A one-day conference organised by postgraduate students of Oxford Brookes University and the University of Stirling at Maison française (Oxford), Friday 9 March 2001, with the support of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporart France.
Conference Programme
9.30 - 10.00: Registration and Coffee
10.00 - 11.00: Session 1
Keith Reader (University of Glasgow), The state theyre in: Debray, Bourdieu, nation and the revival of engagement
11.00 - 12.30: Session 2
Forms and colours of engagement
- Garry White (Paris III): Jean Genet and the Ethics of Engagement
- Ben Cope (Brasenose): Deleuze and the Question of Engaging Engagement
- Terry Bradford (University of Wales Lampeter): From Hero to Zero? The Intellectual in Post-War Fiction in France
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30: Session 4
Frontiers of engagement
- Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (Alliance Française, Glasgow): Les enjeux de lengagement daprès lethique de la révolte dAlbert Camus
- Kepa Artaraz (University of Wolverhampton): The Third World in the Intellectual Discourse of the French New Left
- Nina Nazarova (University College Dublin): La francophonie et la vie intellectuelle en France
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee
16.00 - 17.00: Session 3
Jean-François Sirinelli, Quelle légitimité pour les intellectuals français à lorée du XXIe siècle?
17.00: Wine Reception
18.00: Conference Dinner at Le Petit Blanc
To register, please send a cheque for £15 (for registration, lunch, coffee) made payable to Maison Francaise, to:
Maison Francaise
Norham Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 6SE
For more details on this conference, plus any enquiries, please contact either:
John Oswald
Department of French
School of Modern Languages
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
E-mail: jo3@stir.ac.uk
or
Helena Garnett
School of Languages
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 OBP
E-mail: ahelena@tco.abel.co.uk