Fractured Narratives: Pinter, Postmodernism and the Postcolonial World

Conference with Papers, Readings, Performances and Workshops

Booking is now open for delegates to this three-day conference hosted by the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The three day conference, which runs from the 5th – 7th of November 2009, will feature a variety of scholarly with talks and informal Q and A sessions by distinguished guests, including Lady Antonia Fraser, Bonnie Greer and Michael Billington.

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Current Schedule (Subject to change)

Conference Schedule - All Events to take place in the Department of Drama George Wood Theatre and Studios 1 & 3 unless otherwise stated.

Thursday 5 November

10.30 am Registration and coffee
11.30 am Welcome: Professor Jane Powell (Research Pro-warden) and Professor Robert Gordon
12 -12.45 pm Keynote address: Professor Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, ‘Beckett’s devious
interventions and other narrative disruptions’
12.45 – 2 pm Lunch
2 – 3 pm Michael Billington: Pinter and the British Theatre – Q&A
3pm Workshop performance of Spirit Level, Gabriel Gbadamosi
4.10 pm Tea
4.15 pm Panel 1: Pinter, territory and identity (3 speakers)/ Panel 2: Pinter’s inter-texts (3 speakers) -
5.45 pm Readings from their work by Remi Kapo, Chinese poet,Yang Lian, and Anthony Joseph

Friday 6 November

9.45 am Coffee and registration
10 – 11.45 am Panel 3: So who then are Pinter’s legitimate children? (3 speakers) / Panel 4: Pinter and
narrative (3 speakers)
11.45 am Performance Lecture - Ajaykumar Radio Play and Performance Workshop by Funme Adewole
12.30 pm Readings by Bernadine Avaristo and Anne le Marquand Hartigan
1.15 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Timberlake Wertenbaker, Dennis Kelly, Dawn Walton, Bonnie Greer on Pinter’s impact
3.15 pm Ian Rickson on directing Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
4 pm Pinter’s poetry with Blake Morrison, Nina Raine and Guest
5 pm Reception hosted by the Warden, Professor Geoffrey Crossick
6.30 pm * Special Performance of Come Good Rain *

Saturday 7 November

10 am Panel 5: Fractured narratives and postmodern theatre (4 speakers)/
Panel 6: Fractured narrative and post-colonial performance (4 speakers)
11.45 am Panel 7: Postmodern/post-colonial aesthetics (4 speakers)/
Panel 8: Terror and territory in post-colonial narrative (3 speakers)
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Workshop performance by Goossun Art-Illery
3.30 pm Keynote address: Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert on Post-colonial life writing
4.15 pm Plenary session

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Creative artists

Gabriel Gbadamosi, workshop/discussion of Spirit Level

Goossun Art-illery – Truth is Fragmented

Anthony Joseph reading from his fictional biography, ‘Kitch’

Remi Kapo reading from his novel, Reap the Forgotten Harvest

Anne le Marquand Hartigan reading from her poem Now Is a Moveable Feast

Yang Lian, Chinese poet reading from his work

Ian Rickson on directing Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape

Playwrights’ panel

Timberlake Wertenbaker
Martin Crimp
Kwame-Kwei Armah
Dennis Kelly
Bonnie Greer (chair)

Academic participants

PANEL 1: Pinter, territory and identity
Dr Vicky Angelaki, ‘”Your language is forbidden”: speaking fractured political narratives
in Pinter’s later plays’
Professor Robert Gordon – ‘Pinter’s others: the destabilising of imperialist narrative in The Room and The Birthday Party’’

PANEL2: Pinter’s inter-texts
Professor Steve Gale, ‘My three most memorable meetings with Harold Pinter’
Professor William Baker, ‘Harold’s library’
Dr Susan Hollis Merritt, ‘Pinter still in play: Pinter's Legacies’

PANEL3 : So who then are Pinter’s legitimate children?
Dr Suzanne Scafe, South Bank University ‘ “Let Me Tell You How it Really Was”’: Authority, Legitimacy and Fictive Structures of Reality in Contemporary Black Women’s Autobiography’
Dr Deirdre Osborne, Drama Department, Goldsmiths One body, Many voices: Upon ‘Getting the Whole Story’ in the Monodramas of debbie tucker green and Mojisola Adebayo
Dr Joan Anim-Addo, ECL, Goldsmiths Black British Literature Representing a Fractured Past: Absences, Amnesia, Critical Resistance and the Academy

PANEL4: Pinter and narrative
Dr Clementina Angelino, University of Naples - ‘The Dwarfs as fiction and drama’
Dr Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, ‘Evasive narratives: Kullus and the source of creativity’
Dr Linda Renton, ‘Pinter’s approach to The Handmaiden’sTale’
Dr Antonia Tsamouris, ‘Terror and territory in Pinter’s postcolonial narratives’

PANEL 5: Fractured narrative and postmodern theatre
Dr Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, ‘Progress, violence and ethics in Martin Crimp’s Cruel and Tender’
Professor Nesta Jones, Rose Bruford College, ‘Music, words and narrative in The Spoils’
Dr Enric Monforte, University of Barcelona, ‘Damaged queer identities in contemporary British drama’
Dr Robert McLaughlin, Illinois State University, ‘The road you didn’t take: Sondheim’s fractured narratives’

PANEL 6: Fractured narrative and post-colonial performance
Dr Osita Okagbue, Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths,
Professor David Peimer, Department of Drama, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa: ‘Narrativity in post- apartheid performance’
Ade Solanke, ‘Fractured family in post-colonial drama
Ekua Ekumah, Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, ‘Storytelling in African performance’

PANEL 7: Postmodern/post-colonial aesthetics
Ho I Lien, ‘Choreographing cultural identities: the work of the Cloud Gate Theatre of Taiwan’
Jennifer Jackson, ‘Choreographic practices as narratives of time and space’
Mara Lockowandt, ‘Performing restraints: Pinter in Belarus’
Dr Angela Rene Wright, University of Barcelona, ‘A fractured narrative: following Walter Benjamin’s shadow into the making of postmodern traditions.

PANEL 8: Terror and territory in post-colonial narratives
Professor Helen Carr, Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, ‘Fractured narrative in postcolonial fiction’
Natalie Diebschlag, ‘Jazzing the novel: music and madness as structural singularity in Michael Ondaantje’s Coming Through Slaughter’
Britta Jubin, Department of Comparative Literature, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany: ‘(Re) Measuring terror and territory: Uwe Timms Morenga as a new attempt at narrating the colonial war in German South-West Africa’

Workshop performance
Funmi Adewole, ‘The sleepwalkers’ dream’ (performance)
Ajaykumar, Drama Department, Goldsmiths,
Gabriel Gbadamosi, Pinter Centre Research Fellow, Spirit Level
Goossun Art-illery, 'Truth is Fragmented'

Fractured Narratives Conference

Dates & times

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5 Nov 2009	10:00am - 6:30pm	apple google outlook
6 Nov 2009	10:00am - 8:45pm Includes evening performance and wine reception	apple google outlook
7 Nov 2009	10:00am - 6:30pm	apple google outlook

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