Francophone Caribbean Writing in Context: Globalizations
THE MAKINGS OF GLOBALIZATION, THEN AND NOW
21-22 March, 2011
Oriel College, Oxford
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1493 And All That:
The First Caribbean Globalization?
Monday 21 March
2.00 pm – ‘Opening Remarks: The Conquest of Utopia’
Richard Scholar, Oriel College, University of Oxford
2.15 – ‘Espace et Histoire, de l’Afrique aux Caraïbes-Amériques entre 1450 et 1500 : conceptualisation et formulation’
Oruno Lara and Inez Fisher-Blanchet, Centre de Recherches Caraïbes-Amériques (CERCAM)
3.00 – ‘Insular Possessions: The Cartographic Rhetoric of Early Modern Globalization, 1492-1529’
Jerry Brotton, Queen Mary University of London
3.45 – Tea
4.15 – ‘How Globalization Invented “Indians” in the Caribbean’
Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine
5.00 – ‘L’Élaboration et l’application des règles de l’esclavage et de la discrimination en tant qu’éléments d’un système de “globalization” dans le processus de colonisation aux Caraïbes à partir de 1493: observations et thèmes de réflexion’
Nelly Schmidt, CNRS – Université Paris IV
5.45 – Closing discussion
6.45 – Pre-dinner drinks
7.15 – Conference dinner
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Literary Manifestos: Writers and Globalization
Tuesday 22 March
9.15 am – ‘Opening Remarks: Cannibalizing Manifesto Traditions in the Work of Maryse Condé’
Eva Sansavior, University of Oxford
9.45 – ‘Making History Manifest through Text: 1937, and its Fictional Reverberations’
Judith Misrahi-Barak, Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier III
10.30 – ‘Manifesting Fiction, Globalizing Haiti: Haitian Literature and the 2010 Earthquake’
Martin Munro, Florida State University
11.15 – Coffee break
11.30 – ‘The Decolonization of France? Littérature-Monde and the French Identity Debates (2005-10)’
David Murphy, University of Stirling
12.15 pm. – ‘Local, National, Global: Politics, Poetics and the Postcolonial Manifesto’, Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
1.00 – Closing Discussion
1.15 – Lunch
Organiser:
Dr Eva Sansavior
Oriel College, Oxford
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