Festival Welcome (12:00-12:30)

Festival opened by SWW DTP Director Tamar Hodos and Overview of Sessions

13:30 – 15:00 = Session 1: New Methods, New Approaches 

Three conference paper presentations followed by Q&A –

• Asteropi Chatzinikola–Iliopoulos, Cardiff

University‘Child Participation and Climate Change Litigation: Methodological Approaches in a Legally Disruptive Territory’

• Haya Sheffer, University of Reading

‘Humanity Measures Itself: Self-Measuring and a New “Post-Measuring” Discourse’

• Vikram Ramakrishnan, Queen’s University Belfast

‘A Literature Review: Industrial Symbiosis Modelling Approaches in the Last Decade’

• Pyro Suarez, University of Bristol

‘Ontological Disputes: Between Language and Reality’

• Harriet Smith Hughes, University of Oxford

‘The Unchanging Essay: Anthologisation as Stasis’

15:30 – 16:30 = Panel 1 – ‘Changes in Methods and Research Practices’

Robert Symmons, Rada Varga, Paula Granados Garcia and Stella Wisdom

16:30 – 17:30 = Session 2 – ‘Labour, Resistance, Capital and Control’

• Iona Ramsay, University of Exeter

‘Preaching Resistance: Anti-Communist Sermons, Spiritual Dissidence and the Transnational Radical Right’

• Tyler Rainford, University of Bristol

‘Petitioning Publicans: Alcohol Licensing and Occupational Adaptation in Eighteenth-Century London’

• Simon Knight, University of Bristol

‘Idealising the Labour of Shoemakers and Clothiers in Thomas Deloney’s Prose Works’

09:45 – 11:00 = Session 3 – ‘Performance and Perception’

• Neha Shaji, University of Bristol

‘“I am destroyed”: Ageing, Dying and the Cinematic Courtesan in Pakeezah and Kalank’

• Leslie Wong, KCL

‘Rethinking Asian Cross-cultural Adaptation Beyond the East-West Binary’

• Marko Higgins, University of Bristol

‘The Evolution of Dubstep: Convergence and Musico-cultural Change’

• Anita Sikora, University of Bath

‘Blood and Milk: Breastfeeding in Opera around 1700’

• Kangyu Wang, LSE

‘The Freedom of Odysseus’

11:30 – 12:30 = Panel 2 – ‘Changing Cultural Identities throughout Time and Space’

Tamar Hodos, William Allen, Samuel Agbamu and Negar Elodie Behzadi

12:30 – 13:00 = Poster Exhibition and Lab Tours at Digital Humanities, and Sarah Scaife’s Workshop for Practice Based Researchers ‘Ticks & Wishes’

14:00 – 15:30 = Session 4 – ‘Traversing Change’

• Health Humanities Research Cluster – ‘Navigating Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic’
• Question Journal – ‘Introducing Issue 7 and the New Editing Team’
• Joanna Nissel, Lawrence Rees and Josip Martincic – ‘Changing the Dominant Narrative: A Multidisciplinary Conversation’

16:00 – 17:30 = Session 5 – Creative Performances

• Joanne Rush and Anna Dempsey – ‘An Interview with Two Novelists’
• Pete Yelding, Bath Spa University – ‘Presenting the Musical Knowledge of the Lucknow Shahjahanpur Gharana through Translations on Sitar and Cello’
• Claire Carroll, Bath Spa University – ‘The Sun is Only a Shipwreck Insofar as a Woman’s Body Resembles It’
• Open mic slot

10:00 = Meet outside Holland Hall (check-out for those in accommodation)

11:00 = Tours Start

• Exeter Cathedral
  • Roof tours
  • 24 people (2 groups)
  • https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/

• Devon and Exeter Institution
  • Library tours and cream teas
  • 15 people (1 group)
  • https://devonandexeterinstitution.org/

• Underground Passages
  • Medieval passages tours
  • 15 people (1 group)
  • https://exeter.gov.uk/passages/

• Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM)
  • Free roam of the museum (excludes ticketed exhibits)
  • No max.
  • https://rammuseum.org.uk/

• Exeter Quay and Custom House
  • Free roam of the quay and Custom House visitor centre
  • No max.
  • https://exeter.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/our-attractions/custom-house-visitor-centre/

13:00 = Group Lunch (location TBC)

After lunch, the Festival will be formally over, but please do feel free to continue to explore the city and campus as you wish!