Conference Program
Updated 10/24!
Conference Program
Thursday, October 26
Conference Presentations will be held at the
University of Pittsburgh, Cathedral of Learning
5th floor, room 501
*Travel Information*3:30 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Susan Andrade
4:00 - 4:45 pm
Luis Madureira, "The 'Quasi-Object' of (National) Identity: Popular Illusions and Official Dreams of Emancipation in Mia Couto's Cronicando:
Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Eileen Julien, Jonathan Arac
5:00 - 5:45 pm
David Attwell, "Coetzee's Estrangement"
Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Tejumola Olaniyan, Paul Bové
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Wine and Cheese Reception
English DepartmentFriday, October 27
9:45 am
Coffee
10:00 - 10:45 am
Ronald Judy, "What About Magical Realism in the Recent Arabic Novel?"
Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Condee
11:00 - 11:45 am
Roberta Hatcher, "The Irruption of the Referent in Francophone African Narrative: Trauma and the Postcolonial Nation"
Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Odile Cazenave, Susan Harris Smith
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Olakunle George, "Missionary Moments: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka"
Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Eileen Julien, Jonathan Arac
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Raji Vallury, "Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History:
Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du desert"Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Odile Cazenave, William Scott
3:30 pm
Coffee
4:00 - 4:45 pm
Wail Hassan, "Leila Aboulela and the Poetics of the Islamic Novel"
Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Gaurav Desai, Paul Bové
5:00 - 5:45 pm
Brenda Cooper, "Birthed in the Third Space" Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Tejumola Olaniyan, Shalini Puri
Saturday, October 28
9:45 am
Coffee
10:00 - 10:45 am
Nicholas Brown, "African Literature, Modernism, and the Problem of Subjectivity"
Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Gaurav Desai, John Beverley
11:00 - 11:45 am
Koffi Anyinefa, "Scandals: Francophone African Novels and Identity" Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Eileen Julien, Giuseppina Mecchia
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Eleni Coundouriotis, "War and the Realist Novel in Africa"
Respondents: Nancy Armstrong, Tejumola Olaniyan, Nancy Glazener
2:30 - 3: 15 pm
Anjali Prabhu, "The Seductive Text: L'Amour, lafantasia "
Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Odile Cazenave, Rashmi Bhatnagar
3:30 pm
Coffee
4:00 - 4:45 pm
Mohamed-Salah Omri, "Local Constructions of the Novel: maqama and Arabic literature"
Respondents: Bruce Robbins, Gaurav Desai, Shalini Puri
5:00 - 5:30 pm
Concluding Remarks
7:00 pm
Post-conference Dinner
~ for conference participants ~
Bombay Grill
416 Semple Street, Oakland