Newcastle University’s Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference 2024
23 May 2024
Newcastle University, Armstrong Building G.70 or via zoom
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disobedience, Rebellion and Mischief
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Panel 1: Early Modern Mischief
9:00 - 10:00
- Harriet Palin, Newcastle University, “Parents groans over their wicked children” or How to drive your Parents Mad and Suffer the Consequences in Early Modern England.
- Chantal Berry, University of York, Soundscapes of Disorder in Earls Colne, Essex 1570-1680.
- Scarlet Stevens, University of York, Reading "Bookes Of Love": Romances And Seventeenth Century Women's Reading Pleasure.
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Break 10:00-10:15
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Panel 2: Reconstructing Remarkable Women
10:15 - 11:15
- Meghmala Bhattacharya, Northumbria University, Betrayal, Hoodwink and Deception: The Friendships of Bengali Women Revolutionaries (1928-1934).
- Abby Hammond, Northumbria University, A Lady of the Most Exemplary Life’: The Life, Death, and Memorialisation of Dame Jane Clavering.
- Holly Boyd-Gill, University of Edinburgh, Celebrity Biopics as Adaptations: The Memorialised Cultural Gesture of Marilyn Monroe.
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Break 11:15-11:30
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Panel 3: Voices Against the Authority
11:30-12:30
- Ally Keane, Newcastle University, ‘It became a symbol of my incapacity and I hated it’: User Resistance of High-Technology Augmentative and Alternative Communication, c.1970-present.
- Bernardo Carvalho de Mello, Newcastle University, Voices of Defiance: Global South Narratives of Rebellion in International Human Rights Law.
- Ceren Senturk, Newcastle University, Collage as a Catalyst for Dialogue in Contested Spaces.
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Lunch Break 12:30-14:30
+ Poster Competition
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Panel 4: Deciphering Diverging Legacies
14:30-15:30
- Lewis Kimberley, Northumbria University, White Supremacist, Klansman, Martyr?: Jim Hadnot in Fact and Fabrication.
- Steve Kendall, Newcastle University, The Franks Casket: talking to a whalebone box about poetry.
- Roberto Di Tuccio, Durham University, “We Want Sex”: Rebel Hetairai in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans.
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Post-conference discussion 15:30-17:00
+ Light refreshments
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Contact for queries H.Reynolds4@newcastle.ac.uk