Globalisation And Postcolonial Writing: An Australia-India Exchange - Programme
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Day One (Tuesday 7 Feb)
10.00
- Final registration arrangements. Tea, Coffee
10.20 - 11.00
- Plenary: Conference Opening
- University Song
- Welcome Address 1: Tapati Gupta, HOD, Dept of English, CU & Conference Director
- Welcome Address 2: Chandani Lokuge, Director, Centre for Postcolonial Writing, MonashUniversity & Conference Director
- Address: Asis Banerjee,Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University
- Address: Richard Larkins,Vice Chancellor of Monash University.
- Memorandum of Understanding Signing
- Vote Of Thanks
11.00 - 11.45
- Plenary: Keynote AddressChair: Chandani Lokuge
- Peter Goldsworthy: The Ocean that Unites Us, the Froth that Divides Us:Thoughts on Biology and Culture
11.45 - 1.15
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Writing Cultures
- Chair: Dipesh Chakravorty
- David Carter: From Textual Politics to Cultural History: Australian Literary Studies 'after' Postcolonialism.
- Andrew Ng: The Postcolonial/ Postmodern Gothic: Salman Rushdie's Fury
- Michael Meehan: Maps, Stories Spaces: Australian Embodiment
- (b) Days of Empire
- Chair: Bharati Ray
- Ruth Brimacombe: Portly Prince/Splendid Rajah: Albert Edward and the Aesthetics of Indian Royalty
- Terry Collits: Representing Chinamen: Problems Facing the Idea of a Postcolonial Conrad
- Alan Dilnot: Dickens & Empire
- (c) Indian Responses
- Chair: Bill Ashcroft
- Santosh Sareen: Seeing Beyond the Colonial: Alfred Deakin's Voice of Prophesy
- Debnarayan Banerjee: Critiquing Space and Unspoken Word: a Study of Peter Goldsworthy's WISH
- Aninda Basu Roy: Reviewing the Bush Legend: Australian Cinema and Nation Formation
1.15 - 2.15
- Lunch
2.15 - 3.45
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Politics of Location
- Chair: Stephen Muecke
- Dipankar Purakayastha: Displacement and Identity: The Poetics of Migration in NorthEast India
- Debiprasad Bhattacharya: Writing Marginality: Short Narratives of Tarashanker Bandopadhyay
- Subir Dhar: Version and Subversion: Representation in Subaltern Englishes, Australian and Indian
- (b) Knowing The Other
- Chair: Shanta Mahalanobis
- Paul Sharrad: Convicts, Call Centres and CochinKangaroos: South Asian Globalising of the Australian Imagination
- Devika Goonewardene: Indian Knowledges of the International
- Wenche Ommundsen &Chandani Lokuge: Writers' Conversation
- (c) Gender and Nation
- Chair: Jennifer Strauss
- Krishna Sen: Minding Our Lives: Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism and the Indian Cultural Context
- Malashri Lal: VS Naipaul and the marginal women: India: A million Mutinies Now
- Brinda Bose: Body Matters: Interrogating Sex/ualities in Indian Women's Writing
3.45 - 5.15
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Photography in a Postcolonial Context
- Chair: Ratnottoma Sengupta
- Wendy Garden: The Photographic Studio and the Politics of Self-representation
- Anne Marsh (in absentia): Colonial/Postcolonial: Discourses of Identity in Australian Photography
- Dianne Jones: Artist's Presentation
- (b) Global Traffic: Refugees, Multiculturalism and Children's Literature
- Chair: Sudeshna Chakrabarti
- Clare Bradford: Negotiating Identity: Refugee Narratives for Children & Young Adults
- Debra Dudek: Flee[t]ing Freedom: Refugee Narratives by and for Children
- Wenche Ommundsen: Cultural Citizenship, Cultural Agency: Who Speaks, Who Acts, Who Cares in Australian Refugee Stories?
