Panelists

	LIST OF INTERNATIONAL PANELISTS (in order of concurrent panels, with links to bio's)

	There will be 4 panel sessions. Sessions 1, 2, and 3 will be held on Friday, March 8. Session 4 will be held on Saturday, March 9. The panels will be held concurrently at the University Inn's conference rooms A and B.

	SESSION 1, Conference Room A
	Chair: Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers University
	Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University
	Julie Huntington, Marymount Manhattan College
	Edwige Sylvestre-Ceide, independent scholar
	Maha Gad El Hak, University of Cairo, Egypt

	SESSION 1, Conference Room B
	Chair: Bojana Coulibaly, Rutgers University
	Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal [SKYPE]
	Oumar Diogoye Diouf, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	Amany Shawky Mokhtar, freelance translator, Alexandria, Egypt
	Jean-Baptiste Sourou, Saint Augustine University of Tanzania
	Bojana Coulibaly, Rutgers University

	SESSION 2, Conference Room A
	Chair: Gabrielle Civil, St. Catherine University
	Donna Gustafson, Rutgers University
	Jean Herald Legagneur, Université Paris-est, France
	Usha Rungoo, Yale University
	Gabrielle Civil, St. Catherine University and Vladimir Cybil Charlier

	SESSION 2, Conference Room B
	Chair: Yveline Alexis, Rutgers University
	Simone J. Alexander, Seton Hall University
	Gladys M. Francis, Georgia State University
	Enock Aloo, Rutgers University

	SESSION 3, Conference Room A
	Chair: Petra Robinson, Rutgers University
	Documentary by Khardiata Pouye on skin bleaching, “Cette couleur qui me dérange”

	SESSION 3, Conference Room B
	Chair: Nadia Guessous, Rutgers University
	Becky Schulties, Rutgers University
	Meghan Tinsley, Boston University
	Laurence Jay-Rayon, Ph.D. in Translation Studies
	Marshall L. Smith, III, Tulane University

	SESSION 4, Conference Room A
	Chair: Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College-CUNY
	Anne Patricia Rice, Lehman College-CUNY
	Amanda Gilvin, Mount Holyoke College
	Boureima Alpha Gado, University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger
	Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College-CUNY

	SESSION 4, Conference Room B
	Chair: Valérie Orlando, University of Maryland
	Khady Diène, University of Maryland
	Nathan Dize, University of Maryland
	Phuong Hoang, University of Maryland
	Annie Rehill, University of Maryland



	LIST OF PANELS ( with links to abstracts)

	There will be 4 panel sessions. The panels will be held concurrently at the University Inn's conference rooms A and B.

	SESSION 1: Friday March 8, 9am-11am

	INSCRIBING POPULAR CULTURE: FROM RECIPES TO BANDES DESSINÉES
	Conference Room A
	Chair: Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers University Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University “Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel: Bandes dessinées, Radio Plays and the Ambivalence of Muslim Modernity” Julie Huntington, Marymount Manhattan College “There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts” Edwige Sylvestre-Ceide, independent scholar “Du Crémas à l’idée: avant projet pour des mémoires familiales” Maha Gad El Hak, Université du Caire, Egypt “Culture de l'Afrique de l'ouest en animation: l’exemple de Kirikou”


	TRANSMUTING CULTURE, (TRANS)FORMING IDENTITIES: LITERARY, GRAPHIC AND KINETIC DYNAMICS IN FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA
	Conference Room B
	Chair: Bojana Coulibaly, Rutgers University Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal “L’iconographie religieuse dans la vie quotidienne des Sénégalais” [Skype] Oumar Diogoye Diouf, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Becoming Griot: Righting within a Minor Literature” Amany Shawky Mokhtar, freelance translator, Alexandria, Egypt “Translating Language, Transforming Culture: A Senegalese Literary Portrait under the Spotlight of an Egyptian Translator” Jean-Baptiste Sourou, Saint Augustine University of Tanzania “Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African ‘Hybrid’ Cultures” Bojana Coulibaly, Rutgers University “Reclamation of the Arena: Traditional Wrestling in Senegal and Niger”



