Conference venue: Room S1.7, Samuel Alexander Building

9:30-10:00           Registration

10:00-10:30         Introduction: Prof. Stephen Hutchings

10:30-11:30         1^st panel: Books, Reading and Literature in the New Millennium

                            Chair: Manuela Kovalev (Manchester)

                            Danielle Mortimer (Essex):

                                 Re-Appear Here: Placing the ‘Digitalised’ Reader into Novels in Print
                            Mark West (Glasgow):
                                 Sleight of Thumb: The Ruses of Keitai Shosetsu and the Form of

                                 Future Resistance        

11:30-11:45         Coffee break

11:45-12:45         2^nd panel: Literature on the Net
Chair: Elisa Coati (Manchester)

                            Jeanine Tuschling (Warwick):

                             Talking about a Revolution. Scenarios of Reading and Writing on the Internet

                            Shih-chen Chao (Manchester)      

                                 Prosumerism and the Chinese Model of Internet Fiction

12:45-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:00         3^rd panel: Reading Bestsellers

                            Chair: Mauricio de Oliveira (Manchester)

Artemis Lamprinou (Surrey):

        Beyond Sales: The Making of Bestsellers and the Translator’s Part

Aikaterini Baou (Edinburgh):

                            Femininity and the Bestseller: Fantasy Novels in the New Millennium

15:00-15:30         Coffee break

15:30-17:00         4^th panel: Russian Reading Culture in Transition

                            Chair: Paul Fung (Manchester)

                            Birgitte Beck Pristed (Mainz):

Post-Soviet Russian Book Covers: Changing Values in Visual Representation of Literary Texts

                            Amanda Wowk (Leeds):

         (In)Authentic Author: Reading Dostoevsky through Bortko
 Maria Pasholok (Oxford)

A Perfect Place to Read: Transformation of Reading Space from Soviet to Post Soviet Russia

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You are welcome to join us for drinks and dinner after the workshop.