A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge

F﻿arah Mendlesohn is a retired academic who likes to create spaces and events where people can discuss the work of their favourite authors.

Farah Mendlesohn

Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative  Fiction of Frances Hardinge.

King's College London

A one day symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge. We have talks, interviews, and workshops.Guest: Frances HardingeKeynote Speaker; Ali Baker Brooks, University of East LondonOrganised by Farah Mendlesohn (Anglia Ruskin) and Virginia Preston (Kings College)---Full programme: 10am (coffee/tea served just before)Ali Baker Brooks’ Keynote 10:45Virginia Preston: Changing the world – individual and collective action in Frances Hardinge’s work 11:15Alice Penfold: The Quest to Express: Mixed and Multiple Metaphors in A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge 11:45Farah Mendlesohn: Metaphors We Live By and the political subversions of Frances Hardinge. 12:15Lunch Workshop: Grab your Lunch and Gather Round: Philippa R. Francis: (workshop): Fragments of Idea' 13:15Frances Hardinge and Rhiannon Lassiter: On Beta Reading 14:00Shana Worthen: "Hayfever" and other culinary hazards in the works of Frances Hardinge 14:30Lisa Bennett and Sean Williams: Just Grrrls: Rage and power in the works of Frances Hardinge and Tamora Pierce (Virtual) 15:00Will Tattersdill: "Disrupting Victorian Pigeon Holes: The Dinosaurs of The Lie Tree 15:30Audrey Taylor: "The Monstrous Other is Us: Childhood and Perspective in Cuckoo Song and A Face Like Glass (Virtual) 16:00Gili Bar-Hilel: Faith and Not-Faith: Dwindling Deities in the works of Frances Hardinge 16:30Frances Hardinge and Jacqui Collier: Joan AikenClose

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