Thursday, 29 November
Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
 

17.00-17.30 Registration

17.30-20.30 Four members of the Association Connaissance de l'Histoire de l'Afrique Contemporaine (ACHAC) will give audio-visual presentations on French colonialism, under the general title of 'De la propagande à la mémoire coloniale: le mythe républicain'. Following these papers, there will be approximately 30 minutes available for discussion.
1. Sandrine Lemaire, 'Expositions coloniales et propagande d'Etat: le mythe impérial français de 1931'
2. Eric Deroo, 'La Plus Grande France sur les écrans français'
3. Nicolas Bancel, 'Images et décolonisation: visages cachés et mains tendues'
4. Pascal Blanchard, 'Les Pièges de la mémoire coloniale ou la République face à elle-même!'
 

Friday, 30 November
French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7
 

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.05 Introduction

10.05-10.55 KEYNOTE PAPER: Jean-François Durand (Montpellier), 'Le Mythe de l'Empire chez quelques écrivains et administrateurs de l'ère coloniale'

11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial/Anti-Colonial Discourse Before World War Two (1)
o J.P. Little (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra), 'Georges Hardy's Educational Mission'
o Ième Van der Poel (Amsterdam), 'André Gide's Congo: the Possesser Possessed'
o Edward Hughes (Royal Holloway), 'Pierre Loti and the Limits of Xenophilia'

Session B: Colonial/Anti-Colonial Discourse Before World War Two (2)
o Carole Sweeney (Southampton), 'The Francophone Black Atlantic and the Politics of Transfiguration: Remembering the 'rescuing critiques' of the Nardal sisters'
o Pablo La Porte (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh), 'Anti-colonial nationalism in 1930s Morocco'
o Rabah Aissaoui (Wolverhampton), 'La Croix est trop fragile pour briser le Croissant: the anti-colonial and nationalist discourse of the Etoile nord-africaine (ENA) and Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) in the inter-war period in France'

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial/Post-Colonial Encounters in 'Centre' and 'Periphery' (1)
o Julia Waters (Bath), '"Le retournement du courant du fleuve"? Representations of the Mekong in Marguerite Duras's Colonial and Post-colonial Works''
o Hervé Baudry (Institut d'études françaises, Coimbra), 'Fin d'empire et mac-carthyisme sexuel: Des Pavois et des fers (1971) par Yves Kerruel ou la chronique d'un drame en Indochine après les accords de Genève'
o Dhana Underwood (Liverpool), 'L'Interprétation de la femme Hindoue entre les colonialismes anglais et français: victime ou déesse sexualisée'

Session B: Colonial/Post-Colonial Encounters in Centre and Periphery (2)
o Lydia Martel (Université Laval, Québec), 'Le Vieux nègre et la médaille et La Carte d'identité: Avoir fait la France avant et après les indépendances'
o Jean-Georges Chali (Université des Antilles), 'L'Opposition entre deux mondes: L'Europe post-coloniale et les Amériques dans La Vie et la Mort de Marcel Gonstran de Vincent Placoly'
o André Claverie (Martinique), 'Saint-John Perse et la mémoire de l'empire'

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

16.00-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial Discourse and French Popular Culture
o Marie-Hélène Heurtaud-Wright (Anglia Polytechnic), 'Resistance in French Colonial Fiction Films of the 1930s'
o Agnès Calatayud (Birkbeck)/Maryse Bray (Westminster), 'La Chanson populaire en France au temps des colonies: de l'insouciance à la contestation'

Session B: Resisting Empire
o Abdellah Hammouti (Morocco), 'Coups de pilon de David Diop ou la poésie militante'
o Martin Mbengue Nguime (Ngaoundéré, Cameroon), 'Les Etudiants camerounais, la formation des cadres nationaux et le néocolonialisme français'

17.00-17.50 KEYNOTE PAPER: Jennifer Yee (Newcastle), 'Métissage and (Post-)Colonial Guilt: Turning Nightmares into Fantasies'

18.00 ASCALF AGM

Saturday, 1 December
French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7

