The following programme is provisional:
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Thursday 2nd April |
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| at King’s | |
| From 09:30 | Registration. Exhibition open for viewing. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea/coffee |
| 11:00-11:15 | Opening of conference |
| 11:15-13:00 | Plenary panel 1: Global Forster
David Trotter: ‘Becoming Global: Space and Place in Forster’s Early Fiction’ Stefania Michelucci: ‘Forster’s Italian Places: An Anthropological Perspective’ Santanu Das: ‘Let Egypt in India Melt: Forster’s Translocal Libido’ |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (provided) |
| 14:00-15:15 | Plenary Lecture 1: Prof. Paul B. Armstrong |
| 15:15-16:45 | Exhibition viewing, tea/coffee |
| 17:15 | Optional film screening of Maurice at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse. Introductory talk by Dr Jenny Bavidge, followed by screening at 17:30. |
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Friday 3rd April |
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| At the English Faculty | |
| 09:30-11:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tea/coffee |
| 11:30-13:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (provided) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break |
| 15:15-16:15 | Parallel sessions |
| At King’s | |
| 18:00-19:15 | Plenary Lecture 2: Prof. Leela Gandhi |
| 19:15 | Drinks reception (provided) |
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Saturday 4th April |
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| At the English Faculty | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Parallel sessions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea/coffee |
| 11:00-12:30 | Parallel sessions |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch (provided) |
| 13:30-14:30 | Parallel sessions |
| 14:30-14:45 | Short break |
| 14:45-16:30 | Plenary panel 2: Forster as Critic and Public Intellectual
Laura Marcus: ‘Forster and the Character of “Character”’ Rachel Potter: ‘The “Inner Mumble”: Forster, International PEN, and Free Expression’ Stefan Collini: ‘The Higher Feebleness: Forster as a Public Intellectual’ |
| 16:30-16:45 | Closing remarks; end of conference |
