SFPS Monthly Mailing: August 2016

1. Calls for Papers

1.1 Le sens et les sens / Sense and the Senses

1.2 Reminder: Women Behaving Badly(?): Women’s Pleasures and their Discontents in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies

1.3  European Poetry and Statelessness (1900-)

1.4 Le style chez Calixthe Beyala : modalités, procédés et postures

1.5 APELA  – CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL 2017

1.6 A Caribbean Archives Reader; Decolonizing the Record

2. Announcements

2.1 Registration Open for Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Conference

2.2 Registration Open for the ‘Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality’ Conference

2.3 Latest Issue of European Comic Art now available

2.4 Programme Available for the conference ‘Imagining the Guyanas/Ecologies of Memory and Movement’

2.5 Appel à candidature: Atelier sur l’entreprenariat littéraire et la gestion artistique au 4e Festival “Writivism”, 22-25 août, 2016 Kampala, Ouganda

2.6 Contemporary French Civilization – Volume: 41, Number: 2 (July 2016)

3. New Titles

3.1 Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries

3.2 Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Discourses from 1806 to 1897

3.3 French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and ‘New Europe’

3.4 Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

3.5 Reading Communities: A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature/Communautés de lecture: pour une approche dialogique des œuvres classiques et contemporaines

1. Calls for Papers

1.1 Le sens et les sens / Sense and the Senses

International Colloquium 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies

 6-8 avril 2017

Indiana University – Bloomington

 

À une époque où la question des émotions revient au centre des interrogations critiques, il convient de se pencher sur la manière dont le travail esthétique relie la sensation à l’interprétation, le sensoriel au signifiant, le corps à l’œuvre, et permet de passer des sens au sens. Emotions et perceptions sont des fabrications anthropologiques et culturelles : pour l’auteur comme pour le lecteur, la relation esthétique est conditionnée par l’organisation des systèmes techniques (écriture, imprimerie, l’enregistrement audiovisuel, la diffusion numérique, etc.) comme par les traditions formelles et génériques propres à l’art. La construction littéraire et artistique du sens se fait donc par des médiations et des recyclages culturels (Moser) : il faut avoir lu pour pouvoir écrire, avoir vu pour pourvoir peindre ou sculpter et toute forme de production de sens et d’interprétation passe par des médiatisations. De la mémoire involontaire (Proust) à la mise en abyme (Gide), des « tropismes » (Sarraute) à « l’infra-ordinaire » (Perec), du souffle du conteur (Kourouma) à la gestuelle du « marqueur de paroles » (Chamoiseau), les formes artistiques s’inventent dans l’intervalle ouvert par l’irruption d’une sensation et une configuration qui l’investit de sens. L’idée poétique se donne à voir dans les calligrammes (Apollinaire), se fait entendre dans le cri (Césaire, Senghor) et est produite par le montage (René Clair), qui agit sur la réalité perçue en lui donnant une forme achevée et fatale. Ce sont ces médiations et médiatisations esthétiques et techniques entre l’appréhension sensible du monde et sa compréhension intelligible sur lesquelles ce colloque voudra revenir.

 

Invités

Patrick Chamoiseau

Nathalie Heinich

Philippe Falardeau

 

Les propositions de communications sont les bienvenues dans les domaines des littératures en français, de la théorie littéraire, des études culturelles, de genre et postcoloniales, de la traduction, des arts, du cinéma et de la photographie.

 

Axes de réflexion potentiels mais non restrictifs :

–          Art/Technique/Media

–          Œuvres numériques

–          Livres d’artistes

–          Théorie des émotions

–          Théorie de l’interprétation et de la réception

–          Poétique des genres

–          Poétique des supports

–          Matérialité (du livre, de la pellicule)

–          Historicité/Formalisme

–          Inspiration/Réception/Recyclage culturel

–          Négritude/créolisation

–          Style/Manière

–          Débordements et excès esthétiques

–          Éco-poétiques

–          Sentir/Ressentir/Interpréter

–          Cénesthésie et synesthésie

 

En plus des propositions individuelles (en français ou en anglais), celles de sessions complètes sont vivement encouragées.

Comité scientifique: Vincent Bouchard, Brett Bowles, Eileen Julien, Margaret Gray, Oana Panaïté (Indiana University-Bloomington) et Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Paris 4 Sorbonne)

Les propositions de communications (250 mots maximum accompagnés d’une brève notice bio-bibliographique) et de sessions complètes seront envoyées à l’adresse senscolloque@gmail.com

Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 15 septembre 2016

Réponse aux conférenciers : 15 novembre 2016

 

 

