Plenary & Keynote Talks

Shirley Chew, “A Question of Responsibility and a Matter of Form”
J. Hillis Miller, “Irresponsibilisation; or, How to Get Irresponsible”
Eugene O’Brien, “The Ethics of Irresponsibility”

Talks & Readings on Singapore Literature and Film

Suchen Christine Lim, “Responsible Love, Irresponsible Sex, & Marriage Somewhere
In Between: A Singapore Novelist’s Perspective”
Talk on Singapore Film (TBC)

Panels:

Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature

Derek Hand, “The early 19-th Century Irish novel: realism and responsibility, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin

Devin Fromm, “In Immanent Promise: Responsibility in Oscar Wilde’s Critical Humanism,” Independent Scholar

Christopher K. Brown, “The Heroic Waster,” Zayed University

Subversion in Contemporary Irish Writing

Neil Murphy, “Those Irresponsible Irish: Knowledge & Unreality in 20th Century Irish writing,” Nanyang Technological University

Rajeev S. Patke, “Reasonable irresponsibility: On the difficulty of reading Muldoon,” National University of Singapore

Keith Hopper, “The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Flann O’Brien and the Censorship Code,” St. Cross College, Oxford

Narrating Speculation and Fiscal Responsibility in Victorian Literature & Culture

Tamara S. Wagner, “Making Money Responsible: Stock-Market Suicides and the Narrative Allure of Self-Destruction in Victorian Fiction,” Nanyang Technological University

Natalie Champ, “The Effect of Affect: Maternal Responsibility and Successful Capitalism in Daniel Deronda,”Vanderbilt University

Luca Caddia, “The Soi-Disant Hero’s Suicide,” University of Rome La Sapienza

Plotting Irresponsibility, or Irresponsibly, in Victorian Narrative

Grace Moore, “Tumbling Up Somehow Or Other: Personal And Collective Irresponsibility In Dickens’s Art And Life,” The University of Melbourne

Edward H. Cohen, “Narrative Responsibility, Narrative Time, and the Sherlock Holmes Stories,” Rollins College, Florida

William Martin, “Towards a General Theory of the Lie: Oscar Wilde on the ‘Decay of Lying,’” Charles Darwin University

Making “the Other” Responsible: Fictions of Victorian Responsibility

Matthew Brinton Tildesley, “The Artist, the Poet and the Pornographer: Aspects of Responsibility in Victorian Publishing,” University of Durham, UK

Julia Kuehn, “Sexing the Raj: Moral Irresponsibility in the Late-Victorian Anglo-Indian Novel,” The University of Hong Kong

Sue Thomas, “The Ethics of Remembering West Indian Slave Narrative: Reading the Writing Scene of The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Narrative, Related by Herself,” Latrobe University, Australia

Theorising the Irresponsible

Brendan Quigley, “The Responsible Eiron: J. Hillis Miller on Speech Acts,” Nanyang Technological University

Paulus Pimomo, “Framing Responsibility,” Central Washington University

Irving Goh, “Learning How to Live Ir-responsibly: From Friendship to Love,” Cambridge

Ethics & Irresponsibility

Suzie Gibson, “Ethics, Difficulty and Irresponsibility,” University of New England

Claudia Egerer, “The Duty of Irresponsibility: The Ethics of Non-Response,” Stockholm University

Jeremy Fernando, “Blind Ethics: Zizek, Derrida, and the Question of the Third,” Nanyang Technological University

Gender and Gendering Irresponsibility

Michael Nolan, “The Decadent Father: Irresponsible Parenting in Dekker and Middleton’s ‘The Honest Whore – Part One’,” Latrobe University Bundoora, Australia

Lee Erwin, “Calling Gender to Account: Burdekin Rereads Nietzsche,” Independent Scholar, Taipa, Macau

Chitra Sankaran, “Misogyny, Moral dilemmas and Feminist Dilemmas in Githa Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel,” National University of Singapore

Cordula Lemke, “Irresponsible Men, Irresponsible Women: Joseph Conrad’s short stories,” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Being (Ir)responsible in the Long Eighteenth Century

William Gibson, “Gato por Liebre, or Cat-for-Hare,” National Institute for Education, Singapore

Stacy Van Beek, “Irresponsible Resistance: Depicting Sexual Violence in Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond and Martha Meredith Read’s Monima,” University of California, Irvine

Terence Dawson, Mansfield Park, “Gender, Irresponsibility, and Mansfield Park,” Nanyang Technological University

Postmodernism, Popularity, and (Cultural) Capital

Stephan Laqué, “Postmodern Responsibility in Martin Amis’s Money,” University of Munich

Dr. Judith Seaboyer, Interrogating the ir/responsibilities of writing and reading through Ian McEwan’s Atonement,” University of Queensland`

Gillian Humphreys, “John le Carré’s The Naive and Sentimental Lover – A bourgeois in search of the blue flower,” Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Fragmenting Responsibility and Narratives of the (Post)modern

Gabriel E. Abad, “Responsibility vs. Irresponsibility in Aldous Huxley’s Island,” UWCSEA

Dr Preeti Bhatt, “Responsibility/Irresponsibility in Muriel Spark’s Fiction,” Sant Jayacharya Girls’ College, India

Paul Stables, “Idealism, innocence, naivety, and irresponsibility in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American,” Department of English Language and Literature Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Elish Pankiraj, “Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty: Performance as a Ritual”

