Host: Jerome deGroot
Keynotes:
Josie Gill (University of Bristol), Handle with Care: Literature, Archeology and Slavery.
Diana Wallace (University of South Wales), Writing Revolution: the Radical Possibilities of Modernist Historical Fiction
Robert Poole (UCLAN), Peterloo: Courtroom, history, film and graphic novel.
Papers:
Adam Chapman: Play as Historical Interruption: Videogames and Deconstructionist History
Danilo Di Mascio: Analyzing the design of historical cities in the Assassin’s Creed series
Cecilia Trenter: Mimesis and prompters of Memory: Dragon Age franchise (2009-2014 BioWare)
Jennifer Volkmer: The Death of Stalin; the continued relevance of Historical Fiction
Lioudmila Federova: Poet’s Death as Crucifixion: Who is to Blame?
Boris Proskurnin: Russian Revolution of 1917 and Arthur Koestler’s The Gladiators: Ethics of Radicalism
Sarah Hardstaff: Rational children in radical fiction
Alison Baker: Judith Tarr’s A Wind in Cairo, Kevin Crossley Holland’s Bracelet of Bones, C. S Lewis’s The Horse and his Boy and mediaeval Orientalism in the historical imagination.
Blanka Grzegorczyk: The Presence of the Past: The Genealogist Child in Contemporary Historical Fiction for the Young.
Lucy Stone: Recovering the Past through Juvenilia: Judith Kerr’s and Tomi Ungerer’s fiction from and of the Nazi Era.
Jonathan Ball: We’re Here, We’re Queer(ing Historical Fiction): Writing the gay historical novel as literature and activism.
Nastrin Babakhani: Other Historical Experiences from marginalized Position.
Julie Depriester: John Fowles’s ‘Manchester baby’: forms of radicalism in A Maggot.
Dorothea Flothow: Historical Burlesque in the Nineteenth-Century Theatre: An Introduction to a Radical Genre.
Stephen M. Hornby: ‘Stand up if you’re gay!’: The Burnley Buggers’ Ball and how dramatising history changes history.
Cynthia Dretel: Subverting Nazi Narratives through Puppetry and Song: Polish Satirical Plays in WWII Concentration Camps.
Leila Rahimi Bahmany: Simin Daneshvar and the Bewilderment of Iranian Nation.
Eluned Gramich: Creative explorations of the expulsions (1944-49) in modern day Germany.
Okamoto Michihiro: Reactionary Heels Re-depicted.
Catherine Padmore, & Kelly Gardiner: Radical biofictions: Gender, genre and crime in recent historical biofictions from Australia.
Rita Horvath: Literary Criticism Personified: Examining The Genre of the Biographical-Novel-about-a-Writer.
Bożena Kucala: The past as a multi-perspective structure in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers.
Rachel Damian: The 1913 Armory Show: A Touchstone in American Modernism or a Fictionalized Legacy?
Ronald Ramsay: The Boom of a Western Town: a 19th century novel of frontier life—and revenge.
Chris Martin: The Wobbly Legacy of the Paterson Silk Strike and Pageant.
Emma Varughese: Indian ‘mythology-inspired’ fiction in English and ‘spiralling’
Sutanuka Ghosh: Revisiting Rajput (his)stories with Kiran Nagarkar’s Cuckold.
Alec Kaus: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Reevaluating Fact, Fiction and the Archive in Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood.
Chris Vardy: Abusive Historicity.
Noël James: How do we determine authenticity when teaching history, at any educational level?
Christoph Kühberger: Children’s Toys between Representation of the Past and Historical Fiction.
Pedro Ponce: Getting It (Radically) Wrong: The Public Burning as Counterhistorical Fiction.
Deborah Wolf: Ideologically motivated recreations of the past in 9/11 conspiracy theories.
David Eisler: Authority, Authenticity and the American War novel.
Claudia Lindén: Why the writer of novels is a better historian: William Godwin’s ‘History and Romance’, 1797.
Lucy Cook: Radically Fictional: Farcical Historical Fiction From the 19th Century.
Rosemary Kay: Invocation of the physical world in 18th century gothic novels: Radcliffe’s The Italian.
Nic Clear:Le Corbusier and the (Science) Fictions of Modernity.
Iris Feindt:Futur Historique: Historical Fiction as Dystopian Novel.
Cheryl Morgan:Steampunk Revolutions.
Darragh Kelly: ‘Objectivity is not left over after the subject is subtracted’: Adorno, Sebald, and historical truth content.
Dimitrije Bužarovski & Trena Jordanoska
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
Historical fictions as false identity: Wagner in Bitola.
Catherine Baker: ‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction’.
Blair Agpar: Urban VIII and the Cult of Matilda di Canossa, (Papal) Warrior Princess.
Martina Feichtenschlager: Between fictions and figures: The great narrative of (medieval) authorship.
Philip Peek: Historical Construction and Identity in Herodotus’ Histories.
Monika Wozniak: Sapienza Università di Roma
Quo vadis, Gladiator? The Cinematographic Dialogue in historical films about Ancient Rome.
Juliette Harrisson: The reception of Greek and Roman warfare in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
Pascal Lemaire: Between Cesar and Hitler, retelling the De Bello Gallico during WW2.
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir: Finding Truth in the Detail: Elizabeth Fremantle’s Portrayal of Tudor Women in Sisters of Treason and The Girl in the Glass Tower.
Siobhan O’Connor: Contemporary Englishness and the Tudor Turn: Philippa Gregory’s Narratives of National Grievance.
Olivia Michael
Manchester Metropolitan
Dialects of suppression: Linguistic Chicanery in the Trial of the Pendle Witches.
Virginia Preston: Geoffrey Trease: radical and conservative?
Deborah Mutch: England for All? Love and Landownership in Margaret Harkness’s A City Girl (1887) and Connie(1893-4).
Patricia San Jose Rico: The Archaeology of Historical Fiction: Unearthing the Past in David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident.
Laila Alharthi: Haunting, Trauma and the Sins of the Past in William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault.
Alexey Taube: Representing the Un-representable: Self-reflexive Narrative in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea.
Gary Fisher: The Depiction of the Ancient World on the Eighteenth-century American Stage.
Benjamin Poore: Time after Time: the Counterfactual History Play.
Galyna Vypasnyak: Ukrainian Contemporary Historical Narrative and the Problem of National Identity.
Artemiy Plekhanov: ‘Kiborhy’ as (super)heroes: Ukrainian comics about war in Donbas.
Teresa Mocharitsch: Construction of a Grand Heritage: German Nationalism and Art in the 19th Century.
Muriel Laurent: Illustrating history: El antagonista, a proposal for the social appropriation of knowledge from the University.
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Delegates listed in italics were prevented by last minute illness from presenting.
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