2025: Comm(unities): From Universalism(s) and Otherness to Inclusion and Connections | Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

The Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association (DFSGSA), in collaboration with the LSU Program in Comparative Literature, invites researchers and students to a graduate student conference on the exploration of Universalism, Otherness, Inclusion, and Connection at its 2025 Annual Conference.

Links to Zoom Rooms:

Zoom Room A (March 28, 2025): Click Here
Zoom Room B (March 28, 2025): Click Here
Zoom Room A (March 29, 2025): Click Here
Zoom Room B (March 29, 2025): Click Here

2024-2025 DFSGSA Executive Committee

Wolé Olúgúnlẹ̀, President
Karen Amarteifio, Vice-President
Zull-Kifuly Moumouni, Treasurer
Trent Dunkin, Public Relations Officer
Rachel Kirk, Secretary

2025 Conference Abstract Review Committee

Trent Dunkin, Chair
Alicia Hilaire
Zull-Kifuly Moumouni
Ibrahim Nureni
Tajudeen Salaudeen

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Schedule
2025
Thursday, March 27th
4:00 PM	Opening Remarks Jeffrey M. Leichman, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Magnolia Room, LSU Student Union 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM	Keynote Address: "Récits d'Esclaves en Français: Traduction et Réparation" Pierre Saint-Amand, Yale University Magnolia Room, LSU Student Union 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
6:00 PM	Conference Dinner Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association The Club Room, The Club at LSU 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
7:00 PM	La Nuit des Idées: Building Solidarity across Difference LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies Villa Albertine Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans The Club at LSU 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, March 28th
11:00 AM	La Place de la Femme Africaine dans ce Monde Globalisé Ewoma Ishawe 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:00 AM	Madické, Reflet des Aspirations et Désillusions des Jeunes Africains dans Le Ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome Tajudeen Salaudeen, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM	En Suivant le Sentier sous les Palmiers, Femme, Tu Es une Héroïne de Guerre ! Zull-Kifuly Moumouni, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:20 AM	The Despotism of Fashion Style: Societal Control Over Individual Expression in Blues pour Élise by Leonora Miano and Black Bazar by Alain Mabancko Princewill Onomejoh, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM	Renforcer la Communauté et l'Inclusion : Nouvelles Approches Pédagogiques pour l'Enseignement et l'Apprentissage de la Langue Anglaise au Bénin Mawuèvo Tchérak Dossou, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
11:40 AM	The Intimate Public of Closet Drama: Sentimentality in the work of Joanna Baillie and Rose Mbowa Sarah Nansubuga, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM	L’Éducation, un Chemin Inévitable de l’Altérité à l’Inclusion: Un Récit de la Femme Africaine dans Aya De Yopougon (1-3) de Marguerite Abouet et Clément Oubrerie Nkonye Lolita Nmorka, Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba, Delta State 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
12:00 PM	Orality and Cultural Knowledge: The Case of Saheed Osupa’s Fuji Music Ibrahim Nureni, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
12:30 PM	Refreshment Break Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association 433 Hodges 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM	Inclusive Ecocriticism: Intersectional Approaches to Environmental Justice in Ovoranmwen N'Ogbaisi by Ola Rotimi Osakpolo Igbinovia, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
12:45 PM	Reducing Alienation in Foreign Language Acquisition: A Contrastive Analysis of Diacritical Marks in French and Nigerian Indigenous Languages (Yorùbá as a Case Study)—Pedagogical Insights Michael Adeoye, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Nigeria 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
1:05 PM	A stylolinguistic appraisal of Values, inclusion and otherness of 21st century Africa in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes Edirin Otegbale, Delta State University, Abraka 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
1:05 PM	Sapphire’s Push: Insights from Crenshaw’s Intersectionality Avril Akogun, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
1:25 PM	Cultural and Social Inclusion in Sexe et Mensonges: La Vie sexuelle au Maroc by Leïla Slimani: A Critical Perspective Elikwu Juliet Nwenenn, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
