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An event showcasing new research from colleagues from SOAS and beyond. Join us for a hybrid day of inspiring new research on topics in world literature. You are welcome to join for the whole day or just one session. Programme 11:00–11:30 Welcome, Introductions, Tea & Coffee Anandi Rao Session 1 | 11:30–1:00 Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang 'More than a Metaphor? The Turkish Novel in the World' Keya Anjaria SOAS, University of London 'Yearning for the World: Goan Youth Press as World Literature' Daniela Spina NOVA University of Lisbon 1:00–2:30 Lunch Session 2 | 2:30–4:30 Chair: Anandi Rao 'Shifts in Memorialising the Bengal Famine: Reading So Many Hungers! as a Palimpsest of Postcolonial Memoryscape' Bhagyashri Vyasaramacharya University of Frankfurt (online) 'The Subaltern in Motion: Investigating the Female Body in William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (2009)' Nadia Butt University of Frankfurt 'Thalassological Imaginaries and Tidalectical Belonging in Indian Ocean Fiction' Dolors Ortega University of Barcelona 4:30–5:00 Closing Remarks Event Registration Please follow the link at the top of the page to register for this event. Image credit: Ed Robertson via Unsplash

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