St John’s College Auditorium, University of Oxford
Free and Open to the Public
No Registration Required
10.00 -11.15 Adrienne Brown (University of Chicago) // How Do You Represent a Problem like Institutional Racism? — The Horizons of Fair Housing in The Landlord (1966) and The Landlord (1970)
11.30-12.45 Lilian Chee (National University of Singapore) // Anxious Domesticities: The Ruled and the Unruly in the Tropics
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Michael Jonik (University of Sussex) // The Underground Novel
15.30-16.45 Grace Musila (University of Witwatersrand) // The Narrative Pressures of Black Precarity in Dinaw Mengestu’s Fiction
17.00-18.00 Response // Nancy Armstrong (Duke University), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Helen Small (University of Oxford)