Bodies in Migration: Disrupting Lines, Countering Coloniality

Maison de la Recherche, amphithéâtre Molinié

9h30-11h : Panel 1 - Bodies on the border / Corps aux frontières
Présidence : Jaine Chemmachery

• Fiona McCann, Border(line) Body Politics in Paul Lynch’s Fiction
• Kerry-Jane Wallart, Crossing the US/Mexico Border – Diasporic Circulations as Formal Experimentation in Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman, Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive, and Teju Cole’s Black Paper
• Béatrice Blanchet, Migrants’ Corporeality and Liminality in (Post-) Colonial Borderscapes: Between Confinement and Displacement

11h30-13h : Panel 2 - Archives of the Migrant Bodies / Archives des corps en migration
Présidence : Fiona McCann

• Judith Misrahi-Barak, Bodies in Detention, Lives on Hold: A Forensic Reading of Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
• Nandini Dhar, Speculative Histories, Confrontational Corporeal Aesthetics and Contemporary Literary Archives of Indenture: Debarati Mukhopadhyay’s Narach and the Quest for an Indian Kalapani Narrative
• Lama Boustani et Dominique Claire-Marie, Documenter, médiatiser et témoigner des corps migrants dans la ville; retour sur l’exposition transdisciplinaire « Tisser la ville »

14h-15h : On the Realities of the Hostile Environment, Pious Keku en conversation avec David Herd
Présidence : Alexis Tadié

15h-16h30 : Panel 3 - Queer and Gendered Mobilities / Mobilités queer et genrées
Présidence : Kerry-Jane Wallart

• Naïma Benallal, Vulnerable Bodies and Precarious Lives: Migrant Women Navigating the UK’s Hostile Environment
• Neela Cathelain, Haptics and Acrobatics: Queer Ethics of Sensation in John Keen’s Counternarratives (2015)
• Elizabeth Hessek, Through the Prism of the Border: Refracting Timelines of Mobile Queer Bodies

17h-18h30 : Conférence plénière
Présidence : Vanessa Guignery

• David Herd, Literature and the Voice of Human Rights

20h15 : Projection du film Même si tu vas sur la lune de Laurent Rodriguez (2024)
Cinéma Le Champo, 51, rue des Écoles 75005 Paris

La projection est suivie d’un débat avec Emmanuel Charrier, Clémentine Vignal, et des acteurs et actrices du film.
Modération : Jaine Chemmachery et Juliana Lopoukhine

Sorbonne, salle des Actes

9h30-11h : Panel 4 - Visual Narratives of Mobility and Passage / Récits visuels de la mobilité et du passage
Présidence : Pauline Amy de la Bretèque

• Patricia Mothes, Photographier le passage de la Manche en 2025
• Emmanuelle Kalfon et Nadeera Rajapakse, ‘The Tyranny of the passport’: Bodies on the Move and Identities in Transit within a Bordered World in The Terminal, Le Concert and Machan
• Johanna Exenberger, Integrating Photography and Mental Mapping in Participatory Research with Beneficiaries of International Protection

11h30-13h : Panel 5 - Migrant strategies of/as resistance / Stratégies migratoires de/comme résistance
Présidence : Louise Delumeau

• Salma Bahar, The Poetics of Silence: Embodied Trauma, Memory, and Decolonial Expression in Layla AlAmmar’s Silence is a Sense (2021)
• Valentine Lerouge, Under Eastern Eyes: Reversing the Gaze in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
• Martina Balassone, Passing As, Passing Through: Strategic Performances of Identity in Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope (2021)

14h30-15h : Freya Powell en conversation avec Jaine Chemmachery sur son œuvre A Maritime Haunting

15h-16h30 : Panel 6 - “Strangers”, children, and non-humans: Other-ed migrant bodies / “Étrangers”, enfants et corps non-humains : Assignation à l’altérité des corps en migration
Présidence : Judith Misrahi-Barak

• Pauline Amy de la Bretèque, Liquid migrations: Incorporating/ed Waterscapes in Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise (1993)
• Joshua Physick, A Re-story-ation of Fractured Boundaries: Decolonial Ecologies in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
• Laura Zander, The Figure of the Child: Vulnerability, Mediation, and the Biopolitics of the Migrant Body

17h-18h30 : Table ronde - Surveillance et résistance des corps en migration : approches croisées / Surveillance and Resistance of Migrant Bodies: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Modération : Juliana Lopoukhine

• David Coelho
• Catherine Gousseff
• Touhfat Mouhtare

Maison de la Recherche, amphithéâtre Molinié

10h-11h30 : Panel 7 - (Im)mobilised bodies / Corps (im)mobilisés
Présidence : Kevin Potter

• Özge Biner, (Im)Mobilized Bodies and Minds in Conflict-affected Borderlands: Encounters and Performances with Actors of War at the Turkish-Syrian Border
• Chamindi Perrera, Between Mobility and Immobility: Negotiating Embodied Agency in Post-War Migration in Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North
• Kateri Smith, Ignore the Bodies in the Bins: Indigenous Remains in Collections and the Resistance to Repatriation

12h-13h30 : Panel 8 - Bodies under pressure: biopower and the biopoet(h)ics of migration / Corps sous pression : biopouvoir et biopoét(h)ique(s) de la migration
Présidence : Juliana Lopoukhine

• Kevin Potter, Striking Kinopoetics: Proletarian Counter-Pressure in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus
• Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, Disrupting the Lines of Nation and Gender: The Exilic Body in Abbas Khider’s Ohrfeige
• Jessica Small, The Biopoetics of Sickness, Medicine and Care in Behrouz Boochani’s Representations of Asylum-Seeker Detention

15h : visite de l’installation de l’artiste plasticienne Freya Powell A Maritime Haunting