Friday 6 April 2001:
12:30 - 2:15 SESSION 1: (Re)Creations of the Exiled Intellectual
Moderations: TBA

1. Maxime Blanchard, Harvard University, "Fernand Dumont: exil et engagement"

2. Alejandra Diaz Blas, Brown University, "Rhizomatic Identity in Leon l'africain: Hassan al-Wassan's appartenances"

3. Paula S. Delbonis-Platt, City University of New York, "(De)Presenting the Self: Milan Kundera's Deconstruction of the Public Persona Through Paradox"
 
 

2:15 - 4:00 SESSION 2: L'espace de la rupture
Moderator: TBA

1. Amy Allen, Boston University, "The "X" in Exile: Where God and Humanity Intersect in Sylvie Germain's Immensités"

2. Hudson Moura, Université de Montréal, "L'expérience de l'exil et la prise de conscience de l'infini dans l'image cinématographique"

3. Stephanie Lopez, Brown University, "L'identité née de la rupture: la langue et l'histoire dans Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle de Simone Schwartz-Bart"
 
 

4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Réda Bensmaia, Professor of French, Brown University
"TBA"
 

5:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Sanda Golopentia, Professor of French, Brown University
"TBA"

6:30 CLOSED RECEPTION

Saturday 7 April 2001:

8:15 - 9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Lobby, Rochambeau House

9:00 - 10:30 SESSION 3: Historical Considerations of the Identity of the Exiled Subject
Moderator: TBA

1. Daniel Harkett, Brown University, "David, Exile and Commodification"

2. Brian Martin, Harvard University, "War and Exile in 19th Century France"

3. Graham Jones, New York University, "Jean Rouch at the Crossroads of Decolonization"
 
 

10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4: The Gendered Self/ The Exiled Self
Moderator: TBA

1. Jessica Barr, Brown University, "Unveiling the Nation : Gendered Culture and Visibility in Memmi and Djebar"

2. Sandrine Teixidor, Duke University, "Québec et écrivains de l'exil: hybridité, pluralité et entre-deux"

3. Carrie Landfried, New York University, "Nationalité: Immigrées? La question identitaire: formes d'expression et stratégies réconciliatrices dans des textes littéraires et sociologiques "beurs""

12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3:00 SESSION 5: L'expression orale
Moderator: TBA

1. Géraldine Vatan, University of Massachusetts, Title: Marguerite Yourcenar, traductrice de Negro Spirituals: un croisement d'exils

2. Animesh Rai, City Universtiy of New York, Title: Diluting French:  A Dissolution or Resolution

3. Corina Crainic, McGill University, Title: "Langue et identité chez Patrick Chamoiseau"

3:00- 4:30 Session 6: Le Nouveau Monde
1. Mauricio Segura, McGill University, "D'un sociogramme à un autre: altérité et identité dans Tristes tropiques de Claude Lévi-Strauss"
2. Tollof Nelson, Université de Montréal, "Ambivalent Projections of Homeland and Homecoming: Locality, Set, and Screen in Yudi Sewraj's Intercultural Video Sa boîte à lui"
3. Robert Hilliker, Brown University, "Birth of a Nation?: The Dubious Legacy of the Colony at Port-Royal"

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3
Youenn Kervennic, Professor of French, Brown University
"Rencontre entre le marginal et le marginalisé"