October 17-18-19, 2019
University of Chicago, 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (Espace Cardin), 1 avenue Gabriel, 75008 Paris
Scientific Committee
Leora Auslander (University of Chicago), Tom Holt
(University of Chicago), Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris VII Denis
Diderot), Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), Magali Bessone (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne), Xavier Daverat (Université de Bordeaux), Nicolas Martin-Breteau (Université de Lille), Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Diderot ; LARCA), Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot ; LARCA), Henri Peretz (Senior Fellow at Yale University)
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Contact : Arnaud Coulombel (University of Chicago Center in Paris) :
acoulomb@uchicago.edu
PROGRAMM
Thursday October 17, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
9:00 - 9:15 am : Coffee
9:15 - 9:30 am : Welcome remarks
Session 1 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for Justice
Chair : Aldon Morris (Northwestern University)
9:30 - 10:00 am : Michael Dawson (University of Chicago)
Race, Capitalism and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Struggle for Justice in the Atlantic World
10:00 - 10:30 am : Magali Bessone (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
W. E. B. Du Bois and epistemic Justice
10:30 - 10:45 am : Q&A
10:45 - 11:00 am : Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 am : Sakiko Nakao (CESSMA, Université de Paris Diderot)
The making of Pan-African consciousness in the aftermath of the World War I. Connecting perceptions of Africa : W. E. B. Du Bois, J. E. Casely-Hayford and B. Diagne
11:30 - 12:00 pm : Alioune Fall (Université de Bordeaux)
On W. E. B. Du Bois and the Return of Pan-Africanism
12:00 - 12:30 pm : Q&A
12:30 - 2:00 pm : Lunch
Session 2 “The Color Line” and Visual Arts
Chair : Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot)
2:00 - 2:30 pm : Elvan Zabunyan (Université Rennes 2)
Du Bois’s Data Visualization, an Avant-Garde ’Geometric Abstraction’ to face Slavery and Racial Discrimination
2:30 - 3:00 pm : Daniel Soutif, Art critic
TBA
3:00 - 3:15 pm : Q&A
3:15 - 3:30 pm : Coffee
Session 3 The “Concept of Race” in Philosophy and Literature
Chair : Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
3:00 - 3:30 pm : Anthony Mangeon (Université de Strasbourg)
Was Du Bois Wrong on "Race" ? Reading his Works through Alain Locke and Kwame Anthony Appiah
3:30 - 4:00 pm : Kaneesha Parsard (University of Chicago)
The Stories We Tell About Emancipation : Literary Criticism and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America
4:00 - 4:15 pm : Q&A
4:15 - 4:45 pm : Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin)
W. E. B. Du Bois and the « Racial Mountain » of Essentialism
4:45 - 5:15 pm : Joyce Bazile and Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)
W. E. B. Du Bois in School Children’s Readers in Saint Lucia
5:15 - 5:30 pm : Q&A
Friday October 18, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
9:00 - 9:30 am : Coffee
Session 4 Sociology and the Questioning of Race
Chair : Henri Peretz (Senior Fellow at Yale University)
9:30 - 10:00 am : Aldon Morris (Northwestern University)
The Du Boisian Sociology and the Sociological Canon
10:00 - 10:30 am : Stéphane Dufoix (Université Paris Nanterre)
Canon Hesitant. Du Bois’s Place in Sociology
10:30 - 11:00 am : Elijah Anderson (Yale University)
The Enduring American Color Line
11:00 - 11:15 am : Q&A
11:15 - 11:30 : Coffee
Session 5 : Anthropology, Philosophy and the Questioning of Race
Chair : Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
11:30 - 12:00 pm : Camille Joseph (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis)
W. E. B. Du Bois and Physical Anthropology
12:00 - 12:30 pm : Matthieu Renault (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis)
Deracializing Knowledge : Ethics and Politics of Truth in Du Bois
12:30 - 12:45 pm : Q&A
Lunch
Session 6 : Black History/ Histories
Chair : Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse-Bobigny-Saint Denis)
2:15 - 2:30 pm : Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse-Bobigny-Saint Denis)
Presentation of the project “Writing History from the Margins : an Anthology of African American Historians, 1855-1965”
2:30 - 3:00 pm : Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot)
Du Bois and His Intellectual Forbears : Black Founder Richard Allen
3:00 - 3:30 pm : Chad Williams (Brandeis University)
W. E. B. Du Bois and The Wounded World : Reckoning with the History and Memory of World War I
3:30 - 4:00 pm : Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
The Future in Retrospect : Imagining Africa’s Becoming from W. E. B. Du Bois to Felwine Sarr
4:00 - 4:30 pm : Q&A
CONCERT :
The Bridge #12 + The Turbine !
Howard Sandifer’s After School Matters Jazz Ensemble
La Dynamo (Pantin)
8:30 PM
Saturday October 19, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
MORNING
9:45 - 10:00 am : Coffee
Session 7 : Jazz and “Double Consciousness”
Chair : Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris Diderot)
10:00 - 10:30 am : Travis Jackson (University of Chicago)
(Mis)Hearing the Sorrow Songs
10:30 - 11:00 am : Howard Sandifer, (Chicago West Community Music Center Director and Founder)
On James Reese Europe and W. E. B. Du Bois
11:00 - 11:30 am : Xavier Daverat (Université de Bordeaux)
Jazz and Panafricanism
11:30 - 12:00 : Q&A
Lunch
Saturday October 19, 2019
Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (Espace Cardin)
AFTERNOON
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Panel Discussion 1 :
Blacks in France and the US : A Comparative Perspective
Pap Ndiaye (Sciences Po Paris) ; Michael Dawson (University of Chicago) ; Elijah Anderson (Yale University) ; moderator : Nicolas Martin Breteau (Université de Lille)
Panel Discussion 2 :
In and Out : Music between Worlds
Nicole Mitchell (University of Pittsburg) ; Mwata Bowden (University of Chicago) ; Dana Hall (De Paul University) ; Douglas Ewart (Art Institute of Chicago) ; moderator : Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris Diderot)
CONCERT
The Bridge #1 + The Bridge #9
Sonic Communion + Transatlantic Amazon Gods
Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (Espace Cardin)
8:00 PM
