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[Registration:] New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds (Lancaster, UK)

[Registration:] New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds (Lancaster, UK)

Publié le par Romain Bionda (Source : Erika Fülöp)

Registration is now open for the next conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (subject to change), which will take place at Lancaster University on the 13th and 14th of September.

To register, please click here. Early bird registration fees apply until the 1st of August. (Please note that the bursaries that result in a reduced registration fee for PG students and unwaged colleagues are available to speakers only and are limited in number).

With any practical queries, please email the Conference Assistant, Kirsty Bennett at k.bennett3@lancaster.ac.uk. With questions regarding the programme or content please contact Erika Fülöp at e.fulop@lancaster.ac.uk.

 

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France

New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds

Lancaster University 13-14 September 2018

Programme

 

Thursday 13 September

 9.00-9.30 Welcome by Chris Tinker, President of the ASMCF

 9.30-11.00: Panel 1: Language, Technology, Pedagogy

- Tlili Ameni (Université de Rouen), Nouvelles formes d’expression dans le monde francophone: le cas de la Tunisie

- Mohammed Aguidi, Les applications mobiles d’apprentissage du français destinées aux arabophones: quel français à apprendre ? Quelle est la nature des dispositifs pédagogiques introduits?

- John McKeane (University of Reading), Queen of the Sciences? Philosophy and the French Baccalaureate

11-11.30 Refreshments

11.30-12.30: Panel 2: Digital Memories

- David Cummings (Université d’Avignon), Websites of memory: Pied-noir digital returns to l’Algérie française

- Greta Bliss (University of North Carolina), Vivid interventions: documentary in post-revolution Tunisia

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Panel 3: Women and Their Representation

- James Illingworth (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Cette langue nouvelle’: George Sand’s Experimentalism

- Aude Campmas (University of Southampton),  Corps à corps. ‘Moule, poulpe, pulpe, vulve’ chez Verne et Hugo

- Abigail Taylor (University of Sheffield), Expressing household work practices: What place for domestic services?

- Yasmine Boubakir (Lancaster University), Women in Algerian narratives

15.30-16.00 Refreshments

16.00-17.00 ASMCF Annual Meeting

17.00 Peter Morris Memorial Lecture

Alexandra Saemmer (Université de Paris 8), Reprendre la main sur le sens: prolégomènes à une littérature post-numérique

18.45 Small Group Meetings (Women in French; Postgraduate Meeting)

19.15 Wine reception

20.00 Conference dinner

 

Friday 14 September

9.30-11.00 Parallel sessions: 

Panel 4A: From the margins

- Jonathan Lewis (University of Liverpool), (Im)Mobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous

- Mohammed Bouaddis (Lancaster University), ‘Les voix qui resurgissent, au delà de la banlieue!’: discourses and strategies of centripetal writing in Faïza Guène's Kiffe kiffe demain (2004) and Les rêves pour des oufs (2006)

- Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University), The Francophone African dictator-novel

Panel 4B: New Media, Intermediality, and Hybridity

- Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester), Shakespeare and Intermedial Translation on the twenty-first Century French Stage

- Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London), Generic hybridity, popular culture, and multimedia in Chloé Delaume’s interactive and immersive fictions

- Erika Fülöp (Lancaster University), Qu'est-ce que la LittéraTube? Emergent practices of ‘vidéo-écriture’ on YouTube 

11-11.30 Refreshments

11.30-12.30: Keynote:

Nathalie Brillant Rannou (Université de Rennes 2), Vidéos de lecteurs, booktubing, littératube: nouvelle élaboration de la réception en littérature

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Parallel sessions:

Panel 5A: Authorial Constructions

- Ashley Harris (Queen’s University Belfast), Multimedia and post-textual authordom: Beigbeder and Houellebecq

- Chris Tinker (Herriott-Watt University), Contestation and consensus in posthumous press coverage of Johnny Hallyday

- Mike McKenna (Queen’s University Belfast), Édouard Glissant’s querelle avec l’Archive

- Ruairidh Patfield (University of Newcastle), ‘In Paris, like San Francisco’: The representation of hippiedom through musical discourse in late-1960s France

Panel 5B: Politiquement (In)Correct

- Rim Bardaoui (University of Tunis), La caricature tunisienne francophone à l’ère du printemps arabe: à l’épreuve du « politiquement correct »

- Dyhia Bia (University of Stirling), A Carnivalesque disavowal of the Post-independence Fiasco

- Douglas Morrey (University of Warwick), New forms of religious expression? MichelHouellebecq’s Soumission (2015)

- Thomas Martin (Lancaster University), Contemporary political discourse

15.30-16.00 Refreshments

16.00-17.00 Parallel sessions :

Panel 6A: Poetic Spaces

- Lauren Quigley (Queen’s University Belfast) Writing the infraordinary in Roubaud’s Ode à la ligne 29 and La forme d’une ville

- Delphine Grass (Lancaster University), TBC

Panel 6B: Freedom of Speech and Dissent

- Christopher O’Neill (Aston University), Sennep and the expression of dissent under Vichy

- Clare Siviter (University College London), 'Out with the old and in with the new?’ Reassessing theatrical bestsellers of the Revolution

17.00 Closing remarks and end of conference