Conference programme

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1 Conference programme Overview 1 Programme 2 Name index 16 Participants 18 Useful information 23

2 time Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, time 0830 Registration (until 13:15) Keynote address 0915 Parallel sessions Ien Ang Coffee & tea 1015 Keynote address 1015 Coffee & tea Diana Brydon Parallel sessions Parallel 1115 Coffee & tea 1130 sessions School teaching forum Lunch break 1215 Parallel sessions Lunch break Reading Sridhar Rajeswaran 1300 Poster session 1 (12:00-12:30) Registration Conference closes (until 17:00) Coffee & tea Parallel 1400 Parallel sessions sessions School teaching forum Conference opening Coffee & tea Coffee & tea Keynote address Edward W. Soja The institutionalisation 20 years on: Plenary session of Postcolonial GNEL/ASNEL and its 1615 Coffee & tea 1615 Studies institutional locations 1630 (round table) 1630 (round table) 1645 Walk from Schloss to 1645 Fürstenberghaus Coffee & tea Poster session 2 School teaching forum Coffee & tea Parallel GNEL Mitgliederversammlung Parallel sessions 1 sessions (ASNEL AGM) Spons. pre-theatre refreshments Non-members are Wasafiri round table invited to a guided 1900 tour of Münster 1915 'Clearing new spaces' Wasafiri special issues Theatre performance Readings Bernardine Evaristo s/w remix 2000 Tomáš Zmeškal Conference dinner 2015 Samir El-youssef 2015 Seats are limited 2030 Spons. drinks 2030 free tickets at Booking essential 2045 reception registration desk please pick up tickets early at registration desk 2115 School teaching forum

3 Wednesday/Thursday Wednesday 20 May 19:00 Conference warming Brauhaus Pinkus Kreuzstr. 4 Thursday 21 May 13:15 17:00 Registration [Senatssaal, Schloss/Universität] [Coffee: 13:30 15:00 Entrance hall, Schloss/Universität] 14:30 Conference opening [Aula, Schloss/Universität] Marianne Ravenstein (Vice-Rector for Teaching, Reform of Studies and Student Affairs) Christian Pietsch (Dean of Faculty of Humanities) Frank Schulze-Engler (ASNEL President) Mark Stein (Convener) 15:00 Keynote address Edward W. Soja (UCLA) Postcolonial spaces and the struggle over geography [Aula, Schloss/Universität] Chair: Lars Eckstein (U Tübingen) 16:15 Coffee break [Entrance hall, Schloss/Universität until 17:00] Walk from Schloss to Fürstenberghaus (15 min.) 17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 [Fürstenberghaus] 1A Travel narratives [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Peter H. Marsden (RWTH Aachen) Sonja Fielitz (U Marburg) Trans-locating libraries: Ingenious pre- and post-colonial travel narratives Therese-M. Meyer (U Halle-Wittenberg) 'Out of the fucking jungle': Two river journeys of imperialist disintegration 1B Postcolonial film cultures [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Markus Heide (HU Berlin) Lars Eckstein (U Tübingen) Filming illegals: Clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life Wumi Raji (U Ile-Ife) Cosmopolitanism and a Nigerian postcolonial video-film 1C Transmigration [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Kathy-Ann Tan (U Tübingen) Silke Stroh (U Münster) Theories and practices of transmigration: Translocation and colonial British diasporas Sharmila Nisha Harry (U St. Augustine) Being and becoming? Re-negotiating self in Beryl Gilroy's Boy Sandwich and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy 2

4 Thursday/Friday Beate Eisner (U Potsdam) Saris & suitcases: Transnational imaginaries in contemporary South Asian American narratives 1D Translocating cosmopolitanism [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chairs: Virginia Richter (U Bern) Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M) Richard Rong-bin Chen (FJU Taiwan) Practicing literary cosmopolitanism: Wang Dahong and his translation of The Picture of Dorian Gray Gesa Mackenthun (U Rostock) American antebellum cosmopolitanism: Herman Melville's 'postcolonial' translocations Sissy Helff (U Frankfurt/M) 'Naked men' in translocations: Representations of refugees and translocations in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore 1E Translation and translocation [Ü108, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Gisela Feurle (Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld) Marta Cariello (U Naples) Translation as a critical renaming of narration: Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love Serena Guarracino (U Naples) Transcreation in the (m)other language: Suniti Namjoshi's Poems of Govindagraj J. Coplen Rose (BU Quebec) Al Purdy's cultural translation of Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead 19:00 Wasafiri evening [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Round table Clearing new spaces Chair: Susheila Nasta (Open U) Bryan Cheyette (U Reading) Bernardine Evaristo (London) Suman Gupta (Open U) Wasafiri authors: Readings Samir El-youssef (Palestine) Bernardine Evaristo (UK) Tomáš Zmeškal (Czech Republic) 20:30-21:00 Reception [Foyer, 1 st floor (1.OG)] (Kindly sponsored by Möbelspedition Laarmann) Friday 22 May [Fürstenberghaus] 8:30 Registration (until 13:15) [Foyer, 1 st floor (1. OG)] 9:00 Keynote address Ien Ang (U Western Sydney) Intercultural dialogue without guarantees [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Ursula Kluwick (U Bern) 10:15 Coffee break / Opening of ASNEL Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Ursula Kluwick, Claudia Perner, and Frank Schulze-Engler [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 3

