SFPS Monthly Mailing: June 2018

SFPS Monthly Mailing: June 2018

 

1. Calls for Papers

1.1 Memory, Migration & Movement (Conference)

1.2 Réinventer la nature : pour une approche écopoétique des littératures contemporaines de langue française (colloque international)

1.3 ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb (Call for Articles)

1.4 Revisiting the Black Parisian Moment: transnational black military, musical and intellectual histories, 1918-19 (Symposium)

 

2. Job Opportunities

2.1 Fixed Term Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies (University of Stirling)

2.2 Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies/Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies with a Specialism in Translation/Interpreting (University of Stirling)

2.3 Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (University of Edinburgh)

 

3. Announcements

3.1 The Journal of Romance Studies Annual Symposium (12 July 2018)

3.2 The Legacy of Fanon: Contemporary challenges to Racism and Oppression Conference (5 September 2018)

3.3 Global Southern Epistemologies Workshop (14 December 2018)

 

4. New Titles

4.1 From Surviving to Living Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing (Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2o18)

4.2 Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France (Liverpool University Press, 2018)

4.3 Postcolonial Paris Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)

4.4 La longue marche des tirailleurs sénégalais de la Grande Guerre aux indépendances (Belin, 2018)

 

1. Calls for Papers/Contributions

1.1 Memory, Migration & Movement

7-8 December 2018

Université de Paris Nanterre + la Colonie

PoP [Performances of the Popular] MOVES, in partnership with L’Université de Paris Nanterre and La Colonie, is now inviting submissions for the 2018 conference. The international research group for performances of the popular continues to advance the field by creating a new committee in France, to foster conversations and sharing between scholars, artists and institutions across linguistic worlds. To celebrate this expansion, PoP MOVES will hold a joint launch event and conference in Paris, to explore relationships between memory, migration and movement. Migration is by definition an act of movement.

The geopolitical movements of migration continue to resonate in the bodies of migrants, and these reverberations are sometimes manifested through popular dance. Migration entails ruptures and reconfigurations of memory both for migrants themselves and for those who accommodate their arrival. This conference seeks to tease out the threads and tensions between memory, migration and movement within one of the [sub]urban spaces of their everyday unfolding.

Paris has been shaped by waves of immigrants since the nineteenth century, particularly from the rest of Europe, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their impacts have been simultaneously cultural (the emergence of French hip hop), topographical (the growth of the banlieues) and political (the debates on veiling in public schools).

We welcome proposals in English or French from scholars, practitioners and artists addressing intersections between popular dance practices, notions of memory, remembering and forgetting, and contemporary or historical migrations in any geographical context. We accept submissions of papers, lecture-demonstrations, workshops and alternative formats. Submissions of pre-organised panels are encouraged.

Some key areas and questions to consider include:

Genealogies and geographies of transmission

• What continuities and ruptures characterize the transmission of popular repertoires in post-migration?
• What roles do the Internet, social media and mobile technologies play in the transmission of popular repertoires across space and time?
• How are practices transmitted inter-generationally (“vertically”) and among peers (“horizontally”)?
• How does gender, class, caste, etc. shape the transmission of popular repertoires and practices in post-migration?
• How are migratory/diasporic trajectories mapped onto dancing bodies?

Personal and collective memory

• What role do performances of the popular play in relation to memory, trauma and healing?
• How do “the popular” and “the traditional” intersect?
• In what ways are traditions “invented” in response to migration, both by (post-) migrant communities and host communities?
• How do popular repertoires, their remembrance or their forgetting, inform (un)belonging in post-migration?
• Are dance, movement, and embodied repertoires “intangible” or “tangible” heritage?
• How are (post-)colonial practices of archiving or archival resistance performed by (post-)migrant communities?

Political “movements”

• How do imaginaries around “the popular” and around migration intersect in post-colonial Europe?
• In what ways are (brown) bodies staged in the (white) postcolonial world?
• How is the cultural intimacy of (post-)migrant populations exposed or dissimulated through popular dance and performance?
• In what ways can popular dances practiced by (post-)migrant populations be considered political “movements”?
• How do popular dance practices intersect with the biopolitics of migration, especially in light of the current “migrant crisis”?
• How have popular dances been appropriated for “educational” interventions targeting (post-)migrant, working-class populations?

Please send abstracts by Sunday 5th of August 2018 to popmovesgroup@gmail.com. For more information, follow this link: https://popmoves.com/events/memory-migration-and-movement/.

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Mémoire, Migration & Mouvement

7-8 décembre 2018

Université de Paris Nanterre + la Colonie

L’association internationale de recherche sur les danses populaires, PoP [Performances du Populaire] MOVES, en partenariat avec l’Université de Paris Nanterre et La Colonie, lance l’appel à communication pour son colloque annuel. À l’occasion de la création de son comité francophone, PoP MOVES se déplace à Paris pour explorer les danses populaires à travers le prisme des relations entre migration, mémoire et mouvement.

