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3:00 PM | Conference Opening
 

3:15 - 4:50 PM | Panel I: Mutations of the Postcolonial Field: Psyche, Authorship, Space, and Race
 

  • Riley Lim: Colonial Mutations: The Atmosphere of Violence and Monstrous Psychosis in Les Damnés de la terre
     

  • Rhone Geha: La Mort du Conteur: Authorship and Orality in Solibo Magnifique
     

  • Sam Bonadio: Reinscribing Space: Gender, Colonialism, and Shifting Temporality in Pays Mêlé
     

  • Arianna Robertson: From Black American to French Colonial Subject: The Mutations of Josephine Baker.
     

5:00 - 6:30 PM | Keynote: Christy Wampole: Biotic Objects: Culture as Living Thing (now on Zoom) 

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6.30 PM | Apéritif, French Library, 4229 Dwinelle Hall

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8:00 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast

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9:00 - 10:35 AM | Panel 2: Bodily (Per)Mutations: Personhood, Social Relations, and the Politicized Body
 

  • Daisy Maslan: The Laitière’s four lives: Industrialization and the Transformation of Labor in Nineteenth Century France
     

  • Piotr Kaczka:  Deux mutations de la féminité : du Gabriel de George Sand aux Demi-Sexes de Jane de La Vaudère
     

  • Paolo Lasagni: Creating your own “corpus”, mutation of writing through the disease, Guibert and his heritage
     

  • Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre: Matières et mutations dans le cinéma de Julia Ducournau : de la peau morte au marbre
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10:45 – 12:00 AM | Panel 3: Rethinking the Mutant Body: Between Cockroach, Pig, and AI

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  • Nam Nguyen: Dissident Cells: Cockroaches in Antoine Volodine’s Post-exotic Macau
     

  • Hervé Goerger: La Porcherie française: puanteurs et mutations (Truismes, 180 jours, Règne animal)
     

  • Sigy Ghosh (zoom): Fictitious Capital, Fictitious Bodies: Mutation and the Fiction of Self in Le Père Goriot (1835), Truismes (1996) and AI Culture

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12:00 - 1:00 PM  | Lunch â€‹

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1:00 - 2:35 PM | Panel 4: Mutant Scripts: Plurilingualism and Polyvocality 

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  • Paul-Louis Biondi: Voices of the Archipelago: Re-Imagining Language in Kamau Braithwaite's Middle Passages and Édouard Glissant's Un Champ d'Îles.
     

  • Danny Pham: Chamoiseau, Creolistics, and Mutant Linguistics
     

  • Carmen Hatchell: Hands in the Archive: Mutation and Feminine Aesthetics in Garréta and Calle
     

  • Song Huang: Ce que le français ne peut pas dire : mutation linguistique et altérité intraduisible dans La Cithare nue (2010) de Shan Sa
     

2:35 – 3:00 PM  | Coffee/ Tea Break

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3:00 - 4:35 PM | Panel 5: Mutation’s Edge: Reflections on Residue, Resistance, and Renewal
 

  • Oriane Chevalier: Judith Gautier’s Livre de Jade: Chinese Poetry in Mutation
     

  • Axelle Toussaint: Shifting Grounds: Historicizing the Trans*formation of the Colonial Beach Through Performance
     

  • Amanda Parraguez: Threads of Mutation in Linda Lê’s Les Trois Parques
     

  • Yousra Chairi (zoom): Corps irradiés, mémoire altérée : esthétique de la catastrophe dans Plus vaste est leur douleur : Algérie, juillet 1969 ( 2025) de Souheil Dib
     

4:45  | Closing Remarks  

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