CWWF Seminar Day on the work of Marie Darrieussecq, IGRS, London,
Saturday 27th June 2009
10:30 – 11am: Arrival, Tea and Coffee
11 – 11:30am: Marie-Claire Barnet, Durham, TTBC
11:30am – 1pm : Panel on Truismes
Michèle Schaal, Indiana University, Bloomington, ‘Genre féminin et performance : implications du « je » comme « jeu » dans Truismes'
Julie Rodgers, National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
‘Marie Darrieussecq as a Woman Writer: Body Politics in Truismes'
Amaleena Damle, King's College, Cambridge, ‘Truismes : the simulation of a pig'
1 -2:30pm: Lunch
2 :30 - 3pm : Catherine Rodgers, Swansea, ‘Création ou Procréation ? La réponse de Marie Darrieussecq avec Le Bébé'
3 – 3 :30pm : Morag Young, independent, ‘ “J'ai mal au je-nous » : Marie Darrieussecq's innovative use of personal pronouns'
3:30 – 4pm: Simon Kemp, St John's College, Oxford, ‘The Ghost and the Machine: Minds and Spirits in Darrieussecq'
4 – 4:30pm: Conclusions? Round-table discussion
All welcome. No registration fee. Please contact Helena Chadderton to confirm attendance: h.chadderton@lancaster.ac.uk and let us know if you would like to join us for a reasonably priced lunch at the Pizza Paradiso, Store Street. With thanks to the Cassal bequest fund, we are pleased to be able to
offer some travel bursaries to help postgraduate students attend this
event. If you wish to apply, please email Gill Rye (gill.rye@sas.ac.uk),with details of your institutional affiliation, name of PhD supervisor, and cost of travel (cheapest possible).