Programme
Blake, Gender and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century
15-16 July 2010, The Christopher Room, St Aldate's Church, Oxford, UK
Thursday
15 July
9:00am - 9:25am Registration and Welcome; Vere Street commemorative moment by Christopher Z. Hobson
9:30am - 11:00am Session 1
Christopher
Room, Kevin Hutchings
chairing
Angus Whitehead,
'The loving [is formed] to associate': The Sexual Life of Catherine B.
Magnus Ankarsjö,
Sowing Sand all over: Abstinence and Free Love, or William Lost in Paradise
Mark Crosby (unfortunately not in
attendance; paper to be read by Angus Whitehead),
Catherine Sophia Blake: 'An Excellent Helpmeet'
Meeting
Room, David Fallon chairing
Minne Tanaka, Female Figures in Twelve Large
Colour Prints
Valerie Doulton,
Blake's Visions of Freedom and Repression as Staged by The Live Literature
Company
Susanne Sklar,
'The Place of the Last Judgment'
11:00am Coffee
11:30am - 1:00pm Session 2
Christopher
Room, Nick Williams
chairing
Kevin Hutchings, Sex, Sensuality, and the
Material World in Blake's Garden of Love
Elizabeth Bernath
Walker, 'In What Gardens Do Joys Grow?': Queer Botanizing in Blake's Visions, Wollstonecraft's Vindication and Darwin's Botanic Garden
Susan Matthews, 'The Earth mov'd': Cowper, Darwin, Blake and the Birth of 'Sexuality'
Meeting
Room, Steve Clark chairing
Lucy Cogan, Sex and Violence in The Book of Ahania
and The Four Zoas
Michelle Leigh Gompf,
Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake
1:00pm - 2:15pm Lunch
2:15pm - 3:45pm Session 3
Christopher
Room, Keri Davies chairing
Gerda Norvig
(presenter) and Jeffrey Robinson (co-author, unfortunately not in attendance),
Gender, Counterpoetics and the Politics of Mutual
Forgiveness in Blake's 'Pickering Manuscript'
Steve Clark, Blake's Closet Drama
Meeting
Room, Marsha Keith Schuchard chairing
Georgia Dimitrakopoulou,
Thel and Oothoon: Beauty
and Self-Destruction
David Shakespeare, 'The Sight of All These
Things': Vision and Obscurity in Blake's Milton
Sean Nelson, 'A Body Repugnant to the Lamb':
Blake's Attack on Chastity in Jerusalem
3:45pm Tea
4:15pm-5:15pm Session 4
Christopher Room, Helen Bruder
chairing
Christopher
Z. Hobson, Normalizing Perversity: Tenth-Anniversary Reflections on Blake
and Homosexuality
Friday
16 July
9:30am - 11:00am Session 5
Christopher
Room, Susan Matthews
chairing
David Worrall, Dorothy Gott
and Female Prophets in Blake
Marsha Keith Schuchard,
'A Secret Common to Our Blood': The Visionary Erotic Heritage of William Blake,
Thomas Butts, and Mary Butts
Conference Room, Sibylle Erle chairing
Peter Otto, Blake, Enoch, Swedenborg, and the Contours of Phallic Sexuality
Ayako Wada,
The Hidden Love Triangle and Adulterous Birth in Blake’s The Four Zoas
11:00am Coffee
11:30am - 1:00pm Session 6
Christopher Room, Shirley Dent chairing
Bethan Stevens, The Virgil Wood-Engravings Out of
Scale: Blake's Gigantic, Masculine Pastoral
Catherine McClenahan,
Sweet Transvestites?: Gender and Sexuality in Blake's Later Works
Tony Rosso, The
Last Strumpet: Harlotry and Hermaphrodism in Blake's Rahab
Conference Room, Elizabeth Bernath
Walker chairing
Elizabeth
Effinger, Matrixial Borderspace and The
Book of Thel: Rethinking the Feminine
Young-ok An, The Female Body and the
Drinking Cup in Blake
David
Fallon, Phyloprogenitive Blake
1:00pm - 2:15pm Lunch
2:15pm - 3:45pm Session 7
Christopher Room, Bethan Stevens
chairing
Bill
Goldman, Jerusalem the Lilly
Galina Tokareva, Mother and Child Archetype
in Blake's Poetry
Keri
Davies, William Blake and the Sexuality of Christ
Conference Room, Catherine McClenahan chairing
Paige
Morgan, The Hinges on the Doors of Marriage: Technology and Sexuality in the
work of William Blake and Stelarc
Tim
Heath, A paper entitled Tittle
Tom Mayberry, Hélyos
and Ceylèn [A Poison Tree]
3:45pm Tea
4:15pm-5:15pm Session 8
Christopher Room, Tristanne Connolly chairing
Shirley
Dent, 'Tender curb': William Blake, Sex and Censorship
Philippa Simpson, Blake and Pornography
Afterwards: Informal Dinner and Celebration!
at Al-Shami
Lebanese Restaurant, 25 Walton Crescent, Oxford
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