Black Internationalism in Translation and the Cartographies of Emancipation

Thursday, April 3rd | 12:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Marian Mayer Berkett Room, Tulane University Law School

Featuring:

Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Duke University)
Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut)
Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Editions Ròt-Bò-Krik)

Join us wide-ranging discussion on Black internationalism in (French) translation and the cartographies of emancipation. Panelists will address topics including Brent Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora (2003) 20 years on, and in French translation; the translation of works by Edwards, Annette Joseph-Gabriel, and others in Ròt-Bò-Krik’s catalog, and what this means for Black Studies, Diaspora Studies, and studies of the Black International in France and the French-speaking world; elements of music and conjunction in Edwards’s assertion that “the cartography of decolonialism must be contrapuntal”; the practice of diaspora in the 19th century; and the French mediatic response to the (re)discovery of Black authors and their works.

Sponsored by the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French and co-sponsored by Tulane University Special Collections.

2/1/2025