Societyfor French Studies 52nd Annual Conference
QueenMary, University of London, 4 – 6 July 2011
Programme(as at Jan. 2011)
Monday 4 July 2011
12.00 onward Registration
12.00-1.00pm Session for postgraduate students
12.30-1.30pm Buffet Lunch for all delegates
1.30 -2.45pm Welcome and Plenary Lecture One
CHAIR:tbc
Anne Simon (CNRS Paris)
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea & PostgraduatePoster Session
3.15-4.45pm PANEL SESSIONS ONE
After Merleau-Ponty: phenomenologyand its transformation (i)
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘Les chemins de laSainte-Victoire : Refondation ou réfutation de la phénoménologie àpartir de Cézanne', RenatoBoccali (Libera Università di Lingue e comunicazione IULM, Milan)
ii) ‘Mises de lanature et risques des images', Adriana Bontea (Universityof Sussex)
iii) ‘The Wild Being of LouiseBourgeois: Merleau-Ponty in the Flesh', Lorna Collins, (University of Cambridge)
Kin andCommunity (i)
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘“La Citéheureuse et fraternelle de demain”: Twentieth-Century France as Utopia in Zola'sTravail', Claire White(University of Cambridge)
ii) ‘Sullied by Proxy: Crime and Family Ties inNineteenth-Century France', CéciliaFalgas-Ravry (University of Cambridge)
iii)‘The uses of servitude: community,kinship and freedom in Maryse Condé's Moi Tituba, sorcière… Noire de Salem', Eva Sansavior (University of Oxford)
‘Politics is for grown-ups':Children'sstories and literature from war to peace
CHAIR:Kiera Vaklavik (Queen Mary Universityof London)
i)‘“Some elephants collaborate…” Babarthe Free French Elephant and children's broadcasting from London (1941-1944)', Lindsey Dodd (University of Reading)
ii) ‘“These children have lived through the war!” The“purging” of children's literature in post war France', Sophie Heywood (University of Reading)
iii)‘Picturing the War without a Name',Penelope Brown (University of Manchester)
Le français:pluriforme, protéïforme
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘Le buzz éclair du françaismoderne', Ekaterina Koulechova, (Paris IV-Sorbonne)
ii) ‘Du « françaisélectronique » au « franco-algérien »', Nourredine Bessadi (Université Mouloud Mammeri – TiziOuzou / Algérie)
iii) ‘Towards a New Linguistic Atlas of French: a framework and ideas for a study of variation in the French ofNorthern France', DamienHall (University of Kent)
4.45-5.15pm Tea/Coffee &Postgraduate Poster Session
5.15-6.30pm Plenary Lecture Two
CHAIR: tbc
Richard Terdiman (University of California,Santa Cruz)
6.30pm Wine Reception,generously supported by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, QueenMary, University of London.
7.15pm Buffet Dinner
Tuesday 5 July 2011
7.30-9.00am Breakfast
9.00-10.00am Annual General Meeting of theSociety for French Studies
9.00-10.30am Postgraduate Poster Session
10.00-10.30am Tea/Coffee and Postgraduate Poster Session
10.30-12.30 PANELSESSIONS TWO
After Merleau-Ponty: phenomenologyand its transformation (ii)
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘Michel Henry et laphénoménologie de la vie', Simon Brunfaut (FNRS-UniversitéCatholique de Louvain)
ii) ‘L'incertitude démocratiquechez Lefort et Gauchet', Philip Knee (Université Laval, Canada)
iii) ‘Uneautre phénoménologie : réflexions sur la revalorisation du corps dans laphénoménologie matérielle de Michel Henry', Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (Universityof Glasgow)
iv)‘Towards a feminist phenomenology ofperception? Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his feminist critics', Kate Ince (University of Birmingham)
Children'sfiction/Children in Fiction (i) French Contemporary
CHAIR:tbc
i) ‘The happiness ofogres: a look at the modern role of the fairytale in the fiction of Tournierand Pennac', Natalie Sheehan (Universityof Cambridge)
ii) ‘« Tous les enfants sauf un ».La mort de l'enfant dans la trilogie de Philippe Forest',Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Duke University)
iii)‘The deathlychild: Mutism and the deadly power of writing in Pascal Quignard's work',Léa Vuong (King's College London)
iv) ‘« Tous les enfantsgrandissent sauf un » : l'enfant éternel dans la littératurecontemporaine à partir de Romancenerveuse de Camille Laurens',Jutta Fortin (Université de Vienneet CIEREC, Université de Saint-Étienne)
France and Islam
CHAIR:tbc
i) ‘Commanding theFaithful: Abd el Kader and General Paul Azan', Gavin Bowd (University of St Andrews)
ii)‘Musulmans et laïques: some paradoxical dimensions of the publicdebates on Islam in France', Nadia Kiwan (University of Aberdeen)
iii)‘Thomas Ismaÿl Urbain and the “RoyaumeArabe”: The contentious issue of “Indigènophile” policies in France and FrenchAlgeria in the 1860s', Sheila Walsh (National University ofIreland, Galway)
