BRINDA MEHTA
Prezentacije
“The Politics of Pain: Reading Postmodern Wounds in Evelyne Accad’s The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer and Les femmes du crepuscule.” To be presented at The Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network. Contemporary Women’s Writing: New texts, Approaches, and Technologies. San Diego State University. July 7-9, 2010.
“The Trauma of History in French Caribbean Literature.” To be presented at “Act 22 – Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art.” University of Lisbon, Portugal. November 2-4, 2009.
“Locating India in the Caribbean: Indo-Caribbean Literature, Gender, and Subjectivity: An Overview.” Invited talk. Department of English and Postcolonial Studies. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. August 3, 2009.
“Negotiating Arab-Muslim Identity, Contested Citizenship and Gender Ideologies in the Parisian Housing Projects.” Invited speaker at a special conference on “Multiculturalism and Democracy in the Muslim World.” Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah. Centre Sud Nord. Fès, Morocco. July 2-4, 2009.
“Writing Against War and Occupation in Iraq: Gender, Social Critique, and Social Critique in Dunya Mikhail’s The War Works Hard.” Invited speaker. Special conference on “Dissidence and Creativity.” Spelman College. March 20-21, 2009.
“Slavery, Memory and Pain’s Subjectivity in Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme.” Presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Le Raizet, Guadeloupe. June 4-7, 2008.
“Ramabai Espinet: Postcolonial Dissident and Feminist Activist.” Presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Le Raizet, Guadeloupe. June 4-7, 2008.
“Truncated Identities and Historical Liminalities in French Caribbean Literature.” Keynote address. University of Iowa. May 2, 2008.
“Transcolonial Creolizations in the Novels of Maryse Condé.” Invited Talk. Department of Romance Studies. Duke University. February 10, 2008.
“The Problematics of Representation: Indo-Caribbean Identity in Martinique and Guadeloupe.” Keynote speech at “The Asian Experience in the Caribbean and the Guyanas.” University of Miami, Coral Gables. November 1-3, 2007.
“The Politics of Torture in Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme.” The 5th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamica. June 27-30, 2007.
“The Poetics and Politics of Indo-Caribbean Thought.” Frantz Fanon Award acceptance speech. 5th Annual conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. University of the West Indies. Mona, Jamaica. June 27-30, 2007.
“Historicizing Memory, Inscribing Kala Pani in Ernest Moutoussamy’s A la recherché de l’Inde perdue.” The 23rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. May 28-June 1, 2007.
“The Sanctity of Memory and the Politicization of Hammam Culture in Assia Djebar’s “Women of Algiers in their Apartment” and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood.” Invited speaker. Faculty Forum. University of California at Davis. April 26, 2007.
“Framing South Asian Identity in the French Caribbean.” The 22nd Annual South Asia Conference, University of California at Berkeley. February 16-17, 2007.
“The Transnational Geography of Food in Francophone Caribbean Women’s Writing.” The 3rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.” Concordia University. Montreal, Canada. August 1-3, 2006.
"Re-membering Sycorax: Mami Célèste's Healing Narratives in Myriam Chancy's The Scorpion's Claw." Presented at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Hollywood, Florida. May 30-June 3. 2006.
"Exilic Dispositions and Dougla Identity in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie." Presented at "Images de soi dans la literature antillaise/Self Images, Mirror Images in Antillean Literature." L'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique. November 23-25, 2005.
"Engendering Indo-Caribbean Historiography in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge." Presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 1-4, 2005.
"Dissidence, Creativity and Embargo Art." Presented at the 7th Annual Arab Women's Solidarity Conference. Cairo, Egypt. May 21-23, 2005.
"Identity and the Language of Food in Giséle Pineau's L'exil selon Julia." Presented at "The Caribbean Unbound." Franklin College. Lugano, Switzerland. April 14-16, 2005.
"Caribbean Feminism in a Transnational Context." Invited speaker. Center for Gender and Development Studies. The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. March 5, 2005.
"Gender and Nationalism in Contemporary Arab Women's Writing." Invited speaker. Department of Women's Studies. San Francisco State University. February 16, 2005.
"Writing Memory in Contemporary Arab Women's Fiction." Graduate Academic Forum. Mills College. September 23, 2004.