At a time when the question of emotions has returned to the heart of critical inquiry, reflection on a fundamental relation of artistic activity is in order: activity that links sensation to interpretation, the sensory to the signifier, the senses to meaning—in other words, the esthetic relation. If perception is the basis of our experience, nourishing and shaping our cognitive activity, we must also consider the supporting structures that mediate our senses. Thus, our relationship to the world, its apprehension by our senses, is also conditioned by the transformation, the diffusion and the organization operated by technical systems (writing, printing, graphic imaging, audiovisual recording, digitalization, etc.).  Furthermore, such experience takes on particular meaning when we consider the processes of production, which put into play cultural recyclings (Moser): if it’s necessary to have read to be able to write, to have seen to be able to paint or sculpt, any form of production of meaning is first and foremost a matter of direct or mediated perception. We are thus at the heart of the relation between sensation and interpretation. From involuntary memory (Proust) to “mise en abyme” (Gide), from “tropisms” (Sarraute) to “the infra-ordinary” (Perec), from the storyteller’s breath (Kourouma) to the gesturing “marker of speech” (Chamoiseau), artistic forms emerge within the interval between sensation and its meaningful configuration. The poetic idea becomes visible in Apollinaire’s calligrammes, is heard in the cry (Césaire, Senghor), and is produced by the montage (René Clair) as these act upon perceived reality to give it a complete and compelling form. This colloquium proposes to envisage the arts  as privileged spaces of the multiple and fleeting articulation of—but also the numerous tensions and frictions between—the sensate apprehension of the world and its intelligible comprehension.

 

Guest Speakers

Patrick Chamoiseau, Nathalie Heinich, Philippe Falardeau

 

Proposals are invited from the fields of literatures in French; literary theory; cultural, gender and postcolonial studies; translation; the arts, such as music, cinema and photography. In addition to individual proposals, those for complete sessions are strongly encouraged.

 

Possible but not restrictive axes of reflection:

-Art/Techniques/Media

-Materiality (of the book, the celluloid film)/Abstraction (of the text, of forms)

-Historicity/Formalism

-Inspiration/Reception/Cultural Recycling

-Négritude/Creolization

-Storytellers/Commentators/Writers

-Grain of the Voice/Grain of the Text

-Style/Manner

-Extravagance and esthetic excess

-Eco-poetics

-Virtual Works

-Artists’ Books

-Sensing/Feeling/Interpreting

-Cenesthesia and Synesthesia

 

Conference committee: Vincent Bouchard, Brett Bowles, Eileen Julien, Margaret Gray, Oana Panaïté (Indiana University-Bloomington) and Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Paris 4 Sorbonne)

Proposals for individual presentations (max. 250 words accompanied by a short bio, in French or English) and for panels should be submitted to senscolloque@gmail.com

Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2016

Reponses to speakers: 15 November 2016

 

1.2 Reminder: Women Behaving Badly(?): Women’s Pleasures and their Discontents in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies

Women in French 14^th Biennial Conference 2017

LEEDS 19-21 May 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Chantal Chawaf and Nelly Quemener

CALL FOR PAPERS

Feminist approaches to the question of women’s pleasures have generally been premised on the assumption that such pleasures are typically constrained if not ignored, marginalised or forbidden in patriarchal cultures; the foregrounding and pursuit of women’s pleasures is therefore deemed potentially subversive and linked to women’s emancipation in other realms. This conference aims to examine, within a range of historical contexts (though with an emphasis on the contemporary period), the ways in which women’s changing understanding of and struggle for their rights to a range of pleasurable behaviours and activities challenge patriarchal constructions of appropriate pleasurable activities and behaviour for women; as a corollary it addresses the rejection of behaviours, activities and ideologies that impede such pleasures.  At the same time, recognising that in many aspects of life contemporary postfeminist consumer societies have successfully co-opted the question of women’s pleasures, the conference also aims to question the extent to which certain forms of pleasure may ultimately be damaging rather than productive in relation to ongoing feminist agendas for women’s equality. Questions to be addressed include: To what extent are women’s pleasures culturally and gender specific? To what extent are women’s pleasures class-related?  What theoretical approaches are useful for understanding women’s pleasures? To what extent can we say that women are free to pursue their pleasures, in the diverse range of social contexts globally?

 

Suggested areas for papers include but are not limited to:

 

• Sexual pleasures (female/lesbian/‘queer’/polymorphously perverse/jouissifs)

 

• Gendered pleasures (female friendships/communities of women/sisters and mother-daughter relationships, etc.)

 

• Pleasures of creativity (language, the arts, social sciences, sciences, music, film, new technologies, etc.)

 

• Intellectual pleasures (feminism/political engagement/textual, reading, writing, visual, aural pleasures/contestation)

 

• Pleasures of lived experience (women’s spaces/familial and other interpersonal relationships/different ages of women’s lives/work/ civic or spiritual pleasures/sporting pleasures)

 

• Celebratory/subversive pleasures (carnival/disruption/fantasy/ transgression/selfish pleasures/violent pleasures/humour/ performance)

 

• Consumer/consuming pleasures (bodies and body images/fashion/ beauty/food)

 

• Pleasures of the senses/bodily pleasures (tattooing/ cosmetic surgery)

 

• Pleasures of nostalgia

 

• Constraints on women’s pleasures (patriarchal oppression/male power/religious oppression/racism/sexual violence/heterosexism/ cissexism/consumerist ideology/the lived environment)

 

