Historical Fictions Research Network
HFRN
Saturday 27th February 2016
09:00-11:00 Coffee and Registration
11:00
Room C LAB 109
Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway): Keynote: Theorizing Historical Fictions
12:30 Lunch on site (included in conference fee)
13:15-14.45
Room A LAB 113: Chair Jennnifer Young
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
Room B LAB 112: Chair Alison Landsberg
Hollie Price: Cushions, Cameos and Cavalcades: Exploring Histories of Home in 1940s British Cinema
Owen Evans: The History Films of Christian Petzold
Room C LAB 109:; Kate MacDonald
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
14:45 Break
15:00-16:30
Room A LAB 113: Chair: Tony Keen
Frances Foster: Another Late Antiquity
Corey Hackworth: Competing Fictions: The Comparative Nature of Greek Historical Fiction
Jacobus Bracker: Mythos Formulae
Room B LAB 112: Chair Nick Lowe
Kate Macdonald: Estrangement in the Historical Novel
Lioudmilla Fedorova: Historical Fiction and Suspension of Disbelief: the Case of Boris Akunin
Michael Maguire: Character Construction in Historical Fictions, a Real World or Virtual Approach? A Brief Comparative Study in a Digital Age.
Room C LAB 109: Chair: Paul Pattison
Aglaia Foteinou: A Smartphone Application for an Audio-Visual Walkthrough of Heritage Sites
Ian Bennet: Exploring Wilfred Owen through an App
Mary Ann Schofield: War Bond Narratives
17:00
Room C LAB 109 Workshop: New Definitions of Historical Fiction, led by Jerome de Groot
18:00 Room C LAB 109
Keynote:
Debbie Challis (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology)
19:00 Dinner off site
There is no where large enough near bye for the whole conference. Please see the sign up sheets in the break out area (LAB117) where there will be lists of restaurants. A member of the team will lead a group to each restaurant. (NB: no obligation. Feel free to make other plans but we don’t want anyone to feel left out.)
Sunday 28th February 2016
09:00-10:30
Room A LAB 113: Chair Elizabeth Ludlow
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
Room B LAB 112 Chair Christopher Owen
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
11:00 break
11:30-13:00
Room A LAB 113 Chair Amy Crawford
Julia Lajta-Novak: Feminist to Postfeminist: Generic Interference in Biofictions about Famous Women
Joanne Heath The Autobio-Fictional Woman Artist, Feminist Desire and the Limits of Modernist Art History
Sean Lang: The Historian in Historical Theatre
Room B LAB 112 Chair Tiffani Angus
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
Room C LAB 109 Tanya Brown
Una MacCormack: Doctor Who, the Second World War, and the Limits of Time Travel
Vera Nuenning:The Persuasiveness of Historical Fiction as Advantage and Problem: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
Hanna Meretoja: Fiction, History, and Truth: Exploring Past Worlds as Spaces of Possibilities
13:00 Lunch on site (included in conference fee)
14:00 Closing Keynote: Ansgar Nünning (University of Giessen)
15:00 Conference Business Meeting
16:30 Reception and announcement of 2017 venue