Schedule

Procrastination: Cultural Explorations
Wolfson College, Oxford
2 July 2014 

 

 

office-calendarThe schedule for 2 July has been confirmed as follows:

8:30-9am
Registration

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9-10am
Keynote 1
Professor Avner Offer (Oxford)
‘When to Stop?’

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10-11.30am
Panel 1: Procrastination and Creativity
Dr Will May (Southampton)
‘Porlock’s Whim: Poetry as procrastination’

Alex Belsey (King’s College, London)
‘Angst, Apathy, and Indulgence in the Studio of Keith Vaughan’

Oliver Neto (Bristol)
‘“Preparatory to Anything Else”…: Joyce, boredom and creative procrastination’

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11.30am-12 noon
Coffee

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12-1pm
Panel 2: Procrastination and Resistance

Dr Mrinalini Greedharry (Laurentian, Ontario)
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Figuring procrastination as tactic’

Anna Della Subin (Independent)
‘Against Procrastination: Albert Cossery and the politics of laziness’

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1pm-2pm

Lunch

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2pm-3:30pm
Parallel Sessions
Panel 3: Procrastination and Time
Johannes Schlegel (Potsdam)
‘Procrastination as Deceleration in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Lilith Dornhuber de Bellesiles (UC Berkeley)
‘The Queer Art of Procrastination’

Rebecca Birrell (Oxford)
‘“Coming Soon”: Rachael Allen, Sam Riviere and a poetics of procrastination’

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Panel 4: Procrastination and Place
Kamel Boudjemil (Sorbonne, Paris)
‘From Procrastination to Revolution: Guy Debord, the Situationists, and the last radical avant-garde’

Pelle Valentin Olsen (Oxford)
‘Idle Days in Baghdad: The emergence of bourgeois time and the coffee shop as a site of procrastination’

Susanne Bayerlipp (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)
‘Procrastinating Abroad: Exchanges of letters and moral discourse on academic travel in the age of Erasmus and after

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3:30pm-4pm
Coffee

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4pm-5pm
Panel 5: Reflections on Self-Help
Dr Barbara Leckie (Carleton, Ontario)
‘Victorian Procrastination: Or, Middlemarch as a primer on procrastination in ten easy lessons’

Dr Susan Machum (St Thomas, New Brunswick)
‘Overcoming Procrastination: An examination of “how-to” advice embedded in work productivity literature’

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5.15pm-6.15pm (The Haldane Room)

Keynote 2
Dr Tracey Potts (Nottingham)
‘Undoing the Maths: Notes toward a genealogy of procrastination’

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6.15pm
Drinks, Cunctator Prize Presentation & Mañanarama Exhibition

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7.15pm
Dinner

 

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