‘Cultures of Violence’, QUB, Belfast, 23-24 September 2011
Conference Programme
Fri 23rd September
12.00-13.15
Registration
13.15-13.30
Welcome Address by Professor Janice Carruthers, Head of the School of
Modern Languages, QUB
13.30-14.45
‘Borders and Peacelines’
 Leila Whiteley, Goldsmiths, University of London, ‘Violence at the
Borders’
 Nicole Quinn, QUB, ‘Educating on the Armed Struggle: Political Tours
and Tour Guides in post-Agreement Belfast’
 Raphaela Holinski, QUB, ‘John Nicholson: the “Hero” of Delhi “Remembered”’
14.45-15.15
Coffee
15.15-16.45
‘Violence in the Americas’
 Adrian Knapp, University of Leeds, ‘Revisting the “Self”: Violence and
Representation in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Caryl
Phillips’s Cambridge’
 Ríona Kelly, QUB, ‘The Nature of Violence: Domination and
Retribution in Calypso’s Caribbean Community’
 Sarah Parry, University of Liverpool, ‘Consuming Latin American
Violence: Barbaric Masculinity’
 Tanya Campbell, QUB, 'Colonial Violence and Slave Insurrection in
Jean-Baptiste Picquenard's Zoflora'
17.00-18 .15
Keynote: Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of
Liverpool
'Remembering Abolition, Forgetting Slavery'
18.15-19.00
Reception
20.00
Dinner (Drennan's)
Sat 24th Sept
9.45-11.00
‘France and Algeria’
 Aoife Connolly, NUI Galway, ‘The pieds-noirs: From Oppressors to
Oppressed?’
 Rosie McLachlan, TCD, ‘Negotiating the heritage of violence: Nina
Bouraoui’s autobiographical méstissage’
 Jonathan Lewis, University of Exeter, ‘Surging into the Forbidden
Quarters? Violence and “Visibilisation” in Mounsi’s La Noce de fous’
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.45
Keynote: Robert P. Marzec, Associate Editor, Modern Fiction Studies,
Associate Professor, Ecology and Postcolonialism Faculty, Purdue University
‘Environmentality, Militariality, Globality: the 21st Century Nexus of Violence’
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.30-15.15
‘Trauma, Testimony, Fiction’
 Lisa Costello, UCC, ‘Re-telling and Re-interpreting from Colonised
Spaces: Simon Ortiz’s revision of the American Southwest’s history,
culture and identity’
 Catherine Gilbert, University of Nottingham, ‘Writing Trauma:
Rwandan Women’s Testimonial Literature’
 Megan Minogue, QUB, ‘The Subversive Law of Secret Societies in
Carleton and Moore’
15.30-16.45
Thesis to Publication Workshop: Professors Forsdick and Marzec
Evening meal