La migration est par définition un acte de mouvement. Les mouvements géopolitiques de la migration continuent de résonner dans les corps des (post-) migrants, et ces réverbérations se manifestent notamment à travers les danses populaires. La migration implique des ruptures et des reconfigurations de mémoire non seulement pour les migrants mais aussi pour ceux qui les accueillent. L’enjeu de ce colloque est d’examiner les liens et tensions entre mémoire, migration et mouvement dans l’un des espaces (sub)urbains au sein duquel ils se déploient : Paris.

Sans s’y limiter, Paris nourrit notre réflexion en tant que lieu important de la vie artistique francophone, façonné par des vagues migratoires importantes depuis le 19ème siècle, principalement en provenance d’Europe, d’Afrique du Nord et d’Afrique sub-saharienne. L’empreinte des populations migrantes sur la capitale s’observe à la fois au niveau culturel (l’émergence du hip-hop français), topographique (le développement des banlieues) et politique (les débats autour du voile ou de l’accueil des réfugiés).

Nous invitons chercheurs, praticiens et artistes à soumettre des propositions en français ou en anglais qui abordent les intersections les pratiques de danses populaires, les notions de mémoire, de souvenir et d’oubli, et les migrations contemporaines ou historiques, tous contextes géographiques confondus. Nous acceptons les communications orales, conférences-démonstrations, ateliers et autres formats alternatifs. Nous encourageons la soumission de sessions pré-organisées.

Questionnements

Généalogies et géographies de transmission

• Quelles continuités et quelles ruptures caractérisent la transmission des répertoires populaires en post-migration?
• Quels rôles jouent l’internet, les réseaux sociaux et les technologies mobiles dans la transmission de répertoires populaires en post-migration ?
• Comment les pratiques sont-elles transmises entre générations (“verticalement”) et entre pairs (“horizontalement”) ?
• Comment le genre, la classe sociale, la caste, etc. façonnent-ils la transmission de répertoires et pratiques populaires en post-migration ?
• Comment les trajectoires migrantes/diasporiques sont-elles cartographiées sur les corps dansants ?

Mémoire personnelle et collective

• Quels rôles les performances du populaire jouent-elles dans la mémoire, le trauma et la guérison?
• Quelle est la relation entre “le populaire” et “la tradition” ? De quelles manières les traditions sont-elles “inventées” en réponse à la migration, à la fois par les populations (post-)migrantes et par les populations qui les accueillent ?
• Comment les répertoires populaires, leur souvenir ou leur oubli, façonnent-ils l’appartenance ou la non-appartenance en post-migration?
• La danse, le mouvement et les répertoires incorporés sont-ils un patrimoine immatériel ou matériel ?
• De quelles façons les populations (post-)migrantes effectuent-elles des pratiques (post)coloniales d’archivage et de résistance à l’archivage ?

“Mouvements” politiques

• Comment s’intersectent les imaginaires du “populaire” et de la migration en Europe postcoloniale? De quelles manières les corps (de couleur) sont-ils mis en scène dans le monde postcolonial (blanc) ?
• Comment l’intimité culturelle des populations (post-)migrantes est-elle exposée ou dissimulée à travers les danses et performances populaires ?
• Les danses populaires pratiquées par les post-migrants peuvent-elles être considérées comme des “mouvements” politiques ?
• Comment les pratiques de danses populaires intersectent-elles avec les biopolitiques de la migration, particulièrement à la lumière de l’actuelle “crise des migrants” ?
• Comment les danses populaires ont-elles été appropriées dans le cadre d’interventions “éducatives” visant principalement les populations post-migrantes de classe ouvrière ?

Les propositions de communication devront être envoyées avant le dimanche 5 août 2018 à l’adresse suivante : popmovesgroup@gmail.com. En savoir plus: https://popmoves.com/events/memory-migration-and-movement/.

 

1.2 Réinventer la nature : pour une approche écopoétique des littératures contemporaines de langue française

L’unité de recherche « Imaginaire méditerranéen et Interculturalité. Approches comparées » (IMIAC) / Université de Tunis, Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, en partenariat avec les universités membres de l’Observatoire des littératures francophones du Sud, organise un colloque international à Tunis les 9- 10 et 11 novembre 2018.

