‘Ethics and Postcolonialism’
10-11 April 2006, Newcastle University
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Programme
*All events will take place in the Percy Building, University of Newcastle.
Monday, 10 April 2005
8:30-9:30: registration
9:30 – 10:45 Opening comments and 1st Plenary
Leela Gandhi La Trobe University (Plenary)
"Elementary Virtues: Notes Toward a Groundwork of Anticolonial Ethics"
10:45-11:15 – Tea / coffee
11:15 - 12:45 Parallel sessions
De-coding Human Rights
Pathik Pathak, English, Warwick University
“The
Death of Political Education? From Revolutionary Histories to Human Rights Futures”
Joy Wang, English, Oxford University
“Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory?”
Baidik Bhattacharya, English, Oxford University
“Human
Rights, Biopower and Ethics: Postcolonial Reflections”
12:45-1:45
LUNCH
1:45- 3:00
Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham (Plenary)
'Ethics and the dangers of moral neo-colonialism'
3:00- 3:30 Tea / Coffee
3:30-5:00 Parallel sessions
Locality and Globality in Ethics
Stephanie Jones, Research Fellow, Ferguson Centre for African
and Asian Studies
"The ethical implications
of recognising “belongers”
Eoin Flannery, Languages and Cultural Studies, University
of Limerick
“Irish
History and Postcolonial Ethics”
David Kim, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
“Ethics
in Time: Translating German Colonialism After Auschwitz”
Ethics and Community
Lisa Propst, Oxford University
"Communities of
Dialogue and Ethics of Representation: Formal Experimentation in the Work of
Marina Warner"
Elizabeth Jackson, Goldsmiths College, University of London
"Gender and ethics
in a postcolonial frame: The tension between individual rights and social responsibility
in the novels of Anita Desai"
Anna Hartnell, English, Goldsmiths College
“A
Moses of the postcolony: the ethics of non-violence in the theological-political
vision of Martin Luther King”
5:00- 6:00 Bhikhu Parekh
University of Westminster (Plenary)
"The nature and possibility of a global ethic"
7:30 Conference Dinner
Tuesday April 11
9:30 – 10:45 Gauri
Viswanathan (Plenary)
"Religion after Religion in Postcolonial
Criticism"
10:45 – 11:15 Tea / Coffee
11:15—12:45 Parallel sessions
The Ethics of Representation
Mallarika Sinha Roy, Social Anthropology/Queen Elizabeth House,
Oxford University
“Perils
of an Empathetic Researcher: Ethical Questions of Representing the Informant”
David Waite and Nick Lewis, Centre for Development Studies,
Auckland University
“Development Ethics in
the Context of Human Trafficking: Analyzing the Intersections of Research and
Agency”
Anthony Bryan, History, Newcastle University
"The Politics of Representation
and the South African War of 1899-1902"
Ethics, Colonialism, and Neo-colonialism
Neelam Srivastava, English, Newcastle University
“The Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence”
Robert Spencer, London
“Representations and
Interventions: The Ethical Basis of Postcolonial Studies”
Jaya N. Kasibhatla, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
"Ritual Denunciation:
On Ethics and Rhetoric in Postcolonial Theory"
12:45 – 1:45
LUNCH
1:45-3:00 Peter Jones
Newcastle University (Plenary)
"Equality, Recognition and Cultural Difference"
3:00-3:30 Coffee/tea
3:30-5:00 Parallel sessions
Ethics and Narrative I
Katherine Lemons, Depts of Rhetoric and Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley
“Ethical
Encounters: A Levinasian Reading of Bhisham Sahni’s Chief ki Dawat”
Jennifer Yusin, English, Emory University
“Writing
Partition: Trauma, Testimony and Ethics in Postcolonial Literature”
Short Break
Terri Tomsky, University of British Columbia
“Amitav
Ghosh’s Anxious Witnessing and the Ethics of Action in The Hungry
Tide”
Pablo Mukherjee, English and Comparative Literary Studies,
University of Warwick
"From Alien Residence
to Resident Aliens: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide"
Ethics and Narrative II
Sonali Perera, English, Rutgers University
“Ethics
and the Critique of Historicism in Sivanandan’s When Memory Dies”
Lucia Fiorella, English and American Literatures, University
of Florence
“Remuneration
or Gift? Questions of Ethics in the Fiction of J.M Coetzee”
Claire Chambers, English, Leeds Metropolitan University
“The
Rules of the Game Have Changed: Recent Literary Representations of British Muslims”
5:00-6:00 – Closing
Remarks