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Writing (in) Transit, theory and migration/migration of theory workshop

April 2009

Organised by the National Research Foundation's Locations of Literature in Global Contexts project, in collaboration with the School of Arts and the Global Movements Research Node at Monash South Africa.

9.30 am Morning tea

9.45 am Welcome

10 - 11 am
Anil Bhatti (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Monolingual and Multilingual Contexts of Writing. Crossing Borders and Translating.

11 am - 1 pm
John Higgins (University of Cape Town), Travelling Theory as Conversation; Pieter Duvenage (Monash South Africa), The Migration of Ideas On Philosophy in South Africa; Pier Paolo Frassinelli (Monash South Africa), Gramsci-Theory-Translation-Reading; Paulo Ferreira (University of South Africa), Crossing the Earth-Coloured Sea: Reading the Intertextual and Transcultural in Agualusa's Creole.

1 - 2 pm Lunch

2 - 3.30 pm
Thokozani Mhlambi (Monash South Africa), When Performativity Theory Comes to Grip with Race; Ulrike Kistner (University of South Africa), 'AlieNation'; Michael Neocosmos (Monash South Africa), Xenophobia and the Absence of Political Thought.

Time: 9.30 am to 3 pm
Date: Friday 3 April, 2009
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Monash South Africa

For further information and to RSVP for catering purposes contact:
Name: Dr. Pier Paolo Frassinelli
Telephone: +27 8495 16698
Email: pier-paolo.frassinelli@arts.monash.edu