Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
In association with Liverpool University Press
Postcolonial Mobilities in the Francophone World
Friday 13 & Saturday 14 November 2015
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Confirmed keynote speakers: Mireille Rosello and Kate Averis
Friday 13 November 2014
9.30-10.15 Registration and welcome
10.15-10.30 Welcome
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Parallel Sessions
Panel 1a: (Re)constructing Collective Histories
Kate Hodgson (Liverpool University), ‘Conciliate and Pacify’: Border-Crossing as a Physical and Textual Strategy of Reunification in Nineteenth Century Haiti’
Anneka Haddix (UCLA), ‘Retracing the Past in Le Village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller’
Justin Izzo (Brown University), ‘Reading Benjamin in Djibouti: Abdourahman Waberi and the Theater of History’
Panel 1b: Creative Mobilities
Natalia Bremner (IMLR, University of London), ‘Reggae, Dancehall and CNARM: Youth Mobilities in Postcolonial Réunion’
Anne Mueller (UCLA), ‘Musical Mobility: Censorship and “Sanctionship” in Post-Genocide Rwanda’
Katie Tidmarsh (ULIP), ‘Moziki Littérature: Diffusion, Resistance and Memory on the internet’
12.00-2.00 Lunch/AGM
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Parallel Sessions
Panel 2a: (Im)mobile Bodies
Jeanne Garane (University of South Carolina), ‘Freedom of Movement: The Magical Body in
Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s Grigris’
Linda Brindeau (Dickinson College), ‘La fluidité des identités sexuelles dans l’œuvre de Kettly Mars’
Adler Camilus (Université Paris 8), ‘Les frontières de la race, frontière de la domination et mobilité transfrontalière des corps’
Panel 2b: North African Mobilities
Aliénor Cadiot (EHESS-Paris), ‘Mobilités coloniales en temps de guerre entre l’Afrique du Nord francophone et la métropole’
Jamal Bahmad (University of Leeds), ‘De-centering Fortress Europe: Clandestine Migration and Maghrebi Cinema’s Critique of Globalisation’
Kayode Ayobami Atilade (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), ‘Globalisation and the Concept of Home in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Novels’
3.30-4.00 Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00 Panel 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel 3a: Rethinking French-Algerian Relations
Giulia Fabbiano (EHESS-Paris), ‘Postcolonial Mobility from France to Algeria: Narratives of Past, Practices of Present)
Laurie Benson (King’s College, London) ‘Re-imagining French-Algerian Relations: Art Practices, Institutions and the International’
Panel 3b: Fixity and Movement in the Caribbean
Nick Nesbitt (Princeton University), ‘The Misery of the Infinitesimal: Work and the promesse du bonheur in a Posthuman Caribbean’
Timwa Lipenga (University of Malawi), ‘En “fixant” le passé: La mobilité et la mémoire dans Victoire, Les Saveurs et Les Mots de Maryse Condé’
Shanaaz Mohammed (Florida State University), ‘(Im)mobility and the Mixed Race Female Identity in Arlette Minatchy-Bogat’s La Métisse Caribéenne’
5.00-6.00 Plenary Session: Kate Averis
6.00-7.00 Vin d’Honneur
7.30 Dinner
Saturday 14 November 2014
09.30-11.00 Panel 4: Parallel Sessions
Panel 4a: Movement and Stasis
Claire Launchbury (University of New South Wales), ‘Liban sur rail: Postcolonial Mobility, Trains, Hope and Borders’
Esther Liu (Cardiff University), ‘Indigenous Missionary Movement and the Desire for Stasis’
Emmanuel Kayembe (University of Botswana), ‘Les mobilités postcoloniales en littérature africaines: entre utopie et réalité’
Panel 4b: Gendered Spaces
Edward Still (Oxford University), ‘Feminine/Masculine Spaces in the œuvre of Mohammed Dib: Broken Frontiers?’
Madonna Kalousian (Lancaster University), ‘Rituals of Exclusion in L’Armée du Salut (2006): Abdellah Taïam, the Flirting Flâneur, and the Queer Urban Migrant’
Azize Cour (ENSIAS), ‘Interrogating (Moroccan) Identity Politics in Abdelhak Sehane’s Novel Les Temps Noirs: Gender and Space’
11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.30-1.00 Panel 5: Parallel Sessions
Panel 5a: Immigration and Belonging
Gillian Glaes (University of Montana-Missoula), ‘Constructing Citizenships: African Immigration, Transnational Migration, and the Politics of Post-Colonial Belonging’
Antonia Wimbush (Birmingham University), ‘Women’s Immigration to France: A Caribbean Case Study of Pineau and Ega’
Sarah Arens (Edinburgh University), ‘Postcolonial (Im)mobilities: Brussels in Contemporary Black Belgian Writing’
Panel 5b: Mobility and the Diaspora
Katharina Fritsch (University of Vienna), ‘Mobilizing ‘Comorian diaspora’ in Marseilles – Twarab and Marseilles’ biopolitics of communitarization’
Sheila Petty (University of Regina), ‘Relational Histories in African Cinema’
Clément Cayla-Giraudeau (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), ‘Politics from Abroad: the Case of the Senegalese and Djiboutian Diasporas’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Panel 6: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6a: (Beyond) the Limits of the Nation
Julia Waters (University of Reading), ‘Mobile Belonging: Migration and Nation in Amal Sewtohul’s Histoire d’Ashok et d’autres personnages de moindre importance (2001) and Made in Mauritius (2012)’
Beatrice Ivey (University of Leeds), ‘Mobile Memories of Algerian and Indian decolonisation in Hélène Cixous’s L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves’
Zoe Roth (Durham University), ‘The Jewish Avant-Garde: Transnational Modernisms, 1916-1945’
Panel 6b: Rethinking Mobilities
Sam Coombes (Edinburgh University), ‘Mobility-related Concepts in the Theoretical Writings of Edouard Glissant and their possible applications’
Jennifer Boum Make (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Penser au-delà du binarisme: Étude des potentiels de la créolisation glissantienne dans Aux États-Unis d’Afrique d’Abdourahman Waberi’
Farid Laroussi (University of British Columbia), ‘From Francophonie to Metacolonial, yet Not Your Familiar Travelling Theory’
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.00 Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture, Professor Mireille Rosello
5.00 Close of Conference
The registration form for the conference can be found here: SFPS 2015 – Registration Form
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