A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge

Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative  Fiction of Frances Hardinge.

A one day symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge. We have talks, interviews, and workshops.

Guest: Frances Hardinge

Keynote Speaker; Ali Baker Brooks, University of East London

Organised by Farah Mendlesohn (Anglia Ruskin) and Virginia Preston (Kings College)

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Full programme:

10am (coffee/tea served just before)

Ali Baker Brooks’ Keynote

10:45

Virginia Preston: Changing the world – individual and collective action in Frances Hardinge’s work

11:15

Alice Penfold: The Quest to Express: Mixed and Multiple Metaphors in A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge

11:45

Farah Mendlesohn: Metaphors We Live By and the political subversions of Frances Hardinge.

12:15

Lunch Workshop: Grab your Lunch and Gather Round: Philippa R. Francis: (workshop): Fragments of Idea'

13:15

Frances Hardinge and Rhiannon Lassiter: On Beta Reading

14:00

Shana Worthen: "Hayfever" and other culinary hazards in the works of Frances Hardinge

14:30

Lisa Bennett and Sean Williams: Just Grrrls: Rage and power in the works of Frances Hardinge and Tamora Pierce (Virtual)

15:00

Will Tattersdill: "Disrupting Victorian Pigeon Holes: The Dinosaurs of The Lie Tree

15:30

Audrey Taylor: "The Monstrous Other is Us: Childhood and Perspective in Cuckoo Song and A Face Like Glass (Virtual)

16:00

Gili Bar-Hilel: Faith and Not-Faith: Dwindling Deities in the works of Frances Hardinge

16:30

Frances Hardinge and Jacqui Collier: Joan Aiken

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