32nd French Literature Conference - Program
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the College of Liberal Arts are pleased to sponsor the thirty-second in a series of French Literature Conferences. Papers will be published in Volume XXXII of FLS.
Victims and Victimization in French
and Francophone Literature
Thursday, March 25, 2004
5:30-7:30 Reception. Carpool from Clarion hotel.
Friday, March 26, Gambrell Hall 429
8:30 Registration, coffee and pastry
8:50 Official welcome
Session I
Andrew Miller, USC-Spartanburg, presiding
9:00 Anne Duggan, Wayne State University
Good and Bad Bread: Sacrificing the Sacred and Abject Other in Jean-Pierre Camus
9:30 Scott Sprenger, Brigham Young University
Republican Violence, Old Regime Victims: Balzac as Cultural Anthropologist
10:00 Christian Berg, Université d'Anvers
Théodicées victimales au XIXe siècle en France (de Joseph de Maistre à Joris-Karl Huysmans)
10:30 Coffee and discussion
11:00 Elisabeth Karnoub, University of Massachusetts, Boston
« Une humanité qui ne cesse de crucifier le Christ »Réécriture du sacrifice christique dans Sitt Marie Rose de Etel Adnan
11:30 Corinne Beauquis, University of Western Ontario
Mourir est-il vraiment beau? : l'« écritorture » de Gérard Étienne
12:00 Lunch break
Session II, Gambrell Hall 429
Beatrice Aaronson, PhD, presiding
2:00 Alain Toumayan, Notre Dame University
Victimization and the Subject in Levinas and Malraux
2:30 Scott Powers, Mary Washington College
The Metaphors of Victimization in Céline's Bagatelles pour un massacre
3:00 Agnieszka Tworek, Yale University
Monstre-victime: La Deuxième existence du camp de Tatenberg
3:30 Coffee and discussion
Gambrell Hall 250
4:00 Featured speaker
Vincent Lowy, Université Robert Schuman-Strasbourg
Génocides, transmission et médias : la représentation des victimes dans l'espace public français
5:00 Cocktails, Gambrell Hall
7:00 Banquet, Hampton Street Vineyard
Saturday, March 27, Gambrell Hall 429
9:00 Coffee and pastry
Session III
Garane Garane, Allen University, presiding
9:30 Vincent Grégoire, Berry College
Meursault ou le "mythe de la victime" démystifié par l'Histoire
10:00 Farid Laroussi, Yale University
Leçon de savoir-survivre: Le Maghreb en français
10:30 Coffee and discussion
11:00 Mustapha Hamil, State University of West Georgia
Woman as Victim in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit de l'erreur
11:30 Madelaine Hron, University of Michigan
Pathological Victims: The Discourse of Disease/DisEase in Beur Texts
12:00 Discussion
HOTEL INFORMATION
A block of rooms has been set aside at the Clarion Town House Hotel, about 3 blocks from the conference (Gambrell Hall on campus). After February 23rd, reservations will be subject to availability. When reserving, identify yourself as a participant in the conference.
The Town House (800) 277-8711
1615 Gervais Street (803) 771-8711
Columbia, SC 29201 $81.00 single/double; breakfast
Other Nearby Hotels
Claussen's Inn (803) 765-0440
2003 Green St. $89.00 (Corporate Rate/single)
Columbia, SC 29205 3 blocks away; breakfast
Governor's House Hotel (803) 779-7790
1301 Main St. free parking, cont. breakfast
Columbia, SC 29201 20-30 min. walk to conference
$63 single/double
Transportation
Checker Yellow Cab (803) 799-3311
Blue Ribbon Cab (803) 754-8163
The Columbia metro airport (CAE) is about a $10-$12 taxi ride from the University area. Taxis await passengers outside the Arrivals area of the airport.
10:00 Farid Laroussi, Yale University
Leçon de savoir-survivre: Le Maghreb en français
10:30 Coffee and discussion
11:00 Mustapha Hamil, State University of West Georgia
Woman as Victim in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit de l'erreur
11:30 Madelaine Hron, University of Michigan
Pathological Victims: The Discourse of Disease/DisEase in Beur Texts
12:00 Discussion
HOTEL INFORMATION
A block of rooms has been set aside at the Clarion Town House Hotel, about 3 blocks from the conference (Gambrell Hall on campus). After February 23rd, reservations will be subject to availability. When reserving, identify yourself as a participant in the conference.
The Town House (800) 277-8711
1615 Gervais Street (803) 771-8711
Columbia, SC 29201 $81.00 single/double; breakfast
Other Nearby Hotels
Claussen's Inn (803) 765-0440
2003 Green St. $89.00 (Corporate Rate/single)
Columbia, SC 29205 3 blocks away; breakfast
Governor's House Hotel (803) 779-7790
1301 Main St. free parking, cont. breakfast
Columbia, SC 29201 20-30 min. walk to conference
$63 single/double
Transportation
Checker Yellow Cab (803) 799-3311
Blue Ribbon Cab (803) 754-8163
The Columbia metro airport (CAE) is about a $10-$12 taxi ride from the University area. Taxis await passengers outside the Arrivals area of the airport.