5 Friday 10:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 2A School teaching forum 1 Panel discussion: Theory & methods of teaching postcolonial literatures in secondary schools [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Susanne Reichl (U Vienna) Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M) Silke Stroh (U Münster) Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena) Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Gisela Feurle (Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld) Roy Sommer (U Wuppertal) 2B Under construction [Ü108, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Ursula Kluwick (U Bern) Jenny Diederich (Frankfurt/M) Indigenous literatures in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: A comparative study Nora Escherle (U Bern) Staging alterity: Religious othering and the cosmopolitan gaze in postcolonial Indian English novels Lyam Ortmeier (FU Berlin) Resistance textualised: On the limits of postcolonial scholarship 2C Transcultural cityscapes [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Jens Frederic Elze (FU Berlin) Sara Duana Meyer (U Osnabrück) 'Bombay, meri jaan': Relocating subjectivity in a maximum city's literature Kathy-Ann Tan (U Tübingen) Curio(us) translocations: Sitespecific interventions in Banglatown, London Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo (U Oviedo) Writing the city as translocal space: Hyphenated narratives of Vancouver 2D African re-visions [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Ksenia Robbe (U Giessen) Oyeniyi Okunoye (U Bayreuth) Postcolonial renaming and the Nigerian tradition of short fiction Ina Wester (U Eichstätt) Beverley Naidoo's The Other Side of Truth: A modern fairy tale of loss? Roland Walter (U Recife) Transcultural crossroads: Diaspora memory and identity in contemporary new world African fiction 4

6 Friday 2E Theorizing post-colonial translocations [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Gesa Mackenthun (U Rostock) Lynda Ng (U New South Wales, Sydney) Translocal temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria Caio Simões de Araújo (U Coimbra) Tales of international madness: Is there a post-colonialist theory for international relations? Chukwuma Okoye (U Ibadan) Of 'space' and 'place': Wole Soyinka and the (dis)location of postcolonial theory 2F Forced and voluntary relocations [F9, basement (UG)] Chair: Sissy Helff (U Frankfurt/M) Ebenezer A. Omoteso (U Ile-Ife) Contratado: Forced relations in Lusophone African poetry Gregor Pudzich (U Duisburg-Essen) Crossing the great water: Representations of forced and voluntary relocations in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes Peter H. Marsden (RWTH Aachen) Euro-Kiwis or deracinated emigrés? New Zealand writers in European residence 2G Postcolonial film cultures [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Markus Heide (HU Berlin) Sharon Wang (USC, Los Angeles) Parting with the father who knows best: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution Ellen Dengel-Janic (U Stuttgart) Bringing the slum to your doorstep: New modernity in Slumdog Millionaire Nicole Schröder (U Paderborn) A pirate's life for me: Empire, otherness and spatial boundaries in Pirates of the Caribbean 12:15 Lunch Poster session 1 [Foyer, 1 st floor (1. OG)] 13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 3A School teaching forum 2 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena) Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Postcolonial Studies in school books, official curricula and the German Zentralabitur Annemarie Baldinger (Wetzikon) Slumdog Millionaire and beyond? 5

7 Friday 3B Spaces and communities of the Internet [Ü108, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Katharina Rennhak (LMU Munich) Rainer Hillrichs (U Bonn) Daily photo blogs: Translocal representation and postcoloniality Anne Haeming (U Konstanz) Do not delete: How Nigerian spams end up between the folders Eric A. Anchimbe (U Bayreuth) Discursive construction of the Other online 3C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Daria Tunca (U Liège) Jessica Voges (U Münster) Laughter movens David Callahan (U Aveiro) Creative mixtures and destructive interfaces in the work of Janette Turner Hospital Jens Frederic Elze (FU Berlin) Translocation and deixis in postcolonial literatures 3D Gender and the postcolonial [Ü5, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Therese-M. Meyer (U Halle-Wittenberg) Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European U Cyprus) 'I love Cyprus but England is my home': Eve Makis's Eat Drink and Be Married Christine Vogt-William (Emory U Atlanta) Of cane and the Kala Pani: Addressing indentureship in contemporary Indo-Caribbean diasporic women's novels Maria Lidola (FU Berlin) Being/Becoming a Brazilian woman in Berlin: Almost but not quite(?) 3E Audio/visual representations [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Norbert Platz (U Trier) Verena Rodatus (U Oldenburg) The biennial DAK'ART as translocal exhibition of contemporary African art Jessica Hemmings (Edinburgh College of Art) Constructions of dress in African visual art and fiction Max C. Oestersötebier (U Münster) Can you hear the translocations? The 'New Congo square' 3F Formations of belonging [F9, basement (UG)] Chair: Ann Spangenberg (U Kiel) Kylie Crane (U Tübingen) Go forth and perish? Explorer myths and national natures Klaus Stuckert (Zurich) Swiss-Caribbean Authors?! 6

