Modernismes et francophonie: regards croisés
Hatfield College, Durham University
July 7-8, 2016
Keynote speakers:
Jonathan Eburne (Penn State), Susan Harrow (Bristol), Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
Thursday July 7, Birley Room, Hatfield College
12.00-1.00 Lunch and welcome
1.00-2.30 Keynote 1: Jonathan Eburne: “Afrosurrealism as a Counterculture of Modernity”
2.30-3.00 Coffee
3.00-4.30 Panel 1: Locating modernism:
- Atmane Seghir: “Images et visages du modernisme dans Les Enfants du nouveau Monde d’Assia Djebar”
- Clémentine Faure-Bellaiche: “Remapping French Literary Modernism - Homosexuality, Protestantism and Transnational Circulation in André Gide's L'Immoraliste”
4.30-5.00 Coffee
5.00-6.30 Panel 2: Vietnamese Modernism:
- Phuong Ngoc Nguyen: “Revendications littéraires : le cas de Tự Lực văn đoàn (Groupe littéraire autonome) au Vietnam dans les années 1930”
- Pascal Bourdeaux: “La reformulation scientifique de la question religieuse au cours du premier XXème siècle. Un aperçu depuis l’Indochine française”
6.30-7.30 Vin d’honneur
Friday July 8, Birley Room, Hatfield College
9.15-10.45 Panel 3: Anti-colonial resistances:
- Alys Moody: "Les Antilles qui ont faim": Aimé Césaire and Modernist Hunger”
- Laurel Recker: “The ‘Modern’ Time of Martinique: Historical Vertigo in the Poetics of Aimé Césaire.”
10.45-11.05 Coffee
11.05-12.35 Keynote 2: Susan Harrow: “Postcolonial Discourse, Modernist Poetics: Towards a Re-framing of Rimbaud”
12.35-1.30 Lunch [own arrangements]
1.30-3.00 Panel 4: Between image and text: French cosmopolitanism:
- Lauren Walden: “Transnational travelogues: Breton's Cosmopolitan Surrealism of Martinique and Gauguin’s Cosmopolitan Symbolism of Tahiti.”
- Alison James: “Gide, Ciné-Ethnography, and Documentary Modernism”
- Antoine Kongolo: “Modernisme artistique en République Démocratique du Congo. Les impulsions de peintres coloniaux”
3.00-3.30 Coffee
3.30-5.00 Panel 5: National identity and the ‘non-identique’:
- Hugo Azerad: “Un cri noué en forme de langage” Malemort, ou la naissance du modernisme antillais”
- Zoë Roth: “Revolutionary Race: the Jewish-Black Imaginary and the French avant-garde”
- Sami Sjöberg: “The Other Transnationalism: Jewish Emigrants in Francophone Avant-Gardes”
5.00-5.15 Break
5.15-6.45 Keynote 3: Debarati Sanyal: "Transnational Concentrationary Aesthetics and the Contemporary Refugee Crisis"
7.30 Conference dinner, The Cellar Door
Conference funded by : Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (Durham University), MHRA, Society for French Studies, Institut Français du Royaume-Uni