NB: At the suggestion of our colleagues in Women in French USA (who are planning a similar session at their 2016 conference) we, too, shall include a panel on the writings of Mireille Best. Proposals to be sent to us in the usual manner, see below:

 

 

Proposals for papers in English or in French (300 words maximum) should be accompanied by a short CV and sent to ALL THE PROGRAMME ORGANISERS by 1 September 2016:

 

 

Programme Organisers:

 

Maggie Allison:           m.e.allison@bradford.ac.uk

 

Elliot Evans:                 elliot.evans@kcl.ac.uk

 

Gillian Ni Cheallaigh:    gilliannicheallaigh@gmail.com

 

Carrie Tarr:                   carrietarr@btinternet.com

 

Deadline for proposals:  Friday 1 SEPTEMBER 2016

 

 

Femmes Récalcitrantes(?): Plaisirs de Femmes et leurs Déconvenues dans les Cultures et Sociétés Françaises et Francophones

WOMEN IN FRENCH UK

14th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

LEEDS 19-21 MAI 2017

 INTERVENATES INVITÉES : Chantal Chawaf et Nelly Quemener

 APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

Les débats féministes sur la question des plaisirs des femmes ont présupposent souvent que de tels plaisirs se voient habituellement contraints, pour ne pas dire marginalisés—voire proscrits—dans des cultures patriarcales; la poursuite des plaisirs de femmes, ainsi que leur mise en exergue, est donc potentiellement considérée comme étant subversive, étant liée à l’émancipation des femmes dans d’autres domaines.

Le but de ce colloque est d’examiner, dans une variété de contextes historiques (quoique  mettant l’accent sur l’ère contemporaine), les façons dont l’évolution de la prise de conscience des femmes et de leur lutte pour avoir droit à tout un éventail de comportements et d’activités jouissives (qui leur font plaisir) défient les constructions patriarcales quant aux comportements  et aux poursuites de plaisirs supposés être appropriés/propres aux femmes. Ainsi, en corollaire, ce colloque s’adresse-t-il à la question du rejet de comportements, d’activités et d’idéologies qui entraveraient de tels plaisirs. En même temps, tout en reconnaissant que, dans beaucoup de sphères de la vie courante, les sociétés de consommation post-féministes ont réussi le coup de récupérer la question des plaisirs des femmes, ce colloque cherche  à évaluer jusqu’à quel point certaines formes de plaisir seraient à la longue nocives plutôt que productives par rapport au ‘cahier de revendications’ actuel dans la poursuite de l’égalité des femmes.

Parmi les questions à aborder: Quelles seraient les spécificités culturelles et genrées des plaisirs des femmes? Quel  est le rapport entre  les plaisirs des femmes et leur classe sociale? Sur quelles approches théoriques peut-on s’appuyer pour comprendre les plaisirs de(s) femmes? Dans quelle mesure peut-on dire que les femmes sont libres de poursuivre leurs plaisirs, compte tenu de la diversité de contextes sociaux au niveau mondial ?

 

Nous proposons les champs de travail suivants, mais cette liste n’est pas exhaustive:

• Plaisirs sexuels: (féminins/lesbiens/’queer’/perverse-polymorphe/jouissifs

 

• Plaisirs genrés: (amitiés entre femmes/communautés de femmes/relations entre sœurs, mère-fille etc.)

 

• Plaisirs de créativité: (langue/langage; le monde des arts; sciences humaines; sciences; musique; film; nouvelles technologies, etc.)

 

• Plaisirs intellectuels: (féminisme/engagement politique/ textuel, lecture, écriture, visuel, plaisirs auraux/ contestation)

 

• Plaisirs de fête/plaisirs subversifs: (carnaval; perturbation; fantaisie; transgression)/ plaisirs égoïstes/ plaisirs violents/ humour/ performance)

 

• Plaisirs de consommation/plaisirs qui consomment (le corps; images du corps; la mode; la beauté; l’alimentation)

 

• Plaisirs nostalgiques

 

• Entraves aux plaisirs de/des femmes (oppression patriarcale/ pouvoir masculin/ oppression religieuse/ racisme/ violence(s) sexuelle(s)/ hétérosexisme/ cissexisme/ idéologie de consommation/ l’environnement (du) vécu ).

 

NB : Suite à la proposition de nos collègues de Women in French USA (qui préparent une session semblable lors de leur colloque en 2016) nous envisageons un panel autour des œuvres de Mireille Best. Propositions à envoyer comme indiqué ci-dessous :

 

Prière d’accompagner toute proposition de communication (soit en anglais, soit en français, 300 mots maximum), d’un bref CV, qui s’adresse à toutes les organisatrices  du programme avant vendredi le 1 septembre 2016:

 

 

ORGANISATRICES DU PROGRAMME :

Maggie Allison :            m.e.allison@bradford.ac.uk

Elliot Evans :                  elliot.evans@kcl.ac.uk

Gillian Ni Cheallaigh :    gilliannicheallaigh@gmail.com

Carrie Tarr :                    carrietarr@btinternet.com

 

1.3 European Poetry and Statelessness (1900-)

Workshop

‘Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française’ Research Laboratory (ATILF), CNRS, Nancy

4 May 2017

 

« La parole poétique est, dans son essence même, un risque, celui de l’apatridité. Habiter la parole – il s’agit d’une limite inatteignable -, c’est avoir quitté l’espace et le temps usuels pour un chemin qui ne mène nulle part. » (Jacques Sojcher, La Démarche poétique).

