Friday 18th – Saturday 19th November 2022
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Lia Brozgal (UCLA) and Dr Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool)
Film Screening: The Flesh of History, directed by Fabienne Kanor.
Conference registration form available here.
Provisional programme available here.
Register for online panels here.
Programme
DAY 1 – Friday 18 November 2022
9.30 – 10.15: Registration
10.15 – 10.30: Welcome
10.30 – 12.00: Panel 1
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Panel 1A: Archives & Public Memory Production |
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Rebekah Vince Leïla Sebbar and Albert Dichy: Recollecting Nœuds de mémoire and the Archivist as Archive |
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Bachir Tamsir Niane Patrimoine privé, patrimoine public : la difficile gestion des archives personnelles à intérêt national |
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Siham Bouamer Beyond French Women’s Colonial Travel Narratives: Unpacking Lyautey’s Moroccan ‘World’ Archive |
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Hadley Galbraith Performing Memory, Forming the Anarchive: Bigidi and the Memory Quest in Sylvaine Dampierre’s Le pays à l’envers |
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12.00 – 13.30: Lunch / SPFS Annual General Meeting
13.30 – 15.00: Panel 2
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Panel 2A: Negotiating Access to Public Archives |
Panel 2B: Alternative Archives: Discourses & Disruptions |
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Jean-Charles Bédague & Isabelle Dion Facilitating access, dissemination and understanding of colonial archives in France: methods, assessment and perspectives
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Don Joseph Assembling an Archive of Resistance in Péyi an nou: Accommodation, Hospitality and the BUMIDOM |
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Sonia Lamrani Dialogue de sourds across the Mediterranean: The Misery of Franco-Algerian Archival Dynamics and its Influence on the Historical Debates |
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Antonia Wimbush An Alternative Archive of the BUMIDOM |
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Claudiane Solange Ngwikem Manfo Réflexion théorique et pratique sur les usages des archives coloniales au Cameroun |
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Perwana Nazif The Sound of Saharan Cellphones: Sonic Material as an Alternative Archive |
15.00 – 15.30: Coffee / Tea
15.30 – 17.00: Panel 3
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Panel 3A: The Politicisation of Archives |
Panel 3B: Archives & Representation |
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Jackqueline Frost Unearthing anti-nuclear ecologies in the image-text archive: Wifredo Lam’s apocalyptics |
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Christopher Hogarth The Francophone African Literary Archive Inherited |
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Melissa Mengue Politisation ou manipulation des archives coloniales : le cas du Congo |
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Julia Duclos Resistance and Memory: How the Algerian war of decolonisation is represented in French schools
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Miriam Gordon Voices from the margins of the slave narrative: the literary feminisation of the archive in Gisèle Pineau’s Femmes des Antilles and Fabienne Kanor’s Humus |
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John Gleeson Archiving French History through Crime Fiction: The representation of colonial archives in the works of Didier Daeninckx |
17.00 – 18.00: Dorothy Blair Keynote – Archive Stories: Narrative, Knowledge, and Archival Politics (Dr Lia Brozgal)
18.00 – 19.00: Vin d’honneur
19.30: Conference Dinner (own expense)
DAY 2 – Saturday 19 November 2022
8.50 – 9.00: Welcome
9.00 – 10.30: Panel 4
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Panel 4A: Archival Absence, Loss, and Destruction |
Panel 4B: Disrupting ‘Traditional’ Archives (Online) |
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Jennifer Boum Make Le potentiel de la fiction face à l’absence archivistique des expériences d’esclavisé.e.s : entre prise de conscience de la violence de l’esclavage et nécessité du prendre soin |
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Houria Djilali L’importance des archives locales et familiales, peut-on-travailler une biographie en se basant sur des archives personnelles? |
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Fabienne Chamelot (Online) Loss and destruction in the French colonial archives, 1894-1960 |
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Anjali Prabhu Disrupting Comparison in the Archive of French India |
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Marie Rodet & Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye Writing the history of a ghost archive in Mali: the salvaging and loss of the Kayes Cercle archives (2008-2019)
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Mamadou Hady Le roi de Kahel de Tierno Monénembo : une relecture postcoloniale des archives coloniales |
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee / Tea
11.00 – 12.30: Panel 5
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Panel 5A: Contesting ‘Erasure’ in Archives |
Panel 5B: Navigating Alternative Archives (Online) |
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H. Adlai Murdoch May 1967: The Guadeloupean Truth Buried in the French Archives |
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Charlotte Mackay Colouring in the archive: visual memory, violence and resistance in the graphic novel series Rwanda 1994 |
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Nadège Veldwachter The Forgotten Archives: West Indian Resistance and World War II |
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Kai Krienke Mending the archive
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Felisa Vergara Reynolds Assia Djebar and Benjamin Stora vs. Algerian Colonial Archives: Undermining the Dominant Historical Narrative |
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Pierre-Elliot Caswell “All history becomes clear in this land”: Tracing environmental archives of French nuclear imperialism |
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Khalid Chaouch French Archives of Moroccan-English Relations: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
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Dominique Ranaivoson L’archive répond-elle à Ponce Pilate? de l’usage non exclusif de l’archive pour construire l’histoire littéraire francophone postcoloniale |
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch / PGR Forum
14.00 – 15.00: Film Screening – ‘The Flesh of History’ by Fabienne Kanor
15.00 – 15.15: Coffee / Tea
15:15 – 16.45: Panel 6
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Panel 6A: Alternative Archives & Performance/Film |
Panel 6B: Silences and Alternative Archives |
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Renato Rodriguez-Lefebvre A “transnational” archive? On The Conquest of Mexico by Yves Sioui Durand |
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Sophie Fuggle Papertrails to nowhere: Locating alternative print cultures in French Guiana’s colonial and territorial archives
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Meryem Belkaid Politique des archives dans les documentaires algériens après 1962
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Clare Finburgh Delijani Contesting the Colonial Archive: The Performance Art of Latifa Laâbissi and Bintou Dembélé
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Sheila Petty & Estrella Sendra Fernandez Decolonising Film Festival Research: Africa in the World |
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Christophe Lafaye L’emploi de l’arme chimique pendant la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1954-1962) : une histoire impossible ? |
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16.45 – 17.45: Kate Marsh Keynote – Troubling Archives: Belgian Colonialism and Its Legacies (Dr Sarah Arens)
17.45: Conference Close
