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Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
2019 Conference:
‘The Uncommon Commonwealth’
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Venue: University of Auckland – Grafton Campus
Park Road, Grafton
Monday 15 – Friday 19 July 2019
Kia ora, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Kia
orana, Taloha ni, Ia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, 'Alii, Malo ni, Halo
Olaketa, Mauri, Aloha mai e and warm Pacific Greetings.
ACLALS acknowledges the tangata whenua of Tamaki
Makaurau, Ngāti Whātua Orākei
We would like to dedicate this conference to the
memory of
Professor Geoff Davis (1943-2018)
Professor Michael Wessels (1958-2018)
E hoki ki ō maunga
kia purea koe e ngā hau a Tāwhiri-Matea
Return to your mountains that you may be cleansed
by the winds of Tāwhiri-Matea
The following information is provided as a guide to the Conference. If you have
any queries, please visit the registration desk or ask one of our volunteer team.
Registration desk hours
The Registration desk will be located in the main atrium and be open
throughout the day for the duration of the Conference for any general queries.
Conference Venue
The Conference will be held at the University of Auckland Grafton Campus.
1Physical Address: Park Road, Grafton, Auckland.
Catering
Lunches as well as Morning and Afternoon Teas will be served in the atrium.
Care is taken to ensure all dietary requirements are catered for. If you have
made a special request please talk to catering staff.
Internet access
Wireless internet access is available for delegate use. WIFI login information
will be available at the registration desk.
Name tags
Please wear you name tag at all times during the Conference and social events.
You will be asked to present your name tag to enter the Conference Dinner.
Presenters
As a courtesy to our presenters, please ensure you arrive at each session venue
prior to the start of presentations.
Presenting authors
If you are scheduled to give a presentation, please ensure your PowerPoint is
uploaded well in advance of your presentation time, preferably during the
catering breaks or prior to the start of each day. To upload your presentation,
please take it to your presentation room on a USB memory stick. A member of
the organising team will be available to assist you.
Mobile phones
Please be considerate to other Conference delegates and speakers by turning
your phone off or onto silent during sessions.
Cameras and Electronic Recording
No electronic recording of presentation is permitted without permission of
conference organisers and speakers.
Smoking Policy
Delegates should be aware that smoking is banned from all public buildings in
New Zealand. Smoking on University of Auckland grounds is not permitted and
this policy is strictly enforced. Smokers are able to smoke on public
land/footpaths only.
Urgent messages and lost property
2Urgent messages for delegates ‐‐ and lost property ‐‐ can be left at the
registration desk.
Messages and lost property will be held there for collection until the
conclusion of the Conference.
Emergencies, medical needs and illnesses
If you have an emergency you can contact the police, paramedics and the fire
department by calling 111 from any landline or mobile phone.
If you require non‐emergency medical attention during the Conference, please
inform the registration desk.
3MONDAY 15 JULY
8AM‐9AM: Registration and coffee
Grafton Atrium
9AM ‐ Mihi
AMRF Auditorium
9.15AM ‐ Welcoming remarks
Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland
Stuart McCutcheon
9:30AM‐10:30AM – Plenary Speaker:
Witi Ihimaera
‘The Empire Writes Forward: A Maori Perspective: Episode V’
AMRF Auditorium
10:30AM‐11AM ‐ Morning tea
Grafton Atrium
11AM‐12:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
4ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Representations of precarity in South/African literary texts
CHAIR: Laura Moss
Speaker University Paper
Cheryl Stobie University of Precarity, poverty porn and vernacular cosmopolitanism in
KwaZulu‐Natal two southern African novels
Mbongeni Z. Malaba University of The representation of precarity and political transition in
