The Department of French
New York University
&
The Ph.D. Program in French
The Graduate Center, CUNY

present

Migration, Memory, Trace:

Writing in French Outside of the Hexagon

April 20-21, 2001

at New York University and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Friday, April 20
La Maison Française, New York University
16 Washington Mews

10:45 Introductory Remarks

Tom Bishop, Chair, Department of French, New York University

11:00 Keynote address

Edouard Glissant (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Presented by J. Michael Dash (NYU)

1:30-3:00 Migration

Moderator: Francesca Canadé Sautman

Lydie Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania), "The Body of the Migrant: Alteration and Performance."
Leah Hewitt (Amherst College), "Performing Literary Migrations: Making Transformation One's Own."
Mireille Rosello (Northwestern University), "Félicie-Yasmina: Les 'vibrations' du nom propre dans Oran langue morte."

3:30-5:00 Memory

Moderator: J. Michael Dash

Joëlle Vitiello (Macalester University), "La Mémoire du pays: Traces of Haïti in Haitian Literature from the Island and the Diaspora."
Thomas C. Spear (Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Benchmarks, Borders, and The Uses of Haiti."
Jarrod Hayes (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Queer Roots, Queer Routes: Errances enracinées and the Fiction of Origins."

5:30-7:00 Ruptures

Moderator: Léo Kalinda (Radio Canada)

Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University), "Contemporary Maghreb Literature."
Ronnie Scharfman (SUNY Purchase), "Stories of Rupture/Ruptures of History in El Maleh's Fiction."
Farid Laroussi (Yale University), "Literature in Migration."

Saturday, April 21
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Martin E. Segal Theatre, ground floor

10:00-11:30 Uprootings

Moderator: Barbara Webb (Hunter and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Christopher Miller (Yale University), "The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature."
Meena Alexander (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Illiterate Heart: Language, Migration and the Making of Poems."
Sylvie Kandé (NYU), "De la Transgression."

1:30 Guest Speaker

Gisèle Pineau (writer), "Diasporas créoles."

Presented by J. Michael Dash

3:00-4:30 Errancies

Moderator: Clément Mbom (Brooklyn College, CUNY).

Mary Jean Green (Dartmouth), "Memory, Migration, and Régine Robin's La Québécoite."
Lucienne Serrano (York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Chemins de mémoire dans Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage d'Hélène Cixous."
Richard Watts (Tulane University), "(Para)Texts in Circulation: The Migrations of Francophone Literatures."

5:00 Guest Speaker

Abdourahman Waberi (writer), "Nomadisme Littéraire."

Presented by Francesca Canadé Sautman (Graduate Center, CUNY)

6:00 Closing Remarks

Francesca Canadé Sautman (Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in French, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

La Maison Française, New York University, is located at
16 Washington Mews
at University Place
Telephone: 212-998-8750

The Graduate Center, City University of New York is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, at the corner of 34th Street

A program sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French, The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Department of French, New York University, with support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Doctoral Student Council of The Graduate Center.

Conference co-directed by J. Michael Dash (NYU)
and Francesca Canadé Sautman (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

For further information, please call 212-992-9550 (NYU) or 212-817-8365 (CUNY)
or write to french@gc.cuny.edu

The events of this conference are free and open to the public

The Ph.D. Program in French The Graduate Center of the City University of New York