We’re compiling an open access online library of French-language anti-racist resources, teaching & outreach materials, & association links. We remain keen to receive suggestions for the French and francophone online anti-racist ‘library’ that, in line with the pledges we outlined this June, we are committed to making available in the near future. Please email any contributions to f.j.mcqueen1@stir.ac.uk.

1.2. Online workshop “Speculative Art and Spatial Justice: How can imaginative practices create fairer and safer spaces?”, National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-17 2021.

Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the School of English and Creative Arts at National University of Ireland, Galway.

If you are interested in the issues of environment, spatial commodifications, dichotomies, borders and migrations and other related topics as analysed through the lens of speculative literature and art – science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia/dystopia – please submit your proposal, including the title and the short abstract (250 words) for your presentation (10-15min) to sasj2021@gmail.com by December 30 2020.

Event description:

The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our world – are produced unevenly in a fashion which entrenches poverty and exacerbates planetary pollution. As a result of geopolitical interventions, a great number of people have been deprived of their rights to both public and private spaces, whereas increased mobility in the developed world has undermined the established concepts of dwelling and spatial rootedness. Addressing the overlapping issues of social oppression and spatial injustice – such as exploitation of natural resources, unsustainable urbanisation, aggressive agriculture – demands a radical transformation of local, national and global spaces. Energy transitions, investments in public infrastructures and services, provisioning of safe and affordable housing, and restoration of green and blue spaces are just some of the changes we need to see. Emergency governmental responses to COVID-19 initiated rapid and radical societal changes that would have previously been unimaginable to many. Taking the pandemic response as one of the examples of a possible paradigm shift in terms of the kind of political action that can be imagined, this workshop emphasises the vital role of speculative fiction, film and visual art in shaping the physical world. Amid the global pandemic, and at the doorstep of climate breakdown, how can imaginative practices address and rectify spatial issues?

Speculative literature and art – understood broadly here as a category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia and dystopia – have long been concerned with imagining space differently. In depicting future or alternative worlds, artists can explore the spatial dynamics of oppression, exploitation and despoliation under today’s global capitalism. Yet, is it possible to go from cultural representation to societal transformation? How can we see the spaces of speculative art as potential shapers of healthier and fairer environments? Conversely, how do these artworks deny visions and narratives which erase the spatial abuses of our past, present and future?

Addressed topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Eco-fiction and nature writing
-Utopian and dystopian narratives
-Commodification and enclosures
-Architecture and the built environment
-Spatial dichotomies: urban-rural, centre-periphery, North-South, East-West
-Place-making, dwelling, belonging, and identity
-Corporeality and the human body in/as space

-Gender and space
-Environmental destruction, pollution, and erasure
-Borders and migrations
-Legacies of colonialism
-Global tourism and spatial fetishism

The workshop will be about generating conversations and developing ideas, so works-in-progress are most welcome.

1.3. Rencontres virtuelles, “ ‘Sous contrôle’ Fictions et contre-fictions du contrôle social”, University of Louisiana/Paris 3.

Rencontres virtuelles coordonnées par Loic Bourdeau (University of Louisiana) et Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Université Paris 3)

(English follows)

Les récits contemporains produisent autant des dystopies dépeignant un monde sous contrôle (Alain Damasio, Les Furtifs, Trois fois la fin du monde, de Sophie Divry ou encore 404, de Sabri Louatah) que des utopies d’un monde réouvert (d’Arcardie d’Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam au Palais des orties de Marie Nimier) : à l’heure des démocratures et des hyper-mesures sanitaires, de l’intelligence artificielle et des GAFA, la question du contrôle social et de la liberté individuelle se pose frontalement dans la fiction française et francophone. Le thème de la folie (pensons à Jean Pierre Martin, Mes fous ou à Victoria Mas, Le Bal de folles) — exploré en profondeur dans le collectif récent Les Folles littéraires, des folies lucides (Calle-Gruber et al) —, celui du retrait du monde (Cécile Minard, Le Grand Jeu) ou du voyage solitaire (les récits de Jean Rolin, par exemple), la nostalgie de la liberté des années 70 (chez Simon Liberati), ou encore toute la relève littéraire franco-canadienne qui fait place aux écritures queer et aux voix racisées et autochtones, disent de nouvelles aspirations aux dérèglements, aux désordres, désignent la folie ou l’isolement comme des hétérotopies possibles et peut-être désirables. Marginaux de gauche chez Philippe Vasset ou marginaux de droite chez Michel Houellebecq se rejoignent pour donner voix aux non-lieux et aux écarts. Tandis que des écrivains comme Emmanuelle Pireyre ou Sandra Lucbert mettent en scène les dérives du storytelling ou des dispositifs néo-libéraux de « sous-veillance » d’autres encore, chez POL, Minuit, Verticales, Hamac ou Héliotrope, de Nathalie Quintane à Eric Chevillard en passant par Kevin Lambert ou Mariève Maréchale, produisent des récits délibérément hors de leurs gonds, résistant par leur complexité et s’opposant par une politique de la forme aux stéréotypes existentiels et discursifs. Qu’il s’agisse de promouvoir une écodiversité des paroles et des identités culturelles ou de prendre les dispositifs à leurs propres pièges — pensons à ce que propose dans l’autofiction Chloé Delaume pour réécrire le moi en dehors des assignations sociales —, on a le sentiment que tout un pan de la littérature dénonce et chercher à faire dévier, à dérégler, à renverser les normativités douces du capitalisme créatif, ses nudges, son injonction au bonheur et à la résilience, sa rationalité techniciste, ses empathies instantanées et dérisoires, sa manière d’emprisonner l’individu par ses traces et de l’emmurer dans l’individualisme numérique.

Ce sont ces nouvelles révolutions discursives, ces invitations au désordre et à ses rencontres, ces invocations au hasard et à l’événement, ces contestations subtiles, ces rappels de la radicalité du désir, ces retours de la subversion à l’heure des nouvelles formes de surveillance, que notre réflexion voudra saisir dans les littératures françaises et francophones.

On invitera les participants à proposer une communication de 15 minutes (anglais ou français) en évitant des réflexions uniquement monographiques.

Date ligne pour l’envoi d’un résumé d’une demi-page accompagnée d’une notice biobibliographique : 5 décembre 2020.

Notifications d’acceptation : 15 décembre 2020.

Horaires des rencontres (Zoom) : vendredi 5, 12, 19 février 2021. 8 h 30-10 h 30 PST (Los Angeles) ; 10 h 30-12 h 30 CST (New Orleans) ; 11 h 30-12 h 30 EST (New-York) ; 16 h 30-18 h 30 UTC (Londres) ; 17 h 30-19 h 30 CET (Paris).

Une publication ultérieure est prévue.

“Under Control”

Fictions and counter-fictions of social control

Virtual sessions co-organized by Loic Bourdeau (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) and Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Université Paris 3)

Contemporary narratives give way to dystopias depicting controlled worlds (Alain Damasio’s Les Furtifs, Sophie Divry’s Trois fois la fin du monde, or Sabri Louatah’s 404), as much as they offer new utopias (from Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam’s Arcadie to Marie Nimier’s Palais des orties). In our current times of democratic dictatorships (or démocratures), heightened health measures, artificial intelligence, and the supremacy of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, questions around social control and individual freedom are at the center stage of French and Francophone texts. Key themes include:

Madness, as in Jean-Pierre Martin’s Mes fous or Victoria Mas’ Le Bal des folles. The recent volume Les Folles littéraires, des folies lucides (Calle-Gruber et al.) also explores the topic in depth.
Withdrawal from the world, as in Cécile Minard’s Le Grand jeu.
Solitary travel, as in Jean Rolin’s writings.
Nostalgia for 1970s freedom, in the work of Simon Liberati
The new wave of French-Canadian works by queer, racialized, and First Nation writers.

These works highlight current attempts at disrupting and upsetting the established order. They also posit madness and isolation, for instance, as possible and perhaps even desirable heterotopies. Be it Philippe Vasset’s left-wing outcasts or Michel Houellebecq’s right-wing outcasts, they both give a voice to non-lieux, differences, and marginality. While writers such as Emmanuelle Pireyre or Sandra Lucbert discuss the pitfalls of storytelling or of the neoliberal tools of “sous-veillance/under-veillance”, other writers published by POL, Minuit, Verticales, Hamac ou Héliotrope, from Nathalie Quintane and Eric Chevillard to Kevin Lambert and Mariève Maréchale, produce complex and unruly narratives that resist and oppose existential and discursive stereotypes. Whether these texts seek to promote a diversity of voices and cultural identities or to play with narrative devices – for instance, Chloé Delaume’s autofictional work rewrites the self beyond social expectations –, it appears that a large segment of today’s literature attempts to denounce, deviate from, disrupt, and subvert capitalistic norms of creation, the supremacy of resilience and positive thinking, technical rationality, instant and ridiculous empathy, as well as the way these norms imprison everyone within the confines of digital individualism.

These virtual sessions thus seek to explore, in French and Francophone literature, these new discursive revolutions, these calls for unruliness, chance, and happenstance, these subtle contestations, these reminders that desire is radical, and the return of subversion at a time when new forms of surveillance emerge.

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations (in English or in French); we encourage you to avoid monographic approaches.

Please submit your abstracts (half a page + bio) by December 5, 2020 to loic.bourdeau@louisiana.edu & alexandre.gefen@gmail.com.

Selected contributors will be informed by December 15, 2020.

Times (Zoom) : Friday 5, 12, 19, February 2021. 8:30-10:30am PST (Los Angeles) ; 10:30-12:30 CST (New Orleans); 11:30am-12:30pm EST (New-York) ; 4:30pm-6:30pm UTC (Londres) ; 5:30pm-7:30pm CET (Paris).

A publication will follow.

1.4. Congrès de l’Association pour l’étude des littératures africaines (APELA), “Activismes et esthétiques queer dans les littératures africaines”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 22-24 septembre 2021.

Note des organisatrices : au vu du contexte actuel, et du peu de
visibilité quant à l’évolution de la situation sanitaire en Europe, nous
tenons à signaler qu’une alternative au congrès, sous forme d’atelier en
ligne privilégiant les discussions et les échanges, est actuellement à
l’étude. Nous souhaitons également publier un ou deux numéros spéciaux
de revues basés sur certaines des contributions au congrès, qui seront
retravaillées sous forme d’articles scientifiques et soumises au
processus de « double aveugle » .

