11 am
Welcome by Louisa Olufsen Layne (University of Oslo)
Eliza McCarthy (University of Oxford), “A Tale of Two Flutes: Sound, Landscape, and the Nation in Guyanese Literature”
Respondent: Malachi McIntosh (University of Oxford)
12-1 pm Lunch
1 pm
Rachel Bolle-Debessay (University of Vienna), “Low Frequencies and the Politics of Sonic Depth”
2 pm
Kasablanca Adu-Odonkor (University of Oxford), “Solo Flight: Rereading Spaces of Hybridity, Black Consciousness and Motility through the Music of Claude McKay’s Banjo"
Ciaran Duncan (University of Oxford) , “Claude McKay and Eloghosa Osunde’s Reverberating ‘Dream[s] of Vagabondage”
Respondent: Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
3 pm
Bruce Barnhart (University of Oslo), “Kamau Brathwaite and Albert Ayler: Clocks, Rhythms, and Tidalectics”
Adam Harper (University of Oxford), “All Life is Rhythm': Music and song as knowledge in Samuel R. Delany's science fiction”
4 pm
Gabriel Bristow (Centre d’Histoire Sociale at University of Paris 1, Sarah Parker Remond Centre, UCL), “Don Cherry’s world music: a universal enriched by every particular?”
Extra event: Book conversation with Elleke Boehmer, 5.15pm
The workshop will be followed by an extra event with Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford). Elleke Boehmer will be in discussion with Alexandra Effe about her two new books published this year, Southern Imagining: a literary and cultural history of the far southern hemisphere, and Ice Shock: a love story.
Time and place: “Imagining south: A history and a novel” Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Alexandra Effe, Sophus Bugges hus, Auditorium 2, 5.15pm.
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