Postcolonialism Undisciplined: A Postgraduate Symposium
on Postcolonial Studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday 9 December 2011 10.45am – 5.00pm, Research Beehive room 2.22
10.45
Welcome
10.50 – 11.50
Session 1: Nationality and Colonisers
Katie Cooper, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University: ‘The
Demise of Empire in Storm Jameson's Last Score’
Marie Stern-Peltz, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University:
‘Absent from the Myth: England and Empire in novels about the First World War’
Stephen Bowman, History Department, Northumbria University: 'Anglo-Saxon Rapprochement:
the Origin, Formation and Activities of the Early Pilgrims Society, 1890s to 1920s'
Poppy Cullen, Department of History, Durham University: 'Neocolonialism in Kenya'
Respondent: Dr Kate Manzo, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
11:50 - 12:10
Coffee
12.10 – 1.00
Session 2: Postcolonial Theory
Tom Langley, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University: ‘The
postcolonial in Italy, Italy in the postcolonial’
Mani Sharpe, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University [title to be confirmed]
Alex Adams, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University: ‘The
Representation of Political Torture in Post-9/11 Literature and Film’
Respondent: to be confirmed
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 2.50
Session 3: Race, Religion, and Popular Culture
Janelle Rodriques, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University:
‘Strategies for Survival: Representations of Obeah in Twentieth Century West Indian Fiction’
Claire Irving, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University:
‘White women’s literature and West Indian literary production of the early twentieth century’
Anne Graefer, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University: ‘Digital celebrities, humour and
the (de)construction of whiteness’
Respondent: Dr Daniel McNeil, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
2.50 – 3.10
Coffee
3.10 – 4.00
Session 4: Re-examining Colonial Histories
Jean Price, International Centre for Culture and Heritage Studies and School of English
Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University [title to be confirmed]
Meghan Glass, Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University [title to be
confirmed]
Natalie Moss, Department of History, Durham University: 'Colonial institutions, post-colonial
experiments: the history of Local Government in Kenya'
Respondent: Dr Xavier Guegan, School of Historical Studies
4.00 – 4.45
Round Table
Chair: Dr James Procter, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics
5.00
Wine Reception