Programme

Venue: University of Liège, Salle de l’Horloge, building A1

10.00-11.00 Keynote address

Chantal ZABUS (Paris XIII and Institut Universitaire de France), “The Transgendered Nation: Interssexions between the Nation-State and the Transsexual Subject”

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Session 1

Birte HEIDEMANN (University of Bremen, Germany), “Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Post-Conflict Sri Lankan Women’s Writing”

Emilie HERBERT (University of Liège), “Black British Women Filmmakers: Towards a Genderracial Cinema?”

Maryam MIRZA (University of Liège), “Diasporic Gendered ‘Madness’ in Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music and Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework”

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Session 2

Anna-Leena TOIVANEN (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), “Attempts of Escape in Accra: Gender, Class and (Auto)Mobility in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story”

Laura BECK (University of Liège), “Breaking or Remaking Colonial Stereotypes? Female Figures in Contemporary Germanophone Literature: Urs Widmer, Alex Capus and Lukas Bärfuss”

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.00-16.30 Session 3

Jennifer RANDALL (Lyon 2 University, France), “Tahmima Anam and Kamila Shamsie: Guardians of Secularism?”

Delphine MUNOS (University of Liège), “From India, with Love: Of Indo-Trinidadian Womanhood, India’s Diasporic Public Sphere, and Passages Back to India in Novels by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers”

16.30-17.00 Conclusion