Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
The Postcolonial City
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 November 2011
In association with Liverpool University Press and the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni
Institut Français du Royaume-Uni
17 Queensberry Place, LONDON SW7 2DT
PROGRAMME
Friday, 18 November 2011
9.30-10.30 Registration
10.30-10:45 Opening Remarks (Les Salons):
- David Murphy, SFPS President
- Philippe Lane, Attaché de coopération universitaire, Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni
10:45-12:15 Panel 1 (Le Salon): Traces of empire in postcolonial Paris (Chair: David Murphy)
• Gillian Jein, ‘A Multiplicty of Trajectories’: Porostity and Violence in the Paris of Michael Haneke’
• Claire Peters, 'Drancy: Fil Conducteur in the Postcolonial City'
• Ruth Bush, ‘La Joie de Lire and Présence Africaine: anti-colonial bookselling in the city and beyond’
12.15-2.00 Lunch/AGM (Le Salon)
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Parallel Sessions
Panel 2a (Le Salon): Constructing Identity in the Postcolonial City (Chair: Pierre-Philippe Fraiture)
• Alessandra Benedicty, ‘In the Second Person: Redeeming Fragmentary Identity in Waberi and Trouillot’
• Nicki Hitchcott, ‘Sex and the Afropean City: Léonora Miano’s Blues pour Elise’
• Florence Martin, ‘Reel to real: Tunis on film’
Panel 2b (La Petite Salle): The Multi-ethnic/Multilingual Postcolonial City (Chair: Kate Marsh)
• Timothy Shortell, ‘Polyglot Paris: a Spatial Semiotics of Postcolonial Immigrant Neighborhoods’
• Robert Blackwood, ‘Creoles in the linguistic landscapes of Fort-de-France and Pointe-à-Pitre: regional languages, contested spaces, and the city’
• Julia Waters, ‘“Post-Kaya” Port Louis in Contemporary Mauritian Literature’
3.30-3.45 Coffee
3.45-4.45 Panel 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel 3a (Le Salon): Memory and commemoration in the postcolonial city (Chair: Pat Corcoran)
• Nicki Frith, ‘Departmentalizing Memories of Slavery: Commemorating the loi Taubira in France’s Cities’
• Walter Putnam, ‘Colonial Animals in the Postcolonial City’
Panel 3b (La Petite Salle): Literary Constructions of the Postcolonial City (Chair: Ruth Bush)
• Audrey Small, ‘“Autant dire la porte en face”: Tierno Monénembo’s Pelourinho and the African city’
• Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert, ‘Visibilité et invisibilité dans le Paris de Fantômes dans la rue de J.M.G. Le Clézio’
5.00-5.45 Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture (Le Salon): Jim House (Chair: Charles Forsdick)
'Re-inventing the city? Challenging colonial rule in Casablanca, Algiers and Paris, 1952-1961'
6.00-6.45 Poetry Reading: Gabriel Okoundji (Introduced by: Charles Forsdick)
6:45-7:30 Vin d’Honneur (Le Salon)
8:00 Dinner
Saturday, 19 November 2010
10.30-11.30 Panel 4: Parallel Sessions
Panel 4a (Le Salon): La Banlieue (Chair: Nicki Hitchcott)
• Christina Horvath, ‘Les périphéries intérieures vues de l’extérieur: romans de banlieue par des auteurs migrants’
• Bruno Levasseur, ‘Alternative Narratives of the Postcolonial City: 'Auteurs en marge' and the 'Other' Paris’
Panel 4b (La Petite Salle): War/Violence in the (Post)colonial City (Chair: Charles Forsdick)
• Colin Clark, ‘Revisiting the Pathetic Fallacy: The City in Pain in Dib, Djebar and Kateb’
• Claire Launchbury, ‘Beyrouth palimpseste’
11.30-11:45 Coffee/Tea
11:45-12:45 Panel 5: Parallel Sessions
Panel 5a (Le Salon): The Urban and the Rural (Chair: Audrey Small)
• Lucy Swanson, ‘A Zombie in the City: Urban Violence and the Undead in Gary Victor’s Le Revenant’
• Laurence Randall, ‘Nostalgie pour la vie rurale?’
Panel 5b (La Petite Salle): Postcolonial Cityscapes (Chair: Catherine Gilbert)
• Bart Miller, ‘From El Dorado to the Centre Spatial Guyanais: Metamorphic Visions of Space in French Guyana’
• Michael Niblett, ‘The Ecology of Morbidity: Space and Nature in the Martinican Cityscape’
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Panel 6: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6a (Le Salon): The Postcolonial City on Film (Chair: Julia Waters)
• Jamal Bahmad, ‘From Casablanca to Casanegra: Neoliberal Globalisation, Everyday Life and Youth Revolt in Recent Moroccan Cinema’
• Maryse Bray & Hélène Gill, ‘Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and the Chadian City: a new kind of neo-realism in contemporary Francophone African cinema?’
• Srilata Ravi, ‘Port Louis in Mauritian cinema: commuting, vacating, wandering’
Panel 6b (La Petite Salle): Postcolonial Urban Culture (Chair: Georgina Collins)
• Max Battle, ‘Performance and identity in Senegalese urban culture, 1930-1950’
• Joe Philp, ‘Surviving in the city: reflections on urban youth and street culture in francophone West Africa’
3.30-3.45 Tea/Coffee
3.45-4.30 Keynote Speaker (Le Salon): Sherry Simon (Chair: Bill Marshall)
‘Montreal and the City as Translation Zone’
4.45 Close of Conference: David Murphy
For registration information, please see the SFPS website: http://www.sfps.ac.uk/conferencestudy-days/annual-conference-2011/