[eccr] Conference: Politics of Postcoloniality

>The Politics of Postcoloniality: Contexts and Conflicts
>
>The Annual John Douglas Taylor Conference
>McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
>Friday, October 24, 2003
>
>For further info: (politicsofpoco /at/ yahoo.ca) or (mcgoneja /at/ mcmaster.ca)
>
>
>CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
>
>8:00-8:45:  Registration in Council Chambers,
>Room 111 Gilmour Hall
>
>8:45-10:00:   Opening Address by Diana Brydon, "The Ends of
>Postcoloniality"
>
>
>10:15-11:15:
>
>Session A:  "Critical Reflections on the Future:  Postcolonial Diasporas,
>Postcolonial Identity Politics, and the Ethics of Postcoloniality"
>(University Center, 220)
>
>Chair:  Donald Goellnicht (McMaster U)
>
>Laura Moss (UBC), "Indeterminacy and the Ethics of Postcoloniality in
>Canada"
>
>David Chariandy (SFU), "Postcolonial Diasporas"
>
>Mridula Nath Chakraborty (U of Alberta), "The Fantasy of Alterity:  Some
>Thoughts on Postcolonial Identity Politics"
>
>
>Session B:  "At the Margins of Empire: Alternative Postcolonial Paradigms"
>(University Center, 224)
>
>Chair:  Scott Bunyan (University of Sussex)
>
>Mohammed Alquwaizani (Imam Muhammad Ibn Said Islamic U),
>"Postcolonialism(s) and the Third World:  The Divisions Within"
>
>Chandrima Chakraborty (York U), "Literature and Politics:  Revising the
>Postcolonial Canon in the West"
>
>Abdollah Zahiri (Centennial College), "Theorizing Anticoloniality in
>Contemporary Persian Literature"
>
>
>Session C:  Roundtable: "The Indian Act and the Multiculturalism Act:
>Undoing the Myths to Work Across Racialized Difference" (University
>Center, 230)
>
>Chair:  Gamal Abdel-Shehid (U of Alberta)
>
>Melisa Brittain (U of Alberta)
>
>Tolly Bradford (U of Alberta)
>
>Jean Walrond-Patterson (U of Alberta)
>
>Tosha Tsang (U of Alberta)
>
>Michael Cantelon (U of Alberta)
>
>Vincent Steinhauer (U of Alberta)
>
>
>11:20-12:20:
>
>Session A:  "Feminist and Performative Politics of Postcoloniality"
>(University Center, 220)
>
>Chair:  Susan Spearey (Brock U)
>
>Kanika Batra (U of Delhi), "Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship:  Rituals of
>Gender and Development in Sistern Theater Collective's Bellywoman
>Bangarang and QPH"
>
>Ranjana Khanna (Duke U), "Feminist Internationalism to Come:  Melancholia
>and the Future of Critical Race Thinking Across Borders"
>
>Clyde Brooks, "Reloading the Ca(n)non"
>
>
>Session B:  "Postcolonialism As Worldly Practice" (University Center, 224)
>
>Chair:  Kate Higginson (McMaster U)
>
>Heather Zwicker (U of Alberta),  "'To Build a Better World':  Corporate
>Genealogy of The Bechtel Corporation"
>
>Nagesh Rao (Wake Forest U), "New Imperialisms, New Imperatives:  The
>Future of Postcolonial Studies"
>
>Helen Scott (U of Vermont), "Reading the Text in its Worldly Situation:
>Edwidge Danticat's Fiction and Imperialism in Haiti"
>
>
>Session C:  Roundtable: "(Un)Doing Colonialism?:  Postcolonialism in the
>Classroom" (University Center, 230)
>
>Chairs:  Rick Monture (McMaster University) and Jasmin Habib (Wilfred
>Laurier University)
>
>Davina Bhandar (Trent U)
>
>Jasmin Habib (Wilfred Laurier U)
>
>Mike Ma (York U)
>
>Teresa McCarthy (McMaster U)
>
>Rick Monture (McMaster U)
>
>
>12:20-1:00:  Lunch (Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall, Room 111)
>
>
>1:00-2:10:   Keynote Address by Himani Bannerji, "Always Towards:  The
>Problematic of Decolonization, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism in the
>Works of Rabindranath Tagore" (Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall, Room 111)
>
>
>2:20-4:00:
>
>Session A:  Roundtable: "Empire Resurrected:  (Un)Building Imperial
>Colonies in the 21st Century" (University Center, 220)
>
>Chair:  Suha Kudseih  (U of Toronto)
>
>William Anselmi (U of Alberta), "Scrip(tur)ing the 21st Century:  The Many
>American Ways of an Empire Undone"
>
>Liam Connell (U of Hertfordshire), "Empire, Imperialism, Globalization and
>the Nation-State:  The Semantics of the Newest World Order"
>
>Mark Driscoll (U of North Carolina), "Preempting Postcoloniality?"
>
>Suha Kudsieh (U of Toronto), "Examining the Commodification and Marketing
>of Imperial Altruistic (Pre)Texts"
>
>Sandro Mezzadra (U of Bologna) and Federico Rahola (U of Genoa), "The
>Postcolonial Condition:  Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the
>Globalization Age"
>
>
>Session B:   "Postcolonial Anxieties:  The Author and the Critic"
>(University Center, 230)
>
>Chair:  Imre Szeman (McMaster U)
>
>Tilottama Rajan (UWO),  "On (Not) Being Postcolonial"
>
>Neil ten Kortenaar (U of Toronto), "Becoming Salman Rushdie"
>
>Chelva Kanaganayakam (U of Toronto), "Narratives of Anxiety:  Coetzee,
>Ondaatje, Goonesekera"
>
>
>4:15-5:30:  Closing Address by Asha Varadharajan, "Intimations of the Next
>World Order:  Signs of Trouble in Postcolonial Studies"
>(Council Chambers, Room 111 Gilmour Hall)
>
>
>6:00-9:00:  Dinner at the Staircase Theater followed by an evening of Dub
>Poetry with Clyde Brooks
>
>
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