8 Friday 3G Translocation as topos in literatures and films from/on Southern Africa [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Monika Reif-Hülser (U Konstanz) Daniel Benjamin Williams (U Heidelberg) No fixed abode: Movement and consent in J. M. Coetzee Ksenia Robbe (U Giessen) Transpositionings: Chronotopes of decolonization in Zoë Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town and Njabulo S. Ndebele's Fools and Other Stories Monika Reif-Hülser (U Konstanz) Love, gender, and identity: South Asian-South African intersections 15:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 15:30 A) Round table The institutionalisation of postcolonial studies [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M) Ien Ang (U Western Sydney) Nilufer Bharucha (U Mumbai/U Münster) Pilar Cuder-Dominguez (U Huelva) Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen) Abioseh M. Porter (Drexel U) Wumi Raji (U Ile Ife) Janet Wilson (U Northampton) B) School teaching forum 3 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Dirk Janke (U Münster) Anja-Therese Knittel (Studienseminar Arnsberg/Hannah Arendt Comprehensive School, Soest) East is East and West is West? Ulrike Erichsen (Musterschule Frankfurt/TU Darmstadt) (Un)arranged marriage in the EFL classroom Michael Mitchell (U Warwick & Gymnasium der Mariannhiller Missionare in Maria Veen, Reken/U Warwick) Ethnic Diversity in the UK 17:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] Poster session 2 [Foyer, 1 st floor (1.OG)] 17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 4A School teaching forum 4 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Silja Fehn (U Münster) Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Translocation and the reinvention of the post-colonial subject: Anurag Mathur's 'Inscrutable Americans' 7

9 Friday Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena) Teaching English in the global village 4B Transmigration [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Jessica Voges (U Münster) Melanie Mettler (U Bern) Dislocated family Translocated home Markus Schmitz (U Münster) Cultural articulations of Arab American crossovers 4C Translocal foods and travelling goods [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Cosima Wittmann (U Frankfurt/M) Jonathan Highfield (U Rhode Island) Translocation and foodways in the narrative of Sundiata Catherine Kroll (UC Berkeley) A place at the table: South African indigenous foods and translocal appetites 4D The power to narrate: Authority and authenticity [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Gerhard Stilz (U Tübingen) Kazuhiro Masui (U Osaka) Underground Tokyo and postcolonial Japan in Murakami Ryu's In the Miso Soup (1997) Sandra Vacca (Preservation Trust Museum, St. Andrews) Representing immigration: The example of the Cité Nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France 4E Imagining translocal space [F9, basement (UG)] Chair: Sara Duana Meyer (U Osnabrück) Lucia Krämer (U Hanover) Far away, so close: Translocation in Hari Kunzru's Transmission Ellen Grünkemeier (U Hanover) Translocation: Representing HIV/AIDS as an epidemic or as a pandemic? 4F Translation and translocation [Ü106/107, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Nadia Butt (U Münster) Birte Wiemann (U Hull) 'Here is unfenced existence': Geographical and cultural translocation in the work of Philip Larkin Sarah Knor (LMU Munich) Translocation as translation: Reconstructing dead voices in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost 8

10 Friday/Saturday 4G Formations of belonging [Ü108, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: David Callahan (U Aveiro) James Tar Tsaaior (U Ibadan) The Exilic as elixir? The Ambiguity of exile in the poetic imagination of Tanure Ojaide Silvia Schultermandl (U Graz) Imaginary homelands and imagined communities: Origin and return in Vineeta Vijayaraghavan's Motherland 18:30 Pre-theatre refreshments [Studiobühne, foyer / entrance hall of the theatre] Seats are limited: Free tickets at registration desk 19:00 Theatre performance s/w remix [Studiobühne] Foll. by discussion with actors & director Barbara Kemmler Chair: Marga Munkelt (U Münster) Saturday 23 May [Fürstenberghaus] 9:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 5A Translocal foods and travelling goods [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen) Cosima Wittmann (U Frankfurt/M) Of love cakes and Christmas turkeys: Translocal food in Sri Lankan literature Astrid Feldbrügge (U Bayreuth) Nostalgic distaste: The representation of culinary conservatism in Ivan Vladislaviċ's The Restless Supermarket 5B Translation and translocation [Ü210/S229, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Janet Wilson (U Northampton) Abioseh M. Porter (Drexel U) More than mere 'dislocation': Translocation in the poetry of J.P. Clark and Syl Cheney-Coker Daria Tunca (U Liège) 'We die only once, and for such a long time': Translocation as paradigm in Chris Abani's Song for Night 5C Migrancy and carnival [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Gordon Collier (U Giessen) Yvette Smalle (U Leeds) Carnival as a social pedagogy Erika Laredo (U Leeds) Carnival: The migrant's story 5D Diasporas [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Paul Spickard (UC Santa Barbara / U Münster) Ayse Tuba Demirel Sucu (U Istanbul) Construction of diasporic identity: Survival and ambivalence in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground 9

