Black Internationalism in Translation and the Cartographies of Emancipation

Black Internationalism in Translation and the Cartographies of Emancipation

Thursday, April 3rd
(Marian Mayer Berkett Room, Tulane University Law School)
12:30 – 5:30 p.m.

featuring

Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Duke University)
Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut)
and
Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Editions Ròt-Bò-Krik)

Join us wide-ranging discussion on Black internationalism in (French) translation and the cartographies of emancipation. Panelists will address topics including: Brent Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora (2003) 20 years on, and in French translation; the translation of works by Edwards, Annette Joseph-Gabriel, and others in Ròt-Bò-Krik’s catalog, and what this means for Black Studies, Diaspora Studies, and studies of the Black International in France and the French-speaking world; elements of music and conjunction in Edwards’s assertion that “the cartography of decolonialism must be contrapuntal”; the practice of diaspora in the 19th century; and the French mediatic response to the (re)discovery of Black authors and their works.

Sponsored by the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French and co-sponsored by Tulane University Special Collections