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South Asian Popular Culture conference

For details of the 3rd South Asian Popular Culture conference at the University of Manchester on 27 June 2006, a pdf link to the conference programme and venue details, please see:

Link to the South Asian Popular Culture conference

Workshop
 
Hybridity, Mestizaje, Creolisation, Lusotropicalism, Minoritarianism:
New Terms for Old Phenomena?

Workshop Digest (, 82 KB)

Friday, May 26, 2006
University of Manchester
Humanities Lime Grove
Room S. 1.2

9.30 - 9.45 Welcome

9:45 - 11:15 Creolisation, Minor Literature and Postcolonial Feminism

• Iris Bachmann (University of Manchester)

Mapping the linguistics of Creolisation: a genealogy of Creole Studies- Abstract (, 11 KB)

• Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

'Also I wanted so much to leave for the West' - Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave - Abstract (, 14 KB)

• Margaret Littler and Kate Roy (University of Manchester)

Minor Literature and Unimagined Communities - Abstract (, 9 KB)

11.15 - 11.30
Coffee Break

11.30 - 1.00
Lusotropicalism and Questions of Hybridity

• José Carlos Almeida (UCL) 

Lusotropicalism, Identity and the Politics of Nationhood in Portugal - Abstract (, 11 KB)

• Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)

Hybridity in Question - Abstract (, 9 KB)

• Sheila Khan (University of Manchester)

Pitfalls of Hybridity in a Portuguese postcolonial context. The case study of African Mozambique Immigrants in Portugal - Abstract (, 10 KB)

01:00 - 02:30
Lunch Break

2:30 - 4:00
Towards  a Methodology in Critical Race Studies

• Alpesh Patel (University of Manchester)
   

On the Viability of the "Brown Atlantic" as a Methodological Tool -Abstract (, 9 KB)

• Shirley Tate (University of Leeds)

Storied Hybridity and gendered readings of 'race' - Abstract (, 10 KB)

• Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (University of Manchester)

Translating Cultures "Transcultural Encounters in Ethnographic Work" - Abstract (, 11 KB)

4:00 - 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 - 6:00

• Suki Ali (LSE)
   
   

Challenging Mixed Race Studies - Abstract (, 9 KB)

• Bridget Byrne (University of Manchester) What's in a Mix? Race, Class, and Schooling Choice in South London
• Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa (Goldsmith's College)

Mestizaje logics and moments: contemporary practices of racism in Mexico - Abstract (, 11 KB)

Concluding Comments