The Francophone Literary System - A Conversation about Pierre Halen’s Work

Seminar

Date: Monday 25 November 2024

Time: 15.00 – 16.30

Location: Online (Zoom) - Pre-registration is required*

An online seminar in French will be dedicated to discussing the book ”Approches du système littéraire francophone : Essais (1998-2024)” by Pierre Halen, with the author in attendance, recently published in the collection “Études Littéraires Africaines”.

DariuszSankowski, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Foto: DariuszSankowski, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

This seminar will focus on themes such as mobility and transfer between center and periphery, the northern and southern spheres, and the complex interactions between different local fields. The goal is to understand to what extent a globally unequal system organizes the conditions that enable the circulation of authors and works within this Francophone space.
From 1997 to 2022, Pierre Halen was a professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Lorraine. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Études littéraires africaines and editor of the collection of the same name at Sépia Publishers, as well as the administrator of the documentation platform Mukanda (documentary resources on Central Africa). He is also a full member of the Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer.

For access to the announcement in French, see https://franorfon.org/announcements

The conversation will be held in French.

*To receive the Zoom link, contact franorfon@su.se

This event is organized by the journals “Nakan” and “Revue Nordique des Études Francophones” at Stockholm University in collaboration with the University of Mayotte.