The Constraints of Age(ing) Study Day
Friday, 8th of March 2019
G37, Senate House, London
Guest speaker: Camille Laurens
Chair: Dr Adina Stroia and Prof Shirley Jordan
12.00-12.15 Registration and opening remarks (Dr Adina Stroia and Prof Shirley Jordan)
12.15-13.45: Panel 1: Envisaging Ageing
Prof Shirley Jordan (Newcastle), ‘Engaging with Age in Agnès Varda’
Dr Adina Stroia (UCL/IMLR), ‘Performative Ageing in Agnès Varda’s Late Documentary Works’
Prof Ginette Vincendeau (KCL), ‘Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren: Stardom and Representations of women’s “good” and “bad” ageing’
13.45-14.00 Break
14:00-15.00 Panel 2: Writing Ageing
Dr Siobhán McIlvanney (KCL), ‘Life Lessons in Ageing in the Work of Noëlle Châtelet’
Dr Adrienne Angelo (Auburn), ‘Age(ing) and the ‘Invisible’ Woman Writer (Nelly Arcan and Camille Laurens)’
15.00-15.15: Coffee break
15.15-16.30 Reading and public interview with Camille Laurens
16.30-17.30: Round table with Prof Diana Holmes (Leeds), Prof Sue Harris (QMUL), Dr Siobhán McIlvanney (KCL), Dr Adrienne Angelo (Auburn), Prof Shirley Jordan (Newcastle), Dr Adina Stroia (UCL/IMLR), Prof Ginette Vincendeau (KCL)
17.30-18.30: Wine reception
19.00: Dinner (Bloomsbury area restaurant TBC)
The event is generously supported by the Cassal Edowment Fund and the AHRC ‘Literature under Constraint’ research network.
Registration is free, but places are limited. Please follow the link below:
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17772
On vous attend nombreux!
Organisers: Dr Adina Stroia (UCL/IMLR) and Prof Shirley Jordan (Newcastle)