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Conference: London Stutters

15 Jan 2010, 13:30-18:30, The Anatomy Theatre & Museum, Strand Campus

Event series: Shows of London
School / area: Arts & Humanities
Department: English
Location: Strand Campus
Location map: Strand: location

The Shows of London 19th Century Reading Group
presents

London Stutters

Friday January 15 13.30- 18.30

The Anatomy Museum,

King’s College London

Schedule

Panel 1 (13.30 – 14.30)

Sara Thornton (Paris-Diderot): Flow, Disfluency and the Politics of Interruption in the Nineteenth Century.

Louise Lee (King's College London): Wounded Eloquence: Chartists, Charles Kingsley and the Moment of Kennington Common, 1848.

Panel 2 (14.30 – 15.45)

Laura Marcus (Oxford): City Symphonies and Urban Rhythms.

Tom Fogg (King's College London): Anthropomorphic Toys, or Towards the Inhuman?: The Emergence of Stuttering in Electronic Dance Music.

Break for tea and coffee 15.45 – 16.15

Panel 3 (16.15 – 17.30)

A multi-media presentation by the curators of the Tate Modern’s summer sensation

Stutter.

Vanessa Desclaux (Tate Modern): A Stuttering Exhibition.

Nicholas Cullinan (Tate Modern): A Stuttered History.

Respondent: Alan Read (King's College London)

PLENARY (17.30 – 18.30)

Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck): Metrical Stutter in a Tennyson Poem: ‘Break, Break, Break.’

PLEASE NOTE: Entrance is free and there is no registration. Please email organisers so we can arrange seating and afternoon refreshments for you.

We regret we are not serving lunch but there is a wine reception at 18.30 in the Anatomy Museum.

Contact

Professor Clare Pettitt | Dr Louise Lee | Tammy Ho
clare.pettitt@kcl.ac.uk | louise.lee@kcl.ac.uk | lai_ming.ho@kcl.ac.uk

Contact name: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Email: lai_ming.ho@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: 07748529123

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