The Dynamics of Postcolonial Passings: Comparisons and Intersections (12. & 13. Mai 2022, online)
Online conference hosted by the University of Liège, Belgium, and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Programme
Times mentioned in the programme are Central European Summer Time (Brussels).
Thursday 12 May 2022
10.00–10.15 Welcome and opening remarks
10.15–11.15 PANEL SESSION 1, Australian Passings
Victoria Herche (University of Cologne, Germany), “Postcolonial Passing and the Ethics of Mobility in the Works of Ivan Sen”
Claudia Davidson-Novosivschei (Independent Scholar, Romania), “Reverse Passing in Peter Carey’s A Long Way from Home”
11.15–11.30 Break
11.30–12.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Suzanne Scafe (University of Brighton, UK), “Power, Play and Multi-Directional Passing in Jamaican/Diasporic Contexts”
12.30–14.00 Break
14.00–15.30 PANEL SESSION 2, Passing and Performance
Tehmina Pirzada (Texas A&M University, Qatar), “‘She Will Be a Boy’: Gender Passing and Emancipated Spectatorship in Baran and Osama”
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula (Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria), “Passing and Protest in Bobrisky’s Transgender Acts on Social Media”
Izuu Nwankwọ (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany), “‘Press Their Mumu Button’: Reiterations of Privilege and Power in Embodying Nigerian Identities by Western Social Media Artists”
15.30–16.00 Break
16.00–17.00 PANEL SESSION 3, American Passings
Sarah Agath (Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria), ““Why Wouldn’t You Be White If You Could Be . . . She Had Just Made the Rational Decision”: An Intersectional Investigation of the Ethics of Passing in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half”
Gail Lukasik (author, Illinois, USA), “Identity Passing: White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing”
17.00–17.45 Break
17.45–18.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Pamela L. Caughie (Loyola University Chicago, USA), “On the Ethics of Passing, Still and Again”
Friday 13 May 2022
10.30–12.00 PANEL SESSION 4, Passing and Transfers
Aretha Phiri (Rhodes University, South Africa), “‘Alright, Then, I’ll Go to Hell!’: Huckleberry Finn, Cross Border Pedagogy and the Ethics of Passing”
Eva Ulrike Pirker (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany), “Desires of Passing: Perspectives on (Self-)translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift”
Beate Sommerfeld (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), “Passing: The Fluid Identity of Translators”
12.00–13.30 Break
13.30–15.00 PANEL SESSION 5, Passing and Movement
Mahtab Dadkhah (University of Erfurt, Germany), “Role of Fictional Narratives in Cultural Identity Passing of Commonwealth Migrants in Germany: A Phenomenological Study”
Jana-Katharina Mende (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), “‘Who Am I and If So, How Many?” Passing as a Narratological Strategy in Modern German Postmigrant Literature”
Maryam Mirza (University of Durham, UK), “Class Passing and Erotic Resistance in Wajiha Tabassum’s “Utran” (“Cast-offs”) and Ru Freeman’s A Disobedient Girl”
15.00–15.45 Break
15.45–17.15 PANEL SESSION 6, Limitations and Extensions of Passing
Daria Tunca (University of Liège, Belgium), “Passing in Zadie Smith’s NW”
Alice Poncelet (University of Liège, Belgium), “The Limitations of Passing in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani”
Rebecca Romdhani (University of Liège, Belgium), “Passing in Whose Eyes? The Hubris of Human Intelligence in André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs”
17.15–18.00 Break
18.00–19.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 [FREE PUBLIC EVENT]
Lipika Pelham (author, London, UK), “Un-belonged: Ambiguous Boundaries of Self-definition of an Ex-colonised”
Convenors:
Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca (postcolonial research centre CEREP, University of Liège)
Jana-Katharina Mende (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Member of the organizing committee:
Laura Gerday (postcolonial research centre CEREP, University of Liège)
If you wish to register, please send an email to PocoPassings@uliege.be