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8th November, Room S8.08
12.30 Registration and Coffee
13.00 - 14.30
Panel 1: Classical to Early Modern Ekphrasis
Daisy Dunn (UCL/Warburg Institute)
‘Integrating Ekphrasis from Classical Text to Renaissance Image:
Achilles Tatius re-mastered’
Stanislaus Kuttner-Homs (University of Caen)
‘Beyond the Veil: Ekphrasis as Literary Empowerment in the De
signis of Niketas Choniates’
Beatrice Wilford (King’s College London)
‘Adaptation as Ekphrasis: Derek Jarman’s Edward II’
14.30 Break
14.45 - 16.15
Panel 2: Ekphrasis in Practice
Angelina Ayers (Sheffield Hallam)
‘Experiments in Ekphrasis: A Poem, a Painter and an Electric Fan’
Rebecca Roach (Oxford)
‘Through the keyhole: Writers, Rooms, and Representation’
Joanne Brueton (UCL)
‘“Toi et Sartre vous m’avez statufié”: Space, Art, and Resistance in
Jean Genet and Louise Bourgeois’
9th November, River Room
9 Registration, opening remarks, coffee
9.30 - 11
Panel 1: Ekphrasis at Play: Dialogues, Dialectics and Abstractions
Pauline Eaton (Birkbeck)
‘Marie NDiaye and Turner: A Dialogue Between Image and Narrative
in La Naufragée’
Natalia Font (Exeter)
‘Interrogating the Ekphrastic Ambivalence: Angela Carter and
Marosa di Giorgio’
Kate Symondson (King’s College London)
‘Abstract Literature: Conrad’s Innovations in Representation’
11 Break
11.15.- 12 Keynote Speech
Dr Stephen Cheeke (Bristol)
‘Transfiguration: Nineteenth-Century Ekphrasis’
12 - 13 Lunch
13.15 - 14.45
Panel 2: Stasis and Movement
Claudia Tobin (Bristol)
‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: DH Lawrence, Cézanne, and the
Still Life’
Dr Lynsey McCulloch (Coventry University)
‘The images move in a dance: Animated Statuary and Ekphrastic
Motion in the Early Modern Masque’
14.45 Break
15 - 16.30
Panel 3: Postcolonial Ekphrases
Isil Cihan (King’s College London)
‘In the Light of New Ekphrastic Poetics: A Reading of My Name is
Red’
Dr Sheetal Majithia (NYU Abu Dhabi)
‘Postcolonial Ekphrasis and the Politics of the Rushdie Affair’
Dr Andrew Miller (University of Copenhagen)
‘Dabydeen's Turner: Ekphrasis in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction’
16.30 – 18.00
Panel 4: Subjectivity, the Senses, and Ekphrasis
Dr Alison Fisch Katz (Jerusalem College of Engineering)
‘In Pursuit of a Full Aesthetic: Ekphrasis in Tess of D’Urbervilles
Nina Shiel (Dublin City University)
‘The Senses and Sensuality of Ekphrasis from the Painting to the Pixel’
Christine Fouirnaies (Oxford)
‘Soul Mirrors and Dead Ends: Ekphrastic Portraits in The Idiot, The
Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’
18 Wine reception
19.30 Dinner at Bedford and Strand Restaurant, Bedford St
All at King’s College London Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS
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