Saturday, April 12th, 2014
9:30-10:00 Registration and Breakfast
10:00-10:15 Welcome Address by Professor Stéphane Gerson, New York University
10:15-11:15 Panel 1: Shifting Legacies, Moderated by Emily Kate Price
Laurence Daubercies, University of Washington
Voltaire et la périphérie : analyse socio-géographique d’un parcours auctorial
Dantzel Cenatiempo, University of Washington
Emilie du Châtelet and the Methodology of Identity: Margin, Center and Everything in Between
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Spectral (Re)mappings, Moderated by Lauren Weaver
Timothy Robinson, University of Toronto
The Specter of Colonialism: Patrick Deville’s Équatoria
Vanessa Brutsche, University of California, Berkeley
On Concentration Camps
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 Panel 3: Une nation et demi, Moderated by Gabriella Lindsay
Pierre Andre, New York University
Identité personnelle et Identité nationale : Réflexion sur le sens de l’histoire dans Les Sauvages de Sabri Louatah
Marina Merlo, University of Montreal
Questioning Center and Periphery: Postcard Views of French Algiers
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: Political and Literary Constellations, Moderated by Downing Bray
Chris Bonner, New York University
The Constituent Assembly of Negritude: The (Geo)politics of Culture at the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists
Esther Solange Ngomayé, University of Montreal
Quand le centre et la périphérie sont semblables : sociologie littéraire de la constellation des minorités dans le champ camerounais
Maureen DeNino, Princeton University
Minor Transnationalism in the Pacific: the Vietnamese laborers of New Caledonia
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Keynote Address by Professor Effie Rentzou, Princeton University
6:00-8:00 Cocktail Reception at 19 University Place, room 222
9:30-10:00 Registration and Breakfast
10:00-10:15 Welcome Address by Professor Stéphane Gerson, New York University
10:15-11:15 Panel 1: Shifting Legacies, Moderated by Emily Kate Price
Laurence Daubercies, University of Washington
Voltaire et la périphérie : analyse socio-géographique d’un parcours auctorial
Dantzel Cenatiempo, University of Washington
Emilie du Châtelet and the Methodology of Identity: Margin, Center and Everything in Between
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Spectral (Re)mappings, Moderated by Lauren Weaver
Timothy Robinson, University of Toronto
The Specter of Colonialism: Patrick Deville’s Équatoria
Vanessa Brutsche, University of California, Berkeley
On Concentration Camps
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 Panel 3: Une nation et demi, Moderated by Gabriella Lindsay
Pierre Andre, New York University
Identité personnelle et Identité nationale : Réflexion sur le sens de l’histoire dans Les Sauvages de Sabri Louatah
Marina Merlo, University of Montreal
Questioning Center and Periphery: Postcard Views of French Algiers
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Panel 4: Political and Literary Constellations, Moderated by Downing Bray
Chris Bonner, New York University
The Constituent Assembly of Negritude: The (Geo)politics of Culture at the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists
Esther Solange Ngomayé, University of Montreal
Quand le centre et la périphérie sont semblables : sociologie littéraire de la constellation des minorités dans le champ camerounais
Maureen DeNino, Princeton University
Minor Transnationalism in the Pacific: the Vietnamese laborers of New Caledonia
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Keynote Address by Professor Effie Rentzou, Princeton University
6:00-8:00 Cocktail Reception at 19 University Place, room 222