Moving the Centre: Toward Radical Futures

Cross-Disciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference on Post/Decolonial and Global Studies.

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DAY 1

(Wednesday 4th August)[10am-12pm]

Opening Session

• Keynote speech - Creativity and Resistance: Heritage and Hostile Environments by Dr Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde)

[1.00pm-2.30pm] Panel 1A: Interrogating Legacies of Colonialism

• Children of Colonialism: Situating the Anglo-Indian Community in Post-Colonial Kerala (Aiswarya Sanath & Manoj Paramesawan)
• “The West is (NOT) the Best!” Social Media and the Decolonization of Moroccans’ Subconscious Image on the West (Fatima Zohra Alaoui Mahrez)
• Kuwaiti English: A Pattern-Driven Perspective (Mohammad Alenezi)

[3.00pm-4.30pm] Panel 1B: Spaces of Belonging

• Mobility Across Margins: (Re)locating ‘Refugees’ in Postcolonial South Asia through The Hungry Tide and Gun Island (Jaya Yadav)
• Writing Home? Haiti and Vietnam in Postcolonial Autofiction in French (Maika Nguyen)
• History is Grandmother’s Unspeakable Stories: Collaborative Poetry as Oral History Methodology (Katherine MacKinnon)

[5.00pm-6.00pm] Workshop 1

• Found in Translation: Reflecting on Multilingualism in Research (Eleanor Chapman and Katja Hržić)

DAY 2

(Thursday 5th August)[9.00am-10.30am] Panel 2A: Destabilising Literature

• ‘His life stagnates in a china sea’: Orientalism in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (Serena Wong)
• The Caliban and Miranda Complex: Colonialism and Gender in Muriel Spark’s Robinson and Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Kaiyue He)
• Decolonising the Classics in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Myth (Shelby Judge)

[11.00am-12.30pm] Panel 2B: Rethinking Research, Learning and Teaching

• Reclaiming Our Words – Indigenous Research Paradigm as Resistance (Ian Calliou)
• The Challenge of Defining and Measuring Empowerment (Cari Beth Head)
• Hand in Hand: Refusing Research During a Pandemic (Zuleika Sheik)
• The Implementation of a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in a Scottish School (Laurie Walden)

[1.30pm-3.00pm] Panel 2C: Decolonial Social Movements

• The Revolutionary Decolonial Theory and Praxis of the Political Testament of Malaya’s Conscious Youth Movement (1946) (Fadiah Nadwa Fikri)
• The Zapatista Decolonial Practices and their Impact on European Social Movements (Mario Alvarado)
• Black and Asian women’s Activism in Scotland, 1980s-1990s: A Research Overview (Marianna Golinucci)
• A Comparison of Guyana and Barbados with Respect to Colonial Legacies, Transnational Processes and Decolonial Activities Involved in Queer Activism (Nastassia Rambarran)

[3.30pm-4.30pm] Workshop 2

• Reflections on the Process of Making Space for Conversations about Racial (In)equality and Social Justice in Academia (ConveRACEions)

[5.00pm-7.00pm] Creative Conversations – Special Edition

• A discussion with a group of invited authors and artists, in partnership with Creative Conversations (University of Glasgow)

DAY 3

(Friday 6th August)[10.00am-11.00am] Panel 3A: Righting Women

• The Figure of La Malinche in Chicana Literature: Between Betrayal and Redemption (Viola Nassi)
• Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy: Indian Muslim Women’s Writing (Sheelalipi Sahana)

[11.30pm-12.30pm] Panel 3B: Decolonising Gender, Sexuality & Health

• Voices from the Marginalized: Hijras During COVID-19 (Rukhsar Hussain)
• Social Identity Re-construction through Digital Identity among South African Youths Living with HIV (SunHa Ahn)
• Hard-to-Reach or Easy-to-Ignore? Why the Language We Use Matters When Working with Marginalised Communities (Rowena Piers)

[1.30pm-3.00pm] Panel 3C: Examining Museums and the Visual Arts

• Decolonizing African Museums: Reimagining the Curation and Conservation of Sacred/Spiritual African Artefacts in Museum Collections (Mabafokeng Hoeane)
• A Missionary on a Looting Mission: An Interrogation of the Reverend Govan William Robertson ‘Collections’ at the Ditsong: National Museum of Cultural History and Glasgow Museum (Motsane Gertrude Seabela)
• Unruly Taste: Decolonizing Subjectivities in Visual Arts (Paula Córdoba)
• The Visual Representation of Femininity in the German Magazine Kolonie und Heimat (Caroline Braeuer)

[3.30pm-5.00pm] Panel 3D: Rethinking Key Figures and Concepts

• Fanon, Conflicts and Pacifisms (Carlos Cordero-Pedrosa)
• Scotland and Empire: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Anti-Imperialist Poetry (Fiona Paterson)
• Exploring Edward Said’s Orientalism and the Victim Narrative (Jessica Habib)