09:30 to 09:40
Symposium

Introduction

Alain Mabanckou
Thinking and writing about Africa today
09:30 to 09:40
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Alain Mabanckou

    Writer, Professor of Literature at UCLA, Visiting Professor, Collège de France

    Events

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:40
    Alain Mabanckou

    Introduction
    Symposium
    09:40 to 10:10
    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    The African philosopher as translator
    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:30
    Lydie Moudileno

    Thinking Africa through its literature
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00
    Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

    Mirror effects : Thinking Africa, thinking the world
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Célestin Monga

    Thinking about a starving Africa
    Symposium
    11:30 to 11:45
    Sami Tchak

    The Ego in the fragmented mirror of Nous
    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:00
    Armand Gauz

    Kong de Binger's dreams
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:15
    Lucy Mushita

    Today's Africans, yesterday's Africans
    Symposium
    12:15 to 12:30
    Dieudonné Niangouna

    Writing and performing in Africa today
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Pascal Blanchard

    Black France in French history
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Pap Ndiaye

    Representations of Africa for Afro-descendants in France
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Rokhaya Diallo

    Formulating the black question in the media : from denial to affirmation
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    François Durpaire

    Being black in France in 2016 : what goes and what doesn't
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Dominic Thomas

    Africa at the University : globalization and decolonization
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    Dany Laferrière

    Haiti : African presences, ruptures and mythologies
    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:30
    Françoise Vergès

    Oceanic Africa
    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:00
    Achille Mbembe

    Afropolitanism and Afrofuturism
    Symposium
    18:00 to 18:30
    Alain Mabanckou

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

    See also

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