“Not same. Not different, either”: Ways of knowing and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being.
Presentation / Conference
Alder, E. (2015, September)
“Not same. Not different, either”: Ways of knowing and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. Paper presented at ASLE-UKI, Cambridge
The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics.
Presentation / Conference
Alder, E. (2013, April)
The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, University of Cardiff
Critical analyses of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) have attended closely to themes of biology, such as evolutionary degeneration, but those of physics have not been tr...
Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean.
Presentation / Conference
Alder, E. (2011, August)
Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011., University of Heidelberg, Germany
Many aspects of the ocean deep remain obscure to modern science and exploration, and in literature it has always been an area of mystery, sometimes of horror. Foucault’s chara...
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2011, August)
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011., University of Heidelberg, Germany
The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once eve...
Tracing a Writer’s Journey: exploring the links between Japan, Scotland and India through poetry.
Presentation / Conference
Fraser, B. (2011, May)
Tracing a Writer’s Journey: exploring the links between Japan, Scotland and India through poetry. Paper presented at IAFOR LibrAsia Confence, Osaka, Japan
How to avoid extinction: closed systems and the struggle for existence.
Presentation / Conference
Alder, E. (2011, January)
How to avoid extinction: closed systems and the struggle for existence. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Cambridge University
“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2010, April)
“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. Paper presented at Urban Gothic: Haunted Cities, Spectral Traces Conference, Liverpool John Moores University
The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S., & Artt, S. (2010, April)
The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. Paper presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture., University of Hertfordshire
A meeting of two minds; the relevance of Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore today.
Presentation / Conference
Fraser, B. (2010, January)
A meeting of two minds; the relevance of Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore today. Paper presented at IAFOR ACAH Conference, Osaka, Japan
The Changing context of UK obscenity: the case of Cain's Book
Presentation / Conference
McCleery, A. (2009, October)
The Changing context of UK obscenity: the case of Cain's Book. Paper presented at Reading, Rebellion and Revolution: Book History in the 1960's, Edinburgh Napier University