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Decolonizing the French Republic
November 10, 2014 @ 4:00 am - 5:30 pm
a talk by Françoise Vergès
Monday November 10th, 2014
4pm, Dauer Hall 219
Françoise Vergès teaches at the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has written on memory, slavery, postcolonial theory, the economy of predation, creolization, museography, migration, Frantz Fanon and Césaire. She was the president of the Committee for the memory of slavery (Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage) in Paris from 2009 to 2012 and has contributed to events such as Documenta 11 in 2002, and the Paris triennial in 2012. She organized exhibitions on slavery and women, worked with artists such as Isaac Julien, Yinka Shonibare and Arnaud Ngatcha and has made documentaries on Césaire and Maryse Condé.
Selected bibliography
L’homme prédateur, ce que nous enseigne l’esclavage sur notre temps (Paris: Albin Michel Bibliothèque Idées, 2011).
Fractures postcoloniales, with Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard and Achille Mbembe (Paris: La Découverte, 2010)
Nègre, je suis, Nègre je resterai. Entretiens avec Aimé Césaire, (Paris: Albin Michel 2007)
La colonisation française, with Nicolas Bancel et Pascal Blanchard (Toulouse : Les Essentiels Milan, 2007)
De l’Esclave au citoyen, with Philippe Haudrère (Paris: Gallimard Découvertes, 1998).
La mémoire enchaînée: Questions sur l’esclavage, (Paris: Albin Michel, 2006).
La République coloniale. Essai sur une utopie, with Pascal Blanchard and Nicolas Bancel (Paris: Hachette Littérature, collection Pluriel, 2006)
Amarres. Créolisations india-océanes with Jean-Claude Carpanin Marimoutou (Paris : Éditions Ka, 2003, L’Harmattan : 2005).
Racines et itinéraires de l’unité réunionnaise (La Réunion : Graphica-Région Réunion, 2003).
Abolir l’esclavage.Une utopie coloniale, les ambiguïtés d’une politique humanitaire (Paris: Albin Michel, 2001).
Monsters and revolutionaries. Colonial family romance and “métissage” (Duke University Press, 1999).