CULTURAL MIGRATIONS

The Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham is organizing a one-day colloquium to explore the theme of Cultural Migrations.

Invited speakers include Nick Harrison (King’s College, London), Aedín Ní Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh) and Bill Marshall (University of Glasgow).

A keynote paper will be given by Françoise Lionnet (UCLA) to mark the end of her term of appointment as Special Professor in the Department.

Please visit the website www.nottingham.ac.uk/french/research where you will find booking forms and further information.

Message from Joan Haig

Hello everyone! Joan asked me to let you know about this website:

http://www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org/

She also thought you might be interested to know that the Edinburgh Review is publishing short pieces related to the Crossing Borders theme. See www.englit.ed.ac.uk/edinburghreview/

Zoe

Hi all,

Just wanted to post and tell you all that I'm now in Dakar, Senegal starting 18 months of language training and fieldwork.... I know a couple of you will be in West Africa at various points (Marie and Lizelle!), but if anyone else happens to be out in the field let me know and you can come and visit me!

emilie

Crossing Places
Making African Women Visible in the French Colonial Archives

I thought that some of you might be interested by a paper I have just published in a French Social Sciences Journal about the absolute necessity of adopting a gendered approach of the French Colonial Archives in order to recover important elements of the History of African women. Sorry for the non-French speakers but the paper is in French!
Marie Rodet, 'C'est le regard qui fait l'histoire. Comment utiliser des archives coloniales qui nous renseignent malgré elles sur l'histoire des femmes africaines(archives)' Terrains & Travaux, ENS Cachan, 10 (2006).
I am giving you the link to order the all publication (10€) and to access to the general introduction of this Terrains & Travaux special issue on Gender:
http://www.melissa.ens-cachan.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=248
However, if you are only interested in my paper, email me and I will send it for free!

Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies

Cambridge Scholars Press have agreed to publish an edited volume of papers from the conference. The volume will consist of twelve papers which were presented at the conference and which we feel best reflect the themes of the conference, as well as the depth and breadth of current research in African Studies.We will be contacting you all towards the end of the month to let you know which papers will be included in the volume and letting you know the outcome here.

Future Events

So where do we go from here? Any ideas?

Some great suggestions were made at the conference - a series of seminars, a conference in Africa, another UK conference, smaller events focused on research interests, meetings between postgrads within certain geographical areas....

Zoe and I would be very happy to pass on our own experiences of organising an event and lend our support in whichever ways we can. Any ideas or volunteers to take a lead on this?

Charlotte.

Morning!

In the Coetzee/Derrida session I mentioned one of Derrida's essays and a film about his life. Here are more details as promised - sorry about the delay...

The film is called 'Derrida' and was directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. You can see a link on IMDB at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303326/

The essay I mentioned is "Le Dernier Mot du Racisme" and is availble in English in an old but excellent book 'Race', Writing and Difference (1986) edited by Henry Louis Gates.

Also in this collection is an essay that touches on the differences between French and English academic approaches to race and literature. It's by Todorov and is entitled, "'Race', Writing, and Culture".

Thanks,

Zoe