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Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Publié le par Marielle Macé (Source : Dr Alessandro Corio)

Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies

A One-Day International Colloquium

University of Birmingham (UK)
Weds 26th June 2013
 
Ashley Building, Edgbaston Campus, Room 422
10am-5pm
  
This interdisciplinary colloquium aims to explore the interlocking and myriad intersections between race, biopolitics and violence in Francophone postcolonial culture, politics and thought, considering Caribbean, African and American contexts. The day will include a number of papers intended to spark in-depth discussion. The colloquium will conclude with a round-table and summing-up.
 
This project is organised in the framework of the European Commission/FP7 Marie Curie Research Project ‘Caribbean Biopolitics of Literature’ (http://www.caribiolit.wordpress.com/) by Principal Investigator Dr Louise Hardwick and Marie Curie Research Fellow Dr Alessandro Corio.
 
Speakers:
 
Nicki Hitchcott, Associate Professor and Reader in African Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham: Ethnopolitics in Rwanda Genocide Fiction
 
Judith Misrahi-Barak, Associate Professor, Department of English / EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3: The Violence of Words, ‘Race’ and the Power of Text: Edwidge Danticat’s Many Tongues
 
Michael Wiedorn, Assistant Professor of French, Georgia Institute of Technology: Lafcadio Hearn and the Construction of the ‘Creole’
 
Alessandro Corio, Marie Curie Research Fellow in French, University of Birmingham: The Living and the Poetic Intention: Édouard Glissant’s Biopolitics of Literature
 
Louise Hardwick, Lecturer in French, University of Birmingham: ‘Creolizing the “Coolie”: Indian Indentured Labourers, the Francophone Caribbean Ethnoclass Hierarchy and Biopolitics’
 
Travel Information
 
- The University of Birmingham is easily accessed from Birmingham New Street Station via our own train station (‘University’)
 
- Accommodation is available at the University of Birmingham conference park: http://www.venuebirmingham.com/bedandbreakfast/ (a 5 minute walk from the Ashley Building)
 
- The Ashley Building is the snail-shaped building marked R17 on the main campus map: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-map.pdf
 
- We regret that we cannot provide financial assistance to attendees and encourage you to seek financial assistance from your home institution where possible.
 
- Registration is free, and is now open for this event – please email Alessandro Corio if you would like to attend (a.corio@bham.ac.uk)