Les propositions de panels (quatre communications rassemblées au
maximum) ou de communications (titre et résumé d’une page maximum) sont
attendues pour le 30 novembre 2020 au plus tard, accompagnées de vos
nom, prénom, affiliation et contact électronique.
La langue principale du congrès sera le français, toutefois il est
possible de proposer des communications et panels en anglais. Veuillez
adresser vos propositions à :

iaaw.queer.apela@hu-berlin.de

Appel à communication

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, on constate une visibilité grandissante
des représentations des sexualités et plus généralement des identités
non hétéronormées dans les littératures africaines, ainsi que dans les
arts et le cinéma d’Afrique. L’inscription d’un désir homosexuel dans
l’histoire littéraire africaine précède toutefois largement les
productions contemporaines, comme en atteste la monographie de Chantal
Zabus Out in Africa. Same Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and
Cultures (2013). Dans un contexte où l’homophobie grandissant dans
certains pays africains se traduit par une répression pénale exacerbée,
tandis que d’autres au contraire abolissent des lois discriminatoires,
il n’est pas surprenant que la thématique produise un corpus à la fois
esthétique et activiste, partant de deux perspectives différentes pour
approcher les conflits mentionnés. Avec les récents projets collectifs
de témoignage tels que Stories of Our Lives. Queer Narratives from Kenya
(2015) ou encore She called Me Women. Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak
(2018), le concept de queer d’origine politique aux États-Unis, fait de
plus en plus son entrée dans le vocabulaire activiste en Afrique.
L’activisme et la pensée queer ont surgi aux États-Unis au tout début
des années 1990, au moment où la pandémie du SIDA frappait durement la
communauté homosexuelle et exacerbait encore plus l’homophobie latente.
Reprenant une insulte homophobe récurrente forgée à partir d’un terme
qui désigne le bizarre, l’atypique, le hors-norme, le mouvement « queer
» s’est distingué très tôt par son mode d’action festif et transgressif.
Cherchant à penser ensemble genres, sexes et sexualités, et inspirées
par les travaux de Michel Foucault, Judith Butler et Eve Sedgwick, les
théories et études queer se sont rapidement développées dans les pays
anglo-saxons. Elles se caractérisent par le refus d’une posture
identitaire stable, plus particulièrement binaire hétéro/homo et
homme/femme, pour penser au contraire les processus émancipatoires et
utopiques charriés par des pratiques et des corps défiant les normes,
les institutions et les catégories caractérisant l’ordre patriarcal.
Utilisée dans diverses disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales, de
la philosophie aux études de genre en passant par l’histoire et la
littérature, souvent appliquée comme une méthode particulière de
critique et de déconstruction des textes ou des sources (en anglais, «
to queer » devient alors un verbe, et « queering » une action) les
études queer sont aussi régulièrement critiquées pour leur dimension
occidentale, masculine, élitiste et blanche et sa difficulté à
s’articuler aux autres luttes contre les discriminations, notamment
raciales.
À un moment où s’expriment de nouvelles exigences pour la décolonisation
des institutions de savoir, des méthodes de recherche et des curricula
scolaires et universitaires, quels peuvent être les apports des théories
queer dans la lecture et l’analyse des littératures africaines ? La
généalogie américaine et ‘blanche’ du mouvement queer peut-elle être
contestée par une attention plus grande portée aux discours élaborés et
aux luttes menées à la fois par et sur les représentants du continent
africain et par les diasporas africaines du monde entier? À partir, mais
aussi au-delà des questions de non-conformité des identités de genre et
des pratiques sexuelles telles qu’évoquées dans les littératures
africaines (mais également dans la photographie, la peinture, et le
cinéma), quelles sont les possibilités ouvertes par la pensée queer pour
évoquer à la fois les processus disciplinaires forgeant les corps, les
désirs et l’intime et leurs transgressions de la norme dans les sociétés
africaines ?
Ce congrès propose une exploration des littératures, du cinéma et des
arts performatifs africains de toutes les langues et de toutes les
régions d’Afrique y compris le Maghreb et les diasporas, au prisme des
théories, activismes et esthétiques queer. Il s’agira tout autant
d’aborder un corpus encore peu usité dans la recherche francophone, que
d’analyser le lien entre esthétique, savoir et activisme dans le
contexte des luttes pour la reconnaissance des homo- et transsexuels et
d’autres minorités sexuelles et de genre en Afrique.

Congrès APELA 2021 appel à communication

1. Activismes

Le mouvement queer se veut résolument militant, offrant un
questionnement radical du rapport entre l’intime et le politique. En
Afrique, la question du legs colonial se pose de façon aiguë lorsqu’il
s’agit de penser tout à la fois l’appareil judiciaire et répressif
protégeant ou, au contraire, exposant les minorités sexuelles ou
transgenre.

A. Homophobie et transphobie

La lutte contre l’homophobie et la transphobie fut au cœur de
l’émergence d’un activisme queer fustigeant les processus d’exclusion et
les violences perpétrées contre les minorités sexuelles et de genre. En
Afrique, une des premières manifestations de cet activisme prit corps en
Afrique du Sud, lorsque les militants homosexuels et les militants
anti-apartheid s’allièrent au début des années 1990 pour contester le
régime raciste et patriarcal de la minorité blanche. Depuis, la question
des droits des minorités sexuelles est prise en étau entre legs colonial
(particulièrement l’existence de lois condamnant les pratiques
homosexuelles datant de la période coloniale) et impérialisme culturel
(l’influence réelle ou supposée de réseaux transnationaux encourageant
les mobilisations et manifestations LGBTQI+). Comment les littératures
africaines se sont-elles emparées de ces luttes ? Comment se sont-elles
articulées aux autres combats menés par les écrivains, artistes et
intellectuels africains, au lendemain des indépendances ?

B. Hétéronormativité

Les luttes nationalistes menées en Afrique contre la domination
coloniale et pour la construction d´États indépendants ont souvent
reposé sur un hétérosexisme exacerbé, où la famille hétérosexuelle était
présentée comme le socle naturel des nouvelles nations. Dans les
contextes de luttes armées anticoloniales en particulier, les
stéréotypes de genre renvoyant les femmes à leur rôle de mère et de
gardienne des traditions, et les hommes à leur nature guerrière au
service de la patrie ont été mobilisés à la fois par les acteurs
étatiques et culturels. La recherche d’une posture digne, preuve des
capacités des populations africaines à prendre leur destin politique en
main, a participé à la naturalisation et au renforcement d’une
hétéronormativité pensée comme un démenti aux accusations de dépravation
et de bestialité centrales au discours colonial. Comment cette
articulation de l’intime et du familial au projet d’émancipation
national a-t-elle été pensée, déconstruite ou critiquée par les
littératures africaines ? Quels sont les dispositifs de la sexualité qui
forment le canon littéraire africain ?

C. Transgression et déviance

La pensée queer se veut essentiellement anti-identitaire et
contestataire, rejetant à la fois les processus d’assignation d’une
identité figée et les luttes au nom d’une identité particulière. Quel(s)
rôle(s) joue la transgression des normes de genre et de sexualité dans
les littératures et les arts africains ? Comment sont-elles pensées en
relation avec des mécanismes traditionnels plus fluides qui ont été
identifiés dans certaines sociétés traditionnelles par des
anthropologues telles qu’Oyerónké Oyewùmí ou Ifi Amadiume, qui mettaient
en avant l’importation coloniale des identités de genre et du modèle
patriarcal excluant les femmes de la sphère publique ?
Plus largement, quelles voies théoriques, philosophiques et militantes
peuvent être ouvertes par une perspective croisée entre études queer et
études africaines, notamment pour penser le refus de l’assignation
identitaire et le legs des stéréotypes coloniaux et eurocentristes ?
Dans quelle mesure les études queer, et notamment la façon dont elles se
sont emparées de la question du spectre et de la spectralité (Freccero
2006) peuvent-elles permettre d’appréhender les mémoires traumatiques ?

2. Esthétiques et concepts queer

A. Le Carnavalesque

Pour Ayo A. Coly (2016), la double injonction à décoloniser les études
queer et à poser un regard queer sur les études postcoloniales pose
problème, dans la mesure où cela produit une réification du postulat
selon lequel ces deux traditions académiques sont issues de géographies
distinctes. Au contraire, Coly voit dans la situation postcoloniale, et
plus particulièrement la ‘postcolonie’ telle que décrite par Achille
Mbembe (2001), un assemblage baroque et parodique caractéristique du
queer, en ce qu’il défie les barrières disciplinaires et les hiérarchies
de pouvoir, notamment dans la convivialité existant entre le
commandement et ses sujets. En même temps, pour Coly, Mbembe ne parvient
pas totalement à capter la dimension queer de la postcolonie, notamment
du fait de sa fixation sur la virilité et ses symboles (pénétration et
phallus). Comment cette esthétique de l’excès et de la corporalité du
pouvoir s’incarne-t-elle dans les littératures et les arts africains ?
Quelle place occupe le baroque, le carnavalesque, les thématiques de
subversion et de travestissement dans les littératures africaines ?

B. L’Utopie

Parmi les segments les plus féconds des théories queer, les questions
d’histoire, de conscience historique, de futurité et d’utopie ont été
soulevées par des auteurs divers tels que Lee Edelman, José Esteban
Muñoz et Carla Freccero. En questionnant la naturalisation de la famille
hétéronormée, les études queer interrogent en effet le champ de la
reproduction biologique et sociale, de la transmission et de l’horizon
émancipatoire. Ainsi, si Lee Edelman considère la pensée queer comme
profondément nihiliste car tournée vers la jouissance et refusant le
concept néo-libéral du ‘bien commun’, de nombreux auteurs ont préféré
insister sur la dimension utopique d’une pensée queer occupée à
construire un futur émancipatoire à partir du rejet des normes de genre
et de sexualité. L’utopie devient alors un pan de l’esthétique queer en
donnant une place centrale à l’imagination et à la création de futurs
échappant aux carcans normatifs et offrant une place centrale aux
questions de désirs et de plaisirs.
Les artistes engagés africains insistent également sur l’importance de
constituer une archive visuelle et textuelle queer permettant de
documenter les vies de ceux qui ne se conforment pas aux normes de genre
et de sexe, afin de récuser l’idée selon laquelle le queer est toujours
importé, étranger, extrinsèque, et permettre au contraire
l’auto-référentialité. Pour José Esteban Muñoz (2009), inspiré par Ernst
Bloch, la constitution d’une conscience historique est perçue en outre
comme la condition nécessaire d’une pensée utopique concrète, forgée à
partir d’une analyse contextualisée des luttes sociales, politiques et
culturelles.

