Writers in Residence: Naomi Fontaine and Gisèle Pineau
New Regions Symposium with Writers in Residence Naomi Fontaine & Gisèle Pineau
WINTHROP-KING INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
March 29, 2024
Florida State University
Organizers:
Dr. Martin Munro (FSU), Mehdi Chalmers (FSU), Libby Fowler-Beegle (FSU), Timothy Lomeli (FSU), Carine Schermann (FSU)
Keynote Speakers
Gisèle Pineau & Naomi Fontaine
NEW REGIONS: REGENERATION, RE~CREATION, RELATION
A Winthrop~King Institute Initiative
We shall meet where the Oceans join.
We are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. We believe that these foreshadowing wanderings, these foretelling obscurities, if they present themselves still today in overly apocalyptic contexts, would be no less propitious for a renewed energy of the matter of the world, or for a means of regeneration, as all the inaugural catastrophes appear to be, memories of a dizzying creation and whose varieties are difficult to foretell. (Édouard Glissant, A New Region of the World)
All panels will take place in The Globe Auditorium.
Friday, March 29, 2024
8:15a.m. - 5:15p.m Writers in Residence Symposium
8:15a.m. — Coffee Break & Check-In [Globe 2400]
8:30a.m. - 10:00a.m. Panel 1 : Borders, Exile & Hybridity (Chair: Chase Rowe)
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- Glenda Ferbeyre Rodriguez, Université de Montréal - "Reimagining Borders: Literature's Role in Shaping Global Discourse"
- Carine Schermann, Florida State University - "Les mains libres d'Adrienne : Palimpsestes et poésie dans Ady, soleil noir"
- Linda Babayan, Augusta University - "Navigating Exile and Identity: The Female Perspective in Gisèle Pineau's L'exil selon Julia"
10:00a.m. - 10:15a.m. — Coffee Break & Check-In [Globe 2400]
10:15a.m. - 11:15a.m. — Keynote - Naomi Fontaine
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11:15a.m. - 12:45p.m. Panel 2: Cicatrices de la Toundra (Chair: Joachim Adams)
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- Martin Munro, Florida State University - “Columbus’ Gaze, Pineau’s Camera, Fontaine’s Drum, and the Echo-monde”
- Beya Behi, Florida State University - "Le mouvement décolonial dans Un thé dans la toundra, Nipishapui Nete Mushuat de Joséphine Bacon"
- Mehdi Chalmers, Florida State University - "Tambours à fleur de peau : le langage des peaux humaines et non-humaines dans Kuessipan de Naomi Fontaine".
12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. — Lunch Break
2:15p.m. - 3:30p.m. Panel 3: Critical Pedagogies (Chair: Adriana Gordillo Barahona)
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- Elizabeth Fowler Beegle, Florida State University - "Discourses of Hope? Ecopedagogy in the Works of Naomi Fontaine"
- Ana Kancepolsky Teichmann, Université de Montréal - "Indigenous Narratives in Translation: The Spanish Version of Kuessipan de Naomi Fontaine"
3:30p.m. - 3:45p.m. — Coffee Break [Globe 2400]
3:45p.m. - 5:15p.m. Panel 4: Trauma & Memory (Chair: Amos Nordmeyer)
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- Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota - "Making Silence Speak: Poetics of Fragmentation in Naomi Fontaine and Gisèle Pineau"
- Silvia Baage, Independent Researcher - "Breaking Scandalous Silences: The Healing Function of Literature in Pineau and Fontaine's Works"
- Timothy Lomeli, Florida State University - "Trauma, Memory, Exile in Les Voyages de Merry Sisal"
6:30p.m. – Dinner with panelists + Gisèle Pineau