Plenary Panels throughout will be held in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre. Parallel Panels (Friday 10th only) will be held in a number of different rooms in the Brunei Gallery, Senate House and Stewart House as follows:
| DAY 1: FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 2008 |
| 9.00-10am |
Registration and coffee, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street |
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| 10.00am |
WELCOME AND PLENARY PANEL 1: |
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The Publication History of Things Fall Apart in the Launch of African Literature |
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Chair: Vicky Unwin
Speakers: James Currey (UK), Keith Sambrook (UK), Aig Higo (Nigeria) and Henry Chakava (Kenya) |
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| 11.20am |
BOOK LAUNCH: |
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Africa Writes Back, by James Currey |
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Introduced by Becky Ayebia Clarke |
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| 11.45am |
PARALLEL PANELS A, B, C, D: |
Panel A: Teaching Things Fall Apart (1)
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| Chair: Mala Pandurang (India) |
- Bernth Lindfors (USA), 'Teaching Things Fall Apart in Texas'
- Suzana Muhammad (Malaysia), 'Teaching Multicultural literacy in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart'
- Hamed Habibzadeh (Iran), 'Teaching Things Fall Apart in Iran: How a Novel Reads its Readers'
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| Panel B: Things Fall Apart in dialogue with other texts (1) |
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| Chair: Bruce King (USA) |
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- Ana Cristina Baniceru (Romania), 'Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children: The Paradox of History - A Comparative Study'
- Malika Maamri (Algeria), 'Re-Inventing Africa: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la Fantasia'
- Leila Kamali (UK),'"The Mothers and the Fathers": John Edgar Wideman's reconstruction of Community through Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart'
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Panel C: Reconsidering Things Fall Apart (1)
Chair: Adele King (USA) |
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- Chinweizu (Nigeria), ''The Dagger of Culturecide in Things Fall Apart'
- Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe (UK), 'The Achebean Restoration'
- Michel Naumann (France), 'The Semantic Structure of Things Fall Apart '
- João Cosme (UK/Portugal), 'Appropriating Things Fall Apart and the Making of a Tradition'
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| Panel D: Translating Things Fall Apart |
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| Chair: Mark Stein (Germany) |
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- Dorota Goluch (Poland), 'Chinua Achebe's Translation and Translation of Chinua Achebe'
- Waltraud Kolb (Austria), 'Re-Writing Things Fall Apart in German'
- Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith (USA), '"BoT I No YERI FINM NA DE HILLS EN CAVES": Things Fall Apart in Krio'
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| 1.00pm |
Lunch break (own arrangements) |
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| 2.00pm |
PARALLEL PANELS E, F, G, H, I: |
| Panel E: The Significance 0f Things Fall Apart |
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Chair: Malika Maamri (Algeria)
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- M'hamed Bensammane (Algeria), 'Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Narrating Leadership and Social Order'
- Hossein Sabouri (Iran), 'Reading Chinua Achebe: Disintegration of Culture, religion, and Education in Things Fall Apart'
- David Whittaker (UK), 'The Novelist as Teacher: Things Fall Apart and and the Hauntology of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half a Yellow Sun’
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Panel F: Teaching Things Fall Apart (2)
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| Chair: Angela Smith (UK) |
- Russell McDougall (Australia), 'Things Fall Apart : Culture Anthropology, Literature'
- Naida Rivera (Philippines), 'Close Encounters with Things Fall Apart in the Third World'
- Seema Sharma (India), 'Teaching Things Fall Apart in India--Students' Responses and Pedagogical Strategies'
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| Panel G: Things Fall Apart in dialogue with other texts (2) |
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| Chair: Stephanie Newell (UK) |
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- Rashna Singh (USA), 'The Art of Conversation: How the 'Subaltern' Speaks in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart'
- Dianne Shober (South Africa), 'The Role of Things Fall Apart and Sindiwe Magona in increasing awareness of Women's Roles in African Society'
- Christopher Ouma (South Africa), 'Daughters of Sentiment, Genealogies and Conversations in Things Fall Apart and Purple Hibiscus'
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| Panel H: Publishing and Marketing Things Fall Apart |
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| Chair: Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe (UK) |
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- Nourdin Bejjit (Morocco), 'The Significance of the publication of Things Fall Apart'
- Becky Ayebia Clarke (Ghana/UK), 'The African Writers' Series'
- Osita Ezeliora (South Africa), 'Modern African Literature and the Making of its Classics'
- David Chioni Moore (USA), 'Judging a Book by its Cover: Things Fall Apart,from Tribal Tale to World Literary Classic'
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| Panel I: Reconsidering Things Fall Apart (2) |
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| Chair: Akachi Ezeigbo (Nigeria) |
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- Íde Corley (Ireland), 'Conjuncture, Hypermasculinity and Disavowal in Things Fall Apart'
- Mick Jardine (UK), 'Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and the Politics of Magic'
- Mani Ushamani (Singapore), 'Reconsidering Things Fall Apart as depicting the Conflict of Everyman in Today's Globalized World'
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| 3.30pm |
Tea break |
Brunei Suite |
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| 4.00pm |
PLENARY PANEL 2: |
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The Impact of Things Fall Apart on African and African Diaspora Fiction
Chair: Graham Furniss (SOAS)
Speakers: Margaret Busby (London), Abdulrazak Gurnah (Kent), Abiola Irele (Harvard), Alain Ricard (Bordeaux) |
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| 6.15pm |
JOHN COFFIN MEMORIAL READINGS: |
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Writers Respond to Things Fall Apart
Chair: Alistair Niven (Commonwealth Writers Prize Advisory Committee)
Speakers: Elleke Boehmer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Abdulrazak Gurnah
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| 7.15pm |
Drinks reception |
Brunei Suite |
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| DAY 2: SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 2008 |
| 9.45am |
PLENARY PANEL 3: |
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Things Fall Apart and its impact on other media
Chair: Kadija George (Sable Books, UK)
Speakers: Raimi Gbadamosi (artist, UK), Segun Lee-French (poet and dramatist, UK), Freddy Macha (poet and musician, Tanzania/UK), Susan Yearwood (philosopher and fiction writer, UK) |
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| 11.00am |
Coffee break |
Brunei Suite |
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| 11.30pm |
PLENARY PANEL 4: |
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Contemporary reader responses to Things Fall Apart, and discussion with members of the audience
Chair: James Procter (University of Newcastle)
Speakers: Gonul Bakay (Turkey), Terri Ochiagha (Spain), Andrew Smith (Scotland) |
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| 12.45pm |
Lunch break |
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| 1.45pm |
PLENARY PANEL 5: |
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Translating Igbo Forms: Things Fall Apart, language and the visual arts
Chair: Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith (USA)
Speakers include: Obiora Udechukwu (Nigeria/USA) and Chika Okeke-Agulu (Nigeria/USA)
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| 2.30pm |
PLENARY PANEL 6: |
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The Significance of Things Fall Apart
Chair: Mpalive Msiska (Birkbeck College)
Speakers: Sangeeta Datta (India), Mpalive Msiska (Malawi/Birkbeck College), Wangui wa Goro (Kenya) |
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| 3.45pm |
Tea break |
Brunei Suite |
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| 4.10pm |
POETRY READING: |
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Abena Busia (Ghana/USA), "Still Morning Yet" (for Chinua Achebe on the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart) |
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| 4.20pm |
SIMON GIKANDI IN DIALOGUE WITH CHINUA ACHEBE |
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A dialogue with Chinua Achebe about his own response to the novel, then and now, and to the novel's critics. |
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| 5.45pm |
Close |
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