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Postcolonial Melancholia
| Location: | Rhode Island, United States |
| Conference Deadline: | 2009-03-13 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-03-04 |
| Announcement ID: |
167342 |
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https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/melancholia
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Conference
Postcolonial Melancholia
March 13-14, 2009
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
Brown University
Friday, March 13
9:30-10:00am Introductory Remarks
Elliott Colla (Comparative Literature, Brown University)
10:00-12:00pm Panel I
Abdul JanMohamed (English, UC Berkeley):
"Between Dying and Speaking: The Subaltern in the Context of U. S. Slavery"
Zahid R. Chaudhary (English, Princeton University):
"Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Historical Difference, and Postcolonial Theory"
Nauman Naqvi (Comparative Literature, Brown University):
"Melancholy as Counter-Historical Askesis"
Respondent: Jacques Khalip (English, Brown University)
2:00-3:30pm Panel II
Serguei A. Oushakine (Slavic Languages & Literatures, Princeton University):
"Communities of Loss, Metonymies of Death: Dealing with Colonial Wars in Post-Imperial Russia"
Esther Whitfield (Comparative Literature, Brown University):
"Postwar Havana and the Aesthetics of Ruin"
Respondent: Michal Oklot (Slavic, Brown University)
4:00-6:00pm Keynote Address I
David Scott (Anthropology, Columbia University):
"The Ruins of Time and Generations of Memory"
Saturday, March 14
9:00-10:30am Panel III
Gil Anidjar (Religion, Columbia University):
"Trust No One: Vicissitudes of Christian Melancholia"
David Kyuman Kim (Religious Studies, Connecticut College):
"Future Perfect/Past Conditional"
Respondent: Corey Walker (Africana Studies, Brown University)
11:00-12:30pm Panel IV
Samera Esmeir (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley):
"Humanism and the Loss of the Human: Reflections on Egypt's Colonial History"
Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar, Istanbul):
"History as Mourning"
Respondent: Réda Bensmaïa (French, Comparative Literature, Brown University)
2:00-3:30pm Panel V
Iain Chambers (Faculty of Arts, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples): "Mediterranean Blues: Memory and Modernity at War with Itself"
Marinos Pourgouris (Comparative Literature, Brown University): "The Unbearable Melancholia of Being British"
Respondent: Rey Chow (Comparative Literature, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)
4:00-6:00pm Keynote Address II
Ranjana Khanna (English and Women's Studies, Duke University): "Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual"
Please direct any comments or questions to
postcolonialmelancholia@brown.edu
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