French Studies Conference
University College Dublin, 2-4 July 2001
This year witnessed the largest ever response to the call for papers and the breadth and quality of the sessions fully reflects this interest in the Societys conference, both in the U.K. and Ireland and internationally. In drawing up the programme, care was taken to select papers which would appeal to the membership of the Society for French Studies as a whole, whether specialists in a particular field or period or not. Ranging from Linguistics to Literature as Thought, from Humour to The Crowd in French Politics, from the Early Modern Period to Contemporary texts, the workshops testify to the richness and vitality of French Studies at the start of the new Millennium. It is particularly pleasing to be able to include a session on Word and Image in the Nineteenth Century as we welcome the creation of a new society devoted to Nineteenth-Century French Studies, which will be holding its inaugural meeting directly after our conference.
The Society is particularly concerned to support postgraduate activities both intellectually and financially. I am therefore delighted to be able to announce that we are able to continue last years initiative enabling young researchers to attend the Conference free of charge. We therefore welcome applications from students registered as full-time postgraduates, who should complete the white booking form and obtain the signature of their Directors of Studies in order to qualify for exemption from payment.
With its rich literary history, variety of museums and galleries, not to mention the numerous cafes and pubs, Dublin is an ideal setting for the Conference which, we trust, will combine intellectual debate and scholarship with the pleasure of meeting colleagues, old and new.
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, President
The Society wishes to encourage postgraduate students to attend its Annual Conference, and is continuing its policy of offering special rates for both the Conference and for membership. In addition, arrangements have been made for a further year to assist with their expenses for travel to the Conference. All postgraduate students are invited to apply for a contribution towards their travel expenses to the President of the Society before Friday 11 May 2001:
Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Queens College
Cambridge CB3 9ET
E-mail: president@sfs.ac.uk
Because of the limited funds available, priority will be given to students working towards the PhD (or equivalent) in any area of French Studies. Applicants should provide details of the likely cost of their journey, and enclose a brief note of support from their supervisor.
All postgraduate students should complete and return their Conference Booking form to the Conference Officer in the usual way.
All postgraduate students attending the Conference are invited to an informal gathering at 3.15 pm on Monday 2 July in order to meet the President, other members of the Executive Committee and each other. The session will include brief talks offering advice about applying for academic posts and about how to get started with publishing reviews and articles.
Monday 2 July
12.30: Executive Committee Meeting
2.30: Registration (snacks will be available for Postgraduate Students)
3.15: Informal Meeting for Postgraduate Students
4.15: Afternoon Tea
4.45: Welcome by the President of the Society
Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge)
5.00: Crimes, Sins and Guilty Passions: War Stories 1939-1962
Professor Margaret Atack (Leeds)
6.45: Reception hosted by French Department of University College Dublin
7.15: Dinner
8.15: Technology, Memory and Subjectivity in Stéphane Mallarmé and Merce Cunningham
Professor Dee Reynolds (Manchester)
Tuesday 3 July
7.30 8.45: Breakfast
9.00 10.45: Sectional Meetings I
A - Literature as Thought/Thought as Literature
Chair: Professor Malcolm Bowie (All Souls, Oxford)
Philosophy as Figural Praxis Jean Luc Nancy
Dr Ian James (Downing College, Cambridge)
Beyond the Cave: Lascaux in Bataille, Blanchot and Char
Dr Douglas Smith (University College Dublin)
'Penser/classer': Problèmes de réception et de lecture de la série OuLiPienne
Dr Susan Kovacs (Lille III)
Mallarmés Poetic Textures: Literature as Thought
Dr Heather Williams (Aberystwyth)
B - The Novel Today
Chair: Dr Emer OBeirne (University College Dublin)
Into Immanence: Pierre Guyotat and the Dissolution of Literature
Dr Paul Hegarty (University College Cork)
Romanesque et formalisme: Camille Laurens, de A à Z et après
Professor Dominique Rabaté (Bordeaux III)
Postmodern Self-Referentiality or Why are we still writing about writing?
