[Commlist] This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush Symposium

This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art, Dec 
12th - 13th 2019 - Confirmed speaker schedule + delegate registration 
link now open

With apologies for cross-posting:
The confirmed speaker programme for This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush 
Symposium, to be held at Edinburgh College of Art on Thursday December 
12th and Friday December 13th, is as follows.
 The symposium organisers actively welcome attendance from 
non-presenting symposium delegates. Delegates can register to attend the 
symposium @ 
https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-humanities-and-social-science/edinburgh-college-of-art/edinburgh-college-of-art-events/this-womans-work-a-kate-bush-symposium

Delegate registration fees are £100 (waged) or £50 (unwaged or student)

Thursday December 12th

9.45 – 10.45: Keynote 1: D-M Withers (University of Sussex): Figures, 
Communities and Concepts: Kate Bush as a Multi-Faceted Pop-Cultural 
Phenomena

11.00 – 12.00: Panel 1 – National identities •	Samuel Love (University 
of Edinburgh): ‘How Beautiful it is, Amongst all the Rubbish’: Kate 
Bush’s ‘Oh England My  Lionheart’ and the Iconography of Englishness
•	Daniel Pietersen (Independent scholar): Two Steps on the Water: Folk 
Horror in the work of Kate Bush

12.15 – 1.15: Panel 2 – Gender (I) •	Kirsty Fairclough (University of 
Salford): The Fine Purple, The Purest Gold: Authorial Connection in the 
Collaborations  between Kate Bush and Prince •	Alison Mayne (University 
of Edinburgh): Plucked from Mrs Bartolozzi’s Washing Line: Kate Bush, 
clothing and exchanging experiences

2.00 – 3.00: Panel 3 – Sensual worlds •	Jenny Ann Cubin (Lancaster 
University): What a lovely afternoon: A Sky of Honey and Pastoral Convention
•	Thomas Houlton (Independent scholar): Bushcraft: Exploring Kate Bush’s 
Sensual World

3.15 – 4.15: Panel 4 – Art historical perspectives •	Molly Gilroy 
(Independent scholar): ‘Strange Phenomena’: Tracing Surreal 
Metamorphosis, Ballet and Keys in the works of Kate Bush, Maya Deren and 
Leonor Fini
•	Sandra Lockwood (Simon Fraser University): Kate Bush and the Romantic 
Sublime

4.30 – 5.45: Keynote 2: Graeme Thomson (author of Under the Ivy: The 
Life and Music of Kate Bush) in conversation

Friday December 13th
9.30 – 10.30: Keynote 3: Ian Cawood (University of Stirling): Lionhearts 
and Fishpeople: Kate Bush on Stage

10.30 – 11.30: Panel 5 – Gender (II) •	Levent Donat Berköz (Independent 
scholar): Swapping Places: Kate Bush’s Masquerade in ‘Running Up That Hill’
•	Usha Wilbers and Lara Severens (Radboud University): Into the Sensual 
World: Gender Subversion in the Work of Kate Bush

11.45 – 1.15: Panel 6 – Studio technologies •	Amanda Feery (Independent 
musician): This Woman's Work: A Composer's Perspective on Vocality and 
Narrative in the work of Kate Bush •	Paul Harkins (Edinburgh Napier 
University): Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI
•	Laura M. Zucconi (Stockton University): Deeper Understanding: Kate 
Bush in the Historical Context of Producers

2.00 – 3.15: Keynote 4: Rob Young (The Wire magazine): title TBC

3.30 – 5.15: Panel 7 – Performance •	Hannah Buckley and Catriona McAra 
(Leeds Arts University): Running with Wolves, Somaticizing the Text: 
Revisionary    Feminism and Contemporary Dance
•	Harry Maberly (Independent artist): Kate Bush: Fiction, Fantasy and Fandom

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