2:00 - 2:30pm
Symposium

Black France in French history

Pascal Blanchard
Thinking and writing about Africa today
2:00 - 2:30pm
    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
    9:30 - 9:40am

    The African philosopher as translator
    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    Symposium
    9:40 - 10:10am

    Thinking Africa through its literature
    Lydie Moudileno

    Symposium
    10:10 - 10:30am

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

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:00am

    Thinking about a starving Africa
    Célestin Monga

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    The Ego in the fragmented mirror of Nous
    Sami Tchak

    Symposium
    11:30 - 11:45am

    Kong de Binger's dreams
    Armand Gauz

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:00pm

    Today's Africans, yesterday's Africans
    Lucy Mushita

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:15pm

    Writing and performing in Africa today
    Dieudonné Niangouna

    Symposium
    12:15 - 12:30pm

    Black France in French history
    Pascal Blanchard

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    Representations of Africa for Afro-descendants in France
    Pap Ndiaye

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

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

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

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

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:00pm

    Africa at the University : globalization and decolonization
    Dominic Thomas

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:30pm

    Haiti : African presences, ruptures and mythologies
    Dany Laferrière

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:00pm

    Oceanic Africa
    Françoise Vergès

    Symposium
    5:00 - 5:30pm

    Afropolitanism and Afrofuturism
    Achille Mbembe

    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:00pm

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

    Symposium
    6:00 - 6:30pm

    See also

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