English: Shared Futures Conference

THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CREATIVE WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE.

‘We will celebrate the discipline’s intellectual strength, diversity and creativity and explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world.’ http://www.englishsharedfutures.uk/

Organized by the English Association and University English and supported by the National Association of Writers in Education, the Institute of English Studies and the Higher Education Academy.

Wednesday 5th July

11.30 – 12.15  Registration

11.30 – 12.30 English Association Welcoming/Mentoring Session

12.30 – 1.45 Panel Sessions

1. Shakespearean Futures 400+
2. Advocating and Promoting English Studies (Early Career Academics – ECA)
3. B/Orders of Standard English: Registering Linguistic Difference in the Academic Writing Classroom
4. Investigating English: Translating Linguistic Research for the Secondary English Classroom
5. Digital Humanities: GIS and English Studies
6. Book Parts: Flash Panel
7. HEA Roundtable: Who We Are
8. Place Writing: People, Partnerships and Pedagogy; or Impact, Exchange and Policy
9. Teaching 21st Century Genre
10. Contemporary Women’s Writing: Archiving for the Future (Contemporary Women’s Writing Association – CWWA}
11. Women Who Dare (National Association of Writers in Education – NAWE)
12. Feminist Pedagogies, Feminist Classrooms
13. Beyond Story – An Examination of the ‘Authentic’ in Fiction and Poetry

2.00 – 3.15 Plenary – Literary Biography: Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Hughes, Hermione Lee

3.30 – 4.45 Panel Sessions

1. The Discipline of English and the Work of the Humanities (University English – UE)
2. Literary Salon: Bernardine Evaristo
3. Social Justice and Literature
4. Making it New: On the Future of Modernist Studies British Association for Modernist Studies – BAMS)
5. Teaching Genre Fiction Writing (NAWE)
6. The Concept of Storyworld in Relation to the Impact of New Technology on Writing Practices
7. HEA Teaching Surgery
8. Useless Articles: English and Instrumentalism
9. Knowledge About Language and Linguistics in the Classroom
10. Contemporary Women’s Writing: Apocalyptic Narratives (CWWA)
11. Contemporary British Tragedy / Symptoms at the Surface: On Postcolonial Critical Reading / Immersive Poetics
12. Poetics of Feminism
13. Literary Societies in Action: Creativity, Engagement and Learning

5.00 – 6.15 Panel Sessions

1. The Discipline of English and the Work of the Humanities (UE)
2. Literary Salon: Elleke Boehmer
3. Publishing Roundtable (ECA)
4. Making it New is the Oldest Trick in the Book: On Current Modernist Studies (BAMS)
5. Readings from US and Australian Poets (NAWE)
6. Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Looking Back, Moving Forward
7. Reshaping Reality: Creative Work in Progress
8. Eileen Myles and Mobilities of Form
9. Creative Work (CWWA)
10. ‘trans-‘
11. Martin Luther King in Newcastle
12. Gender, Sexuality and (Un)doing English
13. Goldsmiths’ Writers

6.15 – 7.30 Drinks Reception

Thursday 6th July

9.30 – 10.45 Panel Sessions

1. The Borders of Irish Literature (British Association for Irish Studies – BAIS)
2. Virtual Collegiality: Putting the ‘Social’ Back into Social Media (CWWA)
3. Flight Paths in English Studies: Searching for Lines of Consistency in Learner Activity from 11 to Postgraduate (and Beyond
4. Open Voice Session (ECA)
5. Cross-Pollination: Music, Railways, Publications and Productions
6. ‘The Past is My Present to Your Future’: Capitalizing on the Linguistic Heritage of the North East
7. After Brexit: Life without Erasmus (NAWE)
8. When you don’t have a choice: teaching CW for the Open College of the Arts without the benefits and dangers of workshops
9. Teaching Excellence Framework Workshop (HEA)
10. Delivering English: a roundtable of subject leads and department heads
11. Renaissance Outreach (Society for Renaissance Studies – SRS)
12. Closed Circles? English Literature and the Return of Canonical Exclusivity
13. Why Shakespeare Now? (British Shakespeare Association – BSA)
14. Literature and Cultural Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century

11.00 – 12.15 Panel Sessions

1. Writing Shared Futures:  African American Literature and Racialisation (British Association for American Studies – BAAS)
2. Contemporary Women’s Writing and Book Publication Workshop (CWWA)
3. Towards a Theory of Poetry Writing Development
4. Close Reading and Queer Reputation-Building
5. At the Borders of Globalisation
6. Tomorrow’s English Today
7. Don’t Give Up Your Day Job: Preparing Creative Writing Graduates for Lifelong Careers (NAWE)
8. Creative Writing, Knowledge and Emancipatory Strategies
9. The Future of the Victorians: Neo-Victorians (British Association for Victorian Studies – BAVS)
10. PhD Network: Alternative Futures: 70/30 (NAWE)
11. Audio-Visual Romanticism
12. Contemporary Fiction, Method, Manifesto: Towards a Response
13. Sharing Shakespeare’s Language (BSA)

12.30 – 1.45 Panel Sessions

1. Literature, Science and Inbetween (British Society for Literature and Science BSLS)
2. Publishing and Contemporary Women’s Writing Workshop (CWWA)
3. From A Level to HE: Reading
4. PhD Students Teaching Workshop (ECA) [Numbers limited, pre-booking required]
5. On Reflection: Voice and Medium in the Reflective Component of Practice-Led Research
6. Competence Modelling and English Literature
7. Ethics in Creative Writing and Life Research (NAWE)
8. Academics and Engaged Publics (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
9. The Future of the Victorians: Digital Curation (BAVS)
10. Global Futures
11. Romanticism, Mutability and Mobilite
12. Poetry Reading by US, UK and Australian Poets (NAWE)
13. Multi-Cultural Textualities I
14. CWWA meeting