 

While the theme of exile has enjoyed extensive attention in literary studies, that of statelessness is to date largely unexplored. If we consider the exile as one who has left a given place and subsequently arrives at another, the legibility of that transition becomes questionable once the bounded intactness of territories can no longer be assumed. Indeed, insofar as ‘stateless’ designates a subject position which is no longer identical with that of the citizen, it is additionally possible to be stateless within the state, ‘contained within the polis as its interiorized outside’ (Judith Butler), thereby experiencing a diminished kind of participation in a language and a world held in common (Hannah Arendt). Sharing aspects of the condition of exile (through the topoi of dispossession, displacement and non-belonging), statelessness, whether elective or forced, thus elicits an additional set of problematics concerning space, civil identity, and the accession to speech among others.

 

This workshop will explore the extent to which the paradigm of statelessness can be seen to illuminate evolving conceptions of poetry, ‘ce genre qui se pense et se laisse penser par un état d’exception au sein du langage’ (Michael G Kelly), in Europe since 1900. The exceptionality characterising the poetic may in some understandings be grasped through its attenuation of categories of personhood, place and presence. Yet if part of the risk of the poem is its placing of speech in extremis, poetry nonetheless also bears the potential to turn its position of vulnerability and/or provisionality into one which generates new possibilities of enunciation and interrogates centralised conceptions of meaning and authority.

 

Offering a paradigm by which to consider the work of poets (among them Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Celan, Yvan Goll, Gherasim Luca or Tristan Tzara) whose trajectories are marked by issues such as migration and multilinguality, statelessness more broadly speaks to poetry’s difference, prompting a range of possible areas of reflection. In what sense might ‘statelessness’ offer a model to theorise the status of the poetic, to account for the figurative or metaphorical framework of individual poems, or to elucidate the adoption or rejection of established poetic forms? How might the poetic utterance figure – and deflect – the cognitive or spatial displacement which produces the condition of statelessness? Contributors may wish to accord special consideration to linguistic issues: at a semantic level (through the presence to a greater or lesser degree of lexicons related to exile, loss, space or the dispossession of identity); at that of morphology or syntax (particularly concerning the movement of poets between languages and the ways in which the host language absorbs, restructures or erases traces of the native language); and/or at that of stylistics.

 

Potential themes may include:

 

Spatiality and place: exile and non-belonging

Stateless poets

Linguistic estrangement, translation, multi-linguality

Poetry and the polis

Provisionality and the poetic utterance

Poetry within stateless literatures

Poetic/cultural/institutional models

 

Contributions in English or French of 20 minutes on any European language are invited for this workshop. Proposals should be sent by email before November 18^th2016 to the following addresses: veronique.montemont@univ-lorraine.fr and greg.kerr@glasgow.ac.uk.

 

Organisers: Greg Kerr and Véronique Montémont, Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française research laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Lorraine, Nancy.

 

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951)

Judith Butler & Chakravorty Spivak, Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging (Oxford: Seagull, 2007)

Michael G. Kelly, ‘Pureté de l’impur. Robert Desnos et Le Grand Jeu’, Robert Desnos: Surrealism in the Twenty-First Century, ed. By Marie-Claire Barnet, Eric Robertson and Nigel Saint (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006), 43-56

Jacques Sojcher, La Démarche poétique (Paris: Union générale d’Éditions, 1976)

 

 

 

 

 1.6 A Caribbean Archives Reader; Decolonizing the Record 

Editors: John Aarons (Univ. of the West Indies); Jeannette A. Bastian (Simmons College); Stanley Griffin (Univ. of the West Indies); Kelvin White (University of Oklahoma).

Deadlines – Proposals :September 1, 2016; Final : December 15, 2016

 

The Department of Library Studies at the University of the West Indies  (UWI) has recently established a series of graduate archives and records courses leading to a degree program in Archival Studies.  These efforts include publication of a Caribbean Archives Reader. This volume is envisioned as a foundational text that both supports the archives education program in the Department of Library Studies, University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) and documents the history and development of archives and records in the Caribbean region from colonialism to post-independence. It will cover a wide range of pertinent archives and records issues within a Caribbean context with a focus on the decolonization of the archives.  Draft text is due at the publisher, Litwin Books LLC by September 2017.

 

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

In addition to topical essays from the broad Caribbean archives and records community, we are also seeking contributions from the Caribbean scholarly community including the English, French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking islands as well as the Caribbean diaspora. Contributions in languages other than English are welcome and will be presented with side-by-side translations in the final text. We are particularly interested in essays from academic community focusing on the research use and/or issues around Caribbean archives and records by Caribbean scholars both within and outside the Caribbean.

