Final Program
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011
9.00-1.30 | Registration |
1.30-2.30 | Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants) |
2.45-3.15 | Opening addresses Vincent Berger, Paris Diderot University President, and Jean-Paul Rocchi, 2011 CAAR Conference Host |
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3.15-4.30 | Keynote address Geneviève Fabre (Paris Diderot University – Sense and Sensibility in Tony Morrison’s A Mercy |
4.30-5.15 | Coffee break |
5.15-6.30 | Event: Writing and the Relation |
6.30-8.30 | Opening Reception Event: Launching of the Black Open Arts Program |
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011
9-11 | Workshops |
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11-11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30-1.00 | Workshops |
1.00-1.30 | Commuting from Charles V to Paris Diderot University |
1.30-2.30 | Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants) |
2.45-4.00 | Keynote address Cathy J. Cohen (University of Chicago) – "Rebirthing the Nation: The Transformational and Transnational Politics of Black Desire" |
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4.00-5.30 | Event: Cracks in the Reflection – Blacks of/in Europe |
5.30-6.30 | Coffee Break |
6.30-8.00 | Jazz Concert: "Go the Way your Blood Beats" – Remembering James Baldwin – David Linx and Diederik Wissels |
Friday April 8, 2011
9-11 | Workshops |
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11-11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30-1.00 | Workshops |
1.00-1.30 | Commuting from Charles V to Paris Rive Gauche |
1.30-2.30 | Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants) |
2.45-4.00 | Keynote address Lewis R.Gordon (Temple University) – "’Quand je suis là, elle n’y est pas’: On the Montsrous Threat of Reasoned Black Desire" |
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4.00-5.30 | The Black Isles Night — Vision and Self Perception (I) Screening of Leah Gordon’s Atis Resistans and discussion moderated by Myron Beasley |
5.30-6.30 | Coffee break |
6.30-8.30 | The Black Isles Night — Vision and Self Perception (II) Concert: Thierry Pécou and Les Batoutos |
SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2011
9-11.00 | Workshops |
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11-11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30-1.00 | Workshops |
1.00-2.30 | Lunch and commuting to the Paris Rive Gauche site |
2.45-4.00 | Keynote address Sabine Broeck (Bremen University) – Sabine Broeck (Bremen University) – "Abolish Property: The Epistemic Challenge of Black Feminist Desire" |
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4.00-5.30 | CAAR General Meeting |
5.30-6.30 | Break |
6.30-8.00 | Event: Performative Blackness – Jacques Martial: Cahier d’un retour au pays natal d’Aimé Césaire |
8.30 | Banquet – La Coupole restaurant |
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