BCLA 2013: MIGRATION
Schedule of Panels
as of
17th May 2013
MONDAY 8TH JULY 2013
PANEL STREAM A
(3.30pm – 5pm)
PANEL A1: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Bonnie Millar (South Nottingham College)
‘The Avowyng of Arthur and The Awntyrs off Arthur: Crossing the Boundaries and Borders of Chivalry and Courtly Society’
- Lauren Shufran (University of California at Santa Cruz)
‘“The different pace / Of some chaste footing:” Music and Virtuous Meter in Milton’s Comus’
- 'Tunde Awosanmi(University of Ibadan)
‘A Winter’s Tale’s Yoruba Re-intertexualisation: Palimpsesting Shakespeare at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad’
PANEL A2:Diaspora, Home
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Wiebke Sievers (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
‘How to Become a Writer: The Rules of Art for Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Writers’
- C.G. Shyamala (Mercy College, India)
‘Adaptations within the Diaspora: A Diachronic Study of the Selected Novels of Anita Desai’
- Laura Caretti(University of Siena)
‘Susan Sontag: Portrait of an Actress as a Migrant to Utopia’
PANEL A3:Literature in Exile
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Wanda Jozwikowska(University of East Anglia)
‘Overshadowed by the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish literature in Great Britain’
- Marcin Stawiarski (Université de Caen Basse Normandie)
‘Therapy of Distances or Trauma of Exiles? Migration in Gabriel Josipovici’s Works’
- Sally Shaw (University of Portsmouth)
‘“We are an exile race”: Exploring Diasporic ‘Narratives of Displacement’ in and through the Traces of Jamal Ali’s Poetry and Plays’
PANEL A4: Nomadic Cinema
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Bernadette Luciano & Hilary Chung (University of Auckland)
‘Rethinking Accented Cinema: the Dis/located Migrant as an Agent of Transposition’
- Dušan Radunović (Durham University)
‘Figures of Identity in Contemporary Georgian Cinema: Giorgi Ovashvili’s The Other Bank’
- Natasha Mansfield (University of Essex)
‘Trauma, Exile and Memoir: Strategies of Representation in Persepolis, the Graphic Novel and the Animated Film’
PANEL A5:East-West Identities
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Fabien Arribert-Narce (JSPS/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
‘French Writers and Film-Makers in Japan (1945-2013): A Taste for the Everyday’
- Wen-Hui Chang (Fu-Jen University)
‘Diaspora and Self-identity in Chinese-French Artist: Chow, Ching-Lie, Pan Yu-liang’
- Stefano Calzati (University of Leeds)
‘Travel as Migration, Travel Blogs as Migrated Texts: A Bridging Approach to Classic and Digital Travel Writing About China’
PANEL A6:[Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Chloé Angué(Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
‘The Myth of the Original Maritime Migration in Polynesian Literature: Beyond “Writing Back”, Emergence of a New Poetics’
- Cecilia Rossi (University of East Anglia)
‘Alejandra Pizarnik’s “Complete” Works: Between Jewish Humour, the Desire to Narrate and the Challenges in Translation’
- Sayan Chattopadhyay (Cambridge University)
‘Realigning the Journey of Homecoming: The Unique Trajectory of Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Migration from India to Britain’
PANEL A7:[Title TBC]
- Chair: Peter Hulme
- Participants:
- Cyril Vettorato (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
‘Beating the Past back into the Present: The Drum as a Living Link to a Stolen Past in the Poetry of Brathwaite, Nascimento and Pépin’
- Kael Ashbaugh (Complutense University of Madrid)
‘Exile and the Risible Text: the Uses of Humor in Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Writing’
- Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex)
‘Jean-Noel Pancrazi’s Montecristi: Migration, Life, and Death in Hispaniola’
PANEL A8:Imaginary Resorts,New Ecologies
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Susan Oliver(University of Essex)
‘Exchanging People for Trees: Translating Culture in Walter Scott’s Transatlantic Ecology’
- Benny Morgan (University College London)
‘ABad,Bad,Bad,BadWorld:Commonplacingthe German Spa’
