A Symposium on Penda’s Fen
Saturday 10th June 2017, 10am–5pm, with a public screening at 6:20pm
NFT3, BFI Southbank, London
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Programme:
09:30 registration and coffee
10:00 welcome from organizers
10:05–11:25 panel 1: Landscapes
Roger Luckhurst: Penda’s Fen, Eeriness and the Polytemporal 70s
Adam Scovell: A Sacred Demon of Ungovernableness: Penda's Fen and Folk Horror
Jamie Sherry: “I am mud and flame!”: Adolescence and Hybridity in the Liminal Spaces of Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen
Beth Whalley: “The flame still flickers in the fen”: Wetlands, Modernity and the Anglo-Saxon Past
Chair: James Machin
11:25–11:30 comfort break
11:30–12:50 panel 2: Histories
Carl Phelpstead: Before England: Mercian Identity in Rudkin and Other Writers
David Ian Rabey: Making Space for the Shadows: Penda's Fen, tradition and legacy
David Rolinson: I append the map: a documentary history of Penda’s Fen
Craig Wallace: The “old, primeval ‘demon’ of the place opening half an eye”: Penda’s Fen and the legend of the sleeping king
Chair: Carolyne Larrington
12:50–14:00 lunch (own arrangements)
14:00–15:20 panel 3: Portraits
Will Fowler: Dredging the Splintered Light: The Multiple "Unburyings" of Penda’s Fen
Yvonne Salmon: Penda's Fen and Contemporary Occulture
Daniel O’Donnell Smith: Between the Slits He Sits: The Material Ontology of Penda and the Frame
Andy Smith: “Which shall prevail?” Doppelgängers and Duality in the work of David Rudkin
Chair: Matthew Harle
15:20–15:40 coffee
15:40–16:20 Closing plenary: Gareth Evans, Carolyne Larrington, and Roger Luckhurst
16:20–17:00 David Rudkin Q&A, with Ian David Rabey
Image by gailhampshire, used under a CC BY 2.0 licence.
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