Welcome

Inaugural English Literature Conference:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
Division of English, NTU, Singapore, 28-30 September 2006

P R O G R A M M E

Thursday, 28 September, 2006

18:00 - 19:00   Registration & Reception
19:00  

Welcome Address: Shirley Chew, “A Question of Responsibility and a Matter of Form”

Talks and Readings on Singapore Literature and Film:
Suchen Christine Lim, “Responsible Love, Irresponsible Sex, & Marriage Somewhere In Between: A Singapore Novelist’s Perspective”

 

Friday, 29 September, 2006

8:30 - 9:00   Registration
     
  Room A Room B Room C

9.00 -10.30

 Being (Ir)responsible in the Long Eighteenth Century Narrative Voice, Authorship, and Irresponsibility

“Irresponsible” Singapore

10.30 -11.00
Morning Tea

11.00 -12.30

 Narrating Speculation and Fiscal Responsibility in Victorian Literature & Culture Postmodernism, Popularity, and (Cultural) Capital Postcolonialism – A Question of Irresponsibility?

12.30
-13.30
Lunch

13.30
-15.00

Plotting Irresponsibility, or Irresponsibly, in Victorian Narrative

Subversion in Contemporary Irish Writing

Irresponsibility in Malaysian and Singaporean Literature I

15.00
-16.30

 Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature

Theorising the Irresponsible

Irresponsibility in Malaysian and Singaporean Literature II

16.30
-17.00
Afternoon Tea

17.00
-18.30

Keynote Address:
Eugene O’Brien
“The Ethics of Irresponsibility”
18.30

Culture Ireland Evening

 

Saturday, 30 September, 2006

8:30 - 9:00   Registration
     
  Room A Room B Room C

9.00
-10.30

Gender and Gendering Irresponsibility

Fragmenting Responsibility and Narratives of the (Post)modern

The Irresponsible Reader

10.30
-11.00
Morning Tea

11.00
-12.30

Making “the Other” Responsible: Fictions of Victorian Responsibility

Insanity and Literature

Re-Legating Responsibilities in Literature and Art

12.30
-13.30
Lunch

13.30
-15:00

Ethics & Irresponsibility

The Irresponsible Author: Questions of Responsibility and Representation when Writing Fiction

Postcolonial Fiction

15.00
-16.30

 

Autobiography & the Confessional

Irresponsible Sociology & Society

16.30
-17.00
Afternoon Tea

17.00
-18.30

Plenary Address:
J. Hillis Miller
“Irresponsibilisation; or, How to Get Irresponsible”
19.30

Closing Banquet