Dear all,
Please find attached the programme of the next Cerpac conference in
Montpellier, France, April 1-4, 2009.
There will be plenary sessions in the morning, parallel workshops in
the afternoon and writers' readings - Romesh Gunesekera, Lakshmi
Persaud and Khal Torabully. Professors Clem Seecharan (London
Metropolitan) and Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University, Perth) are the two
keynote speakers.
You can find more details (abstracts, bios) and registration forms to
download on the website:
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/pays_anglophones
Then go to 'Colloques' and scroll down.
Best regards,
Judith Misrahi-Barak and Rita Christian
INDIA AND THE INDIAN DIASPORIC IMAGINATION
Cerpac
(EA 741)
Paul Valery University, Montpellier 3, France
A partnership between the Cerpac (Research Centre for the
Commonwealth, EA 741, Montpellier 3), the Caribbean Studies Centre
(London Metropolitan University, UK), Desi (Diasporas : Research
Centre on Indian Specificities / EA 4196 Climas, Bordeaux3), RIRRA 21
(EA4209, Montpellier 3), the Department of History of Purdue
University (USA)
With the support of the Embassy of France in India
In collaboration with la Ville de Montpellier, the Club International
Universitaire and the bookshop Sauramps
1-4 APRIL, 2009
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL
Maison des Relations Internationales
MORNING START: 10 am
10-12 am: REGISTRATION
AFTERNOON START: 1:30 pm
1 :30 pm : OFFICIAL OPENING by the Vice-President of International
Relations at Paul Valéry University
Auditorium du Musée Fabre
2 pm: Plenary session on cinema
Chair: Pr Jean-François Baillon (Bordeaux III)
Binita J. Mehta (Manhattanville College, Purchase, USA)
“Bhaji, Curry, and Masala: Food and/as Identity in South Asian
Diasporic Cinema”
Rosa Maria Garcia Periago (University of Murcia, Spain)
« A Part of Oneself Dies Abroad, and One Is Eternally in Search of it:
Hybridity and Diaspora in Pseudo Bollywood film Bollywood Queen »
Soraya Santamaría-Navarro (University of Oviedo, Spain)
“Earth: the Narrative of Partition Relived from the Distance of the
Diaspora”
Coffee break
Zeenat Saleh (Besançon University, France)
“ Mississippi Masala : a case study in forced hybridity”
Paul Daniel Veyret (University of Bordeaux III, France)
“I See Dead People: M Night Shyamalan's cinema”
4.30 to 5.30 pm: CINEMA ROUND TABLE chaired by Jean-François Baillon,
Harsh Kapoor, Vijay Mishra and Christian Viviani
6 pm Welcoming cocktail dinner
7 to 9 pm: Screening of Masala (Auditorium du Musée Fabre)
THURSDAY 2 APRIL
MORNING START: 9 am
Maison des Relations Internationales
9am: Plenary session on Representations and modes
Chair: Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier III)
Tithi Bhattacharya with Bill Mullen (Purdue University, USA)
“Locating the Local in Diaspora”
Catherine Pesso-Miquel (University of Lyon II, France)
“Unseen Cities : Representations of the Diasporic Experience in Nadeem
Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers”
Guillaume Cingal (François Rabelais University, Tours, France)
« Epistolary Modes & Diasporic Nodes in C.B. Divakaruni’s “Mrs Dutta
Writes a Letter »
Coffee break
Florence Cabaret (Rouen University, France)
“From the page to the screen: Diasporic Variations on India in The
Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri (2004) and Mira Nair (2007)”
Deepika Bahri (Emory University, USA)
“A Tale of Two Cities: The Aesthetics of Diasporic Space in Mira
Nair's The Namesake”
11:30 am: Keynote Speaker, Pr Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University, Perth,
Australia)
“In the Arcade of Hanuman House': Ghostly Spectres in the Diaspora”
12.30 Lunch
AFTERNOON START: 2:30 pm
AFTERNOON 1
Maison des RI
AFTERNOON 2
Auditorium
Indian Diasporic spaces
Chair: Pr Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University)
Louise Harrington (SOAS, UK)
“An-Other Space: Diasporic responses to Partition in Bengal »
