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Programme Day 1 – Friday 12th of November| 09:15 – 09:30 | Welcome | |
| 09:30– 10:40 | Kate Marsh Memorial Lecture Chair Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool. | |
| Jason Allen-Paisant, University of Leeds. ‘Landscape and gestic imagination: On the aesthetic as existence/on existence as an aesthetic in Port-au-Prince’ | ||
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel 1: Evolving landscapes Chair Kate Hodgson, University College Cork | Panel 2: Colonial representations of landscape Chair Sarah Arens, University of Saint Andrews |
| Orane Onyekpe-Touzet, University of Warwick. ‘The Evolution of the Representation of Nature in Patrick Chamoiseau’s works from the Creole Garden to the Unthinkable Island’. | Finola O’Kane, University College Dublin. ‘Structuring the Colonial Picturesque; Comparing the Representation of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in the Long Eighteenth Century’. | |
| Sura Qadiri, University of Cambridge. ‘Plants and the Postsecular: Looking at Landscapes in Marie NDiaye’s Autoprotrait en vert and Sofiane Hadjadj’s Un si parfait jardin’. | Emily Lord Fransee, University of Mississippi. ‘Dead Moons and New Suns: Imagined Environments of Cosmic Conquest in French Science Fiction’. | |
| Abigail Fields, Yale University. ‘Listening for the Olive Trees’ Jazz: For an Animist Ecopoetics in the Work of Samira Negrouche’ | Mary Gallagher, University College Dublin. ‘The Landscape as Plantation or ‘Habitation’? Homes and Gardens in Settled French/Francophone Caribbean Writing’. | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch/SFPS AGM | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Panel 3: (Neo)colonial urban landscape Chair Giulia Champion, University of Essex | Panel 4: Environmentalism and territory Chair Claire Griffiths, University of Chester |
| Matthieu Duperrex, ENSA Marseille. ‘Un transect du colonialisme environnemental, l’oued Bouskoura à Casablanca’. | Fraser McQueen, University of Stirling. ‘The Threat of Eco-Fascism in Literary Grands Remplacements in French’. | |
| Messan Tossa, Université de Lomé. ‘Survivances architecturales de la colonisation allemande sur le littoral togolais’. | Jackqueline Frost, CNRS/ENS de Paris. ‘Maquisard Terrestrialities: Irregular Ecologies in Anticolonial and Antifascist Struggle’. | |
| Sarah Buekens, Université de Gand. ‘Déchets et injustice sociale : la géographie urbaine dans la littérature des îles de l’océan Indien’. | Manfa Sanogo, University College Dublin. ‘Mort aux ancêtres ! : art, jeunesse et la réappropriation de l’espace publique à Antananarivo’. | |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:45 – 17:15 | Panel 5: Colonising the landscape Chair Rebecca Glasberg, UCLA | Panel 6: Human and non-human ecologies Chair Jemima Hodgkinson, University of Liverpool |
| Meghan O’Donoghue, University of Virginia. ‘Classroom or Farm? Lessons on the Land in Colonial French West African Schools, 1919-1940’. | Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford. ‘Transculturalism and Ecology in Francophone North African Poetry: Human/Nonhuman and Global/Local Communities’. | |
| Fabiola Obame and Melissa Mengue, Université de Bretagne Occidentale. ‘Réflexion sur les parcs coloniaux en Afrique centrale’. | Hanane Essaydi, Faculté de Lettres de Marrakech. ‘L’« horizontale plénitude du vivant » Pour une poétique du vivant dans l’œuvre de Patrick Chamoiseau’. | |
| Juliana Coelho, University of São Paulo. ‘Mise en Scène et pouvoir colonial : Les paysages lointains de l’Exposition Coloniale de 1931’. | ||
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Close day 1 | |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 7: Reinventing the feminised landscape Chair Fraser McQueen, University of Stirling | Panel 8: Traumatic landscapes Chair Rebecca Infield, University of Warwick | |
