mootoo symposium

							                       UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
                      Cave Hill Campus, P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados
                                FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
                                     November 19, 2008
              DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
                       Symposium: The Writing of Shani Mootoo
                                    Program

10.00-10.15           Welcome and Introduction of Participants
                      Jane Bryce (Head of Department)

10.15-11.00           “New Outlines for the Possible: Sexuality and the Politics of
                                           Difference in Shani Mootoo's fiction”
                      Alison Donnell (Reading University)

11.00-11.15           Coffee

11.15-12.00           “Bearing Witness: Aftermaths of Trauma in Mootoo's
                      Fictions”
                      Paula Morgan (UWI, St Augustine)

12.00-12.45           "(Un)manacle Sexuality! Emergence of the Queer
                      Bildungsroman in Cereus Blooms at Night.
                      Eddie Whyte (UWI, Mona)

12.45-2.00            Lunch

2.00-2.45             “Skeletons in the Closet: Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and
                      Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon”
                      Evelyn O’Callaghan (UWI, Cave Hill)
2.45-3.30             "Narratives of Crossing: the Ethics and Aesthetics of
                      Encounters-across-difference in Shani Mootoo’s texts."
                      Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex)

3.30-3.45             Coffee
                                                          3. 45-5.00
                               Discussion with Shani Mootoo