British Culture after 9/11
Friday 27 June 2014
Teesside University, Darlington and Middlesbrough Campuses
Programme
9.00 – 9.45: Registration and refreshments (D4.09)
9.45 – 10.00: Welcome (D4.05/06)
10.00 – 11.00: Keynote 1 (D4.05/06)
Claire Chambers (University of York)
‘“Alhamdulillah, bro. We skilled it”: Comedic representations of British Muslims in post-9/11 film and TV’
Chair: Rachel Carroll (Teesside University)
11.00 – 11.30 Refreshments (D4.09)
11.30 – 12.30 Parallel panels 1 (D4.05/06) and 2 (D4.01)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (D4.09)
1.30 – 2.30 Parallel panels 3 (D4.05/06) and 4 (D4.01)
2.30 – 2.45 Refreshments (D4.09)
2.45 – 3.45 Keynote 2 (D4.05/06)
Peter Morey (University of East London)
‘Islamophobia and the novel’
Chair: Nigel Copsey (Teesside University)
3.45 – 4.45 Parallel panels 5 (D4.05/06) and 6 (D4.01)
5.00 Coach to Middlesbrough campus
6.00 – 7.00 Buffet (Constantine Gallery)
Exhibition: ‘Second Glance/Double Take II’
7.00 – 8.15 Avaes Mohammad (Centuria, H0.53)
Poetry performance with discussion and Q&A
Chair: Rehana Ahmed (Teesside University)
8.30 Coach from Middlesbrough campus to Darlington
*Please note that the conference will begin at the Darlington Campus where we will remain until 5.00 when a coach will take all delegates to the Middlesbrough Campus for the evening events.
Panels
1. Madeline Clements (Forman Christian College, Lahore)
‘Seeing beyond? Engagements with Islamophobia in Pakistani art exhibited in Britain in the post-9/11 decade’
Philip Gurrey (independent artist)
‘The Beeston Series: An artistic response to 7/7’
Lauren Hayhurst (University of Exeter)
‘Fictionalising the “British Muslim experience”: A writer’s perspective’
Chair: Florian Stadtler (University of Exeter)
2. Gohar Karim Khan (University of Warwick)
‘A fellowship of wounds: Transnational assertions of selfhood in Nadeem Aslam’s fiction’
Ayesha Siddiqi (University College London)
‘Tolerance and its extremities in Nadeem Aslam’s post-9/11 novels’
Roxanne Bibizadeh (University of Warwick)
‘Re-imagining Iran from a female perspective: Yasmin Crowther’s The Saffron Kitchen’
Chair: Lindsey Moore (Lancaster University)
3. Florian Stadtler (University of Exeter)
‘A new structure of feeling in commercial Indian cinema? Representing 9/11 and 7/7 in Jag Mundhra’s Shoot on Sight (2007) and Kabir Khan’s New York (2009)’
Sarah Ilott (Lancaster University)
‘Women on the margins in multicultural British comedy’
Antje Glück (University of Leeds)
‘The representation of Islam in television news: A look at the BBC’
Chair: Humaira Saeed (Nottingham Trent University)
4. Stephen Morton (University of Southampton)
‘Secularism and the death and return of the author: Re-reading the Rushdie affair after 9/11’
Hussain Abdulwahab (Brunel University)
‘Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: Darwin, Nietzsche and neo-Orientalist anxieties’
Jonathan Rodgers (University of Manchester)
‘Saturday, 9/11 and the “New Atheist Novel”’
Chair: Madeline Clements (Forman Christian College, Lahore)
5. Humaira Saeed (Nottingham Trent University)
‘Interrogating pathos: Queer Muslims and the sympathetic nation’
Mike Upton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘Genealogies of Islamophobia in post-9/11 gay/queer cultural production’
Peter Cherry (University of Edinburgh)
‘“I’d rather my brother was a terrorist than a homo”: British Muslim masculinity and homosexuality in Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil (2012)’
Chair: Rachel Carroll (Teesside University)
6. Ana María Sánchez-Arce (Sheffield Hallam University)
‘Performing innocence: Narrative and normative communities in McEwan’s Saturday, Reed’s The Grid, and Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets’
Lucinda Newns (London Metropolitan University)
‘Domestic fiction and the Islamic female subject: Reading textual resistance in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator’
Chair: Rehana Ahmed (Teesside University)