"Kali Worship and Indo-Caribbean Identity." Presented at The Caribbean Philosophical Association Meeting. University of the West Indies, Barbados. March25-27, 2004.
"The Desert as Matrix: Circularity and Memory in Malika Mokeddem's Les Hommes qui marchent and Le Siècle des sauterelles." Presented at the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Conference. London, England. November 28-29, 2003.
"Writing for Peace: Nuha Al-Radi's Baghdad Diaries."Presented "Feminist Responses/Alternative to Violence in a Transnational Context." at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. November 7, 2003.
"Contesting Power and Gender Dystopia: The Spirit of 'Gelede'in Wole Soyinka's Madmen and Specialists." Invited speaker at The Wole Soyinka Festival. University of Central Florida, Orlando. February 17-21, 2003.
"Many Rivers to Cross?: Bridging the Gap Between Indo-Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean Feminisms." Invited speaker at a special conference on "Race, Globalization and the New Ethnic Studies." Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 6-9, 2003.
"Globalization As The "New Orientalism:" Countering The Global Credo Through The Insurrectional Feminist Poetics of Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt) and Assia Djebar (Algeria/France)." Presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. Cairo, Egypt. January 3-7, 2002.
"Dougla Space As A Site of 'Emerging' Caribbean Discourses in CLR James's Minty Alley and Moses Nagamootoo's Hendree's Cure." Presented at the MLA Annual Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. December 27-30, 2001.
"Sexing the Nation: Rethinking Caribbean Feminisms in Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow Is Another Day." Presented at the South Asian Literatures Association Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. December 26-27, 2001.
"The Mother as Culinary Griotte: Food and Cultural Memory in Austin Clarke's Pigtails 'n Breadfruit." Presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Congress of the Americas. Special conference on "Food and Culture." Puebla, Mexico. October 18-21, 2001.
"Exile and the Indo-Caribbean Predicament: Ramabai Espinet's 'Barred: Trinidad 1987.'" Presented at a special conference entitled, "Re-thinking Caribbean Culture." University of the West Indies. Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, June 4-8, 2001.
"Re-presenting 'Third World Women' in the College Curriculum." Presentation and panel discussion. Mills College, Oakland, California, September 22, 2000.
"'Re-vêtir' Ayida-wèdo, la déesse-serpent dansLes Chemins de Loco-Miroirde Lilas Desquiron." Presented at the Congrés Mondial du CIEF. Sousse, Tunisia, May 28-June 3, 2000.
"Re-reading the Caribbean: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers and 'Kala Pani' Hybridity." Lecture given at the University of California, Berkeley, March 3, 2000.
"Indian Creolizations in Ramabai Espinet's 'Indian Cuisine'". Presented at a special conference on "Indians in the Diaspora." University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, March 24-25, 2000.
"Sexuality, Violence and the Female Body Erotic in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms At Night." Presented at the 7th International Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference. University of Puerto Rico, Maygüez Campus, April 3-7, 2000.
"Migrating Female Subjectivities In The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora: Breaking New Ground." Presented at the Beatrice Bain Lecture Series on Gender, UC Berkeley, California, April 5, 1999.
"Advocating A New Militancy: Nawal El Saadawi's Feminist Politics." Presented at the Twenty Fifth Annual Conference of the African Literatures Association. Fez, Morocco, March 9-16, 1999.
"Kala Pani’ Feminism and Caribbean Subjectivity." Lecture given at the Center for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. February 24, 1999.
"The Colonial Curriculum and the Construction of "Coolie/ness" in Lakshmi Persaud's Sastra and Butterfly In The Windand Jan Shinebourne's The Last English Plantation." Presented at The First International Conference of Caribbean Literature, Nassau, Bahamas, November 3-6, 1998.
"Coo-coo, Bhajee, Roti: Indo-Caribbean Women, Creative Kitchens and Culinary Agency in Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly In The Wind and Ramabai Espinet's "Indian Cuisine." Presented at the Sixth International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Grand Anse, Grenada, May 18-22, 1998.
"Yardtalk is Womantalk: Reconfiguring the Politics of Home in Lakshmi Persaud's Sastra and Butterfly In The Wind." Presented at the Twenty Fourth Annual Conference of the African Literature Association, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, March 25-29, 1998.
