The Future Ain't What It Used To Be: Interactions of Past, Present and Future in Literature and Visual Media
Seventh Annual English Postgraduate Conference
Wednesday 17th June 2009
Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
To register please complete the Registration Form: PDF Version (13k) or Word Document Version (28k).
Programme
| Wednesday 17th June 2009 | |
| 10.00am | Registration |
| 10.25am | Welcome: Laura Findlay |
| Session 1: Keynote | |
| 10.30am | Presentation by Mark Bould |
| 11:10am | Questions |
| 11:30am | BREAK |
| Session 2: Looking Forward to the Past | |
| 11.50am | Andy Wood, Leaving the City Behind: Looking Back to the Future in Survivors |
| 12.10pm | Adleen El-Ammar, Back to the Future in John Wyndham's The Chrysalids |
| 12.30pm | Questions |
| 12.40pm | LUNCH |
| Session 3: Filming Time | |
| 2.00pm | Gillian Hunter, A Bridge to the Past: An Exploration of Dundee |
| 2.20pm | Chris Murray, Islands of Memory - Tarkovsky's Introverted Futures |
| 2.40pm | Questions |
| 2.50pm | BREAK |
| Session 4: Reflections on the Future | |
| 3.10pm | Elsa Bouet, Visions of the Tyrant: The Evolution of Revolution in Twentieth Century Science Fiction |
| 3.30pm | Chris Pak, Time as a Diverse Experience in Ted Chiang's "Story of your Life" |
| 3.50pm | Christopher Kydd, Crime and the State in Paul Johnston's Futuristic Edinburgh |
| 4.10pm | Questions |
| 4.20pm | BREAK |
| Session 5: Narrative and Time | |
| 4.40pm | Gordon Spark, A Space to Call One's Own?: The Distended Present in Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession |
| 5.00pm | Anna Girling, Blind Hope: The Day of the Locust and the Promise of Dystopia |
| 5.20pm | Mary Dudley, Farewell Future: Narrative and Time in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms |
| 5.40pm | Questions |
| 6.00pm | Concluding Remarks |
| 7.00pm | Conference Dinner, The Rep Theatre |
Posted: 10 June 2009
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