Provisional Programme
Friday 26 April
17.00 Arrival and registration
18.00 Introduction and wine reception
18.45 Dinner
20.00 Plenary Session 1 Women in the City
Ruth E. Iskin (UCLA):
Images of New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising: Legitimizing or
Derailing Feminist Aspirations?
Siân Reynolds (University of Stirling):
Métro, vélo, bateau auto: Getting about in the Belle Epoque
Maggie Allison (University of Bradford):
La Fronde
21.30 Bar and discussion
Saturday 27 April
08.30 Breakfast
09.15 Parallel Sessions 2 and 3
2. Women on the stage
Kimberley Van Noort (University of Texas):
Spectacles of Themselves: Actresses and Activists Writing for the
Stage in Belle Epoque France
Hélène Laplace-Claverie (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne):
Etre danseuse vers 1900: gage daliénation ou quête dautonomie
Margaret E. Gray (Indiana University):
Cross-Undressing in Colette: Alienation, Performance and Labor Practice in the Music-Hall Texts
Naoko Morita (Kumamoto University):
Loie Fuller in France
3. Women writers of the Belle Epoque (I)
Tama Lea Engelking (Cleveland State University):
Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Viviens Une femme mapparut
Jeri English (University of Toronto):
Shocking Perversion or Radical Subversion? Strategies of Legitimisation for Rachilde, homme de lettres
Catherine Perry (University of Notre Dame):
Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critics Eye
Melanie Hawthorne (Texas A & M University):
Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Plenary Session 4: Political feminism
Edith Taïeb (American University of Paris):
Colonisateurs et colonisé-e-s dans le discours dHubertine Auclert : une rencontre vouée à léchec en Algérie comme ailleurs
Anna Norris (Michigan State University):
L'Intransigeante doctoresse Madeleine Pelletier
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Early afternoon free for walking on moors, etc.
16.30 Tea
16.45 Parallel Sessions 5 and 6
5. Visual arts/images (I)
Angela Ryan (University of Cork):
L autre Claudel: Camille Claudel et la rhétorique de lhéroïne
Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling):
Operation Woman: Gender and Technology in Early Cinema'
Alison McMahan
Early cinema, femininity and death
6. Women writers of the Belle Epoque (II)
Angela Kershaw (University of Aston):
Femmes prolétaires, écriture prolétarienne: Marguerite Audoux (1863-1937)
Juliette Rogers (University of New Hampshire)
Finding Feminism in Belle Epoque novels
Diana Holmes (University of Leeds):
Women readers at the Belle Epoque - the politics of romantic fiction
18.30 Dinner
19.30 7. Visual arts/images (II)
Geneviève Sellier (Université de Caen):
Le film "Belle époque" dans le cinéma français d'après-guerre: lieu
privilégié d'un woman's film à la française?
Followed by screening of La Belle Otéro (Richard Pottier, Fr, 1954)
21.30 Bar and discussion
Sunday 28 April
08.30 Breakfast
09.15 Parallel Sessions 8 and 9
8. Travel Writing during the Belle Epoque
Jennifer Yee (University of Newcastle):
Le colonisateur chevaleresque: colonial feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Epoque
Bénédicte Monicat (Pennsylvania State University):
De savoirs en pouvoirs? Modèles de relations publiques et transform-ations du récit de voyage au féminin dans la France de la Belle Epoque
Margot Irvine (University of Toronto):
Marcelle Tinayres Notes dune voyageuse en Turquie (1910): Creating Solidarity Amongst Women
Rosemary Lancaster (University of Western Australia) :
Women Travellers in France in the Novels of Jessie Couvreur (1891-1897)
9. Contemporary Writing A New Belle Epoque?
Catherine Scott (University of Leeds):
Re-visiting the French Canadian Belle Epoque? Laure Conan through the eyes of Jovette Marchessault
Jane Winston (Northwestern University):
Marguerite Duras and the Francophone Transformation
Colette Trout (Ursinisu College):
Marie Cardinal et ses héritières
Véronique Desnains (University of Edinburgh):
Où [en] sont les femmes? Women in French crime writing today
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Business
12.00 Final Plenary
Máire Cross (University of Sheffield):
1890 1920 The impact of the Belle Epoque on feminist history
13.00 Lunch
14.00 End of Conference
Programme Organisers
Diana Holmes (Professor of French, University of Leeds)
Department of French, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
Email: d.holmes@leeds.ac.uk
Carrie Tarr (Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Kingston University)
4, Glebe Road, LONDON SW13 OEA
Email: c.tarr@kingston.ac.uk