The Congo Free State across Languages, Media and Cultures
A symposium hosted by the Centre for Culture and the Arts, Leeds Beckett University
Location: Rose Bowl building 205-06, City Campus
Date: Saturday 10 October 2015
Symposium Programme:
9.15-9.45: Registration, refreshments
9.45: Welcome
10.00-11.30: Panel 1. Chair: Grainne Goodwin (Leeds Beckett)
Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren), [paper title tbc]
Brian Murray (Cambridge University), ‘Building Congo, writing empire: the literary labours of Henry Morton Stanley’
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University), ‘Imperial expansion and humanitarian rhetoric: staging the Congo Free State, 1888-1894’
11.30-12.00: Refreshments
12.00-13.00: Panel 2. Chair: Helen Dampier (Leeds Beckett)
Dean Pavlakis (Carroll College, MT), ‘To reform an imagined Congo: novelists tackle the Congo rubber scandals’
Felix Lösing (Hamburg University), ‘“The White Man’s Burden becomes… the white man’s undoing”: the Congo Reform Movement and White Supremacy’
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-14.15: Book Launch
14.15-15.45: Panel 3. Chair: Sarah de Mul (OU the Netherlands)
Sokhieng Au (KU Leuven),’Cutting the flesh: surgery, autopsy, and cannibalism in the Belgian Congo’
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University), ‘Congo Utopia’
Yvonne Reddick (University of Central Lancashire), ‘Memories of the Congo Free State in Paul Lomani Tshibamba’s fiction’
15.45: Closing Remarks
Please email Rob Burroughs (r.m.burroughs@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) if you’d like to attend.
