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The Secret in Contemporary Theory, Society, and Culture
University of Kent, Canterbury
Friday 30th May – Grimond Building, GLT3
13:30-14:00 Welcome Coffee and Registration
14:00-16:00 Panel 1: Secrets and Philosophy:
- Florian Hadler: Undercover Investigations: Secrets as Individual Negativities
- Faith Fulbright: Index Sui: Keeping the Secret
- Guillaume Collett: “The secret is that there is no secret”: Sense and Nonsense in Hyppolite and Deleuze
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Panel 2: Public/Private:
- Andrew McKenzie-McHarg: Secrecy and Privacy: Where does the Dividing Line Lie?
- Emma Deeks: Blogging in Private: The Difficulty of Telling Two Billion People to ‘Ssshhhhh’
- Michel Weber: Secrecy from Liberation to Oppression
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 31st May – Grimond Building, GLT3
9:00-9:30 Welcome Coffee
9:30-11:00 Panel 3: Dreams and Thresholds
- Alex Wilkinson: The Secret inside the Form: The Matter of Dreams
- Michiko Oki: Threshold – A Place of Secret and Violence: Open Doors in Magritte and Kafka
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 4: Espionage:
- Keith Scott: Dark Gnostics: Secrets, Mysteries, and OCCINT
- Toby Manning: Secrets in John Le Carré’s Cold War Fiction
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel 5: Secrets and Literature:
- Gero Bauer: Paranoid Masculine Secrecy: Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White
- Krista Bonello R. Giappone: Excessive Textual Weaves and the Unreadable in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Keynote Address: Professor David Vincent: Prying and Privacy in the Nineteenth Century
17:30- Wine reception
