PROGRAMME #AfriMobilities
Sponsored by Routledge
African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present
Saturday 7 February 2015, 9:00am–5:30; The Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York
9:00am Registration and coffee
9:30am Introduction and welcome, David Attwell, University of York
KEYNOTE: ‘Look, Here, Upon This Picture, and on This’: Black Travellers and Victorian Print Culture
Alasdair Pettinger, Independent Scholar; Respondent: Tim Youngs
10:30am Panel A: The Diaspora Travels, the Diaspora Writes
Snapshots of a Community: Germany’s Black Diaspora through the Eyes of African-American Reporters, 1927-1933
Robbie Aitken, Sheffield Hallam University
A Guerrilla Guidebook: Lubaina Himid’s Glossy Guide to an Alternative London and Paris
Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire
Extra Meaning on the Highway: Eddy L Harris’s South of Haunted Dreams and the African American Motorcycle Narrative
Tim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University
12:00pm Lunch
13:00pm Panel B. Writing Travel in and beyond Africa
Shifting Contours: Travel in the Life and Writings of the Reverend Tiyo Soga
Jo Davis, Independent Researcher
‘We need new critical paradigms’: Reflections on researching a literary history of Yoruba travel writing
Rebecca Jones, University of Birmingham
Carnets de Voyage: Congolese Travel Writing on the Eve of Independence
Yvonne Reddick, University of Central Lancashire
2:30-2:45pm Coffee
2:45pm Panel C. African–European Mobilities
Travelling in/across Languages: The Cases of Neville Alexander and Nelson Saúte
Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University
Travelling to Learn, Encountering Desire – Entanglements in African Intellectual Mobility
Sanja Nivesjo, Stockholm University
Peter Abrahams’ Return to Goli: An Exile Writes Back (to London)
Andrea Thorpe, Queen Mary University
4:15pm KEYNOTE: Reading and Interview with Noo Saro-Wiwa (and Wine Reception)
Nicklas Hållén, Linnaeus University, Sweden; Janet Remmington, University of York
5:30pm Closing Remarks, End
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