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Sleeping with a Vampire: Empowerment, Submission and Female.
Fifty Shades of Grey: An Enquiry into ‘Dangerous Things’
3rd-‐ 4th of April, 2013. M57/ G4, Grand Parade, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton.
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Wednesday 3rd of April, 2013. 9-‐10: Registration – Tea and Coffee served. 10-‐15: Welcome – Dr Patricia McManus 10.15-‐11.15: Keynote: Professor Deborah Phillips: Title TBC. 11.15 – 12.30 Jodi McAllister, Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography and Genre; Claire Nally, ‘Demonising Desire: BDSM Subculture and Fifty Shades of Grey’. 12.30-‐1.30: Lunch 1.30 – 3. 15 Feona Attwood and Caroline Walters, ‘Fifty Shades and the Law’; Lucy Neville, ‘ ‘Girls who Write Boys who do Boys like they’re Girls who do Girls like they’re Boys/Always should be someone you really love’: Exploring Women who Write and Read Homosexual Erotica’. 3.15-‐3.30 – Tea and Coffee 3.30-‐4.45 Round Table -‐ The ‘Resexualisation’ of Popular Culture? Contemporary Feminisms, Contemporary Sexisms. 6-‐7: Wine Reception.
Thursday 4th April, 2013. 10-‐11. 15 Agata Luksza, ‘Sleeping with a Vampire: Empowerment, Submission and Female Desire in Contemporary Vampire Fiction’; Angie Tsaros, ‘Tracing Sexual Desire and Consent: Laura Antoniou’s The Marketplace Series and E.L.James’ Fifty Shades Trilogy’. 11.15-‐11.30: tea and coffee 11.30-‐12.45 Rachael Marcus, ‘Who do you Think We Are? How Fifty Shades of Grey Informs and Upsets Popular Cultural Definitions of BDSM Subcultures’; Sara Upstone, ‘Beyond the Bedroom: Motherhood in E.L.James’ Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. 12.45 – 1.45: Lunch 1.45-‐3 Ruth Deller and Clarissa Smith, ‘Reader Responses to Fifty Shades of Grey’; Gry Knudsen and Judy Hermansen, ‘Reading for Effect’. 3 – 4.15 Charlotte Stroud, ‘Gothic Bodies and Neo-‐Sensationalism in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet’; Lauren Maffeo, ‘ ‘Submission in all Things’: Power and Post-‐Feminism in Fifty Shades of Grey’. 3.15-‐3.30 – Tea and Coffee 3.30 – 4.45 Karin Koehler, ‘What’s Tess Got To Do With it? Eroticising Hardy’s Pure Woman’; Amy Greenhough, ‘I Promise to Pay the Bearer: Woman as Commodity in E.L.James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber’.