C. Conceptualisations africaines

Même si la terminologie queer et plus généralement LGBTQ+ s’est
aujourd’hui imposée à l’échelle internationale, elle a été précédée dans
de nombreuses langues africaines par des concepts sociaux non normatifs
pointant une fluidité identitaire au-delà des genres et sexes binaires.
Qu’il s’agisse des goor-jigéen en wolof, des yan daudu en hausa ou de
l’institution des mariages entre femmes dans la culture igbo liés au
statut de ‘fille mâle’, quelle est la pertinence du lexique queer pour
appréhender et analyser les conceptualisations culturelles portées par
ces terminologies africaines, et leurs implications sociales ? Quelle
est aujourd’hui la portée des conceptualisations africaines locales dans
les luttes LGBTQ+ ? Quelles sont les alternatives ‘traditionnelles’
et/ou ‘futuristes’ que la pensée africaine peut offrir afin d’enrichir
ou de transgresser un vocabulaire queer qui a tendance lui-même à
s’imposer comme une nouvelle norme du politiquement correct ? Comment
ces concepts africains sont-ils traduits et négociés par la fiction,
surtout dans une littérature qui a largement recours aux langues
européennes ?

La langue principale du congrès sera le français, toutefois il est
possible de proposer des communications et panels en anglais. Veuillez
adresser vos propositions à :

iaaw.queer.apela@hu-berlin.de

Comité d’organisation :

Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Boneace Chagara (HU-Berlin)
Ibou Diop (Humboldt-Forum)
Susanne Gehrmann (HU-Berlin)
Josephine Karge (HU-Berlin)
Margarita Mestscherjakow (HU-Berlin)
Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (HU-Berlin)
Clara Schumann (HU-Berlin)
Isabel Schröder (HU-Berlin)
Marjolaine Unter Ecker (Université Aix-Marseille)

Comité scientifique :

Markus Arnold (University of Cape Town)
Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Laurel Braddock (FU-Berlin)
Sarah Burnautzki (Universität Heidelberg)
Xavier Garnier (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)
Susanne Gehrmann (HU-Berlin)
Claudia Gronemann (Universität Mannheim)
Catherine Mazauric (Université Aix-Marseille)
Aminata Mbaye (Universität Bayreuth)
Gibson Ncube (University of Zimbabwe)

1.5. An Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference, “Showcasing Empires: The Legacy of Colonialism in Post-imperial Societies”, University of Birmingham (UK), 18^th – 19^th February 2021.

This virtual conference ‘Showcasing Empires: The legacy of colonialism on post-imperial societies’ will offer a unique platform for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and early career academics to discuss new directions of research in an area of investigation which has been remarkably dynamic in the last few years. This subject is timely, set against the backdrop of a critical global moment that is beginning to acknowledge the significance, reality and legacy of imperial history for understanding current politics, the significance of colonial monuments and street names and the toxic legacies of discriminatory legislation and colonial administration. The aim of this two-day conference will be to reflect on the historiographical opportunities offered by the performance and representation of various empires throughout history, and the impact they had on the cultural and political practices of ex-colonies and ex-metropoles. This conference promotes academic exchange on questions relating to a variety of imperial powers (e.g. British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese etc.) in an interdisciplinary context. The interplay between the colonial past and the ‘post-colonial’ present, and its mediated nature, will be at the heart of this event.

Organized in partnership with the University of Aix-Marseille, where the associated conference ‘Showcasing Empire’ was held on 20-22 February 2020 in Aix-en-Provence. This conference offers participants an excellent opportunity to present a paper, elicit responses to their doctoral and postdoctoral research, and ask questions in a supportive environment whilst also networking with researchers from both the University of Birmingham and beyond. Due to COVID19 restrictions this conference will be held online using zoom. We hope that the virtual realm may facilitate wider accessibility and intellectual exchange. Enabling those who are sometimes limited by having to travel, nationally or internationally, a chance to contribute and network.

We welcome proposals from all disciplines and areas (including colonial and postcolonial studies, imperial and global history, memory studies, cultural studies, language and literature, history, politics, sociology…) which address issues related to the textual, artistic or political representations of empire, or the imperial experience and its legacy. We encourage international comparisons and dialogue across disciplines.

Possible themes for papers might include (but are not limited to):

Empire and image.
Empire in writing.
Exhibiting empire, past and present.
Empires in comparative perspective.
Impact/ legacy of empire on culture, politics and society.
The interplay between ex-metropoles and ex-colonies in the post-colonial period.

We are intending to publish a Special Issue in a Journal (tbc) as an output from this conference. All participants will have the opportunity to submit their paper to be considered as part of this Special Edition.

If you would like to present at this virtual conference, please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with your contact details and a brief biography of no more than 100 words, to dsr515@student.bham.ac.uk and SXM1276@student.bham.ac.uk by the deadline of Monday 31^st December 2020. A decision on abstracts will be made at the end of December 2020.

1.6. “La Francophonie: espace de circulations transnationales dans un monde global et connecté (fin XIXe-XXe s.)”, Université de Fribourg, 28-29 mai 2021.

DÉLAI 31 DÉCEMBRE 2020: appel à contributions au colloque 2021,

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/international-history/revue-relations-internationales

ou directement

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/sites/internet/files/2020-09/Appel%20a%CC%80%20contributions_colloque%20RI_Francophonie_2021.pdf

1.7. **Centenaire « Batouala, Prix Goncourt 1921 », “René Maran, la France, l’Afrique et la littérature”, Colloque International – Dakar, 25-26 Novembre 2021.**

UCAD de Dakar – Université des Antilles en partenariat avec Université de Guyane – ITEM-CNRS – Université Paris 8 – CY Cergy Paris Université

Appel à Communications sur le thème :

Le centenaire du Prix Goncourt que René Maran obtint en 1921 avec son livre Batouala, publié avec le sous-titre “Véritable roman nègre” par l’éditeur parisien Albin Michel, suscite des efforts de réédition d’autres œuvres de Maran, depuis longtemps introuvables, et l’organisation de manifestations commémoratives dans divers pays. Il faut espérer qu’elles permettront aux amateurs de littérature de prendre une mesure plus juste du talent très particulier de ce grand écrivain français, méconnu hier comme aujourd’hui en dépit – ou peut-être à cause – de l’immense succès à scandale que connut Batouala. Car plus que ce roman, c’est sa célèbre préface dans laquelle René Maran avait osé dénoncer des aspects du colonialisme français, peu compatibles avec la « mission civilisatrice » que la France prétendait mener en Oubangui-Chari et ailleurs dans le monde, qui a presque complètement occulté le reste de l’œuvre publiée sur une période de cinquante ans.

Or elle comporte quelque vingt-cinq volumes : quatre recueils de poèmes, deux romans autobiographiques, des nouvelles africaines et françaises, un roman/conte utopique (Le Petit Roi de Chimérie), les six romans de l’admirable cycle de la brousse africaine (dont Batouala n’a été que le premier, et qui inclut aussi plusieurs contes animaliers), de nombreux essais de nature historique ou ethnographique concernant divers pays africains, et une série de biographies consacrées à de grandes figures comme Livingstone, Savorgnan de Brazza, Félix Éboué, Bertrand Du Guesclin, et à treize « Pionniers » de l’Empire français en Amérique et en Afrique (série publiée en trois volumes et incluant des études sur d’illustres explorateurs comme Jean de Béthencourt, Jacques Cartier, Nicolas de Villegaignon, Samuel Champlain, Pierre Belain d’Esnambuc et Cavelier de la Salle, notamment).

On sait que René Maran connut une vie peu banale en son temps. Né à Fort-de-France en Martinique en 1887, de parents guyanais, il vécut son enfance et son adolescence dans des internats à Bordeaux et interrompit ses études pour suivre les traces de son père dans l’administration coloniale en AEF entre 1910 et 1924. Ayant démissionné en raison des tensions suscitées par la résonance du « scandale de Batouala » et du prix Goncourt, dans un milieu qui lui était devenu hostile, il retourna en France pour s’y marier et vivre à Paris, de sa seule plume (mise au service notamment de divers journaux et magazines littéraires, mais aussi des services d’information du Ministère des Colonies puis de celui des Outre-Mer), jusqu’à sa mort en 1960 – donc au début des « Indépendances ». Il y était l’une des personnalités noires les plus célèbres, un écrivain grandement admiré pour son érudition et sa maîtrise stylistique du français, recherché par toute l’intelligentsia de couleur de passage dans la capitale.

Soixante ans après sa mort, et cinquante-cinq ans après l’hommage qui lui fut rendu par Présence Africaine dès 1965, l’œuvre de René Maran demande à être revisitée selon les perspectives nouvelles que le féminisme, le postcolonialisme, les études de genre et les études culturelles – notamment – ont ouvertes dans les domaines universitaires mais aussi dans les « champs littéraires » – en France, aux Antilles, en Afrique et dans « la Francophonie » en général.

Diverses études récentes et deux publications collectives – le nº 14 de Francofonía (2005), dédié à René Maran, et les dossiers « René Maran revisité » dans les n° 187-188 de Présence Africaine (2013) et « René Maran : une conscience intranquille » d’Interculturel Francophonies (2018) – ont déjà apporté d’importants éléments dans ce sens, mais sans avoir épuisé le potentiel de l’œuvre.

Les organisateurs de ce colloque attendent des propositions de communication autour des axes suivants :

René Maran : poète, romancier, nouvelliste, conteur, essayiste, biographe, ethnologue, critique littéraire, ou épistolier ;
La réception de René Maran en Afrique ;
Le Fonds Camille et René Maran, légué à la République du Sénégal ;
Échos de René Maran dans les littératures africaines.

Les propositions de communication (une à deux pages – interligne 1,5 – accompagnées d’une note biographique de 10 à 15 lignes) sont à envoyer à : mamadou.ba182@gmail.com et charles.scheel@univ-antilles.fr pour le 15 mars 2021.

Comité organisateur : Mamadou Bâ (UCAD de Dakar), Charles Scheel (U. des Antilles), Claire Riffard (ITEM-CNRS), Céline Labrune-Badiane (U. de Ziguinchor), Tina Harpin (U. de Guyane), Ferroudja Allouache (U. Paris 8), Sylvie Brodziak (CY Cergy Paris Université).

