Programme

Friday 13 April

3.00 – 3.30 pm

Welcome, tea, registration, in the Junior Common Room

3.30 – 4.00 pm

Introduction – Karen Leeder in the McGregor Matthews Room

The Aesthetics of Spectres

4.00 – 4.45 pm

Julian Wolfreys

Memory to come or, towards a poetics of the spectral

4.45 – 5.30 pm

Sarah Sparkes

Guests, hosts and ghosts and how to make them: The GHost Project — visual art and creative, interdisciplinary research

Long Room

5.45 – 6.45 pm

David Constantine

Poetry Reading: Something for the Ghosts

6.45 – 7.30 pm

Drinks

7.30 pm

Dinner in Founder’s Library

Saturday 14 April

McGregor Matthews Room

The Politics of Ghosts

9.30 – 10.15 am

Colin Davis

The Political Ghost: Haunting, Revolution, and the Return of the Dead in Louis Malle’s Milou en mai (1989)

10.15 – 11.00 am

Karen Leeder

Ghost of Revolution: The Haunting of the Berlin Republic

11.00 am 

Coffee / tea in the JCR

The Haunted Time and Place

11.30 – 12.15 pm

Mark Fisher

not really now not any more: hauntological place and non-time

12.15 – 1.00 pm

María del Pilar Blanco

Presence, Absence, and Simultaneity: The Haunted Fictions of Henry James and Juan Rulfo

1.00 – 2.15 pm

Buffet Lunch in the Hall

Ghost-writing Trauma

2.15 – 3.00 pm

Kirstin Gwyer

Ghostwriters: the spectre of the Holocaust in contemporary Jewish writing

3.00 – 4.00 pm

Dina Khapaeva

Spectres of Stanilism in the Post-Soviet Gothic Aesthetic

4.00 – 4.30pm

Concluding Discussion