A Symposium on the work of Ali Smith organised by The English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Venue: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge.
Date and time: Wednesday 26th April 2023, 9.30am-5.30pm
Venue: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Booking link: www.cognitoforms.com/UniversityOfCambridge21/AliSmithSymposiumAttendeeRegistration
Enquiries: Ellie Byrne: e.byrne@mmu.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 26th April 2023
(All papers are 20 mins with 10 mins for questions at the end of each panel)
- 9.30am: Registration. Coffee/Tea.
- 9.50 am Welcome by Sarah Dillon, Ellie Byrne and Alex Calder.
- Panel 1: 10am Chair Sarah Dillon
- Political Agency and Metatheatrical Potentiality in Ali Smith’s Plays - Alex Calder
- A Twee Smith Alice Bennett
- In the actual flesh: embodiment and hospitality in Ali Smith’s work - Monika Szuba
- Panel 2: 11.30am Chair Blanka Grzegzorczyk
- Swerves and Seers: Children and Childhood in Ali Smith’s work - Jenny Bavidge
- Boy meets Novel - Darryl Peers
- “What story would your self tell you?”: Narrative Ellipsis as Witnessing in There but for the - Ginette Carpenter
- Lunch 12.40-1.30pm
- 1.30pm Kaye Mitchell keynote. Chair Ellie Byrne
- On the Edge of Experiment: Ali Smith's Artful Innovations
- Panel 3: 2pm Chair Jenny Bavidge
- The novelist-critic: Ali Smith’s forewords and the work of the cultural arbiter - Charlotte Terrell
- Intertextual haunting in the work of Ali Smith - Alex Highfield
- Improvising Aesthetics: Reading Ali Smith in the wake of Brexit - John Owen Havard
- Refreshment break 3.10-3.30pm
- Panel 4: 3.30pm Chair Ginette Carpenter
- The Limit-of-the-nation Novel: Borders and Transgression in Ali Smith’s Quartet - Peter Ely
- ‘I am the child who’s been buried in leaves’: Social Ghosting, Child Spectres and the Possibilities of Play in Ali Smith’s Spring and Companion Piece - Lucy Arnold
- The Fifth Season: Queer Hosts and Queer Seasons - Ellie Byrne
- Comfort Break: 4.45pm
- 5pm-5.30: Ali Smith responds.
- 7pm: Optional dinner in Cambridge for speakers