L.O.V.E and Other Disaffections: The London Postgraduate French Conference (Londres)

L.O.V.E and Other Disaffections

The London Postgraduate French Conference

Saturday, November 4 2017

Room 243, Senate House, London

09:00-09:30 Registration and coffee

09.30- 11:00 Panel 1: The Philosophy of Love

Chair: Joey Hornsby (KCL)

·      Martijn Buijs (Johns Hopkins): Philosophy and the betrayal of love – reflections on the work of Jean-Luc Marion

·      Marie Chabbert (Oxford): L’amour, dans les limites de la raison pure

·      Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Cambridge): "La force d’aimer" - the politics of love in Jacques Derrida and Marc Crépon

11:00- 11:15:  Break

11:15- 12.30 Keynote speech: Amaleena Damlé (Cambridge): Love’s Wonder: On Intimacy, Knowledge and Politics in Contemporary French Culture

Chair: Ben Dalton (KCL)

12:30-13:30: Lunch break (own arrangements)

13.30-15:00 Panel 2: Bodily (dis)affections

Chair: Rebecca Rosenberg (KCL)

·      Jean Cristophe Corrado (Sorbonne): ‘‘On ne peut supposer une création n’ayant l’amour à l’origine’’: Jean Genet between amor naturans and amor naturatus 

·      Christine Stadler (TU Chemnitz): Desire and Dis-ease in Alexandre Bergamini’s Sang damné (2011)

·      Antoniy Valchev (Toulouse): Chair, désir et sexe: abfigura du corps post-porn

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 17:15 Panel 3: Love and tragedy

Chair: Adina Stroia (KCL)

·      Rebecca Rosenberg (KCL): Love in the Time of Hate: Love, Romance, and Inspiration in Au commencement était la mer (1996), and  Hizya (2015) by Maïssa Bey

·      Jezebel Mansell (Cambridge): A Labour of Love: Camille Laurens’s response to the loss of her son

·      Rachel Sweet (KCL): Ambiguous ‘amor’ in the Chastelaine de Vergi and the varying value of love in some of its manuscripts

·      Ross Smith (Sheffield): Protecting the Unseen Child: Tatiana de Rosnay’s Elle s’appelait Sarah

17: 15- 17:30: Break

17:30- 19: 00 Panel 4: Loving Feminism(s) 

Chair: Sophie Eager (KCL)

·      Laurence Pelletier (UQAM): Épistémophilie féministe: pratiques amoureuses de femmes savantes

·      Katie Pleming (Cambridge): Desire, Femininity, and the Non-Oedipal Subject: Deleuze and the Films of Marguerite Duras

·      Azza Mouelhi (Gabès): Le Bleu: couleur du désir dans La Vie d’Adèle (chapitre I et II) 

19: 00 Drinks reception

20: 00 Conference dinner (restaurant TBC)

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-and-other-disaffections-london-french-postgrad-conference-2018-tickets-38984924960?utm_term=eventname_text

Website: https://loveconference2017.wordpress.com

Event page: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13997