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RECONFIGURATIONS: Remaking Narrative, Reinventing Genre in Postcolonial and Diasporic Writing and Performance
PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE for the third Conference in the AHRC-funded 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' project
To reserve a place for the conference or any of the events, please email b.pester@gold.ac.uk
This schedule is subject to minor changes. If you have any queries, please contact b.pester@gold.ac.uk
GWT = George Wood Theatre, Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths
S3 = Studio 3, Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths
Cafe Crema = Cafe nearby on New Cross Road
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THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER | ||
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| 10:00 | GWT |
Registration and Coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | GWT |
Welcome - Anna Furse, Head of Drama and Blake Morrison, conference convenor |
| 11:15 - 12:45 |
GWT | PANEL EVENT - Readings and discussion hosted by WASAFIRI journal Bernardine Evaristo, Aamer Hussein, Beverley Naidoo, Ardashir Vakil and Susheila Nasta (Chair) |
| 12:45 - 13:15 |
GWT | INVITED SPEAKER - Vic Seidler - Narratives of Suffering: Pinter, Jewishness and Painful Silences |
| 13:15 | Lunch
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| 14:30 - 16:00 | GWT |
Decolonising Shakespeare - Robert Gordon and Osita Okagbue are joined by guests - Dorothy Gould and Hugh Quarshie
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| 16:00 -16:30 | GWT | Reading by Pinter Centre Poet in Residence - Daljit Nagra |
| 16:30 -17:30 | Buffet and wine reception | |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | GWT | Performed Reading of the play Pandora's Box by Pinter Centre Writer in Residence - Ade Solanke |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | GWT | Debate Guest Diane Abbott MP will join Osita Okagbue in a panel debate on the themes of Pandora's Box |
| 20:15 - LATE |
CAFE CREMA | Poetry and Fiction Open-Mic - Hosted by poet Jack Underwood. Food and drinks available. |
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FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER | ||
| 09:45 - 11:15 | GWT | Fractured Narratives from a Fractured Generation
- a collaboration between Goldsmiths and local schools: Daljit Nagra reads with Goldsmiths undergraduates and local school students (JFS school and Deptford Green School). Followed by readings from poets representing WASAFIRI journal: Inua Ellams and Avaes Mohammad |
| 09:45 - 11:15
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S3 | PANEL 1
Cathy Rosario - Pier Paolo Pasolini’s fetishising of a textual fragment in his film The Gospel According to St Matthew Kristine Landon-Smith and Kuldip Powar - Small Lives Global Ties: building collaborations across theatre, music, film and poetry David Krippendorf - Reconfigurations: re-making narrative, reinventing genre in post-colonial and diasporic writing |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
S3 | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:45 |
GWT | PANEL 2 Denise deCaires Narain - ‘Half-and-half’: fractured narratives, the intimacies, limits and possibilities of maid/madam relationships in a creolizing hermeneutics Deirdre Osborne - The Frontline and the Front Room: Representing Black British Domestic Space in Contemporary Writing. Christine Checinska - Every Mickle Mek a Mockle: Reconfiguring Diasporic Identities Rachel Thompson - 'Children of Empire': Intertwining Histories and New Perspectives in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon |
| S3 | PANEL 3 Gbenga Windapo & Hafiz Adebimpe Oyetoro (Joint Submission) A-FOSHUN FOSHUN-FOSHUN Tunji Sotimirin - Poetry in Indigenous Yoruba Music: Interpretation of Apala and Sakara Kehinde Abimbola Adeniyi, Ezekiel Tunde Bolaji & Olubunmi Nkemdirim Adedina (Joint Submission) - The Old Narratives, Changing Times and New Values: An Exploration Of Nigerian TV Drama | |
| 12:45- 13:15 |
GWT | Reading - Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
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| 13:15 - 14:30 |
Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
GWT |
In Conversation - Bonnie Greer discusses Langston Hughes |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
GWT | Invited Speaker - Anna Furse discusses her work on Sea/Woman commissioned by the 'Beyond the Linear Narratives' project |
| 16:00- 17:00 |
GWT | Performed Reading - James Gibbs directs extracts from his work Memory Play |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Break | |
| 17:15 - 18:30 |
GWT |
KEYNOTE - Caryl Phillips Reads from and Discusses his Work
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| 18:30 - 19:30 |
S3 | Wine Reception
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| 19:30 |
Private Performance: PINTER: IN OTHER ROOMS - Directed by Robert Gordon | |
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SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
GWT | PANEL 4
Jessica Peart – Poetry and its transformations in postcolonial and diasporic contexts Naoimh O’Connor - An Capaleen Cogaidh [The War Pony] (performed paper) Ben Levitas – 'Nipple Nuttiness' in London and Dublin: J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, 1959 Aoife Casby - Beginning to Untangle (reading from own work) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
S3 | PANEL 5
Elizabeth Sakellaridou - What Narrative/What Dissent: Refractive Images of India in Marguerite Duras's India Song and Manjula Padmanahban's Harvest Nadia Davids - “She turned everyone’s head, but mine not for long…” Performing the memory, place and biography of Cissie Gool Zoltan Imre - Staging the Nation: Changing Concepts of a National Theatre in Europe Lisa Mansell - From Bardism to Minstrelsy to the Avant Garde: Reconfiguring a Sonic Identity |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
GWT | Readings - Romesh Gunesekera and Maura Dooley
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| 12:30 - 13:45 |
Lunch | |
| 13:45 - 14:15 |
GWT | Readings - Monique Roffey and Gabriel Gbadamosi
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| 14:15 - 15:45 |
GWT |
PANEL 6
Yasmin Gunuratnam - Death and the Migrant: thresholds, pain, care Elena Marcevska - Living in a terminal Seraphima Kennedy - “The loss of a self that you did not have to lose”: Reconfigured Identities in a Multiplicity of Parents Janis Jefferies - A Visit from the Goon Squad: Living in a Technological Pocket |
| S3 |
PANEL 7
Sukanya Chakrabarti - The Devadasis of South India: Performing Shame in Shame Mehmet Özgür Bahçeci - His Master’s Voice: A postcolonial Turkish drama Lauri Ramey - African Diasporic Poetics of Space Season Butler - Emancipated Narrators: Towards Decolonalisation in Black American Literature | |
| 15:45 - 16:30 |
GWT | Performed Reading - David Peimer presents extracts from his play Armed Response |
| 16:30 - 17:45 |
GWT | PANEL 8
Sola Adeyemi - Negotiating Performance: Identity in African and African Diaspora Communities Samuel Kasule - ‘Whose Play is it anyway?: Janet Sears’ Harlem Duet and Dipo Agboluaje's Mother Courage as ‘African’ plays’ Funmi Adewole Kruczkowska - Embodying the African Aesthetic through theatrical practice: Discontinuity, Continuity, and Agency |
| 17:45 |
GWT | (Drinks) Reading and Music - Anthony Joseph reads from his book 'Rubber Orchestras' accompanied by members of his band |