A CONFERENCE ON CARYL PHILLIPS
23-24 MAY 2017 University of Caen Normandy
MRSH Maison de la recherche et des Sciences Humaines
Amphithéâtre de la MRSH Campus 1
Tuesday 23 May MRSH Campus 1 Amphithéâtre
9. 00-9.15- : Registration
9.15- 9.30 : Opening address
9.30-10.45 Panel 1
Chair : kathie Birat
Françoise Clary (University of Rouen) ‘Extending intersectionality theory to the perception of blackness and otherness, or how to reconnect to the past by bridging Colour me English and Crossing the River’
Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich, London) ‘There are no paths in water’ : History, Memory and Narrative Form in Crossing the River and Foreigners : Three English Lives’
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 PANEL 2
Chair : Françoise Clary
Catherine Lanone (University Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle) ‘A bunch of daffodils : (un)belonging in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River ?’
Héliane Ventura (University of Toulouse) The Final passage in Crossing the River
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.30 Caryl Phillips in conversation with John McLeod
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.30 PANEL 3
Chair : Bénédicte Ledent
Bruna Mancini (Universita della Calabria) ‘Spaces of memory and identity in Crossing the River and A Distant Shore’
Kathie Birat (University of Lorraine) ‘Historicising emotion in the fiction of Caryl Phillips’
16.30-17.45 panel 4
Chair : Bruna mancini
Giulia Mascoli (University of Liège) ‘Haunting memories Voiced through Mnemonic Prose in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood’
Maria Festa (University of Torino) ‘The Nature of Blood and fragmented history’
9. 00-10.30 panel 5
Chair : Héliane Ventura
Josiane Ranguin (University Paris XIII, Sorbonne Paris Cité) ‘Happiness is not always fun’ in Caryl Phillips’s ‘ ‘IV : Somewhere in England’ in Crossing the River (1993), Somewhere in England (2016) and Ali : Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Fassbinder (1974)
Chloé Debart (University of Caen) ‘Voice(s) and silence(s) : Caryl Phillips’s reshaping of the slave narrative’
10.30-11 COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.30 PANEL 6
Chair : Catherine Lanone
Eri Kobayashi (Seiki University, Japan) ‘Literary intertexts and its effects in Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child’
Arijana Luburic Cvijanovic (University of Novi Sad) ‘From Crossing the River to The Lost Child : A genealogy of liminal space’
12.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30 – 16.30 panel 7
Chair : françoise kral
Hajer Elarem (Higher Institute of applied languages of Moknine) ‘Places of memory and cultural trauma in the work of Caryl Phillips’
Maxim Farrar (Leeds Beckett University) ‘Radical dislocation, multiple identifications, and the subtle politics of hope in Caryl Phillips’s novels’
Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège) Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and the Chorus of archival memory.
16.30-17.00 COFFEE
17.00-17.45 Conclusion with Caryl Phillips
Chair : Kathie Birat
Scientific committee
Françoise Kral (Université de Caen)
Anne-Laure Tissut (Université de Rouen)
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