| Giulia Champion, University of Essex. ‘La terre mère: Decolonising Motherscapes in Postcolonial Francophone Works’. | Clare Finburgh Delijani, Goldsmiths, University of London. ‘(Post)Colonial Seascapes: The Middle Passage in Recent Francophone Theatre’. | ||
| Josephine Goldman, University of Sydney. ‘Water holding women, women holding rising water: Guy Gabon’s “artivism” and reclaiming feminised island space’. | Clíona Hensey, National University of Ireland Galway. ‘Le paradis perdu n’est pas un mythe”: Witnessing the (post)colonial landscape in Zahia Rahmani’s literary trilogy’. | ||
| Yvette Gracia Essongue, Université Omar Bongo de Libreville. ‘L’écoféminisme comme outil d’engagement dans les romans d’Honorine Ngou et de Léonora Miano’. | Margaret Cunningham, Queen’s University Belfast. ‘Landscape and/as female memory in French Caribbean Disaster Narratives’. | ||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:20 – 12:50 | Roundtable: Creative responses to landscape change in post-colonial Mauritius Chair Julia Waters, University of Reading | ||
| in conversation with Alix Le Juge (artist); Carl de Souza (novelist); David Constantin (film director) | |||
| 12:50 – 13:50 | Lunch | ||
| 13:50 – 15:20 | Panel 9: Haunted landscapes Chair Chris Hogarth, University of South Australia | 13:50 – 15: 40 | Panel 10: Human destruction of the landscape Chair Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaïde |
| John Patrick Walsh III, University of Pittsburgh. ‘Suleiman’s Ghost: Specters of ‘Emerging Senegal’ in Mati Diop’s Atlantique’. | Alice Desquilbet, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. ‘Les profonds contre les paysages : Des terres et des hommes au cœur de l’extractivisme aurifère (Mali et Guyane)’. | ||
| Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, Texan Christian University. ‘Anti-Nuclear Writing and Hauntological Islands: Francophone Asia-Pacific Literatures of Jimmy Ly, Ra’i Chaze, and Henri Hiro’ | Marie Bouchereau, Université Jean Monnet, St-Etienne/UQAM. ‘Emprise et empreinte : étude écocritique de la métaphore de l’empreinte humaine dans L’Empreinte à Crusoé de Chamoiseau et Petroleum de Bessora’. | ||
| Ari J. Blatt, University of Virginia. ‘Ruined Landscapes: On Thomas Jorion’s Vestiges d’empire’ | Freya Davies-Ardill, University of Adelaide. ‘‘Archipelagic aesthetics of disaster in a rapidly changing climate’’. | ||
| Subha Xavier, Emory University. ‘Climate Migrants on a Boat’. | |||
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 15: 45 – 17:15 | Panel 11: Alternative epistemologies of landscape Chair Rebekah Vince, Queen Mary, University of London | Panel 12: Landscape and belonging Chair Antonia Wimbush, University of Liverpool | |
| Juliette Papadopoulos, Tulane University. ‘“Justice by Nature” and the relationship with the landscape in Samuel Mvolo’s Les fiancés du Grand Fleuve (1973) and J. Fame Ndongo’s L’A-Fric (2008)’. | Anna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland. ‘Mobilities and urban landscapes in Francophone African narratives of diasporic return’. | ||
| Olubunmi O. Ashaolu, Obafemi Awolowo University. ‘Motherist and Ecocritical Consciousness in Sembène Ousmane’s O pays! mon beau peuple’. | Sheila Petty, University of Regina. ‘Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Recent Moroccan Amazigh Documentary Films’. | ||
| Deborah Leter, City University of New York. ‘Rethinking Epistemic Landscapes Through Utopian Essays: An Examination of Léonora Miano’s Afropea and Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia’. | |||
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Closing remarks and vin d’honneur | ||
