08 octobre 2012

Inside/Out: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Globalised Postcolonial World

Inside/Out: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Globalised Postcolonial World
En-deçà/Au-delà: Identités multiples à l’épreuve du monde postcolonial


November 17, 2012, Room 16 at the Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris 75006. The closest metro station is Odéon, line 4, or Cluny-La Sorbonne, line 10.


9.00 – 9.30 : Accueil / Registration
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9.30 –10.30 : Keynote Address by Professor Neil Ten Kortenaar
"Can the Suborned Speak?: Gifts, Debts, Bribes, and Sacrifice in Achebe’s No Longer
at Ease"
Director of Comparative Studies, University of Toronto
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10.30 –11.00 : Pause café / Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 : Inside/Out : Theoretical and Pragmatic Considerations

11.00 – 11.20 : “Shashi Tharoor's literary diplomacy: Marketing Soft-power”
Dr Jennifer Takhar, Paris Chamber of Commerce & Research Associate, Celsa Paris IV

11.20 – 11.40 : “Insoluble Ambivalence(s): the Inside-Outside Position of Black Postcolonial
Communities as Articulated in the Work of Paul Gilroy and Edouard Glissant
Dr Sam Coombes, University of Edinburgh

11.40 – 12.00 : Discussion
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12.00 – 13.30 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch break
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13.30 – 15.00 : Outsiders Looking In?: Clearing A Space For New Expressions

13.30 – 13.50 : “Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded”:The Search of a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in
Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul.

Elena Furlanetto, Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany)

13.50 – 14. 20: “African Caribbean Women Writers in Canada: (Un)Disciplining Bodies and Tongues,
Performing Cultural Schizophrenia”
Myriam Moïse, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & University of the West Indies, Trinidad

14.20 – 14.40: A World of One’s Own: Alice Munro’s Literary Heritage Transformed
Christine Lorre-Johnston, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

14.40 – 15.00 : Discussion
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15.00 – 15.30 : Pause café / Coffee break
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15.30 – 17.00 : Creative Destruction : Teetering on the Edge …

15.30 – 15.50 : “Jostling with borders: Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?”
Jennifer Randall, Université Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis

15.50 – 16.10 : “V. S. Naipaul: The (hi)story of a Pro-Western Very Eastern Story-teller”
Nabil Baazizi, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

16.10 – 16.30 : « Dedans/dehors : Fêlures et stratégies de fissuration dans An Equal Music,
de Vikram Seth »
Melanie Heydari, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

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17.00 : Closing comments / Clôture de la journée

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