Veuillez trouver ci-dessous le programme du Congres annuel de la Society of French Studies :
Society for French Studies
49th Annual Conference
University of Liverpool
30 June- 2 July 2008
Monday 30th June
12.00 Registration
12.00 Session for Postgraduate Students, including lunch
12:30-1.30 Buffet lunch for all delegates
1.30 Welcome by the President of the Society for French Studies, Simon Gaunt (King's College London)
1:35 Plenary Lecture 1
Chair: Simon Gaunt
Max Silverman (University of Leeds),
' "Noeuds de memoire": the Holocaust, colonialism and cultural memory'
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 – 5.00 PANEL SESSIONS 1
Slavery
Chair: Lorna Milne (University of St. Andrews)
Rachel Douglas (University of Liverpool), ‘History repeats itself: Slavery today in Haitian Literature'
Maeve McCusker (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Compensatory acts: Accounting for Slavery'
Dwain C. Pruitt (Morgan State University), ‘The “Négresse Who Lives Behind Your Garden”'
Aesthetics of Writing in Medieval France
Chair: James Simpson (University of Glasgow)
Catherine Attwood (University of Nottingham), ‘Fortune and the Aesthetics of Contraries in the Later Middle Ages'
Thomas Hinton (King's College London), 'The Aesthetics of Communication: Fertility and Fidelity in the Conte del Graal Cycle'
Jane Taylor (Durham University), ‘An Aesthetics of Antithesis: The “Combat érotique” in the Fifteenth Century'
Rethinking narratives of war and occupation in France: a preliminary bilan
Chair: Christopher Lloyd (Durham University)
Nina Sutherland (University of Leeds), ‘Reassessing Narratives of War and Occupation'
Richard Harness (Durham University), ‘ Degrees of Collaboration'
Ruth Kitchen (University of Leeds), ‘Reading Guilt ‘
Cocteau
Chair: James Williams (Royal Holloway London)
Derek Connon (Swansea University), ‘Cocteau and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: The Case of the Disappearing Author?'
Benjamin Andréo (Aberystwyth University), ‘Virologie poétique : cinéma de la crise et (dé)limite du poétique chez Jean Cocteau'
Candice Nicolas (Earlham College, Indiana), ‘Jean Cocteau, de la prose à la poésie
cinématographique'
5.30 Buses to the International Slavery Museum
6.0 Plenary Lecture 2 at the International Slavery Museum
Chair: Celia Britton (University College London)
Christopher L. Miller (Yale University)
‘Abolishing the French Slave Trade: The Channel and the Atlantic'
7:15 Reception and Buffet hosted by the Vice-Chancellor and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, and the Centre from the Study of International Slavery
Tuesday 1st July
7.45 – 8.45 Breakfast
9.00 – 10.00 Annual General Meeting of the Society for French Studies
10.00 – 11.00 Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session
11.00 - 1.00 PANEL SESSIONS 2
The Politics of Culture
Chair: Mike Kelly (University of Southampton)
Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University), ‘Culture, Commerce or Technology? French Videogaming and Public Policy'
Murray Pratt (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Displacement and Plurality at the Movies'
Keith Reader (University of Glasgow), ‘Cultural Topography – A New Growth Area for French Studies?'
Hannes Opelz (St. John's College, Cambridge), 'Maurice Blanchot and the Politics of Literature (1931-1937)'
Francité/Québecité (1608-2008)
Chair : Bill Marshall, University of Stirling
Mayyada Kheir (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), ‘Une laïcité québécoise?'
Ceri Morgan (University of Keele), ‘Cartographier la memoire: Hier de Nicole Brossard'
Mike C. Vienneau (Université de Montréal), ‘Dire la Québécité et la rendre visible'
Holocaust writing in French
Chair: Kay Chadwick (University of Liverpool)
Manuel Bragança (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Survivre après la Shoah: Les Bagages de sable d'Anna Langfus (prix Goncourt 1962)'
Lucille Cairns (Durham University), ‘Shoah: Two Female Testimonials'
Fransiska Louwagie (University of Leuven), ‘Entre altérité et autorité'
Angela O'Flaherty (University College Cork), ‘Survival, Shame and the Individual in the Holocaust writing of Anna Langfus‘
Image, Music, Travel
Chair : Tim Unwin (University of Bristol)
Corinne François Deneve (University of Liverpool), ‘La Route des Indes – images et clichés'
Jean-Xavier Ridon (University of Nottingham), ‘Le Quatuor Cingalais de Nicolas Bouvier'
Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh), ‘Travelling in Time: Chantal Akerman's D'Est (1993)'
Catharine Mee (The Queen's College, Oxford), ‘Photographic Encounters: The Camera as Social Tool in French Travel Narratives'
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3
France and Iberia
Chair: Noel Peacock (University of Glasgow)
Edward Boothroyd (University of Birmingham), ‘Spanish Theatre in Occupied Paris'
Ali Rizavi, (Oxford University), ‘From Page to Stage'
Andreea Weisl-Shaw (Cambridge University), 'The Comedy of Didacticism and the Didacticism of Comedy in Medieval French and Spanish Tales'
Montaigne
Chair: Neil Kenny (Cambridge University)
Emily Butterworth (King's College London), ‘Un flux de caquet: Excessive Speech and Ethical Speech in Montaigne'
Elizabeth Guild (Robinson College, Cambridge), ‘Love Letters?'
