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		Sunday, 19 November 2006
15.00–20.00		Registration (Foyer)
16.30–19.00		*Discussion Evening* (Aula im Schloss) - open to the public Kirpal Singh, Singapore (Chair) Khademul Islam, Bangladesh Maurice Lee, USA Luthfi Assyaukanie, Indonesia Chris Schlittler, Singapore
19.30-22.00		*Conference Warming* (Senatssaal im Schloss)
		Monday, 20 November 2006
9.00–13.00		Registration (Foyer)
10.00–11.00		Opening Ceremony (Aula im Schloss) Prorektorin Dr. Marianne Ravenstein (Pro-Vicechancellor), Prorektorin für Lehre, Studienreform und studentische Angelegenheiten Prof. Dr. Christoph Strosetzki, Dekan des Fachbereichs 9 Philologie, WWU Münster Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer, Geschäftsführender Direktor des Englischen Seminars, WWU Münster Consul General Matt Boyse, Consulate General of the United States, Düsseldorf Music: Galaxy Brass
11.00–12.00		**Keynote Lecture: (Aula im Schloss)** Caryl Phillips, West Indies/UK
12.00–14.15 14.15-14.30		Apéritif and Lunch with Music and Poetry (Foyer) Glyn Maxwell, UK Sir Peter Torry, KCMG, The British Ambassador to Germany
14.30–15.15		**Keynote Lecture: (Aula im Schloss)** Gareth Griffiths, Australia
15.15–15.45		*Coffee Break*
15.45–18.15		*Parallel Sessions (A) and (B)*
		Session (A): Britain (Aula im Schloss) (Chair: Catherine Pesso-Miquel)		Session (B): America (Senatssaal) (Chair: Helga Ramsey-Kurz)
	15.45–16.05	Sonja Fielitz, University of Marburg, Germany: ‘The Bible Says So’: Female Prophets During the English Civil War
	16.05–16.25	Patricia Plummer, University of Mainz, Germany: ‘A very great part of Asia is infected with that pestilence’: The Perpetuation of Anti-Muslim Stereotypes in Early Modern Discourse on Travel		Ana Antón-Pacheco, University of Madrid, Spain: Political Essentialism and Neoconservatism in America: Dramatic Responses
	16.25–16.45	*Discussion*		*Discussion*
	16.45–17.15	*Coffee Break*		*Coffee Break*
	17.15–17.35	Hiroko Washizu, University of Tsukua, Japan: William Whewell: The ‘Scientist’ and the Design of the Universe		Alfred Hornung, University of Mainz, Germany: Fundamentalism and Democracy
	17.35–17.55	Rüdiger Ahrens, University of Würzburg, Germany: Equity as Fundamental Ethical Principle in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures: the Case of J. Conrad, E.M. Forster and More		Dirk Vanderbeke, University of Greifswald, Germany: ‘Nearer My Lord to Thee’: Recent Christian Fundamentalist Novels
	17.55–18.15	*Discussion*		*Discussion*
20.00–21.30		Jewish Writers’ Perspectives on Fundamentalism: Reading and Discussion (Aula im Schloss) - open to the public Axel Stähler, University of Münster (Chair) Simon Louvish, UK Miriam Sivan, Israel Jonathan Wilson, USA
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8.30−9.30		*Reading* and Talk (Aula im Schloss) Richard Lewis, Indonesia
9.30–10.00		*Coffee Break*
10.00–13.00		*Parallel Sessions (C) and (D)*
		**Session (C): Britain/ America (Aula im Schloss)** (Chair: Klaus Stierstorfer)		Session (D): India (Senatssaal) (Chair: Nilufer Bharucha)
	10.00–10.20	Catherine Pesso-Miquel, University Lyon II, France: ‘Gobbledygook is back in style’: the Portrayal of Religious Fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie’s Essays and Contemporary Indo-English Fiction
	10.20–10.40	Frédéric Regard, École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Paris/Lyon: Humanism Restylized: Rushdie’s Satanic Verses and the Resurrection of the Author		Debjani Bhattacharyya, University of Heidelberg, Germany: Of Shadows and Silences: Dealing with fundamentalism in Amitav Gosh's Shadow Lines
	10.40–11.00	Barry Asker, Lignan University, Hong Kong: Fighting for What’s Fundamental: Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Michael Ondaatje, Nadine Gordimer, Zadie Smith and Hanif Kureishi		Monica Chan, Lignan University, Hong Kong: Arundhati Roy and Hindu Fundamentalism in The God of Small Things
	11.00–11.30	*Discussion*		*Discussion*
