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Friday 22nd May 2009
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.00: Welcome
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’
· Marianna Orsi (Università degli Studi di Pisa), ‘Monstra Tassiani: Monsters in Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata’
· Claire Humphrey (University of Manchester), ‘The Ambiguity of Feminine Subjectivity in the Paris Banlieues’
· Elodie Vignon (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III), ‘Patient-Doctor Relationships in The Compassion Protocol by Hervé Guibert’
12.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Ambiguous Arts: Institutions and Audiences
· Connel Vaughan (University College Dublin), ‘Ambiguous Exhibitions, Ambiguous Institutions’
· Yaël Kreplak (ENS-LSH, Lyon), ‘Talking About Art: Suggestions for a Situated Approach of Ambiguity as a Linguistic Phenomenon’
· Martine Rouleau (London Consortium), ‘Rules of Engagement Unknown: Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern’
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 III), ‘Deep Inside Madness – The Materialisation of Schizophrenia in David Lynch’s Aesthetics (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire)’
· Kamila Pawlikowska (University of Kent), ‘What Lurks Behind the Face? Ambiguity of Textual Portraiture in Realism and Modernism’
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’
· Tom Grimwood (Lancaster University), ‘Irony, Interpretation, Authority’
· Andras Szalai (Central European University, Budapest) , Coping With the Security Dilemma – a Fundamental Ambiguity of State Behavior’
· David Lewin (University of Kent), ‘«They Know not What They Do»: the Ambiguity of Technological Agency’
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’
· Justyna Stêpieñ (University of Lodz), ‘Visual Ambiguity in Pop Art Collage’
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’
· Harriet Clements (University of Kent), ‘To What Extent is Hofmannsthal’s Sprachskepsis Determined by His Use of Genre?’
· Duane Williams (University of Kent), ‘Where a Silence is Said: the Ambiguities of Apophaticism’
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’
· Sarah St. John (University of Kent), ‘Cocteau’s Parade: the Scandalous Ballet with a Mask of Ambiguity’
· Elaine Morley (University of Kent), ‘Morality and Ambiguity in the Writings of Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti’
17.30-18.30: Roundtable
18.30-19.00: Closing remarks
