The Tricontinental Lectures

	The Tricontinental Lecture Series is an initiative of the teachers of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at Barcelona University

22-10-2018 24-10-2018	Australian poet Peter Bakowski will read from his own work
		Monday 22 9.30-11am in room 107 Wednesday 24 4-6.30pm in room 102b Facultat de Filologia In partnership with the International Academic Forum, IAFOR, (Japan)

22-10-2018	"Border tensions, cultural hybridity and the representation of Gibraltarian identity."
		M.G.Sanchez 5.30 pm, Room 3.1. Edifici Josep Carner Organised by Isabel Alonso Breto In partnership with the International Academic Forum, IAFOR, (Japan)

26-09-2018	Mermaids and Australia - recontextualising a European cultural entity for a South Pacific context' (Literature, art, public sculpture and film)
		Prof. Philip Hayward (U of Southern Cross) Based on a chapter from his forthcoming book Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid (JLP/Uni Indiana)) 18:30-20:30 H Room 3.1 Edifici Josep Carner In partnership with the International Academic Forum, IAFOR, (Japan)

23-05-2018	Sunny Singh, “Indian Culture in an Era of Global Transformations”
		Wednesday 23 May, 12am-2pm, Room 111, UB Edifici Històric

16-05-2018	Esther Pujolràs i Noguer: Ghana.
		Esther Pujolràs i Noguer is a lecturer in American and post-colonial literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has specialized in African literatures and cultures. Her current research focuses on Indian Ocean writing, paying special attention to the convergence of race/ethnicity and gender, on the one hand, and constructions of whiteness, on the other. She has published on postcolonialism, both fiction and cinema. She is the author of a book on the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, An African (Auto)biography. Ama Ata Aidoo’s Literary Quest. Esther is also a poet and is now working on an on-line project which combines poetry, photography and feminism called Mistresses of Desire.

02-05-2018	Felicity Hand: South Africa: Long Walk to Democracy.
18:30-20:30 h Aula: 4.2 aulari Josep Carner		Felicity Hand is senior lecturer in the English Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She teaches post-colonial literature and history and culture of Britain and the US. Her research is focussed mainly on the South Asian diaspora, especially in the South West Indian Ocean. Felicity is currently the head of the research project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, The Aesthetics of Remembering: Empathy, Identification, Mourning (FFI2015-63739-P). She is also editor of the new electronic journal Indi@logs. Spanish Journal of India Studies

28-05-2018	Laura Winstanley : The (re)-emergence of South African nationalism in Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
17:30 - 19:00 h

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