 

CONTACT

Proposals  of 300 – 400 words should be submitted to Jeannette Bastian at bastian@simmons.edu . Final contributions should be between 4,000 – 6,000 words. Please also contact Jeannette if you are interested in discussing a possible contribution

 

 

2. Announcements

 

2.1 Registration Open for Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Conference

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (www.sfps.ac.uk) Annual Conference, which will take place in Senate House, London, on 18-19 November 2016. The theme of the conference is ‘Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21^st Century’. The provisional programme is below.

To register, please contact the SFPS conference secretary, Dr Catherine Gilbert: sfpsconference2016@gmail.com

 

Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies

In association with Liverpool University Press

           

Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21^st Century 

Friday 18 & Saturday 19 November 2016

 

Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London,

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

Keynote speakers: Nicholas Harrison and Louise Hardwick

 

Friday 18 November 2016

 

9.00-9.30              Registration, Coffee/Tea

 

9.30-9.45              Welcome Address: Charlotte Baker (SFPS President)

            

9.45-11.15           Panel 1: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 1a: Neocolonial Interventions

François Robinet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), ‘Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Centrafrique : quelle(s) critique(s) des interventions françaises en Afrique en début du XXIème siècle ?’

Sophie Watt (University of Sheffield), ‘French “Humanitarian” Interventions: Haiti, Mali, Central African Republic: Towards a Definition of ‘Neo-imperialism’ within a Francophone Context’

Oana Panaité (Indiana University-Bloomington), ‘Paracolonial Aesthetics or the Long Memory of Colonialism’

 

Panel 1b: Urban Space

Marion Tricoire (Emory University), ‘Urbains, Postcoloniaux, Textuels: Les Bars Littéraires de Patrice Nganang et Alain Mabanckou’

Nadia Kiwan (University of Aberdeen), ‘“Kidnapping Culture”: Complexity, co-existence and urban space in the work of street artist Combo’

Rania Said (State University of New York, Binghamton), ‘-Z-: FLamingoes, Francophonie and the Arts of Urban Dissent in Tunisia’

 

11.15-11.30         Break

 

11.30-12.30         Panel 2: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 2a: 21^st Century Francophone Literature 1

Yao Louis Konan (Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké), ‘Circulation et fragilité: éléments de lecture du postcolonialisme dans le roman africain francophone’

Katelyn Knox (University of Central Arkansas), ‘Beyond the Page: Intermediality, Transmedia Storytelling, Interactive Fiction and New Modes of Francophone Authorship in the 21^st Century’

 

Panel 2b: Kamel Douad’s Meursault Contre-Enquête

Veronic Algeri  (Université de Rome, Sapienza), ‘Le vertige intertextuel: une lecture de Kamel Daouad, Meursault Contre-Enquête’

Souryana Yassine (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou), ‘Issues of Contemporary Francophone Algerian Literature’s Reception: The Case of Kamel Douad’s Meursault Contre-Enquête’

 

12.30-2.00           Lunch/AGM

 

2.00-3.30              Panel 3: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 3a: Francophone Jewish Postcolonial Studies

Patricia Llorens (Université d’Amsterdam), ‘La Préparation de la vie, quand l’histoire se lit dans la rue’

Ieme Van der Poel (Université d’Amsterdam), ‘L’écriture mémorielle en temps de crise: témoignages sur la vie juive disparue du Maroc’

Zoe Roth (Durham University), ‘Towards a Francophone Jewish Postcolonial Studies? Denis Guénoun’s Un Sémite and the New Cosmopolitanism’

 

Panel 3b: 21^st Century Francophone Literature 2

Markus Arnold (Université de Regensburg/Université de la Réunion), ‘From the island to Paris and back, with a detour via the world, or What does the francophone Mauritian novel of the 21^st Century look like?’

Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘Forging New Frameworks: Francophone Postcolonial Studies and the 21^st Century Caribbean’

 

3.30-4.00              Coffee/Tea

 

4.00-5.00              Panel 4: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 4a: The Haitian Earthquake

Rachel Douglas (University of Glasgow), ‘Writing the Haitian Earthquake and Creating Archives’

Charlotte Hammond (Cardiff University), ‘Hacking the Assembly Line: Stitching against Slavery’

 

Panel 4b: The Banlieue in the 21^st Century

Céline Kodia (McGill University), ‘Révolte(s) chez Insa Sané’

Rebecca Blanchard (University of Toronto), ‘Recent Literary Trends from the French Banlieues: Dystopian Fiction and the Roman d’anticipation’

 

5.00-6.00              Plenary Session: Louise Hardwick (University of Birmingham)

                                ‘Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel’

 

6.00-7.00              Vin d’Honneur

 

7.30                        Conference dinner (at own expense)

 

 

Saturday 19 November 2016

 

9.30-11.00           Panel 5: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 5a: Countering Violence and Terrorism

Caroline Williamson (University College Cork), ‘Silence on meurt’: The Role of Translation in Understanding 21^st Century African Conflicts’

