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‘The Child of the Century’: Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across MediaEdge Hill University, UK&#160;&#160;Day 1, Friday 13th May 2016&#160;TIMESESSIONVENUE8.30 – 9.00Registration &#38; RefreshmentsBusiness School Foyer9.00 – 9.30Welcome addressB0019.30 – 11.00Parallel Sessions: Panels 1 &#38; 2Panel 1: Form, Format and Short Story PublishingB002Narrative Empathetic Writing Devices: A Study of Short Fiction Formatting.Amanda Bigler (Loughborough University, UK)Embracing Modes: How the children of this century have employed the online publisher.Lisa Blower (independent scholar, UK)Does the Short Story exist?George Green (Lancaster University, UK)&#160;Panel 2: The short story on filmB003Altered States: Narrator and Audience Adaptations of Helen Simpson’s Short Stories.Ingrid Cuypers (KU Leuven, Belgium)Narration and Commemoration in the Story and the Film A Rose for Emily.Esin Korkut (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)Updating the Past: Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Tales on Film.Lukas Lammers (Friedrich‐Alexander-Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg, Germany)&#160;11.00 – 11.15Break &#38; RefreshmentsBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium11.15 – 12.45Parallel Sessions: Panels 3 &#38; 4Panel 3: Innovation, Technology and GenreB002A new detective method: The Adventures of Richard Marsh's Female Detective Judith Lee in the Strand Magazine, 1911-16.Minna Vuohelainen (Edge Hill University, UK)Haunting a mean house in a dull street: Time and Technology in the ghost stories of Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Bowen.Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Revealing as Concealing: The Flash of the Epiphany Moment in the Modernist Short Story.Sophia Kier-Byfield (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Panel 4: Reading, Writing, Teaching B003Seeing and Not-Seeing the Short Story.Anna Metcalfe (University of East Anglia, UK)No time to be lost: Short stories as a compass in a changing world.Philippa Holloway (Edge Hill University, UK)With suspicious intent: Teaching the pleasures of Short Fiction.Kerry Myler (Newman University, UK)&#160;12.45 – 13.45LunchBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium13.45 – 14.45ENSFR committee meeting14.45 – 16.15Parallel Sessions: Panels 5 &#38; 6Panel 5: The Short Story and Cinematic FormB002Textual Portraits of Self and Other: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s ‘A Lovesong for India’.Karen D’Souza (Edge Hill University, UK)Beyond Cinema: Daphne du Maurier’s Intermedial Experiments in her Short Stories.Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France)The Spiritual Automaton: Cinematic Precursors in Steven Millhauser’s Short Fiction.Simon Stevenson (University Centre Doncaster, UK)&#160; Panel 6: Twitter FictionB003Tweeting Short Stories: Jennifer Egan’s ‘Black Box’ and David Mitchell’s ‘The Right Sort’.Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven, Belgium)Curating Conclusions: Collaborative Twitter Fiction and the implied author.Emma Segar (Edge Hill University, UK)Short but not fleeting: Lydia Davis can teach us how to live (and tweet).Julie Tanner (Independent scholar, UK)16.15 – 16.30Break &#38; RefreshmentsBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium16.30 – 18.00Short Story Readings (programme to follow)B00118.00Day 1 Close   ‘The Child of the Century’:Reading and Writing Short Fiction Across Media Day 2, Saturday 14th May 2016 TIMESESSIONVENUE8.30 – 9.00RefreshmentsBusiness School Foyer9.00 – 9.30WelcomeB0019.30 – 11.00Parallel Sessions: Panels 7 &#38; 8Panel 7 : Flash, Hybridity, Cycles and TransformationB002From Blog to Book and Back: Éric Chevillard’s Migrating Microfictions.Erika Fülöp (Lancaster University, UK)Transcultural and Transmedial Stories and Identities in Short Story Cycles: Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing and Ali Alizadeh’s Transactions.Manuela Zehnter (University of Bonn, Germany)Hemingway, Twitterature and the Places of Indeterminacy - Discussion of Problems of Interpretation and the Position of the Reader in the World of Flash Fiction.Roksana Zgierska (University of Gdansk, Poland)&#160; Panel 8: Art and TechnologyB003We are Cyborgs: Technology in Hari Kunzru’s Short Fiction.Bettina Jansen (TU Dresden, Germany)Visionary Inner Spaces in J. G. Ballard’s Vermilion Sands.C. Bruna Mancini (Università della Calabria, Italy)Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Short Stories of James Joyce and Kazuo Ishiguro.Thomas Gurke (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany)&#160;11.00 – 11.15BreakBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium11.15 – 12.45Parallel Sessions: Panels 9 &#38; 10 Panel 9: Hybrid FormsB002Adrian Tomine’s Visual Storytelling in Killing and Dying.Mercedes Peñalba (University of Salamanca, Spain)Intermedial synergy in Angela Carter’s short fiction.Michelle Ryan-Sautour (Université d’Angers, France)Generic Hybridisation in Janice Galloway’s “Scenes” from Blood (1991).Jorge Sacido-Romero (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)&#160;&#160; Panel 10: Publishing 1: Authorship and AdaptationB003Dis/honesty and risk in collaborative short fiction.Micaela Maftei and Laura Tansley (University of Victoria, Canada and University of Glasgow, UK)Narrative Brevity Across the Media: Rhetoric and Form.Miłosz Wojtyna (University of Gdańsk, Poland)&#160;12.45 – 14.00LunchBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium14.00 – 15.00Nicholas Royle Reading and QuestionsB00115.00 – 15.15Break &#38; RefreshmentsBusiness School Foyer &#38; Atrium15.15 – 16.45Parallel Sessions: Panels 11 &#38; 12 Panel 11: Publishing 2: Excerpts and AnthologiesB002Cutting a Long Story Short or the Art of Excerpting the Right Passage: Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land in the New Yorker.Gerald Preher (Lille Catholic University, France)Arriving, Settling, Moving on: Stories of Belonging and Displacement.Eleonora Rao (University of Salerno, Italy)The Construction of Gender in Hermione Lee’s Short Story Anthology The Secret Self.Aleix Tura Vecino (University of Stirling, UK)&#160; Panel 12: Mysterious VisionsB003Mystification by Landscape: Margaret Atwood and the Group of Seven.Dr Susan Poznar (Arkansas Tech University, USA)Short Fiction and Theology: Foundational Myths and Marian Iconography in Michèle Roberts’s ‘Annunciation’.Laura Lojo-Rodríguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)&#160;16.45 – 17.00Closing RemarksB00117.00Day 2 Close Please note, programme subject to change.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This event is supported by Edge Hill University’s Institute for Creative Enterprise:www.edgehill.ac.uk/ice@edgehillice