Society for French Studies 54th Annual Conference
University of Nottingham 1-3 July 2013
Monday 1st July
12.00 onward Registration (Hugh Stewart Hall)
12.00-1.00pm Session for postgraduate students (Don Rees Library, Hugh Stewart Hall)
12.30-1.30pm Buffet lunch for all delegates (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
1.30-2.45pm Presidential Welcome (Clive Granger Building, A48)
Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
Plenary Lecture One
Lucille Cairns, University of Durham
Queer, Republican France and its Euro-American ‘Others’
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea & Postgraduate Poster Session
(Clive Granger Building Foyer & A42)
3.15-4.45pm PANEL SESSIONS ONE (Clive Granger Building)
(1) The Medieval Macabre: Mimesis and Morbid Fascination in Medieval Epic (A44)
Chair: Sophie Marnette, Balliol College, Oxford
Manipulating the Body Politic: Decapitation and Dismemberment in Late Twelfth-Century
chanson de geste
Emma Goodwin, Merton College, Oxford
Medieval Entrails in French and Latin: Cross-Cultural Evisceration
Simon Parsons, Royal Holloway, University of London
Incorporating Difference, Grafting the Other: Saracen Amputation and Social Identity
Victoria Turner, University of Warwick
(2) France and Africa (A41)
Chair: Mary Orr, University of Southampton
Gide and Allégret on the Congo: Photography, Film and Text in Visual-Cultural Context
Rachael Langford, Cardiff University
The French Bulama Project: Philanthropy, Transportation and Colonisation in West Africa
Kate Hodgson, University of Liverpool
Migration, Prefixes and Consequences: Fatou Diome
Audrey Small, University of Sheffield
(3) Questions of Genre: Cinema and Horror in French (A40)
Chair: Guy Austin, University of Newcastle
The Enigmatic and Tawdry Rebellion of Le Sadique aux dents rouges
Paul Hegarty, University College Cork
Trauma, Genre, Psychodynamics: François Ozon’s Ricky (2009)
Jason Hartford, University of Stirling
French Horror and the New Sincerity: Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs
Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University
(4) A Journey Through the Underworld (A42)
Chair: Diana Holmes, University of Leeds
Au seuil des bas-fonds: les préfaces des ‘Mystères urbains’
Amy Wigelsworth, Durham University
Au cœur des bas-fonds: romans et reportages français, 1849-1930
Dominique Kalifa, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne
Au-delà des bas-fonds: débats autour de la ‘mauvaise’ litérature, 1842-1914
Loïc Artiaga, Université de Limoges
(5) Photography and Identity in French and Francophone Cultures (A39)
Chair: Andy Stafford, University of Leeds
Artistic Identities: Portraits of the Author in Nineteenth-Century France
Kathrin Yacavone, University of Nottingham
Making Images during the guerre sans images: Photography and the Algerian Civil War
Joseph McGonagle, University of Manchester
Where Is Home? Space, Photography and National Identity in Contemporary France
Edward Welch, Durham University
4.45pm-5.15pm Tea/Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session
(Clive Granger Building foyer & A42)
5.15-6.30pm Plenary Lecture Two (Clive Granger Building, A48)
Chair: Michael Moriarty, Peterhouse College, Cambridge
Neil Kenny, All Souls, Oxford
Tense and Posthumous Survival in Early Modern France
6.30pm Wine Reception
(Don Rees Library, Hugh Stewart Hall)
7.15pm Buffet Dinner (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
Late bar (Hugh Stewart Hall)
Tuesday 2nd July
8.00-9.00am Breakfast (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
9.00-10.00am Annual General Meeting of the Society for French Studies
(Clive Granger Building, A48)
9.00-10.30am Postgraduate Poster Session
(Clive Granger Building, A42)
10.00-10.30am Tea/Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session
(Clive Granger Building foyer & A42)
10.30-12.30 PANEL SESSIONS TWO (Clive Granger Building)
(1) Theoretical Approaches to Visual Culture
Chair: Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London
The Ethics of Visual Fascination in French Theory
Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway / University of Bristol
Homosexuality, Virtuality and French Theory
Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent University
Good Images versus Bad: Baudrillard’s Modern Televisual Culture and the Roman de Perceforest
Sura Qadiri, University of Cambridge
Pour une anthropologie des cultures visuelles: approches théoriques
Daniel Dubuisson, CNRS & Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille
(2) Enfer(s) et espaces sous-terrains (A39)
Chair: Susan Harrow, University of Bristol
Conversations aux Champs Élysées: représentations des Enfers dans les dialogues des morts
Margaux Whiskin, University of St Andrews
‘Nous sommes tous sortis de la même pâte comme les pierres au sein de la terre’: The Underground and the Idea of Progress in Sand and Flaubert
Manon Mathias, University of Aberdeen
The Underwater World, Underground: Laforgue and Huysmans on the Berlin Aquarium
Sam Bootle, University of St Andrews
Underground Obstructions: The Louvre and The Bande Dessinée
Margaret C. Flinn, The Ohio State University
(3) Les bestsellers: lectures populaires françaises et francophones (A40)
Chair: Simon Kemp, Somerville College, Oxford
Fantômas ou comment un succès populaire est-il devenu une figure de proue de l’avant-garde artistique du début du vingtième siècle?