Comité scientifique : Ibrahima Thioub et Mamadou Bâ (UCAD de Dakar), Roger Little (ém., Trinity College Dublin), Daniel Henri Pageaux (ém., U. Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle), Corinne Mencé-Caster (U. Paris Sorbonne), Raphaël Confiant (ém.) et Charles Scheel (U. des Antilles), Cécile Bertin-Elisabeth (U. de Limoges), Pierre Halen (U. de Lorraine), Véronique Porra (JOGU-Mainz), Nicolas Martin-Granel et Claire Riffard (ITEM-CNRS), Monique Blerald et Tina Harpin (U. de Guyane), Françoise Simasotchi-Bronès et Ferroudja Allouache

(U. Paris 8), Sylvie Brodziak (CY Cergy Paris Université).

1.8. “Narrating Violence: Making Race, Making Difference”, University of Turku (Finland) and The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris (France), 15-17 March Turku, 29-31 May Paris.

15–17 March 2021 in Turku
29–31 March 2021 in Paris

In collaboration with The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris, we invite scholars, students, practitioners, and activists from all fields to take part in the Winter Symposium of the Nordic Summer University Study Circle Narrative and Violence.

This symposium will explore questions on the production, practice, and instrumentalization of violent narratives about racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual, and political minorities and groups. While multiple theoretical perspectives will be included in both locations, the symposium will have a broader international focus at the American University of Paris and will facilitate discussions primarily pertaining to the Nordic and Baltic sphere at the University of Turku.

We are interested in bringing together international scholars from multiple disciplines in order to investigate the role of narratives as a resource for motivating, justifying, and rationalizing structural violence, discrimination, and even mass violence or genocide. How and why are such narratives produced and disseminated? Are there common themes or patterns across cultures and cases? How do they derive their power? Why do persons and social groups subscribe to them? Are certain groups or persons more predisposed to appropriating these narratives? Are there ways to dissemble them? In order to explore these questions, we welcome papers that examine the language of stigmatisation, pollution, and discrimination from broad historical and geographical perspectives. We encourage papers that address the influence of fictional and non-fictional representations, oral histories and legal proceedings as well as the work of activist movements that attempt to counter violent narratives and reflect on how to shape possible, multicultural, inclusive futures.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
●       The social processes whereby violent depictions of race and otherness are constructed and sustained.
●       The relationship between figurative or symbolic violence and physical violence.
●       The recycling and reuse of violent narratives across different historical events, cultures, and social contexts.
●       The role of fictional and non-fictional accounts and other genres in the construction of violent narratives.
●       The distribution, circulation, and appropriation of conspiracy theories.
●       Strategies for dissembling violent narratives.
●       The memory and persistence of violent narratives over time.
●       Issues of language, identity, and culture in narrating both new and old minoritization.
●       The role of different media (film, text, music, social media) in the construction of violent narratives.
●       The role of comics as a medium in the construction of violent narratives. (This topic will be in collaboration with Study Circle 9, Comics and Society: Research, Art, and Cultural Politics’ seminar ‘Racialised Violence and Comics in the Nordic Region and Beyond’).

The symposium is planned as a hybrid event (with both online and face-to-face participation, depending on the sanitary situation). Please send proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, and performances (max. 300 words) with a title and a short biographical statement (100 words) to narrativeandviolence@gmail.com and schaeffercenter@aup.edu by 1st December 2020, indicating your preferred mode of participation. If you wish to attend without presenting, please get in touch with us and send us a short biographical note. PhD and MA students are eligible for up to five ECTS points for participation and presentation of a paper. The preliminary programme will be announced in January 2021. Go to www.nordic.university for more information about NSU and the Study Circles, or to sign up for the newsletter. Information about The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention can be found here.

Membership:
To participate in the symposium, you need to become a member of the Nordic Summer University (NSU). The annual membership fee facilitates the existence of NSU, which is a volunteer-based organisation. As a member you can sign up for all events organised by NSU, take part in the democratic decision-making process on which NSU is based, and become part of the extensive network of NSU. There are two rates: a standard fee of €25 and a discounted membership of €10 for students, self-financed/freelance/independent scholars and artists.
The Nordic Summer University builds on the values of equality, inclusion, and sustainability by combining two traditions: the continental ideals of learning and cultivation of the self, and the Nordic heritage of folkbildning and self-organization, with its investments in open-access education and collaboration through participation and active citizenship.
Circle 4 is actively committed to implementing sustainable practices at its events. At our symposia we offer vegetarian/vegan food only and aim towards zero waste. We thus invite members to bring their own reusable coffee cup and water bottle to the symposia.

2. Job and scholarship Opportunities

2.1. French Language Lecturer, University of Bath.

The Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath seeks to appoint a French Language Lecturer to deliver French language teaching on the Department’s degree programmes including Modern Languages, International Management and Modern Languages, and International Politics and Modern Languages. The Department teaches French from ab initio to degree level.

Please see on website for job description https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SB7953

2.2. Assistant Professor – Comparative Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Toronto.

Date Posted: 10/30/2020
Closing Date: 12/15/2020, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 1330
Job Category: Faculty – Tenure Stream (continuing)
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Centre for Comparative Literature (51%) and the Caribbean Studies Program (49%)
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Caribbean Studies Program, New College, in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus invite applications for a joint full-time tenure stream position (51% Comparative Literature & 49% New College) in the area of Comparative Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2021, or shortly thereafter.

Applicants must have earned a PhD degree in Comparative Literature or a related field by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, with a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have a strong grounding in literary methodologies and may work across a range of textual media. We seek candidates with lived experience of the Caribbean and its diasporas, whose work engages multiple linguistic traditions across the Caribbean and who can address current topics including transnationalism and diaspora, colonialism, postcolonialism, indigeneity, ecocriticism, gender, sexuality and race as informed by the intellectual history and literary traditions of the Caribbean.

The successful candidate will join two vibrant interdisciplinary intellectual communities. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and strengthen our existing strengths in the Centre for Comparative Literature <https://complit.utoronto.ca/> and the Caribbean Studies Program<http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academics/new-college-academic-programs/caribbean-studies/>. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in the Caribbean Studies Program in New College, the Literature and Critical Theory Program <https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/upper-year-programs/literature-and-critical-theory/> at Victoria College, and graduate courses in the Centre for Comparative Literature and will be expected to develop the field of comparative literary Caribbean Studies at the graduate level.

The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to establish an outstanding, competitive research program. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence which can be demonstrated by a record of publications in top-ranked and field relevant journals or forthcoming publications meeting high international standards, the submitted research statement, the submitted sample of writing, presentations at significant conferences, awards, and strong endorsements from referees of high standing.

Evidence of excellence in teaching will be provided through teaching accomplishments, a teaching dossier including a teaching statement, sample course materials, and teaching evaluations submitted as part of the application, as well as strong letters of reference.

Candidates are also expected to show evidence of a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment demonstrated through the application materials.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking the link below. Applications should include a cover letter; a curriculum vitae; a research statement outlining current and future research interests; a recent writing sample (40pp max); and a teaching dossier that includes a teaching statement, sample course materials, and teaching evaluations.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. We seek candidates who value diversity and whose research, teaching and service bear out our commitment to equity. Candidates are therefore also asked to submit a 1-2 page statement of contributions to equity and diversity, which might cover such topics as (but not limited to): research or teaching that incorporates a focus on underrepresented communities, the development of inclusive pedagogies, or the mentoring of students from underrepresented groups.

Applicants must arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the hiring unit via email at jill.ross@utoronto.ca<mailto:jill.ross@utoronto.ca> by the closing date (on letterhead, dated, and signed). PLEASE NOTE: This search is not using the University’s automatic solicitation and collection functionality for reference letters.

Submission guidelines can be found at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Professor Jill Ross at jill.ross@utoronto.ca<mailto:jill.ross@utoronto.ca>.

All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by December 15.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Diversity Statement
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.<http://uoft.me/UP>

Accessibility Statement
The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.careers@utoronto.ca<mailto:uoft.careers@utoronto.ca>.

2.3. Associate Professor – Comparative Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Toronto.

Date Posted: 10/30/2020
Closing Date: 12/15/2020, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 1331
Job Category: Faculty – Tenure Stream (continuing)
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Centre for Comparative Literature (51%) and Caribbean Studies/New College (49%)
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Caribbean Studies Program, New College, in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus invite applications for a full-time tenure stream position (51% Comparative Literature & 49% New College) in the area of Comparative Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2021, or shortly thereafter.

Applicants must have earned a PhD degree in Comparative Literature or a related field, with a clearly demonstrated exceptional record of excellence in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have a strong grounding in literary methodologies and may work across a range of textual media. We seek candidates with lived experience of the Caribbean and its diasporas, whose work engages multiple linguistic traditions across the Caribbean and who can address current topics including transnationalism and diaspora, colonialism, postcolonialism, indigeneity, ecocriticism, gender, sexuality and race as informed by the intellectual history and literary traditions of the Caribbean.

The successful candidate will have an established international reputation and will be expected to sustain and lead innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to maintain an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program.

Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence which can be demonstrated by a record of sustained high-impact contributions and publications in top-ranked and field relevant journals, the submitted research statement, the submitted sample of writing, presentations at significant conferences, distinguished awards and accolades, and other noteworthy activities that contribute to the visibility and prominence of the discipline, as well as strong endorsements from referees of high standing.

Evidence of excellence in teaching will be provided through teaching accomplishments, a teaching dossier including a strong teaching statement, sample course materials, and teaching evaluations submitted as part of the application, as well as strong letters of reference.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants must arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly by the referee to the hiring unit via email at jill.ross@utoronto.ca<mailto:jill.ross@utoronto.ca> by the closing date (on letterhead, dated, and signed). PLEASE NOTE: This search is not using the University’s automatic solicitation and collection functionality for reference letters.

All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by December 15.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.careers@utoronto.ca<mailto:uoft.careers@utoronto.ca>.

2.4. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick.

Competition for Nominations

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to The Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowships scheme, for Fellowships starting in the 2021/22 academic year. The three-year Fellowship contributes 100% of the Fellow’s salary in the first year, and thereafter 50% of the salary, with the balance being paid by the University. Appointments at the University of Warwick are dependent on the award of the Fellowship.

