Programme
Friday, August 8
08.30-09.30 Coffee and Registration
09.30-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 Keynote speaker: Svend Erik Larsen. How to Narrate the Other?
11.00-12.30 Sessions 1 and 2 (concurrent)
Chair: Rebecca Parbo
Pavlina Radia. The Golem in the Room: Permutations of Otherness and Transnational Memory in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Salman Rushdie’s Fury.
Leah Harte. Borderlands of Identity: Negotiating the Self and the Other in Jhumpa Lahiri’s 'The Third and Final Continent' and 'When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine'.
Sten Pultz Moslund. Representation of the Other and Speeds of Becoming in Migration Literature.
Chair: Patricia Griffin
Henriette Dahan Kalev. Constituting the Moral Subject: The Self and the Other in Gender Theories of Justice.
Ib Johansen. Female Others, Female Freaks - from P.T. Barnum’s American Museum to The Residents' Freak Show.
Olu Jenzen. The Queer Uncanny: Sexuality and Otherness.
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Keynote speaker: Luce Irigaray (video conference)
14.30-16.00 Sessions 3 and 4
Chair: Anne Kaae Jensen
Sarah O’Brien. An(other) Paddy Irish Man Joke … Representations of the Irish in Post-war.
Michael Břss. Nationalism and Inner Exile in Irish Culture and Literature.
Catherine Swift. Sex in the Civitas: Early Irish Mandarins and their Sexual Fantasies.
Chair: Eric Min Chen.
Maria Beville. In Pursuit of Alterity – the Gothic Labyrinth as ‘Other Space’. Two Gothic-postmodernist Novels.
Gökçe Özdamar. Experiencing the Urban Space as Other.
Maeve Tynan. Re-fusing Broken Records: Caribbean Creolization Revisited.
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-17.30 Keynote speaker: Ann McCulloch. Secrets and Betrayals: Art as Problem Solver.
17.30-18.30 Reading by author Tabish Khair from his award-winning novel Filming
19.30 Dinner at Café Hack/Aarhus Theatre
Saturday, August 9
09.00-09.30 Coffee and a Danish rundstykke (bread roll)
09.30-11.00 Sessions 5 and 6
Chair: Maeve Tynan
Damien Shortt. Masters and Slaves: Britain’s Cultural Selves in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin.
Steven Bond. Alterity and Transcendence: From Dedalus the Dub to Hamlet the Dane.
Chair: Olu Jenzen.
Susan Yi Sencindiver. Pregnant Doppelgängers.
Gry Faurholt. Self as Other: The Doppelganger.
Patricia Griffin. The Otherness of Childhood – Cinema’s Difficult Relationship with the Child.
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Sessions 7 and 8
7. Vision and Photographic Spectrality
Chair: Özge Ejder-Johnson.
Susana Viegas. Cinema, the Other and the Reversibility of the Eye.
Lewis Keir Johnson. Others and their Others: Spectrality and Monstrosity in the Photographs of Roger Ballen.
Carrie O’Connor. Reconstructing Eve: Specters and Identities of the Transforming Ideal.
Chair: Jon Rostgaard Boiesen
Fei Shi. The Other Abjection: The Queer/Animal Self in Contemporary Films. (live video conference)
Eric Min Chen. Insects as "the Other" of Human: a crosscultural study of Franz Kafka and Pu Songling's metamorphic stories.
Sune Borkfelt. Non-Human Otherness: Animals as Others and Devices for Othering.
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Sessions 9 and 10
Chair: Sarah O’Brien.
Joern Erslev Andersen. The Art of Tuning the Caesura.
Benjamin Jon Boysen. Being Another: Nothingness, Ambivalence, and Heterogeneity in Francesco Petrarch and William Shakespeare.
Chair: Catherine Swift.
Lasse Gammelgaard. Eschewing the Other in Quest of the Wombtomb.
Orla Slattery. Alterity and Antipathy: The Plight of Anti-Levinasian Man, in Beckett’s The Expelled and Other Novellas.
Özge Ejder-Johnson. Art as the Alterity of the Imaginary.
15.30-15.45 Coffee
15.45-16.45 Keynote speaker: Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Living in an Overheated World: Otherness as a Universal Condition.
16.45-17.45 Keynote speaker: Eugene O’Brien. Texto Ergo Sum: Technology and the Changing Human. (video conference)
17.45 Concluding discussions and Wine reception with a selection of appetizers