Program
Thursday 26 October - University Main Building Room IX
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14:30
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Registration and coffee
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15:00
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Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Robert Appelbaum and Roberto del Valle Alcalá, Uppsala University: Appelbaum, “Is it really a literary problem? And what I a problem, anyway” Alcalá: 'Inequality, Class, and Post-1945 Capitalism'?
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15:30
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Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois-Chicago “Literary Criticism and Inequality, the contribution of postcritique" (Chair RA)
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16:30
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Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, “Imaginary Economics(?)” (Chair RdVA)
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17:30 | Reception |
Friday 27 October - Engelska Parken, Room 2:1024
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09:00
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Welcome coffee
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09:30
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Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, “Imaginary Economics(?)” (Chair RdVA)
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10:30
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Early Modern Inequalities (Chair RA)
Richard Strier, University of Chicago, “King Lear and Social Security” Anna Swärdh, Karlstad University, “Unequal exchanges and inequality of representation: Cecilia Vasa's journey to England” |
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11:30
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Coffee
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12:00 | The Nineteenth Century (Chair RdVA) Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton, “Radicalism and the Monarchy in the Nineteenth Century: ‘Look on this, and on this!”’ Deborah Giggle, Edinburgh Napier University, “Biting the Hand that Feeds: Resistance of Dominant Ideologies of Class in British Working-Class Literature of the Fin De Siècle” |
13:00 | Lunch |
14:00 | Radical Aesthetics (Chair RdVA) Sonia Arribas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra ,“Sausage and Hard Bread: What People Eat in Revolutionary Times” Jodie Childers, University of Massachusetts, “’Go Left, Young Writers!’ New Masses Before the Crash” Simon Grimble, Durham University, “‘A space of stunted grass and dry rubbish’: imagining 'equal ground'” |
15:30 | Mary Poovey, New York University, “Mutual Friends, Hillbilly Kin, and the Deeper Meaning of Shmoop” (Chair RA) |
16:30 | Gendered Inequalities (Chair RA) Sarah Bernstein, Edinburgh University, “After the Good Life: At Home With Thatcher in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist” Pieter Vermeulen, University of Leuven, “Gendering Austerity” |
17:30 | End of day: a free night. (Many of us will convene to Magnusson’s, on the riverbank in the centre of town.) |
Saturday 28 October - Engelska Parken, Room 2:1024
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09:00
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Coffee
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09:30
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Jane Elliott, King’s College London, “Iterations of the Microeconomic Mode” (Chair RdVA)
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10:30
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Paul Crosthwaite, Edinburgh University, “Market Metafiction” (Chair RdVA)
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11:30
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Coffee
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11:45 | The Social Uses of Art in Times of Inequality (Chair RA) Anthony John Lappin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, “Imagined Individuals. Reading made-up stuff as a viable use of time; or, fiction as a material discipline” Magnus Ullén, Karlstad University, “American Beauty: Charles Eliot Norton and the Social Function of the Fine Arts” Heinz Wessler, Uppsala University, “Between the Margins and the Mainstream: Spaces of Dalit Identity in Hindi Literature” |
13:15 | Lunch |
14:15 | Contemporary Inequalities (Chair RdVA) Helga Ramsey-Kurz, University of Innsbruck, "The Conspicuous (In)Visibility of the Rich" Kathleen Starck, Universität Koblenz-Landau, “No Easy Escape, No Easy Answers. Social Inequality in Alexander Zeldin’s Play Love” Magnus Nilsson, Malmö University. “Inequality in Swedish Working Class Literature” David Watson Uppsala University, “Fables of Scarcity in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction” |
16:15 | Coffee |
16:30 | Jennifer Ashton, University of Illinois-Chicago, “Nothing in Commons” (Chair RA) |
17:30 | Last thoughts |
20:00 |