Monday 2 May 2016 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:30 - 09:40 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording Speaker(s) Alain Mabanckou Writer, Professor of Literature at UCLA, Visiting Professor, Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 2 May 2016 9:30 - 9:40am Alain Mabanckou Introduction Symposium 2 May 2016 9:40 - 10:10am Souleymane Bachir Diagne The African philosopher as translator Symposium 2 May 2016 10:10 - 10:30am Lydie Moudileno Thinking Africa through its literature Symposium 2 May 2016 10:30 - 11:00am Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux Mirror effects : Thinking Africa, thinking the world Symposium 2 May 2016 11:00 - 11:30am Célestin Monga Thinking about a starving Africa Symposium 2 May 2016 11:30 - 11:45am Sami Tchak The Ego in the fragmented mirror of Nous Symposium 2 May 2016 11:45am - 12:00pm Armand Gauz Kong de Binger's dreams Symposium 2 May 2016 12:00 - 12:15pm Lucy Mushita Today's Africans, yesterday's Africans Symposium 2 May 2016 12:15 - 12:30pm Dieudonné Niangouna Writing and performing in Africa today Symposium 2 May 2016 2:00 - 2:30pm Pascal Blanchard Black France in French history Symposium 2 May 2016 2:30 - 3:00pm Pap Ndiaye Representations of Africa for Afro-descendants in France Symposium 2 May 2016 3:00 - 3:30pm Rokhaya Diallo Formulating the black question in the media : from denial to affirmation Symposium 2 May 2016 3:30 - 4:00pm François Durpaire Being black in France in 2016 : what goes and what doesn't Symposium 2 May 2016 4:00 - 4:30pm Dominic Thomas Africa at the University : globalization and decolonization Symposium 2 May 2016 4:30 - 5:00pm Dany Laferrière Haiti : African presences, ruptures and mythologies Symposium 2 May 2016 5:00 - 5:30pm Françoise Vergès Oceanic Africa Symposium 2 May 2016 5:30 - 6:00pm Achille Mbembe Afropolitanism and Afrofuturism Symposium 2 May 2016 6:00 - 6:30pm Alain Mabanckou Closing address : Putting an end to the black man's sob story Next See also Alain Mabanckou, chair Artistic creation Thinking and writing about Africa today
