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Speakers): Aminata Sow Fall, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi and Soraya Tlatli

Conversation will be held in French. Lunch will be served.

Aminata Sow Fall (Author, Senegal)

Aminata Sow Fall is an internationally renowned Senegalese-born novelist. Her novel, La Grève des bàttu, won the 1980 Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique noire. She was a member of the Commission for Educational Reform responsible for the introduction of African literature onto French syllabi in Senegal, before becoming director of La Propriété littéraire in Dakar. She also founded the publishing house Éditions Khoudia in 1990.

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Professor Emerita, èצӰ��)

Professor Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi’s teaching and research interests include cultural relations between Europe, Africa and the Caribbean; literature, intellectuals and society; and women writers. She has been a visiting professor at institutions around the world and was awarded the African Literature Association’s Distinguished Member Award in 2014. Her publications include: Jacques-Stephen Alexis: une écriture poétique, un engagement politique; Remembering Africa (2002); Essais sur les cultures en contact - Afrique, Amériques, Europe (2006); Pour une histoire en partage. Images, mémoires et savoirs (2009).

Soraya Tlatli (Associate Professor, Berkeley)

Professor Soraya Tlatli’s research interests are in Francophone literature –particularly from North Africa—as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography. She has also written and researched on 20th century French psychoanalysis, philosophy and intellectual history. Her publications include: “Les ruines de l’Algérie chez Kateb Yacine” in Hommage à Kateb Yacine ed. Nabil Boudraa (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006) and La Folie Lyrique: essai sur le surréalisme et la psychiatrie (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2004). She is currently writing a book on the relationship between history and memory in Algerian literary depictions of the nation.