EXPOSURE
The 6th Cambridge French Graduate Research Conference, to be held at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge on 26th March 2002
Papers will focus on the theme of 'exposure' in French literature, theory and visual media from a range of periods.
Guest speakers: Dr. Elza Adamowicz, Professor Simon Gaunt, Dr. Nicholas Harrison, Professor Alain Viala
PROGRAMME:
9.15 Welcome: Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett
9.30 BODILY REVELATIONS Chair: Rima Devereaux, St. John's College, Cambridge
- Mélisse Lafrance (Wadham College, Oxford): 'Exposing the body: Didier Anzieu and the psychoanalysis of skin' - Helen Swift (Magdalen College, Oxford): '(Un)covering truth 'au plus prez de la verité' : speaking 'proprement' in late medieval French poetry'
- Dr. Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary, London): 'Lifting the mask? Claude Cahun's photomontage self-portraits'
11.00 Coffee/tea
11.30 PRESENTING THE UNREPRESENTABLE Chair: Simon Kemp, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Mary Anne Franks (Wadham College, Oxford): 'Controlled exposure: Courbet's L'Origine du monde and the containment of the woman/object'
- Professor Simon Gaunt (King's College, London): 'Exposing the secrets of the heart in medieval narrative'
- Libby Saxton (St John's College, Cambridge): 'Through the spy-hole: cinema's indecent exposures'
1.00 Lunch
2.00 AUDIENCES AND PRODUCTIONS: STAGING EXPOSURE Chair: Fiona Handyside,Queen Mary, London
- Professor Alain Viala (Université de Paris 3; Wadham College, Oxford)
- Tom Wynn: (Oxford): 'Eighteenth-century French erotic theatre'
- Cathy Wardle (Jesus College, Cambridge): 'Exposing female desire: narrative, pornography and romance in Marie Nimier's La Nouvelle Pornographie'
3.30 Coffee/tea
4.00 WRITING THE SELF Chair: Emma Gilby, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Dr. Nicholas Harrison (University College, London): 'Veils, voices and self-exposure: issues of representation in the work of Assia Djebar' - Daniel Andersson (Warburg Institute, London): 'The expense of spirit in a waste of shame: Aristotelian exposures in Montaigne'
- Rakhee Balaram (Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge): 'Blood, sweat, and tears: exposing the limits of the body in écriture féminine'
Further information and speaker abstracts can be found on our website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/grad_conf/. The conference organisers, Kathryn Banks and Joe Harris, can be contacted on frenchconference@hotmail.com
The cost of registration will be £15 (£10 for post-graduate students). Tea, coffee and lunch are included. Please register by March 19th. Information
on how to register can be found at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/grad_conf/register.html
Generously supported by the Department of French, Cambridge University and the Society for French Studies
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Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : Francofil)