Rethinking Race, the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Contemporary France

Keynote: Elijah Anderson (Yale University)

At the University of Chicago Center in Paris 6, rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris or on  ZOOM click to register

December 13-15, 2022

Organized by: Leora Auslander (University of Chicago), Abdellali Hajjat (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Silyane Larcher (CNRS / IRIS) et Lionel Zevounou (Université Paris Nanterre)

December 14th,

Part I: 14.30-16.30

Myriam Paris (CNRS)

 “The intersectional approach in an academic trajectory in France”

 Jennifer Anne Boittin (Pennsylvania State University)

““Wishing, with All Our French Heart, to Be and Remain French:” Senegalese Women and the 1944 Suffrage Ordinance”

Respondent: Isabelle Clair (CNRS)

Part II: 16.45-18.45

 Evelia Mayenga (Université de Paris Sorbonne)

“French Translations of Intersectionality. Race, Academia, and Intellectual Profits”

Fania Noël (New School of Social Research)

“Paris Is Burning: location and circulation of intersectionality in France”

Respondent: Jules Falquet (Paris 8)