Points of exit: Conference Program
(Un)conventional Representations of Age, Parenting, and Sexuality
Dates: Thursday, March 19, 2009 and Friday, March 20, 2009
Location: Vaeshartelt Castle, Weert 9, NL-6222 PG Maastricht
March 19, 2009
Thursday
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10.15 – 11.00
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Registration, coffee and tea
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11.00 – 11.30
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Welcome by Rein de Wilde (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University)
Opening Speech by Maaike Meijer (Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University).
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11.30 – 12.30
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Keynote lecture ‘Biographies on the Move’
Keynote speaker: Caitríona Ní Dhúill, “The politics of the mundane: Constructions of the everyday in biography”
Respondent: Mineke Bosch
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12.30 – 13.30
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Lunch
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13.30 – 15.00
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Parallel Panel Sessions I
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Session IA ‘Biographies on the Move’
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13.30-14.00
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Gerald P. Mulderig, “Queering the Conventions of Life (Writing): The Search for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Janet Malcolm’s Two Lives”
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14.00-14.30
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Malin Lidström ““Simone and I” – Beyond Female Sympathy in Feminist Biography”
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14.30-15.00
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Catherine Lange, “The White Hyacinth Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman”
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Session IB ‘Gothic Escapes?’
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13.30-14.00
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Lies Wesseling, “‘Pogroms and Witch-Burnings, Angry Gods and Scapegoats’: Evil Children in Contemporary Gothic Fiction”
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14.00-14.30
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Johannes Schlegel, “They Fuck You Up: Revaluations of the Nuclear Family in Recent Gothic Film”
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14.30-15.00
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Ardel Thomas, “Queer Family Structures in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Short Fiction”
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Session IC ‘(Un)conventional Parenthood’
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13.30-14.00
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Indera Grewal, “Representations of the ‘Anti-Mother’ in the British Tabloid Media”
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14.00-14.30
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Margreth Hoek, “Uprooted parenthood. Meanings of care and responsibility in Dutch governmental policies regarding support for parents with child rearing (1979-2002)”
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14.30-15.00
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Jyotsna Gupta “Parenthood by design”
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15.00 – 16.00
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Keynote Lecture ‘Gothic Escapes?’
Keynote speaker: Sue Zlosnik, “Whatever Became of the Gothic Heroine?”
Respondent: Rosemarie Buikema
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16.00 – 16.30
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Coffee and tea break
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16.30 – 18.00
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Parallel Panel Sessions II
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Session IIA ‘Biographies on the Move’
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16.30-17.00
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Paul Ferstl, “Matters of In-Between: Jaime Hernandez’ Locas”
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17.00-17.30
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Sarah de Mul, “Realist Writing and Multiculturality”
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Session IIB ‘Gothic Escapes?’
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16.30-17.00
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Aspasia Stephanou, “Vampiric Sex: Patrick Califia and Female Transgression”
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17.00-17.30
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Antiono Sanna, “Escaping or Re-Affirming Heterosexuality? Unconventional Homosexuality and Transgressive Psychoanalysis in the Hannibal Series”
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17.30-18.00
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Anne Quema, “A Sombre Gust of Queer Fantasies: Patricia Duncker’s The Deadly Space Between”
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Session IIC ‘(Un)conventional Parenthood’
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16.30-17.00
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Natalie Carter, ““The New American Family”: Transnational Adoption, Resentment, and the Obligation of Caregiving in Gish Jen’s The Love Wife”
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17.00-17.30
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Ilana Shiloh, “No Exit: Motherhood as Nightmare in Lionel’s Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin”
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17.30-18.00
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Michèle Schaal, “Parenthood as (gendered) performance in Virginie Despentes’ Teen Spirit”
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19.00 - 22.00
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Dinner
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March 20, 2009
Friday
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08.30 – 09.00
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Registration, coffee and tea
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09.00 – 10.00
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Keynote lecture ‘(Un)conventional Parenthood’
Keynote speaker: Deborah Chambers, “Fertility and Fame: Media and Academic Discourses of Parenting”
Respondents: Estella Tincknell and Claartje Vinkenburg
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10.00 – 11.30
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Parallel Panel Sessions III
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Session IIIA ‘Queering Queer Texts’
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10.00-10.30
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Christian Gay, “(Re)queering Shakespeare and Suburbia in Were the World Mine”
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10.30-11.00
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Teilhard Paradela, “The Haunting of the Boy Actress: Queering the Notion of Performing History in Compleat Female Stage Beauty”
