The Cérisy Worldwide Cultural Middle [Centre culturel internationale de Cérisy] presents a nine-day colloquium entitled « Édouard Glissant, La Relation Mondiale » from August 2 to 11, 2022. This colloquium is organized by Sam COOMBES, Tiphaine SAMOYAULT, and Christian UWE with the assistance of Sylvie and Mathieu GLISSANT.
Description/Subject: Devoted to the concept that locations create us, Édouard Glissant made the Caribbean the positioning of an expertise permitting us to assume concurrently concerning the specificity of Antillean historical past and the subterranean hyperlinks that join it to the world. With the ideas of creolization, hint, or archipelagic thought, the Caribbean expertise and creativeness thwart the entice of a thought “blind to the sport of the world” to exactly inscribe the potential of a world-history [histoire-monde]. Poetic, romantic, theatrical, essential, but additionally philosophical, political, and really transversal within the areas and the questions it addresses, the work finds itself referred to as upon, past the literary house, in a plurality of fields. Whereas this has been of curiosity to the humanities for a number of years, many echoes are heard exterior the tutorial subject: within the arts, ecology, minority rights…from Japan to Mexico, as evidenced by latest translations, a planetary extension of his concepts has developed. It’s that the work of Édouard Glissant does its finest to consider the world, or quite what he calls, since 1981 and Le Discours antillais, “world relation” [la Relation mondiale].
Wishing to ascertain a spot of essential debate open to all disciplines, this symposium dedicated to the poet and thinker of the Relation intends to supply, ten years after his demise, the chance to fastidiously learn his work and to query with a brand new eye the ideas and horizons of his poetics to hint the views that this imaginary opens up in an unknown world. For a very long time (virtually a decade), this colloquium, open to those that are taken with these questions, extends this invitation to an journey of thought which is able to undoubtedly be memorable, insofar as Glissant will help us to know up to date points and to coping with challenges posed to the neighborhood, its connections, ecology, and new methods of telling historical past. Alongside conferences and spherical tables adopted by debates, there will even be translation workshops, performances, or readings of texts (by Glissant, and in addition by different writers current).
See Full program right here. To enroll, go to https://cerisy-colloques.fr/edouardglissant2022/