9.00-9.40 Registration (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

9.40-10.00 Welcome and opening remarks (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Alison Donnell (University of East Anglia, UK)

• Merle Collins (University of Maryland, USA), "Rebellion, Revolution and a Call to Arms: Tremors and Aftershocks of the Grenadian Colonial Story"

11.30-13.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 1A, Transgenerational Violence (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Suzanne Scafe (London South Bank University, UK)

• Alison Donnell (University of East Anglia, UK), "Enduring Injustice and Transgenerational Violence in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting"

• Laura Beck (University of Liège, Belgium), "Cycles of Violence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory"

• Florence Labaune-Demeule (Jean Moulin 3 University, Lyon, France), "Is Violence 'Amused Violence' in Abha Dawesar's Family Values?"

SESSION 1B, Internalized Violence (Salle de l'Horloge, building A1)

Chair: Raphael Hoermann (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

• Seunghyun Song (Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria), "Contested Identities: An Approach to Fanonian Inferiority as an Emulative Split Identity"

• Malica S. Willie (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados), "The Violent Destruction of Self in Garth St. Omer's Prisnms"

• Maria Festa (University of Turin, Italy), "Colonial Language and Education: Converting the Tools of Colonial Oppression into Sources of Renewal and Self-Affirmation"

14.00-15.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 2A, Violence in the Caribbean (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Malica S. Willie (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados)

• Suzanne Scafe (London South Bank University, UK), "'Reaching Zion': Reading beyond the Inevitability of Violence in Kei Miller's August Town Fictions"

• Rebecca Romdhani (University of Liège, Belgium), "Amplifying the Gyres of Violence: The Use of the Fantastic as a Wake-up Call in Marlon James's John Crow's Devil"

• Jarula M.I. Wegner (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany), "Colonial, Postcolonial and Anticolonial Violence in Mustapha Matura's Play Mas"

Chair: Pietro Deandrea (University of Turin, Italy)

• Rose A. Opondo (Moi University, Nairobi, Kenya), "Re-Imagining the Trauma of Postcolonial Identities: Violence and Its Spaces for Re-Creation in Yvonne Owuor's Dust and Weight of Whispers"

• Saumya Lal (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA), "Empathy and the Representation of Violence in African Child Soldier Narratives"

16.00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 3A, Violence and Society (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Delphine Munos (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)

• Jacqueline Ojiambo (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), "Narrating Post-Election Violence and Seeking Peace in Kenya: A Study of Judy Kibinge's Something Necessary (2013) and Selected Social Media Texts (2017)"

• Simran Chadha (University of Delhi, India), "Mandir, Cow, Nation and Social Media"

• Carlotta Beretta (University of Bologna, Italy), "Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others as an Exploration into the Pervasiveness of Violence in Bengali Society"

Chair: Sue Kossew (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

• Christian David Zeitz (University of Cologne, Germany), "Feeling Postcolonial, Feeling Right: The Affective Violence of Canada Day"

• David Kern (University of Cologne, Germany), "Violence from 'Below' and the Decolonization of the Political Space: The American Indian Movement and the Canberra Tent Embassy"

• Victoria Herche (University of Cologne, Germany), "Environmental Violence: The Traumatic Effects of Mining and Its Representation in Indigenous Australian Filmmaking"

Chair: Marc Delrez (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Dyab Abou Jahjah, "Evil but not Barbaric: On Systemic Post-colonial Violence"

10.30-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 4A, Slavery Past and Present (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)

• Raphael Hoermann (University of Central Lancashire, UK), "'Break Up Those Accursed Big Plantations': Continuities of Colonial Socio-Economic Violence in Black Atlantic Plays about the Haitian Revolution"

• Pietro Deandrea (University of Turin, Italy), "Bogus Bodies: British New Slaveries in the Changing Context of Postcolonial Studies"

• Kata Gyuris (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), "Tracking Slavery in Contemporary South African Literature"

• Delphine Munos (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany), "Of Structural Violence, Invisible Diasporas and 'the Oil Encounter': Representation of the Indian Labour Diaspora in the Gulf in Benyamin's Goat Days"

Chair: Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Sue Kossew (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), "A Haunted Place: Gendered and National Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing"

• Marie Herbillon (University of Liège, Belgium), "Subjugating the Female Body: Patriarchal Violence in J.M. Coetzee's The Schooldays of Jesus"

• Asma Sayed (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada), "Representations of Gendered Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's The Selector of Souls"

• Véronique Bragard (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), "The Rape Testimonies of Congolese Women in Dramatic Performances"

13.30-15.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 5A, Forms of Colonial violence (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Marie Herbillon (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus), "Narrating Colonial Legacies/Postcolonial Pathologies of Violence"

• Micol Bez (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Kingston University, London, UK), "Order and Border: Taxonomic Violence at the Frontier"

• Dominic Alessio (Richmond, the American International University in London, UK), "The Silent Violence: The Buying and Leasing of Colonial Territory"

Chair: Christin Hoene (University of Kent, UK)

• Edward Powell (Independent Scholar, UK), "What Follows Death? Utopia and Revolutionary Violence in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death and The Book of Phoenix"

• Luis Martínez Andrade (Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France), "Structural Violence and States of Rebellion in Latin America"

• Ahmed Sajjad (University of Osaka, Japan), "The Nexus between Socio-economic Inequalities and the Talibanization of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)"

SESSION 5C, Violence and the Subaltern (Séminaire FLE, building A1)

Chair: Daria Tunca (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Sabujkoli Bandophadhyah (University of Regina, Canada), "Violence against the Subaltern in Post/Neocolonial Discourses on Citizenship Identity and Some Possible Ways of Resistance"

• Genevieve L. Asenjo (De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines), "'Call Me by My Name': Othering in Language and a Case of Naming an Indigenous People's Community in Panay Island, Philippines"

• Clarissa V. Militante (De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines), "Exploring the Tradition of Protest Theatre as a Language of Resistance of the Subaltern in the Philippines"

15.30-17.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 6A, Violence and the Visual Arts (Salle des Professeurs, building A1)

Chair: Laura Beck (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Jacqueline Jondot (University of Toulouse 2, France), "Violence in the Egyptian Revolution Graffiti"

• Alexandra Negri (University of Stuttgart, Germany), "Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats: David Lurie's Cape Flats Portraits and Rehana Rossouw's What Will People Say?"

• Riaan Oppelt (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), "Spatial Dilemmas: The Perpetuation of Urban Violence in Enforced Spaces around Cape Town"

• Emilie Herbert (University of Liège, Belgium), "Violence in the Postcolonial Ghetto: Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome"

Chair: Giulia Mascoli (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Christin Hoene (University of Kent, UK), "'Alle Menschen werden Brüder'? Music and Violence in Postcolonial Literature"

• Christine Pagnoulle (University of Liège, Belgium), "Kamau Brathwaite, Violence Past and Present"

• Valérie-Anne Belleflamme (University of Liège, Belgium), "The Poetics of Violence and the Violence of Poetics in Gail Jones's The House of Breathing"

• Ágnes Györke (University of Debrecen, Hungary), "Narrative Violence and the City in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman"

18.30-19.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Salle Francisco Ferrer, Cité Miroir, Place Xavier Neujean, 22, 4000 Liège)

Chair: Marco Martiniello (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Reading by Fatou Diome and interview with the author (event in French with English translation)