Argumentaire

L’ouverture des littératures à la conscience du Monde suscite, de nos jours, de nombreuses interrogations sur le devenir de la nature, sur les liens entre conscience environnementale et esthétique littéraire.  Les théories anglo-saxones d’ecocriticismou  d’environmental literary studies, parues dans la seconde moitié des années 1990 et s’inspirant essentiellement d’une longue tradition de la « nature writing », visent à affermir la conscience écologique, à confirmer l’idée que la littérature peut agir comme agent de changement social en se concentrant plutôt sur les éléments thématiques et/ou politiques (Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism). En effet, fortement impliqués dans la sphère sociale et politique, surtout au début, les chercheurs considèrent la littérature comme un moyen d’éveiller les consciences, de sensibiliser les lecteurs aux dangers écologiques auxquels est confronté notre monde actuel, mais aussi comme un moyen de « reconnecter l’étude de la littérature avec la Terre », de renouer avec la nature, de redécouvrir la beauté des paysages et du monde animal.

L’écopoétique, terme en usage en France depuis le milieu des années 2000, vise plutôt à désigner une critique littéraire se situant au croisement de la littérature, de l’écologie et de l’éthologie en proposant d’examiner la relation entre littérature et environnement naturel. Dans son ouvrage intitulé Ce qui a lieu. Essai d’écopoétique(2015), Pierre Schoentjes accorde une place centrale aux enjeux esthétiques, à côté des enjeux éthiques en interrogeant la manière dont la littérature contemporaine francophone (les littératures du Nord) fait une place aux enjeux environnementaux. Il précise que ‘’l’écopoétique met plus volontiers en avant son souci de la forme et de l’écriture que ne le fait l’écocritique : celle-ci assume en effet ouvertement un parti pris politique, ancré dans un contexte anglo-saxon, voire américain.’’ (L’écopoétique : quand ‘Terre’ résonne dans ‘littérature’, 2016)

Depuis la période romantique où écrivains et poètes exprimaient, dans le genre pastoral, un profond attachement à la nature, en passant par le désenchantement de la nature, entendu au sens philosophique des Lumières jusqu’à la période moderne, l’amour de la nature n’a plus quitté l’écrivain, lui permettant, dans une société modernisée et industrialisée, la réconciliation avec soi-même. L’auteur contemporain s’est donné pour mission d’enregistrer les altérations du monde naturel de son époque ; les questions environnementales qu’il aborde sont toujours d’actualité : les effets de l’industrialisation, la disparition des espèces végétales, les dimensions économique, sociale et morale des initiatives écologiques et la condition de l’homme industrialisé. Le monde naturel devient alors intériorisé, réfléchi, partie intégrante des obsessions de sa mémoire. L’auteur contemporain explore le règne végétal et animal et questionne le monde, afin de pénétrer jusqu’aux secrets de la nature.

Dans le champ de l’écocritique ou de l’écopoétique, l’idée d’une réinvention de la nature reviendrait à renvoyer à la nature comme « création sociale » (Evernden), c’est-à-dire à la relation complexe et étroite qui existe entre nature et culture. Ce concept désigne aussi le rôle de la littérature comme alternative aux discours scientifico-techniques. Aussi les termes de ‘’réinvention, recréation ou ré-enchantement ‘’ s’appliquent-ils à l’aisthesis, c’est-à-dire à la capacité (ou l’incapacité) qu’a le texte littéraire de nous proposer un regard nouveau sur notre relation avec le monde naturel. Force est de constater que les écrivains ayant écrit sur l’écologie manquent de visibilité et qu’il serait difficile, de nos jours,  de définir le roman qui traite de l’environnement ou de l’écologie dans la mesure où il n’a jamais fait partie d’une catégorisation dans les histoires de la littérature ainsi que le précise Pierre Schoentjes.

Dans ce colloque, l’idée d’une réinvention de la nature servira de point de départ à une réflexion sur les possibles relations entre littérature et écologie. L’écopoétique y sera analysée comme ouvrant à la fois sur une réinvention esthétique et un renouvellement intellectuel et émotionnel de l’interaction de l’homme avec son environnement. L’écrivain francophone contemporain s’éloignerait ainsi de l’imaginaire romantique où la littérature d’évasion serait « celle  qui ne présente la nature que comme terrain de jeu, de bien-être ou de ressourcement » (Pierre Schoentjes, Qu’il est vert mon roman, Télérama, 2018) vers une littérature qui se préoccupe plutôt des dangers qui guettent l’équilibre écologique tels que le réchauffement climatique, la pollution massive, la menace de disparition de certaines espèces animales, l’épuisement de la nappe phréatique, etc.

