ManuScript Conference 2008/09: Urges
ManuScript would like to thank all of the speakers and delegates who contributed to the Urges conference on February 20th. The organisers were delighted with the range of the papers and the threads of discussion it produced on the day and since.
The organisers would also like to thank SAGE and Manchester University Press for their support leading up to the conference and on the day itself.
ManuScript Journal Call for Papers
ManuScript is now pleased to invite submissions for its 2009 journal edition, Urges. Articles of up to 4,500 words can be sent by email or post. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2009. The full Call for Papers can be found via the link below.
Conference Programme
Registration - 9.30-10.00 (University Place)
Panel I - 10.00-11.30 (University Place, 4.205)
Carys Crossen (University of Manchester) - '"It's like being an ex-addict...you still have to have it": Lycanthropy as a Form of Addiction in Contemporary British and American Fiction'
Cathryn Setz (Birkbeck, University of London) - 'Urging Plumage: Reading the Bird-Man Self in Max Ernst's La femme 100 têtes [1929-30]'
Laura Wilson (University of Manchester) - 'The Female Sadistic Gaze in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher'
Panel II - 12.00-13.30
Simone Kuegeler (University of Cologne) - 'The Urges of the Flesh: Representations of Pain and Sexuality in Late Medieval Mystical Literature'
Shanyn Altman (University of Bristol) - 'Carnal Piety and Religious Lust: Conflicting Urges within Donne's Works'
Joel Hawkes (University of Bristol) - Poetry reading from 'The Farmer of Oak'; critical discussion: 'Ritual, Urge and Place'
Lunch - 13.30-14.30 (Samuel Alexander Building)
Panel III - 14.30-16.00 (Samuel Alexander, A113)
Maysaa Jaber (University of Manchester) - 'The Urge to Kill: Criminal Women in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction'
Sian Mitchell (University of Warwick) - 'Passing Urges and Bad Breath: Arguing Ideology in the British Cultural Sphere'
James Smith (University of Manchester) - 'Rereading Envy with Cervantes'
Keynote Lecture - 16.30-17.30 (Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre)
Professor Peter Goldie (University of Manchester) - 'Itches and Desires to Scratch'
17.30 -
Wine reception
A journal issue which follows on from the conference will be published later in the year. See the main section for more details.