2.00 – 3.15 Plenary – Language and the Problem of Female Authority, Deborah Cameron

3.30 – 4.45 Plenary Sessions

1. Defining the Contemporary (Contemporary Studies Network)
2. Literary Salon: John Mullan
3. From A Level to HE: Writing
4. Barriers to Access (ECA) [Numbers limited, pre-booking required]
5. Creative Writing in Higher Education
6. Public Linguistics and Impact
7. Poetry: Form and Experiment Workshop (NAWE)
8. Renaissance Literature Beyond the Canon (SRS)
9. Integrating English project and Poetics and Linguistics Association
10. Literature and the New Cognitive Science
11. Romanticism and the Stigmatised: Transnationalism, Migration and Trauma
12. The Environmental Humanities: Changing Ecologies, Persistence and Possibility
13. Multi-Cultural Textualities II
14. Employability and English Studies

5.00 – 6.15 Panel Sessions

1. HE for Our Time (Institute of English Studies – IES)
2. Literary Salon: Dinah Birch
3. The Living Archive: Archives and Contemporary Poetry
4. REF for PhDs and Early Career Academics (ECA)
5. ECAs and PhDs in an Age of Anxiety (ECA)
6. Englishes: Writing and Thinking in Multiple Voices
7. Grassroot Feminist Novels of Sixties England / Celebrity Culture and Corruption in the Indian Graphic Novel Legends of Halahala / John Donne
8. Sharing Futures Across Primary, Secondary and University Education (BSA)
9. What Do We Do When We Analyse Texts? (Poetics and Linguistics Association)
10. Divided by a Common Language: Creative Writing Discourse in the US, UK and Australia (NAWE)
11. Romantic Liminology: A Roundtable Discussion
12. The Environmental Humanities: The Interdependent Present
13. Getting Ready for ‘The Modernist Party as Pedagogy’: A Critique of Role-Play in the Teaching of Modernism
14. Harold Rosen Lecture

Friday 7th July

9.30 – 10.45 Panel Sessions

1. HEA Fellowship Workshop
2. Shared Subject Knowledge? English Across School, University, and PGCE
3. The Past, Present and Future of Postcolonial Literary Studies
4. BAME Roundtable (ECA)
5. Paper Nations: Building a Creative nation for Young Writers (NAWE)
6. Writing Workshop: The Poem as Witness: War and its Aftermath
7. Sexual Harrassment
8. What is the Industry Standard for Digital Research in English?
9. Epic Transformation? Developing the English Curriculum at University
10. Anglo-Saxon Futures I
11. Neo-Victorian Mortalities
12. Researching Living Writers
13. Renaissance Literature: New Pedagogies (SRS)
14. Wild Laughter: Performing Life/Staging Biography

11.00 – 12.15 Panel Sessions

1. External Examining/Calibration (HEA)
2. Teaching Through Imitation
3. Career Development Workshop (ECA) [Numbers limited, pre-booking required]
4. Shared Futures for Literary Theory I
5. Writing for Health (Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts)
6. Shared Responsibility: Auto/Biography and the Ethics of Representation
7. Contemporary British and American Poetics: the Trans-Atlantic Avant-Garde (Centre for Contemporary Poetry)
8. Broadcasting English
9. Englishes Online
10. Anglo-Saxon Futures II
11. Beyond the East/West Divide: Bangladesh as Travelling Culture in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
12. English Studies and Careers: Opening a Conversation
13. Renaissance Literature: New Perspectives (SRS)
14. National Literatures and New ‘Englishes’: Writing from Wales

12.30 – 1.45 Panel Sessions

1. How to Grow an English Student (Common English Forum)
2. Academics in the Classroom: How Can Universities Deliver English Outreach for Schools
3. The Future of English Studies I: Periodisation (ECA)
4. Shared Futures for Literary Theory II
5. How Can Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes Support People to Improve their Mental Health
6. Reflections on Time and Place: the Creative Writing PhD in Historical Fiction
7. Hometowns and Influences (NAWE)
8. Literary Research and Teaching in the Age of DH
9. Literary Criticism in an Age of Radical Politics
10. Awake and Present: a roundtable on why contemporary literary studies matters (British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies)
11. Migrant Stories
12. Stella Benson and I Pose / Ellen Terry and the Archives
13. Reading (IES)
14. Writing (out of) Wales

2.00 – 3.15 Plenary – Creative Writing, Lemn Sissay

3.30 – 4.45 Panel Sessions

1. Diversity in Teaching and Learning (NAWE)
2. Literary Salon: Marina Warner
3. The Future of English Studies II: English Studies in Ruins? (ECA)
4. Story as Medicine: Creative Writing Workshop
5. Creativity and Research in the 21st Century (NAWE)
6. Crossing Borders in the Nineteenth Century: Genre and Time
7. Across the Great Divide: the Scientific Humanities and the Future of Digital Discipline
8. Transnational Scholarship and the Digital Edition
9. Difficult Identities: How the Academy and Literature Must Do Justice to their Own Complexity
10. Music as Literature, Literature as Music
11. Scholarly Editing in the 21st Century
12. Migration and Borders