- Diana Leca (Cambridge University)
‘Species Crossings and Ecologies of Abjection in Experimental World Literature’
PANEL STREAM B
(5pm – 6.30pm)
PANEL B1: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Sarah Knor (University of Northampton)
‘Kala Pani Poetics: Indo-Caribbean Migrations’
- Sean Seeger (University of Essex)
‘“Maturity is the assimilation of the features of every ancestor”: Identity and History in the Later Work of Derek Walcott’
- Dauda Sheriff Yillah (Oxford University)
‘Crossing Genres, Crossing Cultures: JMG Le Clézio’s ‘Black African’ Texts’
PANEL B2:Migrating Myths
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Gabriela Steinke (University of Wolverhampton)
‘To Boldly Go: Futuristic Retellings of Ancient Welsh Myths’
- Faith Ben-Daniels (University of Education, Winneba)
‘Kwakue Ananse, the Spider: The Migration of the Trickster’s Role through Time’
- Alex Valente(University of East Anglia)
‘Meddling with Myths: Old Myths for a New Age’
PANEL B3: Rhizomes and Transmigrations
- Chair:
- Participants:
- Alice Podkolinski (University College London)
‘Becomings and Goings: Mapping the De-territorialised Spaces in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time’
- Chantal Zabus (Institut universitaire de France, Université Paris)
‘Trans-Migrations: Transgender Theory beyond the Travel Narrative’
- Roxana Palade (University of Konstanz)
‘Women’s Forced Migration and Their Palimpsests of Identity’
PANEL B4: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Essex)
‘The Stolen Manuscript: The True Story of a Cultural and Geographical Crossing’
- Henriette Partzsch (University of St. Andrews)
‘The Complex Routes of Travelling Texts: The Case of the Swedish writer and Activist Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) and Her Reception in Spain’
- Ellen Carter (University of Auckland and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
‘Maladroit Migration: A “New Zealand” Thriller Limps Home’
PANEL B5: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Asiya Bulatova (University of Manchester)
‘“I’m writing to you in this magazine”’: Mechanics of Modernist Dissemination in Shklovsky’s Open Letter to Jakobson’
- Abid Vali (University of Otago)
‘Ezra Pound & Cathay in Transnational Collaboration’
- Patricia Grimaldi Pizzorno (University of Siena)
‘“Who’s That Girl?”: Joyce’s Comparative Riddles’
PANEL B6: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Kasim Husain (McMaster University)
‘Thinking Outside the Family as Locus of Racial Grievance’
-Christel Stalpaert (University of Ghent)
‘Performing the Emigratory Experience: Encountering Relational Identities’
- Arvi Sepp & Phillipe Humble (University of Antwerp & Free University of Brussels)
‘Moving Tongues: The Spanish and English Translation of Linguistic and Cultural Dislocation in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Narratives of Migration’
PANEL B7: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Carmen Popescu (University of Craiova)
‘Palimpsest, Dialogism, and Differential Rewriting: Descent(s) into Hell’
- Nozomi Uematsu (University of Sussex)
‘The Incomplete Metamorphosis of the Female Body: Animals, Women and Mythologies in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion (1987) and Hiromi Kawakami's Heb wo Fumu (Tread on a Snake) (1996)’
- Sinéad Wall (University of Westminster)
‘Revealing and Accepting the Inner Self in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)’
PANEL B8: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Imogen Taylor (Humboldt University)
‘Mme de Staël and the Limits of Translation’
- Juliette Taylor-Batty (Leeds Trinity University College)
‘Migrating Languages: Translational Discourse in Rhys and Mansfield’
- Oksana Weretiuk (Rzeszow University)
‘English Tea in Ukrainian Jug, or English Story in Ukrainian Tractors and Strawberry Pickers’
PLENARY PANEL:Through Dido’s Eyes
(5pm – 6.30pm, Auditorium A)
- Chair:Christopher Smith(British School at Rome)
- Participants:
- Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
‘The Trojan Diaspora and Phoenician Dido in Medieval Cultures’
- Peter Wiseman (University of Exeter)
‘The Migrant Queen:Theiosso, Elissa, Dido’?
