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[ecrea] Symposium - Reassessing the Contemporary Exotic

Wed Nov 09 11:19:38 GMT 2016




*Reassessing the Contemporary Exotic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Contested Form of Cultural Representation*
30^th  November 2016
10am-4pm
Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX
Gowar and Wedderburn Common Room

Keynote: Professor Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University & AHRC Leadership Fellow Translating Cultures)

*Programme*

*10.00 - 11.15 *

1.Professor Robert Hampson, Department of English, RHUL, ‘The Colonial Short Story: Adventure and the Exotic’

2.Domenico Galimi, PhD student, Department of Criminology, RHUL, ‘Discerning the Unfamiliar yet Familiar: Exoticism, Crime and Criminology’

*11.15- 11.45 Tea break*

*11.45 – 13.00*

3.Mary-Jean Chan, PhD student, English Department, RHUL, ‘Towards a Poetics of Racial Trauma: Lyric Hybridity in Claudia Rankine’s /Citizen/’

4.Dr Julia Gallagher, Department of Politics and International Relations, RHUL, ‘African Exotic: The Uncanny in the Building of the South African State’

*13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH*

*14.00 – 15.45*

5.Professor Matthew Cohen, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, ‘Wayang in Museums: Collecting, Conserving, Exhibiting and Performing Indonesian Puppets’

6.Professor Daniela Berghahn, Department of Media Arts, RHUL, ‘The Cosmopolitan Exotic on the Film Festival Circuit’

7.Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, “‘Signs Taken for Wonders’: Refashioning the ‘Exotic’”

*15.45 – 16.15 Tea break*

*16.15 – 18.00, Keynote address and response*

8.Professor Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool, and AHRC Leadership Fellow /Translating Cultures/, 'Exoticism as Keyword'

9.Professor James Williams, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, RHUL, Response to Keynote

To register, please email (harc /at/ rhul.ac.uk) <mailto:(harc /at/ rhul.ac.uk)> by *_20 November 2016_*.

For additional details regarding the project, please see our webpage: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/fellowshipsprojects/exoticism-in-contemporary-cinema-and-culture.aspx

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