The Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University is hosting the international conference “The Francophone Caribbean and North America” [La Caraïbe francophone et l’Amérique nord] on February 25-27, 2010, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Special guests for this event are artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and writer Dany Laferrière. The conference will also feature keynote speakers Celia Britton (University College, London), J. Michael Dash (New York University), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom), Christopher L. Miller (Yale University), and Thomas C. Spear (City University of New York).
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to re-orientate Francophone Caribbean studies and “to open a broader area of inquiry that emphasizes Franco–American relations in all their diversity and complexity.” Works will examine in detail the interconnections, in the historical, recent, and contemporary development between the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Guyane) and North America, and how these relations have been represented in historiography, literature, music, visual arts, anthropology, and other fields.
For more information, you may contact the Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at icffs@mailer.fsu.edu or see http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/events.html
Featured here, Edouard Duval-Carrié’s “Standard Primitive.”