11 Saturday Susanne Pichler (U Innsbruck) Binding and framing experience in trans-local spaces: Aamer Hussein's Mirror to the Sun (1993) and Sunetra Gupta's The Glassblower's Breath (1993) 5E Gender and the postcolonial Cancelled 5F Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Reinhardt Küsgen (U Göttingen) Kim Sasser (U Edinburgh) Rushdie's universalist turn in The Enchantress of Florence Bidisha Banerjee (U Hong Kong) Capturing impermanence, finding the self: The trope of photography and diasporic identity formation in Jhumpa Lahiri's story 'Hema and Kaushik' 10:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 6A Panel discussion: Translocating Postcolonial Studies Recent interdisciplinary developments [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chairs: Silke Stroh (U Münster) Christine Vogt-William (Emory U Atlanta) Eva Bischoff (U Cologne) On History and German Studies Diana Brydon (U Manitoba) On interdisciplinary studies Jessica Hemmings (Edinburgh College of Art) On Art History/Visual Studies Ananya Jahanara Kabir (U Leeds) On Medieval and Postcolonial English Studies Michiko Mae (U Düsseldorf) On Japanese Studies Markus Schmitz (U Münster) On Middle Eastern Studies Alfred Sproede (U Münster) On Slavonic/Baltic Studies 6B Theorizing post-colonial translocations [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Kerstin Knopf (U Greifswald) Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin) Mutant children and divine infants: Hybridity and alterity in Keri Hulme's short fiction Sanjoy Saksena (U Allahabad) Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in an age of globalization Roy Sommer (U Wuppertal) No size fits all: Postcolonial ways of seeing in the 21st century 10

12 Saturday 6C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Nilufer Bharucha (U Münster/U Mumbai) Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg) No returns: Narrative constructions of translocal space in James Welch's Heartsong (2000) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes/Someone Knows My Name (2007) Francesco Cattani (U Bologna) The boat as a travelling culture: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh Sandra Meyer (U Duisburg-Essen) 'The Story that gave this Land its Life': The translocation of Rilke's Duino Elegies in Ghosh's The Hungry Tide 6D Transcultural cityscapes [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Sridhar Rajeswaran (U Kachchh / U Münster) Elisabeth Damböck (FU Berlin) Bombay: Translocal city Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary, U London) Translation and translocation: Writing contemporary London Carla Rodríguez González (U Oviedo) Leila Aboulela's urban cartographies 6E Forced and voluntary relocations [F10, basement (UG)] Chair: Katrin Berndth (U Bremen) Francesca Giommi (U Padua) Fighting for the mother country, fighting to belong:ww2 African and Caribbean soldiers in the British army Miriam Richter (U Kiel) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness vs. peace, order, and good government: The exodus of the United Empire Loyalists 6F Imagining translocal space [F9, basement (UG)] Chair: Susanne Pichler (U Innsbruck) Vera Alexander (U Aarhus) Reading (weeding?) translocal gardenscapes Fatim Boutros (U Erlangen) Afro-Caribbean diasporic literature: Self-articulation of a translocal nation Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen) Dislocating imagology, and: How much of it can (or should) be retrieved? 12:00 Reading Sridhar Rajeswaran (India) [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Dieter Riemenschneider (U Frankfurt/M) 11

13 Saturday 12:30 Lunch 12:30 Postcolonial studies northwest: Meet & greet [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG); snacks provided] 13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 7A The power to narrate: Authority and authenticity [Ü108, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen) Katharina Luise Nambula (U Bayreuth) Identity transformations in conflict situations Philipp Kneis (U Potsdam) The exiled native: Questions of cultural removal and translocal American-Indian identity in novels by Sherman Alexie and James Welch Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen) Postcolonial transformations: The Bhasha Adivasi project 7B Diasporas [F4, 2 nd floor (2.OG)] Chair: Ellen Dengel-Janic (U Stuttgart) Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (U Malaya, Kuala Lumpur) Diasporic translocations: Difference, multiculturalism, and national identity in Malaysia Delphine Munos (U Liège) Giving up the ghosts: Diaspora and its hereafter in Once in a Lifetime by Jhumpa Lahiri 7C Contact varieties translocated: Language and identity in diaspora communities [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Anne Schröder (U Halle-Wittenberg) Susanne Mühleisen (U Bayreuth) '... allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!' Linguistic choices and community construction among Trinidadians in California Rajend Mesthrie (U Cape Town) Language in the Indian diaspora: Some new directions with respect to naming traditions 7D Formations of belonging [Ü210/S229, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Dirk Wiemann (U Potsdam) Ann Spangenberg (U Kiel) Translocation in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl Nadia Butt (U Münster) The location of transcultural memory in Indu Sundaresan's The Splendor of Silence (2006) Till Kinzel (TU Brunswick) Segun Afolabi, transnational identity, and the politics of belonging 12

14 Saturday 7E Black British (trans-)locations [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Jana Gohrisch (U Hanover) Susanne Reichl (U Vienna) Races, faces, colours: Translocating racism in Black British literature for young readers Katharina Rennhak (LMU Munich) Daljit Nagra's Look We have Coming to Dover! and the limits of the translocal 7F Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [Ü106/107, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Vera Alexander (U Aarhus) Annemarie Baldinger (Wetzikon) The chameleon or changing attitudes to location Maggie Ann Bowers (U Portsmouth) Translocal narrative strategies: The threads that string us along Julia Kuehn (U Hong Kong) Narrating transnationalism: How to write a grounded dispersion 7G Under construction [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Ursula Kluwick (U Bern) Irmtraud Huber (U Bern) Ethical magic: The ethical potential of magic realism Karin Orantes (U Vienna) South African memoirs Esther Georg (U Münster) The borderland of colour: Afro- Germans in a moving metropolis 15:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 15:30 Plenary session Round table 20 years on: GNEL/ASNEL and its institutional locations [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Tobias Döring (LMU Munich) Chris Balme (LMU Munich) Kerstin Knopf (U Greifswald) Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen) Dieter Riemenschneider (U Frankfurt/M) Peter Schneck (U Osnabrück) Klaus Stierstorfer (U Münster) Gerhard Stilz (U Tübingen) 17:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 17:30 ASNEL AGM / GNEL-Mitgliederversammlung [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Non-members are invited to a guided tour of Münster Early booking at registration desk is essential For non-members unable to obtain places on the guided tour: 30-minute film on Münster's international modern sculpture projects (room F2), followed by opportunities for self-guided tours (brochures available at conference desk) 20:00 Conference dinner Please pick up your dinner ticket at registration as soon as possible 13

