People

Organizers:
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
Dan Edelstein, Assistant Professor of French, Stanford University.

Conference Coordinator:
Mireille Le Breton, Ph.D. Candidate in French, Stanford University.

Keynote Speakers:
Assia Djebar: Professor of Francophone literature at New York University; member of the Académie Française; novelist, translator, and filmaker.
Michel Serres: Professor of French at Stanford University; member of the Académie Française.

Panelists:
Jean-Loup Amselle: Directeur d’études en anthropologie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
La coopération artistico-culturelle franco-africaine.

André Benhaïm: Assistant Professor of French, Princeton University.
Les filatures de Assia Djebar.

Karl Britto: Associate Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley.
L’esprit de corps: Literary Embodiments of Indochinese Colonial Soldiers.

Jocelyne Dakhlia: Directrice d’études en histoire, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Peut-on parler d'un impensé de l'Islam en France?

Sean Hanretta: Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University.
Ghostwriters in the Archives: French Colonial Knowledge and African Religious Competition.

Alec Hargreaves: Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Between the Black Atlantic and the American Dream: Widening the Francophone Space.

Yvonne Hsieh: Professor of French, University of Victoria.
Une poétique de la relation: Stèles de Victor Segalen.

F. Abiola Irele: Visiting Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Africa and French Intellectuals.

Trica D. Keaton: Assistant Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University.
The Idea and Practice of "Black Paris."

Mireille Le Breton: Doctoral student in French, Stanford University.
La République et le sacré.

Anjali Prabhu: Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Wellesley College.
Poétique de la relation: Rethinking Hybridity.

Kathy Richman: Mellon Fellow, Department of French and Italian, Stanford University.
Whose Other? Identity and Representation in Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée.

Mireille Rosello: Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University and the University of Amsterdam.
Maurice Papon as Archetypal Grandfather: “Décloisonnement” and the Memories of the War of Algeria.

Tyler Stovall: Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley
“No Refuge: The African-Americanization of France.”

Marie-Pierre Ulloa: Visiting Scholar in History, Stanford University/Sciences Politiques, Paris.
La représentation des femmes dans le cinéma francophone d’Afrique du Nord.

Chairs and Moderators:
Jean-Marie Apostolidès: William H. Bonsall Professor in French, Stanford University.
Robert Harrison: Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature, Stanford University.
Joshua Landy: Associate Professor of French, Stanford University.
Richard Roberts: Professor of African History, Stanford University.
Tylor Stovall: Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley.
Sarah Sussman: Curator for French and Italian, Stanford University Libraries.
Laura Wittman: Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Stanford University.

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