Presentations

1: Sisters under the Skin: Rewriting the Other in Fantasia

Gaura Shankar Narayan, Purchase C, State U of New York

2: Postcolonial Empathy: Abjection, Otherness, and Solidarity in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Laura Thorp, U of South Carolina, Columbia

3: Decolonial Empathy: E. M. Forster, Rabindranath Tagore, and the Politics of Welcoming

Sean Weidman, Penn State U, University Park

Presider

Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Respondent

Patrick Colm Hogan, U of Connecticut, Storrs