Movement / City

Movement In/And/Of The City is a postgraduate literary conference to be held at the University of Kent on June 16th 2017

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After a wonderful reading, an insightful Q&A with Donna Stonecipher closes out our day in fine style. #MovementCity17

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Hickman describes Stonecipher's poetry as 'like being somewhere for the first time'. #MovementCity17

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And now for our concluding keynote from Donna Stonecipher, introduced by @Ben_Hickman, Director of @Centre_ModPo. #MovementCity17

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Sarah Wilson asks what contemporary conditions prompted Wesker and Berkoff to re-tell the Cable St story in 1958 and 1975. #MovementCity17

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With the last paper before our keynote, Sarah Wilson on the Battle of Cable Street. #MovementCity17

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George Aird comments on how Laurie Anderson uses technology to invert the male gaze. #MovementCity17

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George Aird doing a good job of making Heidegger's 'Being and Time' accessible! #MovementCity17

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George Aird talking of extension theory in our experience of city in technological age #MovementCity17 @MovementCity17

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George Aird proposes that the modern city dweller is more aware of their orientation than at any time in history. #MovementCity17

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Moving into our last panel here at #MovementCity17 as we head towards the finale of a great day of original multidisciplinary scholarship.

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Pertinent & exciting paper by Courtenay Bayly on tower blocks & attempts by their literary inhabitants to reclaim them #MovementCity17

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Psychogeography, Orwell, Burgess, and the 'Corbusification' of working class life from Courtenay Bayly. #MovementCity17

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Looking at modernist dystopias and modernist architecture #MovementCity17

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Courtenay Bayly is now to talk on 1984 and Clockwork Orange #MovementCity17

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Conceiving working class through eco-criticisim and animal theory #MovementCity17

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Catherine Fairfield on 'animalism as a marker of the boundaries of working class behaviour when it becomes "undesirable"'. #MovementCity17

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Catherine Fairfield on movement of "More-than-Human" bodies #MovementCity17

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Apposite: in a paper partly about instant consumerism in Dubai, one of our tweets was liked by a 'best Dubai deals' account #MovementCity17

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hedonistic pursuit of the "now" from Las Vegas to Dubai #MoveentCity17

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Gleghorn notes that entrapment and immobilisation of immigrant workers in Dubai works in subtle ways as well as obvious ones #MovementCity17