15 Sunday Sunday 24 May [Fürstenberghaus] 10:00 Keynote address Diana Brydon (U Manitoba) 'Difficult forms of knowing': Enquiry, injury and translocated relations of postcolonial responsibility [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg) 11:15 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)] 11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 8A Translocating cosmopolitanism [F1, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chairs: Virginia Richter (U Bern) Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M) Annie Cottier (U Bern) A poetics of cosmopolitanism: History and identity in The Assassin's Song Anca-Raluca Radu (U Göttingen) Michael Ondaatje and the cosmopolitan novel Divisadero Dirk Wiemann (U Potsdam) Cosmopolitanism: (On) whose term(s)? 8B Transcultural cityscapes [F4, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chair: Maria Lidola (FU Berlin) Ingrid von Rosenberg (U Dresden) Representations of the (British) city in contemporary Black and Asian British visual art Mark Campbell (U Glasgow) Dis-locating Kolkata David Stoop (U Cologne) Intercultural transformations of the city: Mosque-projects in Germany and the symbolic space 8C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F2, 1 st floor (1. OG)] Chair: Delphine Munos (U Liège) Kirsten Sandrock (U Göttingen) Postcolonial piecework: Aspects of self-location in Madeleine Thien's Certainty (2007) and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (2008) Thomas Martinek (U Vienna) Writing (in) the migrant space: Discursive nervousness in postcolonial Nigerian short stories 14

16 Sunday 8D Contact varieties translocated: Language and identity in diaspora communities [F5, 2 nd floor (2. OG)] Chairs: Susanne Mühleisen (U Bayreuth) Anne Schröder (U Halle-Wittenberg) Rotimi Taiwo (U Freiburg) Language and cultural identity in the Nigerian online diaspora community: A case study of Nigerian Village Square Andrea Moll (U Freiburg) The globalization of Jamaican Creole: A web-based analysis of short-term historical trends and the current dynamics of language contact Venues Schloss Schlossplatz 2 D Münster Bus stop: 'Landsgericht' Fürstenberghaus Domplatz D Münster Bus stop: 'Domplatz' Studiobühne Domplatz 23 D Münster Bus stop: 'Domplatz' 8E Formations of belonging [F6, ground floor (EG)] Chair: Henning Schäfer (U Hanover) Gundo Rial y Costas (FU Berlin) Translating the American dream? A Brazilian vision of the promised land Marga Munkelt (U Münster) Myths of rebellion: Translocation and (cultural) innovation Paloma Fresno-Calleja (U Palma) (Trans)Locating Pacific identities: From the small island to the largest Polynesian city in the world 13:15 Conference closes 15

17 Name index Alexander 11, 13 Anchimbe 6 Ang 3, 7 Baldinger 5, 13 Balme 13 Banerjee 10 Berndth 11 Bharucha 7, 11 Bischoff 10 Boutros 11 Bowers 10, 13 Brydon 10, 14 Butt 8, 12 Callahan 6, 9 Campbell 14 Cariello 3 Cattani 11 Cheyette 3 Collier 9 Coplen Rose 3 Cottier 14 Crane 6 Cuder-Dominguez 7 Damböck 11 Davis 7, 9, 12 Dengel-Janic 5, 12 Diederich 4 Döring 13 Eckstein 2 Eisner 3 El-youssef 3 Elze 4, 6 Erichsen 7 Escherle 4 Evaristo 3 Fehn 7 Feldbrügge 9 Feurle 3, 4 Fielitz 2 Fresno-Calleja 15 Gabriel 12 Georg 13 Gilmour 11 Giommi 11 Gohrisch 13 Grünkemeier 8 Guarracino 3 Gupta 3 Haeming 6 Heide 2, 5 Heinke 4, 5, 7 Helff 3, 4, 5 Hemmings 6, 10 Highfield 8 Hillrichs 6 Hrzán 10 Huber 13 Im 10 Janke 7 Kabir 10 Kinzel 12 Kluwick 3, 4, 13 Kneis 12 Knittel 7 Knopf 10, 13 Knor 8 Krämer 8 Kroll 8 Kuehn 13 Küsgen 10 Laredo 9 Lidola 6, 14 Mackenthun 3, 5 Mae 10 Marsden 2, 5 Martinek 14 Masui 8 Menéndez Tarrazo 4 Mesthrie 12 Mettler 8 Meyer, S. D. 4, 8 Meyer, S. 11 Meyer, Th.-M. 2, 6 Mitchell 7 Moll 15 Mühleisen 12, 15 Munkelt 9, 15 Munos 12, 14 Nambula 12 Nasta 3 Ng 5 Nisha Harry 2 Oestersötebier 6 Okoye 5 Okunoye 4 Omoteso 5 Orantes 13 Ortmeier 4 16

