“Interactions & Identity” Postgraduate Conference
University of Southampton, Avenue Campus
Friday 16 March 2012, 9:00-17:30
09:00 Welcome Tea and Coffee -North Corridor
09:30 Welcome Address -Lecture Theatre C
Dr Eleanor Quince, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Humanities
09:45Faculty Panel - Interactions and Identity: Relationships and Connections-Lecture Theatre C
Chaired by Katie Merriken
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Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua (Music, AHRC Research Fellow)
Dr Jonathan Conlin (History, Senior Lecturer)
Professor Clive Gamble (Archaeology, Professor)
Professor Mike Kelly (Modern Languages, Director of Research)
Dr Claudia Sandberg (Film, Research Fellow)
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10:45Tea and Coffee -North Corridor
11:15Panel 1 -Gendered Identities: Constructing the Male/Female-Lecture Theatre C
Chaired by Jennifer Craig-Norton
Boys should be boys and girls should be wives: the construction of a gendered identity in the Boy’s and Girl’s Own Papers
Alison Enever, University of Southampton (History)
Musical Identities: Female Virtue and Ideal Musicianship in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1819)
Roger Hansford, University of Southampton (Music)
Interacting Identities: Sophie Cottin’s Malvina (1800)
Charlotte Medland, University of Southampton (Modern Languages)
Poster Presentation: ‘A corner-shop for democratic phrases’: political subtexts in Heinrich Schenker’s polemics against Paul Bekker, 1913 – 1922
Georg Burgstaller, University of Southampton (Modern Languages)
Panel 2 -Negotiating Inclusion: Interaction and Notions of Nationality-Room 2123
Chaired by Matthew Leggatt
Political events, Ethnicity and Society: The case of the Colombian-Lebanese community in Bogota
Esteban Devis-Amaya,University of Southampton (Centre for Transnational Studies, Modern Languages)
Negotiating the Boundaries of Citizenship: White South African Migration to the UK
and their Experiences with British Immigration Policy
Kristoffer Halvorsrud, University of Nottingham (School of Sociology and Social Policy)
Nation ‘belongs exclusively to a particular, and historically recent, period’:
Counteracting Evidence from the Hundred Years War
Jennifer Ruggier, University of Southampton (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture)
Poster Presentation: A Study of the Production and Articulation of Popular Music within Europe
Asya Draganova, Canterbury Christ Church University (Department of Media and Arts)
12:50Lunch – North Corridor
13:55 Panel 3 -Human and Monster: Perspectives on Socio-Cultural Identity-Lecture Theatre C
Chaired by Beth Carroll
The Courtly Dragon-slayer: Heroic and Chivalric Masculinities inVölsunga saga
Jessica Hancock, University of Oxford (Faculty of English)
The Fragmented Self in the Writings of Carlo Emilio Gadda
Victoria Weavil, University of Oxford (Faculty of Modern Languages)
Transatlantic Differences and the Struggle for Identity in the 21st Century Monster
Christina Wilkins, University of Southampton (English)
Poster Presentation: Identity and Interaction: Between Kant and Bergson
Kirsten Cooke, University of Kent
Panel 4 -East Meets West: Challenging and Defining Identity-Room 2123
Chaired by Eva van Loenen
Abhishiktānanda (Henri le Saux) and the blurred boundaries of religious identity
Laura Coles, Canterbury Christ Church University (Department of Theology and Religious Studies)
Post-World War Two Japanese Zen Nationalism and the West
Alice Freeman, University of Oxford (Faculty of History)
‘Empire on the Eastern Sea’: the Influence of Asian and Western Imperialism on National Identity Formation in Japan and China
Ahren Lester, University of Southampton (History)
Poster Presentation:Lecturers-students Interactions via email from an intercultural communication perspective: a case of Vietnamese Students and their lecturers at the University of Southampton
Phuong Le Hoang Ngo, University of Southampton (Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching, Modern Languages)
15:30 Tea and Coffee -North Corridor
16:00 Panel 5 -Complexity and Adaptation: Exploring Intersecting Social Identities-Lecture Theatre C
Chaired by Nadia Thérèse van Pelt
Identity as a Constitutive Element of Language and Social Space: Language as Performance
Robert Baird, University of Southampton (Centre for Global Englishes, Modern Languages)
Efficient Data Collection Methods for Investigating Language Learner Identities
Laurence Dryden, Canterbury Christ Church University (Applied Linguistics, Department of English and Language Studies)
Logboats of Coquí: an ethnographic approach to material culture, cultural identity and adaptation
Clara Fuquen Gomez, University of Southampton (Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Archaeology)
Poster Presentation: Reflection and Writing in a CPD course for ESL teachers
Kalina Lima, University of Southampton (Applied Linguistics, Modern Languages)
Panel 6 -The American Melting Pot: Evolution of Identity-Room 2123
Chaired by Sarah Shawyer
The American Jewish Identity of the 40s and 50s in Mary McCarthy’s short stories
Marina Sagorje, Linacre College, University of Oxford (Faculty of English Language and Literature)
Examining Religious Identity through Literature: The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Eva van Loenen, University of Southampton (English Language and Literature)
Community cartography: trauma, space and identity in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Roxanne Selby, University of Southampton (English)
17:30Closing Address -Lecture Theatre C: Katie Merriken, Head of Conference Committee
Please Note: Today’s conference will be followed by a wine reception to launch the University of Southampton’sHumanities Graduate School. All conference attendees are welcome to attend this reception at 18:00.
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