1:25 PM	Racial Dynamics and Hate Crimes: A Community-Level Investigation in Chicago Judith Amegbe, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Hyunsu Oh, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM	Exile and Alterity: Questioning the African Immigrant's Hybrid Identity in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique Taiwo Ogundeyi, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
1:45 PM	Mirrored Illusions: Representing Child Disability in Beninese Women’s Literature Sarah Djos-Raph, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Saturday, March 29th
11:00 AM	La Richesse Stylistique d’André Gide dans son Voyage au Congo: Peinture d’un Peuple dont la Musicalité reflète sa Profonde Humanité Germaine Kiangebeni, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 Hodges 434 / Zoom Room A 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:00 AM	Universalisme, Altérité, Inclusion et Connexion : Réflexion pour un Monde Juste et Pluriel Albain Billy Julio Sodossi, Association des Archivistes Documentalistes et Bibliothécaires du Bénin 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM	Altérité et Inclusion Culturelle à l’Ere des Algorithmes de l’Intelligence Artificielle Atman Mamadou Bouba, Université Senghor Alexandrie 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:20 AM	La Noire de… by Sembene Ousmane: Exclusion, Migration, and the Reclamation of Marginalized Narratives Gladys Kainyah, Mississippi State University Hodges 434 / Zoom Room A 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM	Digitalverse and the African Narratives: AI as a New Platform for African Cultural Preservation Sulaiman Babatunde, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies Nigerian French Language Village, Ajara Badagry, Nigeria Salaudeen Tajudeen, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
11:40 AM	La K-pop, sa Communauté et les Médias : La Musique comme Catalyseur de Changement dans le Cinéma, l'Art et la Culture Farda Anziza, University of New Mexico Hodges 434 / Zoom Room A 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM	Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in the Digital Age: A Reading of Evelyin Mankou L’instinct De Survie Gracious Ojiebun Eiloghosa Enogiowan 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
12:00 PM	Song, Dance, and Revolution: Brechtian theatrical tropes in Alex Mukulu’s 30 Years of Bananas and Asiimwe Deborah Kaawe’s Appointment with gOD Sarah Nansubuga, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Hodges 434 / Zoom Room A 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
12:30 PM	Refreshment Break Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association 433 Hodges 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM	Beyond Blood: Chosen Sisterhood and Collective Resilience in Léonora Miano’s Blues pour Élise. Karen Amarteifio, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
12:45 PM	L’Inclusion dans 60 millions et Oxytocine Chrys Amègan, CEG1-DANGBO 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM
1:05 PM	Constructing the Exiled Self: Identity and Displacement in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant Erin Consla, University of New Mexico 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
1:05 PM	Identité Ambiguë, Mémoire Traumatisée dans Petit Pays de Gaël Faye Israel Adegoke Owoseni, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
1:25 PM	Contextualizing Inclusion and Connection in an Absurd World: An Analysis of Albert Camus’ The Plague Peter Akongfeh Agwu, University of Calabar, Nigeria 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
1:25 PM	Le Phénomène des Enfants de la Rue dans la Société Contemporaine Africaine : Une Etude de la Voix de ma Rue de Sylvain Kean- Zoh et Allah n'Est pas Obligé d'Ahmadou Kourouma Wahabi Nourou, Département des Etudes Littéraires et Culturelles, Village Français du Nigéria , Ajara-Badagry, Lagos 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM	D'Hier à Aujourd'hui Junior Vinou, Université de Tours 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
1:45 PM	Sophocles’ Antigone in Francophone African Adaptation Pelumi Folajimi, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 436 Hodges / Zoom Room B 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
2:30 PM	Concluding Remarks: "Sanmao's Spain: A Taiwanese Author's Vision Of and Legacy in the Canary Islands" Wan Sonya Tang, Boston College 434 Hodges / Zoom Room A 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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