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Quo Vadis?’: Arts and Humanities Research in the 21St Century a Five-Day Online Conference ‘Quo Vadis?’: Arts and Humanities Research in the 21st Century A Five-Day Online Conference Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL Monday 19 July 2021-Friday 23 July 2021 This valued-added, student-led Festival, ‘Quo Vadis?’, celebrating the Arts and Humanities in the modern world focusses on three interlocking themes: (i) Current research trends in the Arts and Humanities (ii) Preparing for a career in the Arts (iii) Research Impact and dissemination It includes a job surgery, ‘Getting a Job in the Arts in 2021’, full of great tips on how to get on in the world of the arts from experts in the media, the creative and cultural industries, education, the film industry, and the fashion and music industry, and a roundtable on future trends in the Arts and Humanities that looks at new theoretical and applied approaches to the arts. You can attend three plenary presentations by experts in the arts – Professor Efraín Kristal, the world-renowned Latin Americanist and Comparativist from UCLA; Ken Loach, the UK’s top film director; the UK’s leading expert on documentary film, Professor Stella Bruzzi, and the UK’s leading expert on Jane Austen, Professor John Mullan – and participate in two interdisciplinary sessions, one on ‘Decolonizing the Curriculum’, and another on ‘Health Humanities’ in which we will discuss the documentary, My Amazing Brain: Richard’s War, by the award-winning director Fiona Lloyd- Davies. Why not attend the networking group to swap ideas about your future career, and come to the roundtable discussion with UCL lecturers on how to advance in an academic career, as well as attend panels discussing new research trends in the arts and humanities, and enjoy the research films made by UCL’s PGR/PGT students? With special invited delegations from the Universities of UCLA, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Westminster, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, this conference provides an international panorama of cutting-edge research across the globe in the Arts and Humanities. All welcome! For more information on this festival, contact Stephen M. Hart at [email protected] Quo Vadis? Programme UK Time (Breaks: 13.00-14.00; 15.30-16.00; 17.30-18.00) MONDAY 19 JULY 2021 10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-19.30 Registration/ Workshop Networking Session Plenary Lecture Networking Session Quo Vadis: Future Trends in the Arts This networking session is Professor Efraín Kristal This networking session is available for all conference (Comparative Literature, available for all conference Chair: Maurice Biriotti attendees. To participate, UCLA): attendees. To participate, email the following to email the following to Panel members: Stephen Hart at ‘Jorge Luis Borges and War’ Stephen Hart at Stella Bruzzi (Dean, A&H, [email protected] [email protected] UCL), Julia Jordan (English, Link to join Webinar UCL), Lee Grieveson (Film (i) Your name https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95678 (a) Your name Studies, UCL), James (ii) Your email 925705 (b) Your email Wilson (Philosophy, UCL), address address Nicola Miller (History, UCL) (iii) Who on the (c) Who on the & Stephen Hart (SELCS, programme programme you UCL) you would would like to talk like to talk to Link to join Webinar (iv) What you to https://ucl.zoom.us/j/96394 want to talk (d) What you want to 703072 about talk about (v) The slots you (e) The slots you have have available (5- available (5- minute slots) minute slots) during this during this networking networking session session Your email will then be Your email will then be forwarded forwarded Link to join Webinar Link to join Webinar https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98122 https://ucl.zoom.us/j/93879 283015 047718 TUESDAY 20 JULY 2021 10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-19.00 PGR/PGT Panels Job Surgery: Post-PhD Academic Bridgerton: Literature 10.00-10.55 Getting a Job in the Arts Career Post-trajectories: Versus Film in 2021 Panel Discussion with Chair: Xinyue Wang, UCL Lecturers Professor Stella Bruzzi ‘Posthumans and Feminist Fiona Cleary (Senior (Fellow of the British Dystopia in Apocalypse producer, BBC); Academy; English, UCL) and Literature’ Chaired by Dr Nick Witham Professor John Mullan (Lord Paper 1: Xinyue Wang, Graham Henderson (Associate Professor of Northcliffe Chair of Modern ‘Last Girls in Apocalyptic (Cultural Entrepreneur and United States History; English Literature; English, Fictions’ founder of Poet in the City); Institute of the Americas, UCL) discuss the Netflix Paper 2: Peiyao Lin, UCL) blockbuster, Bridgerton ‘Gender in Apocalypse Jonathan Romney (Film Literature: The Realist Critic, Sight & Sound, The Panellists Dialogue hosted by Collette Significance of Feminist Observer, Screen); Lux, Executive Director of Dystopia in Modern Society’ Dr Jacopo Gnisci (Lecturer Communications and Paper 3, Xinyi Yin, Chris Roberts (Music in the Art and Visual Marketing ‘Unthinking the Human: Journalist); Cultures of the Global Hybridity, Posthumanism South; History of