KwaZulu‐Natal selected poems and short stories written by Namibian
women
Naomi Nkealah University of the Challenging precarious work in Anglophone Cameroonian
Witwatersrand women's literature: A feminist analysis of Anne Tanyi‐Tang's
Visiting America and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Moving Bodies
CHAIR: Melissa Kennedy
Speaker University Paper
Terence Musanga North‐West The coloniality of Zimbabwean transnational migration in
University, South NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
Africa
Oluseye Abiodun Covenant University, Narrativising desert ecology as metaphor of human
Babatunde Ota pilgrimage: An ecopoetic reading of Tade Ipadeola's
Sahara Testament
Tomi Adeaga University of Vienna Race, sexuality, and white empowerment in Peter
Kimani's Dance of the Jakaranda and Tayeb Salih's
Season of Migration to the North
5ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Cosmopolitanism and metropolitanism 1
CHAIR: Walter Perera
Speaker University Paper
Marie Herbillon University of Liège Questioning cosmopolitanism and Australian
multiculturalism: Michelle de Krester's Questions of Travel
Roger Nicholson University of Vincent Ward’s ‘The Navigator: Imagining an antipodean
Auckland quest narrative
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Colonial/postcolonial modes of identity
CHAIR: Alex Birchall
Speaker University Paper
Alex Calder The University of White Magic: Te Tohunga in primitivist ethnography and
Auckland settler colonial narrative
Erin Mercer Massey University Looking backwards: Contemporary realism and the
masculine Pākehā past in Laurence Fearnley's The Hut
Builder
Stuti Khanna Indian Institute of Exit West and the Commonwealth of migrant narratives
Technology Delhi,
India
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
6Water
CHAIR:Chris Prentice
Speaker University Paper
Anthonia Adanma Delta State Displacement and postcolonial transplantation: An ecocritical
Eguvwebere and Polytechnic study of Habila's Oil on Water, Agary's Yellow Yellow and
Onyemaechi Okpewho's Tides
Udumukwu
Philip Aghoghovwia University of the Ontology reimagined in the anthropocene: Water
Free State priva(tiza)tion in Karen Jaye's For the Mercy of Water
Anne Collett University of Building on The Strata of the Dead: A (very) brief history of
Wollongong coral reef ecologies
12:30PM‐1:30PM ‐ Lunch
Grafton Atrium
Book Launch: 1‐1.30pm: Marjorie Moore ‘Our Heritage, the Ocean’ (and
other titles)
1:30PM‐3:00PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Cosmopolitanism and metropolitanism 2
CHAIR: Roger Nicholson
Speaker University Paper
Michael Cole University of Dwelling on the Body: Literary Insights in to African
7Auckland Metropolitanism
Dominic Davies City, University of Plumbing, water and the contested commons: Engineering
London graphic narrative as infrastructure in millennial Delhi
James Hodapp Northwestern Afropolitanism and the Limits of the "African of the World"
University in Qatar
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Borders and bodies
CHAIR: Michael Bucknor
Speaker University Paper
Celia E. Naylor Barnard College, The Rose Hall Great House: Interrogating a historical
Columbia Jamaican site of slavery as a contemporary American scene
of tourism
Russell McDougall University of New Figure of man, dog of war: Jamaican social
England, Australia relations/migrations
Alex Birchall University of Against the 'Decolonial Turn': Problems in contemporary
Auckland readings of the work of C.L.R. James
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
NZ writers abroad
CHAIR: Janet Wilson
Speaker University Paper
Emma Parker University of Janet Frame: Life writing after empire
Leeds
8Britta Olinder Gothenburg Home and exile: Colonial consequences in Fleur Adcock's
University poems
Rachel O'Connor University of Dan Davin: The uncreative writer
Auckland
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
The Fourth World: Shifting cultural spaces
CHAIR: Alex Calder
Speaker University Paper
Priyanka Shivadas UNSW Canberra On reading the fourth world: Languaging in indigenous
Australian and Indian poetry
Jeya Foster Victoria University Dis/missing in action
Wellington
Kingsley Oluchi Northumbria Commonwealth English?
