9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30-10.00 Welcome

• Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium) & Evelyn O’Callaghan (University of the West Indies, Barbados)

10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Chair: Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK)

• Kei Miller, “Considering Some Real Life Examples of ‘Warner Women’”

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 SESSION

Chair: Evelyn O’Callaghan (University of the West Indies, Barbados)

• Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex, UK): “‘Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story’: Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the ‘Mad’ Postcolonial Woman Writer”

• Rebecca Romdhani (University of Liège, Belgium), “Performing Colonial Madness in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid”

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 SESSION

Chair: Carine Mardorossian (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

• Delphine Munos (University of Liège, Belgium), “‘Your Loss’: Diaspora, Second Person, and the Compulsion to Lose in Junot Diaz’s This is How You Lose Her”

• Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex, UK), “Altered States, Nothingness, and States of Emergency: La Frontera in Junot Diaz’s ‘Monstro’ and Frank Baez’s ‘Ahora es Nunca’”

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.15 ROUND TABLE

Chair: Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Kelly Baker Josephs (City University of New York, USA), “Madwomen at the Crossroads”

• Kim Andringa (University of Liège, Belgium), “Madness, a Double-Edged Sword”

• Kathleen Gyssels (University of Antwerp, Belgium), “Mad or Maniac? French Caribbean Representations of Altered States”

17.30-18.15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Chair: Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex, UK)

• Alecia McKenzie, “Diaspora Madness: The Psychological Toll of the Mask”

19.00 Conference dinner

9.45-10.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Chair: Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex, UK)

• Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK), “Queer States of Mind: Caribbean Imaginings Post-homophobia, Post-human”

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.00 SESSION

Chair: Daria Tunca (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Giulia Mascoli (University of Liège, Belgium), “Going Mad from Pain in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction”

• Su Ping (Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China), “Madness and Silence as Self-healing and Self-empowerment: Madwomen in Caryl Phillips’s Novels”

• John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK), “Madness, Migration, Masculinity”

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30 READING

Chair: Delphine Munos (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Desiree Reynolds (UK) reads from her novel, Seduce

14.30-16.00 SESSION

Chair: Christine Pagnoulle (University of Liège, Belgium)

• Carine Mardorossian (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA), “What is ‘worse besides’? An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Fiction”

• Evelyn O’Callaghan (University of the West Indies, Barbados), “Tripping out in Foreign: Migrant Madness in Selected Fiction by Erna Brodber and Kei Miller”

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (PUBLIC EVENT)

Chair: John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK)

• Caryl Phillips, “After the First Day: A Reading”