2017 McIntosh Prize Competition
The McIntosh Prize is an annual prize awarded for the best public lecture given by a fourth-year PhD student on a topic growing out of his or her thesis. Everyone is welcome to attend!
DAY 1 |
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Tuesday 9 May |
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
| 9:00 am-9:45 am | Marc Mazur | The (Im)material Christabel: Tracing Coleridge’s (Un)published History |
| 9:45 am-10:30 am | Shazia Sadaf | I Am Malala: Human Rights, and the Politics of Production, Marketing, and Reception of the Post 9/11 Memoir |
| BREAK (10:30 am-10:45 am) | ||
| 10:45 am-11:30 am | Jeremy Colangelo | The Cosmic Mind of Septimus Smith: Panpsychism and Mrs Dalloway |
| 11:30 am-12:15 pm | Naveera Ahmed | Disavowals and Diasporas: Representations of the 1971 Bangladesh War |
| LUNCH BREAK (12:15-1:00 pm) | ||
| 1:00 pm-1:45 pm | Taylor Richardson | Hangings, Coffins and Boyhood: Criminal Masculinities and the Newgate Novel |
| 1:45 pm-2:30 pm | Nahmi Lee | Dickens's Dregs: Waste-Becoming and the Afterlives of Collection |
| BREAK (2:30 pm-2:45 pm) | ||
| 2:45 pm-3:30 pm | Hanji Lee | Nostalgic Metafiction: A Case Study of Conrad's Nostromo |
| 3:30 pm-4:15 pm | Diana Samu-Visser | Beyond Necrophilosophy: Anatomy, Narrative, and the BodyWorlds Exhibition |
DAY 2 |
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Wednesday 10 May |
| 9:00 am-9:45 am | Logan Rohde | Emptiness and Ecstasy: Romantic Buddhism in Coleridge and De Quincey |
| 9:45 am-10:30 am | Jonathan Stillman | Georgic values, political economy , and the state in the eighteenth century |
| 10:30 am-11:15 am | Jason Sunder | Religious Beefs: Untouchable Life, Constitutional Secularism, and Sacred Cows in Arjun Dangle’s “The Cantonment has Begun to Shake” and Amitabh’s “The Cull” |
| BREAK (11:15 am-11:30 am) | ||
| 11:30 am-12:15 pm | Nidhi Shrivastava | Understanding Rape and Sexual Violence in Hindi Cinema 1947-2016 |
| 12:15 pm-1:00 pm | David Huebert | The Bull’s Ring: Anal-Animal Eroticism in Hemingway’s Corrida |
| LUNCH BREAK (1:00 pm-1:45 pm) | ||
| WINNER ANNOUNCED (1:45 pm) |
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