Registration and morning coffee 8.45-9.30 (B2)

9.30-10.30

Keynote Speaker: Professor Fred Botting, University of Lancaster: ‘Transgression after Bataille’ (A96)

10.30 – 11.45: Parallel Sessions

1. De Sade and Bataille

Carina Hart, University of East Anglia: ‘The Virtuous Marquis: Reading Positions in Justine’
Keith Currie, University of Essex: ‘Don Juan Aux Enfers: Transgression Without Limits?’
Dr Philip Tonner, Research Support Officer, Glasgow Museums: ‘Bataille, Lascaux, the Origin of Art and the Taboo on Murder’

2. Transgression and the Artist

Simon Holloway, Bangor University: ‘A Tiger’s Breakfast’
Lyle Skains, Bangor University: ‘Invited Transgression Against the Text: Masochism or An Evolved Perception of Authorship’
Amy Chambers, Bangor University: ‘History, Lies and Videotape: Transgressing Traditional History’

3. National Identities

Brian Rock, University of Stirling: ‘Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Column Writing from the Irish Times: Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn’
Adrian Naughton, IRCHSS scholar, University College Dublin: ‘“Tossing it off like a caber”: Transgression and the sacred in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon's use of Buile Shuibhne'
Danielle Tran, Royal Holloway, University of London: ‘The Politically Motivated Transgressive Acts of Mustafa Sa’eed in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North’

11.45-12.00: Coffee Break

12.00-1.15: Parallel Sessions

1. Avant-Garde, Technology and Being

Dr Steen Christiansen, University of Aalborg, Denmark: ‘The Black Mass of Sunn 0)))’
Dr Giuseppe Episcopo, University of Edinburgh: ‘Ostension of the Sound: The Sense of Hearing and the Nature Unveiled’
Guo Ting, University of Edinburgh: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality: How AI Contributes to science and the Unseen World’

2. Masculinities

Alan Gregory, Lancaster University: ‘Inheriting Violence: Masculine Legacies of the Abusive Father in Stephen King’s The Shining’
Kees de Vries, University of Bangor: ‘Transgressions of the Ages/Transgressions of the Self: The Curious Case of Dorian Gray v. Patrick Bateman’
Pete Deakin, University of Manchester: ‘The Everyman and the Divided Self: Masculine Identity in Crisis in Hollywood’s fin de millennium Cinema’

3. Scottish Writing

Meghan McAvoy, University of Stirling: ‘“the extra-semantic kinetics/ uv thi fuckin poor”: Profanity, Education and the Establishment in recent Scottish Writing’
Stewart Smith, University of Strathclyde: ‘Justified Sinners and Little Magazines in 1960s Edinburgh’
Thomas A. Christie, University of Stirling: ‘The Thistle in the Ashes: A Very Scottish Apocalypse’

13.15-14.15: Lunch

14.15 - 15.30: Parallel Sessions

1. Crime and Transgression

Kamillea Aghtan, University of Edinburgh: ‘Virtual Child Pornography and Uncertain Criminality: A Study of the British Climate of Criminality’
Dr Ricarda Vidal, University of London: ‘Buying Serial Killer Art: Desiring Transgression’
Dr Melanie Ord, University of Bristol: ‘Wives Murdering Husbands on the Early Modern Stage’

2. Deviants and the Horrors of the Flesh

Kayleigh Moore, University of Gloucestershire: ‘Monster Porn: Celebrating the Grotesque Body’
Xavier Aldana Reyes, University of Lancaster: ‘A “Flesh” New Start: The Transgressive Case of Torture Porn’
Julian Manley, University of the West of England: ‘Transgression and Connection: The Individual, Mind and Society’

3. Global Transgressive Literature and Film (Austria, Serbia and Russia)

Heidi James-Dunbar, University of Kingston: ‘Auto-Trauma as a Poetic Gesture in the work of Elfiede Jelinek’
Greg DeCuir Jr., University of Belgrade: ‘Transgressive Cinema: The Films of Dušan Makavejev’
Manuela Kovalev, University of Manchester: ‘Rebel without a Cause?: Eduard Limonov’s Scandalous Novel Eto ja Edichka (It’s me Eddie) as a Renegotiation of Russian Literary Boundaries’

4. Queer Literature

Peter Chien-Yu Kao, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan: ‘The Queer Can Not Be Queer but Soul Mate’
Nicholas Spengler, University of Edinburgh: ‘“The Brightest Star”: Reinaldo Arenas’ Political and Sexual Orientations’

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00: Dr Rachel Potter

17.00 - Cheese and Wine

Sunday

Registration and Morning coffee 8.30- 9.00(B2)

Parallel Sessions: 9.00- 10.15 (A5 and A7 and maybe B2)

1. Satire and the Carnivalesque

Birte Müller, University of Durham: ‘The Didactic Force of Transgression Muriel Spark as a Social Satirist’
Claire Trévien, University of Warwick: ‘Topsy Turvy: The Rôle of the Carnivalesque in the Fête de la Fédération of 1790’
Ally Crockford, University of Edinburgh: ‘“Don’t laugh like that, Bertha”: “Goblin-Laughter” and Voice-Cry in Jane Eyre’

