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2018 Events

"脡douard Glissant, Radiance and Obscurity" (International Colloquium Organized by 51漫画 and the Universit茅 des Antilles, March 20-23, 2018)

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"Modern Odyssers: An Interdisciplinary Mini-Seminar" by Dr. Michelle Zerba and Dr. Franck Collin (March 7-8, 2018)

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Monday, March 5th at 4:30pm (Honors College 135). Event in English.

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Monday, February 26 at 4:30pm (Honors College 135). Event in French.

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On History's Stage / Sur la sc猫ne de l'Histoire (February 1st and 2nd)

This international conference, co-sponsored by 51漫画 and the Universit茅 des Antilles (Martinique), seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to expand the contemporary understanding of theatre and performance in the French Caribbean under the ancien r茅gime. Theatre, arguably the defining artistic expression of the Bourbon monarchy, figures as a central aspect of metropolitan France鈥檚 political, intellectual, and social cultures, but its impact in the Antillean and Louisiana colonies remains to be told. The conference seeks to redress this oversight through scholarship that highlights the specificities of early modern and Enlightenment theatrical culture in context of France鈥檚 slave-based colonial empire. Click here to see the program

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A Lecture by Charles Forsdick (January 10th)

The lecture responds to 脡douard Glissant鈥檚 claim鈥攊n Le Discours antillais鈥攐f the need to 鈥榓rgue around Toussaint,鈥� and deploys this idea to explore past and present representations of the Haitian revolutionary leader. Reflecting on his recent experience of writing a biography of Toussaint Louverture, Charles Forsdick suggests that those attempting to understand the revolutionary鈥檚 life are not only faced with archival gaps, but also obliged to negotiate the extensive mythologization by which these have often been filled. Reacting to the recent 鈥榗onservative turn鈥� in global histories of the revolutionary age, he suggests that there is an urgent need to reread Louverture鈥攊n the light of the work of C.L.R. James鈥攁s a 鈥楤lack Jacobin鈥� in an age of revolutions. The lecture concludes by exploring the role of James (and the various versions of his Black Jacobins) in situating the Haitian Revolution and its leader in a wider context of debates on Empire, decolonization and their contemporary afterlives.

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2017 Events

A Lecture by C茅cile Bertin-Elizabeth

The Center for French and Francophone Studies at LSU welcomed on Wednesday, November 1st Professor C茅cile Bertin-Elisabeth, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Universit茅 des Antilles (Martinique) for an informal round table.