14:00 to 14:30
Symposium

Black France in French history

Pascal Blanchard
Thinking and writing about Africa today
14:00 to 14:30
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Abstract

    How can we write a shared history, and at the same time a history of diasporas in France that meets the expectations of the present?

    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Pascal Blanchard

    Historian, documentary filmmaker, specialist in the French Colonial Empire

    Events

    Introduction
    Alain Mabanckou

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:40

    The African philosopher as translator
    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    Symposium
    09:40 to 10:10

    Thinking Africa through its literature
    Lydie Moudileno

    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:30

    Mirror effects : Thinking Africa, thinking the world
    Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00

    Thinking about a starving Africa
    Célestin Monga

    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30

    The Ego in the fragmented mirror of Nous
    Sami Tchak

    Symposium
    11:30 to 11:45

    Kong de Binger's dreams
    Armand Gauz

    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:00

    Today's Africans, yesterday's Africans
    Lucy Mushita

    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:15

    Writing and performing in Africa today
    Dieudonné Niangouna

    Symposium
    12:15 to 12:30

    Black France in French history
    Pascal Blanchard

    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30

    Representations of Africa for Afro-descendants in France
    Pap Ndiaye

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00

    Formulating the black question in the media : from denial to affirmation
    Rokhaya Diallo

    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30

    Being black in France in 2016 : what goes and what doesn't
    François Durpaire

    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00

    Africa at the University : globalization and decolonization
    Dominic Thomas

    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30

    Haiti : African presences, ruptures and mythologies
    Dany Laferrière

    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00

    Oceanic Africa
    Françoise Vergès

    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:30

    Afropolitanism and Afrofuturism
    Achille Mbembe

    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:00

    Closing address : Putting an end to the black man's sob story
    Alain Mabanckou

    Symposium
    18:00 to 18:30

    See also

    Alain Mabanckou, chair Artistic creation
    Thinking and writing about Africa today