Select Presentations
Tyne Sumner (with Anca Parvulescu), ‘The Face and/in the Streets.’ 3-day Seminar at Modernist Studies Association (MSA) 2023 (26-29 October 2023)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Boiled Eyes, Served Cold: Light, Night, Faces, Streets in Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight.’ Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference, Brooklyn, NY (26-29 October)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Facial Recognition in Contemporary Speculative Fiction.’ The Face as Setting: Virtuality and Embodiment of Affect. Presence and Virtuality Conference, University of Leipzig (24-27 September 2023)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Façade, Fashion, Flâneur: Virginia Woolf’s London Faces.’ ‘Fashioning London: Streets, Styles and Storytelling,’ Literary London Conference (6-7 July 2023)
Tyne Sumner, ‘One Eye Open, One Eye Closed: Contemporary Poetics and Facial Recognition Surveillance.’ The Face and/In World Literature. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference. Chicago, USA (16-19 March 2023)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Return the Eye: A Counter-Visual Poetics of Facial Recognition Surveillance.’ Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World. Canberra, ACT (5-7 December 2022)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Laura Riding’s Lyric in the Facial Recognition Age.’ The Lyric Now, University of Adelaide (14 October 2022)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Facial Recognition in Contemporary Speculative Fiction.’ Reflection on Intelligent Systems: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Definition, University of Stuttgart (October 2022)
Tyne Sumner, ‘I Have No Face: Lyric Distortion, Subjectivity, Masks.’ Disturbed Faces/Visages perturbés. University of Geneva and the Swiss Association of General and Comparative Literature, Geneva (3-5 November 2022)
Joe Hughes, ‘The Face of the Historian in Don Quijote.’ Disturbed Faces/Visages perturbés. University of Geneva and the Swiss Association of General and Comparative Literature, Geneva (3-5 November 2022)
Stephanie Trigg, The Face ‘Distorted by Emotion’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.‘ Disturbed Faces/Visages perturbés. University of Geneva and the Swiss Association of General and Comparative Literature, Geneva (3-5 November 2022)
Stephanie Trigg, ‘Laughe and pleye so womanly: Feeling Happy.’ New Chaucer Society: Biennial Congress, Durham University (11-14 July 2022)
Stephanie Trigg, Joe Hughes & Tyne Sumner. Panel: ‘The Time of the Smile.’ 2022 ANZAMEMS Conference: Reception and Emotion.’ [Online] (27-30 June 2022)
Stephanie Trigg, Joe Hughes & Tyne Sumner. ‘”Adorable World!”: From Face to Story in Virginia Woolf’s “An Unwritten Novel.”‘ English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series. The University of Melbourne (16 March 2022)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Facing the Strange: Literature, AI and Emotion Recognition.’ Critical Borders: Radical (Re)Visions of AI. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge. (19-20 October 2021)
Stephanie Trigg, Keynote: ‘Face, Mouth, and Lips: Facial Gesture and Rhetoric in Early English Writing.’ International Society for the Study of the Early Middle Ages (21 June, 2021)
Tyne Sumner. ‘Genre, Gender and the Gaze: Digital Approaches Towards a Critical Literary History of the Face.’ From Archive to Argument, Gale Cengage [Online] (4-7 May, 2021)
Stephanie Trigg and Tyne Sumner (with Vanessa Bartlett and Niels Wouters). ‘Art, Literature & Technology: Understanding Human Experience, Expression and Emotion in the Datafied Age.’ Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) Seminar Series. [Online] (14 May, 2021)
Stephanie Trigg, Guillemette Bolens, Joe Hughes & Tyne Sumner, ‘Towards a Critical History of the Face in Jane Austen’s Emma. Or, why the long face?’ English and Theatre Studies Seminar Series. The University of Melbourne [Online] (14 April, 2021)
Tyne Sumner, ‘Trying on the Words: The Cognitive Poetics of Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance.’ American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Conference. [Online] (6-10 April, 2021)
Stephanie Trigg, ‘Chaucer’s Faces.’ A Life in Literature: Literary Editing, Literary Criticism, Literary Biography (A Symposium in Honour of Ian Donaldson). ANU Humanities Research Centre (29-30 March, 2021)