Conference Schedule
*please note that this schedule may be subject to minor changes*
Thursday, July 14th
18:30: Optional Trip (free)
Meet at reception for walk to Pallant House to see the Peake exhibition. Followed by informal drinks in The Ship |
Friday, July 15th
Otter Gallery open: All Day
Bookshop: 10am – 5pm
9:00 – 10:30 – Registration
Venue: Cloisters quad. Tea and Coffee in E124 |
10:30 – 11:30 – Keynote Lecture
Peter Winnington, “Peake and Alice (and Arrietty)” |
Chair: Bill Gray Venue: Mitre Theatre |
11:30-12:00 – Tea & Coffee
E124 |
12:00-13:30 – Parallel Session A
Panel One: The Fantastic and the Gothic Chair: Robert Duggan Venue: E310 | Panel Two: Madness and Otherness Chair: Mark Mason Venue: E312 |
Charlie White: “‘O little revolution in great shades!’ Peake and the Gothic” | Sophie Aymes-Stokes: “I’m on a piece of floating ice the size of Kent”: eccentricity in Mervyn Peake’s Work” |
Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam and Arbaayah ali Termizi: “The Grotesque in ‘Danse Macabre’” (read by Emma Tristram) | Matthew Sangster: “Peake and Vulnerability” |
Pierre François: “Success and failure of the mythopoeic element in the Titus books” | Jeremy Sampson: “Towards a Hermeneutics of Otherness: A comparative study of “The Hall of Bright Carvings” in Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” |
13:30-15:00 – Lunch
Otters |
15:00- 16:00 – Keynote Lecture
Colin Manlove, ‘The Artists in Titus Groan’ |
Chair: Bill Gray Venue: Mitre Theatre |
16:00-17:00 – Parallel Session B
Panel One: Genre Chair: Stavroula Varella Venue: E310 | Panel Two: Drawings and Illustrations Chair: Elizabeth Rainey Venue: E312 |
Larisa Prokhorova: “Algorithm of Disenchantment: Anti-Tale” | Francesca Bell: “The Fleeting Line” |
Joseph Rex Young: “But Are They Fantasy?: Peake’s Titus Novels and Modern Fantasy Theory” | Zoë Wilcox: “The Imagination at Work: A Study of the Drawings in the Gormenghast Manuscripts |
17:00- 18:30 – Tours of the Otter Gallery
Otter Gallery - LRC |
18:30 – Dinner
Otters |
20:00-21:00 – Keynote Lecture
Joanne Harris, ‘The Inspirational Mervyn Peake’ |
Chair: Sebastian Peake Venue: Mitre Theatre |
Saturday, July 16th
Otter Gallery Open: 10am -2pm
Bookshop: 10 pm – 2.30pm
9:00 – 10:00 – Registration for Day Delegates
Venue: Cloisters quad |
10:00-11:30 Parallel Session C
Panel One: Landscape/Space Chair: Peter Winnington Venue: E310 | Panel Two: Poetry Chair: Miles Leeson Venue: E312 |
Simon Eckstein: “There’s No Place like Home” | Robert Maslen: “Peake and Nonsense Poetry” |
Edward Carey: “Architecture and Space” | Sara Wasson: “Sentient Ruins and the Ventriloquised Dead: Mervyn Peake’s Wartime Poetry” |
Irene Martyniuk: “(In)visible Black Holes: The Aporias of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Trilogy” | - |
11:30-12:00 Tea & Coffee
E124 |
12:00-13:00 – Keynote Lecture
Farah Mendlesohn, ‘Peake and the Fuzzy Set of Fantasy: What if Brian Attebery had taken Gormenghast as the centre of his fuzzy set instead of Lord of the Rings?’ |
Chair: Mark Mason Venue: Mitre Theatre |
13:00-14:30 – Lunch
Otters |
14:30 -15:30 – Keynote Lecture
Sebastian Peake |
Chair: TBC Venue: Mitre Theatre |
15:30-16:00 - Tea & Coffee
E124 |
16:00-17:30 – Parallel Session D
Panel One: Peake and the Canon Chair: Colin Manlove Venue: E310 | Panel Two: Performing Peake Chair: Brian Sibley Venue: E312 |
Mark Andresen: “A Painter’s Ecstasy” | Kim Pearce, “Adapting Boy in Darkness” |
Gaby Steinke, “Pirates and Explorers: Mervyn Peake in and beyond the ‘Boys’ Own’ Tradition” | Aaron Paterson, Blue Elephant Theatre: “Performing Peake” |
John Vernon Lord, “A Tutorial with Mervyn Peake” |
17:30-18:30- Keynote Lecture
Katherine Langrish, 'Exchanging Certainty for Uncertainty: Mervyn Peake Explores the Realms of Children's Fiction'. |
Chair: Visiting Professor, Jacqueline Simpson Venue: Mitre Theatre |
18:30- Dinner
Otters |
20:00 – Performance
Boy In Darkness written by Tim Franklin, directed by Kim Pearce |
Venue: Dance Studio One |
Sunday, July 17th
Otter Gallery Open: 10am-2pm
Bookshop: 10am – 2pm
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote Lecture
Brian Sibley, ‘Titus Aloud’ |
Chair : Jane Carroll Venue: Cloisters |
12:00- 13:00 Performance
Stuart Olesker: “Adhesive Smiles: Nonsense and a Taste for Language in Peake’s Poetry. A Reading of a Range of Peake’s Nonsense and Serious Poetry” |
Venue: Dance Studio One |
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Otters |
14:00 – 15:00 Performance:
Jaw Rattle Productions: “Mervyn Peake: As I See It” |
Venue: Dance Studio One |
15:00 – 16:00 Performance
Prudence Chamberlain, Blackshaw Theatre: “Adapting Titus Groan: Creating the ‘Sublime Character’ Through Collaborative Writing” followed by rehearsed readings of new material |
Venue: Dance Studio One |