Conferences and other events
University of Kent, Canterbury
Virginia Woolf Seminar Room 6
The photos of the conference can be found at the following address: http://picasaweb.google.com/xexets/AmbiguitiesDestabilisingPreconceptions#
Friday 22nd May 2009
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.00: Welcome and Exhibition Inauguration
10.00-12.00: Ambiguous Genders
· Kate Nelson Best (King’s College, London), An Ambiguous Sartorial Phallus: the Multiplicity of Meaning Surrounding the Figure of La Parisienne ABSTRACT
· Marianna Orsi (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Monstra Tassiani: Monsters in Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata ABSTRACT
· Claire Humphrey (University of Manchester), The Ambiguity of Feminine Subjectivity in the Paris banlieues ABSTRACT
· Elodie Vignon (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Patient-doctor relationships in The Compassion Protocol by Hervé Guibert ABSTRACT
12.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Ambiguous Arts: Institutions and Audiences
· Connel Vaughan (University College Dublin), Ambiguous Exhibitions, Ambiguous Institutions ABSTRACT
· Yaël Kreplak (ENS-LSH, Lyon), Talking About Art: Suggestions for a Situated Approach of Ambiguity as a Linguistic Phenomenon ABSTRACT
· Martine Rouleau (London Consortium), Rules of Engagement Unknown: Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern ABSTRACT
15.00-15.30: Coffee Break
15.30-17.00: Taking Off the Mask: Disturbing Investigations of Unreliable Human Minds
· Jean Baptiste Chantoiseau (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Deep Inside Madness - The Materialisation of Schizophrenia in David Lynch's aesthetics (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire) ABSTRACT
· Kamila Pawlikowska (University of Kent), What Lurks Behind the Face? Ambiguity of Textual Portraiture in Realism and Modernism ABSTRACT
Saturday 23rd May 2009
9.15-11.15: Ambiguous Authority
· Roger Duck (University of London), Ambiguity in Revolutionary French Local Government. The Example of the Bas-Languedoc ABSTRACT
· Tom Grimwood (Lancaster University), Irony, Interpretation, Authority ABSTRACT
· Andras Szalai (Central European University, Budapest) , Coping with the Security Dilemma - a Fundamental Ambiguity of State Behavior ABSTRACT
· David Lewin (University of Kent), 'They Know not What They Do': the Ambiguity of Technological Agency ABSTRACT
11.15-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-12.30: Visual Ambiguity
· Gavin Maughfling (University of Hertfordshire), Sliding Gestures: Ambiguity of Meaning and Intent in Visual Practice ABSTRACT
· Justyna Stêpieñ (University of Lodz), Visual Ambiguity in Pop Art Collage ABSTRACT
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Authors and Ambiguous Languages: the Struggle of Conveying Meanings
· Megan Entecott (University of Kent), The Role of Language in A Clockwork Orange ABSTRACT
· Harriet Clements (University of Kent), To what extent is Hofmannsthal’s Sprachskepsis determined by his use of genre? ABSTRACT
· Duane Williams (University of Kent), Where a Silence is Said: the Ambiguities of Apophaticism ABSTRACT
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Challenging Moralities: the Thin Line Between Scandal and Provocation
· Laura Owen (University of London Institute in Paris), The Route to Excess: Re-Situating Laure ABSTRACT
· Sarah St. John (University of Kent), Cocteau's Parade: the Scandalous Ballet with a Mask of Ambiguity ABSTRACT
· Elaine Morley (University of Kent), Morality and Ambiguity in the Writings of Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti ABSTRACT
17.30-18.30: Roundtable
18.30-19.00: Closing remarks