The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing runs an annual Research Study Day with critical papers and creative readings by staff and student members. Recent themes have included ‘Relation’ (2020), ‘Friction’ (2019), ‘Creativity and Serendipity’ (2017), ‘Nature/Nurture’ (2015), ‘Gifts and Debts’ (2014) and ‘A Return to History’ (2013). The theme for 2018 was ‘Immediacy’.
Avenue Building, Lecture Theatre C
Tuesday 23 January 2018
10.00 Welcome
10.15 On Being Attentive
Peter Middleton- What the Deaf Hear in Theory
Mia Taylor- Some Weather, 2017 (narrative film)
Kostas Kaltsas- The deadly art of paying attention: Politics, boredom, and the self in David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion and The Pale King
11.00 Roundtable: Immediacy & the Sovereign Decision
Joseph Owen- On Schmitt
Stephanie Jones- On Derrida
11.30 Coffee
11.45- 12.15 Time Trouble
Stephen Morton- Untimely Meditations on Mediation
Will May- ‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’: reading now and then, or what the 1940s says about the 1930s
12.15-1.15 The Bureau, The Business
Jane Birkin- The Administrative Language of the Image (performance)
Jussi Parikka- AMT: Grey Literature and Media Archaeology
Ranka Primorac- Immediacy, Addressivity and the Values for Our Time
1.15- 2.00 Lunch
2.00- 2.45 Time & Faltering Fictions
Nicky Marsh- The Time of the Gift
Kevin Brazil- The Extended Present and the Present Tense Novel
Lian Patston- Deferment of affinity in Chris Kraus and Dana Spiotta
2.45- 3.15 Encounters Immediate & Mediated
Calum Kerr- Done in a Flash! (flash fiction live)
Iain Morrison- Talking Art Talk Notes (performance)
3.15- 3.55 Immediate Relations
Mariana Thomas- ‘Cave Research’: The Need for a Matricentric Narrative
Ronda Gowland-Pryde- Spear Brave: exploring autobiography and notions of the family home
3.55- 4.10 Coffee
4.10- 4.20 That Which is Imminent- Woodrow Kernohan
4.20- 5.00 Bodies Immediate
Joan McGavin- A Murderer Close Up
Harry Warwick- ‘It Cannot Be Grasped Directly’: Media and Mediation in Videodrome
Staff and postgraduate researchers from English, WSA & the John Hansard Gallery are coming together to discuss IMMEDIACY. All are welcome to join the conversation.