University of Cambridge Graduate Conference 2012
The Spectrum
St John's College, Cambridge, UK, 11th-12th May 2012
The conference will take place on Friday 11th May and Saturday 12th May 2012 in St. John's College. Alongside the five graduate panels we are very pleased to have three keynote speakers: Professor Michael Moriarty, Professor Clive Scott and Dr Jane Hiddleston, from the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia and Oxford, respectively.
Attendance at the conference is free, and everyone is very welcome to attend. Below is the conference programme, and further information can be found on our website:
http://thespectrum2012cambridgefrenchgraduateconference.wordpress.com/programme/
To register please email fgrscam@gmail.com with your name and affiliated institution.
Programme
Friday 11th May
10:00am : Conference Start
10:15am : Panel One
- Self -
Jared Holley (University of Cambridge): "Rêveries du promenaire epicure: Spectres of the Self in Rousseau’s Rêveries"
Zoe Roth (King’s College London): "An Impossible Death: Anachronism, Embodiment and the Spectrum of Sensation in Maurice Blanchot’s L’Instant de ma mort"
Sara-Louise Cooper (University of Oxford): "Une assise prismatique de l’être : Spectra in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une enfance créole"
Chair: Amy Li
11:45am : Coffee
12:00pm: Keynote Address
Professor Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge
Chair: Francesca Hardy
1:30pm : Lunch
2:30pm: Panel Two
-Politics-
Alice Holt (University of Oxford)
Adrian May (University of Cambridge): "From Spectres of Marx to a Spectrum of Marx"
Eva-Maria Hochhauser (University of Innsbruck): "Breaking the(spot)light: The political spectrum of France in the 21st century"
Chair: Alex Stuart
4:00pm : Coffee
4:15pm: Keynote Address
Dr Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford
Chair: Maria Flood
6:30pm : Drinks Reception
Saturday 12th May
10:00am : Panel Three
-Vessels-
Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford): "From ship to book: a spectrum of Nefs in early sixteenth-century French literature"
Sven Greitschus (Bangor University): "Spectral Sorrow Sung Sweetly: Socio-Critical Implications in Baudelaire’s “Les Bons Chiens"
Rebekka Schnell (University of Munich): "Images spectrales: Pour une esthétique de la latence"
Chair: Giovanni Menegalle
11:30am : Coffee
11:45am : Panel Four
- Colour -
Rosalind Holmes-Duffy (University of Oxford): "Synaesthesia, Morality, and Light in Boureau-Deslandes’ L’Optique des Moeurs"
Élodie Ripoll (Université Lumière Lyon 2): "Épistémologies de la couleur dans le roman français du XVIIIe siècle"
Hannah Scott (University of Bristol): "Le blanc et le noir: Rejecting the Spectrum in Maupassant’s Short Stories"
Chair : Jonathan Patterson
1:15pm : Lunch
2:30pm : Keynote Address
Professor Clive Scott, Professor Emeritus University of East Anglia
Chair : Philippa Lewis
4:00pm : Coffee
4:15pm : Panel Five
- Gender -
Élise Côté-Levesque (Université Laval): "La négation du genre dans Tu ne t’aimes pas, de Nathalie Sarraute"
Tatiana Gavriliouk (University of Oxford)
Rym Feriani (University of Westminster): "Entre les Ténèbres et L’Excès de Lumières”: Light and Darkness in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Novels"
Chair: Victoria Richardson
5:45pm : Round Table
6:30pm : Conference Close