Dear all,
Please find below the programme of the next conference organised by
the Cerpac, Montpellier, France.
Best regards,
Judith Misrahi-Barak
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, France
POSTCOLONIAL GHOSTS / FANTÔMES POSTCOLONIAUX
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III
8-10 November 2007
Organized by the Cerpac, under the responsibility of Mélanie Joseph-
Vilain and Judith Misrahi-Barak,
with the support of the University of Montpellier III and the Equipe
d’Accueil 741,
the Pôle Universitaire Européen du Languedoc-Roussillon, the Centre
d’Etudes Canadiennes de
Montpellier, the City of Montpellier
and in collaboration with the international bookshop Sauramps
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/mambo/cerpac
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Registration : 8.30 to 9.00
Opening of the conference : 9.15
THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER (morning)
Maison des Relations Internationales, l’Esplanade, Montpellier
9.30-12.30 Plenary Session
Chair : Pr Gilles Teulié (University of Provence, France)
Mélanie Torrent (Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France):
Commonwealth diplomacy today : transcending colonial and post-
colonial ghosts ?
Ashraf Rushdy (Wesleyan University, USA): Ghosts of Sorrow: The
Haunted Dialectic of Historical Apologies
Virginie Barrier-Roiron (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France): A
colonial ghost never to be banished? The example of Zimbabwe
Coffee break
Olivette Otele (Institut Catholique de Paris, France): The British
Empire and Commonwealth Museum: Remembering the good, the bad and the
ugly
Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom): Ghostly
Presences: British Slave Ports, Legacies and Contemporary Resonances
Lunch at the Lebanese restaurant Al Manara
THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER (afternoon)
14.30-16.30 Workshops
Workshop 1: Caribbean literature
Chair : Pr Ronnie Scharfman (Purchase College-SUNY, USA)
Malik Ferdinand (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “
Time itself becomes a Ghost Dancer “: Creolization and hauntology in
Derek Walcott’s The Ghost Dance and Reinaldo Arenas’s El Mundo
alucinante
Maurizio Calbi (University of Salerno, Italy): Writing with Ghosts:
Shakespearean Spectrality in Tayeb Salih, Derek Walcott and Caryl
Phillips
Timothy Weiss (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): The Living and
the Dead: Translational Identities in Wilson Harris’s The Tree of the
Sun
Kerry-Jane Wallart (Université Paris IX-Dauphine, France): Memories
of the Spectre in Guyana Quartet, by Wilson Harris
Workshop 2: Canada
Chair : Pr Gerry Turcotte (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
Germán Gil-Curiel (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China):
Yearning for the Lost Land: an Ambivalent Identity in Canadian
Contemporary Ghosts Stories
Teresa Gibert (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain):
Indian Ghosts Are Round About Here, Certain: Thomas King’s Textual
Hauntings
Eleonora Sasso (University of Basilicata, Italy) : “It’s only by our
lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: Margaret Laurence and the Spectral
Process
Sandhya Shetty (University of New Hampshire, USA): Ghostly Medicine
and the Postcolony in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost:
reconceptualizing care in the necropolis
Coffee break
17.00-19.00 Plenary session
John McLeod (University of Leeds, United Kingdom). Keynote speech:
‘Ghost country’: spectral subjectivities in the work of Jackie Kay
and Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville (invited writer) in conversation with John McLeod +
Reading open to the general public
Dinner in town
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER (morning)
Maison des Relations Internationales, l’Esplanade, Montpellier
9.00-12.30 Workshops
Workshop 1: Caribbean women’s writing
Chair : Dr Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)
Prudence Layne (Elon University, USA): Reincarnations of Legba in
Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
Sophie Croisy (Université Evry-Val d'Essonne, France): Listening to
the Ghosts of History--Haunted Figures of Resistance Against
Patriarchal/Colonial Structures of Oppression in the work of Jamaican
Author Michelle Cliff
Sara Chetin (Richmond, The American International University in
London, UK): Local Haunts, Global Uncertainties: Pauline Melville's
The Migration of Ghosts
Coffee break
Martine Hennard Dutheil (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland):
Rattling Perrault’s Dry Bones: Nalo Hopkinson’s Literary Voodoo in
Skin Folk
Patricia Krus (University of Stirling, United Kingdom): Ghostly
deviance: gender and sexuality in Caribbean women’s writing
Workshop 2: Australia
Chair : Dr Simon Hay (Connecticut College, USA)
John Potts (Macquarie University, Australia): Australian Ghosts:
Rough Justice and Buried Country
Philip Roe (Central Queensland University, Australia): Ghost(writ)ing
Estelle Castro (Université Paris XII-Créteil, France, and University
of Queensland, Australia): ‘It was the night they killed the song’:
(re)presentation, reflections and transformations of oppression and
resistance in and through Aboriginal poetic works.
