Programme
10.00 - 11.15
1. Professor Robert Hampson, Department of English, RHUL, ‘The Colonial Short Story: Adventure and the Exotic’
2. Domenico Galimi, PhD student, Department of Criminology, RHUL, ‘Discerning the Unfamiliar yet Familiar: Exoticism, Crime and Criminology’
11.15- 11.45 Tea break
11.45 – 13.00
3. Mary-Jean Chan, PhD student, English Department, RHUL, ‘Towards a Poetics of Racial Trauma: Lyric Hybridity in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen’
4. Dr Julia Gallagher, Department of Politics and International Relations, RHUL, ‘African Exotic: The Uncanny in the Building of the South African State’
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.45
5. Professor Matthew Cohen, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, ‘Wayang in Museums: Collecting, Conserving, Exhibiting and Performing Indonesian Puppets’
6. Professor Daniela Berghahn, Department of Media Arts, RHUL, ‘The Cosmopolitan Exotic on the Film Festival Circuit’
7. Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, “‘Signs Taken for Wonders’: Refashioning the ‘Exotic’”
15.45 – 16.15 Tea break
16.15 – 18.00, Keynote address and response
8. Professor Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool, and AHRC Leadership Fellow Translating Cultures, 'Exoticism as Keyword'
9. Professor James Williams, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, RHUL, Response to Keynote
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