Sarah Cant (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Québécitude et diversité dans le roman québécois actuel
Dr Jeanette den Toonder (Edinburgh)
C- The French Traveller Abroad
Chair: Dr Michael Cronin (Dublin City)
Science, merveille et religion
Dr Sophie Linon-Chipon (Paris IV)
Le Voyage de Paris à Dublin de Montbret ou le témoignage dun voyageur français en Irlande en 1789
Dr Sylvie Requemora (Aix-Marseille I)
Three travellers in Italy: Chateaubriand, Stendhal and the Goncourt brothers
Professor Barbara Wright (Trinity College Dublin)
Approches de lislam dans les récits des voyageurs romantiques
Dr Dimitri Roboly
10.45 - 11.15: Coffee
11.15 12.45: Sectional Meetings II
D - Orality in Early Modern Literature
Chair: Dr Jane Conroy (Galway)
Hautitou, Hautitan, Hottentot oralité et identité: linscription du Hottentot dans le discours de voyageurs, savants et missionnaires à lâge classique
Dominique Lanni (Paris IV)
Voyage imaginaire et altérité linguistique au dix-septième siècle
Professor Marie-Christine Pioffet (York, Toronto)
Talking about Memoirs: The Persistence of Orality within the New Empirical Novel
Dr Jenny Mander (Newnham College, Cambridge)
E - Literature and Religion I
Chair: Professor Seán Hand (Oxford Brookes)
Les Mots: Sartres adieu to Literature, Luther and lumen Christi
Dr Ben ODonohoe (West of England)
LEschatologie trouée de Georges Bataille
Dr Martin Crowley (Queens College, Cambridge)
Sade and the Transcendent Body
Dr John Phillips (North London)
F - Noirs Novels/Cinema
Chair: Professor Keith Reader (Glasgow)
The Aesthetics of the roman noir
Dr David Platten (Leeds)
Les Mille et une nuits de Jean-Pierre Melville: les espaces du célibataire
Dr Peter Schulman (Old Dominion, Norfolk, Virginia)
'Deux ou trois choses que je mexplique mal': Noir pastiche in the novels of Jean Echenoz
Simon Kemp (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
G - The Crowd in French Politics
Chair: Dr Max Silverman (Leeds)
The Revolutionary Crowd: The End of the French Paradigm?
Dr Gino Raymond (Bristol)
The Role of the Crowd in the Musical Aesthetics of the French Revolution
Mark Darlow (Nottingham)
La Foule uniforme: le spectacle de la foule chez les fascistes français
Michel Lacroix (McGill)
12.45: Lunch
1.453.30: Optional Excursion to the James Joyce Tower in Sandycove, Co. Dublin
3.15-3.30: Tea
3.30-4.45: Narrative Secrets and Family Values in Balzacs La Comédie humaine
Professor Diana Knight (Nottingham)
4.45-6.15: Sectional Meetings III
H - Literature and Religion II
Chair: Professor Richard Bales (Queens Belfast)
Church and Theatre in twentieth-century France: Reconciliation and Recuperation
Professor Henry Phillips (Manchester)
Jean-Pierre Jossua and 'la théologie littéraire'
Dr Paul Cooke (Exeter)
The Body as Spiritual Currency in the Writings of Pierre Klossowski
Karen Silberstein (Columbia)
I - Translation and Translators
Chair: Professor Dorothy Speirs (Toronto)
The Dangers of Partial Translation: The Creation of the Exotic in Lotis Japan
Dr Akane Kawakami (Warwick)
How they brought French Plays to the Dublin Stage: Performance Translation in the Nineteenth Century
Dr John Whittaker (Hull)
Le traducteur comme préfacier
Professor Yannick Portebois (Toronto)
J - Contemporary Texts
Chair: Dr Ann Miller (Leicester)
Where have all the Nazis gone? The Influence of the Téméraire upon the post-war bande dessinée
Dr Laurence Grove (Glasgow)
Lives out of 'Sequence': Maternal Identity in François Truffaut's Les 400 coups and Claude Miller's La Petite Voleuse
Dr Sue Harris (Queen Mary and Westfield College London)
Separation, Suffering and Solitude: The Atomised World of Michel Houellebecq
Dr Deidre Kavanagh (University College Dublin)
K - Humour
Chair: Professor Mike Freeman (Bristol)
Coquillart and Rabelais as Humorists
Dr John Parkin (Bristol)
Wheres the joke? Humour and Hiddenness in Baudelaires Prose Poetry
Dr Maria Scott (University College Dublin)
Laughter and Lyricism: Tristan Corbières Amours jaunes
Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe (Hertford College, Oxford)
6.45: Demonstration of CD Rom of the Dictionnaire de lAcadémie Française
7.15: Reception hosted by the Service Culturel of the French Embassy in Ireland
8.00: Conference Dinner
Wednesday 4 July
7.30 - 8.45: Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30: Sectional Meetings Iv
