Conference Programme
DAY 1 5 September 2024
Mandela Room, Liverpool Guild of Students, 160 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR
9.20 registration / coffee and croissants and Welcome
10 Keynote Lecture – Professor Dawn Lyon (University of Kent, UK) 'Future-Imagining from the Pandemic Present: Rhythm and Recalibration'.
11 BREAK
11.10 Panel 1 Connections with Place and Space
Joanne Lee (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ‘The Local, the Ongoing and the Future: Journaling Sheffield in Virus Time’.
Laura Harris (University of Southampton, UK) ‘Windows: Connection, Contagion, and Culture’.
Selena Kimball (Parsons School of Design, USA) ‘Atlas of Air’.
12. 50 LUNCH (provided)
13.30 Panel 2 Care in the Post-Pandemic
Viviana Valle Gomez (University of California, USA) ‘Whores at the End of the World: Rejection of Work and the Possibilities of Care’.
Pamila Gupta (University of the Free State, South Africa) ‘ “The Good Life”: Caring for Home, Dwelling in a Post-Pandemic World’.
Yeran Kim (Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea) ‘Postpandemic Temporality: Affective Ethics of Care’.
14.50 BREAK
15.00 Panel 3 Reimaginings
Nick Clarke (University of Southampton, UK) ‘Fragments from Mass Observation’s Pandemic Diaries’.
Howard Walmsley (independent filmmaker / artist, UK) ‘I Looked Into Their Eyes And I Saw Only Pixels’.
Hossein Derakhshan (London School of Economics, UK) ‘The Peakless City’.
16.20 BREAK
16.30 Panel 4 Memory and Nostalgia
Olatz Rebeca Buesa Aguirre (University of the Basque Country), ‘Nostalgia-core: Virtual escapism during the Covid-19 pandemic’.
Shanshan Wu (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘"Escaping the Virus Zone": Vlogging the Pandemic Memory among Chinese International Students in the UK’.
18.00 drinks reception School of the Arts Library, 19-23 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7ZG
19.30 conference meal (optional)
DAY 2 6 September 2024
Mandela Room, Liverpool Guild of Students, 160 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR
9.20 coffee and croissants
10 Keynote Lecture – Professor Stef Craps (Ghent University, Belgium) ‘Intersections of COVID-19 and Climate Change in Post-Pandemic Imaginaries’.
11 BREAK
11.10 Panel 5 Seeing through the Pandemic
Simon Fleury (Birmingham School of Art and Design, UK) ‘Museum//camera: Reimagining Museum Conservation in the Pandemic Pause’.
Alberto Iozzia (Boston University, Massachusetts, USA), ‘Look at Each Other: Redefining Proxemics and Space on a Virtual Theatre Stage’.
David Bate (University of Westminster, UK) ‘Machinic Unconscious’.
12.30 LUNCH (provided)
13.10 Panel 6 Reconfigurations of Home
(shorter papers all from University of Lisbon Centre of English Studies, Portugal)
Rasha Neddar (ULICES), ‘Chronicles of Home in a Pandemic: Capturing the Narratives in COVID-19 Diaries’.
Jean Page (ULICES), ‘Locked into the Local: Entrapment or New Ways of Knowing’.
Zuzanna Zarebska (ULICES), ‘A meditation on life: Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional and the human condition’.
Margarida Pereira Martins, (ULICES), ‘Writing through the pandemic’.
Paula Horta, (ULICES), ‘Imaginations of home in Portuguese urban art before, during and after COVID-19 pandemic’.
14.50 BREAK
15.00 Panel 7 Reinventing Community
Emily Beswick, Ruth Cheung Judge and Sufea Mohamad Noor (University of Liverpool and Liverpool East and South East Asian Network, UK) ‘Thinking with East and South East Asian Organisers in Liverpool: Anti-racist Claims to the City and the Galvanisation of ESEA Activism in the Post-Pandemic Context’.
Laura Taggart (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Hidden Culture: Power, Identity and Affect in Leicester Food Practices as a Template for Post-Pandemic Imaginaries’.
16.10 Plenary