Annabel Audureau, Université de La Rochelle
Romancing the Other in Contemporary French Popular Literature
Annamma Varghese, University of Melbourne
Michel Houellebecq and the roman noir – Between détournement and homage
Russell Williams, University of London Institute in Paris
‘Zarathustra of the Middle Classes’: on the Ambiguities of Michel Houellebecq as a Social Critic
Hanna Meretoja, University of Turku, Finland
(4) Les fantômes et les démons (A44)
Chair: tbc
Fantômes et écriture spectrale dans Mémorial de Cécile Wajsbrot et Auschwitz et après
de Charlotte Delbo
Nathalie Ségeral, Virginia Tech
Demons, Sylphs, or Delusions? The Interpretive Labyrinth of Le Comte de Gabalis (1670)
Daniel J. Worden, Princeton University
‘Quelqu’un […] m’a tuée’: Paroles et savoirs de femmes mortes dans Les fous de Bassan
d’Anne Hébert
Irena Trujic, Université de Lausanne
Personnages de fantômes dans le théâtre contemporain français: de la représentation au spectacle Pierre Katuszewski, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
(5) Swann Centenaire: Reading Proust, Then and Now (A45)
Chair: Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University
'Un millésime vers lequel il ne m'était pas permis de remonter’: Publication and Legacy in Proust
Edward J. Hughes, Queen Mary, University of London
Proust, Nabokov and ‘the language of rainbows’
Emily Eells, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Cross-Dressing, Coming Out, and Reading in a Queer, Topsy-Turvy World
Nathan Guss, Fort Lewis College, Colorado
Testing Taste in Un Amour de Swann
Hannah Freed-Thall, Princeton University
12.30-1.30pm Lunch (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
1.30-2.45pm Plenary Lecture Three (Clive Granger Building, A48)
Chair: Nicki Hitchcott, University of Nottingham
Jean-Marc Moura, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Formes et études actuelles du rire en France
2.45-4.15 Choice of events
* lakeside walk
* visit from representatives of Nottingham Contemporary
* campus gallery visit
4.15-5.45pm PANEL SESSIONS THREE (Clive Granger Building)
(1) New Directions in Research on France and Africa (A41)
Chair: Martin Evans, University of Sussex
Enhancing the History of France in Africa: France, Rhodesia and the French Colonial Empire,
1947-1958
Joanna Warson, University of Portsmouth
A Celebration of the Underworld: Entangling Dominant and Subaltern Histories in Mounsi’s
La Noce des fous
Jonathan Lewis, University of Portsmouth
French African Policy: From Unilateralism to Multilateralism?
Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth
(2) Réception populaire du cinéma populaire dans la France d'après-guerre (1945-1958) (A45)
Chair: Sébastien Layerle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
Jean Marais, star de Cinémonde (1946-1950)
Delphine Chedaleux, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
Perceptions du star-système français des années d'après-guerre dans Cinémonde
Gwénaëlle Le Gras, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
Le courrier des lecteurs de Cinémonde: une source pour une étude genrée de la réception ordinaire
Geneviève Sellier, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
(3) Creating Nature in the Middle Ages (A44)
Chair: Emma Campbell, University of Warwick
Artificial Animals, Pleasure, and Natural History in an Anglo-Norman Bestiary
Jonathan Morton, New College, Oxford
It’s Only Natural: Time in the Roman de Horn
Alex Stuart, King’s College, Cambridge
Sculpting Nature: Pygmalion and Medusa in Le Roman de la Rose and the Ovide moralisé
Miranda Griffin, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge
(4) Multi-Media Adaptation: The Pull of Nineteenth-Century France (A39)
Chair: Adam Watt, University of Exeter
Radio and the Space of Adaptation: Diana Griffiths’s Madame Bovary (Radio 4, 2006)
Kate Griffiths, Cardiff University
Serial Offenders: Balzac, British Television, and the Adaptation of Private Life
Andrew Watts, University of Birmingham
Animating Animality through Dumas, D'Artagnan and Dogtanian
Bradley Stephens, University of Bristol
(5) Deux cultures? Le français et le latin de la Renaissance au 18e siècle (A40)
Chair: Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge
Bilingual Morality: The Uses of French and Latin in Henri Estienne’s Apologie pour Hérodote (1566)
Jonathan Patterson, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
‘Tu ad me rescribe, Gallicè saltem, si Latinè non potes’: French and Latin in Seventeenth-Century
Correspondences
Richard Maber, Durham University
Between Two Cultures? Women Reading and Translating Horace in Eighteenth-Century France
Russell Goulbourne, University of Leeds
6.00-7.00pm Free time
7.00pm Wine reception, supported by the Service Culturel of the Ambassade de France
(Law and Social Sciences Building)
8.00pm Conference Dinner, followed by the R.H. Gapper Charitable Trust Awards (Book Prize, Graduate Essay, Undergraduate Essay) and the award of the Malcolm Bowie Prize.
(Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
Wednesday 3rd July
8.00-9.00am Breakfast (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
9.00-11.00am PANEL SESSIONS FOUR (Clive Granger Building)
(1) Transartistic Configuration and Cultural Mediation (A41)
Chair: Rosemary Chapman, University of Nottingham
Aki Shimazaki: Generic Instability as Didactic Intent
Gabrielle Parker, Middlesex University
Shadow Play: Recomposition in Gao Xingjian’s Cinema
Rosalind Silvester, Queen’s University Belfast
Cross-Rhythms, Across Cultures: Francophone Travel Narratives and Music
Margaret Topping, Queen’s University Belfast
Beyond Visuality: Transcultural, Transmedial Art in the Contemporary French-Speaking World
Siobhán Shilton, University of Bristol
(2) Contemporary French Cinema (A40)
Chair: Susan Hayward, University of Exeter
Decrypting Depression in Rivette’s Histoire de Marie et Julien
Guy Austin, University of Newcastle
The Politics of Representing Islam in the Workplace: Class Struggle and Religious Difference in Dernier Maquis (Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2008)
Will Higbee, University of Exeter
Pre-Existing Songs in Contemporary French Cinema: The Nostalgia for Community
Phil Powrie, University of Surrey
(3) Voices in Medieval French Narrative (A39)
Chair: Emma Campbell, University of Warwick
Voice, Genre and Gender in Medieval Lais
Sophie Marnette, Balliol College, Oxford
Picturing Narrative Voice: Displacement and Communication
Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
‘Les voies dou pays d’Aquitaine’: Froissart’s Gascon narrators in the Voyage en Béarn
Pauline Souleau, Merton College, Oxford
(4) Translating Thought (A45)
Chair: Christopher Johnson, University of Nottingham
Translating from ‘Idea’ to ‘Multiculturalism’ (and between Sense and the Senses)
Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow
The Efficacity of Jargon: Translating Guattari
Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham
Violence, Revolution, Theory: Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la terre in Translation
Kathryn Batchelor, University of Nottingham
Translating Gender: From Thought to Language with Beauvoir and Irigaray
Alison Martin, Nottingham Trent University
(5) Textes-revenants (A44)
Chair: Fiona Cox, University of Exeter
After Adolphe
Patrick O’Donovan, University College Cork
Flaubert and Virgil’s Aeneid: Ghosts in the Text/Ghosts of the Text
Stephen Goddard, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Reading and its Aftershocks: Literary Encounters in Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison
de mon père
Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, Oxford
Textual Afterlives in the Works of Linda Lê
Gillian Ni Cheallaigh, King’s College London
11.00-11.30am Tea / Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session
(Clive Granger Building foyer & A42)
11.30-12.45pm Plenary Lecture Four (Clive Granger Building A48)
Chair: Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow
Emily Apter, New York University
Translation at the Checkpoint: The Problem of Sovereign Borders in Literary Theory
12.45pm Lunch (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall)
End of conference.
Agenda
Événements & colloques
Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : SFS via francofil)