18 Otto 10 Perner 11, 12, 13 Pichler 10, 11 Pietsch 2 Platz 6 Porter 7, 9 Pudzich 5 Radu 14 Rajeswaran 11 Raji 2, 7 Ravenstein 2 Reichl 4, 13 Reif-Hülser 7 Rennhak 6, 13 Rial y Costas 15 Richter, M. 11 Richter, V. 3, 14 Riemenschneider 11, 13 Robbe 4, 7 Rodatus 6 Rodríguez González 11 Rong-bin Chen 3 Rosenberg, von 14 Saksena 10 Sandrock 14 Sarkowsky 11, 14 Sasser 10 Schäfer 15 Schmitz 8, 10 Schneck 13 Schröder, A. 12, 15 Schröder, N. 5 Schultermandl 9 Schulze-Engler 2, 3, 4, 7, 14 Simões de Araújo 5 Smalle 9 Soja 2 Sommer 4, 10 Spangenberg 6, 12 Spickard 9 Sproede 10 Stein 2 Stierstorfer 13 Stilz 8, 13 Stoop 14 Stroh 2, 4, 10 Stuckert 6 Sucu 9 Taiwo 15 Tan 2, 4 Tournay-Theodotou 6 Tsaaior 9 Tunca 6, 9 Voges 6, 8 Vogt-William 6, 10 Volkmann 4, 5, 8 Walter 4 Wang 5 Wester 4 Wiemann, B. 8 Wiemann, D. 12, 14 Williams 7 Wilson 7, 9 Wittmann 8, 9 Zmeškal 3 17

19 Participants ( ) Alexander, Vera Althans, Katrin Anchimbe, Eric A. Ang, Ein Bader, Rudolf Baldinger, Annemarie Banerjee, Bidisha Berndt, Katrin Bharucha, Nilufer Biber, Eleonore Bischoff, Eva Blenke, Daniel Blume, Antje Borner, Dominik Boutros, Fatim Bowers, Maggie Brydon, Diana Butt, Nadia Callahan, David Campbell, Mark Cariello, Marta Cattani, Francesco Chen, Richard Rong-bin Cheyette, Bryan Collier, Gordon Cottier, Annie Craig, Terrence Crane, Kylie Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar Dahlheim, Mayannah Damböck, Elisabeth Davis, Geoffrey Demirel Sucu, Ayse Tuba Dengel-Janic, Ellen Diederich, Jenny Dinter, Sandra Döring, Tobias Duppé, Claudia Dzudzek, Iris Eckstein, Lars Ehrenwirth, Rebecca Eisner, Beate El-Youssef, Samir Elze, Jens Escherle, Nora Anna Evaristo, Bernardine Fahrak, Ines Feddeck, Chiara Feldbrügge, Astrid Fernandez Bohn, Carina Fetzer, Margret Feurle, Gisela Fielitz, Sonja Florowski, Claudia Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Funk, Wolfgang Gabriel, Sharmani P. Gafner, Barbara Århus Universitet Universität Bonn University of Bayreuth University of Western Sydney Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich Wetzikon Hong Kong Institute of Education Bremen University University of Mumbai Breitenfurt, Austria Universität Köln Münster University Studienseminar Arnsberg Bamberg University of Erlangen/ Nuremberg University of Portsmouth University of Manitoba University of Münster University of Aveiro University of Strathclyde Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli University of Bologna Catholic Fu Jen University University of Reading JLU Giessen University of Bern, Switzerland Mount Allison University University of Tübingen University of Huelva, Spain Universität Regensburg Freie Universität Berlin RWTH Aachen Fatih University University of Stuttgart Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Leibniz Universität Hannover LMU München University of Freiburg WWU Münster University of Tübingen München University of Potsdam London, UK Freie Universität Berlin University of Bern London, UK Braunschweig RWTH Aachen Universität Bayreuth University of Santiago de Compostela LMU München Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld University or Marburg, Germany Münster University of the Balearic Islands Leibniz University Hanover University of Malaya University of Berne 18