Marcus Keller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ‘Frenchness in the Essais'
Silence ou le non-dit: Worlds Without Words
Chair: Susan Harrow (University of Bristol)
Erika Fülöp (University of Aberdeen), ‘Wordless Moments: The Tacit Presence of the Absolute in Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu'
Sylvie Lannegrand (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Une “écriture gouvernée par le blanc”: L'Eloignement du monde de Christian Bobin'
Christopher Watkin (Magdelene College, Cambridge), ‘Unspoken Remains: Religious and Secular Silence in Badiou'
Testimony, Memory, History
Chair : Emma Wilson (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
Claire Boyle (University of Edinburgh), ''Queer(ing) Testimony in André Téchiné's Les Témoins'
Claire Launchbury (Royal Holloway London), ‘Figures of Humanity: Rehabilitation, Testimony and Transfiguration''
Colette Wilson (University of Kent), ‘Remembering Paris and the Commune in the 21st century'
3.30 Tea
4.00 – 5.30 Plenary 3 (Plenary panel)
Chair: Margaret Atack (University of Leeds)
'Simone de Beauvoir 2008: A Centenary Panel'?
Toril Moi (Duke University), ‘Beauvoir and Literature'
Elizabeth Fallaize (St. John's College, Oxford), 'Beauvoir's Independent Woman'
Ursula Tidd (University of Manchester), 'Simone de Beauvoir and the Mirage of the Other'
7:00 Reception sponsored by the Service Culturel of the French Embassy, in the Barber Institute
8.00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 2nd July
7.45 – 8.45 Breakfast
9.00 – 11.00 PANEL SESSIONS 4
Fiction as Theory
Chair : Patrick ffrench (King's College London)
Sophie Fuggle (King's College London) ‘Saint Paul's Second Road to Damascus: The New (Imaginary) Friend of Continental Philosophy?'
Diana Holmes (University of Leeds), ‘”Ecrire est un verbe transitif”: Nancy Huston and the Nature of the Novel'
Kathrin Yacavone (University of Edinburgh), ‘Fiction and Theory? Roland Barthes's La Chambre claire'
Maria Scott (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Stendhal, Beauvoir, and Stories of Female Freedom'
The Rhetoric of Silence
Chair: Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork)
Jane Southwood (University of New England), ‘Silence et non-dit dans L'Oeuvre au Noir de Marguerite Yourcenar
Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway London) ‘Unspoken Bodies: Silence and Corporeal Horror in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'
Tom Wynn (University of Exeter), ‘The Unspeakable Queen: The Problem of Subjectivity in Corneille's Rodogune'
Jurate D. Kaminskas (Queen`s University, Canada) ‘Le rôle du silence dans la mise en scène des paysans dans La Terre d'Emile Zola'
The art of the portrait: visual arts, literary, political, satirical
Chair: Anne Green (King's College London)
Emma Bielecki (King's College London), ‘The Museum, the Market and the Novel: the death of the collector in Balzac's Le Cousin Pons'
Jennifer Burris (King's College, Cambridge), ‘The Banality of Clones: The Work of Gilles Barbier'
Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck College London), ‘Portrait of a Life/Proof of Life: Annie Ernaux's L'Usage de la Photo'
Áine Larkin (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Saint-Loup as Portrait Photographer in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu'
Travel and text
Chair : Nicola Cooper (University of Swansea)
Sabine van Wesemael (University of Amsterdam), ‘Plateforme de Michel Houellebecq et La Fascination du pire de Tristan Zeller'
Sura Qadiri (Newnham College, Cambridge), ‘Significations of the Orientation towards Mecca in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Cette Aveuglante Absence de lumière and Amin Maalouf's Leon L'Africain
Vincent Bruyère (University of Warwick), ‘Jean de Lery and the Signature of the Other'
Chris Bongie (Queen's University Canada), ‘Marketing Poetics: Edouard Glissant's Travelling Theory'
11.00 Coffee
11.30 – 12.45 Plenary Lecture 4
Chair : Sarah Kay (Princeton University)
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Paris IV)
‘Penser la littérature médiévale : Par-delà le binarisme'
1.00 Lunch
End of Conference