An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium in the Arts and Humanities
Supported by Pembroke College and the Faculty of English

Pembroke College, Saturday 24th September 2011

For more information, or to register (£5), please contact Katarina Stenke (ks446@cam.ac.uk)

Draft Program:

8.45am-9.15am: Registration.

9.15am-9.30am: Welcome.

9.30am-10.40am: Panel One – The Fragments of History.
Mario Wimmer (ETH Zürich, Swiss Institute of Technology), ‘Archival Bodies and philological factish’
Mark Williams (Faculty of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic), ‘Austin Clarke and the de-fragmentation of Irish myth’

10.40am-11.00am: Coffee Break.

11.00am-12.10pm: Panel Two – Fragmentation and Authorship.
Joanna Bellis (Faculty of English), ‘Fragmentation or assimilation? The case of a fifteenth-century war poem’
Ian Goh (Faculty of Classics), ‘Lucilian Satire: Already Fragmentary in the Roman Republic’

12.20pm-1.30pm: Panel Three – Fragments and Knowledge.
Cassie Gorman (Faculty of English), ‘Not quite ‘ALL THINGS’: Thomas Traherne and the Commentaries of Heaven (c. 1670-74)’
Sarah Weaver (Faculty of English), ‘Fragments as Raw Material: Julius Charles Hare and Guesses at Truth’

1.30pm-2.30pm: Lunch.

2.30pm-4.10pm: Panel Four – Micro-Fact and Micro-Fiction.
Lucy Bell (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), ‘Collecting Fragments: Augusto Monterroso’s Anthology of Flies and the Aesthetics of Micro-Fiction’
Rebecca Varley-Winter (Faculty of English), ‘Frightening fragments: Félix Fénélon’s ‘novels in three lines’ and photographic captions’
David Jiménez Torres (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), ‘Part or Whole? The Journalistic Article as Fragment’

4.10pm-4.30pm: Coffee Break.

4.30pm-6.00pm: Fragments across the Disciplines: Round-table Discussion
Chaired by Charlotte Roberts, Harriet Phillips and Katarina Stenke

6.00pm: Wine Reception.