English Graduate Conference 2012

A selection of recordings from the English Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, 1 June 2012. The conference theme was Return to the Political: Literary Aesthetics and the Influence of Political Thought and featured student presentations and a panel discussion on the topic 'What is a Classic?'. The conference concluded with a keynote address from Booker prize winning author Ben Okri.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Book as Object; Panel Discussion for Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013	Panel discussion talk on 'Book as Object' for the Oxford English Graduate Conference 2013.	Paul Nash, Nick Cross, Stephen Walter	17 June, 2013
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'.	Helena Kennedy	19 July, 2012
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2	Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'.	Judith Luna	19 July, 2012
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1	Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.	Ankhi Mukherjee	19 July, 2012
Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing	Cecilia Bennett considers the use of the English language in black Atlantic narratives.	Cecilia Bennett	18 July, 2012
Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White	Erin Nyborg draws parallels between Michael Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.	Erin Nyborg	18 July, 2012
Olive Schreiner	Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her work, The Story of the African Farm, engages with the critical question of European hegemony in literary understanding and expectations of literary works.	Dominic Davies	17 July, 2012
'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes	In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics.	Sophie Duncan	17 July, 2012

English Graduate Conference 2012

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