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Join Us at Dismantling Structures:

A Humanities Conference

Welcome

07/05

9:00am

Welcome

2006 Charles Hastings Building, University of Worcester

Introductory welcome from the conference team, followed by a welcome from Simon Hardy, Deputy Head of Institute of Arts and Humanities.

Morning Schedule

07/05

9:20am

Keynote 1

John Charles Ryan 

Towards Vegetal Knowing: Dismantling Structures Through Transdisciplinary Plant Studies

9:50am

Keynote 1 Q&A

Panel 1

10:00am

Mollie Mountford

“’Reclaiming a Relationship with the Earth’: Challenging Anthropocentrism and Eurocentric Perspectives in Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper”.

Mariyah Gilani-Dowson

“Nature: A Part yet Apart”.

Ben Williams

“Ideologies, Propaganda of Health and Environment”.

Grace Atkinson

“Exposing the Woman Underneath ‘Victorian Constructions of Otherness’: Redefining the ‘Madwoman’ in Jane Eyre”.

11:00am

Panel 1 Q&A

11:15am

Break

Natalie Kelly

Panel 2

11:30am

“Waves of Resistance: Dismantling
Emotion, Activism and Ecological Thought in Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea”.

Ash Cascavilla

“Deconstructing the Unconstructed self. A Psychoanalysis of a Fractured Self”.

Caitlin Gibbs

“Medical Humantities: Re-humanising Medical Spaces in a ‘post-human’ age”.

Julia Radtke

“Masculinities and the Changing
Gendered Dynamics of Alcoholism”.

12:30pm

Panel 2 Q&A

Afternoon Schedule

07/05

12:45pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Panel 3

Trevor Mastergeorge

“Hydrosexuality in Moby Dick”.

Connor Rogers

“The Sea as Crucible: Rethinking Homeric Masculinity in the Odyssey”.

India Denton

“The Dire Wolf who came to Tea:
Rewriting Extinction Storytelling”.

Panel 3 Q&A

2:15pm

2:30pm

Keynote 2

Lynn Turner

Sanguine Resistance: dreaming of a future for blood

Keynote 2 Q&A

3:00pm

3:15pm

Short break

3:30pm

Panel 4

Casey Reeves

‘Suffering Sapphos: Renee Vivien and Natalie Barney’s poetics

at the fin de siècle.’

Trudi Holland

The Coital Triplex

Roni Briggs

A Critical Analysis of the Use of Immersive Sound in the 2024 Donmar Warehouse Production of ‘Macbeth’

The Hive Members

The Shakespeares at The Hive: Collaboration, Community and Curiosity

Panel 4 Q&A

4:45pm

5:00pm

Panel 5

Paul Merrell

“Cats don't drink cocktails," I said. "Cats don't shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.” How LitRPG Became the Genre Men Actually Want to Read.

Danielle Hopton-Jones & Dylan Harrison

The ‘true crime’ obsession- in need of a new lens?

Dr. Ruby Swift

Disrupting Concepts: A Creative Path of Scientific Enquiry

Alice Hopkins

An Exploration into the Representation of Characters with Physical Disabilities in Fantasy
Within Multimedia.

Panel 5 Q&A

6:00pm

Conference close

6:15pm

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