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11.00-11.30
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David Van Leer, “Merle Oberon’s Look: Race among Lillian Hellman’s Lesbians”
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Session IIIB ‘New Directions in Age Studies’
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10.00-10.30
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Roberta Maierhofer, “The Embodied Self: Women, Aging and Identity”
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10.30-11.00
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Heike Hartung, “Not Today. Then Tomorrow – You Never Know,Do You? Literary Case Studies on Dementia”
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11.00-11.30
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Aagje Swinnen, “Envisioning Love and Lust in Later Life: The Brooks (2006) by Pascal Rabaté”
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Session IIIC ‘(Un)conventional Parenthood’
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10.00-10.30
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Elke Brems, “96 Fathers and One Mother: The Poetry of Toon Tellegen”
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10.30-11.00
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Denise Ferris, “The Troubling Aspects of Truthfulness: Awful and Awesome Children in Contemporary Fine Art Photography”
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11.00-11.30
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Barbara Bush, “Parenting in Adversity: the Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on African Cultural Beliefs about Motherhood and Child-Rearing”
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11.30 – 12.30
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Keynote lecture ‘New Direction in Age Studies’
Keynote speaker: Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “Autobiographical Exits from Decline”
Respondent: Roberta Maierhofer
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12.30 – 13.30
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Lunch
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13.30 – 15.00
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Parallel Panel Sessions IV
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Session IVA ‘Queering Queer Texts’
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13.30-14.00
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Andrew Blades, “The (De-)Queered Subject in A Home at the End of the World”
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14.00-14.30
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Shawna Lipton, “At Ease in Stranger Skin: The Reflection of Desire in The Talented Mr. Ripley”
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14.30-15.00
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Roel van den Oever, “All the Queerness You Can Eat: From Martyr to Masochist in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer (1958)”
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Session IVB ‘New Directions in Age Studies’
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13.30-14.00
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Karin Lövgren, “They See Themselves as Young Anyway. The Market Addressing the ‘Older’ Consumer”
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14.00-14.30
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Beate Eisner, “Envisioning Ethnic Elderhood in Contemporary Film and Fiction”
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14.30-15.00
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Pamela Gravagne, “The Becoming of Age. Becoming Within an Indeterminate World”
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Session IVC ‘Biographies on the move’
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13.30-14.00
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Rachel Disney, “Genre as Disguise: Virginia Woolf’s Renouncement of Naming in Orlando”
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14.00-14.30
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Mel Duffy, “Recovering the Self in the Face of Heteronormativity”
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14.30-15.00
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Brian Lobel: ““love-, Self.” A Performance Essay”
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15.00 – 15.15
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Coffee and tea break
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15.15 – 16.15
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Keynote lecture ‘Queering Queer Texts’
Keynote speaker: Henry Abelove, “A Queer Dutch-American Genealogy”
Respondent: Stefan Dudink
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16.15 – 17.45
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Parallel Panel Sessions V
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Session VA ‘Queering Queer Texts’
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16.15-16.45
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Karen Burrows, “‘Are You Ready?’ Renee Montoya and the Question of Lesbian Identity in Superhero Comics”
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16.45-17.15
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Bernd Elzer, “Re-Queering the Queer: A Close Reading of Jean Marc Vallée’s C.R.A.Z.Y.”
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Session VB ‘New Directions in Age Studies’
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16.15-16.45
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Magnus Nilsson, “Ageism and Anti-Ageism in Public Policy”
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16.45-17.15
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Sari Irni, “Nomadic Experience: Rethinking Ageing in the Labour Market”
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17.15-17.45
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Apostolos Poulios, “(De)Constructing Elderly Identity in Greek Conversations”
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Session VC ‘Gothic Escapes?’
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16.15-16.45
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Agnes Andeweg, “Vampiric sisterhood? Feminist metaphors and alternative forms of kinship in Renate Dorrestein’s Gothic Fiction”
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16.45-17.15
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Maria Vara, “The Narrative Power of Constrictions and Clichés in 1970s Fiction by Women or When the Detective Genre Turns Gothic”
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17.15-17.45
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Carole Veldman, “Resignifying Gothic Symbology: Postfeminist Sexualities in Popular Culture”
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17.45 – 18.00
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Closing words by Maaike Meijer (director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University)
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18.00 – 19.00
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Drinks
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