Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
In association with Liverpool University Press
Conflict and Commemoration in the Postcolonial Francophone World
Friday 21 & Saturday 22 November 2014
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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Friday 21 November 2014
10.00-10.45 Registration (G37)
10.45-10.55 Welcome (G37)
11.00-12.00 Panel 1: Parallel Sessions
Panel 1a: Digital Memory Sites (G37, Chair: Hannah Grayson)
- Isabel Hollis, Raspouteam’s ‘Hidden’ Memorials: Mediating Memory through a Digital Lens
- Katelyn Knox, WebSites of Memory: La nuit oubliée, 17 October 1961, and Webdocumentaries and Digital Participatory Commemoration
Panel 1b : Visual Commemorations (G34, Chair: Nicki Frith)
- Jamal Bahmad, Learning to Forget? Subaltern Memory and the Cinematic Reconstruction of Morocco’s ‘Bread Riots’ in Hicham Lasri’s They Are the Dogs (2013)
- Leslie Barnes, ‘L’image d’une quête’ : The Visual Archives of Rithy Panh
12.00-2.00 Lunch/AGM
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Parallel Sessions
Panel 2a: Fictional Commemorations (G37, Chair: Sara-Louise Cooper)
- Nina Sutherland, Writing Women’s Memories of World War Two: The Conflict and its Aftermath in Francophone Caribbean Short stories
- Myriam El-Maizi, Beyrouth entre mémoire et oubli
- Sarah Arens, From Mobutu to Matonge: Commemorating Katanga’s Ethnic Violence in Pie Tshibanda’s Un fou noir au pays des Blancs (1999)
Panel 2b: Memories of the Algerian Civil War (G34, Chair: Nick Harrison)
- Corbin Treacy, Writing in the Aftermath of Two Wars: Algeria’s génération ’88’
- Tina Barouti, ‘Qui Tué Qui?’ and ‘Who is Omar D?’: Photographing Algeria’s Post-War Culture of Anxiety in Devoir de Mémoire
- Jenny Kosniowski, Forced Repression, Fanatical Remembrance: Leïla Marouane’s Le Châtiment des hypocrites
3.30-4.00 Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00 Panel 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel 3a: Cross-Cultural Memories (G37, Chair: Colin Clark)
- Catherine Gilbert, Framing Trauma: Holocaust Legacies in Rwandan Genocide Survivor Narratives
- Zoe Roth, The Alternative Archive: Cultural Memory of the Holocaust and Colonialism in Francophone Literature and Visual Culture
Panel 3b: Mourning and Melancholia (G34, Chair: Kate Marsh)
- Fiona Barclay, Remembering Algeria: Melancholy, Depression and the Colonizing of the pied-noirs
- Rebecca Krasner Undoing Mythologies of War and Peace: Fictionality, Theatricality and the Status of the Real in Solo d’un revenant
5.00-6.00 Plenary Session: Les tirailleurs sénégalais – Chair: David Murphy (G37)
- Armelle Mabon, Thiaroye: responsabilité de l’historien dans la compréhension et la divulgation d’un fait historique à reconstruire
- Roger Little, Les tirailleurs sénégalais des deux guerres mondiales : représentations et échos littéraires
6.00-7.00 Vin d’Honneur (G34)
7.30 Dinner (Tas Bloomsbury)
Saturday 22 November 2014
10.00-11.00 Panel 4: Parallel Sessions
Panel 4a: Commemorating Genocides (G37, Chair: Charlotte Baker)
- Pierre Boizette, Ikiza, la mémoire sans partage
- François Robinet, Les commémorations du génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda en France et leur médiatisation
Panel 4b: History and Heritage (G34, Chair: Patrick Crowley)
- Komi N’kégbé Fogâ Tublu, La mémoire de la première guerre mondiale et la place du patrimoine dans la commémoration de ses 100 ans au Togo
- Brian Quinn, Commemorating the Future: Contemporary Curators of Senegal’s William Ponty School
- Thomas Sharp, From Jacquerie to Genocide: Online Commemoration, Multidirectional Memory, and Nationalist Politics in Cameroon
11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.30-1.00 Panel 5: Parallel Sessions
Panel 5a: Ecrire la guerre interdite au Cameroun (G37, Chair: Thomas Sharp)
- Clias Kemedijio, La guerre interdite du Cameroun dans La Mémoire amputée de Werewere Liking et La Cicatrice de Gilbert Doho.
- Roger Fopa, Luttes de libération du Cameroun: autopsie des chants nationalistes
- Gilbert Doho, Lieux de ‘mémoire, mémoire des lieux: maquis et guerre de libération au Cameroun
Panel 5b: Monuments (G34, Chair: Charles Forsdick)
- Claire Peters, ‘République’ as an empty signifier: Exploring the Monumental and Practices of Commemoration in Sebbar’s La Seine était rouge (1999)
- Laura McGinnis, Re-membering Masculinity: Visual Commemoration in the French Caribbean
- Patrick Crowley, Commemorating Algerian Martyrs: The Seductions of ‘Ghostly National Imaginings’
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 Panel 6: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6a: Historical Counternarratives (G37, Chair: Edward Still)
- Anneka Haddix, ‘Writing Wrongs’: a Literary Interpretation of Testimony in Hadjila Kemoum’s Mohand le harki
- Alessandra Benedicty, Raoul Peck’s Poetics of Pragmatism and René Lemarchand’s “Critical Use of Memory”
Panel 6b: Rwanda: Ecrire par devoir de mémoire (G34, Chair: Sarah Blaney)
- Hannah Grayson, L’écriture post-génocide: devoir de mémoire and African Subjectivity
- George MacLeod, A Franco-African Response to Genocide?: The French Roots of the ‘Rwanda: Écrire par Devoir de Mémoire’ Collective Writing Project
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.00 Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture – Chair: Nicki Hitchcott (G37)
Siobhán Shilton, Art and the ‘Arab Springs’: Transnational Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance
5.00 Close of Conference
