Technology in textand context
Postgraduate workshop of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
6th June 2011
Maison Française, Oxford University
9.15 Welcome coffee and registration
9.45 - 10.45 Keynote 1 - Dr Roxanna Nydia Curto (Illinois State)
Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature
10.45 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.00 PanelA: Texts and screen technology
The Concept of theIsland in Postcolonial Island Literature and Popular Culture Media (SilviaBaage)
Community and itsCreator: The Specificities of the Filmic Medium in Assia Djebar's La Noubades femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) (Maria Flood)
12.00 - 13.00 PanelB: Contexts and methodology
La littératuremalgache francophone sur le net: état des lieux, enjeux et perspectives (Dr Volafeno Anna Mangel)
Technology and Testimony: The Case of Rwanda (Catherine Gilbert)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Keynote2 - Dr Louise Hardwick (Birmingham)
Developing IT Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Studies for Teaching andResearch
15.30 - 16.30 PanelC: Technology and modernity
Alain Resnais' Muriel;Dramatising Modernisation and a Shift in the Colonial Gaze (Mani Sharpe)
Uses of technology inLes Passagers du Roissy-Express (Maspero 1990): Techniques for capturingtime and space? (Claire Peters)
16.30 - 16.45 Break
16.45 - 17.45 Keynote3 - Dr Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Globalisation,‘Technoscience', and Auto-immunity: Derrida and the Terrorist Threat
17.45 - 18.30 Vin d'honneur
19.00 - Dinner
All current, future,and past postgraduates are very welcome to attend. There is no registration feeand a free buffet lunch will be provided. Please register by emailing sfpsworkshop2011@gmail.com by May 27th and indicate if you would alsolike to attend the dinner.
Organizing committee:Alain Ausoni, Lucy Brisley, Ruth Bush