Remembering Empire/Mémoires de l'empire
ASCALF Conference
University of Westminster, 29 November 2001
French Institute, London 30 November-1 December 2001

Thursday, 29 November: Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

17.00-17.30 Registration

17.30-20.30 Four members of the Association Connaissance de l'Histoire de
l'Afrique Contemporaine (ACHAC) will give audio-visual presentations on
French colonialism, under the general title of 'De la propagande à la
mémoire coloniale: le mythe républicain'. Following these papers, there will
be approximately 30 minutes available for discussion.
1. Sandrine Lemaire, 'Expositions coloniales et propagande d'Etat: le mythe
impérial français de 1931'
2. Eric Deroo, 'La Plus Grande France sur les écrans français'
3. Nicolas Bancel, 'Images et décolonisation: visages cachés et mains
tendues'
4. Pascal Blanchard, 'Les Pièges de la mémoire coloniale ou la République
face à elle-même!'

Friday, 30 November: French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.05 Introduction

10.05-10.55 KEYNOTE PAPER: Jean-François Durand (Montpellier), 'Le Mythe de l'Empire chez quelques écrivains et administrateurs de l'ère coloniale'

11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial/Anti-Colonial Discourse Before World War Two (1)
- J.P. Little (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra), 'Georges Hardy's Educational Mission'
- Ième Van der Poel (Amsterdam), 'André Gide's Congo: the Possesser Possessed'
- Edward Hughes (Royal Holloway), 'Pierre Loti and the Limits of Xenophilia'

Session B: Colonial/Anti-Colonial Discourse Before World War Two (2)
- Carole Sweeney (Southampton), 'The Francophone Black Atlantic and the Politics of Transfiguration: Remembering the 'rescuing critiques' of the Nardal sisters'
- Pablo La Porte (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh), 'Anti-colonial nationalism in 1930s Morocco'
- Rabah Aissaoui (Wolverhampton), 'La Croix est trop fragile pour briser le Croissant: the anti-colonial and nationalist discourse of the Etoile nord-africaine (ENA) and Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) in the inter-war period in France'

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial/Post-Colonial Encounters in 'Centre' and 'Periphery' (1)
- Julia Waters (Bath), '"Le retournement du courant du fleuve"? Representations of the Mekong in Marguerite Duras's Colonial and Post-colonial Works''
- Hervé Baudry (Institut d'études françaises, Coimbra), 'Fin d'empire et mac-carthyisme sexuel: Des Pavois et des fers (1971) par Yves Kerruel ou la chronique d'un drame en Indochine après les accords de Genève'
- Dhana Underwood (Liverpool), 'L'Interprétation de la femme Hindoue entre les colonialismes anglais et français: victime ou déesse sexualisée'

Session B: Colonial/Post-Colonial Encounters in Centre and Periphery (2)
- Lydia Martel (Université Laval, Québec), 'Le Vieux nègre et la médaille et La Carte d'identité: Avoir fait la France avant et après les indépendances'
- Jean-Georges Chali (Université des Antilles), 'L'Opposition entre deux mondes: L'Europe post-coloniale et les Amériques dans La Vie et la Mort de Marcel Gonstran de Vincent Placoly'
- André Claverie (Martinique), 'Saint-John Perse et la mémoire de l'empire'

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

16.00-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Colonial Discourse and French Popular Culture
- Marie-Hélène Heurtaud-Wright (Anglia Polytechnic), 'Resistance in French Colonial Fiction Films of the 1930s'
- Agnès Calatayud (Birkbeck)/Maryse Bray (Westminster), 'La Chanson populaire en France au temps des colonies: de l'insouciance à la contestation'

Session B: Resisting Empire
- Abdellah Hammouti (Morocco), 'Coups de pilon de David Diop ou la poésie militante'
- Martin Mbengue Nguime (Ngaoundéré, Cameroon), 'Les Etudiants camerounais, la formation des cadres nationaux et le néocolonialisme français'

17.00-17.50 KEYNOTE PAPER: Jennifer Yee (Newcastle), 'Métissage and (Post-)Colonial Guilt: Turning Nightmares into Fantasies'

18.00 ASCALF AGM

Saturday, 1 December
French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7

9.30-11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Writing, Memory and Decolonisation (1)
- Joseph Ndinda (Ngaoundéré, Cameroon), 'Mémoire blanche, mémoire noire: regards croisés sur le fait colonial au Cameroun'
- Karine Chevalier (Westminster), 'Trace et décolonisation dans l'espace poétique mémoriel de Nabile Farès et Abdelkébir Khatibi'
- Mansour M'Henni (Sousse, Tunisia), 'La Littérature tunisienne face à la dialectique de la décolonisation et du néocolonialisme'
- Agnès Forte (Royal Holloway), 'Alger l'amour: Alain Vircondolet ou la permanence d'une mémoire coloniale'

Session B: Writing, Memory and Decolonisation (2)
- Amina Azza-Bekkat (Blida, Algeria), 'Les Littératures africaines: intertextualité et créativité'
- André Siamundele (Colby College, USA), 'Le travail du souvenir: une analyse du discours politique et de l'image dans l'ex-Congo Belge'
- Patrick Crowley (Cork), 'Empire and Intertext in Pierre Michon's Vie d'André Dufourneau'

11.30-12.00 Tea/Coffee

12.00-12.50 KEYNOTE PAPER: Daniel-Henri Pageaux (Paris 3), 'Romans de la créolité et écriture de l'histoire'

12.50-14.15 LUNCH

14.15-15.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A: Rembering Algeria - Christine Margerisson (Lancaster), '"Ceux qui ont disparu de l'histoire sans laisser de traces": the European Settlers of Colonial Algeria'
- Michèle Vialet (Cincinnati, USA), 'Sacrificing Mourning: Assia Djebar and the Memory of Algeria's "voix invisibles"'
- Dora Carpenter (Brighton), 'Algérie hier, Algérie aujourd'hui, des mots et du dire'

Session B: Representations of Colonial/Post-colonial World
- Hélène Gill (Westminster), 'French Orientalist Painting as a Transcultural Exercise: an Ambiguous Gaze'
- Martine Beugnet (Edinburgh), 'Foreign Selves: Claire Denis' Beau Travail'
- Eric Jennings (Toronto, Canada), 'Remembering "Other" Losses: the Temple du souvenir indochinois of Nogent-sur-Marne'

15.45-16.10 Tea/Coffee

16.10-17.00 KEYNOTE PAPER: Alec Hargreaves (Florida State), 'Generating Migrant Memories'

17.00 Close of Conference



For further information, please contact Dr David Murphy, French Section, School of Modern Languages, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland.
E-mail: d.f.murphy@stir.ac.uk

Tel.: 00 44 1786 467535
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Remembering Empire/Mémoires de l'empire
ASCALF Conference
University of Westminster, 29 November 2001
French Institute, London 30 November-1 December 2001

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