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8:00–9:15. Spaces of Transgression
- Animesh Bag, K. K. Das College, Kolkata. “Of Torture and Jokes: Visiting the Prison Landscape in Stephen King’s Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.”
- Unmisha Misra, Jadavpur University. “Amruta Patil’s Kari: Queer Failure in the Indian Metropolis.”
- Dipanwita Paul, Jadavpur University. “The Ballroom of Pose as a Space of Carnival and the Carnivalesque.”
9:30–10:45. Spaces In and Beyond Victorian Literature
- Sreya Chatterjee, Jadavpur University. “Prerogative to Let-her Write: Temporal and Linguistic Space in Fanny Burney’s Evelina.”
- Tirna Chandra, Jadavpur University. “Reading Women in Joyce’s Ulysses: An-Other Spatial Experience.”
- Nada Zeyada, Alexandria University. “The Dialectics of Space and Oppression: Identity and the City in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley.”
11:00–12:15. Narrative Spaces and the Global South
- Qurat ul Ain Khalil, Kinnaird College for Women. “The Emergence of Intersectional Identity in the Light of Bhabha’s Ambivalent Creative Zone in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
- Hibra Imran, Kinnaird College for Women. “Writers as Cartographers: Exploring the Redefinition of Territorial Borders in Hamid’s Exit West.”
- Nada Soliman, Cairo University. “Narrating Urban Poverty: The Interplay Between Space and Culture in Slum Narratives of the Global South.”
- Ritam Sarkar and Somdatta Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. “Spatial Hermeneutics in Sequence: Reading Sarnath Banerjee’s Fiction.”
12:30–1:45. Spaces of a World System
- Marwa Hassan Al Khawas, Ain Shams University. “Theorizing Disappearance in Narrative Ecologies.”
- Marinică Tiberiu Șchiopu, University of Craiova, Romania. “Istanbul Seen by Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak: A Geo-Ecocritical Analysis.”
- Selin Şencan, Izmir Democracy University. “Spatiality Matters: Reconnecting Geophilosophy and Climate Change Fiction.”
- Farideh Shahriari, Rutherford School (Toronto), and Aidin Torkameh, York University. “The Production of Gendered/Racial/Class Space: Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema in 1970s Iran.”
2:00–3:15. Plenary Address II (Robert T. Tally Jr., presiding)
- Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia. “The Early Modern Spanish Pacific and the Phenomenology of Distance.”
3:30–4:45. Speculative and Virtual Spaces
- Graham Fraser, Mount Saint Vincent University. “Into the Spandrelscape: Wilderness, Waste, and the Cast-Offs of Capital in J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island.”
- Ismael Abder-rahman Gil, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. “Picturing Palestinian Cities from Jordan: On Contesting Sykes-Picot Borders through Photography.”
- Jason Hannan, University of Winnipeg. “‘We Are the Storm’: QAnon and the Conspiratorial Logic of Digital Capitalism.”
5:00–6:15. Spaces and Multi-Media
- John Cheek, Lenoir-Rhyne University. “Musics and Spaces: Enriching the Listening Experience Through an Awareness of Space.”
- Veronica Crane-Lindsey, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville. “Potholes of Human Disregard.”
- Narya Ingram, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville. “Cutting Through the Storm: On Excess and Ordinariness in the Space of a Pandemic.”