Conference Programme
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10 - 11
Registration
11.00 – 12.00
Session One: Caribbean Literature
Gemma Robinson , Stirling University
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Essex University, "It have some things worth more than a dollar: Language as a Place of Struggle"
12.00 - 1.00
Lunch
1.00 - 2.00
Session Two: Caribbean Creoles
Alicia Beckford Wassink, University of Washington
Mark Sebba, Lancaster University, "Postcolonial Orthography"
2.30 - 3.00
Coffee
2:30 - 3:30
Session Three: Narrating India in English
Namrata Bhawnani, writer-in-residence Stirling University, "Whose India is it Anyway?"
Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University "From Linguistic Nationalism to Linguistic Globalization: The Evolving Language of the South Asian Novel in English"
3:30 - 4.00
Tea
4.00 - 5.00
Session Four: World Varieties of English
Markku Filppula, University of Joensuu, "Global and Local Perspectives on the Irish Dialects of English"
Kaycey Ihemere, Westminster University "English in Africa: Imperialism or Pragmatism"