Please join us for todays lecture and tomorrows film screening as we continue our fall 2013 Lecture Series: A Mutilated Cartography TODAY Tuesday, October 29, 4:45 p.m. Lewis Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall by Françoise Vergès Professor, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Research Associate, Collège d’études mondiales, Paris The presentation will explore the construction of France as a “country of white and free men” that externalizes servitude in the “countries of black and enslaved men.” The end of the post-slavery colonial empire redrew France’s historical cartography. France reinvented itself within the borders of the Hexagon, people coming from the former colonies were identified as “immigrants” in need of “integration,” greater assimilation was proposed to the overseas territories. France had no longer a “colonial problem.” A mutilated cartography, that excises overseas territories and denies the role of colonial history in the making of French society, emerged. It informs French politics and thought today Followed by a reception ________________________________________ Maryse Condé: Une voix singulière TOMORROW Wednesday, October 30, 5:00 p.m. Africana Studies and Research Center Multipurpose Room 310 Triphammer Road Film screening and panel discussion with: Carole Boyce Davies English; Africana Studies, Cornell University Naminata Diabate Comparative Literature, Cornell University Kavita Singh Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto Marie-Claire Vallois French Studies, Cornell University Synopsis: “What is important is the encounter, the exchange. Being focused on one’s origin and closing oneself to the world is a mistake” - these words of Maryse Condé could summarize her portrait realized in 2012. The film retraces Maryse Condé’s life and written career through a journey from New York to Paris to Saint-Laurent du Maroni (French Guiana), evoking the triangle created by slave trade and colonial slavery. With humor, Maryse Condé remembers her nomadic existence, her childhood in Guadeloupe, her student life in Paris, her discovery of independent Africa, her love of New York. Never hiding her contradictions, she gives the portrait of a writer, a black woman, a teacher, a mother and of an activist. The film also uses archives on Guadeloupe, France and Africa, testimonies of Condé’s students at Columbia University, and interviews with personalities.
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