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FRENCH STUDIES IN OXFORD: POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
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On Thursday 23 and Friday 24 November, the Maison Francaise in Oxford is hosting a conference of postgraduate students working in French Studies at Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities.
Staff and postgraduate students from other institutions are very warmly invited to attend. We are very pleased indeed to be able to welcome Professor Marian Hobson and Professor Georges Molinie, on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon respectively. (Programme below)
There is no charge for attendance, or for tea and coffee, but lunch at the Maison, if desired, must be ordered in advance by sending a cheque for six pounds per lunch, payable to 'Stella Carter', by 15 November 2000, to Claire Stevenson at the Maison Francaise, Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE.
All events take place at the Maison Francaise, Norham Road, Oxford, except the film screening at MTC, Somerville College. With enquiries or for any further information, including directions, please contact either Oliver Davis at Wadham College (oliver.davis@wadh.ox.ac.uk), Nicola Luckhurst at Somerville College (nicola.luckhurst@somerville.ox.ac.uk), or Valerie Worth-Stylianou at Oxford Brookes (VALERIE@sol.brookes.ac.uk).
This conference has been organized jointly by the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford Brookes School of Languages and the Maison Francaise, with the generous support of the Society for French Studies.
The programme is as follows:
Day 1 (Thursday 23 November):
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10.30 Registration and coffee.
10.45-11.00 Welcome to the Maison Francaise by the Director, Professor Jean-Claude Sergeant
11.00-12.00 Opening address:
Professor Marian Hobson (Queen Mary & Westfield College), 'Research: risk / assessment', Chair: Professor Malcolm Bowie
12.00-13.00 Parallel sessions:
(i) French literature after 1990 (Chair: Professor Bowie)
- Sarah Cant (LMH), 'Postmodern self-referentiality or Why are we still writing about writing? A consideration of the continued prominence of self-referentiality in recent French literature'
- Ruth Cruickshank (LMH), 'Crisis in 1990s writing - "Les Particules elementaires" by Michel Houellebecq'
(ii) Values in historical and literary research (Chair: Professor Alain Viala)
- Hugh Roberts (Brookes), '"Leur bouche est en paroles aussi honnete que le trou de mon cul". Diogenes on freedom of speech in "Le Moyen de Parvenir"'
- Isabel Moreton (Corpus Christi), 'La maison de force de la Salpetriere c.1680-1780'
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-16.00 Parallel sessions:
(iii) Word histories (Chair: Dr. Wes Williams)
- Tim Chesters (Balliol), 'Phrase history: "Jeter son froc aux orties" in the 16th and 17th centuries'
- Cathy Jones (Brookes), 'Les premiers auteurs lyriques francais: the rebranding of the lyric poet in sixteenth-century France'
- Richard Scholar (New), '"La vie et les aventures d'un mot": word histories and literary criticism'
(iv) Theory in film and literature (Chair: Professor Sean Hand)
- Ben Cope (Brasenose), 'Nothings: Deleuze and Sarraute'
- Helena Garnett (Brookes), 'The literature of non-native French writers: Milan Kundera'
- Dorota Ostrowska (Queen's), 'Cinematic aspects of literary theory - the nouveau roman goes to the cinema'
16.00-16.15 Tea
At MTC, Somerville College:
16.15 Film screening:
GRETA SCHILLER and ANDREA WEISS, 'PARIS WAS A WOMAN', 1995 (75 MINS). A documentary film about women writers and artists (Colette, Djuna Barnes, Nathalie Barney, Gertrude Stein, Romaine Brookes, Marie Laurencin, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier and Janete Flanner) of early twentieth-century Paris.
Followed by a panel discussion.
18-18.30 Vin d'honneur
Day 2 (Friday 24 November):
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9.30-11.00 (v) Words at work (Chair: Dr. Colin Davis)
- Stephen Forcer (Wadham), 'Talking nonsense: glossolalia and condensation in Tristan Tzara's "Vingt-cinq poemes"'
- Elizabeth Lunn-Rockliffe (Hertford), 'Corbiere and the poetics of irony'
- Oliver Davis (Wadham), 'The author's labour: some reflections on genetic criticism'
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 (vi) Encounter, contestation, silence (Chair: Professor Christina Howells)
- Jill Beer (LMH), 'Solitary encounters in Camus' "L'Exil et le royaume"'
- Mary Anne Franks (Wadham), '"That Jew Apollinaire": sex and character in "Le Juif Latin"'
- Elizabeth Loevlie (Jesus), 'Literary silence: writing the unsayable'
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 (vii) Table ronde: Research in progress - MA and MSt and beyond (Chair: Professor Valerie Worth-Stylianou)
15.00-16.00 Closing address:
Professor Georges Molinie (Paris IV-Sorbonne), 'Litterature et sens' (Chair: Professor Sergeant)
RA (source: Francofil)