Un autre objectif de ce colloque sera de problématiser cette question en contexte littéraire francophone, celui des littératures du Nord et du Sud, de voir si elles présentent les mêmes préoccupations et sensibilités environnementales, d’étudier quels auteurs et genres littéraires s’intéressent à cette question, et selon quelles modalités.  Quelle place, en effet, les littératures contemporaines francophones font-elles à la nature ? Comment représentent-elles nos relations au monde naturel ? Un écrivain français, belge ou québécois a-t-il la même perception de la nature et des dangers qui la guettent qu’un auteur maghrébin, africain subsaharien ou antillais ? Existe-t-il un imaginaire de la nature spécifique à chaque région francophone ?

On s’interrogera également sur les liens que l’écopoétique peut entretenir avec les stratégies littéraires. La littérature ne recrée pas la nature. En revanche, elle réinvente sans cesse, par le travail de l’écriture, les interactions entre l’homme et la nature et les représentations de la nature que l’homme se fait. Notre manière d’habiter poétiquement le monde dépend inévitablement de notre manière d’habiter les mots. Les formes littéraires peuvent-elles  revêtir un sens écologique et proposer ainsi une théorie esthétique de la nature ?

Pistes de réflexion

Quelle place l’écriture de la nature occupe-t-elle dans les littératures de langue française (européenne, maghrébine, africaine, antillaise, québécoise …) ? Comment l’écopoétique détermine-t-elle l’univers fictionnel sur le plan de l’écriture ? Dans quelle mesure l’écriture de ce rapport à l’environnement permet-elle un solide ancrage dans les enjeux littéraire et sociétaux d’aujourd’hui ? En posant un regard croisé sur les littératures européennes francophones et sur les littératures du Sud (Maghreb, Afrique subsaharienne, Québec, Antilles…), existe-t-il des points communs ou des divergences dans le rapport des écrivains contemporains à leur environnement naturel ? Comment saisir, à partir d’une telle problématique, l’unité (la transversalité) du fait francophone au-delà de la distinction habituelle ‘’francophonies du Nord’’ et ‘’francophonies du Sud’’ ? Quels traitements des nouvelles écritures francophones et quelles stratégies esthétiques adoptées pour dire ce rapport au monde naturel, à l’écologie, étant entendue dans cette relation entre l’homme, la société et la nature ?

Modalités

Envoi des propositions : au plus tard le 31 août 2018.

Les propositions (titre et résumé : 300 mots) et une brève présentation de l’auteur. (nom, prénom, courriel, affiliation(s), recherches) doivent être envoyées à l’adresse suivante : soniazf2002@yahoo.fr Réponse du comité scientifique : 15 septembre 2018 Date du colloque international : 9-10-11 novembre 2018, Tunis. Langue des interventions : français.

Comité scientifique

Boulaâbi Ridha, Université Grenoble-Alpes ; Collot Michel, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris3 ; Coste Claude, Université de Cergy-Pontoise ; El-Gharbi Jalel, Université de la Manouba ; Fili-Tullon Touriya, université des Lumières Lyon2 ; Fitouri- Zlitni Sonia, Université de Tunis ; Khadidja Khelladi, université d’Alger ; Kara Atika, Ecole normale supérieure Bouzaréah d’Alger ;  Kassab-Charfi Samia, université de Tunis, Lehdehda Mohamed, Université de Moulay Ismaïl de Meknès ; Schoentjes Pierre, Université de Gand ; Trabelsi Mustapha, Université de Sfax ; Voisin Patrick, Université de Pau, France

Comité d’Organisation

Sonia Fitouri-Zlitni ; Dorra Bassi, Rym Hamza, Hager Mazegue, Syrine Bahri

En savoir plus: http://www.fabula.org/actualites/reinventer-la-nature-pour-une-approche-ecopoetique-des-litteratures-contemporaines-de-langue_85766.php?utm.

 

1.3 ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb (Call for Articles)

Rachid Bouchareb was born in Paris in 1953 to Algerian parents and became one of France’s first French filmmakers of North African descent. While his career now spans over thirty years and his diverse films have garnered both mainstream and critical success, including three Oscar nominations, there exists no book-length study (in French or English) on Bouchareb’s body of work. The director’s films are remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements, and narrative settings, from Senegal, England, Vietnam, and Algeria, to France, Belgium, Turkey, and the United States. While diverse in many ways, Bouchareb’s films are also linked by certain key concerns: the mixing of cultures, engagement with contemporary political issues and debates, immigration, and identity, among others. The director achieved national and international recognition for Indigènes/Days of Glory (2006) and Hors-la-loi/Outside the Law (2010), which both examine France’s colonial ties to North Africa, yet Bouchareb’s cinematic corpus extends well beyond this framework, and the full range of it has not been considered at length. In addition, Bouchareb’s work as a producer is an important yet often overlooked part of his career that merits critical attention.