University
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Leaving and Returning
CHAIR: Carol Leon
Speaker University Paper
Tupur Banerjee Katwa College Defying the border in Bengali travelogues
Gareth Morris Xi’an Jiao‐Tong Travel writing through a Western lens in the Far East
Liverpool
University in China
Durba Mukherjee IIT Kanpur The physicality of return: An exploration of the concept of
9homeland in the works of Ved Mehta
3PM‐3:30PM ‐ Afternoon tea
Grafton Atrium
3:30PM‐5:30PM ‐ Networked Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
GEOFFREY V. DAVIS: TRIBUTE
Speaker University
Chris Prentice (Chair) Otago University, NZ
Russell McDougall University of New England, NSW, Australia
Laura Moss University of British Columbia
Gareth Griffiths Emeritus Prof. at University of Western Australia
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Fictions of development
Speaker University Paper
Martina Kopf University of African literature and (post‐)development thought
Vienna
10Esther Katheu Mbithi Kenyatta University Encountering development in postcolonial fiction: a reading
of Blossoms of the Savannah
(Zoom)
Veronica Barnsley University of Midwifery and development in Ghanaian women's writing
Sheffield
(Zoom)
Sneharika Roy American Marx, subaltern studies and Amitav Ghosh: The enterprising
University of Paris subaltern in Amitav Ghosh's economic sagas
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Amitav Ghosh
Speaker University Paper
Aatrayee Ghosh ILAS Fellow From stories to histories: Anti‐story and the re‐mapping of
(Netherlands) the historical project in fiction of South Asia
Soumen Mukherjee VIT University, Erotic versus platonic: Exploring intimacy in Roy's The God of
Vellore Small Things and Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
Bhanumati Mishra Banaras Hindu ‘Imaginary Homelands': Migration, memory and nostalgia in
University post‐colonial Indian fiction
ROOM: 024
Cosmopolitan Engagements: Rethinking Terms and Scale
Speaker University Paper
Monica Popescu McGill University Against Cosmopolitanism: Alex La Guma’s Internationalist
Networks
Shane Graham Utah State Pan‐African Entanglements in Claude McKay’s Banjo
University
11Annu Jalais National University The Cosmopolitan and the Local: Rethinking Being a ‘Citizen
of Singapore of the World’ in the Age of the Anthropocene
6pm
Welcome Cocktail evening
Grafton Atrium
Siva Samoa and Spoken Word Poem: Amber Luka Bunnin
12TUESDAY 16 JULY
8AM‐9AM: Registration and coffee
Grafton Atrium
9:00AM‐10:30AM ‐ Plenary Speaker:
Professor Elleke Boehmer
introduced by Head of School of Humanities, Malcolm Campbell
‘On Decolonization: The Radical Power of Literary Thinking’
AMRF Auditorium
10:30AM‐11AM ‐ Morning tea
Grafton Atrium
11AM‐12:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Indian Caste
CHAIR: Tom Bishop
Speaker University Paper
Andrew Dawson University of Caste‐iron democracy: Culture, capital, and convivial
Auckland zombification in recent indian writing
M Asaduddun Scholar in Residence Dalit Muslims? The dominant absence in Dalit discourse
(Rutgers University)
13ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Eco‐criticism
CHAIR: Michelle Keown
Speaker University Paper
Jessica Maufort Universite libre de The Commonwealth as global wasteland? Uncanny
Bruxelles interspecies mobility and recycling in Canadian and
Australasian fiction
Aisha Uma M. Federal University Standing on common grounds: Environmental conflicts
Birnin Kebbi across Africa, exploring Adamu Kyuka Usman's The Death of
Eternity and Mda Zake's Heart of Redness
Sukanya Gupta University of Exploring eco‐cosmopolitanism through world literature
Southern Indiana
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Multimedia
CHAIR: Sina Vaai
Speaker University Paper
Veronica Austen University of Visualising loss: Brathwaite's Sycorax video style as elegy
Waterloo
Walter Perera Chair of SLACLALS, ‘Posh bingo' or a major contribution to creative writing in Sri
University of Lanka? Michael Ondaatje's Gratiaen Prize
Peradeniya
Maloba Wekesa University of Hate Online: The creation of the Other
Nairobi
14ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Outposts and the off‐centre
CHAIR: Michael Bucknor
Speaker University Paper
Zana Bell NorthTec Can white write black? Trespass in fiction
Rajashree Bargohain IIT Guwahati The hills write back: Postcolonial cultural contestations in
Black Hill and Into the Hidden Valley
12:30PM‐1:30PM ‐ Lunch
Grafton Atrium
Book Launch: 1‐1.30pm: Elleke Boehmer ‘To The Volcano’
1:30PM‐3:00PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Nigeria and women
CHAIR: Clare Barker
Speaker University Paper
Binta Fatima Ibrahim University of Ilorin Feminist 'motherism' in selected African texts
Clement Ajidahun Adekunle Ajasin The tragedy of the girl‐child: A feminist reading of Ngozi
University Omeje's The Conquered Maiden and Amman Darko's
Faceless
Michael Gbenga Alvan Ikoku Federal The dynamics of culture and polygamy in Nigerian fiction: A
Ajileye and Ikwue College of critical study of Flora Nwapa's One is Enough
Abah Education
15ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Myth and fairytale
CHAIR: Paloma Fresno‐Calleja
Speaker University Paper
Indrani Ray University Somebody's truth: Reclaiming myth in the works of
of Devdutt Pattanaik
Burdwan
Suman Sigroha Indian Institute of Nature to the rescue: Women and nature in myths from
Technology Mandi Indian Himalayas
Mohua Dutta IIT Kanpur The journey from 'darkness' to 'light': Exploring the role
of myth of the ideal Indian village in rural to urban
internal migration in India
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
#MeToo
CHAIR: Rachel O’Conner
Speaker University Paper
John C. Ball University of New Staging scandal: Rereading Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal
Brunswick after #MeToo
Jana Fedtke American Sexual harassment in Bollywood: India's #MeToo movement
University of
Sharjah
Ikwue Abah and Alvan Ikoku Federal The cultural dynamics of migration and metamorphosis in
Adanma Athonia College of Dilemma of Sugar Daddy and Passport to America
Eguvwebere Education and
Delta State
Polytechnic
16ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Race, caste, class and the political futures of the postcolony
CHAIR: Jane Stafford
Speaker University Paper
Vijay Mishra Murdoch Homi Bhabha and 'Signs Taken for Wonders'
University
Laura Gerday University of Liège On (re)theorising postcolonial literature in the era of
globalisation: The 'world' as an area of contention
3PM‐3:30PM ‐ Afternoon tea
Grafton Atrium
3:30PM‐5:30PM ‐ Networked Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Framing interpretations of Caribbean literary archives
Speaker University Paper
St George’s Rest in peace, Garth St. Omer: The archiving of grief through
Antonia MacDonald University, email and Facebook condolences
Grenada
17Evelyn O’Callaghan University of the The half‐life of visual and scribal landscapes and Caribbean
West Indies, tourism promotion
Barbados
Michael A. Bucknor University of the Creative intimacies: Austin Clarke's letter archives and the
West Indies, Mona epistemology of affect
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Islands of refuge(es)
Speaker University Paper
Melissa Kennedy University of Heaven for the Rich: Wealth Havens in Fiction and Finance
Vienna
Helga Ramsey‐Kurz University of From Treasure to Trash Islands: Satin Island by Tom
Innsbruck McCarthy and Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Janet Wilson University of Islands of Detention: Behrouz Boochani's 'No Friend But the
Northampton Mountain'
Ellie Byrne Manchester Under the Sea: Trans‐Pacific cable networks, PI extra‐
Metropolitan territoriality, and oceanic territory
University
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Settler literature
Speaker University Paper
Jane Stafford Victoria University of Riding in the buggy with Sam the Maori, across a new land,
Wellington teeming with new stories: Settler literature, expectation,
exclusion, and deferral
18Joe Shaughnessy University of Olive Schreiner in New Zealand: white (pan‐)settler literary
Cambridge canonicity and Anglo identity
Tom McLean University of What happened to settler literature?
