Conference Programme : ‘Ghosts in the Flesh’

Friday 24th May

9.00 -9.30: Welcome coffee and registration

9.30 -11.00 Panel 1 The other ghost: walking, talking deadchair: Nina Rolland

– Lucy Arnold ‘Mother always said that she would haunt’

– Veronica Frigeni ‘Dead man walking’

– Maria Dada ‘Tempo di Materiality’

11.00 -11.20: Coffee break

11.20 -12.30: Panel 2 Performance, Representation and Imagechair: Adina Stroia

– Alicia Spencer-Hall : “Spiritual Ghosts in the Digital Flesh? 13th Century Mystical Resurrection and the Modern “Spectre” of Tupac Shakur”

– Jack Webb ‘The Spectre of Haiti in Late Victorian Britain’

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch

13.30 -15.00: Panel 3 Ghosts and Literature. I chair: Mathilde Poizat-Amar

– Jeffrey Knaack ‘Ghosts as we are: Authenticity, Romanticism, and Books as relics in 19th century American Literature’ [in absentia]

– Doreen Bauschke ‘Solid Ghosts and Phantom Persons: The Notion of Somatic Hauntings in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl’

– Christopher Bond ‘Ghosts in the literature of War’

15.00 -15.30: Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00: Panel 4 Ghosts and Literature. IIchair: Krista Bonello

– Beatrijs Brouwer ‘Desire – divine or deadly? The Supernatural in Imperial Chinese Literature’

– Melanie Foehn ‘Out of joint’: The spectre of incommunicability in Hamlet, La Chute, and Beckett’s short plays’.

– Aaron Aquilina ‘Writing Afterlife – The Exhibitionism of the Dead’

17.00 – 18.00 Wine Reception

19.30: Dinner in town, everyone is welcome to join

Saturday 25^th May:

10.00 -11.30: Panel 5 Physical Spaceschair: Titu Chakraborty

– John Sabol ‘The Ghosts of Place: The Acoustemology of Situated Past Presence’

– James Geary ‘The Holy Ghost made Manifest: How Bernini pinned down the Holy Ghost in Rome’

– Michał Sowiński and Katarzyna Trzeciak ‘Gdynia – city with(out) ghosts’

11.30 – 11.45: Coffee break

11.45 – 12.45: Keynote speaker: Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, ‘Fleshing out the Spectral metaphor’ chair: Guilaume Collett

12.45 – 14.00: Lunch