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 The Terminal Tapes Voices From The Shanghai To Shepperton International Conference on JG Ballard University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th May 2007  Our host, Jeannette Baxter. Thanks so much! Saturday 5th May  Opening Plenary Session "The Violence of J.G. Ballard's Postmillenial Fiction: the Possibilities of Sacrifice, the Certainties of Trauma" Professor Philip Tew (Brunel) PAPERS PRESENTED: Ballard and Deleuze Simon Stevenson Crystals of the Unconscious: J.G. Ballard’s Psychophysical Landscapes Eunju Hwang Disastrous Landscapes and Self-Quest in J.G. Ballard’s Natural Transformation Quartet Corin Depper Death at Work: The Cinematic Imagination of J.G. Ballard The Art of J.G. Ballard David James Ballard’s Artistry of Agitation Dan O’Hara Reading Posture and Gesture in Ballard’s Novels Valentina Polcini Ballardian Intertexts: From Fiction to Metafiction    Roundtable Discussion: Professor Phil Tew, Toby Litt, Dr Roger Luckhurst Ballard’s Short Stories Mitchell R. Lewis At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies: Introducing J.G. Ballard’s Short Stories in the C21st Paul March-Russell Exploding the Open Book: Vermillion Sands and The Atrocity Exhibition Fabienne Collignon Of Launching grounds and Lunacies Ballard and the Visual Arts Joanne Murray J.G. Ballard and Early Independent Group Manifestations: Growth and Form (1951) and Parallel of Life and Art (1953) Sam Francis Visual Art and the Fiction of J.G. Ballard Rina Arya Reading Ballard’s Crash and Hans Bellmer’s Dolls The Body and the Wound Jennifer Cooke Ballard and Wound Culture Emma Whiting ‘Abject Literature’: Disaffection and abjection in The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash Ricarda Vidal The Birth of the Animal-Machine: Reading Ballard Through Bataille Historical & Cultural Violence Pippa Tandy J.G. Ballard and the Call Sign of Sputnik-1 Umberto Rossi War in Hell: Reading War in J.G. Ballard’s The Kindness of Women David Ian Paddy Empires of the mind: Autobiography and anti-imperialism in the work of J.G. Ballard  Plenary Session: Dr Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London) Sunday 6th May PAPERS PRESENTED: Imagined Communities Jake Huntley The Madness of Crowds: Ballard’s Experimental Communities Owen Hatherley Ballard’s Future Communities Simon Sellers ‘Uncentred Lives’: Micronationalism in the work of J. G. Ballard Ballard and Surrealism Jeannette Baxter Visual Geographies: Surrealist anti-colonial poetics and politics in The Crystal World Rick Poynor Visualising Ballard: Representation, Misrepresentation and the Graphic Image Hervé Lagogue The Hypnotic Landscapes of J.G. Ballard: Surrealist Influences in The Drought, The Drowned World and The Crystal World Invisible Literatures Mark Williams ‘The Underground Exhibition: A Ballardian Animadversion of Ballardianism.’ Mike Bonsall Ballard’s Experiment with Chemical Living A New Jerusalem? Kathleen O’Donnell FA Cup or Carbon Footprint?: Canvey Island 2060 Alistair Cormack The Unlimited Dream Company: Blake and Ballard    Roundtable Discussion Professor Vic Sage in conversation with David Pringle, Raymond Tait. Violence, Terrorism and Post-9/11 Politics John Carter Wood ‘Going mad is their only way of staying sane’: The Civilised Violence of J. G. Ballard Mike Doherty Dreaming of Violence: Terrorism and Self-Expression in J. G. Ballard’s Late Quartet Martyn Colebrook “His Will Be Done”: J. G. Ballard, his Millennium and post-9/11 Politics. Sex, Pornography and Eroticism Angie Chau Sex and the Suburbs Jennifer Hui Bon Hoa The Pornography of Abstraction in The Atrocity Exhibition Mark Fischer Masoch after Ballard Ballard’s London Paul Newland The Isle of Dogs: High Rise, the East End and the failure of modern architecture Sebastian Groes ‘Kicking The Dog Will Do’: Ballard’s Unhuman London SF and Technology Valentina Fenga The Inter-face and the Inter-space: ‘Human being/technology’ in The Atrocity Exhibition Francesca Guidotti The Shifting Margins of Desire: Crash as Science Fiction and Beyond Roundtable Discussion Pippa Tandy (chair), David Pringle, Simon Sellers, Rick McGrath and Mike Bonsall, followed by closing remarks from David Pringle. More Pictures, including JGB's haunts at Cambridge, his house in Shepperton, and members of the JGB Yahoo Chat Group. Back To The JG Ballard Home Page.
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Some of the Conference Speakers: David James  Dan O'Hara  Joanne Murray  Sam Francis  Rina Arya  Pippa Tandy  Umberto Rossi  David Ian Paddy  Jeannette Baxter  Rick Poynor  Sebastian Groes |
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