2. Violence and Cinematic Transgressions

Jerome P. Schaefer, University of Warwick: ‘Facing the Unimaginable: Irréversible and the Un-pornographic Gaze of Torture Porn’
Renaud, Olivero, University of Manchester: ‘Transgression and the Figural: Exploring Sensation in Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible (2001)’
Leonardo Boscarin, Queen’s University Belfast: 'A Man Machine? : Exploring Masculine Anxieties in the Pornographic Film'

3. Liminal Bodies and Virus

Aidan T.A. Varney, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘The Socio-Political (Un)intelligibility of Barebackers’ Bodies’
Alexander Howard, University of Sussex: ‘Returning the Gift: Excess and Transgression in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity’

Parallel Sessions: 10.15 - 11.30

1. Evil and the Occult

Aisling Tierney, University of Bristol: ‘Hellish Intent and Intoxicating Pleasures: Transgressions of the Hell-Fire Clubs’ Colette Francis, University of Stirling: ‘How the Devil has Challenged Authority and in what Context’ Michael Eades, University of Nottingham: ‘Pure Mania: Community, the Occult, and the Case of Stewart Home’

2. Transgression and Criticism

Dr Dee Amy-Chinn, University of Stirling: ‘Glaad to be Torchwood? Bisexuality and the BBC’
Sharyn Chen Post, University of Warwick: ‘Artifice and Resistance in the Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen’
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, University of Kent: ‘The Violence of Violation in Derek and Clive: “The Number 1 Cunt-Kicker-In in the World”’

3. Transgression and the Text

Graham Matthews, University of Exeter: ‘Satire, Transgression and the Limits of Subversive Practice’
Lucile Chich, Trinity College: ‘Metafiction: A Literature that Stages Transgression’
Dr Nancy Comorau, Ohio Wesleyan University: ‘Narrative Transgressions: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and the Limits of Genre’

Coffee Break 11.30-12.00

Parallel Sessions: 12.00-13.15

1. Transgressive Art

Lissia, Amach, Trinity College Dublin: ‘Subversion in Claude Cahun’s Self-Portraits’
Laura Kremmel, University of Stirling: ‘Images Haunted and Perverse: Mapplethorpe and the Gothic’
Martin O’ Brien, University of Aberystwyth: ‘Fun to be Dead: The Masochist Practices of Bob Flanagan (deceased)’

2. Iain Banks and China Miéville

Jude Roberts, University of Nottingham: ‘ “There’s People that are Natural eaters and There’s Those that are Always Going to Get Eaten”: Transgressing the Cannibalism Taboo in Iain M. Banks’s Culture’
Joseph Walton, Writer: ‘The Five Epoch Plan’
Lynne Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University: ‘“The Hybrid Zone”: The Monstrous Spaces of New Crobuzon in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station’

3. Textual Transgressions

Catherine Humble, Goldsmiths, University of London: ‘Crossing the Threshold: Raymond Carver and textual Transgressions’
Mattia Marino, University of Salford: ‘The Transgressive and Violence on One Anxious Day: Woolfian transgression in the Film The Hours’
Rachel J. Gardner-Stephens, University of Bristol: ‘Transgressive Tactics in Propertius’ Love Elegy’

Lunch 13.15-14.15

Parallel Sessions: 14.15 - 15.30

1. Travel Writing

Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh: ‘Gulliver’s Travels: The Bane and the Boon of a Monstrous Text’
Selvin Yaltir, Boðaziçi University, Istanbul: ‘“Events Worthy of Note”: James Cook’s “Odd Scenes” and Exploration literature’

2. The Undead

Alessandra Campoli, University of the West of Scotland: ‘When Death Crosses the Borders: Female Ghosts in South East Asian Imagery and Cinema’
Tara Ghai, University of Exeter: ‘“Even a man who is pure in heart”: Transgression and Victorian Depictions in Gothic Horror Films’
Gennie Dyson, University of Sheffield Hallam: ‘The Un-masculine Male in Late Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction’

3. The Body and the Feminine

Catriona Fay McAra, University of Glasgow: ‘Re-Reading Surrealism through Tanning’s Chasm: The Femme-Enfant Tears through the Text’
Dr Karin Sellberg, University of Edinburgh: ‘Transgressive Eating in the Works of Angela Carter: A Critical De-Hegemonisation of Literary Bodies’
Douglas Iain Clark, University of Strathclyde: ‘“Then basely tied, now freely am mine own”: Being, Nothingness and the Female Body in early Modern Drama’

4. Femme-Fatales

Maysaa Jaber, University of Manchester: ‘A “soiled dove” in Poisonville: Dashiell Hammet’s Red Harvest’
Alice Condé, Goldsmiths, University of London: ‘Writing the Cruelty of Female Sexuality in Wilde’s Salomé’
Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh: ‘Death and Desire: Female Necrophilia as Gender Transgression’

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.00 Iain Banks

17.00 - Cheese and Wine