SCHEDULE

All events take place at the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South.

Friday, 27 April

9:15-9:45 [Kimmel Center lobby]
Registration

9:45-10:00 [Kimmel 905]
Opening Remarks by Nancy Ruttenburg (NYU)

10:00-12:00 [Kimmel, 905]
Panel 1 - Africa and Afrikaans

Rita Barnard (University of Pennsylvania) -- Coetzee and/in Afrikaans
David Attwell (University of York) -- J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa
Respondent: Carrol Clarkson (University of Cape Town)

2:00-4:00 [Kimmel, 909]
Panel 2 - Words and Bodies

Derek Attridge (University of York) - What's So Funny About Sex?: Coetzee/ Beckett
Nancy Ruttenburg (New York University) - The Human Document
Respondent: Anne Janowitz (Queen Mary, University of London)

5:00 - 7:00 [Kimmel, 909]
Keynote address

Zoë Wicomb (University of Strathclyde) -- Slow Man and the Real: A Reading Lesson

Saturday, 28 April

10:00-12:00 [Kimmel, 909]
Panel 3 - Author: Self and Double

Mark Sanders (New York University) - The Writing Business: "He and His Man," Coetzee and Defoe
Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University) - King of the Amphibians
Respondent: Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)

2:00-4:00 [Kimmel, 909]
Panel 4 - Intertexts

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) - A Slow Wait for the Barbarians
Shaun Irlam (University at Buffalo, SUNY) -- Doubling Doubt: Auguries of Epiphany in J M Coetzee
Respondent: Robert Young (NYU)

4:15-4:45 [Kimmel, 909]
Closing discussion

4:45- 5:00
Closing Remarks by Mark Sanders (NYU)

5:00-6:30 [Kimmel, 909]
Reception