Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Summer Postgraduate Workshop
‘New Directions in Francophone Postcolonial Studies:
The Challenge of a Materialist Critique’
Taylor Room, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, 10 June, 2010
10:00-10:20 Arrival, Registration, Tea and Coffee
10:20-10:30 Welcome
10:30-11:15 Keynote Address
Dr Andy Stafford (University of Leeds)
‘Materialist Praxis in Francophone Post-Colonial Studies?’
11:15-11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30-12:30 PANEL 1
M. Amzat BOUKARI-YABARA (EHE SS, Paris), ‘French Postcolonial Theory without African Historiography on France?’
Ms Alice Burgin (University of Melbourne, Australia & Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), ‘The “Other” French Connection: The role of France and Francophonie in Contemporary West African Cinema’
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PANEL 2
Mr James Bradbury (University of Warwick), ‘Savage Ways: Michel Leiris’ Ethnographic Discourse and the Significance of Epistemic violence in L’Afrique fantôme’
Ms Ruth Bush (Wolfson College, University of Oxford), ‘A Transcolonial Account of Publishing Politics in the Work of Mongo Beti and Christine Garnier’
2:30-3:00 Tea and Coffee
3:00-4:00 PANEL 3: Professional Development
Dr Kate Marsh (University of Liverpool) Academic Publishing Talk
(Title TBA)
Dr Rachel Douglas (University of Liverpool) Employability Talk
(Title TBA)
4.00-4:45 Keynote Address
Prof David Murphy (University of Stirling)
‘Struggles that Unite us All? Anti-colonialism and communism in 1920s Paris’
5:00-7:30 Pub/Dinner
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