Keynotes
Nick Lowe, Royal Holloway: Theorizing Historical Fictions
Debbie Challis, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Museum Fictions: Creating History through Objects and Display.
Greer Gilman, Harvard: On writing historical fiction.
Speakers and Papers
Nina Lübbren: The Buttons of History: Creative Anachronism in Nineteenth-Century Genre Paintings
Victoria J. Whitworth: Death, Memory and George Bain’s Commemorative Refashioning of the Book of Kells
Thalia Allington Wood: Making Myth: a Re-imagining of Ancient Etruria in the Early-Modern Sacro Bausch
Owen Evans: The History Films of Christian Petzold
Judy Park: Imperial Possession and the Reinvention of History in William Davenant’s Interregnum Operas
Erin MacLeod: Living Memories, Artful Fictions: Iris Häussler’s He Named Her Amber
Foster: Another Late Antiquity
Corey Hackworth: Competing Fictions: The Comparative Nature of Greek Historical Fiction
Jacobus Bracker: Mythos Formulae
Kate Macdonald: Estrangement in the Historical Novel
Lioudmilla Fedorova: Historical Fiction and Suspension of Disbelief: the Case of Boris Akunin
Abi Hunt: ‘In their remembering are their truths’: creating new historical narratives using oral history.
Aglaia Foteinou: A Smartphone Application for an Audio-Visual Walkthrough of Heritage Sites
Ian Bennet: Exploring Wilfred Owen through an App
Tiffani Angus: Reconstructed Gardens
Gemma Scott: The Indian Emergency in Meena Alexander’s Fiction
Manjeet Baruah: Historical Fiction and Representing Frontier between India and Burma
Yasemin Sahin: Marginal Histories of Istanbul
Ioulia Kolovou: Gender as Methodological Tool in Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and Byzantium in the First Crusade
Natasha Alden: Self-fashioning, Re-fashioning: Historical Fiction’s Queer Potential
Julia Lajta-Novak: Feminist to Postfeminist: Generic Interference in Biofictions about Famous Women [by Skype]
Joanne Heath: The Autobio-Fictional Woman Artist, Feminist Desire and the Limits of Modernist Art History
Rowan Ramsay: Welcome to Agincourt, Iowa: the Town that Time Forgot and Geography Misplaced
Rebekah Doroszenko: ‘…When Improv’d by Science, Taste and Thought’: the 18th Century Estate Defined as a Historical Narrative Tour
Ebute Agaba: Totems: A Methodological Tool for the Historical Reconstruction of the Pre-Literate Idoma Society in the North-Central Nigeria
Una MacCormack: Doctor Who, the Second World War, and the Limits of Time Travel
Hanna Meretoja: Fiction, History, and Truth: Exploring Past Worlds as Spaces of Possibilities