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Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film

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The Department of French and Classics, the Program in Comparative
Literature, and the College of Liberal Arts, with the support of the
Program in Women's Studies, the Department of English, the Honors College,
the Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies, and the
Department of Philosophy are pleased to sponsor the thirtieth in a series
of French Literature Conferences, at the University of South Carolina,
Columbia, South Carolina.

Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film


Program


Thursday, March 21, 6-8 PM.
Reception at Pearce Dining Room
Capstone Conference Center
Welcome-Joan Hinde Stewart, Dean,
College of Liberal Arts


Friday, March 22, Gambrell Hall 429

8:30 Registration, coffee and pastry
8:50 Opening Remarks, Jeanne Garane,
Conference Director

Session I
Jeri DeBois King, Converse College, presiding

9:00 Colin Dickson, Washington College
Geographic Imagination in the Essais and Geomorphism in Montaigne Criticism

9:30 Todd Reeser, University of Utah
The New World Other Imagined: Gendered Analogy in Renaissance Travel Narratives

10:00 Sharon Nell, Texas Tech University
Upholstered Geographies: Strategies of Containment and Dangerous Diversions
in Crébillon fils's Le Sopha

10:30 Coffee and discussion

11:00 Michael Lastinger, West Virginia University
Geo-Geographies: Writing on the Earth (Mother) in Émile Zola's La Bête humaine

11:30 David Ellison, University of Miami
The Place of Carmen

12:00 James Hamilton, University of Cincinnati
Psychological Geography and Sacred Space in Sand's La Petite Fadette

12:30 Lunch break

Session II, Gambrell Hall 429
Rosemarie Doucette, South Carolina State University, presiding

2:00 Thomas Vauterin, Université d'Ottawa
La ville-forêt dans le roman canadien-français des années 1930

2:30 Anny Dominique Curtius, University of Delaware
Pièces d'identités de Mweze Ngangura: chaussures No-Name, attributs
royaux, racines et rhizomes en contexte de tiers espace

3:00 Sheila Petty, University of Regina
Postcolonial Geographies : Landscape and Alienation in Clando
3:30 Coffee and discussion

Gambrell Hall Auditorium 151
4:00 Keynote Address: A. James Arnold, University of Virginia

Imagining Anew the Geography of Colonial and Postcolonial Culture

6:00 Cocktails, Faculty House

7:00 Banquet, Faculty House

Saturday, March 23, Gambrell 429
8:30 Coffee and pastry

Session III
Suzanne Chamier, Southwestern University, presiding

9:00 Isa Van Acker, Université d'Anvers
L'écrivain en nomade. Dynamiques spatiales et expérience du monde chez J.
M. G. Le Clézio

9:30 Derek Schilling, Rutgers University
Tentative de description: villes perecquiennes

10:00 Claire Keith, Marist College
"A la conquête de notre langue": Training Textual Cartographers and
Literary Travelers in the Cours Moyen 2ème année

10:30 Coffee and discussion

11:00 Srilata Ravi, National University of Singapore
A Phantasmagoric Malay World: Henri Fauconnier and the Ambivalent
Geography of Adventure

11:30 Jacqueline Dutton, University of Melbourne
Imagining Australia: Avatars of the Utopian Paradigm in French Writings on
Australia

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
28th, 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 $75 with buffet breakfast.
Transportation
Checker Yellow Cab (803) 799-3311
Blue Ribbon Cab (803) 754-8163
Other Nearby Hotels
Claussen's Inn (803) 765-0440
$89.00 (Corporate Rate) with continental breakfast

Rose Hall (803)771-2288
$89.00 with breakfast for participants

Hampton Inn (803) 231-2000
$94.00 with continental breakfast

REGISTRATION FORM

2002 French Literature Conference
Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film
University of South Carolina
March 21-23, 2002

Name: _________________________________
Address: ______________________________
City: _________________________________

State:_______________ Zip Code: _______

Affiliation: __________________________

Telephone:
(______) ______________________

E-mail: ________________________________

Full Registration by Feb 15 $85
(includes cocktails and banquet)
$______

Two-Day Registration by Feb. 15 $60
$______

Graduate Students $10/day
$______

Late Registration Fee after 2/15
add $10.00
$______

Total
$______

Please make check for total amount payable to The University of South
Carolina and return the form by Feb. 15 to Prof. Jeanne Garane, Department
of French and Classics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208

Parking Permit no charge: please request only if necessary and by Feb. 15.
Parking permits will be mailed.

Packets containing conference materials will be distributed to participants
at registration.

Next Year's Conference:
The Child in French and Francophone Literature, March 20-22, 2003

For more information, contact
Dr. Daniela DiCecco, Director
Department of French and Classics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Email: daniela@sc.edu
URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/fren/FLC.html