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 Society for French Studies 54th Annual Conference

Society for French Studies 54th Annual Conference

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : SFS via francofil)

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.