Oxford
Elleke Boehmer University of Southern commonalities
Oxford
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Lost and found: Indigenous‐Jewish intersections in contemporary literature
Speaker University Paper
Christie Fox Westminster Learning about Belfast Jews: Omissions and revelations in
College Gavin Kostick's This is What We Sang
Isabelle Hesse University of Indigeneity, nation‐building, and critical counterfactualism in
Sydney Nava Semel's Isralsle
Anna Guttman Lakehead (Un)common ends?: The Vanishing Indian Jew
University
Lynda Ng University of Dirty Secrets: Extinction Discourse and the Public Aborigine
Sydney
ACLALS Conference Dinner
Fale Pasifika
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/on‐campus/life‐on‐campus/pacific‐life/fale‐pasifika.html
University of Auckland
7pm
19Musicians: Malcolm Lakatani and Pos Mavaega
Poet: Jacq Carter (Ngāti Awa)
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY
8AM‐9AM: Registration and coffee
Grafton Atrium
209:00AM‐10:30AM
Keynote Address
Arundhati Roy
in Conversation with Andrew Dawson
introduced by Dr Claudia Marquis
AMRF Auditorium
10:30AM‐11AM ‐ Morning tea
Grafton Atrium
11AM‐12:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Reading indigenous
CHAIR: Paula Morris
Speaker University Paper
Matthew Hall Deakin University Collaborative practice and its poetics: A culturally situating
reading of Māori poetry
Tara Senanayake University of Thus spake the body: Staging the body as speaking subject in
Peradeniya Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
Kalu Wosu University of Port Deconstructing African folklore as Ur‐text for the distribution
Harcourt of gendered power: Stereotypes in selected tales from
francophone Africa
21ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Natural history
CHAIR: Janet Wilson
Speaker University Paper
Clare Barker University of Leeds ‘A universe of stolen things': Indigenous repatriation fictions
and the biopolitics of the museum
Li‐Ru Lu National Sun Yat‐ Narrating Lifeworld: The Representations of Nineteenth‐
sen University Century Formosan Birds and Animals in Two Western
Migrants’ Natural Histories
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Bodied Identity
CHAIR: Eleanor Byrne
Speaker University Paper
George McCaulsky University of the ‘Johnnie/Johnny': A character study on space/place, time and
West Indies, Mona sexuality
Emer Lyons University of Otago The homelessness of lesbian poets in queer poetics
Rimpa Roy and Subhas Chandra Burdened by border: Language and body
Deepayan Das Bose Centenary
College and
Muzaffar Ahmed
22Mahavidyalaya
ROOM: Seminar Room 126
Pacific poetry
CHAIR: Sina Vaai
Speaker University Paper
Briar Wood University of Dissenting voices: Pacific poetry as political protest
Auckland
Diana Betham The National The revelation of identity through poetic expression in the
University of post‐colonial Pacific
Samoa
Maria Mitenkova The University of Ian Wedde and the Ecology of Literary Language
Auckland
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Colonial/postcolonial movement
CHAIR: Russell McDougall
Speaker University Paper
Tlou P. H. Great Zimbabwe Ethnicity and cultural identification as the heart of African
University toponyms: Problematising imperial sway and identity crisis in
Beitbridge Town
Isaac Ndlovu University of Venda Some Ways of Moving: A South African Traversing the
African Continent
23ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Speculative fiction and writing back
CHAIR: Malcolm Campbell
Speaker University Paper
Doseline Kiguru The British Institute Speculative fiction and African urban futures
in Eastern Africa
Carol Leon University of The Heritage Places and Spaces of Malaysia: Constructing a
Malaya Malaysian Identity
Shalini Nadaswaran University of Mobile Bodies of Meaning:'Vehicles' of Everyday Materiality
Malaya in Malaysia
12:30PM‐1:30PM ‐ Lunch
Grafton Atrium
Free Time: Explore Auckland
Self‐funded Waiheke Vineyard Tour
leaving conference venue at 1.15pm to
meet at Downtown Ferry Terminal
Pier 2, departing 2pm ferry
24THURSDAY 18 JULY
8AM‐9AM: Registration and coffee
Grafton Atrium
9:00AM‐10:30AM ‐ Plenary Speaker:
Melissa Lucashenko
introduced by AP Selina Tusitala Marsh
AMRF Auditorium
10:30AM‐11AM ‐ Morning tea
Grafton Atrium
11AM‐12:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
A question of indigeneity
CHAIR: Paula Morris
Speaker University Paper
25Tina Makereti Massey University The Great Eye Am: Writing Indigenous perspectives for the
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Leonie John Universitat zu Koln Fish hooks, asteroids and butterflies: Indigenous mobility in
contemporary Maori short stories
Sina Vaai National University Pacific Voices and Contemporary Stories: Reflections of
of Samoa Oceania: Living on the Edge or Firmly Situated at the Centre
of Our Own Common Pacific Worlds?