We invite abstracts (~300 words) for essays on the work and career of Rachid Bouchareb to be published as part of an edited volume in the Edinburgh University Press ReFocus series (series editors are Robert Singer, Ph.D. and Gary D. Rhodes, Ph.D.). The volume seeks to highlight connections between Bouchareb’s films, with a special emphasis on his lesser-known and understudied films (such as his shorts and made-for-television films), to explore key influences on his output, consider theoretical approaches to his work, and shed new light on well-known films like Indigènes and Hors-la-loi.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cinematic aesthetics and influences, including genres (road movies, film noir, spaghetti westerns, war films, gangster movies) and the work of other directors (such as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone)
• Interest in the United States: American landscapes, spaces, and cultures; American cinema
• Mapping Bouchareb: theoretical approaches and critical frameworks
• Transcultural/cross-cultural elements (American/African American cultures, others)
• Women and gender dynamics and/or female centered films
• Political engagement (in his films and with regard to his career more broadly)
• Use of space(s): cities/urban spaces, francophone and other spaces
• Water in Bouchareb’s work
• Use of the same actors/actresses in different films; relationship with his actors (such as Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem); collaborations with co-writers and co-producers (Jean Bréhat)
• Work as a producer (feature films, television)
• Projects outside of feature films and téléfilms, such as his collaborations with historian Pascal Blanchard (Frères d’armes – 50 short films made to be diffused on television)
• Your Suggested Topic/Area of Interest
• Essays that focus on films other than Indigènes and Hors-la-loi are particularly welcome.

Essays included in this refereed volume will be approximately 7,000 words referenced in Chicago endnote style.

The deadline for abstracts (~300 words) is September 1. Please send abstracts and a short bio as a single attachment to both volume editors, Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp and Michael Gott: lkealhofer@uri.edu and gottml@ucmail.uc.edu. The essays would be due by May 1, 2019.

 

1.4 Revisiting the Black Parisian Moment: transnational black military, musical and intellectual histories, 1918-19

The British Library

Friday 26 October, 2018

This symposium will explore the connections between black intellectual thought, military presence, and jazz cultures at the critical juncture of Paris in the immediate post-war period.  Additionally, it will consider the present-day uses of these black histories, particularly in cultural activism.  As Tyler Stovall has argued, “comparable dynamics drove both black politics and black culture in postwar Paris.  Both Parisian jazz and the Pan-African Congress of 1919 combined complicity and resistance…” This symposium will seek to draw out these complicities and resistances.

In 1919 the ‘1^st’ Pan-African Congress took place in Paris.  The Congress is widely discussed in the literature on the subject as a false-start to later more radical anti-colonial movements.   More recently, it has been repositioned within a broader spectrum of early 20^th Century black anti-colonial thought that is important in its own right.  The Congress took place in a Paris already awakening to black cultures.  Just a year previously, the military band of the African American 369^th Infantry Regiment led by James Reese Europe, aka the Harlem Hellfighters, toured French music halls and fought alongside French and African troops.  The 369^th were welcomed back to the US with a parade from Fifth Avenue to Harlem watched by 250,000 people.  It was an instance of the renewed determination of African Americans in the fight for equality spurred by the war – as W.E.B. DuBois proclaimed in an editorial that ran in the May 1919 issue of Crisis: “We return from fighting.  We return fighting.  Make way for Democracy!”  The symposium will take an interdisciplinary approach to reconsider the overlaps taking place in wartime Europe, through the crystalising lens of Paris in the immediate post-war period.

Additionally, we will engage with the question of what these histories have meant for future generations of black activists and cultural producers.  It will speak directly to new work on the Harlem Hellfighters by acclaimed jazz composer and performer Jason Moran, which will be performed at the Barbican in November.  James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin moves through past, present and future as it reflects on the African American presence in Europe during the war – and the marks it left here during the subsequent century.”  The work emerged from conversations between Moran and filmmaker John Akomfrah who have said they were inspired by Caribbean American sociologist Orlando Patterson’s suggestion that the creative chaos of jazz provides a language for countering what he termed ‘an absence of ruin’ in black histories and intellectual thought: “how do African Americans deal with histories vanishing constantly, and how does the music become the structure?”

While the emphasis of the symposium will be on the US connection, this is understood within the dynamics of a transmigrational black Atlantic and we welcome papers that explore an approach to anti-colonialist thought, ‘le soldat noir’, and/or jazz from a colonial perspective, including a Caribbean context.  We also welcome papers from any discipline, in French, Spanish, Portuguese, or bilingual papers.

