Friday 17th September 2021

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Rooms ES105 & ES103

Edward Street Building, University of Brighton

154-155 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JG

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10:30 - 11:00

Room 105

Arrival

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11:00 - 11:15 

Welcome

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11:15 - 12:15 

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Panel #4

Painful Affects

Room 105

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Chaired by Polly Hember

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Izzy Jenkinson (University of Leeds)

'‘What were they after all but bruises!’: The Ungraspability of Pain in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories'

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Ashley Barr (University of Sussex)

'Embarrassment as a Poetic Strategy'

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Jess H. Anderson (University of Leeds)

'"Benign" Emotions, Outsider Voices: Reading the Victim Impact Statement in the Contemporary US Murder Memoir'

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12:15 - 13:15 

Lunch

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13:15 - 14:30

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Panel #5

Affective Connections: the Digital and the In-Between

Room 105

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Denise Ackerl (University of Arts, London)

'Economies of Emotions: How Resisting Instagrammability becomes a Feminist Act in Performance Art Practice'

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Sophie Declerck (Loughborough University)

'“Intra-active” tactility as an aesthetic phenomenon in artifact design'

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Lilith Cooper (University of Kent)

'Feeling Our Way from Physical to Digital (And Back Again?): Loss, Pleasure, and Ambivalence in-between Digital and Physical Zines'

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Josefine Hetterich

'My Nostalgia Is Acting Up: Embodied Spectatorship and Speculative Relationality through AIDS Crisis Revisitation Works'

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14:30 - 14:45

Break

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14:45 - 16:00 

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Panel #6 

Rhythms, Bodies & Materiality: Part 2

Room 105

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Daniel Jones (Newcastle University)

'Clarifying the amorphous rhythms of Tourette Syndrome' - available to watch online here

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Victoria J. E. Jones (Durham University)

'Feeling and Writing in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues' - available to watch online here

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Jack Maginn (University of Brighton)

'Queering Taste, Renouncing Mastery: A Temporal-Affective approach to Queer Artistic Practice'

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Chloe Turner (Goldsmiths)

'There's not a problem that I can't fix, 'Cause I can do it in the mix'

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Panel #7

Affective Identities and Empathies

Room 103

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Esther Omotola Ayoola (University of Brighton)

'Retrospective Introspective Perspectives: Exploring the Lifeworlds of Emerging Adult Refugees’ Migrating from Africa to Haringey'

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Richard Thornton (University of Sussex)

'Feeling Ethical: The ‘affective intensity’ of self-reflective educationalists in Delhi, India'

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Harriet Smith Hughes (University of Oxford)

'‘Somewhere between talking to myself, and talking to another person’: the legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s performative ‘I’'

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Tim Cowbury (Royal Holloway, UoL)

'"Sitting in a rehearsal room looking at fucking little bits of paper and just feeling sick" as politically generative affect? Interviews with contemporary British theatre-makers' - available to watch online here

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16:00 - 16:15

Break

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16:15 - 17:30

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Panel #8

Affective Spaces Part 2: Rurality and the Urban

Room 105

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Joe Jukes (University of Brighton)

'The cultural politics of the rural: towards emotional space'

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Molly McCracken (University of Edinburgh)

'"The limits of vision": form, feeling, and the ethics of sight in Teju Cole's Blind Spot'

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Adam Walls (University College London)

'Dusky Bodies: Racial Atmospheres of the Late Victorian Night'

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Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, UoL)

‘“Happiness was a new garment, fitted like her Lingburgh helmet”: Feelings on the French Riviera in H.D.’s “Mira-Mare”’

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17:30 - 17:45

Closing remarks & drinks

Room 105

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