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Storytelling
CHAIR: Michael Cole
Speaker University Paper
Uhuru Portia Stellenbosch Polyglot internationalism in South African literature
Phalafala University
Paloma Fresno‐Calleja University of the Un/Common Concerns: Lani Wendt Young’s “Scarlet Series”
Balearic Islands and the politics of postcolonial romance
Srinjojee Dutta Jawaharlal Nehru Mythopoeia in the Commonwealth: Reading Upamanyu
University Chatterjee's Fairy Tales at Fifty
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Transnationalism
CHAIR: John Ball
Speaker University Paper
Venkatesh Puttaiah University of Outliving dystopia: Lifelines in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant
Mysore Fundamentalist and Exit West
Antara Chatterjee Indian Inst of Sci Ed Remembering Bangladesh: Narrating the nation from the
Res, Bhopal transnational in Tahmima Anam
26Henghameh Saint Mary's ‘The Lies that Bind': Zadie Smith's 'The Embassy of Cambodia'
Saroukhani University
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
‘Fridays for Future’: Open discussion on climate change
All Welcome
CHAIR: Melissa Kennedy
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Islands of poetry
CHAIR: Judy‐Anne Alexander‐Pouono
Speaker University Paper
Michele Keown University of ‘For the good of mankind': Biocolonialism and indigenous
Edinburgh ecopoetics in Indigenous Pacific women's writing
Geraldine Elizabeth University of the Uncommon representations of indigenous people in selected
Skeete West Indies, Caribbean life writing, prose fiction and poetry
St. Augustine
Sakshi Batavia Independent Agha Shahid Ali ‐ life writing
12:30PM‐2:00 PM ‐ Extended Lunch for AGM, ALL INVITED
Grafton Atrium
27ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
AGM: 1:00‐2:00PM
Michael Wessels Tribute
Cherly Stobie
CHAIR: Chris Prentice
2:00PM‐3:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Practical politics
CHAIR: Henghameh Saroukhani
Speaker University Paper
Doris Hambuch UAE University Kendel Hippolyte's Poems on Caribbean Urbanization
Nicole Pierce De Montfort The persistence of Lewis' 'Fatal Particularism' 50 years later
University in the Commonwealth Caribbean Region
Louise Viljoen University of Future ecologies: An ecocritical reading of two dystopian
Stellenbosch novels from South Africa
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Island connections and the commonwealth
CHAIR: Diana Betham
Speaker University Paper
Xiaojun Ding University of Rainbow: An Austronesian metaphor that spans the distance
28Auckland between Polynesians and their kin in Taiwan
Jaya Yadav University of Delhi Cricket, capitalism and the Commonwealth in the
contemporary era
George Livingston Scholar Dwelling in coastal cities and islands: Pros and cons
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
African politics
CHAIR: Roger Nicholson
Speaker University Paper
Ernest Patrick Monte Kabarak University We learn from history that we do not learn from history':
and Gibson Ncube and University of Egomania and the cult of personality in post‐independent
Zimbabwe Kenyan and Zimbabwean socio‐political imaginings
Muchativugwa Liberty North‐West Continuities, disruptions and critiques of African politics
Hove University through the lens of African poetry
Alex Nelungo Wanjala University of The development of capitalism in Nigeria as depicted
Nairobi, Kenya through Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Okey Ndibe's
Foreign Gods Inc.