9.30-11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Writing, Memory and Decolonisation (1)
o Joseph Ndinda (Ngaoundéré, Cameroon), 'Mémoire blanche, mémoire noire: regards croisés sur le fait colonial au Cameroun'
o Karine Chevalier (Westminster), 'Trace et décolonisation dans l'espace poétique mémoriel de Nabile Farès et Abdelkébir Khatibi'
o Mansour M'Henni (Sousse, Tunisia), 'La Littérature tunisienne face à la dialectique de la décolonisation et du néocolonialisme'
o Agnès Forte (Royal Holloway), 'Alger l'amour: Alain Vircondolet ou la permanence d'une mémoire coloniale'
Session B: Writing, Memory and Decolonisation (2)
o Amina Azza-Bekkat (Blida, Algeria), 'Les Littératures africaines: intertextualité et créativité'
o André Siamundele (Colby College, USA), 'Le travail du souvenir: une analyse du discours politique et de l'image dans l'ex-Congo Belge'
o Patrick Crowley (Cork), 'Empire and Intertext in Pierre Michon's Vie d'André Dufourneau'

11.30-12.00 Tea/Coffee

12.00-12.50 KEYNOTE PAPER: Daniel-Henri Pageaux (Paris 3), 'Romans de la créolité et écriture de l'histoire'

12.50-14.15 LUNCH

14.15-15.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Rembering Algeria
o Christine Margerisson (Lancaster), '"Ceux qui ont disparu de l'histoire sans laisser de traces": the European Settlers of Colonial Algeria'
o Michèle Vialet (Cincinnati, USA), 'Sacrificing Mourning: Assia Djebar and the Memory of Algeria's "voix invisibles"'
o Dora Carpenter (Brighton), 'Algérie hier, Algérie aujourd'hui, des mots et du dire'

Session B: Representations of Colonial/Post-colonial World
o Hélène Gill (Westminster), 'French Orientalist Painting as a Transcultural Exercise: an Ambiguous Gaze'
o Martine Beugnet (Edinburgh), 'Foreign Selves: Claire Denis' Beau Travail'
o Eric Jennings (Toronto, Canada), 'Remembering "Other" Losses: the Temple du souvenir indochinois of Nogent-sur-Marne'

15.45-16.10 Tea/Coffee

16.10-17.00 KEYNOTE PAPER: Alec Hargreaves (Florida State), 'Generating Migrant Memories'

17.00 Close of Conference
 

For further information, please contact Dr David Murphy, French Section, School of Modern Languages, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland.
E-mail: d.f.murphy@stir.ac.uk Tel. (00)(44)1786 467535; Fax (00)(44)1786 466255.
 

Fourth International Conference on Caribbean Literature (I.C.C.L.)
Trois Ilets, Martinique- November 7-9, 2001
The Conference will be held at the Novotel Carayou. Participants will
stay at the Novotel Carayou. Overflow from this hotel will be housed at
the Sofitel Bakoua. Both hotels are located at Trois Ilets, a beautiful
district at a short distance from downtown Fort de France (a 10-minute
boat ride).
RATES: (All rates include taxes and breakfasts)
Novotel Carayou:
Single Occupancy: $74.00 Per Person, Per Night

Double Occupancy: $
40.00 Per Person, Per Night

Sofitel Bakoua:

Single Occupancy:
$82.00 Per Person, Per Night

Double Occupancy: $57.00
Per Person, Per Night

The hotels agreed to provide the above rates from November 4, 2001 to
November 10, 2001. These prices include all taxes and breakfasts.

VERY IMPORTANT: The hotels will honor these special rates for
reservations made before September 28, 2001, after this date the regular
rates will apply.

Hotel Reservations:

For reservations, contact Dr. Román-Lagunas’ office. You will need a
credit card to authorize a one-night deposit. Please have the Hotel
Registration Form completed when you call
us. VERY IMPORTANT: You must make your
reservation no later than September 28, 2001, in order to obtain these
special rates.

Hotel Payment:

You will pay hotel expenses (on site) directly to your hotel in
Martinique. Dr. Román-Lagunas’ office will only handle your
reservation.

Travel:

A) American, Continental, and several other airlines fly to San Juan,
Puerto Rico. From San Juan, you can take Aero Caraibe Airline to
Martinique the same day.

B) Air France flies from Miami to Fort de France. The flight leaves
early in the morning; consequently, if you are not close to the Miami
Area, you have to fly to Miami the previous day, spend a night in Miami,
and take your Air France flight to Fort de France, Martinique, the next
morning.

Please plan to arrive in Martinique on Tuesday, November 6, 2001. The
sessions begin on Wednesday, November 7, at 9:00 a.m. and will conclude
on Friday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m.

