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Des «Africains» et des «Roms» en France… Instrumentalisation des discours ordinaires xénophobes (lecture) and “The Island of Women” film screening please visit: http://www.nyuiaaa.org/February 9, 2015 – February 10, 2015Institute of African American AffairsLa Maison FrançaiseInstitute of French Studies andCinema Studies DepartmentpresentDes «Africains» et des «Roms» en France…Instrumentalisation des discoursordinaires xenophobesLecture in French by Professor Cécile Canut, Sorbonne Paris Cité UniversityandFilm screening and talk in English with director Cécile CanutThe Island of Womenon Cape Verdean traditional dancersDATE: Monday, February 9th, 2015EVENT: Des «Africains» et des «Rom » en France… Instrumentalisation des discours ordinaires xenophobes lecture in French by Professor Cécile Canut, Sorbonne Paris CitéLOCATION: La Maison Française of NYU, 16 Washington Mews (corner of University Place)New York, NY 10003 www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaiseIn France, Bulgarian and Romanian migrants identified as “Roma” and usually living in slums are regularly the targets of categorizations, of rejection and of xenophobic violence. Even though other immigrated populations, such as Africans, have been subject to this type of ostracism for some time, the spectre of racism and xenophobia has spread under the effect of the diffusion of a number of political and media discourses. Whether coming from the right or the left of the political spectrum, these differentialist discourses stem from the highest level of the State, and have been regularly relayed by the media, thus legitimizing their presence within the French public space. Recently, several analysts (anthropologists, sociologists and politologists) have put forth the responsibility of political leaders in the ethnicization and racialization of French populations, by trivializing xenophobic comments, to the point where they are systematically relayed today. Though it is decisive, is this analysis sufficient? Is the process of division of the French population that is currently at hand only the result of recent discourses, coming from the top down, and only for electoral gain? By adopting a political sociolinguistic approach, Cécile Canut will attempt to show how processes of inter-subjective fluctuation imply apprehending the complexity of discourses as being partly linked, at the heart of the neoliberal logic, to the question of origin and of**(Please note : This lecture will be in French only)DATE: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015EVENT: The Island of Women (53 minutes, 2013)film screening and talk in English with director Cécile Canut on Cape Verdean traditional dancersLOCATION: Cinema Studies Dept-Tisch-NYU,721 Broadway, 6th floor Michelson TheaterJa, a young woman from Cabral, never went elsewhere in “search her life” like so many others Cape Verdeans do. She never left her village. Ja decides to travel around her island, in order to meet women who, like her, are engaged in the amazing bodily practice of batuke. In the course of her journey, we discover “the women who stay behind” and who overcome together, through the artistic expression of batuke, the harshness and the acuity of separation. Batuke is one of the oldest musical forms on the island of Santiago. Characterized by an euphoric pace, jerking movements of the body and an orchestration based on voices and percussions, it became primarily a feminine form of expression. Women have replaced the drum by a ball of fabric lodged between their legs, on which they bang. One of them sings poems that talk about daily life, difficulties of life as a couple, or separation. To survive, their husbands, brothers and also their sisters or mothers went away in order to feed the family that stayed home.**(Please note: this program will be in English)Programs are free and open to the public. Space is limited. For updates and information&#160;