Pluralism and the Engaged Humanities

A Symposium in Honor of Eileen Julien

Program Flyer

February 14-15, 2020 at the Indiana Memorial Union

Friday February 14

9:00 am: Breakfast, Dogwood Room
9:30 am: Welcome & Introductions, Dogwood Room
10:30-12:00: Plenary I, Dogwood Room
Biodun Jeyifo (Harvard University): Decolonization – With Or Without the Mother Tongue (for Eileen Julien)
12:00-2:00 pm: Lunch break
2:00-3:30 pm: Keynote I, State Room East
Susan Andrade (University of Pittsburgh): Realist Networks: Why do we no longer care about Les Bouts de bois de Dieu?
3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break, State Room East
4:00-6:00 pm: Roundtable I, State Room East - Visible Woman: The Humanities and the Future of Pluralism
Sandra Zagarell (Oberlin College), Meg Arenberg (University of Pennsylvania), Walton Muyumba (Indiana University – Bloomington), Ranu Samantrai (Indiana University – Bloomington)
6:30 pm: Reception, University Club

Saturday February 15 (All events in State Room East)

9:00 am: Breakfast
9:30-11:00 am: Plenary II
Ken Harrow (Michigan State University): It’s Eileen’s Time: Traces of Life with Kalidou Sy
11:00-1:30: Lunch break
1:30-3:00 pm: Keynote II
James Ogude (University of Pretoria): “Beauty and the Beast”: Eileen Julien’s Poetics on Orality and Literacy in the
African Novel
3:00-3:30 pm: Coffee break
3:30-5:30 pm: Roundtable II - Travels with Eileen
Michael Martin (Indiana University - Bloomington), Kassian Mmabatho Vaubel (Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota), Micheline Rice-Maximin (Swarthmore College), Angela Pao (Indiana University - Bloomington)
5:30-6:00 pm: General Discussion with Eileen Julien (Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and
African Studies – Indiana University Bloomington)

Organized by Akin Adesokan (Comparative Literature & the Media School) and Oana Panaïté (French & Italian)

Indiana Memorial Union
900 East 7th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

Department of French and Italian