Location: Online
Dates: 18th-21st February 2021
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Sushma Jansari, British Museum and podcaster, The Wonderhouse: Moved, blown up, restored: sharing stories beyond the label.
Dr.Olli Kleemola, University of Turku, and Senior researcher at the at the Muisti Centre for War and Peace, The Power of (Visual) Images
Papers
Samira Azis, The Catastrophe of History and Culture in Susan Barker’s The Incarnations
Alexander Carpenter, A Stand Against Tyranny: Schoenberg Remembers Napoleon (and Beethoven) in Response to the Catastrophe of Nazism
John Carranza, Tales of the City as Historical Document: HIV/AIDS, Serialization, Urban Landscapes and Sexuality
Vivian Colbert, Processing Trauma – British Inter-War History Plays and the Redefining of National and Female Identity
Richard Cole, Live, Die, Repeat: Replaying Catastrophe in the ‘Total War’ Series
Aidan Collins, Fiction in the Archives’? Narratives of Credit, Debt and Failure in the English Court of Chancery, 1674-1750
Paul Csillag, A second diaspora? The Alhambra Edict as a catastrophe in Historical Fiction
Debolina Dey, “Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact”: Queer Time In Winterson’s Fiction
Danilo Di Mascio, From a utopian dream of architectural splendour to a sublime ruin: The narrative qualities of architectures and places of the city of Rapture in Bioshock
Mara Dougall, Body politics and the bloody blitz in Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch
Eliso Elizbarashvili, Reality and Fiction in the Justinianic Plague Narratives
Dorothea Flothow, The Great Plague of 1666 in the British Cultural Imagination
Kelly Gardiner, Resilience, resistance, survival: Australia, women and war in recent biographical fictions (with Catherine Padmore)
Katie Ginsbach, Missed Opportunities and a Nation Divided: Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s Representation of the Spanish Enlightenment in Hombres buenos.
Marta Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Catastrophic Persecutions: Salem and the Dangers of Contemporary Hunts
John Halbrooks, Lockdown: Trauma and Isolation in Arthur Phillips’s _The King at the Edge of the World_ and Rose Tremain’s _Restoration_
Dennis Henneböhl, Deconstructing Dominant Narratives about the Second World War: Their Finest as (Self)-Reflective Historical Fiction
Mike Horswell, Imagining the Crusades Twenty Years After 9/11
Rita Horvath, Historical Novels as Methodological Workshops
Elin Ivansson, Remembering 9/11 Through Multimodality, Materiality, & Myth
Noël James How do we determine authenticity when teaching history, at any educational level?
Justine Shu Ting Kao, Geographical Imagination in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes
Tony Keen, Trojan Catastrophe: The Fall of Ilium on Screen
Bozena Kucala, “Reimagining the Arctic Disaster: the Portrayal of John Franklin’s Expedition in Contemporary Fiction”
Stefan Lessmann, Why Form Matters: The ‘Vision of the Vanquished’ between Testimony and Epic in Nahuatl and Spanish
Chiara Luis, “Secret rivers through all the other stories of life”: Storytelling as a way of surviving history in Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife (2011)
Prashant Maurya, War and its aftermath: Reading prostitution in J.G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip.
Devika Mehra, Encountering the past in the present: a study of children’s negotiation with past catastrophes in Penelope Lively’s children’s fiction
Victor Monnin, From the Biblical Flood to the Chicxulub Impact: Catastrophes in Deep Time Historical Fictions and the Destinies of Human/Non-Human Characters
Cheryl Morgan, Nox tenebris et procellosum
Heidrun Mühlbradt, The Great Irish Famine and the Holodomor: Remembering the National Famine Catastrophe
Ben Nadler, “At War with Ourselves”: Civil War Afterlives in the Fiction of George Saunders
Elena Ogliari, Remembering the catastrophe of the Great War in Ireland: Sebastian Barry’s ‘A Long Long Way’
Nicholas Pacula. “Everything I’ve Ever Known Has Been a Lie:” Walid Raad/The Atlas Group and the Aesthetics of History
Rinku Pegu, Catastrophe as Narrative: Revisiting World War II in an Oil Frontier
Zoe Perot, Collecting History, Collective Action: Martin Delaney’s “Blake, or The Huts of America”
Boris Proskurnin, Is French Revolution a Catastrophe? Charles Dickens and Hilary Mantel in a Dialogue through the Ages
Stephanie Russo, “You are, like, so woke”: Americas in Catastrophe in Dickinson
Papari Saikia, Enemy Aliens: Two Representations of Chinese Migrants in India during the Sino-Indian War (1962)
Hamish Williams, The Collapse of Minoan Civilisation on Crete: Fictional or Factual Historical Hypotheses in Mary Renault’s The King Must Die?
Helen Young, Far-right extremism and historical fictions
Historical Fictions Research Network 