WINTHROP-KING EVENTS 2016/2017 Film Screening: Francofonia by Alexander Sokurov October 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Student Life Cinema Screening of Selfie with Sokurov followed by roundtable discussion October 11, 2016 at 3:00-5:30 p.m. at the Student Life Cinema. Screening of Alexander Sokurov's Francofonia and premiere screening of Selfie with Sokurov, a filmed interview with Alexander Sokurov (Dragan Kujundzic, 2015) followed by a roundtable discussion of Francofonia. Roundtable participants: Dr. Laurent Dubreuil, (Cornell University) Dr. Dragan Kujundzic, (University of Florida) Dr. Sergey Toymentsev, (Florida State University), Dr. Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, (Florida State Univrsity) The Performance of Pan-Africanism: from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals International Conference 20-22 October, 2016 at the Student Service Building (SSB) and the Globe On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Dakar ’66, the conference seeks to examine the festival and its multiple legacies, in order to help us better to understand both the utopianism of the 1960s and the ‘festivalization’ of Africa that has occurred in recent decades. Writer-in-Residence, Rodney Saint-Eloi Spring 2017 Publisher, essayist, and award-winning poet Rodney Saint-Eloi will work on his latest collection of poetry, and be involved in a range of activities with faculty and students. Retour au Cahier and Notre Cahier Film Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker Fabienne Kanor January 31, 2017 Filmmaker and author Fabienne Kanor presents two of her films, Retour au Cahier and Notre Cahier, which explore the genesis and ongoing legacy of Césaire's landmark work. Retour au Cahier traces Césaire's writing of Notebook and Notre Cahier stages contemporary readings of Césaire's Notebook in Martinique. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session. Both films are in French. A Performance Lecture by Fabienne Kanor Public Lecture February 1, 2017 Filmmaker and author Fabienne Kanor offers an innovative performative reading that draws from her novels, including HUMUS (2006), FAIRE L'AVENTURE (2014), JE NE SUIS PAS UN HOMME QUI PLEURE (2016), as well as excerpts from SOME FEET, MY FOOT a short documentary about being black in France. Photo by Thomas Langdon A Public Lecture by Michael Deibert Haiti will not Perish March 7, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. Michael Deibert's writing has appeared in the the Guardian, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, Le Monde diplomatique, Folha de Sao Paulo and the World Policy Journal, among other venues. In 2012, he was awarded a grant from the International Peace Research Association and, in 2008, he was selected as a finalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, sponsored by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in recognition of his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Deibert will be reading from his new book on contemporary Haiti..