THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF COMMUNITY WITHIN THE ANGLOPHONE LEFT

9:00 - 9:20 (20min)

Welcome

Conference welcome, Université paris Nanterre, hall du bât Grappin

9:15 - 10:30 (1h15)

Panel 6 — Community, Identity, and Politics

UPN, bât. Grappin, salle des conseils

› Communautés, identités et différences dans This Bridge Called My Back [Communities, Identities and Differences in This Bridge Called] - Louise Lurcin, Centre de recherches anglophones (CREA - EA370) 09:15-09:35 (20min)

› Creating New Forms of Identity and Recognition Through Community Building in Contemporary West African Fiction - Abioseh Porter, Drexel University (Pennsylvania, USA) 09:35-09:55 (20min)

› To Keep Nothing Godlike: Poetic Structure in Tongo Eisen Martin's "We Charge Genocide Again!" - Tom Allen, American University in Paris 09:55-10:15 (20min)

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

UPN, bât. Grappin, hall

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Panel 7 — The Politics of Community in the City

UPN, bât. Grappin, salle des conseils

› Pathways to Social Empowerment in Chicago's Community Wealth Building Initiative - Bradley Smith, Centre de Recherches Anglophones (CREA-EA370) 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› I <3 NY (1977) and WE <3 NYC (2023): How to build communities in the physical city and in the digital version of the city? / I <3 NY (1977) et WE <3 NYC (2023) : comment fédérer des communautés dans la ville sensible et la ville transmédiatique - Agathe Mikaeloff Janssen, Centre de Recherches Anglophones (CREA-EA370) 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› The Concept of Community: Reflecting Changes in the Critical Frameworks of Liberalism in Contemporary Democratic Theory - Felix Megret, Sophiapol (EA 3932) 11:40-12:00 (20min)

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

UPN, restaurant L'Espace Gourmand, RDC RU

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Panel 8 — Queer Bodies and Poetic Communities

UPN, bât. Grappin, salle des conseils

Jean-Paul Rocchi (Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée)

› “The Future Unfolds Also Before Us”: Poetry and Queer Community - David Grundy, University of Warwick (UK) 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Building Poetic Community with Textual Dildo Play - Claire Finch, Laboratoire d'études de genre et de sexualité (Université Paris 8) 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Literary Communication and Literary Community in the Post-postmodern Era: Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other - Maurice Cronin, Université Paris Dauphine 14:40-15:00 (20min)

16:00 - 18:00 (2h)

Film screening 2 — "Spaces of Exception"

Cinéma CGR Nanterre

Matt Peterson et Malek Rasamny

Program