We will send you additional information by the end of September. This
will include all working sessions, invited writers, as well as cultural
and social activities.

17th - 18th November 2000

Churchill College, Cambridge
 
 

Participants

Anthony Kwame Appiah, Biyi Bandele, Assia Djebar, Gaston-Paul Effa, Akin Euba, Christiane Fioupou, Edouard Glissant, Lorna Goodison, Wilson Harris, Marika Hedin, Tierno Monénembo, Femi Osofisan, Niyi Osundare, Wole Soyinka and Véronique Tadjo.
 
 

Facilitators
Irène d'Almeida, Jacques Chevrier, Tim Cribb, Abiola Irele, Anny King, John Kinsella, Alain Ricard, Nouréini Tidjani Serpos, Alioune Sow and Maria Tippett.
 
 
 

Special Events
Exhibition curated by the October Gallery, introduced by Taiwo Jegede
Workshop on Chaka led by the composer, Akin Euba, with Tunde Jegede
Film: La Vie Sur Terre, presented by the Director, Abderhamane Sissako
 

Aims of the Colloquium
To bring together writers, supported by critics, in French and English. The languages themselves and their relations to literary production and to indigenous languages will be the framework of the discussion. In the past, this has been a vexed topic and one pursued mainly within the world of each language. On the threshold of the millennium we feel the need for a reassessment of the literary relations between imported and indigenous languages, in a widened and comparative context. Our hope is that this Colloquium will open a dialogue between writers and critics in the two languages that will continue into the future.

We ask the following questions:

Faced with this formidable, incontestable statement of itself, the totality, even repletion of being of the "real" world, why do we encounter loiterers at its frontiers, seeking the rights, rites and "writes" of passage, fragmenting and recomposing, or operating "through a glass, darkly"? (Wole Soyinka).
Can languages of power keep faith with the dead, with the dying languages?
When speaking, can one language listen to another?
In the theatre of the world, into what space does one speak?
Is the history a language carries to be refused?
What happens if one writes privately, intimately, and the letter is opened by a language to which the world listens in?
Can the path once followed in history be retraced in language? To what end?
Who or what sets the exchange rates between local and global language currencies?
Can the creativity of passing between languages assist in creating within them?
Do the reservoirs of silence have different depths in different languages?
Does the hand speak the same language that it writes?
Must one love the prison-house of language in order to escape it?
As the politics conducted in different languages change do the politics of the language positions also change?
In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a "v", une vie (Walcott).
 

Objectifs du Colloque:
L'objectif du colloque est de réunir écrivains et critiques anglophones et francophones afin d'établir un dialogue sur le problème de la langue et de ses rapports avec l'écriture. Au moment où nous entamons le deuxième millénaire, nous avons l'opportunité de réfléchir sur les rapports entre les langues nationales et les langues importées, précisément lorsque ces rapports reposent sur la puissance du verbe, afin de tenter de voir quelles seront les implications futures. En élargissant la problématique au-delà des frontières sociolinguistiques du français et de l'anglais nous espérons instaurer un dialogue durable qui se poursuivra après le colloque.

Entre des langues il y a violence (Assia Djebar)
La langue empruntée couvre la langue du murmure?
Est-ce la familiarité avec les murs de la prison de la langue qui les a rendus invisibles?
L'espace de la langue de la majorité est-il neutre ?
Peut-on mettre à jour un "passage" entre les langues ?
Le renouvellement sera constitué par la collecte des paroles multiples des peuples noirs.
Nomadisme et pélérinage : les itinéraires empruntés par les peuples ont laissé des paroles à traduire.
Dans quelle langue s'expriment les voix anonymes ?
Passer d'une langue à l'autre implique toujours un oubli.
Aux transitions politiques correspondent aussi des transitions de langue?
Le poète fait son langage, le prosateur s'en sert. (Césaire).
Le français et l'anglais se multiplient et se fragmentent
Quelles sont les exigences des contextes de production, nationale et internationale dans le rapport entre les langues?
La littérature se fait et se fera dans toutes sortes de langues et pas seulement en français ou en anglais (Tierno Monénembo)
 

Enquiries
Mrs Paula Halson, Colloquium Administrator

Telephone: (+44) (0)1223 336221 or e-mail: Colloquium@chu.cam.ac.uk.

A copy of the Registration form may be obtained from Colloquium@chu.cam.ac.uk.

For further information, check this website: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/info/events/colloquium.shtml