Final Program

Download the final program, accessible in the following link:

CAAR_2011-Final_Program_Update_March_25__2_.pdf

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011

Morning - Université Paris Diderot, Paris Rive Gauche site
9.00-1.30	Registration
1.30-2.30	Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants)

Afternoon and early evening - Location: Paris Rive Gauche site
2.45-3.15	Opening addresses Vincent Berger, Paris Diderot University President, and Jean-Paul Rocchi, 2011 CAAR Conference Host
3.15-4.30	Keynote address Geneviève Fabre (Paris Diderot University - Sense and Sensibility in Tony Morrison's A Mercy
4.30-5.15	Coffee break
5.15-6.30	Event: Writing and the Relation
6.30-8.30	Opening Reception Event: Launching of the Black Open Arts Program

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011

Morning and early afternoon - Location: Charles V site
9-11	Workshops
11-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-1.00	Workshops
1.00-1.30	Commuting from Charles V to Paris Diderot University
1.30-2.30	Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants)

Afternoon and early evening - Location: Paris Rive Gauche site
2.45-4.00	Keynote address Cathy J. Cohen (University of Chicago) - "Rebirthing the Nation: The Transformational and Transnational Politics of Black Desire"
4.00-5.30	Event: Cracks in the Reflection - Blacks of/in Europe
5.30-6.30	Coffee Break
6.30-8.00	Jazz Concert: "Go the Way your Blood Beats" - Remembering James Baldwin - David Linx and Diederik Wissels

Friday April 8, 2011

Morning and early afternoon - Location: Charles V site
9-11	Workshops
11-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-1.00	Workshops
1.00-1.30	Commuting from Charles V to Paris Rive Gauche
1.30-2.30	Lunch (Sodexo / CROUS restaurants)

Afternoon and early evening - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine / Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
2.45-4.00	Keynote address Lewis R.Gordon (Temple University) - "'Quand je suis là, elle n'y est pas': On the Montsrous Threat of Reasoned Black Desire"
4.00-5.30	The Black Isles Night -- Vision and Self Perception (I) Screening of Leah Gordon's Atis Resistans and discussion moderated by Myron Beasley
5.30-6.30	Coffee break
6.30-8.30	The Black Isles Night -- Vision and Self Perception (II) Concert: Thierry Pécou and Les Batoutos

SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2011

Morning and early afternoon - Location: Charles V site
9-11.00	Workshops
11-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-1.00	Workshops
1.00-2.30	Lunch and commuting to the Paris Rive Gauche site

Afternoon and early evening - Location: Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine
2.45-4.00	Keynote address Sabine Broeck (Bremen University) - Sabine Broeck (Bremen University) - "Abolish Property: The Epistemic Challenge of Black Feminist Desire"
4.00-5.30	CAAR General Meeting
5.30-6.30	Break
6.30-8.00	Event: Performative Blackness – Jacques Martial: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal d'Aimé Césaire

Evening - Closing Banquet
8.30	Banquet - La Coupole restaurant

: Title - Fuck Mapplethorpe and the Likes
© 2010 - 2011