Programme: International Postcolonialism Conference

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Pre-, Post-, and Neo-Colonialisms:
Wole Soyinka and Contemporary Theatre

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto  in
association with Modern Drama is presenting an international theatre
conference, Pre-, Post-, and Neo-Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and
Contemporary Theatre, October 19-21 2001.


Programme:
Pre-, Post-, and Neo- Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and Contemporary
Theatre

Friday October 19th

8:30 am
Registration

9:15 am
Welcoming Remarks
 John Astington
Director, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama

9:45 – 11:45 am
Round Table: The Artist Across Space and Time

Martin Banham (Chair)
(Leeds University)

Brian Singleton  (Trinity College Dublin)

Femi Euba  (Louisiana State University)

Titi Adepitan (University of British Columbia)

Yvonne Brewster  (Artistic Director, Talawa Theatre Company, U.K.)


12 – 12:30 pm

Chuck Mike: Guerilla Theatre Demonstration
(Performance Studio, Lagos)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch


1:30 – 3:30 pm
Performing Transformation and Becoming

Chair: Carla Kirkwood  (University of San Diego)

Harry Garuba: Masked Discourse: Dramatic Representation and Generic
Transformation in Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests
(University of Cape Town)

Olusegun Ojewuyi: Directing Soyinka: A Post-Colonial Narrative of Death
and Becoming
(Rowan University)

Ben Halm: Postmodernism in Postcolonialism: The Ogunmachine /
Ansansemachine and Not Performing Exile
(Fairfield University)

3:45 – 5:45 pm

Transnational Spaces

Chair: Diana Brydon (University of Western Ontario)

James Gibbs: Documents of Identity
(University of the West of England)

Laura Moss: From Death and the King’s Horseman to The Beatification of
Area Boy: The Unfolding of Hybrid Space
(University of Manitoba)

Stephen Slemon: Soyinka and the Canon’s Mouth
(University of Alberta)

6 pm
Opening Reception
Union Room, University College

8pm
Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka
Directed by Tony Adah
Hart House Theatre

*****

Saturday October 20

9:30 – 11:00 am
Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto

Wole Soyinka
Reading from his work
Question and Answer Session


11:30 am – 1:30 pm

The Political Aesthetic

Chair: Ric Knowles  (University of Guelph / Editor, Modern Drama)

Don Rubin: Directing Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Work of
Uganda’s Robert Serumaga
(York University)

Tejumola Olaniyan: Modernity and its Mirages: Wole Soyinka and the
African State
(University of Wisconsin)

Modupe Olaogun: Dramatizing Atrocities: Plays by Wole Soyinka, Francis
Imbuga and George Seremba Recalling the Idi Amin Era
(York University)


1:30 – 2:30pm
Lunch

2:30 – 4:30 pm

Decolonizing Gender

Chair: Nancy Copeland (University of Toronto)

Molara Ogundipe: Soyinka’s Representations of Women: Readings in
Narrative and Culture
(Albany State University, Georgia)

Christopher Mitchell: Intersections of Gender and Colonial Identity:
Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel and Isola’s Madam Tinubu
(Eastern Illinois University)

Monique Mojica:  Readings from her work
(Nightwood Theatre Company, Toronto)



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Sunday 21st October

10:30 – 12:00 am
Intercultural Connections: the Case of Nigeria and Ireland

Chair: Michael J. Sidnell (University of Toronto)

Dapo Adelugba: The Essence of Soyinkaresque: Yorubanglish and a Few
Other Issues
(University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

Thomas Cavano: Elesin, Cuchulain and the Kingdom: The Culture Hero’s
Sacrifice
(Florida State University)


12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 – 3:30 pm

International Identities

Chair: Joyce Wilkinson (University of Toronto)

Biodun Jeyifo: Whose Africa, Whose Theatre? Wole Soyinka’s The Road on
the Road
(Cornell University)

Joachim Fiebach: Ogun’s Modernity: The Transformation of Creative
Identities
(University of Toronto / Humboldt University)

Bernth Lindfors: Soyinka’s Ghanaian Intelligence
(University of Texas at Austin)

Wole Olaiya:  Revisioning the Past: Beautifying Area Boy, Deconstructing
Area Boy-ism
(University of Toronto)


3:30 pm

Closing Remarks
Leslie Katz
(University of Toronto)

All information is subject to change without notice




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Sponsors: Modern Drama, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada
University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies; Faculty of Arts and
Sciences;  Department of  English; University College Drama Programme;
Centre for International Relations; New College;  Centre for African
Studies.