Maria Flood (Keele University), ‘Screening Terrorism: Genre, Form and Aesthetic Technique – A Case Study from Mali’

Veronica Dean (UCLA), The narration of violence, the spectacle of terrorism: Algerian author Salim Bachi’s Tuez-les tous (2006) and Moi, Khaled Kelkal (2012)

 

Panel 5b: Francophone Algerian Literature in the 21^st Century

Joseph Ford (University of Leeds), ‘Who reads francophone Algerian literature? The literary scene in contemporary Algeria’

Amar Guendouzi (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou), ‘Contemporary Algerian Francophone Literature and the “War of Memories”’

Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford), ‘Pourquoi écrire? Literature, democracy and doubt in 21^st Century Francophone Algerian Writing’

 

11.00-11.30         Coffee/Tea

 

11.30-1.00           Panel 6: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 6a: Memory and the 21^st Century

Nanar Khamo (UCLA), ‘Memory and violence in Appanah’s Le dernier frère and Les Rochers de Poudre d’Or’

Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), ‘“Ce n’est pas un pays de génocide”: Rwandans Writing about Rwanda in the 21^st Century’

Rebekah Vince (University of Warwick), ‘Beyond Cosmopolitan Memory: Traumatic Past and Dialogic Present?’

 

Panel 6b: Gender and Sexuality

Sandeep Bakshi (University of Le Havre), ‘Decolonial Mobilization and Queer Circuits in France’

Maria Tomlinson (Universities of Reading and Bristol), ‘Challenging Attitudes towards the Menopause in 21^st Century Literature: Maissa Bey’s Bleu blanc vert (2006) and Hizya (2015)

Amanda Rico (University of Texas A&M), ‘Speculative Sexuality: Framing ‘The Space In Between the Legs’ in Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes’

 

1.00-2.00              Lunch

 

2.00-3.30              Panel 7: Parallel Sessions

 

Panel 7a: Art and Contemporary Politics

Vanessa Lee (University of Oxford), ‘Art and Politics in Contemporary French Caribbean Theatre: The (Re)presentation of Guadeloupe’s 2009 General Strike in Gerty Dambury’s Les Atlantiques Amers (2009) and Des doutes et des errances (2014)

John Patrick Walsh (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Francophone Haitian Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene’

Sonia Alba (University of Leicester), ‘A Tunisian girl and Nadia from Tunis — blog-writing and the fight for women’s emancipation in Tunisia’

Panel 7b: Mobilities

Silvia Baage (McDaniel College), ‘The Case of France’s 5^th Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean’

Sophie Fuggle (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Walking through the ruins of history: Penal Tourism in France’s Outre-mer’

Laura Reeck (Allegheny College), ‘The Post-Migratory Moment in Postcolonial France and its implications for Francophone Postcolonial Studies’

 

3.30-4.00              Coffee/Tea

 

4.00-5.00              Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture, Professor Nicholas Harrison (KCL)

‘Teaching in a time of crisis’

 

5.00                        Close of Conference

 

2.2 Registration Open for the ‘Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality’ Conference

 

Registration for the ‘Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality’ conference is now open:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/languages-and-cultures-in-21st-century-transnationality-conference-tickets-25928347385

 

Please register at your earliest convenience.

 

The draft programme and other updates can be found at the following link: https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/langculttransnational/

 

2.3 Latest Issue of European Comic Art now available

Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1

Introduction

The Editors

http://bit.ly/29A40S1

Articles and Interview (Un)natural Temporalities in Comics

Raphaël Baroni

http://bit.ly/29Tpw5H

The Medium Is the Message: Olivier Schrauwen’s Arsène Schrauwen beyond Expectations of Autobiography, Colonial History and the Graphic Novel

Benoît Crucifix and Gert Meesters

http://bit.ly/29H8mpU

The Crown and the Crowd: Sublimations of Monarchy in Georgian Satirical Prints

David Morgan

http://bit.ly/29TR7qm

The Art of Braiding: A Clarification

Thierry Groensteen

http://bit.ly/29L9uwD

An Interview with Kaveri Gopalakrishnan

Ann Miller

http://bit.ly/29TR2TO

Reviews

http://bit.ly/29Mw2vZ

 

2.4 Programme Available for the conference ‘Imagining the Guyanas/Ecologies of Memory and Movement’

 

Imagining the Guyanas / Ecologies of Memory and Movement
Conference Dates: 27-29 October, 2016
Location: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Senate House

Confirmed Keynotes: Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto) and Janette Bulkan (University of British Columbia)

Special Guest: Clem Seecharan

Confirmed Writers and Artists: John Agard, Gaiutra Bahadur, Malika Booker, Fred D’Aguiar, Cyril Dabydeen, Grace Nichols, Jan Lowe Shinebourne and Keith Waithe

 

Details and Registration:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/imagining-guyanas-ecologies-memory-and-movement

Additionally:

http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/?page_id=2212 <http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/?page_id=2212>

