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Papers given:
- ‘Tragedy or Neutropia? The Honourable Woman’
Dr. Sue Vice, University of Sheffield - ‘British-Jewish Utopias and Dystopias from Zangwill to Jacobson’
Professor Brian Cheyette, University of Reading - “No Outlines”: From Dystopia to Heterotopia in Howard Jacobson’s J’
Dr. Ruth Gilbert, University of Winchester - ‘Messianism and British-Jewish Utopia’
Dr. Peter Lawson, Open University - ‘The Future is Orange: Utopia and Dystopia in the Films of Stanley Kubrick’
Dr. Nathan Abrams, Bangor University - ‘No Promised Land: A. C. Jacobs’ Poetry and the “Moment” of Diaspora’
Dr. Merle Bachman, Spalding University - ‘East, North and West End: The Promised Land across London in the Plays of Bernard Kops’
Mr. Jeremy Solomons, Boston University & University of Reading - Reading from her memoir “Losing Israel”
Jasmine Donohaye, Swansea University - ‘The Idea of Jewish Racial Space: Zionist Utopia in the Anglo-Jewish Imagination’
Professor Gavin Schaffer, University of Birmingham - ‘Jewtopia: Herbert Samuel, Rewriting Bacon’s New Atlantis, and Zionism’
Dr. Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway University of London - ‘Skin: a Metafictional Investigation into Jewish “Blackness” from Chamberlain’s and Pierce’s Racism to its Deconstruction in Modern British Film’
Dr. Federico Dal Bo, ICI Berlin - Paper Title: ‘Michael Moorcock’s Pyat Quartet, Twentieth-Century History, and the Failure of the Utopian’
Dr. Eric Sandberg, University of Oulu