“Irresponsible” Singapore

Kenneth Chan, “Maid to Serve: Horror as Social Critique in Kelvin Tong's The Maid,” Nanyang Technological University

C. J.W.-L. Wee, “The Representation of the Superfluous: Film and the Urban Environment in Singapore,” Nanyang Technological University

Lucy Davis, “Irresponsible Feeding: Gender, Race, & Cats in the Singapore City,” Nanyang Technological University

Irresponsibility in Malaysian and Singaporean Literature I

Sim Wai Chew, “Beyond Hybridity: The National Longing for Form in Singapore Literature,” Nanyang Technological University

Angelia Poon, “Mining the Archive: Historical Fiction, Responsibility and Suchen Christine Lim’s A Bit of Earth,” National Institute for Education

Philip Holden, “Between Nation and Postcolony: Singapore Literature in a New Millennium,” National University of Singapore

Irresponsibility in Malaysian and Singaporean Literature II

Ho U-Minh Mahinda, “Social Indifference and the Fantastic: A Malaysian/Singaporean Overview,” University of Malaya

Agnes Yeow Swee Kim, “Writing Nature in Southeast Asia: Environmental Responsibility and the Decline of Eden,” University of Malaya

Eddie Tay, “Nationalism and (Ir)responsibility in Abraham’s Promise and A Candle or the Sun,” The University of Hong Kong.

Insanity and Literature

Chung Chin-Yi, “De-centering the self: A study of schizophrenia in Beckett’s trilogy,” National University of Singapore

Lars Bernaerts, “Declared of Unsound Mind, Deprived of Responsibility. A Speech-Act Theoretical Approach to Insanity and Irresponsibility,” Ghent University, Belgium

Wong Ho Wing, Novia, “‘Only Laziness Can Cure You’: Laziness as Irresponsibility in Postmodernity,” The University of Hong Kong

Narrative Voice, Authorship, and Irresponsibility

Angela Frattarola, “Irresponsible Referencing: Allusion Gone Awry,” Nanyang Technological University

Matt Rippon, “Pity for the Irresponsible: Rhetorical Methods of Confession in Poe, Nabokov, and Ellis,” California State University, Fullerton

Carolyn Kraus, “Nonfiction and the Distorting I,” The University of Michigan-Dearborn

The Irresponsible Reader

J.E. Elliott, “Responsible Irresponsibility in the Institutions of Reading,” NUCB, Nagoya (Nisshin), Japan

Inderjit Singh, “The Jew in us all: Ethics in Reading,” University of York

Hitomi Nabae, “A narrative for the  メ civilized nomads モ : An Attempt for a Modern Allegory by Lafcadio Hearn/Koizumi Yakumo,” Kobe City U. of Foreign Studies

Postcolonialism – A Question of Irresponsibility?

Bede Scott, “Reading State Responsibility in the Literature of India’s Partition,” Nanyang Technological University

David Huddart, “Singularity and irresponsibility in postcolonial cultural politics,” Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sudha Shastri, “The Value Of Poetic License: Critique Of Postcolonial India In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines,” Dept of HSS, IIT Bombay, India

Postcolonial Fiction

Sathyaraj Venkatesan , “An Experimental Life”: ethics, irresponsibility and Toni Morrison’s sula,” Indian Institute of Technology, India

Dr. V. K. Pushpa, “Irresponsibility and Historical Reconciliation in Taslima Nasreen’s novel Lajja,” Azad University, Ahwaz; Kuzhestan State, IRAN

Ananya Kabir, “Terror in the Postcolony: Towards a Renewal of Responsibility,” University of Leeds

Re-Legating Responsibilities in Literature and Art

Zheng Jie, “Responsibility and Representation in Theatre Theory and Practice: from Realism to Contemporary Transcultural Theatre,” Nanyang Technological University

Sixto J. Castro, “Irresponsibility in art from a systemic point of view,” Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Josh Brown, “I Built a Writing Machine,” University of New South Wales

Qiu Yuanyuan, “The Relationship Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,” National University of Singapore

Autobiography & the Confessional

Sarah O’Mahony, “‘Memories of carefree childhood’? Ir/responsibility in autobiographies of childhood and adolescence from postcolonial ‘settler’ cultures,” Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Melanie Lee, “O, Father, Where Art Thou?: Absent Fathers, Bad Dads, and Sacred Texts,” Hopkinsville Community College, KY, USA

Ivy, Lai Chun Chun, “The Pleasure/Hate of Writing: Virginia Woolf’s Diary as the Feminist Confessional Autobiography,” Community College of City University of Hong Kong

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

Amy Matthews, “Fictionalising the Holocaust,” ‘The Irresponsible Author: Questions of Responsibility and Representation when Writing Fiction,’ University of Adelaide

Rachel Hennessy, “Writing a Racist Narrator,” University of Adelaide
Jan Harrow, “The Politics of Point of View”

Richard C. Burke, “Killing with Impunity and Immunity: The Casualness of Death in Children’s Fantasy Series,” Lynchburg College

Irresponsible Society & Sociology

Kwok Kian Woon, “Towards a Sociology of (Ir)responsibility,” Nanyang Technological University

Jonathan London, “Intellectual (Ir)responsibility: Doing Sociology in ‘Politically Challenging’ Contexts,” Nanyang Technological University

Christopher Bell, “I’m Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural ‘Responsibility’,” Nottingham Trent University