CONFERENCE. “Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st Century”

         

Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st Century

Friday 18 & Saturday 19 November 2016

 

Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, in association with Liverpool University Press

 

Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

 

Keynote speakers: Nicholas Harrison and Louise Hardwick

 

Friday 18 November 2016

9.30-10:15           Registration, Coffee/Tea

10.15-10.30        Welcome Address: Charlotte Baker (SFPS President)     

10.30-12.00        Panel 1: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 1a: Neocolonial Interventions

François Robinet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), ‘Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Centrafrique: quelle(s) critique(s) des interventions françaises en Afrique au début du XXIème siècle ?’

Sophie Watt (University of Sheffield), ‘French “Humanitarian” Interventions: Haiti, Mali, Central African Republic: Towards a Definition of “Neo-imperialism” within a Francophone Context’

Oana Panaité (Indiana University-Bloomington), ‘Paracolonial Aesthetics or the Long Memory of Colonialism’

 

Panel 1b: Urban Space

Marion Tricoire (Emory University), ‘Urbains, Postcoloniaux, Textuels: Les Bars Littéraires de Patrice Nganang et Alain Mabanckou’

Nadia Kiwan (University of Aberdeen), ‘“Kidnapping Culture”: Complexity, co-existence and urban space in the work of street artist Combo’

Rania Said (State University of New York, Binghamton), ‘-Z-: Flamingoes, Francophonie and the Arts of Urban Dissent in Tunisia’

 

12.00-2.00           Lunch/AGM

 

2.00-3.30              Panel 2: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 2a: Art and Contemporary Politics

Vanessa Lee (University of Oxford), ‘Art and Politics in Contemporary French Caribbean Theatre: The (Re)presentation of Guadeloupe’s 2009 General Strike in Gerty Dambury’s Les Atlantiques amers and Des doutes et des errances

John Patrick Walsh (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Francophone Haitian Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene’

Sonia Alba (University of Leceister), ‘A Tunisian girl and Nadia from Tunis – blog-writing and the fight for women’s emancipation in Tunisia’

 

Panel 2b: Francophone Jewish Postcolonial Studies

Patricia Llorens (Université d’Amsterdam), ‘La Préparation de la vie, quand l’histoire se lit dans la rue’

Ieme Van der Poel (Université d’Amsterdam), ‘L’écriture mémorielle en temps de crise: témoignages sur la vie juive disparue du Maroc’

Zoe Roth (Durham University), ‘Towards a Jewish Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Humanism, Universalism, and the Intellectual in Denis Guénon’s Un Sémite

 

3.30-4.00              Coffee/Tea

 

4.00-5.00              Panel 3: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 3a: The Haitian Earthquake

Rachel Douglas (University of Glasgow), ‘Writing the Haitian Earthquake and Creating Archives’

Charlotte Hammond (Cardiff University), ‘Stitching Time: Slow Fashion and Alternative Artisanal Practices in Haiti’

 

Panel 3b: The Banlieue in the 21st Century

Céline Kodia (McGill University), ‘Révolte(s) chez Insa Sané’

Rebecca Blanchard (University of Toronto), ‘Recent Literary Trends from the French Banlieues: Dystopian Fiction and the Roman d’anticipation

 

5.00-6.00              Plenary Session: Louise Hardwick (University of Birmingham)

                                    ‘Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel’

 

6.00-7.00              Vin d’Honneur (sponsored by LUP)

7.30                          Conference dinner (at own expense)

 

 

Saturday 19 November 2016

9.30-11.30           Panel 4: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 4a: 21st Century Francophone Literature

Markus Arnold (École supérieure d’Art de La Réunion), ‘From the island to Paris and back, with a detour via the world, or What does the francophone Mauritian novel of the 21st Century look like?’

Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘Forging New Frameworks: Francophone Postcolonial Studies and the 21st Century Caribbean’

Yao Louis Konan (Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké), ‘Circulation et fragilité: éléments de lecture du postcolonialisme dans le roman africain francophone’

Katelyn Knox (University of Central Arkansas), ‘Beyond the Page: Intermediality, Transmedia Storytelling, Interactive Fiction and New Modes of Francophone Authorship in the 21st Century’

 

Panel 4b: Francophone Algerian Literature in the 21st Century

Joseph Ford (University of Leeds), ‘Who reads francophone Algerian literature? The literary scene in contemporary Algeria’

Amar Guendouzi (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou), ‘Contemporary Algerian Francophone Literature and the “War of Memories”’

Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford), ‘Pourquoi écrire? Literature, democracy and doubt in 21st Century Francophone Algerian Writing’

Souryana Yassine (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou), ‘Issues of Contemporary Francophone Algerian Literature’s Reception: The Case of Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, Contre-Enquête’

 

11.30-12.00        Coffee/Tea

 

12.00-1.00           Panel 5: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 5a: Countering Violence and Terrorism

Caroline Williamson (University College Cork), ‘Silence on meurt’: The Role of Translation in Understanding 21st Century African Conflicts’

Maria Flood (Keele University), ‘A Child of the Ruins: Youthful Disaffection and the “Making Of” the Terrorist’

 

Panel 5b: Gender and Sexuality

Maria Tomlinson (Universities of Reading and Bristol), ‘Challenging Attitudes towards the Menopause in 21st Century Literature: Maïssa Bey’s Bleu blanc vert and Hizya

Amanda Rico (University of Texas A&M), ‘Speculative Sexuality: Framing “The Space In Between the Legs” in Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes’

 

1.00-2.00              Lunch

 

2.00-3.30              Panel 6: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 6a: Memory and the 21st Century

Nanar Khamo (UCLA), ‘Violence and Multidirectional Memory in the Francophone Indian Ocean: Natacha Appanah’s Le dernier frère and Les Rochers de Poudre d’Or

Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), ‘“Ce n’est pas qu’un pays de génocide”: Rwandans Writing about Rwanda in the 21st Century’

Rebekah Vince (University of Warwick), ‘Beyond Cosmopolitan Memory: Traumatic Past and Dialogic Present?’

 

Panel 6b: Mobilities

Silvia Baage (McDaniel College), ‘The Case of France’s 5th Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean’

Sophie Fuggle (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Walking through the ruins of history: Penal Tourism in France’s Outre-mer’

Laura Reeck (Allegheny College) & Kathryn Kleppinger (George Washington University), ‘The Post-Migratory Moment in Postcolonial France and its implications for Francophone Postcolonial Studies’

 

3.30-4.00              Coffee/Tea

 

4.00-5.00              Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture, Professor Nicholas Harrison (KCL)

‘Teaching in a time of crisis’

 

5.00                          Close of Conference

Conference. “Twenty Years under the Channel, and beyond? Rethinking Migrations and Borders”, 12 Oct., London

Twenty Years under the Channel, and beyond? Rethinking Migrations and Borders

Vingt années sous la Manche, et au-delà ? Repenser les migrations et les frontières 

 

Rails et histoire invites you to register and participate in (free registration) / Rails et histoire vous invite à vous inscrire et à participer au colloque :

 

Fourth International Conference

Roundtable held in Brunel University London, Uxbridge campus, Darwin Room, Hamilton Suite

Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 13:45-18:00

 

Quatrième rencontre internationale

Table ronde accueillie par l’Université Brunel de Londres, campus d’Uxbridge, Salle Darwin, Hamilton Suite 

Mercredi 12 octobre 2016 de 13 h 45 à 18 h

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

13:30/13 h 30     Registration and Welcome / Accueil des participants

13:45/13 h 45     Opening/ Ouverture

David AZÉMA, Chairman, Rails et histoire

Dr Naomi PERCIVAL, Special Collections Librarian, Channel Tunnel Archive, Brunel University

