An Aphra Behn symposium to be held at the University of Kent on Friday 13 March. Guest speakers include Ros Ballaster (Oxford), Elaine Hobby (Loughborough) and Jane Spencer (Exeter). Further details of the topics of their papers can be found below. If you would like to come, please email Jennie Batchelor for a registration form. (The registration fee is £12 including lunch for full-time staff. Reduced fees are available for students).
Draft schedule:
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-10:45 Welcome
10:45-12:15 Jane Spencer (University of Exeter):’ Behn’s Beasts’
12:15-13:15 Lunch (Please note that lunch will be available in the Shirley Barlow Room)
13:15-14:45 Elaine Hobby (Loughborough University): ‘Behn and the Body’
14:45-15:00 Coffee
15:00-16:30 Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, University of Oxford): ‘Taking Liberties: Revisiting Behn’s libertinism’
16:30-17:15 Roundtable discussion