About Warwick SMLC

Members of Warwick’s SMLC (covering French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies and Translation Studies) have recognized research strengths across a wide chronological period, including the late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment. The School strongly promotes innovative research in several interdisciplinary fields such as film history and aesthetics, postcolonial and transnational studies, translation studies, war, trauma and memory studies, and representations of disability, gender, sexuality, and cultural identity. It raises issues of linguistic, cultural, regional, national, and ethnic diversity in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and North, Central and South America, explores the significance and impact of many different types of aesthetic expression and conceptualization, philosophical, political and cultural thinking, and pays particular attention to the reception and reshaping of philosophical, intellectual, or literary traditions, cultural hybridity and transnationalization, encounters and translations between cultures, literal and intellectual mobility, and reconceptualizations of art. For staff profiles and an outline of specific research interests, see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/research/staff-interests/

The host institution provides an environment supporting the career development of a research fellow seeking a permanent academic position in the UK. Warwick’s SMLC is in an ideal position to do so, as it has strong expertise and experience in hosting and nurturing research fellows. The SMLC currently hosts around 10 postdoctoral research fellows, funded by bodies such as the Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ERC, MHRA and Marie Curie schemes. It also includes a community of around 27 doctoral students.

How to Apply

SMLC will carry out an internal selection stage to identify the candidates that it wishes to put forward. We strongly advise potential candidates to make initial contact with the relevant contact in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Suitably qualified candidates should therefore send their initial expressions of interest to the relevant sectional Director of Research as soon as possible:

French Studies: Prof. Jeremy Ahearne (j.ahearne@warwick.ac.uk)

German Studies: Prof. Elisabeth Herrmann (Elisabeth.herrmann@warwick.ac.uk)

Hispanic Studies: Dr Tom Whittaker (T.Whittaker@warwick.ac.uk)

Italian Studies: Prof. David Lines (d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk)

Translation Studies: Dr Mila Milani (M.Milani@warwick.ac.uk)

For the internal selection round run by the Faculty of Arts, prospective applicants will need to submit a finalised Expression of Interest containing the following information to Jeremy Ahearne (see email above) by 12 noon on Thursday 10^th December 2020:

A short description of their project (maximum 2 A4 pages)
A copy of their CV (maximum 2 A4 pages)
The name of an academic in their proposed host section whose research is relevant to their project and who would be willing to endorse their application. Although the Leverhulme Trust do not insist upon a formal mentoring arrangement, this is a requirement for the University of Warwick. Candidates should contact this member of staff at the earliest opportunity, and in advance of submitting the Expression of Interest.
The names of three Please note that referees will not be asked to provide a statement at this stage.

Eligibility

Candidates should consult the guidance on the Leverhulme Trust’s website prior to submitting an Expression of Interest (https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships). In particular, they should note that applicants must:

hold a doctoral degree or equivalent research experience by the time they take up the Fellowship. If currently registered for a doctorate, they must have submitted their thesis by 4pm on 25^th February 2021;
have not yet have held a permanent academic appointment whose duties include research;
not have existing funding in place for a duration equivalent to or greater than the duration of the Early Career Fellowship;
be within four years of the award of their doctorate. Those who submitted their thesis for viva voce examination before 25^th February 2017 are not eligible to apply, unless they have since had a career break;
either hold a degree from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship or at the time of the application deadline hold a non-permanent academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship, fellowship) which commenced no less than 4 months prior to 25^th February 2021.

The University will support successful candidates in the development of full applications, the deadline for which is 25^th February 2021.

Please note that in our experience, early contact with the School is key to developing a competitive application.

2.5. Irish Research Council Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme.

The French Department at UCC is happy to support candidates interested in the Irish Research Council Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme.

Combining excellent research with workplace experience, the Irish Research Council’s Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme is a unique national initiative. First piloted in 2012, it provides students in all disciplines an opportunity to bring great research ideas into an Irish employment partner with the support of a higher education institution. The IRC tops up the wage of a full time employee with €24,000 per annum to complete a higher degree by research.

Eligible employment partners can include:

A business, company, registered charity, social, cultural or not-for-profit civic organisation, semi-state commercial organisation or eligible public body with a physical operational base located in Ireland that will employ the researcher for the duration of the award. Employment partners need to be based in the Republic of Ireland and have suitable facilities to host and mentor the researcher.

UCC’s French Department offers a broad range of research strengths and is a major international centre for the study of French as a multidisciplinary subjects. Our core areas of research encompass:

Modern and Contemporary Literature and Ideas
Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Francophone Africa and the Francophone Caribbean
French and Francophone History
French Philosophy and Theory
Modern and Contemporary Theatre, Film and Poetry
Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics
Translation Studies (including audiovisual translation)
Women’s and Gender Studies

2.6. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships, Queen Mary University of London.

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to the 2021 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme. The School has a vibrant research culture across its departments: Comparative Literature & Culture; Film Studies; Linguistics; Modern Languages & Cultures (French, German, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Russian); and the Language Centre, which has a research culture in Applied Linguistics.

School staff take part in a wide range of department-based and interdisciplinary seminars, and are active within a number of research centres within and beyond the School, including the Centre for Film and Ethics, the Centre for Childhood Cultures, the Centre for the Study of Migration, the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, the Centre for Catalan Studies, the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the Centre for Poetry, the Centre for the History of Emotions and the Centre for Mind in Society. For more information on our research activities, including specialist areas, major grants and research seminars, please visit:

http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/

Details of the Leverhulme scheme can be found here:

https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships

We would be delighted to hear from postdoctoral candidates working in relevant subject areas who are considering applying to the postdoctoral scheme, and would be happy to offer support in preparing applications. Initial enquiries should be directed to members of staff closest to your research interests (email addresses are available on our website).

Full applications should be submitted by 5pm on 20 December to the School’s Research Manager: huw.jones@qmul.ac.uk). Please include:

A statement outlining how you meet the Leverhulme Trust’s eligibility requirements, set out at: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/early-career-fellowships/eligibility.
An academic CV of not more than 2 pages
An outline research proposal including title, abstract (250 words), statement of past and current research (250 words) and 2 page (A4) project outline, as per the Leverhulme Trust application guidelines.

The School will select the strongest two candidates by 6 January 2021, to be approved by our Faculty VP group by 28 January 2021. We will then work with our applicants to finalise submissions for the Leverhulme Trust deadline of 25 February 2021.

2.7. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, University of Exeter.

French/Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter welcomes applications for the 2021/22 call for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships.

Could interested applicants please send expressions of interest, including a 100-word abstract, a concise outline of the proposed research programme/plan of action (maximum 800 words), a summary of the intended outputs and a CV no later than 4 January 2021?

Please submit your expression of interest to me, h.g.a.roberts@exeter.ac.uk, copying to HSSClusters@exeter.ac.uk.

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships at the School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool’s School of Histories, Languages & Cultures invites expressions of interest for the 2021 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme. These awards aim to provide career development opportunities for early career researchers (less than five years since their doctoral viva) who have a proven record of research but have not held a full-time permanent academic post in the UK. They enable Fellows to undertake a significant piece of publishable work and should lead to a more permanent academic position. Further information, including eligibility criteria, can be found on the Leverhulme Trust website.

The University of Liverpool is one of the United Kingdom’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £400 million, including £140 million for research. Liverpool is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, comprising the leading research universities in the United Kingdom.

The Department of Modern Languages & Cultures comprises staff working across a wide range of language-based studies, including literary and media, film, historical, cultural and sociolinguistic studies. Alongside French, German, Spanish and Italian, the department also offers Film Studies and Chinese, and we are one of only two centres in the UK where you can study the full range of Hispanic Languages, including Basque, Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish.

The department is an active participant in the School’s inter-disciplinary research centres, including the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre. Since 2010, we have been part of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School also includes the departments of History, Irish Studies, Politics, and Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.

Those interested in applying for a Fellowship at the University of Liverpool are invited to submit expressions of interest to hlcrsrch@liverpool.ac.uk by 12pm on Wednesday 18^th November 2020. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your research proposal with a potential mentor within the Department well in advance of submitting your expression of interest. Please include the following documents:

CV (2 pages maximum)
A completed pro-forma template: Leverhulme ECR 2021 pro-forma
A list of publications (1 page maximum). This should include forthcoming publications and publications in preparation.
Identification of potential mentor

Applicants supported by the Department and School will be informed by 16^th December 2020. All shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a virtual workshop on 11^th January 2021, which will include presentations and advice about the scheme.

An expert panel will peer review successful applications after the workshop, and candidates will be invited to send their fully developed application outline (using the template available on the Leverhulme Trust Grant Application System) by 5pm on 20^th January 2021.

If you require any further information or wish to discuss your application informally, contact the departmental Research Lead, Prof. Claire Taylor: c.l.taylor@liv.ac.uk

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, St Andrews.

The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews offers support for applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme on a competitive basis.

The School hosts a vibrant research culture with internationally recognised expertise in its 8 language disciplines (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, Spanish) as well as in Comparative Literature. Areas of interest extend from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary, and include literature, history, visual culture, memory studies, performance studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

The deadline for applications to the School’s internal competition is Friday 11 December 2020. Details of how to apply are available here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languages/news/title-108707-en.php

For further information, please contact the School’s Director of Research, Professor Nicki Hitchcott: langsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk

Full details of the Leverhulme ECF scheme can be found at: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/early-career-fellowships

3. Announcements

3.1 New dates for the conference “The Coloniality of Infrastructure. Eurafrican Legacies”, 12-15 January 2020, 15:00 – 20:00 CET.

With key-note speeches by Siba N’zatioula Grovogui, Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe.

The conference is organized by Urban Studies, Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel.

To see the full program of the conference please visit the website.

https://colonialityofinfrastructure.com

Please note that the conference will be held ONLINE.

Those interested in participating please register by sending an e-mail to:carla.cruz@stud.unibas.ch

A zoom-link to the conference will be circulated shortly before the event.

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The Coloniality of Infrastructure. Eurafrican Legacies

When Eurafrica emerged in the 1920s as an intellectual and political project to connect Europe with Africa, its goal was to ensure European colonial dominance in a changing world. Key to the proposed continental merger was infrastructure—not surprising at a time when railways, ports, camps, and other large-scale building projects were facilitating the extraction and movement of things for Europe while curtailing the freedom and mobility of Africans on an unprecedented scale. Recent scholarship has emphasized the centrality of Eurafrica and the type of colonialism it mustered in the history of European integration, from the EU’s founding intellectuals to its Cold-War-era realization. But continental infrastructure also played a role in African struggles for independence. Highways, ports, and dams became tools of state-building and even mobilized hopes of Panafrican integration and international solidarity. In practice, however, large-scale infrastructure required technical and financial aid which further entrenched Africa’s asymmetrical relationship to the Global North.