Coffee break
Colette Selles (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France): David
Malouf’s haunted writing
Sheila Collingwood-Whittick (Université Grenoble III, France): The
Haunting of Settler Australia: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River
11.45-12.30 Plenary session
Gerry Turcotte (University of Notre Dame, Australia). Keynote
speech : Talking With Ghosts: Whiteness, Spectrality and the
Postcolonial in Canadian & Australian Fiction
Lunch at the Lebanese restaurant Al Manara
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER (afternoon)
14.30-16.30 Workshops
Workshop 1: Caribbean literature
Chair : Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (University of Montpellier III, France)
Abigail Ward (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom): ‘Don’t
make me remember. I forget as hard as I can’: Examining the Trauma of
Slavery in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
Stef Craps (Ghent University, Belgium): "Learning to Live with
Ghosts: Postcolonial Haunting and Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen’s
Turner and Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts"
Manuela Coppola (University of Calabria, Italy): ‘Soun de abeng fi
nanny’: haunting figures in Caribbean women’s poetry.
Marl’ene Edwin (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom):
‘Who haunting who? – Ki e te la? (Who’s haunting who? – Who else was
there?)’
Workshop 2: African literature
Chair : Dr Mélanie Joseph-Vilain (University of Bourgogne, France)
Esther Peeren (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands): The
Postcolonial and/as the Spirit World: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
and the agency of haunting
Lydie E. Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Specter of the
Hottentot Venus in postcolonial fiction
Michela Vanon Alliata (University of Venice, Italy): “Waiting for a
Ghost”: J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
Aristie Trendel (Université de Strasbourg, France): The myth of Don
Juan in André Brink’s novel Before I Forget
Coffee break
17.00-19.00 Plenary session
Karen King-Aribisala (University of Lagos, Nigeria). Invited
writer: « Historical and Biblical Hauntings in Jean Rhys's Wide
Sargasso Sea ».
Karen King-Aribisala in conversation with Mélanie Joseph-Vilain and
Judith Misrahi-Barak + Reading open to the general public
Conference dinner in town : La Brasserie du Théâtre
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER (morning)
Paul Valéry University, route de Mende
9.30-11.00 Workshops
Workshop 1: India
Chair : Dr Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University, USA)
Elsa Sacksick (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France): The 'devenir-
fantôme' in Arundhati Roy's and Salman Rushdie's novels
Dave Gunning (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom): “I could
have been walking with ghosts”: History as Necromancy in Amitav
Ghosh’s In an Antique Land
Nancy Batty (Red Deer College & University of Calgary, Canada):
“Nothing is lost”: The Gothic Poetics of Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter
of Time”
Workshop 2: Caribbean literature
Chair : Dr Rita Christian (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Ronnie Scharfman (Purchase College-SUNY, USA): “Reciprocal
Hauntings: Slavery and The Shoah in Caryl Phillips and André and
Simone Schwarz-Bart”
Anthony Carrigan (University of Leeds, United Kingdom): Haunted
Places, Development, and Opposition in Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘The
Namsetoura Papers’ (2005)
Candace Ward (Florida State University, USA): "Duppy Know Who Fi
Fright'n": Ghosts and Counter-Narratives in Jamaican Fiction
Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Plenary session: India
Chair : Pr Bella Brodzki (Sarah Lawrence College, USA)
Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University, USA) : Deadly Spaces:
Ghosts, Histories and Colonial Anxieties in nineteenth-century Bengal
Florence Cabaret (Université de Rouen, France): Post-colonial
hauntings in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, or the remanences of a
double colonial heritage
Buffet Lunch with the Indian restaurant Rajasthan
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER (afternoon)
14.00-15.30 Plenary session: Translation
Chair: Pr Tim Weiss (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Myriam Suchet (Université Lille 3, France): Tutuola and the haunted
translation or Zazie in the ghost train
Damian U. Opata (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria): Haunted
Ontologies: Translation and Trauma in Postcolonial Igbo Society of
Southeastern Nigeria
Bella Brodzki (Sarah Lawrence College, USA): The Ghosts of
Translation in Postcolonial Literature
And the finishing touch… A reading by Gerry Turcotte
End of the conference : 4.30 pm
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