SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014:
Power and Resistance in the Arts
Registration Now Open!!
Saturday, 5th April, 2014
IMLR (formerly IGRS), Senate House, London (Second floor, rooms 243 and 246)
To register for this event, simply email your name and institution to Rebecca Ewart rewart02@qub.ac.uk and Stacie Allan Stacie.Allan@bristol.ac.uk by 24th March, 2014. Registration is entirely free of charge.
10.00 – 10.30: Registration (Room 243)
10:30 - 11.30: Keynote: Dr Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford, ‘Colonizing the Canon: Metonymy and Opposition in the Realist Novel’ (Room 243)
11.35 - 12.35: Postgraduate Training: Dr Ruth Bush, University of Westminster, ‘How to Get Published’ (Room 243)
12.35 - 13.35: Lunch
13.35 - 15.05: Parallel Session One
Panel A: Writings from the Centre (Room 243)
Luisa Messina, Université de Palerme
‘La critique sociale de François-Antoine Chevrier’
Mina Apic, Université de Novi-Sad, Serbia
‘Le Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval en tant que remise en question de la perspective eurocentriste’
Michelle C. Lee, University of California
‘Baudelaire’s Cosmopolitan Vision: Le peintre de la vie moderne and ‘Un voyage à Cythère’
Panel B: Algeria: Writing and Resistance (Room 246)
Nadhim Chaouche, EPSECG, Oran
‘Roman et résistance en Algérie (1900-1950)’
Joseph Ford, University of Leeds
‘New Algerian literatures in French: power, resistance and publication’
David Cummings, QUB
‘Rethinking the Colonial Tale of Two Cities; Power, Resistance and the myth of the pied-noir’
15.05- 15.35: Tea and Coffee
15.35 – 17.05: Parallel Session Two
Panel C: Marginal Voices from the Maghreb (Room 243)
Jamal Bahmad, University of Stirling
‘Heterotopia as Resistance: Neoliberal Casablanca and Moroccan Cinema’s Alternative History of Globalisation’
Kaya Davies Hayon, University of Manchester
‘Resistance and Reinvention: Representations of the Belly-Dancing Body in Raja Amari’s Satin rouge (2002)’
Sonia Alba, University of Leicester
‘(Honour and) Shame, guilt and betrayal: the portrayal of a ‘retournée’ - Fawzia Zouari’s La Retournée’
Panel D: Challenging Gender Norms (Room 246)
Jennifer Maguire, QUB
‘Writing the Witch: Power and Resistance in Jean Bodin’s De la Démonomanie des sorciers (1580)
Anne-Julie Ausina, Bordeaux III
‘La performance artistique comme force de combat féministe’
Laura McGinnis, QUB
‘Representations and Contestations of Masculine Domination in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des derniers gestes’
17.10: Close (Room 243)