Writing for Liberty PROGRAMME LICA Building, Lancaster University FRIDAY 17 APRIL 9:30-10:00 Conference Registration and Coffee 10:00-11:30 Parallel Session I Tyranny and the Text I A27 Literature and Politics A04 Writing Emergencies A05 Chair: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra Chair: Roger Bromley Chair: Rehana Ahmed the Self from the Cecile Bishop, ‘Writing as Resistance? Two Readings Hawzhen R. Ahmed, ‘Liberating Gemma Scott, ‘India’s Political Emergency’ Nation-State’s in Le Pleurer-Rire’ of Henri Lopes’s Domination Ibrahim Ahmed’s Kurdish Novel Madonna Kalousian, an (Un)civil War of Jani Gel’ ‘Writing the Postcolony: Selves: Matter and Grievability in The Hannah Grayson, ‘Dictatorship in Hoda Barakat’s Monénembo and a Metonymy of Stone of Laughter’ Violence’ Peter Anderson, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’s “Second Hymn to Lenin”’ Véronique Tadjo: Reading Phillippa the Wound: De Yaa Villers, ‘Addressing of Some Reflections on Child Rape and Poetry in Danielle Hall, ‘“Freedom, you are my notebook poetry, to scribble as I and please”: Ekushey Poetry Contemporary South Africa’ the Creation of Bangladesh’ 11:30-1:00 Parallel Session II Writing for Palestine A27 Writing in Africa A04 Liberating Diversity A05 Chair: Charlotta Salmi Chair: Meg Vandermerwe Chair: Kathryn Dolan Faith, Modernity and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, a Dialogue in al-Hakim: Sarah Irving, ‘Nathan ‘Opening Gabriela Leighton, ‘Reading Postcolonial Women Tolerance in Writing in Crossbones’ 1930s Palestine’ Farah’s English’ and Politics: Palestinian from A Mohammad Hamdan, ‘Post Beverley Nambozo, ‘A Thousand Liberties Fiona Linday, “The Real Me” Prisoners, Smuggled Sperm and Thousand Voices Rising (An Anthology of Derrida’s Prophecy’ Contemporary African Poetry)’ Makhosazana Xaba, ‘Queer Imagination: Using Ahmad Fiction to Challenge Homophobia in Qabaha, ‘“Where is My Small Home Then, Africa’ on behalf of African Fiction and Where am I…?”: Mahmoud Darwish Miriam Pahl, ‘Contemporary Political Homeless Palestinians’ Ideologies’
Writing for Liberty PROGRAMME LICA Building, Lancaster University FRIDAY 17 APRIL 9:30-10:00 Conference Registration and Coffee 10:00-11:30 Parallel Session I Tyranny and the Text I A27 Chair: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra Literature and Politics A04 Chair: Roger Bromley Writing Emergencies A05 Chair: Rehana Ahmed Cecile Bishop, ‘Writing as Resistance? Two Readings of Henri Lopes’s Le Pleurer-Rire’ Hannah Grayson, ‘Dictatorship in the Postcolony: Monénembo and a Metonymy of Violence’ Véronique Tadjo: Reading Hawzhen R. Ahmed, ‘Liberating the Self from the Nation-State’s Domination in Ibrahim Ahmed’s Kurdish Novel Jani Gel’ Peter Anderson, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’s “Second Hymn to Lenin”’ Danielle Hall, ‘“Freedom, you are my notebook of poetry, to scribble as I please”: Ekushey Poetry and the Creation of Bangladesh’ Gemma Scott, ‘India’s Political Emergency’ Madonna Kalousian, ‘Writing an (Un)civil War of Selves: Matter and Grievability in Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter’ Phillippa De Yaa Villers, ‘Addressing the Wound: Some Reflections on Child Rape and Poetry in Contemporary South Africa’ 11:30-1:00 Parallel Session II Writing for Palestine A27 Chair: Charlotta Salmi Writing in Africa A04 Chair: Meg Vandermerwe Liberating Diversity A05 Chair: Kathryn Dolan Sarah Irving, ‘Nathan al-Hakim: Faith, Modernity and Tolerance in 1930s Palestine’ Mohammad Hamdan, ‘Post and Politics: Palestinian Prisoners, Smuggled Sperm and Derrida’s Prophecy’ Ahmad Qabaha, ‘“Where is My Small Home Then, Where am I…?”: Mahmoud Darwish on behalf of Homeless Palestinians’ Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, ‘Opening a Dialogue in Farah’s Crossbones’ Beverley Nambozo, ‘A Thousand Liberties from A Thousand Voices Rising (An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry)’ Miriam Pahl, ‘Contemporary African Fiction and Political Ideologies’ Gabriela Leighton, ‘Reading Postcolonial Women Writing in English’ Fiona Linday, “The Real Me” Makhosazana Xaba, ‘Queer Imagination: Using Fiction to Challenge Homophobia in Africa’
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