South of the River Programme (download)
(KW302 and KW303, King William Court, Greenwich Campus)
17th and 18th May 2018
Thursday 17 May | 9:30–10:00 | Registration and Welcome(KW003) |
KW302 | 10:00-10:30 | Claire Sheridan (University of Greenwich) Romanticism in Sydenham |
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10:30–11:00 | Elena Nistor (University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest) Urban Poetics in Hylda Sims's Reaching Peckham (2009) | |
11:00–11:30 | Coffee | |
11:30–12:00 | Tahseen Choudhury (University of Greenwich Alumni) South Asians and South London in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia | |
12:00–12:30 | Jenny Bavidge (University of Cambridge) Bastables and Borribles: Children's Literature South of the RIver | |
12:30–13:00 | Daniel O'Brien (University of Hertfordshire) The All-Male Family in South London Film | |
13:00-14:00 14:00-14:30 14:30–15:00 | Lunch Catherine Freeman (University of Greenwich) "My Dear Miss": News back from Old Girls to their schools in Surrey at the end of the long nineteenth century Ade Solanke (University of Greenwich) By the Rivers of Babylon An extract from a new play imagining Phillis Wheatley's visit to the Painted Hall in 1773 when she came to London to publish her collection of poetry; the first by an African and second by a woman | |
15:00-15:30 | Break | |
15:45–16:45 | KEYNOTE: Professor Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) Gravesend Hoys, Maze Hill Miracles, and Vauxhall Vanities: Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano on the South Bank of the Thames | |
16:45-17:30 17:30 19:00 | Wine Reception
Guest Author: Blake Morrison, discussing his novel South of the River introduced by Professor Helen Carr (Emeritus, Goldsmiths)
Conference Barbecue | |
Friday 18 May KW303 | 09:30–10:30 | KEYNOTE: Professor John Williams (Emeritus, University of Greenwich) We builded Jerusalem as a city & a temple; from Lambeth We began our foundations: The Romantic Period Legacy for Writing London: North and South
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00-11:30 | Paul Mersh (University of Greenwich) The Social Memory of General Gordon in Gravesend
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11:30–12:00 | Peter Jones (Institute of Historical Research,University of London) A 'Royal Academy over the Water'?: Transpontine Theatre and the Proving Grounds for Popularity | |
12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 13:00–14:00 | Gillian Stacey (University of Greenwich) "Doctor, doctor, I think I'm a clock. Well don't go getting all wound up about it": Apertures in Time and Place in Ali Smith's There but for the Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich) Love, Letters, Monuments and the Life-Cycle, 1885-1953: The Donaldsons in South London and Westminster
Lunch | |
14:00-15:30 | Poetry Panel: Edmund Hardy, S J Fowler, Amy Cutler & Tom Chivers | |
15:30-16:15 | Screening and discussion of short film, 'Living at Thamesmead', Produced and Directed by Charmain and Jack Saward | |
16:15-17:00 | Plenary and Roundtable Discussion (with coffee) |