05 February 2026
10:00 – 10:10
Introduction
10:10 – 11:00
Keynote Address:
All Crows Are Black (Until They’re Not): Confronting the Ontological
Vanishing Point
Dr. Christian Wilken
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:40
Deconstructing Space in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
Tamara Dost
11:40 – 12:05
Silent Strengths: Gendered Identity and Female Power in Wole Soyinka’s
Death and the King’s Horseman
Aleksandra Cela
12:05 – 12:25
Growing into Monsters – Space, Ghosts, and the Bildungsroman in
Rin Chupeco’s The Girl from the Well (2014)
Julia Weiser
12:25 – 13:40
Lunch Break
13:40 – 14:05
Into the MisKnown: How Fairy Tales Challenge our Categories
Laura Montane Moya
14:05 – 14:30
A Grieving Boy and a Magical Tower: Heterotopias in Miyazaki’s
The Boy and The Heron
Elisavet Kyriakoudi
14:30 – 14:50
Iconic Storytelling: Comparing Queer Activism in Bechdel and Oseman
Valiantsina Stankevich
14:50 – 15:05
Coffee Break
15:05 – 15:30
Becoming the Black Flamingo: Queer Adolescence and Identity Politics
in Young Adult Literature
Hannah Reinecke
15:30 – 15:55
Reimagining the Bildungsroman in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
Luisa Woch
06 February 2026
10:00 – 10:10
Introduction
10:10 – 11:00
Keynote Address:
Towards a Transcendental Music: Transfinite Numbers
and Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a Model for Musical Intonation
Dr. Carter Williams
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:40
The Frequency of Understanding: How Sound Symbolism can be used
in Interspecies Communication
Deborah Fischer
11:40 – 12:05
Attending to the Narrator: Listening as Care in Stranger Than Fiction
Theodora Charalambous
12:05 – 12:25
From Portal to Programme: Intimacy in Nobody Is Talking About This and Her
Jule Wolters
12:25 – 13:40
Lunch Break
13:40 – 14:05
Echoes of the Unknown: Milton’s Soundscapes
Defne Jule Mutlu
14:05 – 14:30
“Stars, hide your fires”: Macbeth and the Demonic
Elena Thomas
14:30 – 14:50
Reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath through the Lens of Annis Pratt’s
Novel of Development
Mahsa Koushali