Conference Program

Postcolonial Realms of Memory:
Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere

Conference Program

Times are in US Eastern Standard Time
 

Thursday, 7 October

 

10.00-11.00 AM

Panel 1: Cities / Urban realms of memory

• Caroline Laurent (Harvard University / King's College London), _(Mi)Lieu de mémoire_: South East Asian Identities in Paris’s Chinatown
• Stève Puig (St John's University), La « Place du pont » à Lyon : un lieu de mémoire postcolonial
• Fatoumata Seck (Stanford University), Dakar

Panel 2 : Gardens / Le Jardin d’agronomie tropicale/ Jardin d’Essai as lieu de mémoire

• Tim Obergöker (University of Chester), Le Jardin d’agronomie tropicale à Nogent-sur-Marne – Un lieu d’oubli du colonialism
• Gemma King (Australian National University), Le Jardin d’Agronomie tropicale as lieu de mémoire: between ruin and repair.
• Kelly Presutti (Cornell University), ‘This Park Belongs to Everyone’: Re-viewing the Jardin d’Essai, Algiers
• Meghan Tinsley (University of Manchester), Postcolonial Ruination and Restoring the Nation: The Jardin d'agronomie tropicale

 

11.15 -12.15 PM

Panel 3: BD / Graphic realms of memory

Chair: Michelle Bumatay

• Michelle Bumatay (Florida State University), Petite histoire des colonies françaises: Little Comics Speak Volumes
• Honorine Rouiller (Florida State University), Collective Memory versus Official Memory: the discerning usage of the comics books
 

Panel 4: India/Indian Ocean

• Blake Smith (University of Chicago), Remembering Colonial Pondicherry in India's Francophone Fiction
• Shanaaz Mohammed (Davidson College), The Aapravasi Ghat: A postcolonial site of (dis)unity
• Silvia Baage (The Catholic University of America), Cette petite île s'appelle Mozambique : A forgotten ecotone in the Indian Ocean

 

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Break: 12.15-12.30 PM
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12.30-1.30 PM

Panel 5: 17 October 1961 / the Seine as realm of memory
• Seth Graebner (Washington University in St. Louis), Remembering 17 October 1961: The Function of a Postcolonial lieu de mémoire
• Chadia Chambers-Samadi (Hawai'i Pacific University), De l'évenement au monument: Comment le massacre du 17 Octobre 1961 est devenu un Lieu de Memoire Collective?
• Blair Watson (Santa Clara University), Inextricable Traces: The Seine as a “non-lieu de mémoire”

Panel 6: Caribbean
• Rachel Douglas (University of Glasgow), Post/colonial Caribbean Sites and Symbols of Memory: Aimé Césaire, CLR James and John La Rose
• Christopher Bonner (Texas A&M University) , Poetic Alignments in Postcolonial Studies : The Césaire-Depestre Debate as lieu de mémoire and lieu d’oubli
• Thabett Ouali (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis), The Unknown Soldier of the 21st century
 

1.45-2.45 PM

Panel 7: Literature and/as Theory
• Oana Panaïté (Indiana University), Theory as a Site of Memory
• Kristen Stern (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Les “grandezécrivaines” noires: postcolonial author mythologies, feminine and plural
• Chelsea Elzinga (Stanford University), La Trace-mémoires in Three 21st-century Postcolonial Novels

Panel 8: Film and theatre
• Xinyi Wang (University of Cambridge), Rethinking Space and Memory in _Hiroshima mon amour_
• Leslie Barnes (Australian National University), The White Building
• Clare Finburgh Dellijani (Goldsmiths, University of London), The Colonial Making of Contemporary French Theatre
 

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Break: 12.15-12.30 PM
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3.00-4.00 PM

Plenary I

Chair: Charles Forsdick

Roundtable: Etienne Achille, Charles Forsdick, Lydie Moudileno, Debarati Sanyal, Robert Young
 

Friday, 8 October