Schedule

Friday March 10, 2006 (010 East Pyne)

Opening Roundtable (4:30-6:30pm): Religion and Post-colonial Criticism: Where? How? Why?

Speakers:
Sadia Abbas (University of Michigan)
Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University)
Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University)

Moderator:
Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Dinner: Maclean House (7.30-9.30pm) *by invitation only*

Saturday March 11, 2006 (010 East Pyne)

Continental Breakfast: East Pyne, Lower Hyphen (9-9.30am)

Session I (9.30-11.00am): The Challenge of Identity

Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading)
"Post-colonial Literature and the Jews"

Aamir Mufti (University of California - Los Angeles)
"Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Islam"

Nicole Gyulay (Royal Holloway - University of London)
"Religion and Secularism in the Work of Rushdie, Okri, and Naipaul"

Moderator: Sadik al-Azm (University of Damascus/ Visiting Professor at Princeton University)

Session II (11am-12.30pm): Critical Quandries

Sadia Abbas (University of Michigan)
"Theodicy, The Ethics of Unbelief, and the Question of Criticism"

R. A. T. Judy (Pittsburgh University)
"Some Thoughts on the Spirit of Criticism"

Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
"Fecundities of the Unexpected: Magical Realism versus Sacrality"

Moderator: Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Lunch Break: East Pyne, Lower Hyphen (12.30-1.45pm)

Session III (1:45-3:15pm): Insurrections

Derek Peterson (Cambridge University)
"Casting Characters: Christian Revivalism and Political Activism in Two Gikuyu Autobiographies"

Vicente L. Rafael (University of Washington, Seattle)
"The Risks of Translation: Christianity, Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in Philippines"

Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College)
"Faith Interruptus and the Politics of Religion and Culture in African Post-colonial Discourse"

Moderator: Jennifer Wenzel (University of Michigan/Davis Fellow at Princeton University)

Coffee Break: East Pyne, Lower Hyphen (3:15-3:30pm)

Session IV (3.30-5:30pm): Redirections

Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University)
"'Consider the Cattle', or About Faith "

Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University)
"Religion after Religion in Postcolonial Criticism"

Moderator: Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)