Today, as Africa enters a new age of development increasingly dominated by China, and the EU is in fundamental crisis, is it still possible to speak of a Eurafrican present? From the physical imprint of cities and the configuration of intercontinental airline routes, infrastructure testifies to the enduring legacies of Eurafrica. Infrastructure shapes territories and governs the mobilities within and across them, but also serves to immobilize and externalize bodies and things. The European infrastructure of the Mediterranean border regime, in which African migrants are systematically being detained or left to die, recalls colonial-era policies that valued life and dictated death along racial lines. At the same time, European aid focused on infrastructural development in Africa is increasingly targeted to counter such unwanted migration—without touching the global extraction economies that have roots in European colonial rule and continue to shape African cities and territories today. Because of these specters of Eurafrica, the EU seems structurally incapable to come to terms with its colonial past. This conference proposes to explore historical continuities in Africa’s relationship with Europe through the lens of infrastructure. What are the infrastructural histories that bind the unequal destinies of people together across continents, and how do these legacies shape contemporary lifeworlds and international relations? How does infrastructural violence shape international relations between Africa and Europe, and how is the legacy of Eurafrica manifested in the spaces of everyday life? To answer these questions, the conference invites scholars from urban studies, history, political science, postcolonial theory, architecture, border and migration studies, and allied fields. We invite contributions that develop new perspectives of our geopolitical and interconnected urban present through its infrastructural pasts. Such studies of material and aesthetics relationships between Africa and Europe can focus on questions of lifeworlds, urban transformation, migration, territory, citizenship, development, or related themes. We are particularly interested in studies that can reveal the differential entanglements between people and places, and locate alternative forms of infrastructure, imaginaries of belonging, ongoing struggles for decolonization, and practices of world-making that decenter colonial ways of seeing, feeling, and knowing.

3.2 A conversation with Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California), Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University) and Gemma King (Australian National University), “Memorialisation, Racism and Post/colonial Connections in Contemporary France”, Thursday, December 3, 11:30am-12:30pm (AEDT – Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne time).

What role does race play in the French imaginaire and how does this manifest in a society that continues to insist on its own colour-blindness despite a history of colonialism and immigration and an increasingly ethnically diverse present? One answer can be found in the nation’s Assemblée Nationale where a mural displaying recognizably racist iconography serves to celebrate the abolition of chattel slavery in France. Outside the building presides Jean-Baptiste Colbert – Louis XIV’s finance minister and author of the French ‘code noir’ – recently defaced in protest of France’s « négrophobie d’état ». Recent publications such as Lydie Moudileno, Etienne Achille and Charles Forsdick’s 2020 volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France have shed light on the place of such colonial imagery in the contemporary Republic, as lieux de mémoire infamously ignored in Pierre Nora’s work of the same name. The continued presence of such memorials in France, and around the world, raises urgent questions about the nexus of history, memory, and everyday racism that have gained particular prominence in international protests and debates this year.

This keynote event for the ASFS 2020 conference will bring Lydie Moudileno and Mame-Fatou Niang together in dialogue with Gemma King about the persistence of racist colonial ideologies in the everyday “realms” of French society, be they state-sanctioned memorials, museums or the nightly news.

Lydie Moudileno is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, co-author with Etienne Achille of Mythologies postcoloniales: Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (Champion 2018) and co-editor with Achille and Charles Forsdick of Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Liverpool 2020).

Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French at CMU, author of Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme (Brill 2019), and co-director of the documentary film, “Mariannes noires: Mosaïques afropéennes” (2015). She is also a driving force behind the petition to remove the slavery mural from the Assemblée Nationale.

Gemma King is Senior Lecturer of French at ANU and author of Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema (Manchester 2017) and Jacques Audiard (Manchester 2021). She convenes ANU’s Global Paris course, which explores iconic cultural sites while also discovering forgotten parts of the city relating to colonial history, the legacy of slavery, and the evolution of the Republic.

To register for the event, please contact Leslie Barnes: leslie.barnes@anu.edu.au.

3.3 Barbara Cassin in conversation in French with Souleymane Bachir Diagne

La philosophe Barbara Cassin signe une autobiographie bouleversante et intrépide, qui célèbre la puissance amoureuse et politique de la langue. Un texte sensible et littéraire qui, de l’anecdote à l’idée, nous donne à voir la texture philosophique de toute vie. Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation entre l’auteure et Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

THURSDAY, December 3, 1:00-2:00 PM EST (New York) / 19h00-20h00 GMT+2 (Paris)

Le bonheur, sa dent douce à la mort: Autobiographie philosophique

Barbara Cassin in conversation in French with Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Transatlantic webinar

More information and RSVP

Vous avez les plus belles jambes du monde, vous serez ma femme ou ma maîtresse. Voilà ce qu’est devenu l’amour de ma vie. À partir de combien de livres est-on cultivé ? Que pensez-vous de ce que vous voyez ? J’aime quand tu as le corps gai. Arrêtez de le regarder, laissez-le partir… Ces phrases font passer de l’anecdote à l’idée. Elles sont comme des noms propres qui titrent les souvenirs. Elles fabriquent une autobiographie philosophique, racontée à son fils Victor et écrite avec lui. Si dures soient-elles parfois, elles donnent accès à la tonalité du bonheur. Un travail mère-fils qui fait redécouvrir Char, Heidegger, Lacan, la Grèce, l’Afrique du Sud, la Corse, les juifs, les cathos, des Hongrois, des Allemands… Avec Ulysse en figure de proue, l’homme d’Homère qui passe là où il n’y a pas de passage, entre Hélène qui ravit et Barbara.

Barbara Cassin is Doctor of Philosophy and Emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A program Director at the International College of Philosophy, she is also Director of its Scientific Council and member of its Board of Directors. She published Jacques le Sophiste, Lacan, logos et psychanalyse and La Nostalgie, Quand donc est-on chez soi ? Ulysse, Enée, Arendt.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is the Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor of French and of Philosophy at Columbia.

3.4 SFS Prize Research Fellowship

*Please note that the deadline for applications is 26 February 2021*

The Society for French Studies is pleased to announce that the 2020 Prize Research Fellowship competition is now open for applications. The Fellowship is open in 2020 to academics in all areas of French Studies (see below), and will cover the cost of a one-semester replacement lectureship at the lowest point of the Junior Lecturer scale (to include gross salary, National Insurance, superannuation and a London allowance where applicable) to enable the successful candidate to take research leave. The Fellowship will be tenable for a period in the 2021-22 academic session.

Applications will only be accepted from full-time employees of a Higher Education Institute in the UK or Ireland who have not benefited from externally-funded research leave in the three years prior to the date on which the Fellowship would commence. Candidates must have been a member of the Society at the appropriate rate for each of the three years prior to the Fellowship. The overriding criteria for selection are (i) the potential of the proposed research to result in a major contribution that will enhance the standing of French Studies both within the UK and Ireland and further abroad; and (ii) the academic standing and achievements of the candidate, taking into account their current career stage.

Candidates are invited to send a research proposal with a maximum length of 3 A4 pages in a font no smaller than Arial 10 or Times New Roman 11, together with a CV, to the Vice-President of the Society, Professor Judith Still, at judith.still1@nottingham.ac.uk. All applications must be accompanied by a letter from the candidate’s Head of Department, Dean or other managerial post-holder to specify the costs of replacing the Fellow with a full-time appointment (normally at the most junior point of the lecturer scale at the institution concerned) to undertake the normal duties of the applicant for the duration of the Fellowship, and to guarantee that the funding will be used for this purpose alone.

The deadline for applications in this competition is 26 February 2021. It is hoped that the successful candidate will be announced by 30 April 2021.

The Fellowship may not be combined concurrently with another funded leave. The successful research proposal will be published in French Studies Bulletin, together with a short statement explaining how it makes a contribution to the Society’s mission. Fellows will also be required at the termination of the Fellowship to publish there a further short piece of 1,000 words relating in some way to their research on the project. The Fellowship must be acknowledged in all publications arising directly from the award.

https://www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/prize-research-fellowship

3.5 Call for expressions of interest, Editorial Board of the Francophone Postcolonial Studies series

There is a vacancy in the Editorial Board of the Francophone Postcolonial Studies series published by Liverpool University Press.

In line with our commitment to diversity, we would particularly welcome nominations from scholars of colour from the francophone Global South, who are currently underrepresented.

Get in touch with Charlotte Baker c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk if you are interested.

3.6 Call for expressions of interest, Postgraduate Representative on the SFPS Executive Committee.

Two Postgraduate Representative positions on the SFPS Executive Committee are now vacant – we warmly welcome volunteers! Contact j.waters@reading.ac.uk if you are interested.

3.7 Call for expressions of interest, Editorial Team (Executive Editor, Co-Editor and Book Reviews Editor, plus editorial assistance), Modern & Contemporary France.

Applications are invited for a new Editorial Team for Modern & Contemporary France. Because of the widespread changes in working practices brought about by the pandemic, we have revised our policy on the Editorial Team structure. Accordingly, the team should comprise the following posts: Executive Editor, Co-Editor, and Book Reviews Editor. The successful candidates will work in conjunction with the North American Editor to provide academic leadership for the journal.

Financial support is provided by the Association for editorial assistance (approximately 12 hours per month).

Modern & Contemporary France is the journal of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) and is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis. Founded in 1980, it is an international peer-reviewed journal, offering a scholarly view of all aspects of France from 1789 to the present day. It is a multi-disciplinary journal of French studies, drawing particularly, but not exclusively, on the work of scholars in history, literary, cultural and post-colonial studies, film and media studies, and the political and social sciences. Applicants should be familiar with the content of the journal, and should be able to demonstrate their suitability, together with relevant experience, in their letter of application. Applications should also outline the proposed vision for the journal and its development.

The Executive Editor oversees all aspects of the journal, liaises with the publishers and reports to the Executive Committee of the ASMCF at its quarterly meetings. S/he takes particular responsibility for the strategic development of the journal and chairs the Editorial Board, which meets twice a year.

The Co-Editor works with the Executive Editor and North American Editor on the peer review, selection and editing of articles for the journal. S/he attends Editorial Board meetings twice a year and may from time to time represent the journal at other ASMCF meetings.

The Book Reviews Editor is responsible for sourcing relevant books to be reviewed and, in collaboration with the Editorial Assistant, managing the process from requesting a text through to the publication of its review.

The main duties of the Editorial Assistant are to support the reviews editor, liaising with publishers and peer reviewers, and over-seeing the book review process in ScholarOne. It would be beneficial for the Editorial Assistant and the Book Reviews Editor to be based in the same institution.

