9-9:30 – Coffee and Registration
9:30-9:40 – A Brief Introduction from the Organizing Committee
9:40-10:40 – Plenary Paper
Panel Chair: Professor Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)
Dr Stephen J. Burn (University of Glasgow)
David Foster Wallace and the Short Things
10:40-10:55 – Coffee
10:55-12:10 – Panel One: Love, Death, and Politics
Panel Chair: Rob Mayo (University of Bristol)
Paper 1
Dr Mark West (University of Glasgow)
“Lyndon” and David Foster Wallace’s Narrative of the Sixties
Paper 2
Thomas Chadwick (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“Broad-Minded Support”: The MacArthur Foundation, Authors and Creative Short Fiction’s place Within the Literature Industry
Paper 3
Dr Clare Hayes-Brady (University College Dublin)
An Arrangement of Distance: Love, Identity and Communication in the Short Fiction of David Foster Wallace
12:10-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-14:15 Panel Two: Affect, Attention, and Empathy
Panel Chair: Dr Theo Savvas (University of Bristol)
Paper 1
Professor Pia Masiero (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari)
Reading (and Living) as Speculative Process in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Paper 2
Dennis Kinlaw (St. Andrews University)
“A God in the Small Things”: Affective Belief in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace
Paper 3
Dr Alice Bennett (Liverpool Hope University)
Workplace Affects and Attention in David Foster Wallace’s and Joshua Cohen’s Short Works
14:15-14:30 – Coffee
14:30-15:45 – Panel Three: Working with Fragments
Panel Chair: Dr Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol)
Paper 1
Sigolene Vivier (Paris-Sorbonne Université)
The Fragmented Genre of Wallace’s Short Fiction
Paper 2
Professor Matthew J. Darling (Gannon University, USA)
Fragments Shored against (Pseudo-Modern) Ruins: David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion
Paper 3
Tim Groenland (Trinity College Dublin)
“Magical Compression”: Exploring Minimalism in Wallace’s Fiction
15:45-16:00 – Coffee
16:00-17:15 – Panel Four: The Process of Accumulation
Panel Chair: Professor Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)
Paper 1
Rob Mayo (University of Bristol)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: collection, cycle, or charade?
Paper 2
Elliott Morsia (Royal Holloway University of London)
A Genetic Study of ‘The Depressed Person’: Wallace and Text as Process
Paper 3
Dr David Hering (University of Liverpool)
“Not Even Close to Complete”: Wallace and the Paralysed Gesamtkunstwerk
17:15-17:40 – Time for Something Completely Different
jt jackson (via Skype)
“If on a Winter’s Night a Wordsmith and a Game Player Walks into a Parlor …”
17:40-17:50 – Closing Remarks
Pub
19:15 – Conference Dinner
Cote Brasserie, The Mall, Clifton, Bristol
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