SEPC Conference
January 31st – February 1st 2019
Hosted by the Université de Lille and the research laboratory CECILLE EA 4074
Funded by the Institut Universitaire de France
Thursday January 31st
9h Welcome
9h30-11h Gendering Dissensus (Chair: Claire Omhovère, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3)
Tritha Abdelaziz, Université Chouaib Doukkali: “Muslim Acrobats write their Hi/story: Undoing the Orientalist ‘Haremizing’ views and Re-locating Women’sAgency”
Sandeep Bakshi, Université Paris Diderot: “Dissensus-in-Consensus: Queer India and its Discontents”
Sharbani Banerjee Mukkerjee, Triveni Devi Bhalotia College: “Postcolonial Resistance in Indian Aesthetics: Rabindranath Tagore’s Tasher Desh and Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala”
11h Coffee break
11h30-13h15 Resistance and Reconciliation (Chair: Joseph Egwurube, Université de La Rochelle)
Delphine David, Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne& Annael Le Poullennec, Institut des mondes africains/PSL: “Consensus and Dissensus in Post-Reconciliation Films Beneath Clouds (Australia, Ivan Sen, 2002) and The Wooden Camera (South Africa, Ntshaveni WaLuruli, 2003)”
Liani Lochner, Université Laval: “Zoë Wicomb and Authorship as Dissent”
Christine Emmett, University of Warwick: “Political Spontaneity, or The Limits of Legitimacy in South Africa: Returning to 1976”
13h15-14h15 Lunch
14h15: Presentation of SEPC Award for best PhD thesis in the field of postcolonial studies in 2016 and 2017. Winner: Anne-Sophie Letessier, Université Jean Monnet – Saint Etienne
14h30-16h Subverting Forms of Otherness (Chair: Salhia Ben Messahel, Université de Toulon)
Alice Michel, Université d’Orléans: “‘Feminine’ Romance, Australian Cultural Identity and Conflicting Allegiances in Ada Cambridge’s ‘The Three Miss Kings’ (1883)”
Grégory Albison, Université Grenoble Alpes: “Changing the Traditional Model of Ownership and Management’ – Bicultural Consensus or Indigenous Dissensus? The Case of the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand”
Marilyne Brun, Université de Lorraine: “Consensus and Dissensus in the Australian Museum’s First Australians Galleries”
16h15-17h15 Re-imagining the Postcolony (Chair: Marilyne Brun, Université de Lorraine)
Joseph Egwurube, Université de La Rochelle: “Things FallingApart? Biafra and Neo-Biafran Dissensions in Post-Colonial Nigeria”
Thomas Jay Lynn, Penn State Berks: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dialogue with Chinua Achebe and Graham Greene”
20h Conference dinner
Friday February 1st
9h30-11h30 Redistributing the Sensible (Sandeep Bakshi, Université Paris Diderot)
Pascal Zinck, USPC-Pléiade: “LoC: Lives under State Control in Frozen, Tahaan and Bajrangi Bhaijaan”
Bhawana Jain, Université de Paris 1: “Making it Heard: A Case of Digital Memoryscapes of the Partition of India”
Sandrine Soukai, Université de Paris-Sorbonne: “The Dissenting Voices of Dalit Women Writers: Breaking Away From Narratives of Victimhood”
Ridhima Tewari, Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad: “Sadat Hasan Manto’s Women: ‘Floating Subjects’, ‘Proper’Places and the Art of Dissensus”
11h30 Coffee break
12h-13h Keynote conference: Dr Meg Samuelson, University of Adelaide: “Reparative Aesthetics: Enduring Violence and the Ethics of Care”
13h-14h15 Lunch
14h30-16h Performing Dissensus (Chair: Fiona McCann, Université de Lille SHS)
Claire Dubois, Université de Lille SHS: “Constance Markievicz’ Politics of Dissensus”
Hélène Lecossois, Université de Lille SHS: “Performance as Dissensus in Twentieth Century Irish Theatre”
Lionel Pilkington, NUIG:“Moving Statues: Ireland in the 1980s”
16h15-17h45 Evolving Landscapes, Dissenting Spaces (Chair: Kerry-Jane Wallart)
Claire Omhovère, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3: “Discovering / Recovering / Uncovering Heritage: Abel Jordan’s Art of Subtraction”
Sam Coombes, University of Edinburgh: “The Resurgence of White Nationalism and the Need for Renewed Dissensus in Contemporary British Cultural Theory”
Silvia Gerlsbeck, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg: “‘I’m not that sort of writer’: Confinement and Contestation of the ‘Postcolonial’ in Literature of the Post-Windrush Era”
17h45-18h Concluding remarks