Schedule
Rooms G04 and G07, John Foster Building, Mount Pleasant.
Registration and Tea and Coffee (G04)
9:00am - 9:20am
Opening Remarks (G04)
9:20am-9:30am
Panel A: Geographies of Resistance (G07)
9:30am - 10:30am
'The Historical Geographies of Dissent: Space, Place and Protest'
Dr. Hannah Awcock, The University of Hull
'Contemporary Science Fiction and the Global Movement for the Rights of Nature'
Victoria Crozier, Liverpool John Moores University
Coffee and Comfort Break
10:30am - 10:45am
Panel B: Activism in Action (G07)
10:45am - 11:45am
'Recognition, Representation, Redistribution and Resistance: An Analysis of Disabled Rights Activism and Advocacy in the UK'
Helen Dring, Lancaster University
'Art and Abortion Activism in a Post-Conflict Space: Disrupting Convention Narratives'
Dr. Sarah Jankowitz and Dr. Claire Pierson, University of Liverpool
Keynote Speaker (G07)
11:45am - 12:45pm
'No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984'
Professor Matthew Worley, Reading University
Lunch (G04)
12:45pm - 1:30pm
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Workshop (G07)
1:30pm - 2:30pm
‘Encounters with Disruption’
Feminist/Queer Discussion Group, National University of Ireland Galway Collective
Comfort Break
2:30pm - 2:35pm
Panel C: Writing the Protest (G07)
2:35pm - 3:35pm
‘The Terrible Havock’: Methodist Women Preachers in Print'
Grainne O'Hare, Newcastle University
'Elizabeth Gaskell and the Nineteenth Century Protest Novel'
Jessica White, University of Liverpool
Coffee Break
3:35pm - 3:50pm
Panel D: Menstruation Matters (G07)
3:50pm - 4:50pm
'Performing Periods: Challenging Menstrual Normativity through Art Practice'
Bee Hughes, Liverpool John Moores University
'Stiff Lower Lips: Challenging and Changing British Attitudes to Menstruation'
Chella Quint, Independent Scholar
Panel E: Local Protest: Unrest in the North West (G07)
4:50pm - 5:50pm
‘Protests of the Self: Gender Passing Individuals’
Billie-Gina Thomason, Liverpool John Moores University
'Songs of Work in Manchester and Bangladesh'
Jennifer Reid, Independent Scholar
Closing Remarks and Wine Reception (G09)
5:50pm - 6:30pm
Conference Dinner, Pen Factory, RSVP only.
7:30pm