Academic Programme and Audio Recordings – International E. M. Forster Society

The international conference “E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer” was co-organized by Dr Heiko Zimmermann, University of Education Ludwigsburg; Dr Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; and Prof. Krzysztof Fordoński, University of Warsaw. Head of support in Ludwigsburg was Anna-Maria Birkenberger.

Friday, 13 April 2018
09.30-10.00 1.210	Welcome	Prof. Dr Jörg-U. Keßler, vice rector of the UEL; Prof. Dr Jürgen Mertens, director of the Institute of Languages; Prof. Krzysztof Fordonski, chairman of the IEMFS; and Dr Heiko Zimmermann, co-organizer conference
10.00-11.10 1.210	Nature 1 Chair: Heiko Zimmermann	Gemma Moss Women In and Out: Maurice, Feminism and Social Purity Julia Libor An Ecofeminist Approach to E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
11.40-12.50 1.210	Culture 1 Chair: Anna Kwiatkowska	Parker Gordon E. M. Forster, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and William Blake’s Pastoral Pageant: Literary and Musical Allusions to the Past Krzysztof Fordonski Forster on the Air: TV and Radio Adaptations of the Works of E. M. Forster Discussion
13.50-15.00 1.210	Queer 1 Chair: Krzysztof Fordonski	Cynthia Drake Queer Revisions in A Passage to India Richard Canning “Breaking a Butterfly upon a Wheel”: The Secret Love of E. M. Forster and Ronald Firbank Discussion
15.30-16.40 1.210	Nature 2 Chair: Daniel Monk	Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz E. M. Forster’s Fictional Representations of Landscape in England and in the British Raj Jana M. Giles “She was particularly vexed now”: The Posthumanist Sublime in E. M. Forster’s: A Passage to India
17.00-18.00 Literaturcafé	Lightning Talks	Heiko Zimmermann E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer! Peggy Wood Maurice’s Love: Coming Out Hasn’t Changed Randi Saloman From “Only Connect” to Autocorrect: Editing Forster for the 21st Century Sujan Mondal Tryst with Syed Ross Masood: E. M. Forster’s Cross-Cultural Encounter at Aligarh Ursula Kluwick Forster’s Tourists: Queering Culture through Foreign Landscapes Tarik Gulcu Foster’s Prophetic Response to Kipling’s Progressivism: “The Machine Stops” Maciej Adamski The Car in the Novel: Constructing the Image of Early Motoring in E. M. Forster’s Howards End
18.10-19.20 1.210	Culture 2 Chair: Ursula Kluwick	David Scourfield De-/Re-queering Virgil: Forster’s “Other Kingdom” and the Second Eclogue Daniel Monk E. M. Forster’s Will: A Posthumous Publication?
Saturday, 14 April 2018
10.00-11.10 1.210	Nature 3 Chair: Peggy Wood	Tatiana Prorokova “Facing the Sunshine”: The Role of Nature in A Room with a View Sarah Saeckel Entering A Room With a View, Embodying Nature/Culture/Queer
11.40-12.50 1.210	Queer 2 Chair: David Scourfield	Howard Booth Representing Queer Experience: Maurice and Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer Claire Monk Queer Nature in Maurice Fanfictions
13.00-14.20 Literaturcafé	Posters	Sujan Mondal Tryst with Syed Ross Masood: E. M. Forster’s Cross-Cultural Encounter at Aligarh Randi Saloman From “Only Connect” to Autocorrect: Editing Forster for the 21st Century Sabine Tomas Progressive Views of Women in E. M. Forster Peggy Wood Maurice’s Love: Coming Out Hasn’t Changed Heiko Zimmermann E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer!
14.30-15.40 1.210	Nature 4 Chair: Howard Booth	Nour Dakkak “Trailing noiselessly”: Walking the Material Landscape in Howards End and The Longest Journey Anna Kwiatkowska Seriously Mocking Interiors and Their Mockingly Serious Inhabitants in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
16:10-16:45 1.210	Closing Session Chair: Krzysztof Fordonski
17.00-17.40 1.210	Meeting of the IEMFS

[Audio recordings are published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license (authors are the respective speakers and chairs, editor is Heiko Zimmermann). For commercial use, please contact Heiko Zimmermann.]