{"id":4839,"date":"2024-05-28T10:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:26:33","slug":"symposium-reassessing-the-enslaved-voice-new-perspectives-on-the-narrative-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/cfp\/symposium-reassessing-the-enslaved-voice-new-perspectives-on-the-narrative-of-slavery\/4839\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium \u201cReassessing the Enslaved Voice: New Perspectives on the Narrative of Slavery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appel \u00e0 communications \u2013 Journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tude \u2013 28 mars 2025<br \/>\n\u00ab Repenser la voix des esclaves : nouvelles perspectives sur le r\u00e9cit de l\u2019esclavage \u00bb<br \/>\nMarie-Pierre Baduel et H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Charlery (Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s, UT2 \u2013 Center for Anglophone Studies, CAS)<\/p>\n<p>[Please Scroll down for the English version]<\/p>\n<p>Conf\u00e9rence pl\u00e9ni\u00e8re : Sophie White (Universit\u00e9 Notre Dame, Indiana)<\/p>\n<p>Selon Philon d\u2019Alexandrie (20 av. JC \u2013 45 apr. JC), l\u2019esclavage est par nature l\u2019\u00e9tat d\u2019\u00eatre sans voix, une non-personne n\u2019ayant, par d\u00e9finition, rien \u00e0 dire (Quod omnis probus, 48). Jusque dans les ann\u00e9es 1950, la voix des esclaves n\u2019\u00e9tait pas prise en compte ou tr\u00e8s peu consid\u00e9r\u00e9e dans l\u2019\u00e9tude et l\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019histoire de l\u2019esclavage, soit parce que les historiens utilisaient des m\u00e9thodes quantitatives pour d\u00e9crire ce syst\u00e8me, soit parce que les sources d\u2019acteurs blancs \u00e9taient privil\u00e9gi\u00e9es. Ulrich B. Philips, par exemple, \u00e9crivait en 1929 que l\u2019authenticit\u00e9 des r\u00e9cits d\u2019esclaves en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral devait \u00eatre syst\u00e9matiquement remise en question (Philips 1929, 219). Depuis les ann\u00e9es 1960, l\u2019approche quantitative n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 abandonn\u00e9e, mais \u00e0 celle-ci s\u2019est ajout\u00e9 une prise en compte de nouvelles sources provenant des personnes esclavagis\u00e9es, avec l\u2019essor notamment du Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques (Livesey 2022) et l\u2019av\u00e8nement d\u2019une histoire sociale (Aje et Raynaud 2022, 10).<br \/>\nAndrea Livesey parle d\u2019une \u201cmicrohistoire\u201d pour qualifier cette tendance \u00e0 recourir aux histoires individuelles, en mettant l\u2019accent sur la fa\u00e7on dont les trajectoires des individus illustrent une histoire collective (on peut citer, par exemple, dans l\u2019historiographie r\u00e9cente, Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, 2009 ou encore Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for their Pound of Flesh, 2017). Depuis la fin des ann\u00e9es 2000, se sont donc multipli\u00e9es les \u00e9tudes biographiques et microhistoriques qui placent les personnes esclavagis\u00e9es et leur famille au centre de leur histoire, en utilisant notamment les archives judiciaires (Peabody 2022) mais pas uniquement. Les personnes esclavagis\u00e9es ont une voix, et les sources o\u00f9 trouver ces voix se diversifient et se multiplient. Ainsi, depuis une vingtaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es, la notion de voix s\u2019\u00e9largit dans l\u2019historiographie et les historiens et critiques litt\u00e9raires cherchent celle-ci dans d\u2019autres sources que les traditionnels r\u00e9cits d\u2019esclaves, qui ne sont pas repr\u00e9sentatifs de l\u2019ensemble des esclaves \u00e0 plus d\u2019un titre. Les chercheur.e.s sont invit\u00e9s \u00e0 aller au-del\u00e0 de ces r\u00e9cits (Deborah Jenson en fait d\u2019ailleurs le titre de sa monographie, Beyond the Slave Narrative, publi\u00e9e en 2011).<br \/>\nCette journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tude propose de prolonger cette discussion sur la notion de voix, en l\u2019\u00e9largissant aux notions de pr\u00e9sence et de traces laiss\u00e9es par les personnes esclavagis\u00e9es, souvent r\u00e9duites au silence, dans les diff\u00e9rentes sources disponibles aux chercheurs.e.s. L\u2019objectif de cette journ\u00e9e est de d\u00e9battre des archives et des documents dans lesquels ces voix sont pr\u00e9sentes. La journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tude a pour objectif d\u2019explorer ces sources nouvelles et archives et d\u2019analyser la fa\u00e7on dont celles-ci peuvent offrir une vision plus compl\u00e8te de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de l\u2019esclavage. L\u2019historiographie contemporaine offre un certain nombre de pistes que cette journ\u00e9e d&rsquo;\u00e9tude propose d\u2019interroger (liste non exhaustive) :<br \/>\n\u2013 Voix\/pr\u00e9sence\/trace des esclaves dans les archives,<br \/>\n\u2013 Le silence, corollaire de la voix, et sa place dans la reconstruction des histoires individuelles mais aussi de l\u2019histoire collective,<br \/>\n\u2013 Influence de la tendance historiographique d\u2019une histoire mondiale de l\u2019esclavage,<br \/>\n\u2013 La multiplicit\u00e9 des voix et des r\u00e9cits au sein d\u2019une m\u00eame source,<br \/>\n\u2013 La place qu\u2019occupent la fiction et la fictionnalisation dans les r\u00e9cits de l\u2019esclavage (\u00e0 entendre dans une acception plus large que les traditionnels r\u00e9cits d\u2019esclaves),<br \/>\n\u2013 Les enjeux m\u00e9moriels de ces nouvelles perspectives,<br \/>\n\u2013 Quelles pistes pour l\u2019avenir de l\u2019historiographie ?