- Ellen O’Gorman (University of Bristol)
‘Dido and the West: The Discontents of Empire’
TUESDAY 9TH JULY 2013
PANEL STREAM C
PANEL C1: Avenues of Revolution in Intertextuality
- Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang (SOAS, University of London)
- Participants:
- Nora E. Parr
‘Migration of Texts, Dissolution of Codes’
- Nathanael Mannone
‘Violence and the “Laughing Chorus”: Tracing the “Grotesque” in Tunisia’
- Philip F. Kennedy
‘Travel and Romance: Contemporary Arabic Avatars of the Ancient Novel’
- Siba Aldabbagh
‘Migrating Prints, Migrating Poetry: Resistance in Rafa al-Nasiri’s Homage to Ibn Zaydun’
PANEL C2:[Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Penny Siganou (University of Toronto)
‘Like a Tourist in Exile: Imagery, the Ephemeral and Returning in Cynthia Rimsky’s Poste Restante’
- Meritxell Joan Rodríguez (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
‘Fluid Journeys: Tracing Identities across Infinite Routes’
- Anke Hennig (Free University Berlin)
‘To Understand the Migration of Clouds Read an Atlas’
PANEL C3: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Faith Smith (Brandeis University)
‘Revolutionary Cuba and the Jamaican Planter Class: The Case of W. Adolphe Roberts’
- Peter Hulme (University of Essex)
‘The Dinner at Gonfarone’s’
- Susan Gillman (University of California at Santa Cruz)
‘Adolphe Roberts’s “Our Sea of Destiny”: The “Mediterranean of the West” in New York, 1940-48’
PANEL C4:[Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Alessandra Rizzo (University of Palermo)
‘Migrant Fluctuating Identities in Leila Aboulela’s Postcolonial Writing’
- Valeria Polopoli (Catania University)
‘Diasporic and Migratory Conditions in Caryl Phillips’sIn the Falling Snow’
- Lisa Marchi (University of Trento)
‘Double Exile: Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men’
PANEL C5:Adaptations
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Danielle Mortimer (University of Essex)
‘Adapting to Trauma: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland’
- Paola Carmagnani (University of Turin)
‘A Migrating Story: From E. Brönte’s Wuthering Heights to L. Buñuel’s Abismos de pasión’
- Aneesh Barai (University of London)
‘“It’s such a small planet, why do you need borders?”: Seeing Flying in Le Petit Prince and Its Screen Adaptations’
PANEL C6:[Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Heather Latimer (University of British Columbia)
‘Migrating Futures: Cinematic Representations of the Pregnant “Illegal” Migrant’
- Romina Lavia (Università della Calabria)
‘The Skin Between Us by Kym Ragusa: On Race, Migration and Belonging’
- Clelia Clini (John Cabot University)
‘Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed. Indian films, British Networks and the Sikh diaspora in Italy’
PANEL C7:Constructing Italian Identity (Abroad)
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Lynn Mastellotto (University of East Anglia)
‘Transnational Identities “Made in Italy”: Narratives of Becoming and Belonging Abroad’
- Elizabeth Wren-Owens (University of Cardiff)
‘Cafés and Class in Italian Welsh and Italian Scottish narrative’
- Elena Basilio(University of Exeter)
‘Donne è bello and the American influence on the Italian feminist movement’
PANEL C8:[Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Grant Hamilton (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
‘The Inevitable Migration: World Literature’
- Cosima Bruno (SOAS, University of London)
‘Macau Poetry in Motion’
- Oliver E. Kühne (University of Tübingen)
‘Locating Okinawan and Hawai’ian Literature on a Map of World Literature: Between ‘Post’-colonial Memory and Hegemonic Representation’
PANEL C9:Cultural Translation
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
‘World Englishes: The Stasis of Cultural Translation?’
