Workshop – Australian Indigenous Literary Culture Within Global Contexts: A transnational and transdisciplinary study of racism and colony

The Boundaries of Literature seminar (LARCA – CNRS research unit at U. Paris Cité) is honored to host a workshop proposed by Dr. Eugenia Flynn (RMIT University, Melbourne), and co-organized by Estelle Castro-Koshy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), Aurore Clavier, Lise Chenal and Valentine Alloing (Université Paris Cité). The workshop is entitled “Australian Indigenous Literary Culture Within Global Contexts: A transnational and transdisciplinary study of racism and colony” and will be held on Tues. November 19, 5-7 pm (Paris), at Université Paris Cité (room 829, Olympe de Gouges building, 8 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris), as well as on Zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85008811143?pwd=zsPrdSPy5pJcJOZ5BtLxR4mAUAbhUA.1 (ID de réunion: 850 0881 1143 ; Code secret: 412750).

You are all welcome to participate in the project, as defined in Dr. Flynn’s guidelines below.

Warm regards.

Dr. Eugenia Flynn : “Australian Indigenous Literary Culture Within Global Contexts: A transnational and transdisciplinary study of racism and colony”

About: This project positions Australian Indigenous literature as a site of knowing regarding issues of racism and coloniality. This project further seeks to position Australian Indigenous literature, knowledge and scholarship within global contexts by bringing them into relationship with postcolonial, world and migrant literatures, scholarship and theory.

As a first step, scholars from across a broad range of disciplines are invited to participate in a workshop involving transnational conversations at the intersection of literature and creative arts, and topics of racism and coloniality. The workshop is intended to be structured as well as open, collaborative and collegial. Therefore, the workshop will begin with a brief presentation from Dr Eugenia Flynn (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) with participants then invited to respond, discuss, network and collaborate. Participants are welcome (although not required) to prepare scholarly responses of up to 5 minutes relating to themes, including but not limited to:

· Racism, racialisation and coloniality as themes within literature and creative practice
· Lived realities of race, racism and racialisation within former imperial centres such as France and other European countries
· Postcolonial and world literatures; migrant literatures – as sites of knowing and sites of antiracism and anti/decolonial work
· Transnational solidarities and perspectives related to settler colonialism, neocolonialism and postcolonialism
· Indigeneity in postcolonial societies
· Intersectional analyses across structures, constructs and issues, such as (but not limited to) class, racialisation, gender, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, environment, ageism, capitalism, economic development, ‘developing’ countries and countries of the ‘Global South’.

A possible outcome of this workshop is the establishment of a network of scholars, practitioners and writers who might continue transnational and transdisciplinary collaborative work related to exploring issues of racialisation, racism and coloniality. Further reading may include Dr. Eugenia Flynn’s book chapter “A (Sovereign) Body of Work: Australian Indigenous Literary Culture and the Literary Fiction Novel”, published in The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel (2023), and which she has kindly offered to share (https://flt.hypotheses.org/1897)