The Annual Cyprus Society for the Study of English Symposium.
Hosted by the Department of Languages and Literature, University of Nicosia.
CySSE one day symposium presenting the latest research on Anglophone literatures and related cultural studies. Presenters include faculty and postgraduate students from the three main Cyprus universities. The day brings together a diverse and vibrant range of topics and provides a snap-shot of the current research being conducted in Cyprus on Anglophone literature.
All undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
The event will take place on Thursday, 29 January, from 9:00 to 16:00 at Plato Amphitheatre, Europa Building, University of Nicosia.
Programme:
9:00-11:00 Panel I
Petra Tournay-Theodotou. (European University Cyprus.) “Love Letter to My Ancestors”: representing traumatic memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter
Olga Michael (UCLAN) The Butlerian Gender Trouble in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Case of Denaturalized Gender and Sexuality Performances in Contemporary Women’s Verbal/Visual Life Narratives.
Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia) Fast Speaking Woman: Anne Waldman and Feminism
Rossie Artemis (University of Nicosia) Wallace Stevens’ “Sea Surface Full of Clouds” in the context of Barthes’ Criticism.
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Panel II
Nikoletta Papadopoulou. (University of Cyprus) Modern Forms of Captivity: The Figure of the Migrant as Homo Sacer in a 21st Century “State of Exception”
Karolina Lambrou (University of Cyprus). The Figure of the Homo Sacer in Performance Art: The Work of Regina Jose Galindo
Myria Ioannou (University of Cyprus) Søren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or; irony, subjectivity and artistry.
James Mackay. (European University Cyprus) Museum Masturbation: Reading the Climax in Gerald Vizenor’s “Shrouds of White Earth”
LUNCH: THE GALLERY RESTAURANT
14:15-16:15 Panel III
Marilena Stylianou (University of Cyprus) Mad Studies and Literature: Some Intersections.
Marilena Zackheos (University of Nicosia) The Islands of the Anglophone World.
Charalambos Sofroniou (European University Cyprus) Digital Culture, Postmodern Writers and Grand Narratives.
Charis Xinaris (European University Cyprus) The Individual in an ICT World
For any enquiries contact Professor Stewart at [email protected].
