The project team convened a panel at the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) confeence at the University of Mainz (29.08-2.09.2022).
The panel on "Configurations of Friday" featured papers from the representatives of several academic institutions in Poland, Germany and the UK, and addressed the topic from various standpoints ranging from ecocriticim to game studies.
SESSION 1
Jakub Lipski (Bydgoszcz): "Constructing Fridays in the 1750s Robinsonade"
Michelle Kelly (Oxford): "‘In the grip of the dancing’: Dance as Expressive Form in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe"
Jochen Ecke (Mainz): "The Poetics of JG Ballard’s Fridays"
SESSION 2
Aleksandra Mrówczyńska (Bydgoszcz): "Friday as a Teacher in the Nineteenth-Century Robinsonade"
Annika Scheel (Leipzig): "The Lemurs of Madagascar (2005) as Representations of
the Island Space as Other"
Sarah Faber (Brandenburg): "Science Fiction Video Games and the Friday-esque in Artificial Intelligence"
Patrick Gill (Mainz): "Friday’s Physical Ascendancy: From Postcolonialism to Ecocriticism"
