The Contemporary British Fiction Decades Project

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Places at this event are free but limited, please register with denise.odell@brunel.ac.uk

• 10.30 onwards Tea/Coffee available
• 11.00 – 11.15 Introduction
• 11.15 – 11.55 Paul McGarry (Leeds) Bringing Up the Nation
• 11.55 – 12.35 Lucienne Loh (Brunel) Saving Britain: “Ethnic” Writing in the 2000s
• 12.35 – 13:10 Lunch
• 13.10 – 13.50 Nick Bentley (Keele) Special Topic 1: Subcultural Fictions
• 13.50 – 14.30 Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck), ST2: Fictions of the Brain in the 2000s
• 14.30 – 15.10 Leigh Wilson (Westminster), ‘The Novel as Reference’
• 15.10 – 15.30 Tea/Coffee
• 15.30 – 16.10 Ulrike Tancke (Mainz) International Contexts 2
• 16.10 – 16.50 David James (Nottingham) Generic Discontinuities

(7 x 40 minute sessions = 20-25 min paper + 15-20 min discussion)

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• 11.50 onwards Tea/Coffee available
• 12.10 – 12.20 Introduction
• 12.20 – 13.10 Martyn Colebrook (Hull) Literary History of the Decade
• 13:10 – 13:50 Lunch
• 13.50 – 14.40 Nick Bentley (Keele) Special Topic 1: Britishness
• 14.40 – 15.30 Claire Lynch (Brunel) Special Topic 2: Confessional/Trauma
• 15.30 – 15.50 Tea/Coffee
• 15.50 – 16.40 Anja Müller-Wood (Mainz) International Contexts 2
• 16.40 – 17.30 Nick Hubble (Brunel) Historical Representations

(6 x 50 minute sessions = 30 min paper + full 20 min workshop / discussion)

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*FREE* but limited places – please email Natalia Clarke to reserves a place:

natalia.clarke@brunel.ac.uk

• 11.15 – 11.20 Introduction
• 11:20 – 12.10 Emily Horton (Brunel University) Literary History of the Decade
• 12:10 – 13:00 Susan Fischer (Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York), Postcolonial & Marginal Voices
• 13.00 – 13.30 Lunch
• 13.30 – 14.20 Jung Su (National Taiwan Normal University), International Contexts
• 14.20 – 15.10 Rick Holmes (Lakehead University), Generic Discontinuities & Variations
• 15.10 – 16.00 Alex Murray (University of Exeter), Historical Representations
• 16.00 – 16.20 Tea/Coffee
• 16.20 – 17.10 Monica Germana (Westminster University) Special Topic 1 (Scottishness)
• 17.10 – 18.00 Joe Brooker (Birkbeck College) Special Topic 2 (Thatcherism)

(6 x 50 minute sessions = 30 min paper + full 20 min workshop / discussion)

Evening meal & drinks (optional): The Load of Hay (nearby!)

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*FREE* but limited places – please email Natalia Clarke to reserves a place:

Natalia.Clarke@brunel.ac.uk

• 12:00 Intro
  
• 12:10 – 13:00 Mark Williams (UEA) Literary History of the Decade (50 min)
• 13.00 – 13.30 Lunch
• 13.30 – 14.20 Nick Hubble (Brunel) The Break-Up of Britain
• 14.20 – 15.10 Sonya Andermahr (Northampton) Feminist Fiction
• 15.10 – 15.30 Tea/Coffee
• 15.30 – 16.20 John McLeod (Leeds) Postcolonial & Diasporic Voices
• 16.20 – 17.10 Sam Goodman (Exeter) Historical Representations

(4 x 50 minute sessions = 30 min paper + full 20 min workshop / discussion)

Evening meal & drinks (optional): The Load of Hay (nearby!)