The May Sinclair Society have recently announced the May Sinclair Symposium to be held at Sheffield University on Friday, 18th July 2014.
To register and for further details please contact the Society via their website http://maysinclairsociety.com/
To register and for further details please contact the Society via their website http://maysinclairsociety.com/
May
Sinclair Symposium
Sheffield Hallam University
The Cantor Building
Room 9020a
Friday 18
July 2014
PROGRAMME:
9.00-9.15 Coffee and Registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introductory
Remarks
Dr Rebecca Bowler and Dr Claire Drewery
9.30-11.15 Panel 1 – Scientific and Philosophical Discourses:
Psychoanalysis and Sublimation
Sanna
Melin Schyllert
Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin
Sacrificed’: Feminism, Idealism and The Great War in May Sinclair’s The Tree of Heaven (1917)
Leslie De
Bont
Portrait of the Female Character as a
Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Sigmund Freud’s Case
Histories on May Sinclair’s Novels
Faye
Pickrem
Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety, and The
Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair
Alan Saeed
May Sinclair. William James, Henri Bergson and Stream of
Consciousness 1918-29
Break
11.30-12.45 Panel 2 – Exterior
Spaces: The Artist and the Public Sphere
Elise
Thornton
Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May
Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life
Terri Mullholland
Architecture, Environment,
and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine Fire (1904)
Emma
Liggins
‘May Sinclair and Representations of Women’s War Work’
12.45-13.45 LUNCH
13.45-15.00 Panel 3 – ‘Feminine’ Identities: Self-Sacrifice and Revelation
Audrey
Minutolo Le
Incendiary
Endings: Creative Fire in May Sinclair’s “Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched”
Wendy
Truran
“She knew only one thing about perfect happiness: it
didn’t hide:” Embodied Affect, Revelation, and the Challenge of Happiness in
May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier.
Charlotte
Beyer
Dolls and Dead Babies: May Sinclair’s Social Critique of Constructions of
Motherhood in Life and Death in Harriett
Frean
Break
15.15-16.30 Panel 4 – Artistic
Influences: Sinclair and Modernism
Ana Drobot
Travelling in the writings of May Sinclair, Virginia
Woolf, and Graham Swift
Susan Reid
Platonic critics: May Sinclair, her female
contemporaries and the “philosophy of Art”
Charlotte
Jones
Impressions of Modernity: May Sinclair, Ford Madox Ford and
Avant-Garde Ambivalence
Break
17.00-18.15 KEYNOTE – Suzanne Raitt
“What we must
remember, what we would forget”: May Sinclair, fame, and obscurity
