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A one day discussion event, organised to coincide with the Mead Gallery exhibition: Gerard Byrne: 1/125 of a second

Chaired by Professor Stella Bruzzi, and featuring talks by Dr. Nicolas Whybrow and Dr. Michael Pigott, this day brings together academics from ÌÇÐÄTV and Monash Universities to discuss the current position of the photographic image in contemporary art and the notion of artwork as duration-based in relation to the new exhibition by Gerard Byrne at the Mead Gallery, ÌÇÐÄTV Arts Centre.

Thu 10 March 2016, 11am – 4pm (Registration from 10.30am) Helen Martin Studio, ÌÇÐÄTV Arts Centre University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Coventry, CV4 7AL Tickets £12 (£6)

Dr Velda Elliott, University of Oxford.

Victoria Elliott is Associate Professor of English and Literacy Education at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of St Hilda's College. She works with teachers on the PGCE English and the Masters in Learning and Teaching, and teaches qualitative methods to doctoral researchers. She is also an external subject expert for Ofqual. Having studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, she taught English in secondary state schools, and now researches English in Education. She is particularly interested in drama, theatre and literature in the English curriculum.

Her current work looks at the place of Hamlet and Henry IV Part I in the AQA A level study units 'Elements of Crime Writing' and 'Elements of Social and Political Protest Literature'. This paper will explore how far the generic conventions (as far as they exist) can be seen in these plays, whether viewing the plays through the lens of these genres can be helpful or interesting, and whether it is pedagogically appropriate for A level students to retrofit genre to Shakespeare in this way.

Detecting the Dane: shoehorning Shakespeare into genre studies in A level literature.

The main post-16 qualification in England, the A level, has undergone substantial reform in the last two years and is now being taught in its revised form. One (highly popular) qualification offers the option to study 'Elements of Crime Writing' or 'Elements of Social and Political Protest Writing', both genres with recent origins, one in the 1800s and one arguably within the last 50 years. Within this, students may opt to study Hamlet or Henry IV Part 1 respectively. The question arises as to whether these choices are a convenient curricular fiction - simply a way to shoehorn further Shakespeare study into the qualification - or a way of attracting students to the study of Shakespeare through identification with a popular genre or with another which is linked to the politically active inclinations of young people.

This paper explores the realism of these generic identifications, whether viewing the plays through the lens of these genres can be helpful or interesting, and whether it is pedagogically appropriate for A level students to retrofit genre to Shakespeare in this way. These issues will largely be considered through the case of Hamlet as Crime Writing, with additional argument from Henry IV as necessary. I will also consider what the effect may be when students who have read Hamlet and Henry IV in this way move on to study literature at university.

refreshment will be served.

by Dr Jason Hickel (LSE)

Molly Geidal, University of Manchester

A discussion of Michel Wieviorka, Violence: A New Approach, trans. David Macey (London: Sage, 2009). Extracts to be circulated.