	SESSION 2: Friday March 8, 11:30am-1:30pm

	INTERSECTIONS OF TEXT AND IMAGE: HAITI AND MOROCCO
	Conference Room A
	Chair: Gabrielle Civil, St. Catherine University Donna Gustafson, Rutgers University “Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi’s ‘Les Femmes du Maroc’” Jean Herald Legagneur, Université Paris-est “Les Noces de Cana de Wilson Bigaud ou la rencontre entre héritage colonial et traditions ancestrales dans l’art haïtien” Usha Rungoo, Yale University “The Primitivization of Matisse by Dany Laferrière in Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer” Gabrielle Civil, St. Catherine University and Vladimir Cybil Charlier “Tourist Art: Navigating the Visual/ Virtual in a Haitian Fine Arts Book” A Collaborative Artist Talk


	WRITING (ON) THE BODY
	Conference Room B
	Chair: Yveline Alexis, Rutgers University Simone J. Alexander, Seton Hall University “Reading Bodies, Writing Bodies: Visual-Textual Body Politics in Francophone Women’s Writing” Gladys M. Francis, Georgia State University “ResistanDance: KA-ribbean Bodies, Traces, Fragments and Remains” Enock Aloo, Rutgers University “Handing Down the Move: Sampling, Appropriation, and Ownership of African Dance Traditions” Fakhri Haghani, Rutgers University “Angles of Representation: Egyptian Women Pioneers Visualizing Space”



	SESSION 3: Friday March 8, 3pm-5pm

	XESSAL: GENDER, DEPIGMENTATION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH
	Conference Room A
	Chair: Petra Robinson (Graduate School of Education) Documentary by Khardiata Pouye on skin bleaching, “Cette couleur qui me dérange”


	WORDS, SCRIPTS, LANGUAGE
	Conference Room B
	Chair: Nadia Guessous, Rutgers University Becky Schulties, Rutgers University “Orthographic Hetereogeneity in a World of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco” Meghan Tinsley, Boston University “The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island” Laurence Jay-Rayon, translator “Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker of Identity” Marshall L. Smith, III, Tulane University “Languages in Contact: The Metaphorical ‘Blackening’ of the French Language Via the Négritude Movement”



	SESSION 4: Saturday March 9, 9am-11:15am

	VISUAL AND VERBAL ARTISTRY: TEXT(ILE)S AS EPISTEMOLOGY
	Conerence Room A
	Chair: Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College-CUNY Anne Patricia Rice, Lehman College-CUNY “Embodying African Women’s Epistemology: International Women’s Day Pagnes in Cameroon” Amanda Gilvin, Mount Holyoke College “Reading the Téra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger’s First Republic” Boureima Alpha Gado, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey “Sécheresses et famines au sahel : l’apport de la littérature orale” Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College-CUNY “Teaching and Theorizing Peace through “Talking Textiles”: Reclaiming Grassroots Women’s Ways of Knowing”


	FORMING CARIBBEAN FRANCOPHONE CULTURAL INDIVIDUALITIES AND IDENTITIES
	Conference Room B
	Chair: Valérie Orlando, University of Maryland Khady Diène, University of Maryland “The Politics of Writing As a Space to Shape Identity(ies)” Nathan Dize, University of Maryland “Voix antillaises féminines: patriarchie et patrie pendant les deux Guerres Mondiales” Phuong Hoang, University of Maryland “Power and Patriarchy : Sexual Violence and Exploitation in Amour, Colère, Folie by Marie Vieux-Chauvet and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle by Simone Schwarz-Bart” Annie Rehill, University of Maryland “Eco-critical Approach: Ways in Which Antillean Writers Have Perceived and Used Nature”