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Transcending
CHAIR: Maria Mitenkova
Speaker University Paper
Donna Coates University of Exposing the hidden injuries of war in contemporary novels
Calgary by Michelle Michau‐Crawford and Josephine Rowe
Amitendu Birla Insititute of Alter(n)ation: the life and afterlife of Gandhian gastropolitics
Bhattacharya Technology &
Science, Pilani
29Naresh Vats USHSS, GGSIP Transcending Cliches and Stereotypes through Popular
University Images: A Study of Select Hindi Films
ROOM: Seminar Room 126
Thinking and Imagining
CHAIR: Briar Wood
Speaker University Paper
Marc Maufort Université Libre de Imagining new commonwealths: Aesthetic of Creolization in
Bruxelles post‐apartheid South African drama
Paul Nkamta North‐West Code‐switching as a scaffolding tool: The case of French for
University beginners at an institution of higher learning, South Africa
Concepción Mengíbar Independent Carnival, cannibalism and Caliban in Lear Ananci's
Scholar (Spain) un/common New World dis/order
3:30PM‐4:00PM ‐ Afternoon tea
Grafton Atrium
4:00PM‐6:00PM ‐ Networked Panel sessions
ROOM: Seminar Room 126
Women
CHAIR: Helga Ramsay‐Kurz
Speaker University Paper
30Abhimanyu Acharya University of Changing image of female protagonists in post‐
Western Ontario Independence Hindi short fiction
Amina Hussain University of Mapping Muslim women: A question of representation and
Lucknow identity in Tsiolka's The Slap
Chelsea Haith University of Mouths, Mothers and Others ‐ Renegotiating transnational
Oxford migrant identity in Warsan Shire's poetry
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Indian nationalism
Speaker University Paper
Jaspal Singh Northern Michigan Nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Indian English literature
University
Narendra Kumar LNM Institute of IT Ethno‐/nationalism in postcolonial India and Pakistan:
Salman Rushdie's fiction
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Diaspora
Speaker University Paper
Jyothirmai Dakkumall Adikavi Nannaya ‘Home': Representations of Adichie and Divakaruni
University
Koushiki Dasgupta Diamond Harbour Reconciling boundaries and identities: The world of Dr
Women's Suhindra Bose in early 20th century America
University
Judy‐Anne Alexander‐ National University My imaginary homeland
Pouono of Samoa
Shashikala Assella University of Reimagining identities in diasporic homelands
Kelaniya
31ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Rhizomatic spaces
Speaker University Paper
Bidisha Banerjee University of Hong Imagistic haunting and posthuman photography in Indra
Kong Sinha's Animal's People
Sachida Nand Jha University of Delhi Revisiting Mathili literature: From Commonwealth to
Postcolonial
Irikidzayi Manase University of the Narrative repertoires about the spatial transformations and
Free State residents experiences in the 'new' post‐apartheid
Johannesburg in Harry Kalmer's A Thousand Tales of
Johannesburg ‐ A City Novel
Suvro Parui Amity University The golden age of translation in China: Translation
movement of 80s
ROOM: 028
Ecofeminism 1
Speaker University Paper
Laura Moss University of British Douglas Coupland's Vortex: The white savior meets the
Columbia anthropocene
Dharani Rathnasamy Government Arts & Servitude vs sovereignty ‐ The third world women: An
Science College, ecofeminist critique of the predicame on the Dalit women in
Avinashi Tirupur the novels of Bama, a Dalit writer from Tamil Nadu, India
32ACLALS Executives supper
Gusto, Sky City
7.30pm
33FRIDAY 19 JULY
8AM‐9AM: Registration and coffee
Grafton Atrium
9:00AM‐10:30AM ‐ Plenary Speaker:
Kei Miller
introduced by AP Paula Morris
AMRF Auditorium
10:30AM‐11AM ‐ Morning tea
Grafton Atrium
11AM‐12:30PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Borders and dislocation
CHAIR: Evelyn O’Callaghan
Speaker University Paper
Myles Ojabo and Independent No sanctuary across the border: Otherness and abjection in
Uchechukwu Scholar and Jane Urquhart's Sanctuary Line
Umeziurike University of
Alberta
34Wafa Hamid Jawaharlal Nehru Of what shall I not sing, and sing?': Borders, identity and
University Kashmir in Agha Shahid Ali's poetry
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Zimbabwe
CHAIR: Andrew Dawson
Speaker University Paper
Rodwell Makombe University of the Against all odds: A critical analysis of the complexities of