The term of appointment for all posts is 5 years, tenable from August 2021 or by negotiation.

Letters of application, accompanied by a brief CV (no more than 6 pages) should be sent to the Hon. Secretary of the ASMCF, Dr Fiona Barclay, <fiona.barclay@stir.ac.uk> by 29 January 2021.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to the Executive Editor, Professor Gill Allwood, <gill.allwood@ntu.ac.uk>

4. New Publications

4.1. **Amadou Oury Diallo, Amadou Sadio Dia, La route du bovidé : voyage à travers le mythe, l’histoire et le conte initiatique peuls, Dakar, Editons Papyrus Afrique, 2020.**

Le présent recueil arpente « la route du bovidé » – celle-là même qui a façonné la civilisation peule – à travers de très beaux textes sacrés oraux issus de la tradition du Ferlo, du Foûta-Djalon et du Foûta Tôro. Quatre textes majeurs du savoir-être-peul, le « laawol pulaagu » composent ce travail : « L’hymne des sept serments », « les sept habits peuls » qui consignent l’éthique primordiale, « la race originelle » qui relate l’aventure peule du XIIIe siècle avant J.-C. au VIII siècle après J.-C., l’historiographie et la problématique de l’origine, et « le voyage initiatique au pays de Tuula Heela » qui est une forme d’interrogation sur les lois de la nature et de la société ainsi que les vérités de l’existence.

Dans cet ouvrage sont abordées les notions fondamentales du pastoralisme de même que la spiritualité, la culture, les normes éthiques et esthétiques, les concepts scientifiques ainsi que les catégories philosophiques qui permettent de comprendre la vision du monde peul.

Il s’inscrit ainsi dans la perspective de la renaissance culturelle et civilisationnelle dont l’Afrique a tant besoin en général et le monde peul en particulier.

4.2. **Bernadette Desorbay, Dany Laferrière. La vie à l’œuvre, Peter Lang, 2020.**

https://www.peterlang.com/abstract/title/74020

Lien alternatif :

https://www.peterlang.com/search?f_0=author&f_1=date&o_1=AND&q_0=Bernadette+Desorbay&q_1=%257BEXACT_DATE%253D%253D2020%257D&type_0=book

4.3. « Henri Lopes, nouvelles lectures façon façon-là », Fabula, 2020.

Le dossier « Henri Lopes, nouvelles lectures façon façon-là » est en ligne sur Fabula ; il est possible d’y accéder en suivant ce lien: https://www.fabula.org/colloques/sommaire6726.php

4.4. 32nd issue of The Funambulist

En téléchargement gratuit depuis l’Afrique :

https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/pan-africanism?fbclid=IwAR0SIAlk8H-Q7hCOWRTIurIbk68m4Oc2hSnAapw1SWWP9WUPfxMrnfIMIYA

We’d like to offer all people living on the African Continent the possibility to download this issue’s digital version for free. In order to do so, they may use the coupon “I LIVE IN AFRICA” when checking out their order of the digital version. We trust that readers in other parts of the world will respect this principle and will purchase the issue normally. Thank you very much!

Welcome to the 32nd issue of The Funambulist.

Pan-Africanism is an issue dedicated to a political project that “maps onto Blackness” (Denise Ferreira da Silva) between the African Continent, the Afro Diaspora, and beyond; a project that can serve as a force and a reference for all people struggling against colonialism or neocolonialism. We begin its history with the Haitian Revolution (Annette Joseph-Gabriel), which strongly influenced the imaginary of those who, from Harlem to Accra to Dar es Salaam, have designed the dream of a political union (Amzat Boukari-Yabara). The struggle against European colonialism materialized Continental solidarity when it was not happening at the very core of the Empire itself (Ana Naomi de Sousa & Sónia Vaz Borges), while cultural and political festivals such as Panaf ’69 in Algiers (Sophia Azeb) or Festac ’77 in Lagos (Ntone Edjabe) ceremonialized it. Yet, Pan-Africanism is not a project of the past: it is fundamentally a project of the present and the future. Reading the Continent through its cities rather than its states can constitute one way to approach it (AbouMaliq Simone); another consists in strategizing towards an African federal state (Joao Gabriel). In the same spirit, we wanted to conclude the issue with a manifesto for Pan-African futures (Namata Serumaga-Musisi), which dialogues with the beautiful and vibrant cover drawn for us by Maya Mihindou.

As usual, our News from the Fronts section that opens each issue and complements the main dossier, includes articles reflecting on ongoing struggles. In this issue, Public Works Studio reports on the hardships experienced by the most precarious residents of Beirut after the August 4 explosion, and Arinjoy Sen applies a spatial politics reading to Hindu nationalist policies in India.

Editors-in-Chief: Léopold Lambert, Margarida Nzuzi Waco, and Caroline Honorien
Intern: Amel Hadj-Hassen

4.5. Global Congo, “Continents Manuscrits” (n. 15, 2020, ITEM, CNRS)

Global Congo, dernier numéro de la revue “Continents Manuscrits” (n. 15, 2020, ITEM, CNRS) qui recueille le premier volet des actes du Colloque “Global Congo: politiques et esthétiques d’une littérature mondiale” qui a eu à l’Université de Milan en mai 2019 sous la direction de Silvia Riva.

En libre accès : https://journals.openedition.org/coma/5572

Lien interactif au Sommaire du numéro : https://journals.openedition.org/coma/6373#tocto1n2.

4.6. **Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.**

Overview

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director’s films. Bouchareb was one of France’s first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over 35 years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb’s work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb’s films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-rachid-bouchareb.html

4.7. Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Volume 46, Issue 2.

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: www.berghahnjournals.com/historical-reflections

Introduction
Policing the French Empire: Colonial Law Enforcement and the Search for Racial-Territorial Hegemony
Samuel Kalman
https://bit.ly/35Ln2Ux

Articles
Agricultural Fire or Arson?: Rural Denizens, Forest Administration, and the Colonial Situation in Algeria (1850–1900)
Antonin Plarier
https://bit.ly/392k4Nl

The Return of N’Guyen Van Binh: Exile and Injustice in the French Empire, 1866–1876
Geoff Read
https://bit.ly/3pI96Td

Investigating the Investigators: French Colonial Attempts to Supervise Its Policing System during the 1930s
Ruth Ginio
https://bit.ly/2UKbSca

« No us ne voulons pas de Blancs dans le pays »: l’insurrection des populations de la Haute-Sangha et la pacifi cation de l’espace rebelle (1928–1931)
Patrick Dramé
https://bit.ly/3kUByxH

“Purely Artistic”: Police Power and Popular Culture in Colonial Algerian Theater
Danielle Beaujon
https://bit.ly/35KUcDw

Baya Hocine’s Papers: A Source for the History of Algerian Prisons during the War of Independence (1954–1962)
Sylvie Thénault
https://bit.ly/2INNROO

4.8. **Buata B. Malela, La pop musique urbaine francophone, Préface de Matthieu Letourneux, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2020, 212p. ISBN 978-2-204-14334-9.**

Formé à la sociologie de la littérature, Buata Malela a coutume d’envisager l’œuvre, par-delà sa seule textualité, comme une construction sociale et médiatique dont dépend une part importante de la signification. La trajectoire de l’artiste (écrivain francophone ou, ici, interprète pop), les sociabilités dans lesquelles il s’inscrit, les mondes de l’art auxquels il s’associe, sont des traits qui intéressent au premier chef la démarche analytique de ce chercheur. Or, par sa dynamique d’incarnation, qui fait de la persona de l’artiste (sa personne médiatique) l’un des traits déterminant de son art et l’un des moteurs de l’émotion esthétique, la chanson pop contemporaine se prête tout particulièrement à une telle approche à l’intersection de la sociologie et de l’analyse esthétique. C’est ce que montre cet essai lorsqu’il étudie les trajectoires des chanteurs et leur manière de les rejouer (et de les recomposer) dans leur œuvre et leur existence médiatique.

Matthieu Letourneux

Buata B. Malela est maître de conférences habilité à diriger des recherches de Sorbonne Université. Il enseigne les littératures et cultures francophones à l’Université de Mayotte et est chercheur associé à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Ses domaines d’investigation portent sur les littératures francophones, la théorie de la littérature et la musique populaire. Il a publié plusieurs ouvrages parmi lesquels peuvent être mentionnés : Les Écrivains afro-antillais à Paris (1920-1960) : Stratégies et postures identitaires, Paris, Karthala, coll. « Lettres du Sud », 2008 ; Michael Jackson. Le visage, la musique et la danse : Anamnèse d’une trajectoire afro-américaine, Paris, Anibwe, coll. « Liziba », 2013; Aimé Césaire et la relecture de la colonialité du pouvoir, préface de Jean Bessière, Paris, Anibwe, coll. « Liziba », 2019; La réinvention de l’écrivain francophone contemporain, préface de Paul Aron, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, coll. « Cerf Patrimoines », 2019 ; Édouard Glissant. Du poète au penseur, préface de Romuald Fonkoua, Paris, Hermann, coll. “Savoir Lettres”, 2020.

4.9. Markus Arnold, Corinne Duboin and Judith Misrahi-Barak, Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean – Cultural and Literary Perspectives, Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2020.

https://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html

<https://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html>

This collection of critical essays anchors itself in the Indian Ocean and explores the multiple ways dynamic exchanges have shaped this multilingual region of the world, from India to the Mascarene Islands to Southern Africa. Borders, edges and third spaces are revisited through the notion of the ecotone, a transitional zone between two ecosystems. If the term has primarily been used by biologists and ecologists, the metaphorical angle proves to be fruitful as it authorizes transdisciplinary approaches and empowers fresh perspectives. In French and in English, this volume aims to contribute to scholarship already published across various disciplinary fields and to participate in the development of Indoceanic studies. The authors of the volume rethink those ecotonal sites that are spaces of frictions as much as spaces of fusion.

Keywords: Ecotones, Indian Ocean, Borders, Liminality, Migrations

Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et en Afrique australe. Frontières, lisières et tiers-espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métaphorique s’avère particulièrement fertile en ce qu’il autorise des approches transdisciplinaires et rend possibles des perspectives nouvelles. En anglais et en français, ce volume vise à enrichir la recherche déjà publiée dans plusieurs champs disciplinaires et à participer au développement des études indo-océaniques. Les auteurs du volume réexaminent ces écotones comme des espaces de frictions autant que des espaces de fusion.

