Abstracts
GLOBAL MORRISON |
Tuesday 27 June 2017 |
KW003 9:00– Registration 9:45 |
KW002 9:45– Welcome 10:00 |
10:00– Guest Speaker: Professor Karla Holloway 11:00 (Duke University, North Carolina) "The Place of the Idea, The Idea of the Place"; or, A Word is a Place |
KW003 11:00– Coffee break 11:30 |
KW002 11:30– Mariam Popal (University of Bayreuth, Germany) 12:00 Planetary Futurity within Aporias in Toni Morrison's Home |
12:00– Yasmin Begum (university of Greenwich, UK) 12:30 Global Morrison – Resonant Ideals in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (2009) |
12:30– Liani Lochner (Université Laval, Canada) 13:00 Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb: Towards a Transnational Feminism |
KW003 13:00– Lunch 14:00 |
KW002 14:00– Jee H. An (Seoul National University [SNU], South Korea) 14:30 The Unbearable Homelessness of (Non)-Being in American Empire: Toni Morrison's Sula and Home |
14:30– Josiane Ranguin (University of Paris XIII-Sorbonne, Paris Cité) 15:00 Embossing stories, Revealing History, Seamlessly: Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977) and Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (1993) |
15:00– Amber Lascelles (University of Leeds, UK) 15:30 Problematising Cosmopolitanism: Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif', Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go |
KW003 15:30– Break 15:45 |
KW002 15:45– Aretha Phiri (Rhodes University, South Africa) 16:15 The Machineries of Blackness in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah |
16:15– Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich, London) 16:45 Morrison and the Transnation |
Greenwich Theatre 17:15– Phillis in London: Spora Stories presents a work-in-progress reading of 18:30 a new play, written and directed by Ade Solanke (University of Greenwich, UK) |
QA Courtyard 19:00– CONFERENCE BARBECUE |
Wednesday 28 June 2017 |
KW003 9:30– Guest Speaker: Emeritus Professor, Justine Tally (University of La Laguna, Spain) 10:30 The Gnosis of Toni Morrison: A Conversation with Herman Melville |
10:30– Portia Owusu (University of Warwick, UK) 11:00 The (M)otherland: Images of Africa in the novels of Toni Morrison |
11:00– Razia Parveen (Independent Scholar) 11:30 The Significance of Morrison's Work for Contemporary Postcolonial/ Transnational Theory |
KW Lobby 11:30– Coffee break 12:00 |
KW003 12:00– Ree Hyun Kim (Ewha Womans University, South Korea) 12:30 Between 'Skin Privileges' and Child Abuse: Qualification of Love in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child |
12:30– Dasol Choi (Ewha Womans University, South Korea) 13:00 Race, Space and Identity in Toni Morrison's Home |
KW Lobby 13:00– Lunch 14:00 |
KW003 14:00– Luana de Souza Sutter (University of Erfurt, Brazil) 14:30 Poetics of (Re)Memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Conceicao Evaristo's Poncia Vicencio |
14:30– Alaa Al-Halbosy (Bangor University, UK) 15:00 Transnational Impact through Stories and Trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved |
15:00– Grace McGowan (Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK) 15:30 Toni Morrison, Robin Coste Lewis, and the Classical Tradition |
| 15:30– Min-Jung Kim (Ewha Womans University, South Korea) 16:00 Racial (In)Determinacy and Abject Bodies in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' |
15:30– Closing plenary and coffee: Round table discussion 16:00 |