20 May 2026
"The Nardal Sisters: Conveying the Black World in Print"
Paris, France
The École des modernités
Writter, translator and journalist from Martinique, Paulette Nardal works to make Paris an intellectual capital of the black world during the interwar.With her sisters Jeanne and Andrée, she transforms her "salon" in Clamart (Paris region) into a place of cultural and international art meeting where the black condition is discussed.
A real "transatlantic conveyor", she creates in 1931 La Revue du monde noir, bilingual publication that adresses questions related to the black condition through history, sociology, arts, literature and cultural news.
This lecture highlights—in addition to her essential role in interwar thought—the place the visual arts occupied during that period.
Image : Le groupe de La Revue du monde noir devant le 7 de la rue Hébert, à Clamart, le 26 juin 1932, Jeanne et Paulette Nardal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Clara Shepard, Photographe inconnu, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
20 May at 6.30 pm
At the Giacometti Lab and on live on Youtube
By Brent Hayes Edwards
Lecture in French
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