Writers in Residence: Naomi Fontaine & Gisèle Pineau

The Winthrop-King Institute For Contemporary French & Francophone Studies

The Winthrop-King Institute is organizing a Writers in Residence week (March 25 - 29, 2024) with Naomi Fontaine & Gisèle Pineau.

Diffenbaugh Building, University Way, Tallahassee, FL, USA

~ <a href="https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/writers-residence-naomi-fontaine-and-gisele-pineau-1" title="https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/writers-residence-naomi-fontaine-and-gisele-pineau-1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Writers in Residence: Naomi Fontaine and Gisèle Pineau</a> ~~ <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/836912276147?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/836912276147?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Event Registration &amp; Tickets</a> ~The Winthrop-King will be sponsoring a Writers in Residence week (25-29 March 2024) with Naomi Fontaine &amp; Gisèle Pineau, inspired by Édouard Glissant’s thought, to encourage collaboration and connections between the works and communities these authors claim.As part of this week, the Winthrop-King has also organized a New Regions Symposium on 28-29 March 2024. In accordance with the aims of the New Regions initiative, we have papers and panels that examine the work of Naomi Fontaine and Gisèle Pineau, and especially the potential resonances between the two authors, and between communities, cultures, and histories in Quebec, Guadeloupe and the broader Caribbean. Naomi Fontaine was born in Uashat, an Innu community surrounded by the Sept-Îles Bay. She is a French teacher and writer in her home community. Her first novel, Kuessipan (Mémoire d’encrier, 2011), won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and was adapted into a feature-length film. In her second novel, Manikanetish (Mémoire d’encrier, 2017), Fontaine writes about education, return, and the effects of history on her students and community. She was named one of the “Women of the Year” by Elle Québec in 2011. Fontaine’s work is profoundly anticolonial and deeply engaged with the effects of history on the Innu community.Gisèle Pineau has written about exile, intolerance, violence, poverty, solitude, and love, over the course of her prolific writing career. She has won eleven literary prizes, most recently the Prix du roman historique (2021) for her novel from the same year, Ady, soleil noir. The work reconstructs the life of Adrienne Fidelin, a Guadeloupean woman who became the muse and model for the American surrealist Man Ray. In addition to being a writer, Gisèle Pineau spent close to twenty years as a psychiatric nurse. She has recently returned to Guadeloupe and lives on the island of Marie-Galante.The Winthrop-King Writers in Residence brings together these two women writers who give voice to communities and people who have historically been underrepresented. As part of the New Regions initiative, our aim is to create a space where two writers from two different communities can come together to generate new understandings and new relations. The authors will be in residence at Florida State University from 24-31 March 2024. During that time, the communities of Florida State University and Tallahassee will have the opportunity to meet and engage with them through a writing workshop, public readings, and the symposium. NEW REGIONS: REGENERATION, RE-CREATION, RELATIONA Winthrop-King InitiativeWe shall meet where the oceans joinwe are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. We believe that these foreshadowing wanderings, these foretelling obscurities, if they present themselves still today in overly apocalyptic contexts, would be no less propitious for a renewed energy of the matter of the world, or for a means of regeneration, as all the inaugural catastrophes appear to be, memories of a dizzying creation and whose varieties are difficult to foretell. (Édouard Glissant, A New Region of the World)

Agenda

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Writer's Workshop with Gisèle Pineau Part 1 [ROOM TBA]
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	        Lunch with Workshop Participants
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	        Writer's Workshop with Gisèle Pineau Part 2 [ROOM TBA]

Monday, March 25, 2024.

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	         Gisèle Pineau visits Prof. Vincent Joos' Class
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	 Campus Tour
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	         Lunch with Prof. Joos' Class
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	         Writer's Workshop with Gisèle Pineau Part 3 [ROOM TBA]

Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

11:35 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.	Translation Workshop [Diffenbaugh 009]
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	        Lunch with Workshop Participants
5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	        Keynote - Gisèle Pineau [Fine Arts 249]
5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.	        Film Screening - Fichues Racines [Fine Arts 249]
6:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	        Post-Screening Discussion/Q&A with Gisèle Pineau and Dr. Jeannine Murray-Román (FSU) [Fine Arts 249]

Writers in Residence: Naomi Fontaine & Gisèle Pineau

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