Father figures: Speakers

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Elizabeth Allen: Raymond Williams and the Good Father
Neil Armstrong: Father(ing) Christmas: exploring the role of fatherhood in the domestic celebration of Christmas in nineteenth-century England
Tim Ashplant: Between family and imagined community: the role of the father in the formation of political identities
Faten Benmansour: Father-child relations in African-American women's literature(withdrawn)
John Beynon: 'Writing my father': men, masculinities and auto/biography
Arthur Brennan: Couvade syndrome: the pregnant male
Dottie Broaddus: Malcolm's sons
Brooke Campbell: The Alien Other: E.T., Freud, and the science fiction of sexual difference
Anna Claydon: Lost fathers: Post-war British cinema and its men in mourning
Katharine Cockin: 'Mummy's a suffragette!': fathers in women's suffrage literature
Omerli Cohen: Dads in Ads
Martina Klett-Davies: Lone mothers and late modernity: the construction of fatherhood
Bruno Decoret: Fathers separated from their children's mothers: an inequality based upon gender. A case study
Benoit Depardieu: 'Writing the name of the father': the paternal function in James Baldwin's fiction'
Esther Dermott: Having it all?: fathers, work and family
Catherine Donovan: Genetics, fathers and families: an exploration of the impact of the growing social and legal importance of genetic fathers in their children's lives in Britain
Mary Eagleton: The Danger of the intellectual father: lessons from Harry Potter and Antonia Byatt
Alice Ferrebe: Contra(con)ception: the Pill, paternity and narrative form in British Sixties novels
Tim Fisher: Fathercraft and Father's Councils: childrearing advice and the infant welfare movement in inter-War England
Natalka Freeland: In Labour: Silas Marner's 'Unborn children'.
Tabitha Freeman: Digging up the father: locating the paternal body in philosophical, psychoanalytic and popular discourse
Dariusz Galasinski: Fatherhood and emotions in narratives of middle age
Barry Gerard: The Development of the 'New Father Image'
Michele Gill: Just telling it like it is? discourses of teenage fatherhood in contemporary young adult fiction
Miklos Hadas: The birth of the modern father
Anne Hall: The motif of the two fathers and parricide in George du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson
Lynne Harne: Violence, masculinity and fathering
Mavis Haut: What does King Lear really want from his daughters?
Isobel Heald: The role of the father in Anita Brookner's early novels
Ruth Helyer: In the name of the father: Gangs of New York
Siobhan Holland: The 'daddy', the father and the state: accounting for dissonances in Irish Patriarchy
Peter Hughes Jachimiak: 'Fathering the organisation': men, middle managers and father figures
Sam Jackson: Kafka's father(s): the patriarch and the democratic dad
Olotuyin Jegede: 'From Fiction to Reality': The Changing Images of the Father in two African Writings
Thomas Johansson and Margareta Back-Wiklund: Male role models: social work and the construction of gender
Gareth Todd Jones and Maralyn Evans: Developing services for fathers in a school setting
Elizabeth Kella: Paternity without patriarchy: Floyd Dell's ideological novels
Jo Knowles: 'Sometimes I'd rather be my dad': maturity, generation gaps and the culture of fatherhood in New Lad fiction
Jane Lancaster: The business of fatherhood: patriarchy, efficiency and democracy in the post-war American family
Anna M. Lawrence: 'Dear old Daddy': fathers in the eighteenth-century Methodist family'
Tom Laws: The health practices of men within dual income families
Chris Leary: The cancerous father in the writing of Sharon Olds and Philip Roth
Margaret Markwick: Hands-on fatherhood in Trollope's novels
Matthew L. McCormack: Married men and the fathers of families: masculinity and electoral citizenship in Georgian and Victorian Britain
Elizabeth McDonnell: Men's fertility stories: a qualitative approach to understanding parenthood status
Cecilia Miller: Missing fathers, surprising substitutes, and successful children: Enlightenment political fiction and the development of the theory of rights
Nickianne Moody: Assuming patriarchy: models of generational masculinity in Lost in Space

Linzi Murrie: Fatherhood as 'men's rights': discourse and activism in Australia
Deborah Mutch: Socialist paternalism: fathers, father-figures and guidance in serialised fiction, 1885-1895
Thomas Nutt: Illegitimate fathers? Unmarried parenthood and paternal responsibility under the Old an New Poor Law, England c. 1800-1850
Richard Olsen and Harriet Clarke: Disability, parenting and gender
Sean O'Neill: Piecing together the jigsaw: the social construction of fatherhood identity
Cecile Raisseix: The Representation of paternity in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre
Nicholas Ray: Rethinking the 'primal father': Freud, Julius Caesar and the afterlife of tyranny (withdrawn)
Jane Ribbens-McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies: Sauce for the goose? fairness, rights and obligations for fathers and step-fathers
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman: Failures of patriarchy in Hard Cash and Armadale
Terri Sabatos: Father as mother: the image of the widower with children in Victorian art
Valerie Sanders: 'What do you want to know about next?' Charles Kingsley's model of educational fatherhood
Sally Sheldon: Father figures: legal paternity and artificial insemination
Katarzyna Smyczynska: 'Commitment phobics, emotional fuckwits': the crisis of the patriarchal figure in Bridget Jones's Diary and Red Dress Ink novels
Julie-Marie Strange: 'Speechless with grief': bereavement and the working-class father, c. 1880-1914
Dale Townshend: Gothic paternities, 1764--1797
Claire Tylee: The future of the race: fathers and ethnic survival in Jewish family sagas by Naomi Jacob and Bernice Rubens
Amanda Wade: Showing love: care and commitment in narratives of fathering
Helena Wahlstrom: Representations of fatherhood in Paul Auster's Smoke (1995)
Andrew Walker: Father's pride? Fatherhood in nineteenth-century industrialising communities
Jeni Williams: Complicating Men: impotence and absent fathers in Ed Thomas' drama
Louise Williams: Does father know best? Contemporary Chinese cinema's critique of fatherhood