Mots-clés : Écotones, Océan Indien, Frontières, Liminalité, Migrations

ISBN 978-2-36781-357-8
ISSN 2118-3023

29€ / 9,99€ for the e-pub
336 p.

4.10. Jane Hiddleston & Khalid Lyamlahy (eds.), Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond, Liverpool University Press, 2020, 432 pages, ISBN: 9781789622331

https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54667/

Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de Toro.

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.

4.11. Adrienne Angelo, Michèle A. Schaal, **“Contemporary Feminisms”, French Cultural Studies (Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2020).**

It is available on Sage’s website: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/frca/31/4

has just been released by French Cultural Studies (Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2020).

It is available on Sage’s website: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/frca/31/4

This special issue provides an overview of the diversity of feminist activism throughout the world over the last decade and situates these contributions to a transnational feminist (re)surge(ence) within the context of French and Francophone cultures. The seven articles in this special issue engage with specific aspects of feminisms spanning diverse French and Francophone regions including Algeria, Canada, France, Haiti, Kanaky/New Caledonia, Te Ao Mā’ohi/French Polynesia, and Senegal. These contributors’ articles focus on the work of writers who share a demonstrated commitment to social change or who attest to the power of writing to heal personal and collective trauma, to raise critical awareness of social injustices, to inspire social and political transformations, and to imagine more pro-feminist, expansive, inclusive, and equal societies.

4.12. **Joseph Levilloux, Les Créoles ou la vie aux Antilles, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2020.**

Présentation de Christina Kullberg avec la collaboration de Roger Little

La Guadeloupe 1790. Un créole et un mulâtre, devenus amis inséparables sous l’égide des idéaux républicains, sont de retour aux îles. Cette fraternité peut-elle survivre dans une société coloniale et esclavagiste ? Les Créoles ou La Vie aux Antilles explore l’écart entre les idées des Lumières et leur applicabilité dans une Guadeloupe parcourue par les soulèvements des Noirs esclaves. Publié en 1835 alors que le débat sur l’esclavage et les relations interraciales resurgit en France, le roman est encore d’actualité aujourd’hui lorsque nous ré-interrogeons les histoires des inégalités raciales.

Voir: https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=66546

4.13. Loïc Céry , Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant : regards croisés, Paris, Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, collection «Recherche», 2020. 618 pages. ISBN 978-2-491641-02-3

Actes du colloque international organisé par l’Institut du Tout-Monde, Paris 19-21 septembre 2012 (Unesco, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Maison de l’Amérique latine). Textes réunis et présentés par Loïc Céry. Préface de Sylvie Glissant. Sous le haut patronage de l’Unesco.

Paris, Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, collection «Recherche», 2020. 618 pages. ISBN 978-2-491641-02-3

Les actes ici réunis proviennent du colloque international « Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant : regards croisés » organisé par l’Institut du Tout-Monde sous le haut patronage de l’UNESCO, qui s’est tenu à Pari s en septembre 2012 à l’UNESCO, la BnF et la Maison de l’Amérique latine. Ce colloque avait pour objet une approche comparatiste des œuvres de Saint-John Perse, Césaire et Glissant : une appréhension des « regards croisés » liant ces trois figures tutélaires de la littérature du XXe siècle. Une mise en regard jusqu’alors inédite de paroles poétiques ayant essaimé en rhizomes de visions anticipatrices du monde. Nous avions visé un renouvellement des lectures, soucieuses des pluralités comme des conjonctions de poétiques qui ont visé haut dans la reformulation de l’humanisme pour notre temps. Le colloque a été l’occasion d’emprunter cette approche comparatiste, ouverte sur les ferments d’une parole vive portée par trois génies de la littérature. Cette démarche aura consisté à désenclaver les discours critiques portés sur ces trois poètes, en favorisant leurs potentielles complémentarités. Lire Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire et Édouard Glissant en coprésence, c’était aussi envisager le dialogue des œuvres, en des lieux insoupçonnés de dissymétries, mais aussi de connivences et de Relation où en effet se croisent les regards.

Avec des études de : Patrick Chamoiseau, Sylvie Glissant, Bernadette Cailler, Roger Little, Edwy Plenel, Évelyne Lloze, Ernest Pépin, Roger Toumson, Jean Khalfa, Lilyan Kesteloot, Pierre Bouvier, Alexandre Leupin, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Raphaël Lauro, Victoria Famin, Buata Malela, Florian Alix, Loïc Céry, Radu Petrescu, Samia Kassab-Charfi, J. Michael Dash, Catherine Delpech-Hellsten, Michèle Constans / Enilce Albergaria Rocha, Lise Gauvin, Lilian Pestre de Almeida, Caroline Soukaï, Christian Uwe, Jacques Leenhardt, Christine Januel, Jean-Luc Tamby.

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4.14. Sylvie Glissant, Loïc Céry, Hugues Azérad, Dominique Aurélia, Laura Carvigan-Cassin, Édouard Glissant et Le Discours antillais : la source et le delta, Actes de colloque, Paris, Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, collection « Recherche », 2020. 798 pages. ISBN 978-2-491641-03-0

Actes du colloque international en trois sessions organisé par l’Institut du Tout-Monde en 2019. Paris (FMSH – Maison de l’Amérique latine, 25-28 avril 2019, Université de Cambridge (Magdalene College) 15 juin 2019, Université des Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe) 5-6 novembre 2019. Textes réunis et présentés par Sylvie Glissant, Loïc Céry, Hugues Azérad, Dominique Aurélia, Laura Carvigan-Cassin. Paris, Éditions de l’Institut du Tout-Monde, collection « Recherche », 2020. 798 pages. ISBN 978-2-491641-03-0

En octobre 2018, l’Institut du Tout-Monde fonde le Centre international d’études Édouard Glissant (CIEEG). Premier acte de recherche d’envergure : la tenue d’un colloque « diffracté » en trois sessions : « Édouard Glissant et Le Discours antillais : la source et le delta ». Première session, du 25 au 28 avril 2019 à Paris, FMSH et Maison de l’Amérique latine. Pour la deuxième session, l’ITM s’est associé à l’Université de Cambridge, Magdalene College (journée d’étude « Le cri et la parole »), le 15 juin 2019. Et pour la troisième session, à l’Université des Antilles (pôles Martinique et Guadeloupe) les 5 et 6 novembre 2019. Il s’agissait de consacrer à l’essai à ce jour le plus lu, le plus traduit et le plus étudié par le monde au sein de l’œuvre conceptuelle d’Édouard Glissant (Le Discours antillais, paru aux Éditions du Seuil en 1981) une réflexion réellement internationale, qui aura su puiser dans la diversité de trois lieux du monde, un enrichissement réel des regards.

La fortune critique qu’a connu et que connaît encore Le Discours antillais quant à la réception de l’œuvre conceptuelle d’Édouard Glissant doit certainement beaucoup à l’allure exhaustive de l’étude qui vise une exploration du réel, sous l’épigraphe de Frantz Fanon. Cet aspect continue d’attirer l’attention sur l’ampleur de la tâche que s’était alors assignée Édouard Glissant. Les propositions que déploie l’ouvrage nous apparaissent maintenant au regard de l’ensemble de son œuvre, comme des éléments de la vaste poétique mise en réseau et en rhizomes par un penseur exigeant et un écrivain attentif à la complexité. Relire Le Discours antillais aujourd’hui, c’est aussi être attentif à notre tour à la vigueur d’une pensée émancipatrice, pour notre temps et pour nos horizons.

Avec des études de : Jacques Coursil, Elena Pessini, Jean-Pol Madou, Raphaël Lauro, Axel Arthéron, Serge Domi, Buata Malela, Olivier Douville, Loïc Céry, Bernadette Desorbay, Christian Uwe, Beate Thill, Animesh Rai, Takayuki Nakamura, Niklas Plaezer, Javier Burdman, Juliette Éloi-Blézès, Caroline Soukaï, Sam Coombes, Yves Chemla, Gilles Verpraet, Pierre Carpentier, Federica Matta, Sylvie Glissant, Jacques Leenhardt, Marie-José Mondzain, Bernadette Cailler, Chase Atherton, Émilie Yaouanq / Jean-Luc Tamby, Lise Gauvin, Christine Raguet, Roger Toumson, Giuseppe Sofo, Jeanne Jégousso, Jean Bessière, Adelaïde Russo, Daniel-Henri Pageaux, Laura Carvigan-Cassin, Manuel Norvat.

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4.15. Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature, Irish Journal of French Studies No. 20 (2020)

Guest Editors: Sarah Arens and Joseph Ford

Editorial Team: Michael G. Kelly (General Editor), Dónal Hassett, Greg Kerr, Áine Larkin, Rosalind Silvester

[Contents]

Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature

(Sarah Arens and Joseph Ford)

Le poète et sa ‘vieille marotte calamiteuse’: Figures et variations du grotesque dans la poésie de Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine

(Khalid Lyamlahy)

Deconstructing the Grotesque in Contemporary Francophone Algerian Literature, or: How to Move Beyond the ‘Zombified’ State?

(Joseph Ford)

Regards croisés: Signifiances du corps et déconstruction identitaire du pouvoir dans La Vie et demie de Sony Labou Tansi

(Aminata Aïdara)

Room to Manoeuvre: Moving Beyond the Grotesque in Tierno Monénembo’s Convivial Space

(Hannah Grayson)

The Grotesque and Obscene in post-Cold War Africa: Mbembe and the Child Soldier Novel

(George MacLeod)

Killer Stories: ‘Globalizing’ the Grotesque in Alain Mabanckou’s African Psycho and Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce

(Sarah Arens)

[Varia]

Barthes, Didi-Huberman et l’image pathétique

(Daniele Carluccio)

[In Memoriam]

Barbara Wright (1925-2019)

[Book Reviews]

Maria Flood, France, Algeria and the Moving Image. Screening Histories of Violence 1963–2010 (Patrick Crowley)

Roger Pensom, Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse (Sarah Gubbins)

Guillevic (éd. M. Brophy), Écrits intimes. Carnet, Cahier, Feuillets 1929–1938 (Michael G. Kelly)

Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh (eds.), Women and the City in French Literature and Culture: Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment (Lauren Quigley)

Publication date: 1 November 2020

ISSN (electronic): 2009-941X

Full Issue available at: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/irjofs/ijfs/2020/00000020/00000001

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SFPS Mailing: November 2020

1. Call for Papers/Contributions

1.1. SFPS Anti-racist library.