Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial StudiesA One-Day International ColloquiumUniversity of Birmingham (UK)Weds 26th June 2013Ashley Building, Edgbaston Campus, Room 42210am-5pmThis interdisciplinary colloquium aims to explore the interlocking and myriad intersections between race, biopolitics and violence in Francophone postcolonial culture, politics and thought, considering Caribbean, African and American contexts. The day will include a number of papers intended to spark in-depth discussion. The colloquium will conclude with a round-table and summing-up.This project is organised in the framework of the European Commission/FP7 Marie Curie Research Project ‘Caribbean Biopolitics of Literature’ ( http://www.caribiolit.wordpress.com/ ) by Principal Investigator Dr Louise Hardwick and Marie Curie Research Fellow Dr Alessandro Corio.Speakers:Nicki Hitchcott, Associate Professor and Reader in African Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham: Ethnopolitics in Rwanda Genocide FictionJudith Misrahi-Barak, Associate Professor, Department of English / EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3: The Violence of Words, ‘Race’ and the Power of Text: Edwidge Danticat’s Many TonguesMichael Wiedorn, Assistant Professor of French, Georgia Institute of Technology: Lafcadio Hearn and the Construction of the ‘Creole’Alessandro Corio, Marie Curie Research Fellow in French, University of Birmingham: The Living and the Poetic Intention: Édouard Glissant’s Biopolitics of LiteratureLouise Hardwick, Lecturer in French, University of Birmingham: ‘Creolizing the “Coolie”: Indian Indentured Labourers, the Francophone Caribbean Ethnoclass Hierarchy and Biopolitics’Travel Information- The University of Birmingham is easily accessed from Birmingham New Street Station via our own train station (‘University’)- Accommodation is available at the University of Birmingham conference park: http://www.venuebirmingham.com/bedandbreakfast/ (a 5 minute walk from the Ashley Building)- The Ashley Building is the snail-shaped building marked R17 on the main campus map: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-map.pdf- We regret that we cannot provide financial assistance to attendees and encourage you to seek financial assistance from your home institution where possible.- Registration is free, and is now open for this event – please email Alessandro Corio if you would like to attend ( a.corio@bham.ac.uk )
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