Imagining the Guyanas / Across the Disciplines
Conference Dates: November 4-5, 2016
Location: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Confirmed Keynotes: William Marshall (University of Stirling) and Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
Special Guests: Alexis Tiouka (French Guyane), Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto), Didier Vincent (Kandjokan France), Michelle Asantewa
Invited Writer: Pauline Melville
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Friday Novembre 4
Salle des colloques n°2, St Charles
8.30 Registration
9.15 Opening of the conference
9.30-11.00 Panel 1: Crossing Borders
Chair : Thomas Lacroix
· Clémence Léobal, University Paris Descartes and EHESS [& Ine Apapoe, Anton de Kom University of Suriname]: "Crossing disciplinary and national borders to grasp transborder dynamics in the Marowijne"
· Anna Correia (Guyana): "Guyana, a Receptacle of Cultural Wealth"
· Frédéric Piantoni, Université de Champagne: "Guyanas, between cultural unity and territorial divides. An orogenese and border disputes approach"
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Keynote 1 introduced by Judith Misrahi-Barak
11.30-12.30 Bill Marshall, University of Stirling: "Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?"
12.30-14.00 Buffet Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel 2: Writing the Guyanas
Chair: Catherine Gilbert
· Dominique Dubois, Université d’Angers: "The Exploration of the Womb of Space – A Gateway to a Cross-Cultural Revision of History"
· Fabienne Franvil, Faculté des Sciences, Université des Antilles (Guadeloupe): ‘Ecotones’ in Wilson Harris’s Guyana Quartet
· Gemma Robinson, University of Stirling: Guyanese Art, Writing, and Dialogic Regionality - Stanley Greaves, Martin Carter and Wilson Harris
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Panel 3: Cultural Legacies and New Perspectives
Chair : Lawrence Aje
· Didier Vincent, Président de KANDJOKAN FRANCE, Guyane: "The Djokan as Guyanese Heritage"
· Michelle Yaa Asantewa (London): "Creolisation, Cultural identities and the Supersyncretic: Exploring Guyanese Komfa New perspectives and arts of imagination in Caribbean cultural identity"
17.00 Drinks
17.30-19.00 A Talk and a Reading by Pauline Melville, introduced by Judith Misrahi-Barak
20.00 Conference dinner: La Brasserie du Théâtre
Saturday November 5
Salle Charles Camproux, campus Route de Mende
9.30-11.00 Panel 4 : Performing, Imagining, Translating (in) the Guyanas
Chair : Bill Marshall
· Virginie Laurent Larmet, Université de Guyane: “Translating French Guyanese militant poetry”
· Thomas Mouzard, Direction des Affaires Culturelles, Guyane: "Use of Digital Tools in Transborder Communities of Guyanas: Multidisciplinary and Participative Projects on Heritage and Creation"
· Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto: "Performing the Past: Notes on Choreography"
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Keynote 2 introduced by Thomas Lacroix
11.30-12.30 Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool: "Lieux de mémoire to noeuds de mémoire: Representing penal heritage in French Guyane"
12.30-13.30 Buffet Lunch
13.30-15.00 Special Guests
· Alexis Tiouka, Guyane "La situation des populations autochtones de Guyane"
· Michelle Yaa Asantewa, London: Guyanese Komfa – ritual art in practice: a musical presentation
15.00-16.00 Round Table Conversation in French : The Guyanas in the Caribbean — what perspectives ? / Les Guyanes dans l’espace caribéen — enjeux et perspectives
With representatives from the Montpellier associations La Case, Mosaik Outre-mer and Racin Outre-mer
16.00-17.30 Djokan Workshop / Atelier Djokan (free of charge and open to all / gratuit et ouvert à tous)
Closing of the conference : Music and Bami with the association Racin Outremer
The two languages of the symposium will be English and French
Local Organizing Committee:
Lawrence Aje (EMMA Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Ecotones Committee:
Thomas Lacroix (MIGRINTER Université de Poitiers)
Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Maggi Morehouse (Coastal Carolina University)
Steering Committee:
Frédéric Piantoni (MIGRINTER);
Malik Ferdinand (Université des Antilles);
Bénédicte Ledent (Université de Liège);
Ameena Gafoor (The Arts Journal)
Catherine Gilbert (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak
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