Free State survival in Panashe Chigumadzi's Sweet Medicine (2015)
Sifiso Sibanda North‐West Post‐imperial imaginaries in Zimbabwe: Interrogating
University betrayal in the pre‐ and post‐war years in Chinodya's Harvest
of Thorns
Mercy Precious University of Venda Writing the self and human rights in the narrative The
Mujakachi Abduction and Trial of Jestina Mukoko: The Fight for Human
Rights in Zimbabwe
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Historiography and memory
CHAIR: Tom Bishop
Speaker University Paper
Padma Mohapatra Independent Processing of identification and postcolonial trauma in
Scholar Jayanta Mahapatra's Hesitant Light
Michael Cawood Northumbria Erasing the frame: Migrancy and historical responsibility
Green University
Amanda Lagji Pitzer College Camps and postcolonies: Waiting in/for the aftermath
35ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Violence
CHAIR: Paloma Fresno‐Calleja
Speaker University Paper
Diane West University of the Names of our own: The commonwrath of the
West Indies, Mona commonwealth
Vibha Chauhan University of Delhi Probing the Commonwealth through radiation: Mahua's
Manjhi's Hindi novel Marang Goda Neelkanth Hua and Nevil
Shute's On the Beach
Ndago Abenea University of the Sectarian nationhood: Representations of Kenya's 2008
Free State Mungiki cult violence in Kwani? Journal
ROOM: Seminar Room 126
Writing worlds
CHAIR: John Ball
Speaker University Paper
Paula Morris University of ‘Of All Places': the myth of the international book prize and
Auckland the Commonwealth novelist
Alta Vos University of Multiliteracies in education in South Africa
Pretoria
Maurice Amateshe Kenyatta University Returning home: Reconnecting ethnographic scholarship
with community creative arts practices for learning and
sustainable research
3612:30PM‐1:30PM ‐ Lunch
Grafton Atrium
Book Launch: 1‐1.30pm: Felicity Hand ‘Relations and Networks in South
African Indian Writing’ (Brill, 2018)
1:30PM‐3PM ‐ Panel sessions
ROOM: AMRF Auditorium
Amitav Ghosh
Speaker University Paper
Jyothirmai Dakkumall Adikavi Nannaya ‘Home': Representations of Adichie and Divakaruni
University
Koushiki Dasgupta Diamond Harbour Reconciling boundaries and identities: The world of Dr
Women's Suhindra Bose in early 20th century America
University
Shashikala Assella University of Reimagining identities in diasporic homelands
Kelaniya
ROOM: Lecture Theatre 007
Ecofeminism 2
CHAIR: Eleanor Byrne
Speaker University Paper
Silvana Carotenuto University of The Vegetarian by Han Kang: Eco‐feminism of the
Naples Commonwealth
“L’Orientale”
37Tania Chakravertty Shri Shikshayatan The immigrant's quest for the self‐articulated female self in
College Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
Sei Kosugi Osaka University Trans‐Pacific imagination in the age of anthropocene:
Climate change, nuclear waste and the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch
ROOM: Seminar Room 024
Divide
CHAIR: Paloma Fresno‐Calleja
Speaker University Paper
Tanna Shilpa BITS Pilani The Long Partition and Indian graphic narratives
Shirishkumar
Dimple D. Mapari Shankarlal Hiraeth, hiatus and homes
Khandelwal Arts,
Commerce and
Science College
Felicity Hand Universitat Still living on the edge: The Chagossian community of
Autònoma de Mauritius
Barcelona
ROOM: Seminar Room 028
Writing the Diaspora: History, Archival Memory, and the Post‐Imperial Imaginary
Speaker University Paper
Simone A. James Seton Hall Reimagined Histories: The practice and politics of resistance
Alexander University
Renée Larrier The State “Create Dangerously:” Marie‐Célie Agnant’s archive against
University of New impunity
Jersey
38Andrea Shaw Nevins Nova Southeastern Post‐imperial Imaginaries: The science of working juju
University
ROOM: Seminar Room 020
Shadows
Speaker University Paper
Sree Ramesh Adikavi Nannaya Survival as an ethic: The saga of indenture. A study of Gaiutra
University Bahadur's Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Divya Mishra Amity University An unuttered plight: Indian women at crossroads
Elizabeth Jackson University of the Commonwealth locations and cosmopolitan identities in
West Indies, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and M.G. Vassanji’s The In‐
Trinidad Between World of Vikram Lall
3PM‐3:30PM ‐ Afternoon tea
Grafton Atrium
IA MANUIA MALAGA
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