Fantasies of Community in Medieval French Texts
CHAIR:Simon Gaunt (King's College London)
i) ‘Genre,Ideology and Utopia in “Huonde Bordeaux”', Luke Sunderland (University of Durham)
ii)‘Christian Community and theUntranslatable in Old French Saints' Lives', Thomas Hinton (University of Oxford)
iii)‘Animal Dreams: Fantasy and theOrigins of Community in “Perceforest”', Miranda Griffin (University of Cambridge)
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3.00pm PANEL SESSIONS THREE
Interartistic Dialogue andIntermediality: Theories, Debates, Perspectives
CHAIR: JeanDuffy (University of Edinburgh)
i)‘Ut sculptura poesis? Literary-SculpturalIntersections from Balzac to Proust', Nigel Harkness (Queens University Belfast)
ii)‘“Un dialogue de sourds”: Words and Music for Stravinsky', Peter Dayan (University of Edinburgh)
iii) ‘Kinaesthetic Connections:From Un Coup de dés toMan Ray's Les Mystères du Château du Dé', Kim Knowles (University of Kent)
iv) ‘“Faire danser les sentiments”: RolandPetit's Proust ou les intermittences du coeur', Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh)
Beyond Children: The 21st CenturyBandeDessinée
CHAIR: KeithReader (University of Glasgow)
i)‘Women of the BD New Wave: FemalePresence in the Works of Trondheimand Larcenet', Catriona MacLeod(University of Glasgow)
ii)‘BD and The New Renaissance', Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow)
iii) ‘Anti-colonialactivism meets the avant-garde in Yvan Alagbé's bandes dessinées', Mark McKinney (Miami University, Ohio)
iv)‘Recent developments in autobiographyin bande dessinée and bandedessinée blogs', Ann Miller (University of Leicester)
Children'sfiction/Children in Fiction (ii) French & Francophone
CHAIR:tbc
i)‘Fertile Imaginations: Children in theWorks of Marcel Proust and Louise Bourgeois', Catherine Crimp (University of Cambridge)
ii)‘Attention Girls and Boys: Gender inFrench and American Children's Literature', Julie Fette (Rice University,Houston)
iii) ‘Entre fiction etréalité : l'enfance face à la Shoah dans La Rafle de Rose Bosch',Audrey Brunetaux (Colby College, Maine)
iv) ‘Re-defining Antillean: Child Protagonists inAntillean Children's Literature',Jill Gaeta (The College of St.Scholastica, Duluth)
Kin & Community (ii) Historical Views
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘« Famille, Patrie, Humanité ». Progressisme et humanisme dans laphilosophie de Maurice Blondel (1861-1949)', Nicolas Delhopital(Institut Supérieur de Philosophie,Université catholique de Louvain)
ii) ‘TheScourge of Avarice in Olivier de Serres's Theatre d'agriculture etmesnage des champs (1600)', Jonathan Patterson, (University of Cambridge)
iii) ‘La représentation de lacommunauté nationale et familiale dans les fêtes de Vichy : une tentativede réécriture culturelle d'une philosophie (1940-1944)',Rémi Dalisson, (Université de Rouen)
3.15-5.30pm AFTERNOON ACTIVITY (tbc)
5.40-7.00pm Plenary Lecture Three
CHAIR:Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London)
MarieDarrieussecq, novelist
7.15pm Wine reception, with jazz from the TonyWoods Project
8.00pm Conference dinner in the Octagon,followed by the R H Gapper Charitable Trust Awards (Book Prize, Graduate Essay,Undergraduate Essay) and the award of the Malcolm Bowie Prize.
Wednesday 6 July 2011
7.30-9.00am Breakfast
9.00-10.15am Plenary Lecture Three
CHAIR: Michael Moriarty(Queen Mary, University of London)
RichardParish (University of Oxford)
10.15-10.45am Tea/Coffee and Postgraduate Poster Session
10.45-12.45 PANEL SESSIONS FOUR
Poétique /Utopique
CHAIR: Hugues Azérad (University of Cambridge)
i) ‘Poems andtheir destinies: the ambiguities of anticipation', Patrick O'Donovan (University College, Cork)
ii) ‘The body and its horizons: some aspects ofRimbaud's Illuminations', Greg Kerr, (University of Lancaster)
iii) ‘Henri Michaux. Choraas Utopia', Michael G. Kelly (University of Limerick)
Actualité de Barthes: Les cours et séminaires
CHAIR: MichaelSheringham (University of Oxford)
i)‘Roland Barthes as Consecrated Heretic',Lucy O'Meara (University of Kent)
ii)‘“Le Discours de l'histoire”: Derrida,Kristeva and writing readers',Maria O'Sullivan (University of Oxford)
iii) ‘Le Séminaire sur Sarrasine :Le '68 de Roland Barthes', Claude Coste (Université de GrenobleIII)
Magic& Fiction: Medieval and Early Modern
CHAIR: tbc
i) ‘Le Philtre : degrés defictionnalité de la magie (du XIIe au XVe siècle)' Brînduşa-Elena Grigoriu (Université« Alexandru Ioan Cuza », Romania)
ii) ‘Magie naturelle, science occulte etmanipulation dans le Francion de Charles Sorel'Mathilde Aubague (Université de Bourgogne)
iii)‘Magic in the Romances of Chrétien deTroyes', Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University)
1.00pm Lunch
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