The Story and the Self:
Children’s Literature - some Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Draft Running Order – may still change a little!

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Friday 13th April

10.00 - 11.00 
Keynote: Rosemary Stones, editor of Books for Keeps and psychotherapist.
Stories with meaning throughout our lives

11.00 - 11.20
Coffee

11.20 - 12.50:
Parallel panels

Panel 4
Mirroring, Fragmentation and Memory

Rebecca Rozario, University of Monash at Melbourne, Aus.
Mirrored: the self and inheritance as seen in children’s narratives

Rebecca Butler, Roehampton University.
The Scholar, the Hero and their Faithful Friend

Indra Jones, University of Hertfordshire
The continuing personal significance of Black Beauty

Panel 5
Love and Loss

Diane Duncan, freelance writer/ researcher
Love, Loss and Magic: Connecting Author and Story

Gerry Byrne, Consultant Nurse and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Evocation of Mystery in the Art of Anthony Browne

Alison Waller, Bath Spa University
Rereading Children’s Literature: memory and emotion

Panel 7
Childhood and Myth
           
Jake Hope
“Fairytaleheart” - an exploration of memory, story and childhood through Philip Ridley’s novels and plays.

Peter Bramwell.
Pagan Themes: The Green Man

Jenny Plastow, University of Hertfordshire.
Making the Man: constructions of masculinity in children’s reading

12.45 - 1.45
Lunch, book sales and informal talk

1.45 - 2.45 
Keynote: Margaret Rustin, Tavistock Clinic
Michael Rustin, UEL
The Regeneration of Dr. Who.

2.45 - 3.00
Tea

3.00 - 4.00
continues: Dr. Who  and the Role of Fantasy in modern children’s lives

Conference Dinner

Drinks at Sports and Social Club

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Saturday 14th April

10.00 - 11.00
"The Thing that is Not There": reading children's literature as
psychoanalytic play: a performative presentation that takes Mervyn Peake¹s highly
original picture book Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor as its point of
analysis.

Dr. Victoria de Rijke, Reader in Arts & Education, Middlesex University
Dr. Howard Hollands, Principal Lecturer, Art & Design, Middlesex University.

11.00 - 11.20
Coffee and Bookstalls

11.20 - 12.40
Parallel Panels

Panel 2.
Dialogues with Literature and Psychoanalysis

Debbie Hindle, Scottish Institute of Human Relations:
Ethical Space in the Isle of Struay

Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted  and Sylvia Wilson
Scottish Institute of Human Relations
Children on the Edge: Insights from literature and Psychotherapy
Step by Wicked Step and The Tulip Touch.

Panel 8
Pat Pinsent, Roehampton University.
The Theme of Facial Disfigurement in some recent books for young readers

Bushra Connors, University of Hertfordshire
Children’s Literature: What is it good for?

David Rudd, University of Bolton
Holed and Porous, but not Impossible: Children’s Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Constructions of the Child

Panel 6
Children and War
 
Beth Lockwood, Bristol UWE
Miracles and Magic Men:
A Jungian Analysis of David Almond’s “The Fire-Eaters”

Richard MacSween, writer.
The Children of Palestine

Andrea Peterson University of Birmingham:
The Representation of Shell-shock in Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful

12.50 - 1.45
Lunch

1.45 - 2.45
In Place of Community: the multi-media experience.
 Writers of books and screenplays for children on containment of children’s daily experience

2.45 - 3.00
Tea

3.00 - 4.00
Margaret Rustin leads a panel debate on the key themes of the conference.

4.00
Conference closes.