The French Department of New York University
&
The Ph.D. Program in French of The Graduate Center, CUNY
present
MIGRATION, MEMORY, TRACE: WRITING IN FRENCH OUTSIDE OF THE HEXAGON
April 20-21, 2001
at New York University and The Graduate Center of CUNY
PROGRAMME:
Friday, April 20
La Maison Française, New York University
16 Washington Mews
10:45 Introductory Remarks
Tom Bishop, French Department, New York University
11:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Edouard Glissant (Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center of CUNY)
Presented by J. Michael Dash (NYU)
1:30-3:00 MIGRATION
Moderator: Francesca Canadé Sautman
Lydie Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania), "The Body of the Migrant: Alteration and Performance."
Leah Hewitt (Amherst College), "Performing Literary Migrations: Making Transformation One's Own."
Mireille Rosello (Northwestern University), "Félicie-Yasmina: Les 'vibrations' du nom propre dans _Oran langue morte_."
3:30-5:00 MEMORY
Moderator: J. Michael Dash
Joëlle Vitiello (Macalester University), "La Mémoire du pays: Traces of Haïti in Haitian Literature from the Island and the Diaspora."
Thomas C. Spear (Lehman College and The Graduate Center of CUNY), "Benchmarks, Borders, and _The Uses of Haiti_."
Jarrod Hayes (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Queer Roots, Queer Routes: Errances enracinées and the Fiction of Origins."
5:30-7:00 RUPTURES
Moderator: Léo Kalinda (Radio Canada)
Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University), "Contemporary Maghreb Literature."
Ronnie Scharfman (SUNY Purchase), "Stories of Rupture/Ruptures of History in El Maleh's Fiction."
Farid Laroussi (Yale University), "Literature in Migration."
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Saturday, April 21
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Martin E. Segal Theatre, ground floor
10:00-11:30 UPROOTINGS
Moderator: Barbara Webb (Hunter and The Graduate Center of CUNY)
Christopher Miller (Yale University), "The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature."
Meena Alexander (Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Illiterate Heart: Language, Migration and the Making of Poems."
Sylvie Kandé (NYU), "De la Transgression."
1:30 GUEST SPEAKER
Gisèle Pineau (writer), "Diasporas créoles."
Presented by J. Michael Dash
3:00-4:30 ERRANCIES
Moderator: Clément Mbom (Brooklyn College of CUNY).
Mary Jean Green (Dartmouth), "Memory, Migration, and Régine Robin's _La Québécoite_."
Lucienne Serrano (York College and The Graduate Center of CUNY), "Chemins de mémoire dans _Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage_ d'Hélène Cixous."
Richard Watts (Tulane University), "(Para)Texts in Circulation: The Migrations of Francophone Literatures."
5:00 GUEST SPEAKER
Abdourahman Waberi (writer), "Nomadisme Littéraire."
Presented by Francesca Canadé Sautman (Graduate Center of CUNY)
6:00 Closing Remarks
Francesca Canadé Sautman (Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in French, The Graduate Center of CUNY)
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La Maison Française, New York University, is located at 16 Washington Mews on University Place at 8th Street Telephone: 212-998-8750
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, at the corner of 34th Street
A program sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French, The Graduate Center of CUNY and the Department of French of New York University, with support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, the Service Culturel of the French Embassy, and the Doctoral Student Council of The Graduate Center.
Conference co-directed by J. Michael Dash (NYU) and Francesca Canadé Sautman (The Graduate Center of CUNY)
For further information, please call 212-992-9550 (NYU) or 212-817-8365
(CUNY) or write to french@gc.cuny.edu
The events of this conference are free and open to the public
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/french/events/migration.html