- (c) Living in No Man's Land
- Chair: Dipendu Chakrabarti
- Adib Khan: Living in No Man's Land?: Writer's Presentation
- Brigid Magner: An Australian Desperate in Mumbai: Gregory David Roberts'Shantaram
- Margaret McDonell: Editing Across Cultures
5.15
- High Tea
5.40
- The Tempest Re-visited: Performance & Reading by Alan Dilnot, Peter Groves and Manikya Kodithuwakku
Day Two (Wednesday 8 Feb)
10.00 - 10.20
- Tea, coffee, City Tour registration for outstation participants
10.20 - 11.30
- Plenary Chair: Denise Cuthbert
- Bill Ashcroft: The Post-colonial Transformation of Globalization Discourse
- Kim Scott: Writer's Presentation
11.30 - 1.00
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Where's home, Ulysses? Tales of Global Journeys
- Chair: Sanjukta Dasgupta
- Lizz Murphy, Eva Sallis, Jennifer Strauss: Writers' Presentations
- (b) The Dance
- Chair: Amita Dutt
- Janet O'Shea: The Production of Locality: Transnational Choreographies in Bharata Natyam
- Sally Gardner: Listening and Dancing: Odissi across Cultures
- (c) Convergence & Divergence
- Chair: Sona Roy
- S. Samanta: Fumanchu versus Boomerang: Asian-Australian Cultural Interface in 19th & 20thAustralia
- T. Sumathi: Disjuncture between the euphemistic globalisation and the truths about it: A study of the Tamil Dalit Theatre in India.
1.00 - 2.00
- Lunch
2.00 - 3.00
- Workshop on Opportunities for Postgraduate research in Australian UniversitiesChair: Arun Bandopadhyay, Dean, Arts Faculty, CU
- Denise Cuthbert, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
2.00 - 3.30
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Chair: Ishita Mukhopadhyay
- Meenakshi Hariharan: Oppression Within and Without
- Anuradha Malalasekara: A Sri Lankan Overview of Globalization and literature
- Anandam Latha: Is The Emergence a Dream? A study of Post-Caste Society
- (b) Global/Local
- Chair: David Carter
- Murari Prasad: Interrogating the Global: Arundhati Roy's Writings
- Jose Varghese: Re-definitions of Global Culture, Secularism and Terrorism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar The Clown
- Jharna Sanyal: Writing to Oneself: Reading A House for Mr Biswas and Myalas Narratives of Illness and Recuperation.
- (c) Culture & Performance
- Chair: Peter Snow
- Tapati Gupta: Jatra: Indigenous Art Form in Postcolonial Representation
- Chitralekha Basu: Return of the Raj: A Bollywood Saga
- Shoma Chatterjee: Literature and Cinema: Mainstream and Off-stream
3.30 - 5.00
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Realism and Ideology in Film
- Chair: Shoma Chatterjee
- David Hanan: Realism & Ideology in Australian Documentaries about Neighbouring Asian Countries pre and post World War 2
- Moinak Biswas: Realism in Indian Feature Films (1935-60)
- Dharmasena Pathiraja: Films by Ritwik Ghatak and Pathijara
- (b) Dance
- Chair: Srobona Munshi
- Tess de Quincey, Santanu Bose, Ranjita Karlekar and Peter Snow:Embrace: a collaborative, interdisciplinary and intercultural performance project
- (c) Poetics
- Chair: Chinmoy Guha
- Lyn McCredden: Contemporary Indigenous Poetry in Australia
- Peter Groves: Post-colonial Prosody: Isosyllabics and Indo-Anglian Poetry
- Santosh Chakravorty: Sarojini Naidu -- The Poet 'Autochthonous'
Evening
- Conference Dinner at Bengal Club*
*The cost of the Conference Dinner at the Bengal Club has been included in the Registration fee.
Day Three (Thursday 9 Feb)
10.00 - 10.30
- Tea, coffee, City Tour registration for outstation participants
10.30 - 11.45
- Plenary: Phillip Darby, Marcia Langton, with Ashis Nandy as Participating Chair: Reimaging Security from the Everyday
11.45 - 12.00
- Tea
12.00 - 1.30
Panel Sessions:
- (a) Creative Writing and Social Responsibility: Is every creative writer also a political activist?
- Moderators: Chandani Lokuge, Malashri Lal
- Panelists: Githa Hariharan, Adib Khan, Eva Sallis
- (b) Cultural Transitions: Thinking Beyond/ Across National Boundaries
- Chair: Amitava Ray
- Andrew Hassam: Out ofIndia . . . Bollywood Movies
- Nilanjana Deb: Curry, Mod Oz Style: South Asian-Australian Identities and the Imaginary Homeland
- Suboohi Khan: Deterritorializing Urdu: Naiyer Masud's Appropriation of Kafka
1.30 - 2.30
- Lunch
2.30 - 3.30
- Plenary: Valedictory by Stephen Muecke Chair: Jennifer Strauss
- Closing Remarks: Tapati Gupta & Sanjukta Dasgupta
- Vote Of Thanks: Peter Snow, Head of School ofEnglish, Communications and Performance Studies,Monash University
3.30
- Afternoon Tea & Issue of Participation Certificates
Day Four (Friday 10 February)
- Optional City Tour for outstation participants (morning)