EACLALS2021

17th ECALALS TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE  :
Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments 

Wednesday 30 June 2021 

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9.00am – 10.00pm

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KEYNOTE PLENARY 4

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The Anna Rutherford Memorial Lecture

Anne Collett (University of Wollongong)

“A Braided Biography of Australian Poet Judith Wright and Canadian Painter Emily Carr: The Challenge and Value of Transcultural Research and Collaborative Writing”.

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10.00am – 11.30am

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PARALLEL SESSIONS G

• G1. Telling Encounters with Refugees I

• G2. Rebellion, Revolution, Resistance and Transculturality

• G3. Trans-American Mo(ve)ments: Contemporary Migrations and Strange(r)Imaginaries

11.30am – 1.30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS H

• H1. Telling Encounters with Refugees II 

• H2. Identities in the Muslim Diaspora

• H3. North American Cross-Cultures

1.30pm – 2.30pm

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LUNCH​

2.30pm – 3.30pm

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EACLALS AGM

3.30pm – 4.30pm

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KEYNOTE PLENARY 5

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Michael Bucknor (University of the West Indies)
 

"Transcultural Violence, Intimate Embodiments: Marlon James's
Queer Poetics"

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4.30pm – 5.00pm

COFFEE BREAK 

5.00pm – 6.30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS I

• I1. Autofiction and Pedagogy

• I2. South Asian Fictions and Economic Forms

• I3. Gendered Cosmopolitan Strangers: Agency Movement and Mobility in Contemporary Drama and Fiction

6.30pm – 7.00pm

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Concluding Remarks

Detailed Programme

9.00am – 10.00pm - Chair Isabel Carrera Suarez

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The Anna Rutherford Memorial Lecture

Anne Collett (University of Wollongong)

“A Braided Biography of Australian Poet Judith Wright and Canadian Painter Emily Carr: The Challenge and Value of Transcultural Research and Collaborative Writing”.

10.00am – 11.30am

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PARALLEL SESSIONS G

• G1. Telling Encounters with Refugees I – Panel – Chair Helga Ramsey-Kurz​

  • Katayoun Zarei Toossi: Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly as a Translational Space of Empathy​

  • Virginia Monteforte: Questioning Categories: Objects of Resistance and Memory in Displacement

  • Marta Cariello: Dis-identifying the Crossing: Mediterranean Migrations and the Archive of Identity​

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• G2. Rebellion, Revolution, Resistance and Transculturality – Chair Devika Karnad

  • Adrian Knapp: Rumour and Rebellion in Andrea Levy's The Long Song

  • Bianca Chereches: Dalit Aesthetics (R)Evolution in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess (2014) and Baburao Bagul's When I Hid My Caste (2018)

  • Maryam Mirza: Distorted Transcultural Resistance in Suneeta Peres da Costa's Homework and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake​

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• G3. Trans-American Mo(ve)ments: Contemporary Migrations and Strange(r)Imaginaries – Panel – Chair Emilia María Durán-Almarza

  • Andrea Fernández García: Reading the U.S. Central America Experience through a Cosmopolitan Lens in Maya Chinchilla’s The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética (2014)

  • Patricia Vilanova Becker: “Why Did We Come?” Latin American Women's Narratives on Migration in Documentary Production

  • Emilia María Durán-Almarza: Planetary Strangeness in Contemporary Caribbean Performance Art​

11.30am – 1.30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS H

• H1. Telling Encounters with Refugees II – Panel – Chair Helga Ramsey-Kurz 

  • Mina Karavanta: Migration, Hospitality and Decolonial Politics in the Long Present

  • Petra Tournay-Theodotou: Refugee Narratives for Children and Young Adults

  • Helga Ramsey-Kurz: Troubling Relations: The Refugee, the Critic and the Nation State

  • Annetta Benzar: The Confluence of Space: Cyprus and the Woman Migrant

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• H2. Identities in the Muslim Diaspora – Chair Angham Abdullah

  • Haleema Alaydi: Rethinking Palestinian Diaspora Fiction

  • Anas Alhaisony: Forging British Asian Identities: Interrogating Cultural Productions of Home

  • Ala’a Alghamdi: Third-spacing the narrative and form of the genre of autobiography: the Case of Contemporary Female Arab-American Authors

  • Sauleha Kamal: Ethics in Transcultural Postcolonial Narratives: The Conception of Rights in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire?​

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• H3. North American Cross-Cultures – Chair Prateeksha Patak

  • Dagmara Drewniak: The Transcultural Paradigm in (Post)memory, Migration and Place on the Example of Recent Polish-Canadian Writing

  • Kristina Aurylaite: Jordan Abel's Gestures of Disobedience in Canada's Settler State: Erasure Poetry Books Un/Inhabited and Injun

  • Doro Wiese: Transcultural Transfers across the Atlantic. Native North America in N. Scott Momaday and Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich’s Fictional Works

1.30pm – 2.30pm

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LUNCH​

2.30pm – 3.30pm

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EACLALS AGM

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Agenda
1. Report of the Chair: Isabel Carrera Suárez
2. Report of the Secretary: Melissa Kennedy
3. Report of the Treasurer: Emilia María Durán Almarza
4. Approval of the Reports
5. Appointment of the Executive Committee
6. Fixing of the date and place of the next Triennial General Meeting: Proposal
by Christine Lorre, University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.
7. Any Other Business
8. Adjournment

3.30pm – 4.30pm

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KEYNOTE PLENARY 5 - Chair Liamar Durán Almarza

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Michael Bucknor (University of the West Indies)
 

"Transcultural Violence, Intimate Embodiments: Marlon James's Queer Poetics"

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4.30pm – 5.00pm

COFFEE BREAK 

5.00pm – 6.30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS I

• I1. Autofiction and Pedagogy – Chair Michela Borzaga

  • Henghameh Saroukhani: Autotheory and the Afterlife of Empire

  • Laura Zander: States of Afterness: In(-Between) a New Transnational Asia

  • Padmini Mongia: English in India, India in English​

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• I2. South Asian Fictions and Economic Forms – Chair Devika Karnad

  • Nejat Tongur: Transcultural Encounters in Postcolonial Era in Anita and Me by Meera Syal

  • Esha Sil: Reevaluating a Transcultural 'Bong Connection': Towards a Schizophrenic Deterritorialization

  • Melissa Kennedy: Transmediality and the Global Self-Help Genre as Transnational Narrative Forms​

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• I3. Gendered Cosmopolitan Strangers: Agency Movement and Mobility in Contemporary Drama and Fiction – Panel – Chair Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez

  • Paola Prieto López: Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Response-ability in Theresa Ikoko’s Girls and Diana Nneka’s Liberian Girl

  • Ángela Suárez Rodríguez: Return Mobilities and Cosmopolitan Strangers in New Afrodiasporic Narratives

  • Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez: Becoming Strangers: Muslim Masculinities, Agency and Post-9/11 Diaspora in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets​

6.30pm – 7.00pm

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Concluding Remarks

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Presentation of the New Board – Concluding remarks by Outgoing Chair and Newly Elected Chair

CONFERENCE ENDS

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