Lise Guillamon (University Paris IV-Sorbonne)
« The Diasporic Tongue of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies »
Delphine Munos (University of Liège, Belgium)
“Zigzagging Paths to Self-Transformation: Mapping Out the “Time Zones”
of Diaspora in Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee”
Irma Maini (New Jersey City University, USA)
“Food Codes in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories”
The Indian subcontinent in Canada
Chair: Pr Gulshan Taneja (Delhi University)
Nancy Batty (Red Deer College, Canada)
“Apocalypse Then: Communal Violence and Diasporic Time in
M.G.Vassanji`s The Assassin`s Song”
Chun Fu (Ching Yun University, Taiwan)
“The (Im)possibility of Backtracking in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-
Between World of Vikram Lall”
Busolo Wegesa (Moi University, Kenya) with Godwin Siundu (Western
University College of Science and Technology, Kenya)
“Groups, City-Spaces and the Ambivalence of Modernities: Reading
Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam as Heterotopias in Dawood and Vassanji’s
Novels”
Faith Pullin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
“Double Displacement in the writing of Rohinton Mistry: the Parsi
community in Tales from Firozsha Baag”
Coffee break
Auditorium
Veronica Thomson (Athabasca University, USA)
“From Komagata Maru to Kanishka:The Indian Diaspora in Canada in Anita
Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?”
Pascal Zink (Paris IV La Sorbonne)
“The Inheritance of Hell in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
and Romesh Gunesekera’s Heaven’s Edge”
6 to 7 pm: Reading by Romesh Gunesekera,
introduced by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Alexis Tadié (Auditorium)
FRIDAY 3 APRIL
MORNING START: 9 am
Maison des Relations Internationales
Cultural Modes of Memory
Chair: Pr Deepika Bahri (Emory University)
Amar Wahab (York University, Canada)
«Colonial Governmentality and Indentureship: A Genealogy of ‘Coolie’
subjectivity in the Early Post-Emancipation Caribbean »
Shubhra Tripathi (Govt. MVM College, Bhopal, India) “Diasporic
Ramayana: A Confluence of Cultures”
C.S. Biju (St. Thomas College, Thrissur Kerala, India)
“Indian Diaspora and the Performance of Cultural Memory-Production,
Performance and the Politics of Representation in Theatres of Indian
Diaspora in Britain”
Coffee break
Alexis Tadie (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France)
“Is cricket a fictional sport?”
Selwyn R. Cudjoe (Wellesley College, USA)
“Modes of Indian Literature in the Diaspora: Trinidad and Tobago”
11.30 am: Keynote Speaker, Pr Clem Seecharan (London Metropolitan
University, UK):
“Mother India’s Shadow over El Dorado: The Shaping of the Indo-
Guyanese Imagination”
12.30 Lunch
AFTERNOON START: 2:30 pm
AFTERNOON 1
Maison des RI
AFTERNOON 2
Auditorium
Urban spaces
Chair: Harsh Kapoor
John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK) “Hanif Kureishi and the Fortunes
of Diasporic London”
Maria S. D. Alexandru (University of Bucharest, Romania)
“Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra’s Novel Red Earth and
Pouring Rain”
Sabine Lauret (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
“The “Going Home Syndrome” in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane”
Coffee break
There and Back
Meg Samuelson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
“Crossing the Kala Pani: Citizenship and Belonging in Post-Apartheid
South Africa Indian Narratives”
Betty Govinden (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
“Satyagraha and The Indian Diasporic Imagination - with particular
reference to South African writings on Gandhi"
Nalini Mohabir (Leeds University, UK) “Return Journeys in the Indo-
Caribbean Diaspora”
From the Caribbean to Mauritius
Chair: Pr Jean-François Durand (Montpellier III)
Felicity Hand Cranham (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
