friday, september 23rd, 2005  
McCosh 50
Princeton University

 

9:00-9:30 // breakfast // McCosh Courtyard

9:30-9:45 // welcome // McCosh 50

Nadia Ellis (Princeton), Marie-Hélène Koffi-Tessio (Princeton), and Tim Watson (Princeton)

9:45-10:30 // opening dialogue: francophone studies and postcolonial theory // McCosh 50

Sylvie Kandé (SUNY Old Westbury)

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford)

Moderator: Simon Gikandi (Princeton)

10:45-12:15 // where is “theory” in the postcolonial? // McCosh 50

Idara Hippolyte (Independent Scholar), “Un-Theory”

Hervé Tchumkam (Penn), “African Literatures in the Wake of Postcolonial Theory”

Keithley Woolward (NYU), “Postcolonial Criticism and the Question of Authorship”

Moderator: Ben Conisbee Baer (Princeton)

Respondent: Tim Watson (Princeton)

12:15-1:30 // lunch // McCosh Courtyard

1:30-3:00 // when is theory “postcolonial”? // McCosh 50

Briallen Hopper (Princeton), “Ramona, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and the New American Empire”

Sophie Saint-Just (CUNY Graduate Center), “Telling (Post)Colonial Tropes: The Middle Passage and The Exile of King Behanzin”

Keri Walsh (Princeton), “Towards a Post-Apartheid Theater: The Case of Brett Bailey”

Moderator: Gyan Prakash (Princeton)

Respondent: Sara Salih (Toronto)

3:00-3:30 // coffee // McCosh Courtyard

3:30-5:30 // closing roundtable: postcolonial theory now // McCosh 50

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton)

Carolyn Cooper (U of the West Indies, Mona)

Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones (Princeton)

Ambroise Kom (Holy Cross)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia)

Moderator: Eduardo Cadava (Princeton)

5:30-6:30 // reception // McCosh Courtyard

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