From the Sahara to the Sahel: Nomadic Voices, Cultures, and Literatures
WINTHROP-KING INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
February 8 - 9, 2024
Event Program
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Day 1 – Diffenbaugh Building
2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
- Guests gathering (Coffee meet, and greet & refreshment), 4th floor
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
- Opening remarks by the organizers (Introduction & welcome), Room 009
2:50 – 5:30 p.m.
- Screening of the movie Timbuktu
- Discussion with Guest Director, Abderrahmane Sissako, Dr. Michelle Bumatay (Florida State University), and Dr. Joseph Hellweg (Florida State University)
6:00 p.m.
- Dinner
Friday, February 9, 2024.
Day 2 – The Globe, Auditorium
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.
- Coffee breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
- Panel: “The Sahara-Sahel region in its complexity”
- Dr. Brigitte Tsobgny (Emory University)
- Le Sahara de Yasmina Khadra, une terre généreuse (Yasmina Khadra’s Sahara, a generous land)
- Dr. Joseph Hellweg (Florida State University)
- Les droits humains dans un empire du Sahel : oralité, alphabétisation et la Charte de Kouroukan Fouga (Human Rights in an Empire of the Sahel: Orality, Literacy, and the Charter of Kurukan Fuga)
- Dr. Tara Deubel (University of South Florida)
- Forced Immobility and Sub-Saharan African Migrant Experiences in Southern Morocco
- Dr. Heide Castañeda (University of South Florida)
- The Diasporic Tamazgha: Exploring Amazigh Lives in the U.S. using Indigeneity-Informed Approaches to Borders and Migration
- Dr. Brigitte Tsobgny (Emory University)
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
- Lunch (The Globe Lunch Room)
– Diffenbaugh Building, Room 009
1:45 – 3:15 p.m.
- Guest speakers spotlight
- Professor Alioune Sow (University Of Florida)
- Memories of the Sahara
- Writer & journalist, Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
- Sahara, désert où s’embrassent des cultures (Sahara, a hub of cultural connections)
- Professor Alioune Sow (University Of Florida)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
- Coffee break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
- Roundtable with the panelists & keynote speakers, Room 009
5:45 p.m.
- Reception