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We can now reveal that Michel Faber will be sharing unpublished works and speaking about his journey towards becoming a published author during the conference. This is a unique opportunity to gain insight into Faber’s creative process.
If you haven’t registered yet then go across to our Eventbrite page where tickets start at £5 for a full day including refreshments.
Programme and Registration
The timetable for Defying Genre is now available through this link Defying Genre Programme.
Don’t forget to register here for the conference. We still have day tickets and full conference tickets available. 
Registration Now Open
We are so excited to see you all on July 21st-22nd. Our registration page is now open. Due to the level of interest in the conference we have moved our venue to the University of Highlands and Islands new Beachwood campus, full details can be found under the Venues tab.
Update
It has been a busy few weeks for the Defying Genre organizers. I am pleased to say that all successful applicants have now been contacted and we now have a provisional conference timetable. We will have speakers from all over the world and,there panels will be on The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things.
Registration will be opening in early June so keep an eye on the Defying Genre website or join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DefyingGenre/
Second Call for Papers
SECOND Call for Papers
Defying Genre: Michel Faber
Conference 21-22 July 2016
University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, UK
Michel Faber constantly defies genre, and challenges our grasp of fictional modes. Winner of the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things, Faber is omnipresent in the public sphere, but his work is only just beginning to receive critical scholarly attention. With the notable exceptions of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, his wide-ranging work is on the edges of current literary studies. This conference — the first devoted to Michel Faber — seeks to rectify this, by allowing both new and established scholars the opportunity to engage with Faber’s work.
Keynote speaker: Dr Timothy Baker (University of Aberdeen)
Michel Faber will participate in the conference. He will give a reading, share some of his unpublished works and engage directly with the speakers’ papers.
We invite proposals (200–400 words) for 20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels (3×20 minute papers on a related theme) on any aspect of Faber’s work and career. Papers on adaptations of Faber’s work, teaching Faber’s work, and international responses to Faber’s work are also very welcome. There are also opportunities to remotely present and attend by video-conference; please contact the organisers for further details of this. Selected papers will appear in an edited collection as part of Gylphi’s Contemporary Writers Series.
Deadline for proposals 13th May 2016. For further information, join our FB event page Defying Genre: Michel Faber.
Please address any queries and submit proposals to defyinggenremichelfaber@gmail.com and/or to Rebecca Langworthy (r01ral14@abdn.ac. uk) and Kristin Lindfield-Ott (in13kl@uhi.ac.uk).
Printable CfP
Following the announcement of our publication deal with Gylphi we have a new PDF version of the call for papers with their logo. Share and print away! Defying Genre CFP
CfP Defying Genre
Call for Papers
Defying Genre: Michel Faber
Organisers: Rebecca Langworthy, Kristin Lindfield-Ott and Jim MacPherson
Conference 21-22 July 2016
University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, UK
Michel Faber constantly defies genre, and challenges our grasp of fictional modes. Winner of the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for A Book of Strange New Things, Faber is omnipresent in the public sphere, but his work is only just beginning to receive critical scholarly attention. With the notable exceptions of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, his wide-ranging work is on the edges of current literary studies. This conference — the first devoted to Michel Faber — seeks to rectify this, by allowing both new and established scholars the opportunity to engage with Faber’s work.
Keynote speaker: Dr Timothy Baker (University of Aberdeen)
Michel Faber will participate in the conference by giving a reading and taking part in a Q&A session.
We invite proposals (300–500 words) for 20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels (3×20 minute papers on a related theme) on any aspect of Faber’s work and career. Papers on adaptations of Faber’s work, teaching Faber’s work, and international responses to Faber’s work are also very welcome.
Please include detail of institutional affiliation and any AV requirements. Selected papers will appear in a collection co-edited by Rebecca Langworthy, Kristin Lindfield-Ott and Jim MacPherson.
Deadline for proposals 31 March 2016. For further information, join our FB event page Defying Genre: Michel Faber.
Please address any queries and submit proposals to defyinggenremichelfaber@gmail.com and/or to Rebecca Langworthy (r01ral14@abdn.ac.uk) and Kristin Lindfield-Ott (in13kl@uhi.ac.uk).
Defying Genre: Michel Faber 