Art, UCL) Bridgerton, a steaming and and Gender in Post- Megan Todd (Travel streaming television period apocalyptic Fictions’ Industry Expert and online Dr Xine Yao (Lecturer in drama created by Chris Van education specialist); American Literature in Dusen and based on Julia Link to join Webinar English to 1900; English, Quinn’s novels, was released https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9687 Cósima Ramírez Ruiz de la UCL) on Christmas Day 2020. It 8337959 Prada (Fashionista); quickly became the most- Dr Lucy Bollington (Lecturer watched series on Netflix. Set 11.00-11.55 Alex Turner in Comparative Literature in the Regency, and drawing (Educationalist); and Film; SELCS, UCL) on Jane Austen’s novels, Chair: Yingyan Zhang Bridgerton mixes history with (Comparative Literature), Michael Chanan Dr Clive Nwonka (currently fantasy in that it presents a ‘Understanding the (Documentary film maker); Fellow in Film Studies, racially integrated London Marginalised Voices in Sociology, LSE; from where people of colour are Contemporary Literature Rosalind Harvey (Literary September Lecturer in Film members of the aristocracy. and Film’ Translator); Studies, Institute of In this discussion Professors Paper 1: Yingyan Zhang, Advanced Studies, UCL) Bruzzi and Mullan will look at ‘The Modern Adaptions of Megan Milan (Publisher, the ways in which the the Fairy Tale Bluebeard: Tamesis); discourses of film and Women and the Forbidden literature overlap – and Rooms’ Adam Feinstein (Journalist This session was curated sometimes disagree! Paper 2: Yiting Kuo, and Biographer); and by Luis Rego, Joint Faculty ‘Reimagining Academia: Research Development The Representation of Robert Goodwin Manager for the Faculty of Intellectuals in (independent scholar and Arts and Humanities and Contemporary Campus trade book author) the Faculty of Social and Evie Robinson (Department Novels’ Historical Sciences, and Dr of English, and President, Pi Paper 3: Bei Ye, ‘The Helen Stark, Joint Faculty Media, UCL’s Student Media Connection Between Michel Research Impact Manager Society), chose and curated Foucault and Film’ Attend this session if you for the Faculty of Arts and the clips from Bridgerton want to pick up some tips Humanities and the Faculty selected for discussion. Link to join Webinar on how to get on in the of Social and Historical https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9412 world of the arts, followed Sciences 8438814 by Q&A Session Convened by Gerri McHugh (Founder and Link to join Webinar Director, Global Health Film) 12.00-12.55 Link to join Webinar https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9781 https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9305 2899757 Link to join Webinar Chair: Milena Rochetaux 0086262 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ (Comparative Literature), 54cfykjs ‘Reflections on otherness and the unknown’ Paper 1: Milena Rochetaux, ‘Good vs. Dark Charisma’ Paper 2: Leming Zhong, ‘Gothic and Magical Realism: A Comparative Analysis of Nights at the Circus and The House of the Spirits’ Paper 3: Yuwen Yan, ‘Reimagining the Body: Gender and Sexuality in Ursula K. le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves’ Link to join Webinar https://ucl.zoom.us/j/9671 6477228 WEDNESDAY 21 JULY 2021 10.00-13.00 14.00-15.30 16.00-17.30 18.00-20.12 PGR/PGT Panels Invited Delegation Panel Invited Delegation Panels 18.00-19.41 from University of 10.00-10.55 Cambridge 16.00-16.45 Film screening Chair: Vanessa da Silva 14.00-14.45 Invited Delegation Panel Ken Loach, Sorry We Baptista (History), ‘Models from University of Costa Missed You (2019) of the Mind, Moulds for Chair: Javier Pérez Osorio Rica and Westminster Behaviour: Using Illusion (Centre for Film and University to Teach and to Entertain Screen/Modern and 19.42-20.12 in Medieval Europe’ Medieval Languages and Chair: Lorena Cervera Ferrer Linguistics) (Documentary-track PhD, Interview and Q&A by Paper 1: Jack Ford, UCL) Stephen Hart with Ken ‘Monastic, Scholastic and Paper 1: Javier Pérez Loach (TBC) Medical Maps of the Mind: Osorio, ‘Rethinking Latin Paper 1: Lorena Cervera An Elite Psychology’ American Queer Cinema Ferrer, ‘Latin American Paper 2: Genevieve from a Decolonial Women’s Documentary: Sorry We Missed You, Caulfield, ‘Seeing and Perspective’ Politics, Practices, and directed by Ken Loach and Salvation: The Paper 2: Josué Humberto Aesthetics (1975-1994)’ released in the UK in Dissemination of Optical Brocca Tovar Kuri, Paper 2: Liz Harvey-Kattou, November 2019, tells the Theory Through ‘Negative Poetics in ‘Contested Identities in Costa story of Ricky (Kris Hitchen) Preaching’ Modern Latin America: Rica: Constructions of the Tico who, desperate because of Paper 3: Vanessa da Silva Mapping Silence, Hybridity in Literature and Film’ the debts he has accumulated Baptista, ‘The Secretum and Resistance’ Introduction: as a result of the 2008 philosophorum: The fun in https://drive.google.com/file/ financial crash, decides to fooling the eye’ Link to join Webinar d/1AjifQ3jVM0zzvOKy2z9pgZ4 take on a job as a self- https://ucl.zoom.us/j/996 xQmlq7pk-/view employed delivery driver.
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