9.45 – 10am Registration (Fulton 104)
10 – 10.10am Welcome remarks
by Eleanor Careless and Vicky Sparrow
10.10. – 11.40
Panel 1: The Work of Resistance
chair: Vicky Sparrow
Lotta Thießen
Incarcerated Subjectivity and Revolutionary Imaginary: Anna Mendelssohn’s Implacable Art and the relation between transgressions of the poetic and the juridical subject
Jo Borden
Albinia Stanley
Anna Mendelssohn’s Affective Labours
Dr. Luke Roberts
Fear of Retribution, or, On the Poetry of Student Life
11.40 – 12am Tea & Coffee (provided)
12 – 1pm Keynote
Dr. Sara Crangle
Anna Mendelssohn, la poétesse maudite
1 – 2pm Lunch (provided in Fulton 103)
2 – 3.30pm
Panel 2: Otherness and the Other
Dr. Calum Gardner
‘Posies for sophists’: Anna Mendelssohn, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, and Poetry as Anti-Knowledge
Dr. Jon Clay
The Vital Delirium of Anna Mendelssohn’s Poetry
Florence Uniacke
Controlling Trauma: Writing, drawing and the location of ‘elsewhere’
Dr. Joe Luna
Do you trust this poem?: on 1:3ng
3.30 – 4pm Tea & Coffee (provided)
4 – 5.30pm
Panel 3: The Politics of Reading
Chair: Eleanor Careless
Verity Spott
Abjection & the Horrific Subject in Anna Mendelssohn’s Poetry
Prof. William Rowe
Reference and resistance in the work of Anna Mendelssohn
Andrew Duncan
Blank Measures
Prof. Keston Sutherland
Free Dissociation
5.30 – 6pm Closing Remarks
by Prof. Carol Watts
6-6.30pm Wine Reception
6.30 – 7.30pm
Poetry Readings and Performance
Verity Spott
Jennifer Cooke
Rod Mengham
Eleanor Careless & Vicky Sparrow
Performance by Lucy Beynon and Lisa Jeschke
8.30pm Post-conference dinner (not provided)
ANNA MENDELSSOHN SYMPOSIUM 