Day 3

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Dec 10: Conference Day 1

Location: NSCAD Academy Campus 2^nd floor, 1649 Brunswick St, Halifax, NS B3J 1K9 

9:30 am – Opening : Boulagel/Sobas 

• Artist Talk: 10 am to 11:50 am 

10 am to 10:30 am – Jeannette Elhers: “A Practice toward El Manifesto decolonial”  

10:40 am to 11:10 am – Dana Edmonds: “Cotton On: How Cotton Slavery Never Ended — It Just Changed Clothes“

11:20 am to 11:50 am – David Woods “Talk- North Preston Gullah” 

• Art-Based Research: 12 pm to 12:30 pm 

12 pm to 12:30 pm – Patricia Brito: “Decolonial Critical Thinking in the Artistic Practices of Black Brazil Art”  

–BREAK: 12:45 pm to 2 pm- 

2 pm to 2:30 pm – Laurence Maquiaba, Joris Lechêne, Pauline Cabidoche: “Infungible Narratives: from Metaphor to Raw•Brutal•Realistic Reality“

• Literature & Social Sciences: 2:40 pm to 3:50 pm 

2:40 pm to 3:10 pm – Claudine Bonner: “Infungibles Narratives of Black Immigration in Canada” 

3:20 pm to 3:50 pm – Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “Pan-African Reflections on Infungible Narratives“

4 pm – Closing Poetry/Drumming

Day 4

Dec 11: Conference Day 2

Location: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS B3J 1K9 

9:30 am Opening : Boulagel/Classical Music 

• Artist talk 10 am to 11:10 am 

10 am to 10:30 am – NS artist TBA 

10:40 am to 11:10 am – Julien Lubanda Kandolo “Infungible Memory” 

• Art-Based Research: 11:20 pm to 12:30 pm 

11:20 pm to 11:50 pm – Eddy Firmin “Narratives of fungibility and infungibility: tension between lamentation and pride.” 

12 pm to 12:30 pm – Pamela Edmonds ” The Curator as Witness: Black Embodiment, Institutional Memory, and the Practice of Infungibility“

–BREAK: 12:45 pm to 2 pm- 

• Literature & Social Sciences: 2 pm to 3:50 pm 

2 pm to 2:30 pm – Emeline Pierre “Caribbean and magical-religious crime fiction: in search of a poetics of the Infungible narrative“

2:40 pm to 3:10 pm – Véronique Clette Gakuba “Récit infongible et relation aux morts : conditions d’une vie non Voilée chez W.E.B. Du Bois” 

3:20 pm to 3:50 pm – Alexandre Gefen “The story of Souleymane, or the infongibility of asylum seekers’ narratives.” 

4 pm – Closing Poetry/Drumming Boulagel    

Day 5

Dec 12: Restitution Conference

Location: 1871 Granville St 

CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC

9:30 am to 12 pm – Eddy Firmin 

Workshop in 3 Research Groups : Olivier Marboeuf

-BREAK: 12:45 pm to 2 pm–

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Group Research Release 

2 pm – Group 1 

2:30 pm – Group 2 

3 pm – Group 3 

3:30 pm – Collective Talk 

4.30 pm – Closing of the 1rst symposium 

6 pm – Cocktail