ASCALF Conference 2000
1-2 December at the French Institute, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7
2DT, UK.
The 12th annual conference of the Association for the Study of
Caribbean and African Literature in French will take place at the
Institut français du Royaume-uni, 17 Queensberry Place, South
Kensington, London, SW7 2DT on Friday-Saturday, 1-2 December 2000. The
theme is Returning the gaze: images of the other in Francophone
cultures. Visiting speakers should include the Senegalese novelist
Boubacar Boris Diop, the Ivorian poet and novelist Véronique Tadjo,
Professors Daniel Delas (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) and Vinesh
Hookoomsing (University of Mauritius) and university researchers from
Africa, Australia, France, Ireland, Mauritius, the USA, and the UK.
Conference fee: £35 (full rate), £25 (members of ASCALF) and £15 (for
students and unwaged). Special arrangements available for members of
ASCALF accompanied by groups of students. Further information from Mme
Denise Ganderton, ASCALF conference secretary, 35 Anson Road, London
N7 ORB, U.K.; e-mail: [log in to unmask] ; tel: 0207-609-0383;
or from Peter Hawkins, Dept. of French, University of Bristol, 19
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TE, UK. Tel: (0117) 928 7915, e-mail:
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Conference Programme
NB. This is only indicative and may be subject to last-minute changes.
Friday 1 December
10h00 Registration.
10h30 Welcome; organisation of the conference.
10h45 David MURPHY (University of Stirling):
Hybridity or Collaboration? Reflections on some early
Senegalese texts in French.
11h15 Jennifer YEE (University of Newcastle):
Batouala, the first roman nègre, and dialogism: writing 'difference'
or writing 'differently'?
11h45 Coffee.
12h15 Julia WATERS (University of Bath):
Citation and subversion: reading Justine Mintsa's Histoire d'Awu.
12h45 Lunch.
14h15 Pat LITTLE (St. Patrick's College, Dublin):
Jean Genet, Les Negres and the question of Black Identity.
14h45 Amela JANVIER:
L'Afrique dans L'Etat sauvage de Conchon.
15h15 Henri JEANJEAN (University of Wollongong, Australia)
L'influence des écrivains de la décolonisation sur le mouvement
régionaliste en France.
15h45 Tea.
Friday 1 December (continued)
16h15 Daniel DELAS (Université de Cergy-Pontoise):
Aspects de l'altérité dans les récits littéraires du génocide du
Rwanda.
17h00 Discussion: Identité, altérité, violence.
Avec Véronique TADJO, Boubacar Boris DIOP.
18h00 Dinner.
20h00 Film: Soleil O (Med Hondo)
Saturday 2 December
10h00 Patrick WILLIAMS (Nottingham Trent University):
Black looks/Black light - Med Hondo's films of the diaspora.
11h00 Coffee.
11h30 Karina EILERAAS (UCLA)
Photographic compositions: orientalist fantasy, identity and creative
misrepresentation
12h00 Simon Amegbleame (Université du Bénin, Lomé):
Le Nord et le Sud: Un piège sans fin d'O. Bhêly-Quénum
(to be read in the absence of the author)
12h30 Lunch.
14h00 Vinesh HOOKOOMSING (University of Mauritius):
La 'Gazette Mauricienne' : de la francophonie au quotidien pluriel.
15h00 Karine CHEVALIER (University of Westminster):
La Poétique de la mémoire: l'exemple des romans de Daniel Maximin.
15h30 Kumari ISSUR (University of Mauritius):
La réincarnation comme parade ultime : étude des textes francophones
de la Caraïbe et de l'Océan Indien.
16h00 Tea Break.
16h30 Annual general meeting of ASCALF.
18h30 Conference closes.
BOOKING FORM
Return to ASCALF Conference, c/o Denise Ganderton, Conference
Secretary,
Flat 7, 35 Anson Road, London N7 ORB, Tel: (0207) 609
03 83
email: [log in to unmask]
I wish to attend the XIIth ASCALF Conference which will take
place
on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd December 2000
at the Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London
SW7
Tel: 0207-838 2144
I enclose a cheque in sterling, payable to ASCALF, to cover the
following:
£35:00 (Full rate)
£25:00 (Concessionary rate for members of ASCALF)
£15 (Students and unwaged)
Special rates for participants: £25, £15 and £5 respectively.
Note: A group of students accompanying a full member of ASCALF can be
admitted at the very reduced price of £5:00 per head.
Please indicate on this booking form the numbers you wish to bring,
and
list names of the students planning to attend at the back of this
form.
This concession should be established in advance.
I shall bring a party of students: Yes No
Number of students:
Total amount forwarded: £
Note: Conference fees include tea and coffee but not meals.
Signed: Name (in
capitals):
Postal Address:
Contact Telephone Number:
E-mail:
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Peter Hawkins
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Dept. of French,
University of Bristol,
19 Woodland Road,
BRISTOL BS8 1TE, U.K.
Tel: (+44)117-928-7915
Fax: (+44)117-928-8922
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