Summer seminar organized thanks to the support of the Francophone Mobility Chair

May 15-June 30, 2023

Master’s/doctoral seminar remotely and face-to-face

The summer seminar “Constructions/imaginaries of race in the French-speaking world” between Ottawa-Dakar-Bordeaux will take place in May and June. It constitutes an opportunity to create working groups between continents and scientific friendships. These training courses can be used as international research experience. The courses will take place in Bordeaux, directly with classes from Ottawa and Dakar and the students will be required to work collectively, crossing the three campuses.

On the course:

It is about questioning the imagination of race in the French-speaking world: how the construction of race and that of black identity as otherness were developed by the West and continue to be questioned and deconstructed by the artists (Omar Victor Diop, Disiz), intellectuals (Ndiaye, Mudimbe, etc.) and current writers (Mbougar Sarr, Miano, Ouologuem, Aidara, etc.) in the increasingly globalized context of African popular culture and of his diaspora.

Each unit of this course will be taught by a professor from a different faculty. All students are required to attend the course remotely and in person and are required to do the readings requested by each professor before the seminar so that discussions can take place.

3h x 2/week

Tuesday – Thursday: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Ottawa time); 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (Bordeaux time); 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Dakar time)

Organization and information: Dr. Éloïse Brezault (Francophone Mobility Chair), project coordinator: ebrezault@stlawu.edu

The faculties:

Uottawa (Canada): Dr. Abdoulaye Gueye (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Uottawa (Canada): Dr. Boulou Boulou Ebanda De B'Beri (Faculty of Letters)

Sciences Po / Bordeaux Montaigne University (France): Dr. Élara Bertho

Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal): Dr. Serigne Seye (Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences)

St Lawrence University (USA): Dr. Éloïse Brezault

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