9.15-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Justin D. Edwards (University of Surrey, UK): “Haunted Postcolonial Travel Texts”
Respondent: Delphine Munos (University of Liège, Belgium)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15
- Florence Cabaret (University of Rouen, France): “The Indian Graphic Novel as the Forgotten Heir of the Famous Midnight’s Children?”
Respondent: Christophe Dony (University of Liège, Belgium)
12.15-13.00
- Claire Chambers (University of York, UK), “Minority Genre, Minority Gender, Minority God?: Yasmin Hai’s The Making of Mr Hai’s Daughter and Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf”
Respondent: Katharine Burkitt (Independent scholar, UK)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15
- Marc Delrez (University of Liège, Belgium) reads a paper by Alfredo Grieco y Bavio (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), “Discontinuous Narrative and Dysfunctional Communication: The Medium and the Message in Shirley Hazzard’s UN Fiction”
Respondent: Marie Herbillon (University of Liège, Belgium)
15.15-16.00
- Geoffrey Davis (University of Aachen, Germany), “‘The Advent of a Genre’: Crime Fiction in South Africa”
Respondent: Antoine Dechêne (University of Liège, Belgium)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Robert Antoni (The New School, USA), “Claiming a Hybrid Language, Seeking a Hybrid Form: The Influence of Digital Media on West Indian Writing”
Respondent: Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)
19.00 Conference dinner, at “L’Industrie”, rue St Gilles, 6, 4000 Liège
10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Amit Chaudhuri (University of East Anglia, UK), “Finished and Unfinished Forms: Complete and Incomplete Understanding”
Respondent: Claire Chambers (University of York, UK)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15
- Dave Gunning (University of Birmingham, UK), “After Naipaul: Some Characteristics of the Postcolonial Essay”
Respondent: Mathilde Mergeai (University of Liège, Belgium)
12.15-13.00
- Rebecca Ashworth (University of Liège, Belgium), “Questioning Realities in Kei Miller’s Essays”
Respondent: Christine Pagnoulle (University of Liège, Belgium)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15
- Izuu Nwankwo (Gombe State University, Nigeria), “Fault Lines in the Academy: How ‘Minor’ is African Stand-up Comedy?”
Respondent: Daria Tunca (University of Liège, Belgium)
15.15-16.00
- Katharine Burkitt (Independent scholar, UK), “Finding their Voices: Genre and Narration in Jackie Kay’s Reality, Reality”
Respondent: Rebecca Ashworth (University of Liège, Belgium)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30
- Delphine Munos (University of Liège, Belgium), with Katharine Burkitt (Independent scholar, UK), Wrap-up session
