[Commlist] Kipling in the News Conference

Please may I draw your attention to the conference we are holding at 
City, University of London this April. As you will see from the 
programme some new and fascinating insights on news, propaganda, 
historical newspapers and the role of the writer and journalist in 
establishing a sense of ‘nation’. Hoping very much you will be able to 
attend.

Kipling in the News 
<https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2020/april/kipling-in-the-news-journalism-empire-and-decolonisation>

Journalism, Empire, and Decolonisation

17 & 18 April 2020

B200, University Building

City, University of London

Rudyard Kipling's experience as a journalist and colonial correspondent 
honed his distinctive, concise prose style, and it is this pithiness 
that accounts for his enduring legacy in the twenty-first century as a 
writer often in support of – but occasionally critical of – first 
British and then US empires.

At a time when both pervasive  imperial nostalgia and movements to 
decolonise the university are dragging Kipling back into the news, this 
conference will explore the importance of journalism to Kipling's 
literary life and, in so doing, ask larger questions about the 
relationship between journalism, empire, and decolonisation. It will 
also invite reflections on the continued relevance of these questions in 
what has been characterised as our "post-truth" era.

Registration 
<https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2020/april/kipling-in-the-news-journalism-empire-and-decolonisation> 
for the conference is £20 (staff/waged) or £10 (student/unwaged). The 
registration fee includes tea and coffee, lunch on both days, and two 
wine receptions. Please indicate in your registration whether you would 
like to attend the conference dinner at the Dame Alice Owen on the 
evening of Friday 17th April.

For more details and registration, please follow this link 
<https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2020/april/kipling-in-the-news-journalism-empire-and-decolonisation>. 
Any queries should be directed to Dominic Davies 
((dominic.davies /at/ city.ac.uk) <mailto:(dominic.davies /at/ city.ac.uk)>) and Sarah 
Lonsdale ((sarah.lonsdale.1 /at/ city.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(sarah.lonsdale.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)>). The full conference programme is 
included below.

*Conference Programme*


      Day 1, Friday 17 April

09.00-09.20 Registration

*09.20-09.30 Opening Remarks*

Mike Kipling

*09.30-11.00 Keynote 1*

Dr Chandrika Kaul

Introduced by Sarah Lonsdale

11.00-11.30 Tea & Coffee

*11.30-13.00 Panel 1: Journalism & Fiction*

Chair: Andrew Lycett

Madhu Grover, ‘Negotiating with Fiction: Border zones in Kipling’s Early 
Indian Narratives’

Élodie Raimbault, ‘“Tell it as a lie”: the Ambiguous Blend of Fiction 
and Journalism in Kipling’s /Many Inventions/’

Angela Eyre, ‘“Tods Amendment”, the Native-born Child, and Debates Over 
Tenancy Legislation’

13.00-14.00 Lunch

*14.00-15.30 Panel 2: Translating Kipling*

Chair: Howard Booth

Harish Trivedi, ‘Kipling and the Indian Vernacular Press: Countering 
/The Pioneer/’

Mohammad Saleem, ‘Shaking Off the Colonial Burden: Revisiting Resistance 
Literature in India during British Rule’

Monica Turci, ‘Rudyard Kipling in Antonio Gramsci’s Journalism’

15.30-16.00 Tea & Coffee

*16.00-17.30 Panel 3: Empires*

Chair: Dr Kaori Nagai

Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar, ‘Opium, Empire and the Orient: Reading 
Kipling in the Context of Narcopolitics’

John Anders, ‘Kipling’s Early Travel Letters: Journalism and Imagination’

Jaine Chemmachery, ‘Neo-Victorian Kim and Kipling’s enduring presence’

17.30-18.00 Wine Reception

*18.00-19.00 Keynote 2*

Professor Elleke Boehmer, in Conversation with Dom Davies

19.30 Conference Dinner at Dame Alice Owen, St John Street


      Day 2, Saturday 18 April

*09.30-11.00 Keynote 3*

Professor Janet Montefiore

Introduced by Dominic Davies

11.00-11.30 Tea & Coffee

*11.30-13.30 Panel 4: Newspapers & their Owners*

Chair: Dr Sarah Lonsdale

Aaron Ackerley, ‘Rudyard Kipling, the Press Barons, and Visions of Empire’

George Simmers, ‘The Fun of Fake News: “The Village that Voted the Earth 
was Flat” and “Dayspring Mishandled”’

Howard Booth, ‘Rethinking Kipling’s First World War propaganda: the case 
of /France at War/’

John Radcliffe, ‘Kipling and Beaverbrook, a friendship lost’

13.30-14.30 Lunch

*14.30-16.00 Panel 5: Kipling’s Literary Legacy*

Chair: Dr Dominic Davies

Minna Vuohelainen, ‘Rudyard Kipling’s Imperial Gothic short fiction and 
the periodical press’

Jill Didur, ‘Reimaging Kipling: Mixing Fiction and Journalism in /The 
Kipling File/’

Sarah Lonsdale, ‘Feminist Parodies of Kipling’s Poetry’

Gary Enstone, ‘Living with Rudyard Kipling and his legacy in a 21^st 
Century World’

16.00-16.30 Tea & Coffee

*16.30-18.00 Keynote 4*

Professor Harry Ricketts

Introduced by Jan Montefiore

18.00 Closing Wine Reception

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