New Currents in World Literature
Key information
- Date
- Time
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11:00 am
- Venue
- SOAS Gallery and Online
- Room
- BG01
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
About this event
This hybrid event showcases inspiring new research on topics in world literature, from colleagues from SOAS and beyond.
You are welcome to join for the whole day or just one session.
Programme
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00am–11:30am | Welcome, Introductions, Tea & Coffee | Anandi Rao |
| 11:30am–1:00pm | Session 1 Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang | |
| 'More than a Metaphor? The Turkish Novel in the World' | Keya Anjaria (SOAS University of London) | |
| 'Restoring the Link of the Interrupted Chain”: Goan Youth Press and its Yearning for the World (1920s – 1940s)' | Daniela Spina (NOVA University of Lisbon | |
| 1:00pm–2:30pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30pm–4:30pm | Session 2 Chair: Anandi Rao | |
| 'Shifts in Memorialising the Bengal Famine: Reading So Many Hungers! as a Palimpsest of Postcolonial Memoryscape' | Bhagyashri Vyasaramacharya (University of Frankfurt (online)) | |
| 'The Subaltern in Motion: Representations of the Female Body in World Literature' | Nadia Butt (University of Frankfurt) | |
| 'Thalassological Imaginaries and Tidalectical Belonging in Indian Ocean Fiction' | Dolors Ortega (University of Barcelona) | |
| 4:30pm–5:00pm | Closing remarks | |
Image credit: Ed Robertson via Unsplash
