Programme
June 8th, 2007
Venue: Newcastle University, Percy Building, Newcastle upon Tyne
10:30 – 11:00 Foyer (ground floor)
Coffee/Tea and Registration
10:30 – 1:00 Room G11 (ground floor)
Jack Mapanje (Newcastle), “Two Footnotes”;
Fadia Faquir (Durham) “Lost in Translation: the Arab Book in the Language of the Other”;
Becky Ayebia (London) “The Challenges of Publishing New African Writing in the 21st Century”
1:00 – 2:00 Foyer (ground floor)
Lunch: with a brief announcement by Benita Perry and colleagues (Warwick) about their project “The Aesthetics of Third Worldism”
2:00-4:00 Room G11 (ground floor)
Frascesca Orsini (SOAS), “Is There a Greenich Meridian? Reflections on World Literature”
Kathleen Kerr-Koch (Sunderland) “Who’s Afraid of World Literature(s)?
4:00-4:15 Foyer (ground floor)
Tea/Coffee
4:15-6:00 Room G11 (ground floor)
Round table with all speakers and Derek Attridge (York) “Local Readings, Global Responsibilities”