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Heure | 08h30 - 19h00 |
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Programme
28 January, 2021
From 8:30: Connection to virtual conference room
8:45: Conference opening
9:00 – 10:30
Panel 1: Labels
Chair: Claire OMHOVERE (Montpellier 3-Paul Valéry)
- Marilyne BRUN (Université de Lorraine)
“Whose labels? Favouring Agency over Conceptual Dependence”
- Jaine CHEMMACHERY (Sorbonne Université)
“What’s in a name? : Commonwealth literature, études postcoloniales et ce que décoloniser veut dire”
- Sneharika ROY (The American University of Paris)
“In the Name of the Father: Edward Said’s Foundational Status in Postcolonial Studies”
Break
11:00 – 12:30
Panel 2: World Literature(s)
Chair: Sandrine SOUKAÏ (Université Gustave Eiffel)
- Dominic DAVIES (University of London, UK)
“The Weight of World Literature: Notes Toward Terrestrial Reading”
- Rashi ROHATGI (Nord University, Norway)
“World Literature: An Inclusive Comparative Literature for Newly-Included Students”
- Spencer W SHIN (independent scholar)
“Mimicry and the Subaltern: The Dialectic of Humanism and Hegemony in Post-Independence Indian Shakespeare”
12:30 – 1:30 Break
1:30 – 2:30
Keynote
Chair: Alexis TADIÉ (Sorbonne Université)
Ari GAUTIER, writer (Pondicherry / Oslo) and Professor Ananya Jahanara KABIR (King’s College, London)
“Creolising ‘Commonwealth’: Multilingual Pasts and the Postcolonial Present”
Break
3:00-4:30
Panel 3: Shifting Scales
Chair: Karin FISCHER (Université d’Orléans)
- Sandrine SOUKAÏ (Université Gustave Eiffel)
“Regional and Diasporic Mapping of the Postcolonial Field: From an Indian Postcolonial toward a Caribbean Postcolonial”
- Manon BOUKHROUFA TRIJAUD (Sorbonne Université)
« Changer d’échelle, partir d’un genre »
- P.J. BLOUNT (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
“Postcolonial Nomos”
Break
5:00-7:00
Roundtable 1: Decolonising the curriculum and pedagogies
Moderator: Alexandra POULAIN (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Sandeep BAKSHI (Université de Paris), Claire GALLIEN (Montpellier 3-Paul Valéry), Jaine CHEMMACHERY (Sorbonne Université), Fiona McCANN (Lille-IUF)
29 January, 2021
8-30–10
Roundtable 2: Journals
Moderator: Claire GALLIEN (Montpellier 3-Paul Valéry)
Janet WILSON (Journal of Postcolonial Writing / University of Northampton, UK)
Chris RINGROSE (Journal of Postcolonial Writing / Monash University)
Anastasia VALASSOPOULOS (Journal of Postcolonial Writing / Manchester University)
Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON (Commonwealth Essays and Studies / Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Claire OMHOVÈRE (Commonwealth Essays and Studies / Montpellier 3-Paul Valéry)
Break
10:30-11:30
Keynote
Chair: Vanessa Guignery (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon)
Pr. Priyamvada GOPAL, University of Cambridge, UK
11:30 – 1:00
Roundtable 3: Social Sciences and History
Moderator: Deirdre Gilfedder (Paris-Dauphine)
Grégory ALBISSON (Grenoble Alpes), Sophie CROISY (UVSQ), Simon DESCHAMPS (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), Paul HUSBANDS (historian, Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, New Zealand), Myriam YACOUBI (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
1:00-2:00 Break
2:00-3:30
Panel 5: Knowledge Formation
Chair: Cédric COURTOIS (Lille)
- Deepa JANI (SUNY Old Westbury, USA)
“Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Fanon, and the Bildung of the ‘Native Woman’”
- Soiduate OGOYE-ATANGA (The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
“Decolonizing the Cultural Object in an Age of Postcolonial Knowledge Formation”
- Ishita ROY (University of Kalyani, India)
“Where is the Dalit? – A Caste Subaltern Critique of the ‘Post-Colonial’”
Break
4:00–6:00
Panel 4: Lines of Oppression
Chair: Marine BELLEGO (Université de Paris)
- Anna RINDFLEISCH (King’s College, London, UK)
“The Insidiousness of Gentrification: Reconsidering Attempted Urban-Culture Erasure as a Modern Colonialism”
- Swati SIMHA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)
“Caste and Challenges to ‘Postcolony’ in Karnataka”
- Nida SAJID (University of Minnesota, USA)
“‘So what of a tongue beyond English?’: (Post)colonial Theory and the Poetics of Transnational Justice”
6:00-7:00
Closing Debate & Drinks: Re-Naming a Discipline