FRIDAY 24 JUNE

9.00-9.15: Welcome Professor Janice Carruthers, Dean of Research, Faculty of AHSS, QUB

9.15-10.45: Negritude, Modernism, Decolonisation (Chair: Mary Gallagher)
Pat Crowley (UC Cork): Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête: the hyphen of non-rupture, the suspension of decolonisation
Jason Hong (Yale): War of the Worlds: Negritude, Cosmopolitanism and Monde
Hugo Azerad* (Cambridge): “Un cri noué en forme de langage”: Malemort ou la naissance d’un modernisme antillais

10.45-11.15: Coffee

11.15-12.30: Prison Breaks: the ruptures, continuities and genealogies of Caribbean confinement (Chair: Martin Munro)
Sarah Arens (Liverpool): The Prison and Pan-Africanism: Institutionalised Education, Intellectualism and Liberation in Haitian Diaspora Literature
Charles Forsdick (Liverpool): Reading the Memory-Traces of the Bagne

12.30-1.30: Lunch

1.30-3.00: Looking back: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Chair: Helen McKelvey)
Margaret Cunningham (QUB): Disaster and endurance in early béké writing
Maeve McCusker (QUB): Planter, worker, soldier, Gael. Traces of Irishness in Caribbean writing in French
Finola O’Kane (UC Dublin): Structuring the Colonial Picaresque. Comparing the Representation of Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti) in the long eighteenth century

3.00-3.30: Coffee

3.30-5.00: Chamoiseau: poetics and posterities (Chair: Lorna Milne)
Orane Onyekpe-Touzet (Sorbonne-Warwick): From the ‘trace’ to the ‘empreinte’. Memorial, artistic and ontological connections in Chamoiseau’s La Matière de l’absence
Mary Gallagher (UC Dublin): Poetic Posterities: Patrick Chamoiseau’s dance around Saint-John Perse
Charly Verstraet* (Birmingham, Alabama): Writing the Rupture: Tracing the Literary Aesthetics of the Middle Passage in Césaire, Glissant and Chamoiseau

5.00-6.30: Martin Munro, SFS Visiting International Fellow (Winthrop King Institute and Florida State University): "The Other American: Michael Dash and the U.W.I. Generation." Chair: Maeve McCusker

7.00: Dinner in Bo Tree Thai Restaurant sponsored by AHRC Translating Cultures and Modern Languages CDRG, AEL


SATURDAY 25 JUNE

9.30-11.00: Relation, Crossings, Dialogue (Chair: Patrick Crowley)
Laura Kennedy (QUB): Language Politics in Caribbean Literature: Patrick Chamoiseau in conversation with Marlon James
Carlos Garrido Castellano (UC Cork)*: Sounding the Hurricane: Creative resilience and Archipelagic Crossings.
Marta Fratczak-Dabrowska* (Poznan): Fred D’Aguiair’s Children of Paradise as an example of intergenerational, ecocritical dialogue in Anglo-Guyanese fiction

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-12.45: Institutions, Language, Rupture (Chair: Charles Forsdick)
Antonia Wimbush (Liverpool): BUMIDOM: an enforced rupture with the French Caribbean?
Matthew Allen (Warwick): Haitian Kreyòl and the search for a linguistics beyond filiation

12.45 – 2.00: Lunch

2.00-3.30: Haiti: Rupture, Resilience, Return (Chair: Margaret Cunningham)
Rachel Douglas (Glasgow): Creating Rasanblaj. Haitian Cultural Production Beyond the Earthquake
Emma Howell (Duke): Drawing the Text: Reformatting Literary Genealogies in Dany Laferrière’s Autoportrait de chat and Frankétienne’s Héros-Chimères
Kate Hodgson (UC Cork)*: “Tant d’histoires que l’on ne verrait jamais la fin”. Decolonization, gender and violence in Haitian storytelling

3.30-4.00: Coffee

4.00 - 5.15: Intertextuality, Intratextuality and Return (Chair: Laura Kennedy)
Marco Doudin (Sorbonne): Intertextual Readings of Glissant’s Les Indes
Lorna Milne (St Andrews): Histoires de retour au défi natal: L’Enfant Bois and Désirada

7.00 Wine reception followed by conference dinner, Molly’s Yard, sponsored by AHRC Translating Cultures
* Presenting online

If you have any queries please contact Maeve McCusker (m.mccusker@qub.ac.uk).