Programme (Draft)

8:00 - 8.45am

Conference Registration and Refreshments

8:45 - 9:00am

Welcome

9:00 - 10:00am

Keynote Address

Prof Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech)

10:00 - 11:15am

Panel 1 - Race, Religion, and Material Culture in Premodern English Literature

Dr Nour El Gazzaz (American University Dubai), 'The Objects of Marlowe's Orientalised Women' 

Dr Arul Kumaran (St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan), 'Othello and the Anxiety of the Moor: An Orientalist Reading of Shakespeare and Cinthio'

Nicolas McKelvie (New York University), 'The Text of Islamic Textiles in Medieval England: Using Material Culture to Define the Other in The King of Tars'

11:30am - 12:45pm

Panel 2 - Colonial Logics in Premodern English Literature and its Afterlives

Dr Eduardo Ramos (Arizona State University), 'Richard I’s territorial ambition in Robert Mannyng of Brune’s Chronicle'

Dr Nora Galland (University of Bretagne Occidentale), 'Specters of Race, Coloniality, and Resistance in Enter Ghost and Hamlet'

Amelia Ali (Emory University), '"Blue Veins”: Orientalism, Blackness, & the Geography of Shakespeare's Imperial Lovers'

12.45 - 1.30pm

Lunch

1:30 - 2:45pm

Panel 3 - Dramatising Islam: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Nation

Dr Zainab Cheema (Florida Gulf Coast University), 'Englishing the Reconquista: Translating Iberian Islam in John Dryden’s The Conquest of Granada'

Dr Iman Sheeha (Brunel University London), 'Shrewish Women and Emasculated Men: Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven and Early Modern Mythologies of Islam'

Soumaya Boughanmi (University of Tunis), 'Whiteness and Conversion in Philip Massinger's The Renegado'

3:00pm - 4.15pm

Panel 4 - Environmental Encounters: Creating and Disrupting Difference

Dr Wendy Lennon (ShakeRacePedagogy), 'Eco-ShakeRacePedgagoy: Invasive Species'

Alya Hussain (Independent), Ecophobia, Environmental Toxicity, and the Migrant ‘Other’ in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Tempest

Dr Francis Ringwood (University of Zululand), Visions of healing: tracing the influence of hallucinogenic substances from the Near-and Middle-East on Medieval dream narratives

4:30 - 5.45pm

Panel 5 - Oceanic Worlds: Political, Religious, and Economic Currents

Imthinan M (Independent Researcher) and Lija Mary Kambakkaran Joseph (University of Leiden), 'Crossroads of Conflict: Islam, Trade, and Resistance in 16th-Century Calicut' 

Prof Salim Ayduz (Sophia Academy), 'The Ottoman State’s Struggle with Europeans in the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century' 

Dr Emily Soon (Singapore Management University), 'Trading Faith: Re-shaping Malukan religion in John Fletcher’s The Island Princess (ca. 1621)' 

8.30 - 8:45am

Arrival, Tea and Coffee

8:45 - 10:20

Panel 11 - Writing Routes: Early Modern Travel and Encounter Across Asia

Dr Unita Ahdifard (Kwantlen Polytechnic University),'"The Pleasure of Knowing Things Remote”: William Daniel’s Travels from England to Surat'

William Perry (University College Dublin), 'The Possibilities of Encounter: Travel and Space in Early Modern English Accounts of Isfahan'

Dr Nia Deliana (Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia), 'Sailing through Multipolar Waters:

Archipelagic Actors in Forrest 1792 Account'

10:30 - 11:45

Panel 12 - Religious Intersections: Race, Gender and Disability in Premodern Literary Narratives

Bárbara P A Lima (Independent), 'Imagined Encounters: The role of Muslim women in creating a cross-cultural Chanson de Geste'

Prof Catherine Anne Addison (University of Zululand), 'Islamic Women Characters in Ariosto’s and Tasso’s Epic Romances'

Prof Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), 'Margery Kempe’s Saracens: Race and Disability in Transit'

11:45 - 1:00pm

Panel 13 - Adapting Othello: Difference and Desire

Prof Fiona Moolla (University of the Western Cape), African Othellos: Postcolonial Reconfigurations of Eros

Dr Önder Çakırtaş (Bingöl Universit), 'Matter and Meaning: Objects, Race, and Islam in Richard Twyman’s Othello'

Dr Aisha Hussain (University of Salford), '“These moors are unchangeable in their wills” (Othello, I.iii): Reframing the

Racialization of Islam and Muslims in Ola Ince’s Othello' (2024)

1:00 - 1:45pm

Lunch

1:45 - 3:15pm

Panel 14 - The Premodern Now: Contemporary Receptions and Classrooms

Dr Eva Momtaz (University of Birmingham), Between Fiction and Faith: Paradise Lost in the Hands of the Modern Muslimah

Emma Sacco (University of Cape Town), The Pedagogic Possibilities of One Thousand and One Nights in Southern Africa

Thalén Rogers (Univeristy of Cape Town), 'Teaching 1001 Nights to radicalise literary education in South African universities'

Caroline Fleischauer (University of the Free State), 'Difference, Ignorance, and Teaching Beyond Dichotomy: Methods for Examining Islam as the “Dark Foil” to Christianity in The Song of Roland'

3:15pm - 4:30pm

Gender, Power and Cutlural Representations of Royalty

Chandini Jaswal (Independent), 'Revisiting the Mughal Zenana— As It Was: Challenging the Narrative of the Space of the Mughal Harem by Analysing Visual and Material Culture'

Niyanta Sangal (University of Maryland), 'Tracing Gendered Third Spaces in Dryden's Aureng-zebe through Mughal Art'

Kirsten Vitale Engel (University of Connecticut), 'Performing Monarchy through Magnificence'

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Break