TALK
11 SEP - 11 APR 2013
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Gender, sex, and coconuts
Cycle of conferences 2012/2013
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Harun Farocki, Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges, 1988 Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR) Photo : Frac Lorraine © H. Farocki
In this new cycle of conferences, four politically engaged scholars have been invited to interpret a chapter of colonial history written essentially by men (explorers, missionaries, scholars, military men, ethnologists, etc.). Proposing a new approach to that period, they analyze the transformations of colonized societies which were thus subjected to triple domination: masculine, white, and heterosexual.
Each conference is accompanied by a screening of archival material selected by the artist Mathieu K. Abonnenc at the Institut National d’Audiovisuel (INA). Words and images resonate together, giving voice to the lives and engagements of the unsung battles in our history which are as relevant as ever.
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Using a singular approach, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc plays the role of a researcher in search for little known or ignored figures and stories. In the course of his travels and encounters, he unearths forgotten records which he interprets in order to update a part of our colonial and postcolonial history.
Born in in 1975 in Paris (Guyana). Lives and works in Paris and Metz (France).
Meeting at 49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine
Thursday, Sept 27 at 7PM
Colonial sexuality vis-à-vis gender, class, and race
Christelle Taraud, Professor of Contemporary History of Maghreb at the New York University in France
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7PM
The Pueblo Indians: Secrecy and militant indigenousness
Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Professor of American Civilization and Native American Studies at the Université Stendhal, Grenoble 3
Thursday, April 04, 2013 at 6PM
Black Feminism/Féminisme Noir
Elsa Dorlin, Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Political Science at the Université Paris 8—Vincennes/Saint Denis.
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 7PM
Postcolonial feminism
Azadeh Kian, Professor of sociology and Director of Cedref at the Université de Paris 7—Diderot
