Conference Program

as of October 20, 2005

 

Thursday, October 27, 2005 - Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

12:00-2:15 pm - Lunch and Registration - Frick Fine Arts Cloisters
   
2:30-2:45 pm - Introductory Remarks & Welcome
  Shalini Puri (Pittsburgh)
2:45-4:15 pm - Emerging Scholars Roundtable: Practices of Postcolonial Studies
 

Chairs:
 Julie Hakim Azzam & Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (Pittsburgh, English)

Speakers:
Amy Carroll (Duke, Latin American Studies)
“The Zapatista Transition: Muertos incómodos as Epistolary Performance”
Adam Bund and Olivia Harrison (Columbia,Comparative Literature)
"The New Comparativism"
 Niklas Frykman (Pittsburgh, History)
“Before Britannia Ruled: Some Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Perspectives”
Miguel Rojas (Pittsburgh, Art History)
“ Smuggling Cultures: Body Trafficking and Artistic Agency"
4:15-5:45 pm - Continuing Colonialisms: Ireland and Palestine
 

Chair:
Colin MacCabe (Pittsburgh, English)

Speakers:
Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, English)
“National Struggles, National Bonds: Ireland, Palestine and Comparative Postcolonial Studies”
Joseph Massad (Columbia, Middle Eastern & Asian Language & Cultures)
"The Opposite of Terror: Notes from the Settler Colony"
Rebecca L. Stein (Duke, Cultural Anthropology)
“Intimacies, Interiorities, and Things: Other Histories of Palestinian Dispossession”

5:45-7:45 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - An Evening of Readings by Creative Writers
  Fiona Cheong (Singapore/ USA)/
Luiza Moreira (Brazil/ USA)
Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal)
Jean Said Makdisi (Lebanon)
Medbh McGuckian (Ireland)
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)USA)

 

Friday, October 28, 2005 - Fricks Fine Arts Auditorium

8:30-9:30 am - Breakfast

9:30-9:45 am - Remarks by Dean John Cooper
9:45-10:45 am - Keynote Address I: Kumkum Sangari (Wisconsin)  
  "'Culture' : name/place/practice"
11:00-12:45 pm - Focus Caribbean and Latin America
 

Chair:
John Beverley (Pittsburgh, Hispanic Lang. & Lit.)

Speakers:
Sibylle Fischer (NYU, Spanish and Portuguese)
“The Haitian Revolution, Postcolonialism, and the Vexed Question of Modernity”
Faith Smith (Brandeis, English/African-American Studies)
“The Limits of Brotherhood: Race and Regionalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Caribbean."
Peter Hulme (Essex, English)
“Extending the Caribbean”
Diana Taylor (NYU, Performance Studies)
“Performance and History”

12:45-2:00 pm - Lunch
2:00-3:45 pm - Creative Writers’ Roundtable Discussion
  Chair:
Fiona Cheong (Singapore/ USA)

Speakers:
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal)
Jean Said Makdisi (Palestine/ Lebanon)
Medbh McGuckian (Ireland)
Luiza Moreira (Brazil/ USA)
Fiona Cheong (Singapore/ USA)
Jean Binta Breeze (Jamaica/ Britain)
4:00-5:15 pm - Focus Asia/Pacific
 

Chair:
Joseph Alter (Pittsburgh, Anthropology)

Speakers:
Harry Harootunian (NYU, East Asian Studies)
"Outwitted by History: Postcoloniality's Romance with Culture"
Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, Literary and Cultural Studies)
"Tracking Modernity: Railway Space in South Asia"
Vicente Diaz (Michigan, Program in American Culture)
"Indigenous Seafaring as Critique and Praxis"

5:15-6:45 pm - Focus Africa
 

Chair:
Susan Andrade (Pittsburgh, English)

Speakers:
Misty Bastian (Franklin and Marshall, Anthropology)
"Take the Battle to the Enemies' Camp: Militarism, Masculinism and Deliverance in African Pentecostal Discourse"
Brian Larkin (Barnard, Anthropology)
“Evangelical Islamists: Ahmed Deedat and the Performance of Religious Identity in Nigeria”
Jarrod Hayes (Michigan, French)
"Soyinka's Queer Interpretations"
Susan Andrade (Pittsburgh, English)
"Literary Theory in Dialogue with Area Studies"

7:00 pm - Dinner

 

Saturday, October 29, 2005 - Cathedral of Learning - Room 324

8:30-10:00 am - Breakfast
10:00-11:15 am - Emergent Areas in Postcolonial Studies
 

Chair & Respondent:
Peter Hulme (Essex, English)

Speakers:
Aamir Mufti (UCLA, Comparative Literature)
“Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Islam”
Marcus Rediker (Pittsburgh, History)
"Atlantics Black, White, Green, and Red"

11:30 am-1:00 pm - Comparative Postcolonial Visual Cultures
 

Chair:
Neepa Majumdar (Pittsburgh, Film Studies)

Speakers:
Annie Coombes (Birkbeck of London, Art History)
“Impossible Histories and the Making of Memory”
Kajri Jain (Independent Scholar, Art History)
“Between and Across Viewing Subjects: Indian Calendar Art’s ‘English Market’”
Michael Chanan (West England, Cultural Studies)
"The Aesthetic Geography of Latin American Cinema: A Video Essay”

1:00-2:30 pm - Lunch
2:30-3:30 pm - Keynote Address II: Robert J.C. Young (NYU)
  "The Asylum Seekers (1941), starring Walter Benjamin"
  Respondent:
Colin MacCabe (Pittsburgh, English)
3:45-5:30 pm - Roundtable Discussion with Audience
Directions in Postcolonial Studies: What is to be Done?
  Chair:
Shalini Puri (Pittsburgh, English)

Speakers/Respondents:
John Beverley (Pittsburgh, Hispanic Lang. & Lit.)
"Peasants and Postcoloniality":
Shalini Puri (Pittsburgh, English)
“Areas of Brightness”
Sangeeta Ray (Maryland, English)
“Columbus Cancelled! Postcolonial Studies in a Flat World”
Kumkum Sangari (Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Robert J.C. Young (NYU, English)
5:30-7:30 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Concluding Performance/Reading by Jean Binta Breeze - Frick Fine Arts Auditorium