Conference Writing Herself in the World
Université Paris Ouest 14-15 Oct 2016
Conférence internationale groupe de recherche Faaam, Paris Ouest Nanterre
Keynote speaker DrVictoria Stewart (Leicester University) Friday 2-3 pm
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14th 2016
9am-9.20– Coffee & registration in conference room
9.20 – Opening Address by Professor Cornelius Crowley (CREA, Paris Ouest)
WANDERING AND SELF WRITING
Chair: Corinne Bigot
9.30- 10– Stephanie Genty (University of Evry) ‘The Table in the Corner’: Wandering and Writing in Patti Smith’s M Train (2015)
10-1030– Catherine Morgan Proux (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont 2 ) Autobiography, memoir and travel writing : Ella Maillart’s “The Cruel Way” (1947)
10.30-11 Pin-chia Feng (National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan) Culinary and Tourist Memories: Representing Sensecapes in Leslie Li’s Daughter of Heaven.
11-11.20 Coffee break
WRITING & SURVIVAL (1)
Chair:
11.20-11.50 Pnina Rosemberg (Technion, Haifa and Jezreel Valley Academic College, Israel ) Writing herself into the Camp World: Ewa Gabanyi’s autographic work Almanac of Memories Auschwitz-Rajsko Concentration Camp, 1944.
11.50-12.20 Rosalie Ghanem (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3) Histoire et mémoire dans la construction de l’héroïne méditerranéenne dans La guerre m’a surprise à Beyrouth de Carmen Boustani
Lunch 12.30-2pm
WRITING & SURVIVAL (2)
2pm-3pm Keynote speaker Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)
3-3.20 Coffee Break
FRAGMENTED SELVES
Chair:
15.20-15.50 Héloise Thomas (University of Bordeaux Montaigne ) “Mother, you are eighteen years old”: female lineage, fractured nationalities, and formal experimentation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE.
15.50-16.20 Shanon Finck (University of West Georgia): ‘Not a shade passing’: Meditations on Aging in Patti Smith’s M Train and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Remake
16.20-16.50 Rodolphe Gauthier (Paris IV-Sorbonne) Du matériau autobiographique au discours politique : la question des représentations dans l'essai King Kong Théorie de Virginie Despentes
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15TH
THE SELF TRANSCENDED
Chair:
10am- 10.30 Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne) “Our lives are pieces in a pattern” : Virginia Woolf's autobiographical fragments or the “anxiety of influence.”
10.30-11 Karima Zaaraoui Related by herself: Mary Prince’s ‘Herstory’
11-11.30 Sandra Dufour (Université de Bourgogne) Correspondence between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Shared Autobiographies and Consciousness-Raising in the 19th century in the United States
11.30- 11.50 Coffee Break
THE RELATIONAL SELF
Chair Nathalie Saudo-Welby
11.50- 12.20 Floriane Reviron-Piegay (Université de Saint Etienne) : “Our lives are pieces in a pattern” : Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical fragments or the “anxiety of influence.”
12.20-12.50 Hajer Elarem (The Higher Institute of applied Languages of Moknine, Tunisia): The Relational Self In Doris Lessing’s Autobiography: Knowing the Self through the (m)other
Lunch 1pm-2pm
MEMORY, SPACE AND THE BODY (1)
Chair:
2-2.30 Eleanora Rao (University of Salerno) "I looked with wonder at the tall houses, the paved streets, the street lamps." Rose Cohen’s Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
2.30-3 Anissa Talahite-Moodley (University of Toronto) Gender, Race and the Question of Autobiographical Authenticity
3-3.30 Amaryllis Gacioppo (University of Bologna (Italy), and Monash University (Australia ) Cartography of Emotion: embodying personal history through psychogeographical methodologies (Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost and A Book of Migrations)
Coffee Break 3.30-3.50
MEMORY, SPACE AND THE BODY (2)
Chair:
3.50-4.20 Sophie L. Riemenschneider (City University of New York) “Girly Things”: The Use of Mnemonic Objects in Breast Cancer Narratives
4.20-4.50 Maria Tamboukou (University of East London) Writing the Memory of Work: aesthetics politics and the archive
4.50-5.20 Dilek Direnc (Edge University, Izmir, Turkey) Poetics and Politics of Self and Place in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge
Organisation
Claire Bazin, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
Corinne Bigot, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Nicoleta Alexoae Zagni, Istom/ CREA Paris Ouest
Valérie Baisnée Université Paris Sud/ CREA Paris Ouest
Comité scientifique
Nathalie Saudo Welby Université Jules Verne Picardie
Stephanie Genty Université d'Evry
Elisabeth Bouzonviller Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne
Valérie Baudier Université Paris Ouest Nanterre