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Reading Conflict

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Monday 19 July 2010, 9.30am-5.45pm
Institute of English Studies, University of London,
Senate House, London WC1

09.30-09.45	Registration
09.45-10.00	Welcome and Introduction: Ole Birk Laursen (Open University) and Dr David Johnson (Head of Department, English, Open University) Venue: G22/26
10.00-11.30	Parallel Sessions: 1. A. On Being Ill-Disciplined: Conflict within Postcolonial Studies Chair: Dr Rehana Ahmed Nicola Abram, ‘Acting and Reacting: Creativity and Conflict in Black Britain’ Corina Crisu, ‘Postcolonialism and Postcommunism: Eastern European Writers with an American Accent’ Sarnou Dalel, ‘Hybrid, Postcolonial Jordanian Literature: The Found, Lost Identity Within’ Venue: G22/26
	1. B. Narrating Conflict Chair: Amy Rushton Giulia D’Agostini, ‘Children Narrating Conflicts: Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation’ Madhu Krishnan, ‘The Shifting Voice of Conflict: The Nigerian Civil War and Literary Representation’ Venue: G34
	1. C. Conflicts in Print and Publishing Chair: Caroline Davis Sophie Bankes, ‘“Dictated by the Devil”: Reading and Religious Conflict in the Life of James Lackington’ Dorota Goluch, ‘Postcolonial Conflict in Translation: The Case of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Novels in Poland’ Pooja Sinha, ‘The Genre of Detective Fiction in Indian Writing in English: Recent Developments’ Venue: G35
11.30-12.00	Tea/coffee/biscuits
12.00-13.00	Keynote Lecture: Dr Stephen Morton (Southampton) ‘Colonial States of Emergency’ Chair: Dr David Johnson Venue: G22/26
13.00-14.00	Lunch (provided)
14.00-15.30	Parallel Sessions 2. A. Writers in Conflict Chair: Ole Birk Laursen Scott Teal, ‘“Writers don't join crowds”’ Vedita Cowaloosur, ‘“The Scars of Middlemarch:” Textual and Contextual Influences of Victorian Writers on Contemporary Indian Novelists Writing in English’ Daniel O’Gorman, ‘“Outside the Human Sphere”: An Arendtian Reading of Islamist Terror’ Venue: G22/26
	2. B. The Aesthetics of Conflict Chair: Claire Troy Elisabeth Gigler, ‘Conflict and the Creative Voice: Indigenous Australian Art Photography’ Gemma Sharpe, ‘Please Read It Carefully: Writing and Conflicted Territories’ Venue: G35
15.30-16.00	Tea/coffee/biscuits
16.00-17.30	Parallel Sessions 3. A. Reading and Writing during Wartime Chair: Shafquat Towheed Shane Malhotra, ‘Journals of Disaster: Reading the First Anglo-Afghan War from Slaughter to Circus’ Eva Nieto, ‘“Keep ‘Em Reading”: Approaches to Wartime Reading in The English Journal, 1939-1945’ Claire Troy, ‘Reading Conflict in Rumer Godden’s The River’ Venue: G22/26
	3. B. Conflicted Territories: Rural and Urban Conflict Chair: Jenny Doubt Salvador Faura Sabé, ‘Solving Identity Conflicts in Post-Colonial London: Atima Srivastava’s Transmission’ Amy Rushton, ‘Conflicts of the Mind and the City: Post-Colonial Trauma, Modernity and the African Novel Sayantan Chakraborty and Subarna De, ‘Back to Roots: Reclaiming the Past in the Age of the Ecological Crisis of Region’ Venue: G35
17.30-17.45	Closing remarks Venue: G22/26

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