“The Construction of Indianness in the Mauritian Imagination”
Srilata Ravi (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
“Indians in Mauritius: national and postnational identities”
Valerie Magdelaine (Université de La Réunion)
“Un retour du discours des origines : L’écriture ethnographique comme
réparation de la perte de l’Inde dans quelques romans francophones
antillais et réunionnais de l’engagisme”
Coffee break
Maria Mar Garcia Lopez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne)
« Poétique du Postexotisme cbez Ananda Devi : Lecture de Soupir »
Asha Pande (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India) “Le corps et la
souffrance dans l’écriture féminine de l’Ile Maurice”
Véronique Bragard (Université de Louvain, Belgium)
«’Dualité irreversible? Négritude! Coolitude!’”: quête identitaire
dans l’oeuvre de Laure Moutoussamy »
6 to 7 pm: Reading by Khal Torabully,
introduced by Véronique Bragard (Auditorium)
8pm Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 4 APRIL
MORNING START: 9.30 am
Paul-Valéry University, route de Mende
Salle Charles Camproux
Chair: Dr Rita Christian (London Metropolitan University)
Simone Alexander (Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA)
“Two Bo-rat can’t live in the same hole”: Revis(ion)ing Indo-Caribbean
Female Subjectivity
Adlai Murdoch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
“Doubling Difference: Writing the Franco-Indo-Caribbean Experience”
Laurel Steele (Career diplomat, Afghanisthan)
« Writing Class with Mr Khan : No Luncheon at Longchamps for the
Jumbie Bird »
Coffee break
Kerstin Shands (University College, Stockholm, Sweden)
“Hyperfabula of Gains and Losses: Immanent-Transcendent Narrative
Perspective in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss”
Corinne François-Deneve (University of Liverpool, UK)
« Vijay Singh or Choosing Paris »
12 am-1 pm: WRITERS’ ROUND TABLE, chaired by Rita Christian and Judith
Misrahi-Barak, with Romesh Gunesekera, Lakhsmi Persaud, Vijay Singh,
Khal Torabully
1 pm Lunch
AFTERNOON START: 2:00 pm
AFTERNOON 1
UPV - Salle des Commissions
AFTERNOON 2
UPV – Salle Charles Camproux
Memory, Loss & Trauma
Chair: Pr Prudence Layne (Elon University)
Sophie Croisy (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
France)
“Unveiling Everyday Traumas: migrations in Shani Mootoo's Cereus
Blooms at Night”
Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University, USA)
“Crossing the Shadow Lines: Trauma,
Fragmentation, and the Impossibility of Return”
Savitri Ashok (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
“Anamnesis and Amnesia: Salman Rushdie's ImagiNation in The Moor’s
Last Sigh”
Coffee break
The Old and the New
Chair: Dr Binita Mehta (Manhattanville College, Purchase)
Claude Chastagner (Montpellier III, France)
“Bhangra, the sound of the Indian Diaspora: A new paradigm for US-
Indian relationships?”
Charu Uppal (University of South Pacific)
“Old Diasporas, Media and Cultural Identity”
Pia Mukherji (Independent scholar)
“Cyberlogs, Desi Diasporas, and the Postfeminist Debate”
Coffee break
Indo-Caribbean women in Literature/ Art/Culture
Chair: Pr Simone Alexander (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)
Mariam Pirbhai (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada)
Re-Casting Jahaji-Bhain: A Survey of the Indo-Caribbean Women’s Novel,
1990-2009”
Brenda Gopeesingh (Hindu Women's Organisation (HWO) of Trinidad and
Tobago)
“Identity, Spirituality and Activism in the Art of Bernadette Persaud”
Joy Mahabir (SUNY, NY, USA)
“Silent Archives: Indo-Caribbean Women’s Jewelry”
Myriam Moïse (Montpellier III, France)
“The Diasporic Gendered Subject in and out of Space in Lakshmi
Persaud’s Butterfly in the Wind and Sastra”
4 to 5 pm: Reading by Lakshmi Persaud, introduced by Rita Christian
and Myriam Moïse
6 to 8 pm: Screening of One Dollar Curry + debate with Vijay Singh
(Salle Rabelais)
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