‘Consuming
Gender’
Assuming
Gender Symposium
14 July
2017
Room 3.62,
John Percival Building
10.00-10.20 Registration/Coffee
10.20-10.30 Welcome
10.30-11.50 Keynote
Mark Llewellyn (University of Strathclyde): ‘Kissing Cousins, or Consuming Consanguinity: Incest and the
(Bodily) Economics of Nineteenth Century Pornography’
12.00-13.00 Panel 1: Consumption and Desire
Eden Arielle Day (Cardiff
University): ‘Clothing and Queerness:
Reading Attire as a Marker of Sexual Difference in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness’
Karen Power (Cardiff
University): ‘Gender
Polarisation: The Role of Music in the Intoxicating Allure of Sexual
Desire in George Egerton’s ‘The Mandrake Venus’ (Fantasias, 1898)’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Panel 2: Consuming Fictionalised Self/Others
Ann Heilmann (Cardiff University): ‘Consuming Historical
Transgender: James Miranda Barry’
Lydia Stephens (Cardiff University): ‘Consuming Literature: The
Construction of the Female Authorial Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle’
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.50 Panel3: Consuming Sarah Waters
Ruby Moore (Cardiff University): ‘Susan in the looking glass: A
creative-critical discussion of Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger’
Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea University): ‘Cross-Cultural
Consumptions of Desire: Pornographied Lesbian Bodies on Screen in Park
Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung’s The
Handmaiden (2016)’
Akira Suwa (Cardiff University): ‘Queer Streetwalking and
Consumption in Sarah Waters’s The Paying
Guests’
Registeration is now open. If you're
interested in attending the symposium, please register through Eventbrite
(https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/consuming-gender-assuming-gender-symposium-tickets-35349933603) by
3 July.
