Ellena Deeley

Conferences/Symposiums

11th February 2022:

Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Neurodiversity and Disability Online Symposium (University of Glasgow). ​

'Conjoined Twins and Identity Multiplicity in Diasporic Marvellous Realist Fiction: Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine. '

24th June 2019:

The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2019 (University of Exeter). ​

'The Celebrity Circus and the Performative Individual: Conjoined Twins in American Horror Story: Freak Show.'

23rd October 2018:

International Conference on Narratives of Displacement

'Conjoined Twins in the Diaspora Novel: Separation and Reconciliation in Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone.'

6th July 2017:

Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies (Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University

'Disability and National Modernisation in Channel 5’s "The 8-Limbed Boy"'

3rd September 2016:

(Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self An Interdisciplinary Conference (University of Hull)

'Conjoined Twins and the Geopolitics of Self-Construction in the Discovery Channel's Separate Lives'

19th July 2015:

Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference (University of Exeter)

‘Doctoring the Global Body: Conjoined Twins in the Contemporary Medical Documentary’

 

24th July 2014:

Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference (University of Exeter)

'Two-Headed Monsters and the Conjoined Subject'