Place / Displacement Postgraduate Conference, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, KCL

Place / Displacement Postgraduate Conference, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, KCL

Friday 2 May

Join us for a one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at King’s College London. The conference features an engaging line up of paper and poster presentations on the theme of Place/Displacement in the Arts and Humanities, offering insights into diverse research outputs from the UK postgraduate community. The day will conclude with a live music performance by music artist and PhD student Bek Wa Goro, who will bring the soul of R&B, the groove of funk, and the pulse of afrobeat into a captivating performance with guitarist, Kyazi Lugangira. There will be food and refreshments provided throughout the conference, as well as a closing drinks reception. We look forward to celebrating and sharing research excellence with you at the conference!

Programme

09:30-10:00 Arrival and registration

10:00-10:15 Welcome

10:15-11:15 Panel 1: Literary Places and Landscapes

11:15-12:15 Panel 2: Writing Political Bodies

12:15-13:30 Lunch Poster presentations

13:30-14:15 Panel 3: Positionality and Spatiality

14:15-15:00 Panel 4: Voicing Community and Identity

15:00-15:30 Afternoon coffee

15:30-16:30 Panel 5: Gender Displaced

16:30-17:00 Closing remarks

17:00-19:00 Drinks reception and music performance

Practical Information

To access Lecture Theatre 1, please arrive at the North Wing entrance to Bush House on Aldwych, WC24 4BG: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsvenues/rooms/bh-lt1

Water will be provided, but please bring a water bottle with you to refill throughout the day.

Make sure you have registered on the Ticket Tailor page before 30 April to attend.

Description of Panels

Panel 1: Literary Places and Landscapes

1.1 ‘Postcards From Exile: The Role of Literature in the Narration of Chilean Political Exile & Return’. Carole Concha Bell, PhD candidate in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, KCL.

1.2 ‘The Birth of Bohemian Space in 19th-Century Paris’. Qingyuan Zhu, PhD candidate in Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University/École Normale Supérieure and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

1.3 '(Un) Real Bodies: Illness and Memory in Maddie Mortimer’s Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (2022)'. Grace Brimacombe-Rand, PhD candidate in English, KCL.

Panel 2: Writing political bodies

2.1 ‘Rewriting Chinese Labour: H. T. Tsiang and the Transnational Politics of Poetry’. Dingkun Lei, PhD candidate in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, KCL.

2.2 ‘The abject body in Eimear McBride's post-Tiger novel 'The Girl Is A Half Formed Thing'. Brian Kelly, PhD candidate in English, KCL.

2.3 ‘Transgressive transitions: The displacement of social regulation onto bodies in Erpenbeck’s ‘Geschichte vom alten Kind’ and Salzmann’s ‘Ausser Sich’. Hannah Boettge, Master’s student in Comparative Literature, KCL.

Panel 3: Positionality and Spatiality

3.1 ‘Cultural Displacement, Technological Immersion, and Liminal Volatility’. Bek Wa Goro, PhD Candidate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

3.2 ‘The Politics of Looking: Visibility, Space and Representation’. Sohaila Baluch, PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art.

Panel 4: Voicing Community and Identity

4.1 ‘Podcasts in Vietnam: Sincere voices, emotional connection and empathy’. Anh Dinh-Hong, PhD candidate at IoE, Culture, Communication and Media, UCL.

4.2 ‘Morbid Singing in Rural Songs from Portugal’. Ricardo Guimaraes, PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

Panel 5: Gender Displaced

5.1 ‘No country for old women’. Felicity Moffat, PhD candidate in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, KCL.

5.2 ‘“There are in the World Steel Women”: Shattering Silence through Gendered Re-presentations of Conflict in the Novels of Manuka Wijesinghe and V.V Ganeshananthan’. Tara Senanayake, PhD candidate in English, KCL.

5.3 ‘Traversing Contradictions: Spatiality, Positionality and Inequality in Simone de Beauvoir’s America Day by Day’. Gayle Kennedy, PhD candidate in English, KCL.

Poster presentations

‘Overcoming Epistemic Violence and Empowering Marginalised Groups in France: Assessing the Impact of Social Movement Practices’. Jodie Bradshaw, PhD candidate in School of European Languages, Culture, and Society, UCL.

‘Dislocated Bodies and Gendered Spectacle: Reviewing Miniature Global Landmarks in Jia Zhangke’s The World (2004)’. Wei Yihan, Master’s student, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge.

‘Secular Transcendence: Mythmaking and Immortality in Declan Ryan’s Crisis Actor and Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot’. Rosie Price, PhD candidate in Creative Writing, KCL.

‘Experiencing Religious Alterity: Space and Dialogue Among Buddhist-Christian Interlocutors’. Rev. Pemananda Thero Unapane, PhD candidate in the Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong.

Music performance

Enjoy a live performance by music artist and PhD candidate Bek Wa Goro, who will bring the soul of R&B, the groove of funk, and the pulse of afrobeat into a captivating performance with guitarist, Kyazi Lugangira.