Possible subjects for papers include but are not limited to:

• The historiography of the Pan-African Congress, and ‘le soldat noir’.
• The imaginary topography of Paris, France as a site of pan-African exchange.
• The experiences of African American and Caribbean military personnel in France, and upon their return to the US.
• The 369^th Infantry: its musical and military accomplishments.
• James Reese Europe’s musical legacy and contributions to Harlem, including the Clef Club.
• Other jazz bands in Paris/Europe in this period, eg. Louis Mitchell and the Jazz Kings
• The historical work of jazz.
• Cultural primitivism in the immediate postwar years.
• Afro-modernism and black responses to négrophilie in the immediate postwar period.
• Black Paris / the returning WWI black soldier, as expressed in the American and/or Caribbean imagination.
• Tracing the influence of early pan-Africanist thought on Négritude, African American internationalism, or the later Black Power movement.
• Connections to the escalating events in the US that culminated in the ‘First Red Scare’ and the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919.
• Conference organisers, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Gibbs Hunt, Blaise Diagne, and/or Gratien Candace.
• The reappropriation of fraternité from military and colonial ends, for black rights.
• The repurposing of Wilson’s rhetoric of ‘national self-determination’ for African, and/or African American contexts.
• The uses of primitivism at the conference, and its relationship to the advancement of African independence movements/African American rights.
• The African Blood Brotherhood, Cyril Biggs, Richard Moore, and Wilfrid Adolphus Domingo.
• Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial thought in the Black press, eg. Crisis, The Liberator, The Crusader, and Negro World.
• Critiques of European colonial rule at the Congress, and calls for international oversight (eg. League of Nations mandates).
• Theorising ‘The Absence of Ruin’.
• The uses of these histories as contemporary cultural politics

Please submit abstracts of max. 400 words with a brief one-paragraph bio in the same document to fran.fuentes@bl.uk  by midnight, Sunday 2 September.

 

2. Job Opportunities

2.1 Fixed Term Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies (University of Stirling)

Fixed Term Contract until 31 August 2020

Full Time

Grade 7 – £32,548 – £38,833 p.a.

The closing date for this post is Tuesday 17th July 2018

This post is a fixed-term, full-time lectureship (24 months, Grade 7) to replace Dr Fiona Barclay who has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Leadership Award. The fixed-term lectureship should commence on 1 September 2018. The end date will be 31 August 2020. The Division of Literature and Languages wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced candidate at Lecturer level (Grade 7) to deliver teaching to undergraduates and postgraduates on our French undergraduate programmes and our Translation PGT programmes, as well as to undertake administrative duties as appropriate. The post is open to candidates specialising in any aspect of modern and contemporary French and Francophone language, culture (including film and literature), and history. The appointee will be expected to teach an undergraduate option on the French programme entitled ‘Cultures of Travel’, as well as to deliver other more general teaching of content and language courses; and may be requested to participate in the delivery of teaching on undergraduate modules in Global Cinema and Culture. For more information and to apply, follow this link: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=1752&jobTitle=Lectureship%20in%20French%20and%20Francophone%20Studies%20(Fixed%20Term.

 

2.2 Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies/Lectureship in French and Francophone Studies with a Specialism in Translation/Interpreting (University of Stirling)

Post 1: Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Post 2: Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies with a Specialism in Translation/Interpreting

Full time Open Ended Contract

Grade 7: £32,548 – £38,833 p.a.

Start date: 1 September 2018 (or by mutual agreement)

The closing date for these posts is midnight Friday 20th July 2018.

Post 1: Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

The successful candidate will have a PhD (or equivalent) in an area that maps onto one of the existing research specialisms within the Division in French and Francophone Studies (Postcolonial Studies; Visual Cultures; Gender and Sexualities – each with a 20th/21st-century focus) with potential to take these areas of expertise in new directions through ambitious plans for research, impact and funding. The successful candidate will have native or near-native competence in French and will be required to teach across language and culture modules at all levels of undergraduate provision in French, as well as contributing to postgraduate teaching and supervision in relevant fields.

Post 2: Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies with a Specialism in Translation/Interpreting

The successful candidate will have a PhD (or equivalent) in Translation or Interpreting Studies and will have native or near-native competence in French. We are also interested in candidates with a PhD (or equivalent) in French/Francophone Studies more widely who have a demonstrable track record of teaching and research in Translation and/or Interpreting in Higher Education. Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate teaching and research expertise that spans Translation and Interpreting Studies. The successful candidate will be required to teach across language and culture modules at all levels of undergraduate provision in French, as well as contributing to postgraduate teaching and supervision on our Translation and Interpreting Studies programmes. The appointee may also be expected to develop new modules in aspects of Translation/Interpreting at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

For more information and to apply, follow this link: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=1757&jobTitle=Lectureship%20in%20French%20and%20Francophone%20Studies%2FLectureship%20in%20French%20and%20Francophone%20Studies%20with%20a%20Specialism%20in%20Translation%2FInterpreting.

