How to make the most of postgraduate study’

Prof Pat Thomson, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies

19:00 Wine reception

DAY TWO atSenate Chamber, Trent Building

09:30 – 11:00 Panel five: Narrative Representations (chair: Gesine Haberlah)

Isha Pearce (French and Francophone Studies)Representations of Home in the Literary Work of Michel Houellebecq

Kathryn Bryan (Comparative Literature)Female Sexual Agency in the French Fin-de-Siècle Novel

Miriam Grossi (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)The Narrative of Guerre Révolutionaire in Brazil

Sam La Vedrine (Comparative Literature)“Cosmic Indifference or Cosmic in Difference: A Poetry of Fact and the Influence of Hugh MacDiarmid in the Geopoetics of Kenneth White

11:00-11.30 Break

11:30 – 12:20 Panel six: Remediations and New Forms of Media (chair: Gianlluca Simi)

John Lynskey (Culture, Film, and Media)Cinema as Event: Cinematic Exhibition and Event Experience

Laura Todd (Russian and Slavonic Studies)The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Fake Documentary Films in Contemporary Russia

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12.20 – 13:50 Lunch and undergraduate poster session in the Cloisters, Highfield House.

13:50 – 15:35 Panel seven:Media and the State (chair: Samuel Matuszewski)

Anneliese Hatton (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)Who Will Save Portugal? The Advertising Campaigns of LicorBeirão in the Wake of the Portuguese Economic Crisis

Emily Rees (Culture, Film, and Media)Television and the Home in Britain During the 1960s to 1970s

Abi Rhodes (Culture, Film and Media)How Are We Presenting Social Alternatives?

Emilio Martinez (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies)A Case Study Assessment of Discursive Insufficiencies in the Contemporary Cuban Mainstream Press

15:35 – 16:00 Tea/coffee

16:00 – 17:00 Interactive workshop 1a Finding success as an early career researcher Dr David M. Bell, CLAS

OR Interactive workshop 1bCareers outside academia for arts and social science researchersNat Edwards, Canopy Insight

17:00 – 18:00 Interactive workshop 2a Dissertation dos and don'tsDr Paul Grainge, CLAS

OR Interactive workshop 2bPublic engagementDr Laura Carletti, Department of Computer Science

18:00 Wine reception