Thursday October 27

Morning

9.00 Registration and welcome coffee

10.00 Opening of the conference

10.30 REPRESENTING, ARCHIVING, CURATING HISTORY IN THE GUYANAS

Grace Ali: Un|Fixed Homeland
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen: ‘Rebel, Rebel’? Interrogating ‘Archival’ ; Representations of the South Indian Community of Guyana
Leon Wainwright: Transatlantic Material Mediations: The Political Geography of Caribbean Art and ‘Exchange’
Kathleen Gyssels: ‘To an unknown soldier’: World War II and the Human and Ecological Disasters in French Guyane, Guyana, and Suriname

Afternoon

2.00 LANDSCAPE & OIKOS (1)

Tim Cribb: The Guyanas: Writing Man
Michael Mitchell: Wilson Harris: Magus of the Interior
Gemma Robinson: ‘Reality of Trespass’

3.30 LANDSCAPE & OIKOS (2)

Marta Fratczak: Guyana and Western (Eco)Utopian dreams: Comparative reading of Shadows Move Among Them (1951) and Children of Paradise (2014)
Harald Leusmann: Fred D’Aguiar’s ‘Guyanese Days’: Imagining Guyana in the Ecotone

Coffee and Tea

5.30 A John Coffin Memorial Fund evening, Free

Rose Hall Panel with Gaiutra Bahadur, Cyril Dabydeen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne (chaired by Clem Seecharan and Judith Misrahi-Barak) and a Reading by Fred D’Aguiar 

8.00 Reception

Friday October 28

Morning

8.30 Registration

9.00 A ‘GEOTEXTUAL’ POLITICS FOR THE GUYANAS ?
Ateeka Khan: Shared Resistance: Ethnic Identity and the Fragmented Rise of Nationalism in Guyana and Suriname
Paloma Mohammed Martin: Race, Group and National Identity in Guyana
Jerome Branche: Wilson Harris/Walter Rodney: Of Writing, Knighting, and Nationness
Natalie Hopkinson: Beyond Cats & Dogs: An analysis of the Interactivity Foundation’s cross-racial small-group discussions in Guyana in 2015

Coffee and Tea

11.00 ECONOMICS OF BELONGING
Clem Seecharan: Plantation Port Mourant — Cricket and Politics on the Corentyne after the Second World War
Olivia Gomes da Cunha: Timing effects, space artifacts: the Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo
Chiel Verbruggen: Property Law in the Guyanas
Sonja Boon: Telling Stories with Gold

Afternoon

2.00 Keynote – Alissa Trotz: ‘The Bitten Tongue of Memory’ : Rethinking Violence in Postcolonial Guyana

3.00 MIGRATION, MOVEMENT, DIASPORA
Luiz Perez-Simon: Colonists or indentured servants? The Nature, Evolution, and Consequences of Chinese Migration to the Guyanas — A comparative study
Yoshiko Shibata: Questioning ‘Chinese-ness’ in Guyana: Revisiting Diaspora Consciousness, Sense of Belonging and Transnational Movements
Bhavik Doshi: Ecological & Environmental Histories: Temporalities of Indians in Suriname
Kerry-Jane Wallart: ‘wide is the span’: Poetics of displacement in Martin Carter’s University of Hunger

Coffee and Tea

6.00 Celebration of Guyana in Poetry & Music organized by Speaking Volumes, with John Agard, Malika Booker, Grace Nichols and Keith Waithe

8.00 Reception

Saturday Octobre 29

Morning

9.00 Registration

9.30 CULTURAL PRACTICES

Michelle Yaa Asantewa: Guyanese Komfa: A ritual art in practice ; Re-membering and Recrediting the knowledge – arts and cultural expressions
Juanita De Barros: ‘Between Cocoa and the Bush’: Obeah and the Landscape of Infant Mortality in Early-Twentieth century Guyana
Ananya Jahanara Kabir: Zouk, salsa, lambada, chutney: Dancing in and through the Guyanas
Sinah Kloß : Giving to Mother Ganga: Practices of Recycling Clothing in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities

Coffee and Tea

11.30 Keynote – Janette Bulkan : Rentier Societies in Guyana & Suriname and the Consequent Lack of a Social Contract

Afternoon

2.00 INDIGENEITY, MYTH & MEMORY

Shanya D. Cordis: Contesting the Script: Representation, Indigenous Presence, and Embodying Survivance in Guyana
Katherine MacDonald: The Mythology and Ecology of the Rupununi Landscape
Lisa Katharina Grund: Makushi women in a frontier region: Experiences of movement
Gabriel Cambraia Neiva: A Journey to the Source of Imagination: A Reading of ‘The Laughter of Wapishana’ by Wilson Harris
Patricia Murray: ‘A New Treaty of Sensibility’: Ecology and Memory in Wilson Harris’s Tumatumari

Local Organizing Committee:
School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Ecotones Committee:
Thomas Lacroix (MIGRINTER Université de Poitiers)
Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Maggi Morehouse (Coastal Carolina University)

Steering Committee:
Cédric Audebert (MIGRINTER)
Rita Christian (London Metropolitan University)
Bénédicte Ledent (Université de Liège)
Tina Harpin (Université de la Guyane)
Ameena Gafoor (The Arts Journal)
Catherine Gilbert (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

