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Orientalism, 30 years later

Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
1 November 2008

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Programme:

8.30-9.15 registration and coffee (HG/19)
9.15 welcome (HG/21)
9.30-11.00 (HG/21)

Panel 1: Origins and Influences

Donna Landry (Kent), “Said Before Said”
Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha (Cambridge), “American Orientalism in the Nineteenth Century”
Andrea Teti (Aberdeen), “Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm”

 11.00-11.20 coffee (HG/19)

 11.20-12.30 (HG/21)

Keynote: Peter Gran (Temple)

“Orientalism’s Contribution to the Philosophy of World History and Middle East History  Thirty Years Later”

 12.30-1.20 lunch (HG/19)

 1.20-2.50 (HG/21)

Panel 2: Orientalism Now

Yonatan Mendel (Cambridge), “How Does an Arab Think? Orientalism and Israeli Society”
Moneera Al-Ghadeer (UW-Madison), “Cannibalizing Iraq: Topos of Neo-Orientalism”
Robert Spencer (Manchester), “The ‘War on Terror’ and the Backlash against Orientalism”

 2.50-4.00 (HG/21)

Keynote: Robert Irwin

“Flaubert’s Camel: Edward Said Versus the Novelists”

 4.00-4.20 coffee (HG/19)

 4.20-5.50 (HG/21)

Panel 3: Disciplinary Effects

Nicholas Harrison (King’s College London), “‘A Roomy Place Full of Possibility’: Orientalism and the Literary”
Nicholas Tromans (Kingston), “Said and the Image”
Stuart Murray (Leeds), “Said, Humanism and Disability: Participatory Citizenship and Radical Democratic Criticism”

 6.00-7.00 wine reception (HG/19)