- Carmen Zamorano Llena (Dalarna University)
‘“Burning from the inside out”: Cosmopolitanisation and the De-Territorialisation of Identity in Colum McCann’s and David Mitchell’s Work”
- Kate Roy (University of Innsbruck)
‘“Out into the world”: The Afterlives of Emily Ruete’s Memoirs of an Arabian Princess’
PANEL STREAM D (2.30-4pm)
PANEL D1:
- Chair: TBC
- Participants:
- Emilia Di Rocco (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
‘The Discovery of the New World: Ancient Myth as a Modern Model of Migration’
- Laura Marzi (University of Paris 8)
‘Si a partir aurait été Pénélope au lieu d’Ulysse’
- Paola Rotolo (University of Bari)
‘Migrants Intellectuals and Other Castaways: A (Partial) Critical Survey of Italian Literary Reportages on Migration’
PANEL D2: Arab Intellectuals on the Arab Spring
- Chair: TBC
- Participants:
- Samah Idriss (Editor-in-Chief of Al-Adaband Writer,Beirut)
- Somaya Ramadan (Writer and Translator, Cairo)
- Ghazi Gheblawi (Writer, London)
- Mohamed Kawas (Broadcaster, London)
PANEL D3:
- Chair: TBC
- Participants:
- Elizabeth Stewart (University of Edinburgh)
‘50 Years of Sham Marriage’: Perikızı and the Representation of the Anniversary of Turkish-German Recruitment Agreements in Post-Migrant Theatre’
- Esra Almas (Dogus University)
‘The Girl from the Golden Horn: An Ottoman Fantasy in Migration’
- Fatma Kalpakli (Selcuk University)
‘The Image of the Outsider in an Antique Land’
PANEL D4:
- Chair: TBC
- Participants:
- Shuangyi Li (University of Edinburgh)
‘A Shorter Search for Proust: China’s Way’
- Aida Suleymenova(Far Eastern Federal University-Vladivostok)
‘The Impact of Far Eastern Poetics on Western Imagism and the Stylization of Haiku and Tanka in Russian Poetry’
- Gerhard F. Strasser (Penn State University)
‘The Migration of a Writing System: Athanasius Kircher’s Theory of the Origin of Chinese Writing Symbols in Egyptian Hieroglyphs’
WEDNESDAY 10TH JULY 2013
PANEL STREAM E
(9.30am – 11am)
PANEL E1: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Vivienne Orchard (University of Southampton)
‘Literary Globalism and the Travelling Novel: Claire Messud’s The Last Life’
- Ana Stojanoska (University of Skopje)
‘Recorded, Uttered, Pondered, Tacit – The Voices in Kole Chashule’s Novels’
- Catherine Hoffmann(University of Le Havre/FoReLL, University of Poitiers)
‘Crossing and Re-crossing Boundaries: The Generic Migrations of Jocelyn Brooke’s Personal Territories’
PANEL E2:
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Cherish Aileen A. Brillon (Far Eastern University, Philippines)
‘Nostalgia and Spaces: Representations of Filipino Immigrants and New York City in American Adobo and In My Life’
- Aysun Kiran (University College London)
‘Migration of Violence Narratives through Cinematic Representations’
- Matthew Carter (University of Essex)
‘The Trans-Migration of Myth: Three Cinematic Visions of the Borderlands’
PANEL E3: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Natalia Tuliakova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - Saint-Petersburg)
‘In Search of Europe’s Childhood: The Rhine Legends in the Nineteenth Century Literature’
- Mathelinda Nabugodi (University College London)
‘Prometheus Set Free: Four Versions of One Myth’
- Anita Klujber (University of Essex)
‘Persephone and Eurydice: The “Climate-changing bird” and the “Birds - that Stay”’
PANEL E4: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Olga Holownia (University of Iceland)
‘“All of creation just one little sneeze in eternity”: New Icelandic Retellings and Re-envisioning of Norse Myths’
- Leon Burnett(University of Essex)
‘On the Move: The Migration of the Sphinxes’
- Luciana Cardi (Osaka University)
‘Retelling Medea in Contemporary Japan’
PANEL E5: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Serena Alessi (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘From Faithfulness to Feminism: Penelope’s Odyssey’
- Adam Perchard (University of York)
‘Shame and Scheherazade: Migrant Feminisms in “a Muslim milieu”’
- Elizabeth Wickett (Independent Scholar)
‘Mari Jirjis: The Egyptian Tale of St. George and the Dragon’
PANEL E6: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Lina Fisher (University of East Anglia)