"Theorizing Space, Reclaiming Home In An Indo-Trinidadian Context." Paper read in absentia at a special conference on Indian Writers in the Diaspora. I.C.A.S.E.L., Mysore, India, January 5-9, 1998.
"Against the Grain: Rebellious Heroines and the Search for Selfhood in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women In One and The Innocence of the Devil."Invited speaker at the Fifth International Conference of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. Cairo, Egypt, October 10-14, 1997.
"Les péripéties de l'eau comme reflet de la condition féminine dans La Fiancée de l'eaude Tahar Ben Jelloun et Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartementd'Assia Djebar." Presented at a special conference on North African culture and literature entitled, "Le Maghreb: á la croisée des cultures." Hammamet, Tunisia, June 15-20, 1997.
"Cultural Hegemony and the Need to Decentre the Brahmanic Stranglehold of Hindu Womanhood in an Indo-Caribbean Context: A Reading of Lakshmi Persuad's Sastra and Butterfly In The Wind." The Twenty Third Annual Conference of the African Literature Association, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, April 16-19, 1997.
"Female Subjectivity and the Prison Narrative: Nawal El Saadawi's Memoirs From the Women's Prison." SCFLL Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, March 6-8, 1997.
"From Alienation to Recuperation: Exile and the Female Body in Bonesby Mahadai Das." The 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, April 1996.
"Patterns of Resistance in North African Feminism." Women's Studies Lecture, University of California at Berkeley, April 18, 1996.
"Images of Exile and the Female Condition in Nawal El Saadawi's The Fall of the Imam." The 22nd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association at the University of Stony Brook, March 27-30, 1996.
"Confinement: A Metaphor and A Reality. A Study of the Confinement of Women in the United States." The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, August 30-September 10, 1995.
"De-structuring the Status Quo: Women, Economic (Self)-Representation and Coalition Formation in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggar's Strike." The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, August 14-18, 1995.
"Francophony, Afro-Caribbean Feminisms and the Third World Intellectual in the American Academy." Invited speaker at Mount Carmel Women's College, Bangalore, India, July 27, 1994.
"Violence and Representation: A Profile of the Female Body in Maryse Condé's Ségou." The 25th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association in Colombus, Ohio, March 13-19, 1995.
"(De)-Orientalizing the Feminine Self: Selected Feminine Characterizations in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters, Season of Anomyand Madmen and Specialists." Invited speaker at the Soyinka Festival in Lagos, Nigeria, July 7-15, 1994.
"Résistance et Pouvoirs de transformation: La femme-shaman dans Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracleby Simone Schwarz-Bart." The Annual C.I.E.F. Conference in Quebec City, April 9-15, 1994.
"Daughters In Action: The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sableand Les Yeux baissés." The 20th Annual African Literature Association Meeting in Accra, Ghana, March 25-31, 1994.
"Re-Presenting the Feminine: Fatima Mernissi and the Politics of Womanism." 19th Annual African Literature Association Meeting in Guadeloupe, April 19-21, 1993.
"Alienation, Dispossession and the Immigrant Experience in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Les Yeux baissés." The 42nd MIFLC Conference in Blacksburg, Virginia, October, 1992.
"Décadence, perversion et le primat du féminin: une étude de Monsieur Vénus." Tenth Annual Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rollins College, Winterpark, Florida, February 27-29, 1992.
"Travesti, voile, sujétion: la condition féminine d'aprés une lecture d L'Enfant de Sableet La Nuit sacréede Tahar Ben Jelloun." The MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, December, 1991.
"Atala ou le Nom de la Mére." The Sixteenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University, January 31-February 2, 1991.
"Mélancolie, dépression et le corps aliéné: le cas d'Esther Von Gosbecdans Béatrix." The Eighth Annual Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literature at Rollins College, Winterpark, Florida, February 22-24, 1990.
"La pathologie du maternel dans La Cousine Bette." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference at Duquesne University, September 8-10, 1989.
"La prostitution ou cette triste réalité du corps dans La Cousine Bette." The Seventh Annual Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literature at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, February 23-25, 1989.
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