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  The Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium at NYU 
  
  invites you to 
  
  Postcolonial Spatialities
  April 26-27
  Room 106
  244 Greene Street 
  
  
  While postcolonial theory is necessarily invested in questions of space, it has not produced the multi-layered theories of space, spatiality, and space-making that the late 1980s and early 1990s seemed to promise. This conference on Postcolonial Spatialities will thus wrestle with spatial theories as they are currently constituted but with a view to reviewing them with postcolonial perspectives at the level of example and of theory.
  
  
  
  
  
  Program Schedule
   
  THURSDAY APRIL 26
   
  9:00-9:30—Welcome Address
  Ato Quayson, NYU - The Challenge of Postcolonial Spatialities
   
  10:00-11:30 Session 1—The State of Space or the Space of State?
  • Jeanne-Marie Jackson, John’s Hopkins University - Spatiality Beyond Disorder: Southern African Restorations of the ‘Metonymic Ideal.’
  • Neil ten Kortenaar, University of Toronto - Imagining Alternative States in Africa
  • Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center/CUNY Baruch College - Beyond States and Statelessness?  New Forms of Postcolonial Polity
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA
   
  11:45-1:15 Session 2—The Arc from Space to Memory
  • Dylan Miner (Wiisaakodewinini), University of Michigan - Nimbezikaa // I Move Slowly: Lowriding with Ancestors and the Land
  • Celina Hung, NYU Shanghai - Fishermen and Slaves in Twenty-First Century International Waters:  Writing Labor Outcries in Taiwan's Ocean Literature
  • Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University/Columbia University- Digital Diaspora Beyond the Buzzword
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA
   
  2:30-4:15pm Session 3—Techno-Logics of Space
  • Grace Afsari-Mamagani, NYU - From Welikia to Digital Harlem: Reading Layered Renderings of Upper Manhattan through Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
  • Joanna Phua CUNY Graduate Center - Techno-Power and Hyper-development in the Global South
  • Sandeep Mertia, NYU - Of Fragments and Bits - Towards an Ethnography of Smart Cities in India
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA
   
  4:15-5:45 Session 4—Typologies of Colonial Space-Making
  • Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witswatersrand/NYU -A Port City, a Custom House and a Verandah:  Transcolonial Spatialities
  • Ola Uduku, University of Edinburgh - Spaces of Leisure and Spaces of Pleasure: A Post Colonial Gaze 
  • Ananya Kabir, King’s College, London - Elmina as Postcolonial Space: Transoceanic Creolisation in the ‘Postmétis’ Present
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA
   
  
  
  FRIDAY APRIL 27
   
  9:30-11:00 Session 5—Space, Planning, Study
  • Asher Ghertner, Rutgers New Brunswick- Airpocalypse: Distributions of Life Amidst Delhi’s Polluted Airs
  • Saronik Bosu, NYU - Spatial thinking and the Planning Imperative
  • Heba Jahama, NYU - The Nile River: Hydropolitcs, History, Literature
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA
   
  11:15-12:45 Session 6—Syncing Space and Politics
  • Jini Kim Watson, NYU - “Spaces of the Global Cold War: Alignment, Regionalism and PEN Asian Writers Conferences”
  • Haytham Bahoora, University of Toronto - Mapping Empire in an Early Arabic Novel: Imagining Anti-Colonial Solidarity in Jalal Khalid
  • Mark Sanders, NYU - The Space of the University: Time, and Time Again
    • Chair/Discussant: TBA