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> From: "Gramaglia, Letizia" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 24 June 2010 19:22:45 BST
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> Subject: Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture Thursday 1 - Friday 2
> July, 2010
> Reply-To: "Gramaglia, Letizia" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> YESU PERSAUD CENTRE FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES
> University of Warwick
> Indo-Caribbean Studies Association-1st Biennial Conference
>
> Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture
> Thursday 1 - Friday 2 July, 2010
> (Ramphal Building Room 0.14)
>
> PROGRAMME
> Thursday, July 1
> 11:00-12:00 Conference Registration
> 12:00-12:15 Official Opening
>
> 12:15-13:00 Book Launch
> Colin and Gillian Clarke. Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic
> Journal
>
> 13:00-14:00 Lunch
>
> 14:00-15:30 Ethnicity, Identity and Memory
> Chair: Christine Vogt-William (University of Muenster, Germany).
> Frank Birbalsingh (York University, Toronto). “Ethnicity: Two
> Indo-Caribbean Novels”
> Anita Baksh (University of Maryland). “Negotiating Identity, Ethnicity
> and Nation in Shani Mootoo’s He Drown She in the Sea”
> Atreyee Phukan (University of San Diego). "Autochthonous Creolization
> – The Naturalization of East Indianness in Harold S. Ladoo’s No pain
> like this Body"
>
> 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
>
> 15:45-17:15 Music and Visual Arts
> Chair: Brinsley Samaroo (University of the West Indies, Trinidad).
> Sharda Patasar (University of Trinidad and Tobago). “Indian Music in
> Trinidad: ‘Sounding the Landscape’”
> Primnath Gooptar (University of Trinidad and Tobago). “The Role of
> Indian Films in the Creation of Indian Identity in Trinidad”
> Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London). “Defining subjects of
> the colonial archive: Photography and the Indo-Trinidad worker (1860s
> – 1950s)”
>
> 17:15-17:30 Book Launch
> David Dabydeen presenting Patricia Mohammed’s Imaging the Caribbean:
> Culture and Visual Translation
>
> 17:30-18:15 John Mair in Conversation with David Dabydeen and Clem
> Seecharan
>
> 18:15-19:00 Film Screening:
> Tassa Thunder: Folk Music from India to the Caribbean by Peter Manuel
>
> 19:15 Conference Dinner @ EAT Restaurant
> Friday, July 2
> 09:00-10:30 Women, Society and the Arts
> Chair: Atreyee Phukan (University of San Diego).
> Rosana Herrero-Martín (University of West Indies, Antigua & Barbuda).
> “Gender and Performativity Indentured: An Introductory Survey”
> Nalini Mohabir (University of Leeds). “A Return to India: Mahraji,
> Biphia and Rosaline”
> Christine Vogt-William (University of Muenster, Germany). “Mixed Race
> Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction”
>
> 10:30-10:45 Coffee break
>
> 10:45-12:15 Migration and Indentureship
> Chair: Frank Birbalsingh (York University, Toronto).
> Brinsley Samaroo (University of the West Indies, Trinidad). “Comparing
> Indian Diasporas”
> Abigail Ward (Nottingham Trent University). “Reimagining Indian
> Indenture in David Dabydeen’s The Counting House”
> Shalini Khan (Queen’s University, Canada). “Carib Island and the
> Indo-Caribbean Experience in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This
> Body”
>
> 12:15-13:15 Lunch
>
>
> 13:15-14:15 THE ROY HEATH MEMORIAL LECTURE
> Keynote Speaker: Al Creighton (University of Guyana). “Aspects of
> Indian Culture in the Caribbean”
>
> 14:15-15:45 Indo-Caribbean and Beyond
> Chair: Clem Seecharan (London Metropolitan University).
> Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers University). “‘Properize this in your best
> English’: David Dabydeen’s Poetry”
> Malachi McIntosh (University of Warwick). “Naipaul’s Truth and
> Lamming’s Truth: Representation and the Immigrant Author”
> Michael Niblett (University of Warwick) "Form, Nation, Consciousness:
> Wilson Harris's The Guyana Quartet"
>
> 15:45-16:00 Coffee break
>
> 16:00-17:30 Myth, Religion and Spirituality
> Chair: Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London).
> Satnarine Balkaransingh (Trinidad). “The Challenges Encountered in
> Documenting Comparable Performative Traditions in Different ‘Spaces’
> and ‘Places’: The Open air (Maidan) Ramlilas of Ayodhya/Faizabad,
> India and Felicity, Trinidad”
> H. Joy Norman (Independent scholar/writer with Essex Music Services).
> “The Journey of a Devotional Song from East to West”
> Jayshree Singh (Bhupal Nobles Girls' P.G College, Udaipur). “V.S
> Naipaul’s Dialogic Perception for Religion and Rituals”
>
> 17:30-18:00 Poetry Reading by Vahni Capildeo
>
>
> Please note that this programme might be subject to changes before the
> event
>
> For further information and registration please visit:
> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/icsa/conference2010/
>
>
>
> Dr Letizia Gramaglia
> University of Warwick
> Indo-Caribbean Studies Association http://go.warwick.ac.uk/icsa
>
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