9:15 - 9:30 | Opening and Welcoming Address Liana Sakelliou-Schultz, Professor, Chair of the Faculty Aspasia Velissariou, Professor, Director of the Postgraduate Programme |
9:30 - 11:15 | PANEL 1 Chair: Maro Germanou, Professor Vivie Tsikinta The Arch-Specter: Sovereignty, Logos, and Capital in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar [Abstract] Maria Chatzoglou Apparitional Monitoring and Female Ghostliness in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette [Abstract] Adrianos Khalil Specter and Testimony in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick [Abstract] George Giannakopoulos From the Crypt of the Other: Writing and Spectrality in Paul Auster’s Ghosts [Abstract] |
11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee |
11:30 - 12:30 | Chair: Efterpi Mitsi, Associate Professor, Director of the Department of Literature & Culture Κeynote Address: Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow Modernism’s Supreme Moment: Crisis and Kairos |
12:30 - 13:15 | Light Lunch |
13:15 - 14:30 | PANEL 2 Chair: Mina Karavanta, Assistant Professor Dimitris Kassis Scotland and Celticism in Elizabeth Jane Oswald’s By Fell and Fjord; Or, Scenes and Studies in Iceland [Abstract] Chryssa Marinou Henry James’s Prefaces to The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl through the Lens of Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Author as Producer’ [Abstract] Athanasios Dimakis Where Virtue Is Concerned we ... Grow by Looking’: Iris Murdoch’s Morally-Laden Philosophy and Ethical Novels [Abstract] |
14:30 - 15:45 | PANEL 3 Chair: Nic Panagopoulos, Assistant Professor Ioanna Ragoussi The Missing Body in Gertrude Stein’s Wars I Have Seen [Abstract] Angeliki Tseti ‘Smile, Boys, Smile’: War Photographs, Photo-literature and the Connective Memory of War in Beryl Bainbridge’s Master Georgie [Abstract] Evangelina Kyriakidou Spaces for Learning in the Contemporary American Adolescent Novel: The Boarding School [Abstract] |