14:00/14 h Session 1A new Border under the Sea / Première séance : Une frontière construite sous la mer

Opening speech and Chair/Allocation d’ouverture et présidence :

Professor Michel FOUCHER, Titulaire de la chaire de géopolitique appliquée, Collège d’études mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Discussant / Rapporteur : Dr Alison CARROL, Senior Lecturer in European History, Department of Politics, History & the Brunel Law School, Brunel University London, member of the steering Committee for the roundtable

l Dr Federica INFANTINO, Chargée de recherche FNRS, Université libre de Bruxelles, Groupe de recherche sur les relations ethniques, les migrations et l’égalité (GERME), and Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

l Dr Katja SARMIENTO-MIRWALDT, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Brunel University London

15:00/15 h           Discussion and Chair conclusion

 

15:30/15 h 30 Session 2: Migration trends across the Channel / Deuxième séance : L’évolution des migrations Transmanche

Chair/Sous la présidence de : Professor Helen DRAKE, Professor of French and European Studies, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, Chair of UACES, Loughborough University, Member of the Scientific Board of Advisers for the Programme Twenty years under the Channel, and beyond?

Discussant / Rapporteur : Dr Laurent BONNAUD, Programme manager, member of the steering Committee for the roundtable

l Dr Daniel GORDON, Senior Lecturer in European History, Edge Hill University

l Dr Ed NAYLOR, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth

16:30/16 h 30     Discussion and Chair conclusion

Conclusion            Dr Alison CARROL

17:00/17 h           Wine Reception hosted by Brunel University

18:00/18 h           End of the conference / Fin de la journée

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GENERAL INFORMATION / INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

 

Publicity / Publicité des débats :

A summary of the proceedings will be published online / Un résumé des débats sera publié sur le site de Rails et histoire.

Audio records of the roundtables will be available online – the audience discussions will not be published / L’enregistrement des tables rondes sera accessible en ligne – les débats qui les suivent ne seront pas publiés.

l Registration through our website / Inscription sur notre site Internet

Registration is free on a first come-first served basis but must be arranged in advance: / Entrée gratuite dans la limite des places disponibles, inscription obligatoire : www.ahicf.com

l Contact

Contact for the conference and for the Twenty years under the Channel, and beyond?

Programme / Secrétariat du colloque et coordination du programme Vingt années sous la Manche, et au-delà ?  : 20yearschunnel@ahicf.com

l Conference venue / Lieu du colloque

Brunel University London https://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/finding-us

Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, Royaume-Uni

By car/En voiture : Sat Nav users: Please enter the road address (Kingston Lane) and the postcode (UB8 3PN). You will be directed to Kingston Lane, which is close to our main entrance. From there, please follow the signs

By underground / Par le métro: Take the westbound Metropolitan Line to Uxbridge (approx. 40 mins from Baker Street station). Or take the westbound Piccadilly Line to Uxbridge (approx. 45-50 mins from Earl’s Court station). You can then take a taxi, bus or walk to campus (one mile).

By train/ Par le train : West Drayton (First Great Western Link) is the nearest mainline station, approx 1.5 miles from the campus. Services run from London Paddington (approx. 20 mins journey time) or from the West (Bristol). West Ruislip Station (Chiltern Railways) is the mainline service from London Marylebone (approx. 20 mins journey time) and the North (Aylesbury, Banbury and Birmingham) and is approx. 4 miles from the campus.

 

Vingt années sous la Manche, et au-delà ? / Twenty years under the Channel, and beyond? // Un programme de recherche et d’événements à l’occasion du 20e anniversaire de la liaison ferroviaire transmanche / A programme of research and events to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Cross-Channel Rail Link

Rails et Histoire – Association pour l’histoire des chemins de fer / Railway Historical Society – 9, rue du Château-Landon, F-75010 PARIS – Tél. / Phone: +33(0)1 5820 51 01 – Fax: +33(0)1 5820 5189 – Email: 20yearschunnel@ahicf.com