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Friday 3rd July (3D33)
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Saturday 4th July (3D33)
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Saturday 4th July (3D36)
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Sunday 5th July (3D33)
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9.00-10:30
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9.00-10.00
Iain Emsley, The portrayal of the wizard as father figure
Ika Willis, "Mum's a silly fusspot": the queering of family in Diana Wynne Jones
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9.00.10.00
Susan Ang, "It's getting a little stuffy and mouse-ish in here": Dogmata, Catastrophe and the Renaissance of Fantasy
Margaret Huber, Authority And Power In The Worlds Of Diana Wynne Jones
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Jean Webb, States of being in Howl's Moving Castle and The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones
Jenni Tyynelä, The Worlds of Chrestomanci and David Lewis's Worlds of Modality
Caroline Webb, "False Pretences" and the "Real Show": Identity and Performance in Conrad's Fate
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10.00-10.30 (3D33)
Martha Hixon, Power Plays: Paradigms of Power in Three Jones Novels
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10:30-11.00
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Coffee (D Block Foyer)
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Coffee (3D36)
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11.00-12:30
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Gili Bar-Hillel, Of Moving Castles and Flying Houses
Andy Sawyer, The Howl/Sophie "trilogy" and the Need for Knowledge
Junko Nishimura, Housework: Order and Chaos
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Ying Yi Fong, A Study of Literary and Interpersonal Connections in Diana Wynne Jones's Online Fandom Community Homeworld8
Jameela Lares, Discovery as Virtuous Action in the Fantasy of Diana Wynne Jones
Shana Worthen, Stew in Context
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David Rudd, Building Castles in the Air: (De)construction in Howl's Moving Castle
Judith Ridge, From Alice to Aiken in the Antipodes: An Australian childhood spent in Fantasy England
Meredith MacArdle, Magical Places: a slide show tour around some speculative sites
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12:30-1:30
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Lunch (Felixstowe Court)
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Lunch (Felixstowe Court)
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1:30--2:30 (two person sessions)
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Tina Rath, The Ghost and the Machine
Naomi Wood, The Humorous Numinous in Contemporary Fantasy: Diana Wynne Jones and Jonathan Stroud
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Helgard Fischer, A Theory of Magic: The Year of the Griffin
Debbie Gascoyne, "Why don't you be a tiger?" The performative, transformative and creative power of the word in the universes of Diana Wynne Jones
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Jessica Yates, Loose ends in The Crown of Dalemark and some fanfictional solutions
Farah Mendlesohn, Closing Remarks
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Registration and Coffee
(From 2.00-3.15pm, 3D36)
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2:30-3.00
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Coffee (D Block Foyer)
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Coffee (3D36)
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3.00-4:30
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Jenny Pausacker, The Storyteller: Counsel in Diana Wynne Jones
Kyra Jucovy, Little Sister is Watching You: Archer's Goon and 1984
Teya Rosenberg, Perceiving the Other: Genre, Focalization, and Prejudice in Power of Three.
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Rene Fleischbein, The Power of Language: Metafiction in Fire and Hemlock
Gabriela Steinke , The Game, and the story as game.
Maria Nikolajeva, Playing Games with the Reader
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Charlie Butler, Welcome to the Conference!
Deborah Kaplan, Disrupted expectations: young/old protagonists in Diana Wynne novels
Tui Head, The Girl in Adventure Fiction
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5.00-6:00
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Keynote Speech
Nicholas Tucker
"Diana Wynne Jones
- Life into Art"
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Guest of Honour: Sharyn November
(with a special message from Diana Wynne Jones)
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6:00-7:00
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Buffet Supper and Cash Bar until 23.00 (Felixstowe Court)
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Drinks reception from HarperCollins and Cash Bar until 23.00 (Felixstowe Court)
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7:00-8.30
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Archer's Goon (Episodes1-3 3D33)
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Banquet (Felixstowe Court)
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8.30
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Archer's Goon (Episodes 4-6 3D33)
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