10:30 - 11:00am
Symposium

Mirror effects : Thinking Africa, thinking the world

Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux
Thinking and writing about Africa today
10:30 - 11:00am
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

    Doctor of Philosophy, Director of the Cultures & Médias section of "Jeune Afrique"

    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