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Conference at BRAKC: Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and CommunityWe gratefully acknowledge the support of BRAKC and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.ArgumentIn the face of changing family relations in the west, we have moved rather suddenly from one replacement series to another: one or two centuries ago, replacement children were commonplace, as child mortality often led to families naming a baby after a dead sibling; nowadays serial monogamy means that children or adults contend with others both absent and present, whether living or dead. Replacement has effects both across and within generations and signifies both unruly passion and the attrition of passions lost, exchanged or conserved.BookingTo book your place, see https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/brakc/ProgrammeNB All rooms are in 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PDThursday 8 december9-10&#160;registration/coffee&#160;room&#160;GOR B0610-11&#160;1st parallelsGroup 1a&#160;Opener room GOR 322Martina Domines Veliki&#160;Haunting children in Wordsworth and De QuinceyNagihan Haliloğlu&#160;Replacement &#38; genealogy in Jane Eyre &#38; Wide Sargasso SeaGroup 1b&#160;Family dramas room GOR 324Michelle Sherwin&#160;The Autobiography of a Haunting: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid&#8217;s Paradox and the Absence of ReplacementKelli Weston&#160;A mother&#8217;s &#8216;choice&#8217;: maternity and death in the shadow of cultural traumaGroup 1c&#160;Cinematic dehumanisation&#160;room GOR B06Georgia Panteli&#160;Artificial intelligence and synthetic humans: loss and replacementSabrina Schneider&#160;The Dissolution of the Self and the Dehumanisation of Time in Bolor, by Augusto Abelaira11-11.15&#160;brief break11.15-12.15&#160;2nd parallelsGroup 2a&#160;Holocaust stories&#160;room GOR 322Susanne Baackmann&#160;Personal Haunting and Cryptographic Writing in Recent Postmemory Work: Hans-Ulrich Teichel&#8217;s Writing of ChildhoodShaul Bar Haim&#160;Psychoanalysis and political replacement: A micro-history of a Czech girl in the 1953 coronation eventsGroup 2b&#160;Cultural theory room GOR 324Catherine Guy-Murrell&#160;The Mater dolorosa: a figure of sorrowSandra Meiri &#38; Odeya Kohen-Raz&#160;Bodiless-Character-Films, the Replacement of &#8216;Object a&#8217;, and the Dynamic of Desire/Fantasy in Narrative FilmGroup 2c&#160;Replacement &#38; haunting&#160;room GOR B06Susan Bainbrigge&#160;Imagination and palimpsestic play in Agn&#232;s Desarthe&#8217;s Le rempla&#231;antPatrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno&#160;Gerty&#8217;s hauntology a melodrama of replacement12.15-1.45&#160;lunch (own arrangements)and late registrations&#160;B061.45-2.15&#160;Welcome&#160;GOR B042.15-4.45&#160;FILM: A Secret (Un Secret, Claude Miller, 2007) introduced by Naomi Segal&#160;room B04Friday 9 december9-9.30&#160; registration/coffee&#160;room GOR B039.30-10.30&#160;3rd&#160;parallelsGroup 3a&#160;Political practice&#160;room GOR B06Alexandra Kokoli&#160;&#8216;Dying to live&#8217;: Pre-emptive Maternal Mourning in Feminist Anti-Nuclear Art Practices and Visual CulturesAlison Ribeiro de Menezes&#160;From Silhouettes to Ghostly Traces: Replacement and Replication in Lita Stantic&#8217;s Un muro de silencioGroup 3b&#160;Mother &#38; daughter&#160;room GOR G04Jenny James&#160;Lesbian maternity &#38; de-generational desire in Patricia Highsmith&#8217;s The Price of SaltKatrin Wehling-Giorgi&#160;&#8216;I was afraid that my mother had settled in my body&#8217;: Haunting Mothers in Goliarda Sapienza&#8217;s and Elena Ferrante&#8217;s WritingsGroup 3c&#160;Law &#38; replacement&#160;room GOR B04Sarah Trotter&#160;Articulating presence &#38; managing absence: representations of replacement in European human rights lawSam Ashenden&#160;Who is the &#8216;real&#8217; mother? Replacement, displacement, or multiplication in the contemporary politics of surrogacy10.30-12&#160;Keynotes: Juliet Mitchell &#38; Naomi Tadmor&#160;room GOR B04Juliet Mitchell&#160;Baby no more: the toddler and its replacement siblingNaomi Tadmor&#160;Replacement, early modern kinship, and family life12-1&#160;lunch (provided) + printmakers: Replacement: Personal hauntings&#160;GOR B031-2&#160;4th parallelsGroup 4a&#160;Cinematic self-replacement&#160;room GOR B06James Brown&#160;&#8216;Positively the same dame!&#8217; &#8211; replacing oneself in 1940s filmsMonika Loewy&#160;Embodying her ghost: self-replacement in Petzold&#8217;s PhoenixGroup 4b&#160;Lost boysroom GOR G04Olivia Noble Gunn&#160;Lost Boys in Little EyolfAnthony Rudolf&#160;&#8216;Replacement&#8217; or ReplacementGroup 4c&#160;Musical children&#160;room GOR B04Silke Schauder Van Gogh, Camille Claudel, Michael Jackson: the dead body at workBonnie Millar Resonances of Loss and Replacement: Spouses, siblings and children in Sir Orfeo and Amis and Amiloun2-5&#160;FILM: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) introduced by Laura Mulvey&#160;GOR cinemaSaturday 10 December9.30-11 5th parallelsGroup 5a&#160;Clinic &#38; culture&#160;room GOR B04Liz Hughes&#160;The Replacement Child and Adoptive Experience: Psychoanalytic PerspectivesAgnieszka Piotrowska Replacement in Stories We TellValerie Walkerdine&#160;Looking for Laura: Personal haunting and artistic researchGroup 5b&#160;Spatial replacement&#160;room GOR G04Marija Dalbello&#160;The Metaphysics of Replacement in Text-Image FormsElizabeth Watkins&#160;Cartographies of the ReplacedDeborah Wright&#160;Rooms as Replacements for People: The Consulting Room as a Room Object11-11.30&#160;coffee&#160;room GOR B0311.30-1 Keynotes&#160;Jean Owen &#38; Naomi Segal room GOR B04Jean Owen&#160;Replaced mothers, bed tricks and daughters out of placeNaomi Segal&#160;An eye for an eye or a mile to a mile: versions of replacement1-2.30&#160; lunch (own arrangements)2.30-4&#160;6th&#160;parallelsGroup 6a&#160;Child cases&#160;room GOR B04Christine Anzieu-Premmereur&#160;Disorganization and manic defenses in a 7-year old girl after the death of a baby brother and the pathological mourning in the motherJennifer Davids&#160;&#8216;I&#8217;ll be him for you&#8217;Loreta Gandolfi&#160;Truffaut&#8217;s opus as a trajectory of (ir-)replaceable children, fathers and mothersGroup 6b&#160;Death and catharsis&#160;room GOR G04Michael AmicoWhy is Antigone&#8217;s brother irreplaceable?Mary Hamer&#160;Medea, founder member of the ex-wives clubSarra Kassem&#160;Death and the transformative effects of mourning in Fatih Akin&#8217;s Auf der anderen Seite4-4.30&#160;tea&#160;GOR room B034.30-6.30&#160;FILM: 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015) introduced by Andrew Asibong room GOR B046.30-7.30&#160;general discussion &#38; future plans &#160;room GOR B048&#160;dinner at The Ambassadors hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, WC1H 0HX