Thursday, November 30 – Maison de la Recherche, Schuman Campus, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence
Salle de colloque 2
2:00 PM -3.30 PM
Roundtable: “Traduire Claude McKay/ Translating McKay” (organized jointly with the International College of Literary Translators in Arles)
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Translation workshop convened by Sara Greaves (AMU) and Alexis Nuselovici (AMU)
6 :00 PM: Opening Reception
Friday, December 1 – Auditorium, Musée d’Histoire, Marseilles
In partnership with the Musée d’histoire in Marseilles
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Plenary lecture
Ernest Mitchell, Yale University
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee and Tea
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mediators, Editors, and Networks I
Editing McKay’s Letters
Chair: Claudine Raynaud, Université Montpellier III
Gary Holcomb (Ohio University); Brooks Hefner (James Madison University)
McKay and the Global Periodical Studies
Louise Kane (University of Florida): “Transmediterranean Trajectories: McKay, Morocco, and Marseille”
1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 PM Transatlantic and Trans-Mediterranean Circulations
Chair: Céline Mansanti (UPJV)
Kerry Jane Wallart (Université d’Orléans): “Modes of Address and Performative Inclusions, in Claude McKay’s Poetry”
Eileen Julien (Indiana University): “Meeting-Up: Nomads and Cosmopolitans in Marseilles”
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Tea and Coffee
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Marseilles at the Crossing
Chair: Catherine Mazauric and Anne Reynes-Delobel (AMU)
Daniel Tödt (Universität Konstanz): “A Long Way from Home: Life Journey of African Maritime Workers in Interwar Marseilles”
Céline Régnard (AMU, TeleMME): « Marseille ville-monde dans l’entre-deux-guerres »
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Mediators, Editors, Networks II
Roundtable :
Chair: Benoît Tadié, Université Paris-Nanterre
Céline Mansanti (Université Picardie Jules-Verne): « Primo-publication et réception des œuvres de Claude McKay en France (1924-1934) »
Claudine Raynaud (emerita, Université Montpellier III): « Passage de McKay à The Liberator et The Workers’ Dreadnought »
Richard Bradbury (emeritus, University of Exeter): “McKay and the Literary Avant-Garde in the Twenties”
Saturday, December 2 – Conservatoire Pierre-Barbizet, Marseilles
In partnership with the Esthétique(s) Jazz Conference 2023
9:00 AM: Welcome Coffee
9:00 AM-12:00 AM Claude McKay – Musical Crossings
9:00 AM -10:00 AM
Yannick Seité (Université de Tours) : « Les traversées de Gene Bullard »
Emmanuel Parent (Université de Rennes 2) : «Shake That Thing de Papa Charlie Jackson»
Benoît Tadié (Université Paris-Nanterre) : « Jazz et poésie chez Claude McKay: “The Negro Dancers”»
11:00 AM – 12:00 AM McKay and Jazz Music
Roundtable
Convenor: Yannick Seité
Presenters: Matthieu Verdeil, Mike Ladd, Emmanuel Parent, Raphaël Imbert, Benoît Tadié