	11.30–12.00	*Coffee Break* (Chair: Barbara Korte)		*Coffee Break*
	12.00–12.20	Raimund Borgmeier, University of Gießen, Germany: Fundamentalism in American SF Novels of the 1980s and 1990		Jana Fedtke, University of Bochum, Germany: Women Who Walk on Water: Bapsi Sidhwa’s and Deepa Mehta’s Elemental Challenge to Transnational Hindu Fundamentalism
	12.20–12.40	Hager Weslati, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK/ University of Manouba, Tunisia: The Frats and the Brothers: Fundamentalism and the Literature of the Great American Desert		Melanie Just, University of Münster: ‘In their proper places’: Hindu Women between Religious Fundamentalism and Western Secularism in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of My Heart and Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises
	12.40–13.00	*Discussion*		*Discussion*
13.00–14.30		*Lunch Break*
14.30–15.15		Keynote Lecture (Aula im Schloss) Ihab Hassan, USA: A Terrible Simplicity is Born: Fifteen Rocks in the Gardens of Violence
15.15–18.15		*Parallel Sessions (E) and (F)*
		*Session (E): Britain* (Aula im Schloss) (Chair: Sonja Fielitz)	*Session (F): Global* (Senatssaal) (Chair: Annette Kern-Stähler)
	15.15–15.35	Bernfried Nugel, University of Münster, Germany: ‘That Hideous Kind of Fundamentalism’: Aldous Huxley’s View of ‘Righteous Indignation’
	15.35–15.55	Ulrike Pirker, University of Freiburg, Germany: Private Matters under Public Scrutiny: The Treatment of Arranged Marriages in Recent British Literature	Barbara Korte, University of Freiburg, Germany: Fundamentalism and Apocalypse
	15.55–16.15	Mária Vega, University of Madrid, Spain: Scots and Scots − Gaelic Literatures which might be considered Fundamentalist Writing and are NOT	Helga Ramsey-Kurz, University of Salzburg, Austria: Querying the Problematic Equation of Fundamentalism and Terrorism: Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
	16.15–16.45	*Discussion*	*Discussion*
	16.45–17.15	*Coffee Break*	*Coffee Break*
	17.15-17.35		John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, USA: Jihad as Right of Passage
	17.35-17.55		Dewi Candraningrum, University of Münster, Germany: Indonesian New-Islamist Literature: Helvy Tiana Rosa's Campaign for Universal Brotherhood (Ummah) and the Return to Total Islam (Kaffah)
	17.55-18.15 19.00		*Discussion* Reception: Town Hall Münster

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8.30–9.15		Keynote Lecture (Aula im Schloss) Christopher Innes, University of York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Terrorists on Stage: Dialogue, Dualities and Drama
9.15–9.45		*Coffee Break*
9.45–12.15		*Parallel Sessions (G) and (H)*
		*Session (G): Britain* (Aula im Schloss) (Chair: Bente Lucht)	*Session (H): America* (Senatssaal) (Chair: Axel Stähler)
	9.45–10.05	Flaminia Nicora, University of Bergamo, Italy: Resisting Fundamentalism: Kureishi’s Rhetorical Strategies as Critique	Brannon Costello, Louisiana State University, USA: Apocalypse: Fundamentalism and the Literature of the U.S. South
	10.05–10.25	Jessica Oliver, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Truth in Black and White: Representations of Fundamentalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album	Lutz Schowalter, University of Trier, Germany: ‘The truth with a capital T’? On the Paradoxes of Christian Fundamentalist Fiction
	10.25–10.45	*Discussion*	*Discussion*
	10.45–11.15	*Coffee Break* (Chair: Annette Kern-Stähler)	*Coffee Break*
	11.15–11.35	Marion Fries-Dieckmann, University of Düsseldorf, Germany: Fundamentalism and the Narrative: Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
	11.35–11.55	Cheralyn Mealor, University of Aarhus, Denmark: Fundamentalism and Ambivalence in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
	11.55–12.15	*Discussion*	*Discussion*
12.15–12.30		*Coffee Break*
12.30–13.30		*Reading* and Valedictory Address (Aula im Schloss) Nilufer Bharucha, University of Mumbai, India Sridhar Rajeswaran, University of Mumbai, India

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