PKD-Day 2 @ NTU
saturday 14th june 2008, Nottingham Trent University
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DAY'S PROGRAMME |
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morning session to be chaired by Dr Dan Cordle |
10.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
10.20 |
Welcome and Introduction (Souvik Mukherjee) |
10.30 |
Professor John Goodridge, Nottingham Trent University, ‘Emotionalism and Melodrama in Dick’s novels’ |
11.00 |
“Palmer Eldritch”, ‘Too much information: Which PKD Story are we in today?' |
12.00 |
Dr Barry Atkins, “Videogames: Playing in a Dickian Universe” |
12.30 |
LUNCH |
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afternoon session to be chaired by Mahendra Solanki |
1.45 |
Alberto Paulino, ‘The Perils of Collecting Dick’ |
2.30 |
Andrew M. Butler, lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, ‘Tomorrow's History, Yesterday's Futures: Philip K. Dick's Versions of the 1950s.’ |
3.30 |
TEA/COFFEE |
4.00 |
Open forum: PKD past, present and future, led by the day’s speakers |
5.00 |
End of formal sessions. Those who wish to do so are welcome to reconvene for a drink in the Victoria Tavern, Wilford Lane, Ruddington, at 6.00 pm, going on at about 7.00 pm for a curry at the Everest restaurant in Ruddington (opposite the ‘Blade Runner’ hair salon). [details below] |
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EVENING
Those who wish to stay longer are welcome to join us for a drink and a meal in the evening. We shall reconvene from 6.00 pm in the Victoria Tavern, Ruddington. After suitable lubrications we shall wander down to the Everest Indian Restaurant, Ruddington. (Ruddington is a large village two miles south of Clifton Campus. It is a 20-minute bus-ride (by bus no. 10) —or £10-£12 taxi-ride—from Nottingham Station.)
You can find the location at http://www.ntu.ac.uk/about_ntu/maps_travel/index.html, more information about Victoria Tavern at http://www.allpubs.co.uk/pub/40907 and about Everest Restaurant at http://www.touchnottingham.com/business/list/bid/4868196. Bus time-tables can be found on the Nottingham City Transport website http://www.nctx.co.uk/Timetables/TT010.pdf
