Indigeneity Creolization Fugitivity: A Symposium on Caribbean Thought Cornell University
“Indigeneity, Creolization, Fugitivity” names three emphases in contemporary diasporic thought that are often placed in opposition and framed competitively instead of contiguously. Engaging these concepts in new combinations, this symposium engages with a topic of broad interest for the community of scholars concerned with French studies, anti-colonial thought, and questions of international francophone Literatures and Cultures. While the tension between indigeneity, creolization, and fugitivity is far reaching across time periods and geographical locales, some of the most sustained enquiries have taken place in Caribbean studies.
Saturday, October 15th, 11am to 5pm, Romance Studies Lounge, Klarman Hall K164 -- Breakfast, Lunch and Reception
Program:
Session One 11am-1pm:
Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Columbia University): “The Geographies of Aimé Césaire: On Place and the Hybrid Archive”
Kaiama L. Glover (Professor of French, Barnard College):
“Flesh Like One's Own': On Poverty, the Undead, and Other Contagions”
Session Two: 2pm-5pm
Jeremy Matthew Glick (Professor of English, Hunter College): “Haitian Revolutionary Out-takes: Statecraft /Stagecraft”
Plenary Discussion and Reception to follow.
Respondents:
Natalie Melas, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Jackeline Frost, Ph.D. Student, Cornell University
Alex Lenoble, Ph. D. Candidate, Cornell University