programme
International Conference “Disciplining the Margins or Relocating Postcolonial Studies”,
Stuttgart/Freudenstadt, 21-24 July, 2011
Thursday
17.00 registration
18.00 introduction
18.30 Harish Trivedi, “The Precolonial and the Postcolonial: A Long Perspective”
20.15 conference warming
Friday
9.00-9.45 Bill Ashcroft, “Post-colonial Futures: Beyond Grand Theory”
coffee
10.15-12.00 Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Old Words, New Worlds:
Philology and Empire, Revisited for Postcolonial Times”
Jochen Achilles, “Redefinitions of the (Post)Colonial in Contemporary Drama: Transnational Aesthetics in African American Drama”
lunch break
14.00-15.30 Caroline Rooney, “The New
Dirk Wiemann, “Subaltern Studies and Transmodernidad: South-South Encounters in Theory”
coffee
15.45-17.45 Renate Brosch, “Place-Writing: The Regional in Postcolonial Studies”
Nadia El Kholy, “De-colonizing the Imaginations of Young Readers and the Initiation for the Nation”
Saskia Schabio,“Caribbeanness, the
Beyond the Black
Saturday
9.00-9.45 Deepika Bahri, “Race in Question in Postcolonial Literature”
coffee
10.15-12.00 Patrick Williams, “Undisciplined marginals: a few revolutionary humanists”
Adi Wimmer, “‘But Sometimes the Margin Colonizes the Centre’. How Aboriginal Politics is Trying to Reverse the Historical Process of Cultural Hegemony”
lunch break
13.30-14.20 Sue Kossew, “Reconstructing the Past: Colonial History in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance”
14.30 outing “Hohenzollern” / transfer time approx. 1 hour
20.00 dinner at Zollernblick
Sunday
9.00-9.45 Mpalive Msiska, “What is a Theory? Post-colonial Theory and its Discontents”
coffee break
10.15-11.45 A. Robert Lee, “Postindian/Postcolonial: Literary
Representations of Native
Walter Göbel, “African American and Postcolonial Studies”
11.45-12.00 Summing up / final discussion
lunch