All sessions and lunch will take place on Friday 27 September 2019 in the Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground or Forum rooms, on the ground floor of the Wilkins Building, University College London. Further access details here.
11am-1pm: CSN Workshop: ‘Comedy and Contemporary Canons’
Facilitated by Rachel Sykes (Birmingham), Diletta De Cristofaro (Birmingham), and Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier)
1pm-2pm: Sandwich Lunch
2pm-3.30pm: Flash Papers
Chaired by Kevin Brazil (University of Southampton)
Andrew Dean (UCL), Mr Bellow’s Planet
Hugh Foley (QMUL), ‘Mock on Mock on’: contemporary poetry, comedy and the canonical
Sarah Ilott (Manchester Met), Literary Humour and the Politics of Radical Empathy in an Age of Systemic Division
Adam J Smith (York St John University), The corrosion of satire: Boris Johnson and the dangerous abuse of satirical traditions
Jo Waugh (York St John), Memes and Satire on Twitter
Christopher Webb (UCL), Comedy ‘via subterfuge’ in Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
3.30-4pm: Coffee and Tea
4pm – 5:15pm: Roundtable
Lina Aboujieb (Palgrave), Editor
Mark Ford (Poet/academic), UCL
Huw Marsh (Academic), QMUL
5:15pm: Wine Reception
Canons and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies 