Trica Keaton, FIAS FP x Iméra 2024-2025 fellow, is taking part in the « Noir.e.s » dans la cité round table at the inaugural BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE symposium, taking place on May 22 and 23, 2025 on the theme of ‘Gendered identities, racialized spaces’.
BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE inaugural symposium
“Black” French Studies is a capacious field that merits exploration along multiple lines of inquiry. One of the most compelling questions to arise in this field is the matter of how race and gender have long intersected, shaping the lived experience of “Black” French women, girls, and non-binary people. The inaugural BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE symposium offers a series of roundtables that address this question from a variety of angles – from intellectual history to contemporary media, from art and performance to activism, from storytelling to sport.
Over two days of dialogue, study, critique, provocation, and celebration, the symposium will consider intellectual, creative, and political possibilities that are both rooted in the past and committed to fashioning more just futures. Thinking in a transoceanic frame, participants will take up specific pistes de réflexion concerning the crucial and longstanding contributions of gendered and racialized individuals and communities within the francophone world.
« Noir.e.s » dans la cité
The theme of this first edition is ‘Gendered identities, racialized spaces’. Among the many round tables, Trica Keaton, FIAS FP x Iméra 2024-2025 fellow, is taking part in the one entitled « Noir.e.s » dans la cité (‘Blacks’ in the city). She will be speaking alongside Christiane Taubira, former French Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2016.
Friday, May 23, 2025 from 11.45am to 1.15pm at Maison du Parc, 14 rue de l’Épine Prolongée, Bagnolet
« Noir.e.s » dans la cité with:
- Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
- Trica Keaton
- Olivette Otele
- Christiane Taubira
- Assa Traore
