When? 19 June 2023
Where? Taylor Institution Library (St Giles, OX1), Main Hall
9am Panel One ‘Distance’ in Pre- and Early Modern Times (Panel Chair: Sebastian Dows-Miller)
- Jack Nunn, University of Oxford: ‘Distant voices’: The Making of Late-Medieval Anthologies
- Marlene Schilling, University of Oxford: ‘Defying Distance’: The Rhetorical Potential of Personifications of Time in the Prayerbooks of the Northern German Convent Medingen
- Samuel FitzGibbon, University of Cambridge: Windows to New Worlds: Illustrations as Conveyors of Eyewitness Testimony in 16th Century Travel Accounts
10:40 Panel 2 ‘Distance’ in Translation, Reception and Adaptation (Panel Chair: Alexia Ji Wang)
- Edward Voet, University of Oxford: Sanskrit to Korean transliteration in the Ansimsa-pon Chinŏn chip (1569)
- Xiyuan Meng, University of St. Andrews: Performing ‘Distance’ on Chinese Stages: Translation, Adaption, and (Re-)Performance of Euripides’ Medea
- Mariachiara Leteo, University of Oxford: The Distant Perspective of Greek Tragedy in Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
13:00 Panel Three Distance, Oppression and Transgression (Panel Chair: Mathieu Farizier)
- Jake Robertson, University of Oxford: Art on the Edge: Patronage and Precarity in Gulag Theaters on the Soviet ‘Periphery’
- Audrey Gosset, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and EHESS: From Stasis to Democratic Ex-stasis: Bridging the Distance through Shared Art
- Georgina Fooks, University of Oxford: Susana Thénon’s Distancias: Poetry as Choreography
14:35 Panel Four ‘Distance’ in Literary Correspondences (Panel Chair: Aditi Gupta)
- Tess Eastgate, University of Oxford: The implications of distance in Marie-Antoinette’s correspondence
- Valery Goutorova, University of St.Andrews: “My plan is to treat you as detached spirit”: Virginia Woolf’s Effigy to Beloved Women
15:40 Panel Five ‘Distance’ in Migration and Diasporic Literature (Panel Chair: Ola Sidorkiewicz)
- Ruming Yang, University of Miami: Orientalism and Auto-orientalism in Contemporary Peruvian Literature
- Madeleine Pulman-Jones, SOAS University of London: The Love Poems of Debora Vogel: A Jewish-Modernist Aesthetics of Longing
- Kendsey Clements, University College London: Through Her Eyes: An Analysis of écriture migrante au féminin in Québec
17:15 Keynote: Karolina Watroba
Conference programme flyer designed by Anna Glieden