Thursday 6th October 2016
Site Descartes (building D2), Room F008
09.30: Registration and coffee
09.50: Welcome address by Vanessa GUIGNERY (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Christian GUTLEBEN (Nice — Sophia Antipolis)
Morning Session
Chair: Catherine PESSO-MIQUEL (Lumière University — Lyon 2)
10.00: Kerry-Jane WALLART (University of Paris 4 Sorbonne): “‘Saving Bodies’ – Theatricality in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
10.35: Oriana PALUSCI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy): “‘Race Matters’: the Languages of Slavery in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
11.10: Vanessa GUIGNERY (ENS de Lyon, IUF): “The Newton-Hamilton Dialogue in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River: Navigating between Appropriation and Creation”
11.45-13.30 : Lunch Break
Afternoon session
Chair: Kerry-Jane WALLART (University of Paris 4 Sorbonne)
13.30: Jee H. AN (Seoul National University, South Korea): “The Sounding(s) of Countermodernity in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
14.05: Hubert MALFRAY (Lycée Claude-Fauriel Saint Etienne - IHRIM UMR 5317): “Une poétique de la précarité: économie(s) d’écriture dans Crossing the River de Caryl Phillips”
15.10: Catherine LANONE (University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Repetition and Reckoning in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
15.45: Coffee Break
Chair: Vanessa GUIGNERY (ENS de Lyon, IUF)
16.15: Kathie BIRAT (University of Lorraine): “Embodied Voices: Literacy and Empathy in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
16.50: A Conversation with Caryl PHILLIPS
(with Vanessa GUIGNERY, recorded at Yale University and
the ENS de Lyon on 27 September 2016)
20.00: Dinner
Friday 7th October 2016
Site Buisson (building D6), Conference room 1
Morning Session
Chair: Catherine DELESALLE-NANCEY (University of Lyon 3)
9.30: Nicole TERRIEN (University of Rennes 1): “‘The answer is blowing in the wind’: Emotion and the Rewriting of History in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River”
10.05: Christian GUTLEBEN (University of Nice — Sophia Antipolis): “Écriture noire, écriture blanche: esthétique du (mé)tissage dans Crossing the River de Caryl Phillips”
10.40: Coffee Break
Chair: Judith MISRAHI-BARAK (University Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3)
11.10: Catherine PESSO-MIQUEL (Lumière University — Lyon 2): “ “Dit et non dit : ruptures et reprises dans Crossing the River de Caryl Phillips”
11.45: İ. Murat ÖNER (International Burch University in Sarajevo): “Caryl Phillips and Rhizomorphous Gaze: A Geophilosophical Reading of Crossing the River”
12.20-14.00 : Lunch Break
Afternoon session
Chair: Christian GUTLEBEN (University of Nice — Sophia Antipolis)
14.00:Mélanie JOSEPH-VILAIN (University of Bourgogne):“‘For beyond this trading community
lies family life’: filiation et écriture dans Crossing the River de Caryl Phillips”
14.35: Eleanor BYRNE (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK): “Queering the Black Atlantic in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River.”
15.10:Josiane RANGUIN (University of Paris XIII-Sorbonne): “The ‘High Anxiety’ of Belonging” in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (1993) and Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (2013)”
16.00: End of the conference