Saturday, 24 May 2008
Eliot, Upper Senior Common Room, University of Kent
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9.20 Welcome
9.45 Conference Introduction (Laurence Goldstein, Head of SECL)
10.00 – 11.30 Translation and Intertextuality
· Edit Anna Lukács (University of ELTE Budapest), Metaphysics and translating. An Exodus-quotation in medieval vernacular literature.
· Mathias Degoute (Paris IV-Sorbonne University), Aphorisms from French to English: the translation and translations of La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims.
· Elaine Wood (Bucknell University), Translating Monstrosity: Mary Shelley’s Textual Engagements with Milton’s Poetics.
11.45 – 13.15 Monstrosity and Abnormality
· Imma Ferri-Miralles (Universitat d’Alacant), Representations of disjointed subjects: Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster and new portrayals of otherness and self-identity.
· Claire Lozier (University of Kent/Paris III-Sorbonne University), Becoming a monstrous self? Processes of self transplantation in the work of Jean Genet.
· Alvise Sforza Tarabochia (University of Kent), Grafting and de-grafting mental illness: the identity of madness.
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.45 Self Knowledge and Personal Identities
· Valérie Aucouturier (University of Kent/Paris I-Sorbonne University), Self-knowledge and literature: a criticism of private knowledge.
· Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Kent/Paris III-Sorbonne University), Photographs in Autobiographies: Identities in Progress.
· Sophie Vergé-Djigo (UPJV-Amiens), From the concept to the Analogy: an Investigation of the singularity.
16.00 – 17.30 Cultural Identities
· Mouna Ben Aissa (Paris IV-Sorbonne University), The American Indians, the colonist and the question of the other in 17th century New England.
· Elena Gaertner (University of Kent),Transplanted values: A Comparison of Dickens’s Novels and The Simpsons.
· Jaume Silvestre Llinares (University of Kent), Catalan Identity Under Post Franco Dictatorship.
17.45 – 18.30 Round Table
