Programme

 

9:15-9:45 Registration

 

9:45-10:00 Opening Anna-Leena Toivanen

 

10:00-11:00 Session I

Chair: Bénédicte Ledent

Kathleen Gyssels, “French-Guiana, a Periphery in a Periphery: Continental versus Insular Caribbean Enclaves. Some Considerations on Centripetal Forces”

Tsivia Frank-Wygoda, “The Postcolonial Self in the Hybrid City: Poetics of Strasbourg as a Mythical Space”

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

 

11:30-13:00 Session II

Chair: Laura Beck

Elisabeth Bekers & Zhuyun Song, “Hetero-Images of Belgium in Postcolonial Literature”

Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez, “African Migrants in the Peripheral City: Antwerp’s Dual Cityscape in Chika Unigwe’s Fiction”

Lucio De Capitani, “The Provincial Town as a Postcolonial Stage: Frank Westerman’s El Negro en ik”

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-15:30 Session III

Chair: Giulia Mascoli

Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska, “Provincial Spaces, Metropolitan Problems: A Postcolonial (Re)Reading of Dark, Almost Night (2012) by Joanna Bator”

Janine Hauthal, “Imagining the European Periphery: Post-War Croatia in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man”

Judith Rahn, “Exploring British Peripheries in Caryl Phillips’ The Lost Child”

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

 

16:00-17:30 Session IV

Chair: Marc Delrez

Nicolas Treiber, “The Power of Peripheric Places: Suburbs of Paris in Chaïne of Saïdou Bokoum”

Martina Vitackova, “‘The Neighbour from Hell’: Dutch Suburbs in the Work of Naima El Bezaz”

Delphine Munos, “Invisible European Peripheries: Narrating the Calais Refugee Camp in ‘Voices from the Jungle’ and the Gatwick Detainment Camps in ‘Refugee Tales’ (I and II)”

 

17:30-18:30 Keynote lecture

Chair: Anna-Leena Toivanen

Jopi Nyman, “Mediterranean Peripheries in New Anglophone Literatures: Mobilities and Communities”

 

19:00 Conference dinner