Gender and Sexuality at the Edge of Words

Gender and Sexuality at the Edge of Words is an interdisciplinary research event exploring the scope of gender and sexuality in film, art, and literature, including translation, in the work of academics in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

Staff and postgraduate students are welcome to come and enjoy the breadth of research conducted in these areas, and to locate synergies with other researchers in the emerging LLC gender and sexuality research hub.

To register, please contact event organizer, Dr. Leanne Dawson:

Refreshments and lunch will be provided, including vegetarian options. If you have other dietary requirements, please state these when you get in touch to register.

Programme

• 10:30 Coffee
• 10:50 Leanne Dawson: welcome and introduction
• 11:00 Claudia Nocentini (Italian Studies): “Il sesso è muto” (“Sex is Mute”): Natalia Ginzburg and Sexuality
• 11:30 Leanne Dawson (DELC): Queer Male Femininity in Kutluğ Ataman’s Lola+Bilidikid (1999)
• 12:00 Julian Ward (Chinese Studies): The Trivialisation of Evil in Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War
• 12: 30 Lunch
• 13: 15 Frauke Matthes (German Studies): ‘The Great Male Lament’: Michael Stavarič’s Böse Spiele
• 13: 45 Carole Jones (English): James Kelman: at the Borders of the Novel
• 14: 15 Esther Tyldesley (Translation Studies): China, Gender, and Translation.
• 14: 45 Alexandra Smith (Russian Studies): Transgressive Tendencies in Russian Women's Writing and Art of the 1910s-1920s
• 15: 15 Coffee and close