 

2.5 Appel à candidature: Atelier sur l’entreprenariat littéraire et la gestion artistique au 4e Festival “Writivism”, 22-25 août, 2016 Kampala, Ouganda

Avez-vous créé, ou pensez-vous créer, une plateforme éditoriale, ou une initiative qui vise à faire découvrir la littérature africaine à un nouveau public? Aimeriez-vous échanger des idées sur comment fonder et gérer une telle initiative, à but lucratif ou non-lucratif? Cet atelier de quatre jours donne aux participants (qu’ils soient en début de carrière dans le secteur éditorial/culturel, ou qu’ils cherchent à fonder une telle initiative) l’occasion d’approfondir leur connaissance du marché, de développer des compétences en gestion de projet, d’échanger des conseils, et de construire un réseau avec des collègues venant des quatre coins du continent africain.

L’atelier est un partenariat entre l’université de Bristol (Royaume-Uni), l’université de Stellenbosch (Afrique du sud) et le Centre for African Cultural Excellence (Ouganda) et alliera des approches académiques et pratiques. Chaque jour, on mettra l’accent sur comment fonder, penser et pérenniser les initiatives suivantes:

• L’organisation d’un festival littéraire (lundi 22 août)
• La gestion d’une entreprise de distribution des livres (mardi 23 août)
• L’édition des traductions (mercredi 24 août)
• La gestion d’un prix littéraire (jeudi 25 août)

Il y aura des textes distribués à l’avance, et qui seront discutés dans chaque session. Durant les quatre jours il y aura des présentations de professionels dans le domaine du livre, l’occasion d’échanger avec ces experts, et le temps de discuter, et de développer vos propres idées et vos projets.

Pour participer, veuillez envoyer les éléments suivants à kate.haines@bristol.ac.uk avant minuit le vendredi 29 juillet 2016:

• Une courte biographie (100 mots max.)
• Un texte où vous exposerez vos motivations (200 mots max.)
• Vos coordonnées (email et téléphone)

Les candidats retenus recevront une confirmation avant le vendredi 5 août et devront être présents pendant tout l’atelier, car les discussions et les capacités développées seront en lien les unes avec les autres. L’atelier est gratuit, mais les participants ne seront pas défrayés pour le voyage, les repas, et le logement.

 

2.6 Contemporary French Civilization – Volume: 41, Number: 2 (July 2016)

Introduction

The impossible subject of Charlie Hebdo Mayanthi Fernando and Catherine Raissiguier

Research Articles

The politics of the cartoon in anthropological context: Charlie Hebdo as trans/cultural Damien Stankiewicz The politics of provocation: Charlie Hebdo, then and now Manus McGrogan When parallels collide: social commentary and satire in French rap before and after Charlie Hebdo Kathryn Kleppinger Mwen sé Charlie:1 le JT, les Antilles et la représentation d’une réaction “française” Etienne Achille and Lydie Moudileno L’attaque de Charlie ou le drame social: comprendre les raisons du choc émotionnel et analyser les répercutions socio-politiques après les attentats de Paris en janvier 2015 Simon Rousset and Adrien Maret Charlie Hebdo and the politics of mourning Osman Balkan

Vignettes

La France en panne d’intégration Azouz Begag The happy Jew: legacies, crises, and post-Charlie Hebdo conscience Gayle Zachmann L’art pour l’art en 2015: pour une défense du jugement esthétique Claire Bitoun Silence, violence, and the invisibility of dissensus Mireille Rosello

Education Portfolio

Teaching the impossible subject of Charlie Hebdo Charlotte Daniels and Katherine Dauge-Roth Être ou ne pas être Charlie: conversations avec de jeunes habitants de la Grande Borne Mame-Fatou Niang

Review Essays

Review Essay Richard J. Golsan Review Essay Anne-Gaëlle Saliot

Book Reviews

Reviews Nick Nesbitt, H. Adlai Murdoch, Lindsey Scott, Leon Sachs, Whitney Walton, Stacey Weber-Fève, Jennifer Branlat, Alain-Philippe Durand, W. Brian Newsome, Michele L. Gerring, and Raymond Kuhn

 

3. New Titles

3.1 Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries

Edited by Louis Patrick Leroux and Charles R. Batson

Essays examine the innovative and influential circus scene as a creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural force that spans the globe

With a billion-dollar industry centred in Montreal, the province of Quebec has established itself as a major hub for contemporary circus. Cirque du Soleil has a global presence, and troupes such as Cirque Éloize and 7 doigts de la main are state-of-the-art innovators. The National Circus School of Montreal – the only state-funded elite training facility in North America – is an influential leader in artistry and technique. Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil’s Cirque du Monde supports arts for social change on many continents and is renowned for its social-circus training and research.

Louis Patrick Leroux is associate professor of English and French studies at Concordia University and director of the Montreal Working Group of Circus Research.

Charles R. Batson is associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Union College.