20 Georg, Esther Gilmour, Rachael Giommi, Francesca Gohrisch, Jana Gregory, Michael Grünkemeier, Ellen Guarracino, Serena Gupta, Suman Gürsoy, Dilek Haeming, Anne Harprecht, Franziska Harry, Sharmila Nisha Heide, Markus Heinke, Jörg Helff, Sissy Hemmings, Jessica Highfield, Jonathan Hillrichs, Rainer Höschele, Andreas Hrzán, Daniela Huber, Irmtraud Iheanacho, George Chidiebere Jones, Nisha Kähler, Marijke Kassim, Babajide Kavtaradze, Giorgi Kazeem, Taiwo Olaniyi Kerner, Ina Kern-Stähler, Annette Kinzel, Till Kläger, Florian Kluwick, Ursula Kneis, Philipp Knopf, Kerstin Knor, Sarah Krämer, Lucia Kroll, Catherine Krueger, Nora Kuehn, Julia Küsgen, Reinhardt Lahr, Karen Langwald, Sylvia Laredo, Erika Lidola, Maria Lindner, Oliver Mackenthun, Gesa Mae, Michiko Mahamied, Mahsa Marsden, Peter Martinek, Thomas Masui, Kazuhiro McIntosh-Schneider, Julia McPherson, Annika Menéndez Tarrazo, Alicia Mesthrie, Rajend Mettler, Melanie Meyer, Tania Meyer, Sandra WWU Münster Queen Mary, University of London University of Padua, Italy Leibniz Universität Hannover Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel Leibniz Universität Hannover University of Naples "L'Orientale" Open University Bergische Universität Wuppertal Universität Konstanz Universität Bayreuth University of the West Indies Humboldt University Berlin Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Braunschweig University of Frankfurt Edinburgh College of Art Rhode Island School of Design Universität Bonn Hannover University of Konstanz/ HU Berlin University of Berne Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta Wasafiri/ The Open University University of Bern Debiase Contracts Limited Tbilisi State University Youth Network on HIV/ AIDS, Population & Development in Nigeria HU Berlin Universität Duisburg-Essen Technische Universität Braunschweig WWU Münster University of Bern Universität Potsdam; HU Berlin University of Greifswald LMU München Leibniz Universität Hannover Sonoma State University RWTH Aachen The University of Hong Kong Universität Göttingen Universität Landau Philipps-Universität Marburg Leeds Metropolitan University Lateinamerika-Institut FU Berlin Universität Bayreuth Universität Rostock University of Düsseldorf University of Augsburg RWTH Aachen University of Vienna Osaka City Univeristy Universität Regensburg Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg University of Oviedo University of Cape Town, RSA University of Bern University of Oldenburg University of Duisburg-Essen 19

21 Meyer, Therese-Marie Mitchell, Michael Moll, Andrea Mortazavi, Mehdi Mose, Jörg Mueller-Schulzke, Carla J. Mühleisen, Susanne Müller, Sandra Munjal, Savi Munkelt, Marga Munos, Delphine Muritala, Tayo Nambula, Katharina Nasta, Susheila Ng, Lynda Niedlich, Florian Nur, Souodi Ali Oestersoetebier, Max Okoye, Chukwuma Okunoye, Oyeniyi Omoteso, Ebenezer A. Oni, Deborah Orantes, Karin Orao, James Ortmeier, Lyam Otto, Melanie Palitzsch, Francesca Perner, Claudia Peters, Susanne Pichler, Susanne Pietsch, Christian Platz, Norbert Porter, Abioseh Michael Pudzich, Gregor Radu, Anca-Raluca Rajeswaran, Sridhar Raji, Wumi Rau, Albert Reichl, Susanne Reif-huelser, Monika Rennhak, Katharina Richter, Virginia Richter, Miriam Richter, Merle Riemenschneider, Dieter Robbe, Ksenia Rodatus, Verena Rodríguez González, Carla Rose, J. Coplen Roth, Julia Saksena, Sanjoy Sandrock, Kirsten Sarkowsky, Katja Sasser, Kim Schäfer, Henning Schmidt, Lena Schmidt-Haberkamp, B. Schmitz, Markus Schneck, Peter MLU Halle-Wittenberg University of Warwick & Gymnasium Maria Veen Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Univ. of Sistan and Baluchestan WWU Münster Goethe Universität Frankfurt University of Bayreuth HU Berlin University of Leeds, U.K. University of Muenster University of Liège, Belgium Lagos State University Universität Bayreuth Wasafiri/ The Open University University of New South Wales, Sydney University of Würzburg Ethopian Student Organistion University of North Dakota University of Ibadan University of Bayreuth University of Ile-Ife Universität Muenster University of Vienna WWU-Münster Berlin Trinity College Dublin Universität Regensburg Universität Duisburg-Essen WWU Münster Innsbruck University WWU Münster Trier University Drexel University University-Duisburg Essen Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Kachchh University, India Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife Universität Köln University of Vienna University of Konstanz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Berne Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel WWU Münster Frankfurt University JLU Giessen Universität Oldenburg Universidad de Oviedo Lakehead University Universität Potsdam University of Allahabad University of Göttingen University of Augsburg University of Edinburgh Universtät Hannover Hannover University of Bonn Muenster University Universität Osnabrück 20

22 Schröder, Nicole Schultermandl, Silvia Schulz, Regina Schulze-Engler, Frank Schwarz, Anja Sidhu, Guramar Singh Smalle, Yvette Snethkamp, Hendrik Soja, Edward W. Sommer, Roy Spangenberg, Ann Spickard, Paul Sproede, Alfred Stein, Mark Stierstorfer, Klaus Stilz, Gerhard Stoop, David Straß, Hanna Stroh, Silke Stummer, Peter Susanka, Thomas Taiwo, Rotimi Tan, Kathy-Ann Thiara, Nicole Tournay-Theodotou, Petra Tsaaior, James Tschorn, Lisa Tunca, Daria Unger, Kristin Vacca, Sandra Victor, Adimula Voges, Jessica Vogt-William, Christine Volkmann, Laurenz von Rosenberg, Ingrid Walter, Roland Wanagas, Janna Weingarten, Jutta Wester, Ina Wiemann, Dirk Wiemann, Birte Williams, Daniel Wilson, Janet Mary Wittmann, Cosima Zips, Yvonne Zmeskal, Tomas University of Paderborn University of Graz University of Cologne Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Universität Konstanz GGS Institute of Information Communication Technology, India Leeds Metropolitan University Gymnasium Aspel, Rees UCLA Wuppertal University Christian-Albrechts-Univ. zu Kiel UCSB WWU Münster WWU Münster WWU Münster Universität Tübingen Universität zu Köln Universität Bayreuth WWU Muenster LMU München Universtität Tübingen University of Freiburg University of Tübingen Manchester European University Cyprus University of Ibadan WWU Muenster University of Liège Hannover The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum, Scotland Ogun State Goverment Office University of Münster Emery University Atlanta Universität Jena TU Dresden UFPE Recife Hannover Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Kath. Univ. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt University of Potsdam University of Hull University of Heidelberg University of Nortjampton Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University München Prague 21