‘Princess, Subverted: Fairytale and Gothic Fiction Re-told in Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Legend of the Princess of Kagran” and its Translation’
- Harriet Hulme (University College London)
‘Lines of Flight: Repetition, Translation and Transformation in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Bernardo Atxaga’s Obabakoak’
- Patricia Silva McNeill (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Expressionist Poetics and Intermedial Transposition in José Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira and Fernando Meirelles’s Blindness’
PANEL E7: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Reza Taher (University of Bristol)
‘Persia By Way of Paris: The Sources of Matthew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum”’
- Saeed Talajooy (Cambridge University)
‘The Reformulation of Iranian Forms in Intercultural Adaptations’
- Ursula Haskins Gonthier (University of Birmingham)
‘Iranian Letters’: Rewriting Montesquieu in the Twenty-first Century’
PANEL E8: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Jak Peake (University of Essex)
‘Beyond A Border Control: Melville, C. L. R. James and McCarthyism’
- Karyn H. Anderson (Université de Versailles)
‘Coalesce to Repossess? Intersecting Visions of a New America in Martin Delany’s Blake and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead’
- Conley Wouters (Brandeis University)
‘“Sixty Minutes More or Less”: Temporary Character in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest’
PANEL E9: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Letizia Vettor (University of St Andrews)
‘The Forked Flame in the Legacy of the Theban Myth’
- Lobna Bensalem (University of Manouba)
‘“Fugitive Without Knowing it”: Language, Displacement and Identity in Assia Djebar’s Autobiographic Narratives’
- Paul Anumudu (University of Sydney)
‘Ghosts in the Margins: The African Migrant ‘Other’ in the Dialectics of Exclusion and Recognition’
PANEL STREAM F
(11.30am – 1pm)
PANEL F1:Migrating Mediterranean
- Chair: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
- Participants:
- Miloud Barkaoui (Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University)
‘Journey of Life and Death: Harragas across the Mediterranean’
- Mariangela Palladino (Coimbra University)
‘Burning Boundaries: Trans-coastal Narratives across the Mediterranean’
- Adrian Grima (University of Malta)
‘Migrating Mediterranean Imaginaries’
PANEL F2: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Mahmoud Darraj (University of Essex)
‘Migration and the Problematic of Identity Formation in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1969)’
- Nicoletta Brazzelli (University of Milan)
‘Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival: Myth and Identity between Space and Time’
- Jocelyn Aksin (Washington University, St. Louis)
‘Postcolonial Memory in Zafer Şenocak’s Alman Terbiyesi’
PANEL F3: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Nicola Robinson (University of York)
‘The Aliyah and its Literary Production’
- Sinead Murphy (University College Dublin)
‘Migration in a “Vanishing Landscape”: Destabilisation of Genre in Palestinian Fiction and Non-fiction’
- Nada Nader (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
‘Out of Place: Displacement and the Construction of Identity’
PANEL F4: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Amy Steinepreis (University of Western Australia)
‘Between Central Purgatory and the Outer Rim: Internal Exile in Australia’
- Jane Hiddleston (Oxford University)
‘Travelling Poetry: Text as Migrant in Amin Maalouf’s Samarcande’
- Kawthar Ayed (Université d’Aix-en-Provence)
‘L’immigration inversée et la transgression des frontières’
PANEL F5:Eastern European Migrations
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Bela Gligorova (University of Skopje)
‘Beyond Exile and into Writing of/about the Now: A Page Out of Aleksandar Hemon’
- Diana Hitzke and Charlton Payne (University of Erfurt)
‘Displaced Archives: Recent Post-Yugoslavian Fictions of Migration in Germany’
PANEL F6: [Title TBC]
- Chair: [TBC]
- Participants:
- Zoe Roth (King’s College London)
‘The Jewish Avant-Garde: Towards a Transnational and Diasporic Modernism’