 

2.3 Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (University of Edinburgh)

School of Social and Political Science, Politics and International Relations

University of Edinburgh

We are seeking two Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work with Dr Mihaela Mihai on an ERC-funded project entitled ‘Illuminating the “Grey Zone”: Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations.’

Situated at the frontier between political science, political theory, history, literature and cinema, this interdisciplinary project seeks to shift the focus of debates in Transitional Justice by focusing on the grey zone of collaborators, bystanders and indirect beneficiaries of systemic violence.

You will have experience of conducting high quality academic research in a field relevant to this project such as Politics, History, Cultural Studies (including literatures and cinema), Philosophy, and should be willing to engage with a variety of literatures beyond the narrow confines of your own research field.

These two posts are both available on a full-time, fixed-term basis of 35 hours per week from as early as 3 September 2018 until 29 February 2020.

Salary: £32,548 – £38,833 per annum.

Closing date: 5pm (GMT)Monday, 23rd July 2018.

For more information and to apply, follow this link: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=044239.

 

2.4 Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (University of Oxford)

All Souls College, Oxford

Salary: £41,231 to £44,052 (including housing allowance of £9,533 if eligible)

Full-Time, Contract/Temporary

All Souls College invites applications for up to four Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships, one in each of the following subjects:  Literature in English; Mathematics; Modern Languages; Mathematics; and Social and Political Sciences (limited to Politics and International Relations, Social Anthropology, and Sociology).  Those elected will be expected to take up their Fellowships on 1 October 2019 or such other date as may be agreed in advance with the College.  The Fellowship are for five years, fixed-term, and non-renewable.

The Fellowships are intended to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to establish a record of independent research.  But, while the primary duty of a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is the completion of a significant body of independent research for publication, they are also encouraged to undertake appropriate teaching and supervision of research in the University, develop their curriculum vitae, and improve their prospects of obtaining a permanent academic position by the end of the Fellowship.

Applicants must have been awarded their doctorates after 1 August 2016 or expect to have been awarded their doctorate by 1 October 2019.  (The successful candidates must have completed their doctorates by the time they take up their Fellowships.)  Candidates must be able to demonstrate, both through their thesis and other work published or submitted for publication, their capacity to undertake original publishable academic research in their chosen field. Where they have been working as part of a team, the College will wish to understand the significance of the candidate’s particular contribution to jointly authored papers.

For further particulars and to complete the on-line application, see the Appointments section of the College’s website: http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk.

Closing dates and times for:
Applications:  4 pm (UK time), Friday, 7 September 2018
References:     4 pm (UK time), Friday, 14 September 2018

Interviews:    Friday, 11 January and Saturday, 12 January 2019

Elections to the Fellowships:  Saturday, 19 January 2019.

The College is committed to promoting diversity. Applications are particularly welcome from women and from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

 

3. Announcements

3.1 The Journal of Romance Studies Annual Symposium

12 July 2018, 2pm-7pm

Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

14:00  New Directions in Research on Latin America

Catherine Davies (IMLR, London): “(Mis)readings: Joseph Andrews’s Journey from Buenos Aires (London, 1827)”
Naomi Wells (IMLR, London): “Cross-Language Dynamics: Translingual Communities in Digital Media and Communications”
Niall Geraghty (ILAS, London): “Latin American Women’s Filmmaking: The Potato as Protagonist in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada (2009)”

15:00  Coffee break

15:30  Literature under Constraint

Dominic Glynn (IMLR, London): “Constraints in/on literature”
Adina Stroia (King’s College London): “The Constraints of Age(ing): Self-representations in Contemporary French Women’s Writing and Film”
Stephanie Obermeier (Kent): “‘Je suis curieux de savoir ce que vous en penserez’: Questions of Genre in Anne F. Garréta’s and Jacques Roubaud’s Éros mélancolique (2009)”

17:00  Keynote lecture – Philip Dine (NUI Galway): “From ‘The Caged Hawk’ to the ‘Apostle of Fraternity’: imagining Amir ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi from the 19th to the 21st centuries”

18:00  Reception

To register, please go to https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16374. 

 

3.2 The Legacy of Fanon: Contemporary challenges to Racism and Oppression Conference

5 September 2018

Hope Park Campus Liverpool Hope University Hope Park Liverpool L16 9JD

Book by 31 August 2018

A Conference exploring the ideas of Franz Fanon. It will provide a forum to critically interrogate the discourse, theories and experiences of racism, discrimination, opression and readings of Fanon in the context of marginalised and oppressed groups, professionalism and daily life/experience. We invite interest to explore the themes of: Social & community activism; Contemporary racism, Challenges to the notion of post-racism; Alienation;Mental/psychiatric health; neo-and -post-colonialism: and Gender/sexuality.