<br \/>\nLes propositions de communication de 500 mots, en fran\u00e7ais ou en anglais, accompagn\u00e9es d\u2019une bibliographie indicative et d\u2019une notice biographique de 150 mots sont \u00e0 envoyer \u00e0 Marie-Pierre Baduel (marie-pierre.baduel) et \u00e0 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Charlery (helene.charlery) avant le 18 octobre 20<\/p>\n<p>Call for Papers \u2013 Symposium \u2013 March 28, 2025 =\u201cReassessing the Enslaved Voice: New Perspectives on the Narrative of Slavery\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marie-Pierre Baduel et H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Charlery (Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s, UT2 \u2013 Center for Anglophone Studies, CAS)<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speech: Sophie White (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)<\/p>\n<p>For Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE \u2013 45 CE), \u201cslavery was in the nature of things a state of voicelessness: a non-person by definition had nothing to say[1]\u201d (Quod omnis probus 48). Until the 1950s, the voices of the enslaved were completely disregarded or considered of little importance in the study and the writing of the history of slavery, either because historians used quantitative methods to describe this oppressive system, or because white sources were preferred. Ulrich B. Philips, for example, wrote in 1929 that the authenticity of slave narratives as a whole was doubtful (Philips 1929, 219). Since the 1960s, the quantitative approach has not been discarded, but along with it, new sources emanating from the enslaved themselves were given consideration, in correlation with the Civil Rights Movement (Livesey 2022) and the appearance of social history (Aje and Raynaud 2022, 10).<br \/>\nAndrea Lindsey evokes the concept of \u201cmicrohistory,\u201d&rsquo; to study individual stories and emphasize the way individual trajectories inform and illustrate a collective history (Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, 2009 or Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for their Pound of Flesh, 2017). More and more biographical and microhistorical studies have become available since the end of the 2000s. They have also broadened the types of archives (for instance judiciary archives) to analyze sources that are placing enslaved people and their families at the center of their stories (Peabody 2022). Enslaved people have a voice, and the sources where these voices can be found have become more numerous and diversified. Thus, the notion of voice has widened in the historiography of the last twenty years, and historians and literary critics are searching for it in sources other than the traditional slave narratives, to go \u201cbeyond the slave narrative\u201d as Deborah Jenson put it in the title of her 2011 book.<br \/>\nThis one-day symposium invites researchers to prolong this conversation about the voice of enslaved people, and to broaden it to the presence or traces left by enslaved people in a variety of sources available to them. The objective of this symposium is also to discuss the archives and the documents in which these voices can be found and heard. The aim is also to explore new sources and archives and to analyze the ways in which they can offer a more comprehensive vision of the experience of slavery. Contemporary historiography offers various paths that could be explored during this one-day symposium (non-exhaustive list):<br \/>\n\u2013 Voice \/ presence \/ traces left by enslaved people in the archives,<br \/>\n\u2013 Silence and its importance in the reconstruction of individual and collective histories,<br \/>\n\u2013 The globalization of the historiography of the study of slavery and its consequences<br \/>\n\u2013 Multiple voices and stories within the same source,<br \/>\n\u2013 The place occupied by fiction and fictionnalisation in the narratives of slavery (in a wider sense than the traditional slave narratives),<br \/>\n\u2013 The stakes of these new perspectives on the memorialization of slavery,<br \/>\n\u2013 What new paths for the future of the historiography of narratives of slavery?<br \/>\nProposals for papers, in French or in English (abstracts of 500 words, a list of works cited and a 150-word biographical notice) are to be sent to Marie-Pierre Baduel (marie-pierre.baduel) and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Charlery (helene.charlery) before October 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Translation by K.R. 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