23 U s e f u l i n f o r m a t i o n Conference office Fürstenberghaus, F English Department Johannisstr (library, photocopies) opening hours Thursday closed Friday 08:00-20:00 Saturday 08:00-13:00 Sunday: closed Opening hours of many shops Thursday closed Friday 09:00-20:00 Saturday 09:00-14:00 Sunday closed Train tickets entrance hall, Fürstenberghaus Use the bright red DB-ticket machine for purchasing train tickets (by credit card) and for printing out train connections (free) Public transport hotline (Stadtwerke) Taxi there's a taxi stand at Domplatz Taxi & FMO airport transfer pre-book for set price of 32 Bicycle rental Radstation Münster Arkaden Königsstr near the Arkaden shopping center Radstation am Hauptbahnhof Berliner Platz 27a in front of the main train station Car rental Avis Georgskommende Avis Weseler Str. 316D Avis FMO Airport Sixt Weseler Str H o t e l s Stadthotel Aegidistr Überwasserhof Überwasserstr Hotel Agora am Aasee Bismarckallee Hotel Agora Seehotel Bismarckallee Hotel International am Theater Neubrückenstr Martinihof Hörsterstr Hotel Mauritzhof Eisenbahnstr Hotel Mercure Engelstr R e s t a u r a n t s Reservation advisable L u n c h Street market Fri. 12:00-18:00 (S: eco food) Sat. 07:00-14:30 (XL: v. busy) «food market on Domplatz; with stalls for coffee, sandwiches, sausage, fried fish» Café Weltbühne «student cafeteria» Breul Marktcafé «opposite cathedral; spacious» Domplatz

24 Lazaretti: Pizza, pasta, ice cream «big outside area» Spiekerhof 26 (nr. Überwasserkirche) Frauenstrasse 24 «Turkish specialties» Frauenstrasse Ça Va Aegidimarkt Pinkus im Stadthaus 1 «near the shops» Klemensstr Café Milagro Frauenstraße Café Couleur Wilmergasse Rick's Café «lunch oasis in the city» Aegidiistr Café Extrablatt 1 Salzstr Café Extrablatt 2 Königsstr C a f é s Floyd Coffee-Lounge «grab a sandwich» Domplatz 6-7 Café Kleimann «twee» Prinzipalmarkt Café Liebigs am Drubbel «chic: watch & be seen» Drubbel Eiscafé Firenze «super ice cream» Bogenstr Roestbar «they roast their own» Nordstr Café Konditorei Grotemeyer «twee too» Salzstr La Californie (café & lunch) «in the Picasso Museum» Königsstraße café arte Königsstr Schlossgarten «castle & botanical garden» Schloßgarten L o c a l f a r e Altes Gasthaus Leve Alter Steinweg Bistro 'Butter Holstein' «fine food & wine selection» Am Horsteberg Kleiner & Großer Kiepenkerl «traditional» Spiekerhof Stuhlmacher «scenic» Prinzipalmarkt Alter Pulverturm «nice beer garden» Breul I n t e r n a t i o n a l A2 restaurant & bar «right on the waterfront» Annette-Allee Kleines Restaurant im Oerschen Hof Königsstr

25 Monegro «Mongolian barbecue buffet» Frauenstr Takanoha «Sushi & Japanese food» Königsstr N o t o n l y f i s h Restaurant am Aasee «v. high standards» Annette-Allee Afrisa African pub «fish & beer» Scharnhorststr. 59A Café Fiu «freshly grilled fish & meat» Rothenburg I t a l i a n Dell'Isola «good food; lunch special» Aegidiistr La Vecchia Casa Wilhelmstraße Pizzeria Piccolo Frauenstr La Locanda Frauenstr Osteria Tiziano «most bizarre place listed!» Spiekerhof 12 Tel Mocca d'or «v. popular; pizza & pasta» Rothenburg Va Piano «pasta, pizza & bar» Königsstr B e e r & w i n e Pinkus Müller «brewery with local food» lots more pubs next door! Kreuzstr Toeddenhoek pub «beer & regional specialties» Rothenburg Sansibar café & bar Geisbergweg 8 (near the post office) Villa Vinum «feine Weine, kleine Sünden» Rosenstr. 2 (11:00-19:00h) A r o u n d t h e h a r b o u r Pier House Hafenweg Heaven-Lounge (restaurant & club) Hafenweg Cafe Med «Mediterranean food; terrace» Hafenweg 26a T o t a k e a l o n g Aux Chocolats «finest French chocolates» Königsstr