L - Word and Image in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Professor David Scott (Trinity College Dublin)
The Narrative Afterimage: Hysteria, Optics and Villiers Fantastic Fiction
Professor Andrea Goulet (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Vision and Textuality in Mallarmé
Dr Damian Catani (New Hall, Cambridge)
Le mot et limage dans le discours poétique dAloysius Bertrand
Dr Ghada Oweiss (Montréal)
M - The Use if Corpora in Linguistic Research
Chair: Dr Janice Carruthers (Queens Belfast)
Les corpus de français parlé: des données précieuses pour repenser lanalyse grammaticale de certains phénomènes
Dr Mylène Blasco-Dulbecco (Clermont-Ferrand II)
Semantics and Frequency: A Study of cest/il est in a Newspaper Corpus
Dr Dulcie Engel (Swansea) and Dr Nathalie Rossi (Tours)
Subject Doubling in Spoken French
Dr Aidan Coveney (Exeter)
N - Law and Literature
Chair: Dr Patrick McGuinness (St Annes College, Oxford)
The Portia Principle: Montfleurys La Femme juge et partie (1668/9) and Fatouvilles Colombine avocat pour et contre (1685)
Dr Jan Clarke (Durham)
Divorce Literature and the Loi Naquet (1884)
Dr Nicholas White (Royal Holloway London)
Policing Prostitutes: Artistic and Legal Reactions to La Fille Elisa
Kate Ashley (Edinburgh)
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee
11.00 - 12.15: Théories et terminologies littéraires
Professeur Alain Viala (Paris III /Wadham College, Oxford)
12.45: Lunch
End of Conference
Notes
University College Dublin is an autonomous university within the National University of Ireland. It traces its origins to the Catholic University of Ireland, founded in 1851 with John Henry Newman as its first Rector. Celebrated literary figures associated with the early decades of the university include Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Joyce. In the 1960s, the University moved from Earlsfort Terrace in central Dublin (now the location of the National Concert Hall) to a large modern campus in the grounds of Belfield House, about 4km south of the city centre. From its origins in a townhouse on St Stephens Green, UCD has grown to a ten-faculty institution with over 17,000 students.
The Department of French is located in the John Henry Newman Building on the main Belfield campus. It is one of thirty-five disciplines which make up the Facultyof Arts. We are the largest French Department in Ireland, with a complement of fifteen full-time staff, a number of part-time tutors, six lecteurs/lectrices, a Faculty Research Fellow, and a full-time executive assistant. We have currently well over four hundred undergraduate students following one of four different BA programmes, fifteen Masters students preparing either the taught MA or the M.Litt by research, and twelve PhD students. Students and staff participate in over a dozen Socrates/Erasmus study, teaching, and research exchanges. The Department is a thriving research community, with an excellent record of publications across the spectrum of French studies and a highly successful programme of research seminars. We are delighted to be able to host the 2001 Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies, not least because of our close involvement with the Society: present and past members of the Executive Committee include Johnnie Gratton and Máiréad Hanrahan, and Emer OBeirne is currently the Societys Publicity Officer.
The Society would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to the Department of French at University College Dublin for hosting the drinks reception at the opening of the Conference, and to the Service Culturel of the French Embassy in Ireland for their generous support of the Conference.
Cancellations
Every effort is made to deal sympathetically with bona fide cancellations. Full refunds, however, are not possible for cancellations received after 11th June 2001. Those received after this date normally involve deduction of the Conference fee. Reimbursement is usually made after full accounts have been settled (September 2001).
Further copies of this programme may be obtained from:
Dr. Sarah Capitanio
SFS Conference Officer
Graduate School
University of Wolverhampton (Dudley Site)
College Hall
DUDLEY DY1 3HR
UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1902 323551
Fax: +44 (0)1902 323316
E-mail: S.Capitanio@wlv.ac.uk