Thursday October 17, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
MORNING
9:00 - 9:15 am: Coffee
9:15 - 9:30 am: Welcome remarks
Session 1 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for Justice
Chair: Aldon Morris (Northwestern University)
9:30 - 10:00 am: Michael Dawson (University of Chicago)
Race, Capitalism and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Struggle for Justice in the Atlantic World
10:00 - 10:30 am: Magali Bessone (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
W. E. B. Du Bois and epistemic Justice
10:30 - 10:45 am: Q&A
10:45 - 11:00 am: Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 am: Sakiko Nakao (CESSMA, Université de Paris Diderot)
The making of Pan-African consciousness in the aftermath of the World War I. Connecting perceptions of Africa: W. E. B. Du Bois, J. E. Casely-Hayford and B. Diagne
11:30 - 12:00 pm: Alioune Fall (Université de Bordeaux)
On W. E. B. Du Bois and the Return of Pan-Africanism
12:00 - 12:30 pm: Q&A
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
Session 2 “The Color Line” and Visual Arts
Chair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot)
2:00 - 2:30 pm: Elvan Zabunyan (Université Rennes 2)
Du Bois's Data Visualization, an Avant-Garde 'Geometric Abstraction' to face Slavery and Racial Discrimination
2:30 - 3:00 pm: Daniel Soutif, Art critic
TBA
3:00 - 3:15 pm: Q&A
3:15 - 3:30 pm: Coffee
Session 3 The “Concept of Race” in Philosophy and Literature
Chair: Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Anthony Mangeon (Université de Strasbourg)
Was Du Bois Wrong on "Race"? Reading his Works through Alain Locke and Kwame Anthony Appiah
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Kaneesha Parsard (University of Chicago)
The Stories We Tell About Emancipation: Literary Criticism and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America
4:00 - 4:15 pm: Q&A
4:15 - 4:45 pm: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin)
W. E. B. Du Bois and the « Racial Mountain » of Essentialism
4:45 - 5:15 pm: Joyce Bazile and Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)
W. E. B. Du Bois in School Children’s Readers in Saint Lucia
5:15 - 5:30 pm: Q&A
Friday October 18, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
MORNING
9:00 - 9:30 am: Coffee
Session 4 Sociology and the Questioning of Race
Chair: Henri Peretz (Senior Fellow at Yale University)
9:30 - 10:00 am: Aldon Morris (Northwestern University)
The Du Boisian Sociology and the Sociological Canon
10:00 - 10:30 am: Stéphane Dufoix (Université Paris Nanterre)
Canon Hesitant. Du Bois’s Place in Sociology
10:30 - 11:00 am: Elijah Anderson (Yale University)
The Enduring American Color Line
11:00 - 11:15 am: Q&A
11:15 - 11:30: Coffee
Session 5: Anthropology, Philosophy and the Questioning of Race
Chair: Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
11:30 - 12:00 pm: Camille Joseph (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis)
W. E. B. Du Bois and Physical Anthropology
12:00 - 12:30 pm: Matthieu Renault (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis)
Deracializing Knowledge: Ethics and Politics of Truth in Du Bois
12:30 - 12:45 pm: Q&A
Lunch
AFTERNOON
Session 6: Black History/ Histories
Chair: Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse-Bobigny-Saint Denis)
2:15 - 2:30 pm: Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse-Bobigny-Saint Denis)
Presentation of the project “Writing History from the Margins: an Anthology of African American Historians, 1855-1965”
2:30 - 3:00 pm: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot)
Du Bois and His Intellectual Forbears: Black Founder Richard Allen
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Chad Williams (Brandeis University)
W. E. B. Du Bois and The Wounded World: Reckoning with the History and Memory of World War I
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
The Future in Retrospect: Imagining Africa’s Becoming from W. E. B. Du Bois to Felwine Sarr
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Q&A
8:30 PM CONCERT
The Bridge #12 + The Turbine !
Howard Sandifer’s After School Matters Jazz Ensemble La Dynamo (Pantin)
Saturday October 19, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Paris
MORNING
9:45 - 10:00 am: Coffee
Session 7: Jazz and “Double Consciousness”
Chair: Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris Diderot)
10:00 - 10:30 am: Travis A. Jackson (University of Chicago)
(Mis)Hearing the Sorrow Songs
10:30 - 11:00 am: Howard Sandifer, (Chicago West Community Music Center Director and Founder)
On James Reese Europe and W. E. B. Du Bois
11:00 - 11:30 am: Xavier Daverat (Université de Bordeaux)
Jazz and Panafricanism
11:30 - 12:00 : Q&A
Lunch
AFTERNOON
Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (Espace Cardin)
Panel Discussion 1:
Blacks in France and the US: A Comparative Perspective
Pap Ndiaye (Sciences Po Paris); Michael Dawson (University of Chicago); Elijah Anderson (Yale University); moderator: Nicolas Martin Breteau (Université de Lille)
Panel Discussion 2:
In and Out: Music between Worlds
Nicole Mitchell (University of Pittsburg); Mwata Bowden (University of Chicago); Dana Hall (De Paul University); Douglas Ewart (Art Institute of Chicago); moderator: Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris Diderot)
8:00 PM CONCERT
The Bridge #1 + The Bridge #9
Sonic Communion + Transatlantic Amazon Gods Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (Espace Cardin)