Sex and the Sacred ConferenceUniversity of ManchesterVenue: Hanson Room (Architecture Building)
10.30 - 11.00 coffee, registration, welcome
11.00 - 11.35 Yvan Leclerc (Rouen)
'Sacralisation et désacralisation du sexe chez Flaubert'
11.35 - 12.10 Henry Phillips (Manchester)
'Les Actrices de la Comédie-française: couvents et conversions'
12.10 - 12.45 Paul Scott (Durham)
'Corneille's (Hetero)sexualisation of Polyeucte'
12.45 - 1.45 lunch
1.45 - 2.20 Andrew Asibong (King's College, London)
'Mulier Sacra: Chauvet, Darrieussecq and the metamorphoses of "bare" female life'
2.20 - 2.55 Lisa Downing (Queen Mary, London)
'Death and the Maidens: A Century of Necrophilia in Female-Authored Textual Production'
2.55 - 3.30 tea
3.30 - 4.05 Catherine Franc (Manchester)
'La Belle et la Bête: viol et représentation des sexes en hagiographie médiévale'
4.05- 4.40 David Houston Jones (Oxford)
'Sex, Sainthood and the Other Body: Writing Icons in Claude Louis-Combet and David Nebreda'
4.50 - 5.50 Keynote: Sarah Kay (Cambridge)
'Sex and the sacred: metamorphosis and anamorphosis in the Ovide Moralisé'
ABSTRACTS can be viewed at and REGISTRATION FORMS downloaded from http://www.art.man.ac.uk/FRENCH/
For more information, please email Dee.Reynolds@man.ac.uk