Wednesday 28 October, 2015
12:30-02:00
SESSION 1
02:00-03:30
BEYOND THE CORRUGATED IRON GATE
Prof. Aaron Eastley
Brigham Young University, USA
Biswas Before Biswas:
"Plotlines From the Chaguanas Correspondent"
Mr. Andre Bagoo
Journalist and Poet, Trinidad Newsday
"Dead Man Walking: Cinema, Sexuality and Politics in V.S. Naipaul’s ‘Tell Me Who to Kill’"
Dr. Kevin Frank
Brauch College, N.Y.
"Muddling the Middle: Cynical Representations of Ethnic Relations in V.S. and Shiva Naipaul"
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SESSION 2
04:00-05:30
FEMINIST AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL READINGS
Dr. Vijay Maharaj
UWI, St Augustine
"Under the Sign of Unhappiness"
Dr. Elizabeth Jackson
UWI, St Augustine
"Struggling with Constructions of Masculinity in House for Mr Biswas"
Dr. Paula Morgan
UWI, St Augustine
"Naipaulian Mothers and Motherlands"
6:00-7:15
FORMAL OPENING CEREMONY
Open Campus Auditorium, UWI St Augustine
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
"The Trials of Gurudeva"
Iere Theatre Productions Ltd
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Coming Home to Ourselves"
Prof. Emeritus Kenneth Ramchand
7:15
PRINCIPAL’S RECEPTION
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Thursday 29 October, 2015
08:00-09:00
REGISTRATION
09:00-10:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Prof. Emeritus Arnold Rampersad
Stanford University, California
10:30-11:00
BREAK
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SESSION 3
BEING AND BECOMING:
NAIPAULIAN MEN OF LETTERS
Prof. Kenneth Ramchand
"Being and Becoming a Writer: Family Ambitions"
Mr. Nicholas Laughlin
Editor, Caribbean Book Review
"Editing the Naipaul Letters"
Keith Jardim
"The Beauty Surrounds the Darkness:
Novels That Taught Me How to See and Begin Writing"
12:30-01:30
LUNCH
1:30
DEPARTURE FOR CHAGUANAS
02:15-03:00
VISIT TO LION HOUSE, CHAGUANAS
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SESSION 4
3:00-4:30
Office of the Mayor of Chaguanas
CREATIVE WRITERS ON NAIPAULIAN INFLUENCES
Dr. Raymond Ramcharitar
Ms. Sharon Millar
Mr. Shastri Maharaj
Mr. Keith Jardim
05:00-07:00
RECEPTION
Hosted by the Mayor of Chaguanas
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Friday 30 October, 2015
08:00-09:00
REGISTRATION
09:00-10:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie
UWI, St Augustine
10:30-11:00
BREAK
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SESSION 5
11:00-12:30
DISRUPTING SPACE DISTANCE AND TIME
Prof. Emeritus Brinsley Samaroo
UWI, St Augustine
"In but not of the Society:
Seepersad, Naipaul as Crusader/Critic"
Dr Jim Hannan
Le Moyne College, N.Y.
“'My Sense of Distance and Time was Shaken':
Globalization Before Its Time in the Work of V.S. Naipaul"
Ms. Nivideta Misra
UWI, St Augustine
"V.S. Naipaul and the Immigrant Experience:
A Reading of In a Free State"
Dr. Hywel Dix
Bournemouth University, U.K.
"From Tonka Beans to Magic Seeds:
V.S. Naipaul’s Late Career Fiction of Self-Retrospect"
12:30-02:00
LUNCH
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SESSION 6
02:00-03:30
EMERGING IDENTITIES
Ms. Meghorn Cleghorn
UWI, St Augustine
"Sex and the Naipaul Brothers"
Ms. Fariza Mohammed
UWI, St Augustine
"The Naipaul’s Karma"
Mr. Varistha Persad
UWI, St Augustine
"Spaces Created by A Way in the World"
03:30-04:00
BREAK
DEPARTURE FOR NAIPAUL’S HOUSE
ST JAMES
06:00-08:00
CLOSING RECEPTION
Naipaul’s House, St James
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[Please note that this programme is subject to change]
1 comment:
The conference proved to be a bitter sweet experience for me as I was
unable, due to the previous commitments, to attend on Thursday 29th, which from the feedback I received from my colleagues, was very interesting and controversial, and also on the morning of Friday 30th. I would have particularly liked to hear the contributions of Dr Raymond Ramcharitar and Mr Shastri Maharaj. On the positive side I enjoyed the presentations of Prof Aaron Eastley on the writings of Seepersad Naipaul, and the presentations of the afternoon of Friday 30th by Ms Megahan Cleghorn, Ms Fariza Mohammed and Mr. Varistha Persad. I also enjoyed the closing ceremony at the Naipaul House in St. James, where Prof. Ken Ramchand read V. S. Naipaul’s short story ‘Tell Mr Who to Kill’, and Mrs Savitri Naipaul-Akal, the sister of the writer, read the preface to the latest edition of the novel ‘A Bend in the River’, which was written by V.S himself, and which Mrs Naipaul-Akal said she had never read before her very recent purchase this edition. This preface was very interesting because it spoke about the process that led to the writing of this particular novel. A process that mystified Mr Naipaul himself, because it was a bit haphazard, and a lot of the inspiration came for his dreams.
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