New Currents in World Literature

An event showcasing new research from colleagues from SOAS and beyond.

Join us for a hybrid day of inspiring new research on topics in world literature. You are welcome to join for the whole day or just one session.
 

Programme

11:00–11:30

Welcome, Introductions, Tea & Coffee
Anandi Rao

Session 1 | 11:30–1:00

Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang

• 'More than a Metaphor? The Turkish Novel in the World'

   

  Keya Anjaria
  SOAS, University of London

   

• 'Yearning for the World: Goan Youth Press as World Literature'

   

  Daniela Spina
  NOVA University of Lisbon

1:00–2:30

Lunch

Session 2 | 2:30–4:30

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: Investigating the Female Body in William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (2009)'

   

  Nadia Butt
  University of Frankfurt

   

• 'Thalassological Imaginaries and Tidalectical Belonging in Indian Ocean Fiction'

   

  Dolors Ortega
  University of Barcelona

4:30–5:00

Closing Remarks

Event Registration

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