For more information and to book a place, go to https://store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/the-legacy-of-fanon-contemporary-challenges-to-racism-and-oppression/the-legacy-of-fanon-contemporary-challenges-to-racism-and-oppression-conference.

 

3.3 Global Southern Epistemologies Workshop

The Global Southern Epistemologies Workshop will be an exciting event taking place 10 – 14 of December 2018. The workshop is aimed at Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from the Global South from across the Humanities, interested in preparing publications for major international journals, networking with other (senior) scholars from related fields and in working towards the decolonising of our fields of research.

Bursaries for travel and accommodation will be granted on full or partial basis! For further information, a list of confirmed speakers and complete call for papers, follow this link: https://globalsouthern.hcommons.org/. Please contact Johanna Kreft on globalepistemologies@gmail.com if you have any questions.

 

4. New Titles

4.1 From Surviving to Living Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing (Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2o18)

By Catherine Gilbert

During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, acts of extreme violence were committed against women. This book presents a critical study of Rwandan women’s published testimonies, seeking to understand how Rwandan women genocide survivors respond to and communicate such experiences. Drawing on trauma theory, Holocaust studies and critical approaches to testimony, From Surviving to Living examines the ways in which the genocide is remembered in both individual and collective memory and the challenges Rwandan women face in the ongoing process of surviving trauma. Through close analysis of women’s testimonies written predominantly in French, and a smaller number in English, this book underlines the necessity of developing new ways of listening to the diversity of Rwandan women’s voices, in order not only to gain greater insight into how traumatised individuals remember, but also to hear the challenge they pose to conventional Western modes of responding to trauma.

For more information, follow this link: https://www.pulm.fr/index.php/9782367812687.html.

4.2 Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France (Liverpool University Press, 2018)

Edited by Kathryn A. Kleppinger and Laura Reeck

Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, “Frenchness” and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France. In mobilizing a range of approaches and methodologies pertinent to their specialist fields of inquiry, contributors to this volume share in the common objective of elucidating the cultural productions of what we are calling post-migratory (second- and third-generation) postcolonial minorities. The volume provides a lens through which to query the dimensions of postcoloniality and transnationalism in relation to post-migratory postcolonial minorities in France and identifies points of convergence and conversation among them in the range of their cultural production. The cultural practitioners considered query traditional French high culture and its pathways and institutions; some emerge as autodidacts, introducing new forms of authorship and activism; they inflect French cultural production with different ‘accents’, some experimental and even avant-garde in nature. As the volume contributors show, though post-migratory postcolonial minorities sometimes express dis-settlement, they also provide an incisive view of social identities in France today and their own compelling visions for the future.

For more information, follow this link: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/108138.

4.3 Postcolonial Paris Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)

By Laila Amine

In the global imagination, Paris is the city’s glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape since the 1940s. Expanding the narrow script of what and who is Paris, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art of Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans in the City of Light, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son.

Spanning the decades from the post–World War II era to the present day, Amine demonstrates that the postcolonial other is both peripheral to and intimately entangled with all the ideals so famously evoked by the French capital—romance, modernity, equality, and liberty. In their work, postcolonial writers and artists have juxtaposed these ideals with colonial tropes of intimacy (the interracial couple, the harem, the Arab queer) to expose their hidden violence. Amine highlights the intrusion of race in everyday life in a nation where, officially, it does not exist.

For more information, follow this link: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5674.htm.

4.4 La longue marche des tirailleurs sénégalais de la Grande Guerre aux indépendances (Belin, 2018)

Les tirailleurs dits “sénégalais” sont nés de l’ordre colonial et des besoins militaires de la métropole. Engagés dans des guerres entre puissances européennes, ils sont plusieurs centaines de milliers à être montés au front durant les deux guerres mondiales. Sous l’uniforme français, les soldats coloniaux ne sont plus fils d’agriculteur, d’artisan, ou de pasteur ; ils appartiennent à l’ordre guerrier et combattent pour l’empire colonial.

Une fois démobilisés, ils retrouvent un environnement qui n’est plus tout à fait le leur. Ils ont vécu les horreurs de la guerre, ont souffert avec leurs compagnons d’armes de métropole, vu la puissance coloniale sous un autre jour. Leur histoire est largement oubliée, leurs engagements en Afrique même sont encore méconnus. Pierre Bouvier fait le récit de leur enrôlement parfois violent, de leur démobilisation, de leur retour sur leur sol natal et de leur rôle dans la marche vers les indépendances.”

En savoir plus: https://www.belin-editeur.com/la-longue-marche-des-tirailleurs-senegalais.

*Featured image taken from the book cover of From Surviving to Living Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing by Catherine Gilbert. Photograph taken by Fabrice Musafiri.*